Creophilus
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#Invertober day 8: Mallophora fautrix in 3B pencil - another 15-minuter, and ohmygoshitwasnotenough.

Verdict: correct number of appendages (though some seem to be made of pipe-cleaners, and it could do with some mandibles and elytra.)

#Invertober2025 #SciArt
creophilus.bsky.social
Day 7 #Invertober: Chrysomallon squamiferum. Need to get faster so gave myself only 15 minutes for this. And it shows!

Verdict: insufficient appendages, though it makes up for it with decisive fiddilness.

#invertober2025 #SciArt
creophilus.bsky.social
Lost the will to live with the rugose front bit so fudged it.
creophilus.bsky.social
Day 6 Invertober: Phalera bucephala. Watercolour. Lengthy watercolour.

Verdict: insufficient appendages.

#Invertober #Invertober2025 #SciArt
creophilus.bsky.social
Nice!!! #invertober2025
frogge257.bsky.social
#invertober2025
WEEVILS!!
A repeating weevil pattern on a green background. The weevils are orange and red and are alternated facing up and down.
creophilus.bsky.social
Day 5 Invertober: Panulirus versicolor, in watercolour.

Verdict: too many appendages.

#Invertober #Invertober2025 #SciArt
creophilus.bsky.social
This person has literally all my respect. Sorry, none left for anyone else.
neil-gow.bsky.social
Happy U.K. Fungus Day. This was drawn using the ink from a shaggy ink cap growing in my own garden.
creophilus.bsky.social
Day 4 Rhynchophorus cruentatus in felt tip and brush and ink.
#invertober #invertober2025 #SciArt
Bad drawing of a chonky orange palmetto  weevil that will either delight or horrify you.
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felicityhannah.bsky.social
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first 

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
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davidbrace2.bsky.social
"6 of flies", ink, watercolour, oil on watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025 - $150(Cdn) #art #sciart
A small painting of 6 dead house flies arranged in 2 columns and 3 rows of 2.
creophilus.bsky.social
Day 3 Anthopleura xanthogrammica but I got bored.
#invertober #invertober2025 #SciArt
A half-finished pencil drawing of a sea anemone
creophilus.bsky.social
Day 1 #invertober2025
Chrysaora pacifica
Bit late and hampered by lack of watercolour paper or masking fluid… so it’s actually painted in inks. Supplies hopefully arriving soon so the rest of the month will be better.
creophilus.bsky.social
Day 2 #Invertober2025 - Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea)
creophilus.bsky.social
Day 2 #Invertober2025 - Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea)
creophilus.bsky.social
The hidden image was supposed to look like this
creophilus.bsky.social
I quite liked the individual tiles...
creophilus.bsky.social
Day 2 #invertober
A good idea, poorly executed
A stereogram (MagicEye) picture. The tiles are tesselated stylised Graphocephola coccinea from above, the hidden image is a Graphocephola coccinea from the side. Neither is particularly good.
creophilus.bsky.social
And they’d be all like “You sank my species!”
“That there was a gosh-darned synonym, plain as day.”
“I named that shrimp for my dear departed Papa, rest his soul!”
“Don’t make me teach you a lesson, son, It’s was just a funny-coloured _vulgaris_ and you know it!”
::pistols drawn etc etc::
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
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Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts

After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
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Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
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creophilus.bsky.social
Shout it loud!
implausibleblog.bsky.social
Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place"

"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people"

-Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats
creophilus.bsky.social
I beg to differ, it is an excellent name.