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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · Mar 25

Update on my animation practice from ‪iAnimate. Taking ‪Alexis Wanneroy‬ Workshop 3 class, THANK YOU Alexis, BEST instructor and animator 🏆🏆🏆! Rig by Ramón Arango‬, Ref from the amazing ‪Shaquan Parson‬ #VRay #PhoenixFD #Maya #Animation #3D #VFX

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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 1d

www.livescience.com/space/the-mo...

Harvest supermoon photos: See the moon at its biggest and brightest in pictures from around the world

This year's full 'Harvest moon' was also a supermoon. Check out some of the best images of this lunar event with our worldwide gallery.

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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 2d

Completely agree 🏆❤️👍! She was exceptional, and absolutely amazing person! Very sad news (and I'm glad she was able to tell people she hated Trump, Elon, etc,, more power to her!)

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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 5d

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From tool use to warfare — here are 5 ways Jane Goodall revolutionized our knowledge of chimpanzees

Pioneering primatologist Jane Goodall has died at age 91. These are her five biggest contributions to how we understand about our closest living relatives.

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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 6d

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Scientists find best evidence yet that icy moon Enceladus is habitable

An ocean flowing beneath the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus is spewing ice that holds the building blocks of life.

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Farel Dal @farel.bsky.social · 7d

ink, pencil, and watercolor on paper illustration of jane goodall and chimp based off photograph.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 8d

Support if you can. store.steampowered.com/app/3008740/...

Winter Burrow on Steam

Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game about a mouse returning home to restore their childhood burrow. Explore, gather resources, craft, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals.

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Lindsey Wailes @linwail.bsky.social · 7d

Happy Rattober!
Day 1 - Friend-shaped rat

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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 7d

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

vintage.stuff @vintagestuff.bsky.social · 7d

Rest in peace

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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 7d

Little Egret (Egretta garzetta): This 65cm (26in) species of Egret is native to Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia. It is resident in most of its range but some northern birds in Europe migrate south in winter. It has distinctive yellow feet. Spectacular photo taken by Galashevi Mari. #egret #bird

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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 7d

Indeed 😁! I enjoyed that sculpture 🏆😁!

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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 7d

"She walked like us, but around 3.2 million years ago.
For five years now, a life-sized fleshed-out model of a female Australopithecus aferensis known as "Lucy."
(note: link below goes to Facebook... )
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

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arborix.bsky.social @arborix.bsky.social · 7d

Starting off Rattober, but it almost feels like cheating... ALL rats are friend-shaped!

#rattober #rattober2025

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Space Weather by SolarHam @solarham.bsky.social · 9d

An M2.6 solar flare along with a prominence eruption off the southwest limb on Tuesday morning. Image by GOES-19 SUVI. SolarHam.com

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 8d

A quick view of the Rosetta nebula - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/2kLxJKy

I didn't want to miss getting a nice image of one of my all-time favourite nebulae, the Rosetta nebula, before it was too late in the season and moved into the west.

This image combines 15 x 60s exposures in each color channel, using broad-band filters B (blue), G (green) and R (red). I also tried to achieve natural colours (i.e. the colours we would see with our eyes).

The data were taken at 10:30pm, Sunday 15 March 2021, from Siding Spring Observatory (near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia).

I used a ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro at -20C with the ZWO 2" BGR filters, my new 7x2" ZWO filter wheel, a Skywatcher Black Diamond 80mm with an Orion x0.8 focal reducer (effective focal length 480 mm, f/6). I used the ZWO ASIAir to control the camera, filter wheel, the mount (Skywatcher AZ-EQ6) and the guiding system (ASI120MM + Orion 50mm finderscope).

The data have been processed with SIRIL, then converted into TIF using Fits Liberator using a logarithmic stretch, and finally combined in Photoshop to get the colours and the final details. Darks, flats and biases were used.

I usually try to get at least 30-40 frames per filter, but as I said this was a compromise to get a nice colour shot of this nebula before it set, and hence I took 15 exposures per filter, and only 60 seconds each (and the highest gain in the camera, hence the noise that can be seen when zooming in). Otherwise I would have taken ~5 minute exposures with a lower gain and 40 of them.

