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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋

@buglady.bsky.social

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Illustrator/painter who loves bugs, bones, and cool rocks. Anti-fascist, anti-racist, and pro-human rights. I block crypto/AI/NFT grifters who follow me. She/her. Support my art: https://linktr.ee/christinehutson

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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · Oct 7

Leopard slug (Limax maximus) crawling along my page. #SciArt.

Watercolor illustration of a large spotted leopard slug on light gray paper. The slug is depicted with a light gray painted trail of mucus trailing behind it, wandering all over the paper.

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 5h

vampurr has taken over your feed. as you read this, he's casting his spell, and you're starting to want to take him home. don't fight it. succumb to vampurr's charm 🌀

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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 6h

Okay, this is amazing. I don't understand all of the testing, but I get the point (I had hematology classes). royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Resonance Raman confirms partial haemoglobin preservation in dinosaur remains | Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Still soft, hollow, flexible structures morphologically consistent with blood vessels, vascular contents, cells (osteocytes) and collagenous matrix were recovered from demineralized bone of a number o...

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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 16h

"North Versailles". This is a township near Pittsburgh, PA, in the U.S. Locals pronounce it...(ugh)...North "Versayles". I speak French, and it pains me to even hear that, but pronunciation will always reveal the folks who are not from around here.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 17h

‼️PORCUPINE UNDER CAR ALERT

theres a whole damn porcupine under my car

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 17h

News flash: Grijalva has wanted and demanded it for days. Swear her in. Release the files.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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kinoko-mono @kinokomonofungi.bsky.social · 19h

ダイダイガサさんお久しぶりです
#fungifriends

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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 18h

They know/suspect that this is how the next big policy gets into that oatmeal brain of his. The last person who spoke to him may plant his next ridiculous idea.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 19h

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that his office would launch undercover operations targeting what he called “groups affiliated with left-wing political violence” in Texas. Paxton cited “transgenderism” and “antifa” as driving forces behind the supposed threat.

Texas AG Announces Undercover Operations Into “Antifa,” Cites “Transgenderism”

The move echoes a push by the Trump administration to weaponize counterterrorism tools against left-leaning groups.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 19h

I keep having to look up laws I should never have to look up. And guess who signed this legislation?’

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 21d

Day 17, Trawl. Although numerous advancements have greatly diminished the amount of bycatch in trawls around the world, still hundreds of thoudands of cetaceans are still unintentially caught. #sciartseptember

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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 20h

Congratulations on your incipient bloom!

BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 20h

We've had these at the National Aviary (which is in my city), but not sure if they have them anymore. I've seen them, and they are my favorite pigeon species/relative. We also have Victoria crowned pigeons, which are very fancy (and they know it).

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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 1d

🧵Small works. Prices, titles & descriptions in alt-text. 1/3 #art #sciart (note: delivery for sales of these works will be delayed until after the resolution of the Canada Post strike. Union strong.)

"¿me amas?", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $125(Cdn). A small painting of the bottom half of a torn & crushed Pepsi can, black, white, blue & silver, with only the letters "SI" of Pepsi showing. Above the can is a Plecia nearctica, a love bug.

"RED (scare)", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150 (Cdn). A painting of a crushed red, silver & white Red Bull RED watermelon energy drink. Above the can is a wandering red and black spider.

"botbot", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150(Cdn). A small painting of a boxy green toy robot with a square coppery head. Beside it to the right is a bot fly.

"Monster (crush)", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150(Cdn). A painting of a crushed black, green & white Monster energy drink can with a crab crawling on it from the top.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

Only generally aware of Nigel Farage, it’s been shocking to me in the week I’ve been reading UK papers daily how *precisely* Tory & Reform rhetoric echo Trumpism, particularly the full conquest of GOP by MAGA circa 2017-18. Reminder yet again that this fascism is global.

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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 1d

I'm glad this is starting to get attention. one thing I can say is that the mass seething hatred for TP USA on campus right now is pretty awesome. I think that chapter will soon be functionally deceased newrepublic.com/post/201448/...

Professor Flees to Europe After Turning Point USA Calls Him Antifa

Rutgers University professor Mark Bray no longer feels safe at home.

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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 1d

I am myself cursed with bones, and less of them every day, according to the Bone Doctor. Osteopenia, etc etc. I hope to be reincarnated as a beautiful, boneless nudibranch. No bones, no problem.

BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 1d

And don't let the door hit you in the ass....

Not that this means his influence here will end, but I also don't want him stinking up the place.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

Peter Thiel’s favorite blogger “says he’s considering leaving the U.S. because the Trump administration is failing to kill democracy to his liking and he fears political retribution from Democrats if they regain power.” via @sfstandard.com

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Citing fear of Democratic ‘vengeance,’ Curtis Yarvin says he may flee the U.S.

The far-right blogger doesn’t think the Trump administration has done enough to dismantle democratic institutions.

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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 1d

Good riddance to him.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

well, that ought to put it to bed, great work everyone

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 2d

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Bad Bunny: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 2d

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By law, to question somebody, immigration officers must have reason to think they could be an illegal immigrant.
To arrest somebody, they need probable cause. Ms Brooks, who is black, with an American accent, says she repeatedly asked officers why she was being arrested, and pointed out her citizenship. Nobody asked her any questions. When she continued to object to her arrest, an officer knocked her to the ground, removed the zip-ties and replaced them with handcuffs, locked as tightly as they would go. By the time she was released, together with several other citizens, she says the sun was coming up.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 2d

"Charlie works for you like your doctor, bound by law, regulation and codes of conduct. Why can’t the same frameworks be adopted for AI? We have learned from social media that power rests with the monopolies who control and harvest personal data. We can’t let the same thing happen with AI."

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

www.theguardian.com

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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 2d

OMG, that sounds amazing! I love Ethiopian food, but with BBQ too? Yes.....