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Natalie Metzger
@thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
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💀 She/her
🎨 Illustrator and designer
🏔️ Pacific Northwest
🔗 https://thefuzzyslug.neocities.org/links
🪲🦀 Here Be Bugs 🕷️🦐
🚫 No genAI
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telekitnetic.bsky.social
#telekitneticart #formline #indigenousart

🚮⚙️ You cannot automate the human experience

(Sticker up now) 👉 ko-fi.com/s/3ecf690ed7
A picture of a 3-inch anti-generative AI holographic sticker with a formline design on it. The design has a black border with sparkles lining it. Text within the border reads “you cannot automate the human experience.” The formline design depicts a decapitated robot head with vacant eyes. Next to it are two ravens, with one raven perched on the head with a piece of the robot’s antenna in its beak. A picture of a 3-inch anti-generative AI holographic sticker with a formline design on it. The design has a black border with sparkles lining it. Text within the border reads “you cannot automate the human experience.” The formline design depicts a decapitated robot head with vacant eyes. Next to it are two ravens, with one raven perched on the head with a piece of the robot’s antenna in its beak. This picture shows the sticker in more detail, being held up by fingers.
February 7, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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gianttourtiere.bsky.social
EVERY HOUSE SHOULD HAVE A DEMON SUCKING BOWL
iacobuscaesar.bsky.social Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 8h
This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.
A Mandaic curse bowl in the Royal Ontario Museum. It has a spiraling Mandaic text that leads to an encircled x at the center.
February 8, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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nimasprout.bsky.social
Salamander Reading ✨
Available!
Size: 2x3.5"
Acryla gouache and ink
$55 (US shipping included)

DM to claim
Hand holding a small painting of a salamander reading
February 8, 2026 at 5:38 AM
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mrtylercrook.bsky.social
If you’d like to commission me for an 11x17 ink and acrylic watercolor page, now’s the time! mistercrook.com/store

I don’t plan to open commissions again this year and there’s only a handful of slots left!

#ArtPost #OriginalArt #ArtCommissions
The Watcher Commission
YouTube video by Mr. Tyler Crook
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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scoutprime.bsky.social
LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
February 7, 2026 at 6:59 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
anyway, it’s true and bears repeating. leave substack.
February 7, 2026 at 5:22 PM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
🥰💖🥰💖🥰💖!!!! #SciArt
emmalerae.bsky.social Emma LeRae @ ECCC 10024 @emmalerae.bsky.social · 2d
Dinosaurs Survived!

All 15 designs so far.

www.emmalerae.com/store.html
An image showing 15 illustrations of birds paired with dinosaur skulls. Below each reads the words "Dinosaurs Survived!" with the geological formations and locations of each.
February 6, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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emmalerae.bsky.social
Test prints have been made. I need to tweak a few things here and there before they’re finished and then I’ll order stickers and throw them up on my website.

#sciart
#paleoart
Photo of 5 art prints with birds sitting on dinosaur skulls.
February 5, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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xerxes.gay
Furries have already achieved the dream of every shit silicon valley technology and in a more ethical and less cringe way

The metaverse: VRChat
NFTs: adoptable fursonas
Typing words into a text box and having art appear: commissions
February 4, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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lalahaenzy.com
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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maxamari.bsky.social
I can't quarantine Mr. Sharpie in another room any more because he's figured out he can move the vent covers.

This guy is walking around in the ducts like John fucking McClane.
A gray and white cat is sitting on the INSIDE of a HVAC vent grate.
February 1, 2026 at 2:43 PM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
anyway...
illustration of a chonky rat in the classic hellmo pose, arms raised and out, flames rising behind, googly eyed flat expression, staring into your soul
February 3, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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rj-palmer.com
Godzilla doodle 😈✏️
photo of a pencil sketch of godzilla's face. The sadness in his eyes betrays the smile he is attempting
February 2, 2026 at 8:03 PM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
#SciArt 🧪🦑
fossilforager.bsky.social Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 5d
Anomalocaris enamel pin 🦐

rep this Paleozoic apex predator here:
shop.fossilforager.art
A photo of an enamel pin of an orange prehistoric shrimp-like arthropod known as Anomalocaris, who lived during the Cambrian period. It has lighter orange side flaps and large front grasping feeding appendages. It is photographed in a purple amethyst crystal.
February 3, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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nimasprout.bsky.social
I'm thinking of doing a bookmark series without tassels, is this something folks would be interested in?

