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Joel (R🎃cketCo) @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hello! I'm Joel 👋. I'm excited to actually get to do a #portfolioday! I'm a disabled/retired Virologist. In my free time when I'm not resting, I for fun do molecular art (viral models), nature ( #birds & wildlife around my house), astrophotography (also from home)

Happy to meet more art friends ❤️

My pet bobcat, in our field, showing off his light orange winter fur and bright red eyes, sitting on a rock looking directly at me on the porch. He is wondering if I have any trapped rats for him.

My art vs artist from the end of this past year showing off 9 photos. Orion, adenovirus, 2 humming birds fighting, a cooper's hawk, me holding Missy on a feeder, rhinovirus model, Fall field of cows, the wizard nebula, and a male hummingbird.

A field of cows with fall colored aspen trees, bright yellows and oranges, and a snow covered mountain in the background.

A hummingbird flying, wings slicing the air.

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Joel (R🎃cketCo) @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 48m

To the farmers who's counties voted for trump 70-90+% I'm sort of like careful what you wish for.

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Saly "and more" @salylockheart.bsky.social · 8d

Inking practice

Drawing of Spider-Man made a few years ago. He's webslinging.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 11h

Grumpy boi (why is my stick moving, I didn't ask the stick to move)
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

(Phidippus regius lad)

Large fuzzy black and white jumping spider with bright green chelicerae, on grumpy salticid posture (legs tight around him like cat loaf), on the tip of a stick peering at you

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Joel (R🎃cketCo) @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · May 27

When you finally hit that spot you been trying to scratch for a while.
#birds 🪶

A Mountain Bluebird scratching an itch on his head while sitting on the old dead branch of a pine tree. The second frame in the photo the bird has mouth open as he continues scratching, making it look like a sigh of relief.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Elke Stangl (elkement) @elkement.art · 3h

Flying through the "spaceport" of my diffraction art!

Intensity of diffracted light for different wavelengths.

#SciArt #MathArt #PhysicsArt

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Joel (R🎃cketCo) @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 2h

They need to carry that shit on them until the fucking grave. They should never be able to forget what they did to our trans friends, Black friends, disabled friends. How many people they hurt lives destroyed. They want us dead so they can have their little measles infested christofacist circle jerk

Ebony Noor! I love garden season! ✊🏿 @darlingebony.bsky.social · 3h

There will come a day where hardly anyone will admit to voting for or allowing this shit stain to become President. There will come a day will when we will be hard pressed to find a Trump voter anywhere. It will be incumbent upon us to not let them hide.

Joel (R🎃cketCo) @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 3h

Good we don't want it anyway.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

Joel (R🎃cketCo) @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 3h

"my" also is a big word in that. It's not "our" community or a shared space it's my. You have a bunch of Black posters explaining to her why it's needed because of the moderation issues and hostility and she's like, "ya but it ruins my vibes."

Joel (R🎃cketCo) @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 5h

and to add to that

If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower classes.

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Joel (R🎃cketCo) @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 5h

I forgot he existed for a moment. Nothing has changed with his dumbass I see...

Joel (R🎃cketCo) @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 6h

You are making this about you. They weren't given much choice. As for racism. Nope. bsky.app/profile/joel...

Joel (R🎃cketCo) @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · Aug 21

The word you want is prejudice, even racial prejudice. White people don't get to claim racism when they are in the power position of the systemic dynamic. One could be prejudice though against white people, which this isn't anyway so it doesn't fit here.

Joel (R🎃cketCo) @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 6h

These people weren't told to shut the fuck up enough and think their opinion has validity.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 15h

Ah yes so it was a dumb bluff and now they all know it was a dumb bluff.

Master strategy Mr. Vought

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

“.. With Democrats having shown no signs of budging .. and a growing number of Republican lawmakers warning about potential blowback, the White House is now planning to hold off at least a little longer on sending out notices of Reductions in Force ..”

@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/p...

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 17h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Joel (R🎃cketCo) @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 15h

I put rum and pepsi in a hummingbird dinner glass. 💃

andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 15h

Drinking Miller lite out of a wine glass who gives a shit anymore

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s some Johana Molina art to make your Tuesday a little better.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 20h

Eat shit, haircut

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 20h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Joel (R🎃cketCo) @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 15h

Welcome to Colorado!

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 3d

Habronattus alachua lass with the Head Tilt ❤️
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

Light grey fuzzy jumping spider with reddish-brown stripes down her face across her big eyes, on a blade of dry grass tilting her head to peer at you

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Joel (R🎃cketCo) @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 16h

Like I'm going to take you serious after dumbass clickbait like this.

Joel (R🎃cketCo) @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 16h

Oh fuck off @cnn.com . Grill that bitch Sam Altman about his contributions to climate change with garbage Ai that sucks and miss me with this blame the disabled for health needs bullshit

Yes there's a powder version, it's way more expensive so if you aren't making the alternative cheaper then what?

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 19h

In honor of Edgar Allan Poe's 176th deathday, here are a few of my recent pieces inspired by Poe's works 🫀

Illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee". Two lovers embrace at the edge of the sea, water splashes around them and the surrounding rocks. A full moon shines over them, and storm clouds loom.
Published in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" 2024 Macmillan

illustration by Abigail Larson of a raven perched on a skull with a teal curtain backdrop

illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" showing a man restrained as a pendulum blade swings close to him. Rats have swarmed around him, chewing the ropes that hold him down. This illustration is featured in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" for Macmillan Books.

Illustration by Abigail Larson for Macmillan's "Edgar Allan Poe Sticker Jigsaw" book. The illustration is a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven". The narrator is at the center of the image looking up at at raven perched above an open doorway. Behind the narrator is a tall window with red curtains, and the ghost of Lenore lurks nearby. A black cat is watching the scene from the lower right corner.

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DEMSEC @demsec.bsky.social · 22h

Stephen froze like a deer in the headlights and pretended to have connection issues because he unintentionally gave away the game plan.

“Plenary authority is complete, absolute power over a specific area or issue, with no significant limitations."

Show people this clip. This is an insane slip up.

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