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Russell
@weirdlilbugdude.bsky.social
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i like creatures and not posting
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helenczerski.bsky.social
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
It's day 7 of the invertebrate macro photo #ArtAdventCalendar.

Here, have a jumping spider 😘
a jummping spider looks up into the sky, standing on some kinda plant i have no clue what, it's green with a red edge. It looks hoefully up at the sky
December 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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swandiveswim.bsky.social
#Birds #CommonMerganser #BirdOfTheDay #DucksOutOfWater Rob's alternative BOTD, is a female Common Merganser and one of her ducklings having a bit of a rest on the pebbled shore.
2 birds, a mother in back and her duckling in front. They are resting on pebbles with bits of green foliage surrounding them. The mother fishing duck has a rusty brown head & crest with a long deep red bill that has a hook on the end. Her body is a light grey. The duckling has a rusty brown back & top of the head. The chin & breast feathers are white. It has a stripe underneath it's eye, running from the base of the bill to the rust brown.
December 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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madrinkwater.bsky.social
#YellowSunday #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsOnTwigs #birds #hummingbird #photography #naturephotography 📷 🪶
A hummingbird perched on a twig in a grapefruit tree. She is puffy and her wings are stretched as she prepares for flight. A yellow grapefruit, blurred leaves, and circles of blue/green/yellow light.
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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ketrinadrawsalot.bsky.social
Deep-Sea-cember: The reason for the season is to be cozy at home 🦐🧽
#deepseadecember #deepseacember #deepsea #glasssponge #shrimp #venusflowerbasket #art #cozy
Two shrimp holding claws inside a Venus's flower basket (a white glass sponge)
December 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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forthespiders.bsky.social
Oh to be a little tank living my life out in the soil.
Anterior view of a cute round mite. Dorsal view of a cute round mite. Lateral view of a cute round mite.
December 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Day 5 of my 2025 Favorites is just the tiniest #EmotionalSupportSpood known to science, Mr Neonella camillae

Bug and I make regular pilgrimages to central Florida to see them. He's but a grain of black sand 🖤
Miniscule perky black jumping spider with orange legs and white palps, peering at you from a twig
December 6, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Day 6 of my 2025 Favorites: There's a particular oak in a particular spot upon which for some reason I've found an adult male Phidippus richmani every year for the past 3. Little things like this bring me joy. And he looks like that 🥹
#EmotionalSupportSpood
Fancy Phidippus richmani jumping spider lad hanging out on a lichen-covered oak branch; he's extremely floofy and has red stripes on his face and markings which look like human teeth on his chelicerae.
December 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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aintright.bsky.social
Lulu the Long-tailed Tit. #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsOnTwigs #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #nature #wildlife #birdphotography
December 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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daryllmarie.bsky.social
PSA!!!!!! 🚨

White tern chick!!!!!! 🪶
A fluffy precious little white tern chick laying on a branch
December 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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teamswiftparrot.bsky.social
I had the joy of getting to meet some baby blue-winged parrots today 💚💙
December 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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k-hermit.com
At first they would only take live food when I wasn’t looking, but now they eat straight from my hand. Too cute. 🐟💙
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
Bushtit flock! 🪶
Male bushtit on an oak Female bushtit on a branch Female bushtit on a branch Female bushtit looking right at camera.
November 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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davidcsimon.bsky.social
A Speckled Orbweaver!
This gorgeous little garden friend is only about 1cm across.
#spiders #invertebrates
Photograph of a small green orbweaver spider in the centre of its web against a black background. The Spider has a bright green abdomen with a slighlty darker green cephalothorax and legs. Its abdomen is speckled with cream and brown dots, and the tips of its legs grade to red.
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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mossworm.bsky.social
beebles of pumpkintown
Small reddish brown beetle on pumpkin Flat dark brown beetle on moldy pumpkin Orange and black beetle on moldy pumpkin Tiny rove beetle on moldy pumpkin, facing the viewer
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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beetlemoses.bsky.social
Comic: Panel one: “these soft bodied aliens operate mech suits” Panel two: “their plan: invade earth” and the aliens are jumping out of the ship towards earth. Panel three: they are really small and they crash landed in a marsh and are being terror a limpkin (snail eating water bird)
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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mothsprout.bsky.social
✷ Bat Eared Fox ✷
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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pikaole.bsky.social
Happy possum
Here are several happy Virginia opossums (Didelphis virginiana). Some are carrying babies on their backs. Fallen leaves surround them. The atmosphere is cozy and warm.
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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alexhanna.bsky.social
"If Big Tech has the budget to put data centers 400 miles above the Earth’s surface, it absolutely has the budget to adequately compensate its workers on the ground. Big Tech cannot claim to be building the future while exploiting those who keep it running."

theopinionpages.com/2025/11/the-...
The Human Cost of Big Tech’s Cosmic Dreams | The Opinion Pages
Imagine looking up at the night sky and noticing new constellations, only to find out they are made up of data centers. This may sound like science fiction, but Google has announced plans to make this...
theopinionpages.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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sunoftiberian.bsky.social
Gold+Ruthenium=blue/purple.
#bugs #insect #beetle #electroformed #copper #sciart #pendant #jewelryart #bugsky
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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aintright.bsky.social
#HolidayRobin #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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erujayy.bsky.social
The trio of giant flowers in the Mecynorrhina family I've completed so far 💜

#inverts #SciArt 🪲🦐
An illustration of three giant flower beetles from the Mecynorrhina family. The first Oberthuri Decorata has splotches of orange and is sitting on blue and purple flowers. The middle Polyphemus is green with yellow spots, yellow outstretched wings and sitting on red flowers. The last Ugandesis is blue-red with cream splotches, sitting on orange flowers.
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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ascalaphid.com
EVERYBODY DANCE NOW
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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americanbeetles.bsky.social
hey if you need a pleasant visual experience this AM, consider the exquisite beetle portraiture of Kenji Kohiyama stulab.jp/gallery_cate...
Micropresence Photograph – Kenji Kohiyama
stulab.jp
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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raizap.com
The other day I picked up a fallen honey dipper and trapped a carpet beetle larva on a crappy Super Mario Galaxy level
[ #bug #insect ]
November 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM