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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hi friends,

Many of you know me, some it’s the first time meeting.

Here’s an introduction from last month when BlueSky has a multitude of new accounts. It’s a decent overview of my social media interactions & goals.

TL;DR: daily natural wonders, always punch a nazi, good faith engagement.

Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · Oct 17

Welcome new friends and friends I haven’t seen in awhile~

If you’re sharing this BlueSky space with me you’ll be seeing a lot of mountain & desert adventures, the wonders of the cosmos, and lots of invertebrate creatures. 💜💙💚
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Devil Postpile national monument with multiple columns of basalt in the side of a mountain surrounded by conifer trees

A desert lake with pinkish purplish and reddish auroras above it and reflecting in the water.

A small metallic blackish greenish fly with iridescent wings getting nectar from a small purple flower

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 37m

Ahhh your monarch!! 🧡🖤

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Haley Wahl, PhD @hwahl16.bsky.social · 39m

Same here :)

Purple flowers with a monarch butterfly on them

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 39m

🎶 Knock knock knocking on heaven’s door…

“Scientists Drilled So Deep Into the Center of the Earth, They Knocked on the Mantle’s Door”
(click bait title on PopSci)

↓actual paper↓

A long section of serpentinized depleted mantle peridotite

The upper mantle is critical for our understanding of terrestrial magmatism, crust formation, and element cycling between Earth’s solid interior, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. Mantle composi...

www.science.org

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 1h

Happy “Happy Hour”

Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 1h

Interestingly I did not hear from them after my final response.

Dad’s former cell phone. Phissssh seriously have had this number since 1997

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Moon-Watcher @bobsmyusername.bsky.social · 1h

When they come for me I’m definitely ratting out this guy who radicalized me

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 2h

Streambank mushrooms around here are awesome, but I’ll gotta find them when you can.

Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 2h

It was a name other students teased me with when I was younger. But really? Why not embrace it?

Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 2h

Me, too.

Small native bee on a white and yellow camomile daisy

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 3h

But i wants it

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 4h

Husband always says “I knew you were going to sing that.”

Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 4h

Change your focus, change your life.

A small thin mushroom growing out of a mossy streambank

Blurry image of sun reflecting off of a stream’s surface

Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 4h

Autumn on Whites Creek
Lunchtime on Whites Creek

A cluster of gilled mushrooms growing out of a mossy streambank. There’s fallen leaves and a rock.

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 4h

These are my goals. Congratulations.

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 4h

The picture makes me homesick tbf

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Habu @flyinghabu.bsky.social · 9h

Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky.

But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭

#Astrophotography

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon taken from my backyard

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 4h

Marco Rubio, a Cuban.

Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 4h

I can name that tune!

Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 5h

Some day…

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 5h

A gallery of fireflies.

Phenomenal Fireflies - Alex Wild

Fireflies are a family (Lampyridae) of about 2,000 beetle species known for their ability to produce light through chemical reactions.

www.alexanderwild.com

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Maven's Notebook @mavensnotebook.com · 8h

Tahoe agency okays removal of hundreds of trees to make room for ‘glamping’ #cawater nevadacurrent.com/2025/10/09/t...

Tahoe agency okays removal of hundreds of trees to make room for ‘glamping’ • Nevada Current

A development designed as an opportunity to enjoy Tahoe’s great outdoors requires the removal of 300 hundred towering pine trees on nine acres of privately owned land in Douglas County near the Lake T...

nevadacurrent.com

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 9h

Join now to stop scammers before they start 🥰❤️ (at least on BlueSky - my recommendation via text is that you waste as much of their time as possible).

Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 9h

I love fucking with romance scammers. It gives me so much joy.

They can (and will) do this all day. Unlike them, I have a job, so I can only waste their time for multiple hours, then go in for the big reveal.

Hook
Line
Sinker

Screenshot of a romance scammer text:

“Elsa:” It's been years, but I still miss you like yesterday. Happy birthday

Me: Wrong number

“Elsa:” Hello, I'm Elsa. I'm truly surprised to hear from you! This was my father's phone number when he was alive. How long have you been using this number?

Me: How long ago did your father pass?

“Elsa:” My father died in 2021. Is this the first time you've gotten a message from me? I've left messages for this number before.

Screenshot of a romance scammer text:

“Elsa:” My father died in 2021. Is this the first time you've gotten a message from me? I've left messages for this number before.

Me: I think you probably have the wrong number

“Elsa:” This is strange. I don't think two people can use the same number at the same time. I'm sure something must have gone wrong. I'll figure out what happened no matter what. I hope I didn't disturb you.

Me: Elsa?

“Elsa:” Yes, I am Elsa.

Screenshot of a romance scammer text:

Me: about people from traveling, Elsa?

“Elsa:” Of course, is there anything that's hard for you to forget?

Me: One thing I don't forget is my own phone number. I've had this same phone number since 1997.
You're a scammer, and a pathetic, weak man pretending to be a woman to get money from "old, rich men."
So fuck you, you fucking fuck.
A CURSE on your scabby dick, that when you pee it burns like the HELL you deserve.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 10h

Odd take I've seen floating around is "Remrandt taught people to paint just like him and passed their paintings off as his, he would've loved AI"

This is a fundamental misunderstanding. Everything made at the workshop was attributed to the master. That's how workshops operated.

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Steve McKerrall @photosteve.bsky.social · 9h

For this #ThursJay, a Steller’s Jay with a tasty snack
#birds #jays

A Steller’s Jay sitting on a small branch against a light yellow background.

A Steller’s Jay on a large branch holding a light green colored fruit in its bill.

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