Emoji vote if you have a preference:

📙 Without tassels are fine!
🔖 I like a tassel!
📚 Either is fine!
February 2, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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aimeecozza.com
GIVEAWAY! Because why not. :D I've got this hardcover book, which had the cover DAMAGED in transit. There's nothing wrong with the story inside, so why not send it to someone for freesies?

How to enter:
- Share this post
- Be following me
- Comment

#Booksky 🪐📚💙 #IndieAuthor #Scifi #Giveaway
A photograph of a colorful hardcover book called "The Lucky Machine" by Aimee Cozza, featuring a sparkly robot walking through a dilapidated metal catwalk in a neon city. The cover laminate is damaged in a line.
February 1, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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somebeees.bsky.social
Got busy and #birbfest2026 kind of got away from me but I’ve been working on these Stellar’s Jays for a hot minute! Stellar’s jays have such tude I love these little guys.

#birds #illustration #stellarsjay
An illustration of a group of stellar’s jays in various poses. From top left clockwise: back to audience, wings folded smirking; eating a peanut; wings extended grumpy; wings extended back to audience excited; beak turned up knowing they are pretty; flying and confused; snoozy fluffy bird; and crest down crying tears bird. Around them are doodles of california poppies, acorns, and oak leaves.
January 31, 2026 at 3:30 PM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
3* obvs

*hermit CRAB of the deep woods
edmondsscanner.bsky.social Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 9d
What do you want to be when you grow up?

1. fancy sexy vampire
2. disaffected dilettante
3. hermit of the deep woods
4. loveable monster
January 30, 2026 at 11:13 PM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
The first time I spotted one of these I was like, "WHAT THERE ARE MARINE WATER STRIDERS WHAT I mean it makes sense but WHAT WHAAAAATTT" 🪲🦑
dannastaaf.bsky.social Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social · 9d
I can't overrecommend this incredible paper about water skaters (genus Halobates). No one knows how they evolved. No one knows what they eat. They are superhydrophobic, which means water LITERALLY CANNOT WET THEM. Perhaps we should call them anti-water skaters? 🌊🧪
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Why did only one genus of insects, Halobates, take to the high seas?
Oceans cover over 70% of the earth’s surface and house a dizzying array of organisms, including five species of the peppercorn-sized ocean-skater Halobates, which live exclusively at the ocean surface...
journals.plos.org
January 30, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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emmalerae.bsky.social
I think the 3rd series is locked in and I'll hopefully get them done for ECCC.

Albertosaurus and Magpie
Utahraptor and Barn Owl
Torvosaurus and Turkey Vulture
Sinosaurus and Red Junglefowl
Giganotosaurus and Chilean Flamingo
A photo of my tablet with 5 works in progress of illustrations for the 3rd series of the Dinosaurs Survived! Series. They each depict a modern bird paired with a dinosaur skull that is found where the birds live.
January 30, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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circadiancrunch.bsky.social
Much, much older drawing of a hoppy lil guy. I'll name them one day I promise.
A fluffy purple creature hopping through the air. It's bipedal and does not appear to have any frontlegs/arms. It has a thin narrow muzzle, large orange eyes, lots of whiskers and a fluffy pom-pom of a tail.
January 29, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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haroldricher.bsky.social
#goblinweek
Rognon and their mutated friend !
A goblin with a cup of tea, bathing. The goblin have scars on the shoulder, a few leaves on the torso instead of hair chest. A flower grow on their head ; the flower have a face and looks grumpy. The flower also have a small cup of tea.
January 29, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social
very important picture for anyone needing it:
spiderdaynightlive.bsky.social Dr. Sebastian A. Echeverri, PhD @spiderdaynightlive.bsky.social · 10d
it's cold out, please remember to winterize your greyhounds
January 29, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Call your reps to demand they:
1) Abolish ice (every day!)
2) Vote no whenever the "Make Elections Great Again" Act comes up. It's an atrocious set of restrictions on elections made to make voting harder. Fuck that! Don't let them hear the end of it.

Remember. Squid can't use phones, so we have to.
a sweating cuttlefish holds up the phone and above in big yellow block letters it says "Call your reps". Underneath the cuttlefish it says "squid can't use phones"
January 29, 2026 at 10:37 PM