In any case, I hope you li...

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Sam Manley (booked up for now) @sammanleyartist.bsky.social · 8d

HOT FRESH NEW ART! This is the Tzaangor Shaman, from Champions of Chaos for the ttrpg Age of Sigmar: Soulbound 😀

Wielding his Staff of Change in one hand and brandishing his Ritual Dagger in the other, this disc-riding bestial Tzaangor Shaman is ready for a fight!

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GHOST @lohikaar.me · Nov 10

[2019] Take care of yourself 💙

Digital painting of a dragon bathing in a pastel teacup, adorned with flowers.

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GHOST @lohikaar.me · 8d

Monster Hunter painting study: Nergigante
#MonsterHunter

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Mark Chilcott @markchilcott.bsky.social · 8d

WIP #halloween #pumpkin #sketch

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 8d

This isn't actually a blue ring around a distant star but instead the light from a blue galaxy directly behind a nearer red galaxy (centre) getting bent by the latter's massive gravity to form what *looks* like a ring but isn't & the universe is SO WEIRD anyway google "gravity lens" bc I need a nap.

What's large and blue and can wrap itself around an entire galaxy? A gravitational lens mirage. Pictured above, the gravity of a luminous red galaxy (LRG) has gravitationally distorted the light from a much more distant blue galaxy. More typically, such light bending results in two discernible images of the distant galaxy, but here the lens alignment is so precise that the background galaxy is distorted into a horseshoe -- a nearly complete ring. Since such a lensing effect was generally predicted in some detail by Albert Einstein over 70 years ago, rings like this are now known as Einstein Rings. Although LRG 3-757 was discovered in 2007 in data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), the image shown above is a follow-up observation taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3. Strong gravitational lenses like LRG 3-757 are more than oddities -- their multiple properties allow astronomers to determine the mass and dark matter content of the foreground galaxy lenses.

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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 8d

"Newtonsaurus 🏆😁🥳!" Yes, luv it ❤️😀!

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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 9d

scitechdaily.com/125-year-mys...

125-Year Mystery Solved: New Dinosaur Species Identified in Wales

Paleontologists identified a new dinosaur species from a 125-year-old Welsh fossil. The animal was a giant Triassic theropod. Paleontologists at the University of Bristol have confirmed a new dinosaur...

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Critter Crafter Ally [Commissions Open!] @crittercrafterally.bsky.social · Aug 18

New pinned post (Aug. '25)!

Hello, I'm Ally! I'm a traditional artist who loves working with ballpoint pen and watercolors. I also enjoy sharing my sketchbook drawings. Open to commission work!

#TraditionalArt #BallpointPenArt

- Website & Shop: allyartandweb.com
- Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/crittercraft...

Traditional ballpoint pen and watercolor artwork of a feminine angelic being with an intricate halo placing her hands on a humanoid head, surrounded by one-eyed beings with feathered wings

Ballpoint pen and watercolor artwork of an upside-down view of an androgynous figure in red and white frilled clothing and a halo around their head lying on the floor, surrounded by flowers, spheres, and two feathered creatures with a single red eye for a head

Traditional ballpoint pen and watercolor artwork of original character Galea - a divine being in the form of a lean man wearing plated monochrome armor and frilled capes studded with violet flowers and eyed jewels, conjuring a polearm spouting violet petals

Ballpoint pen and watercolor artwork of a human Truthless Recluse Pure Vanilla Cookie from Cookie Run Kingdom, surrounded by stylized vanilla orchids with blue eyes

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DIVA NURSERY @diva-nursery.bsky.social · 9d

Чарівні світлини Журавця х лучного | Geranium x pratense “Brookside” вже в альбомі Pinterest, долучайтесь: pin.it/4vIKhLCKx

#журавецьвсаду
#divanursery #keepuniqueness
#outdoorplantcollection #geranium #plants #gardening #журавець #садівництво #герань #autumn #колекціябагаторічників #розсадникDiva

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 9d

Martin Gregus Jr.
Cinematographer
"One of the most unique sequences I filmed this summer was on a day when three to five bears were play wrestling in the water."

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Josh Purple @joshpurple.bsky.social · 9d

😁❤️