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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@luxomancer.bsky.social

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He/them (ENBY) Photographer ( Macros, skies, cats and things). Citizen Naturalist ( INaturalist observation page https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=luxomancer&verifiable=any ) AUDHD. Gamer, cat servant, Mystic Pixie Dream Bear

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · Oct 17

It seems like we have lots of new users. Welcome! I post mostly #photography, and most of that is #Macro of buggies/ #spiders/ #nature, but also #cats, #skies, and random things. Other things get posted too, science, #art, #games, #random thoughts and occasional #silliness.

A photo of the front of a large yellow and orange IO Moth, (Automeris io) next to a very small brown moth of indeterminate species. The IO Moth has fuzzy yellow legs and forebody, it's forewings are yellow with orange and black patterns. The partly visible hind wings are marked with vivid black eye-spots encircled with orange

A fluffy brown and white tabby Maine Coon cat lays on her side, her head pressed against a window in which her wistful face is reflected

A panoramic photo of a super cell thunderstorm rising into the late afternoon sky over a horizon of trees and a housing development in the right foreground.

A macro photo of a Morning Glory flower. White stamens, bearing globular pollen grains emerge from an intensely purple central section, the petals fading to a pale lavendar.

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 4h

thanks! 🥰

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Jill Orme @ormejks.bsky.social · 4h

A Garden Spider with her packed lunch.

#arachtober #invertebrates #arachnids #spider #GardenSpider #AraneusDiadematus #predation #CommonWasp #VespulaVulgaris #GardenWildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders

A Garden Spider on her web, holding the partly wrapped body of a Common Wasp she has caught. She is a large orange-brown spider with small white patches on her back forming a kind of cross shape, and legs ringed in brown and fawn.

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you 🤘😁🤘

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you 😊

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you 😊

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you 😊

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks 😁

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you 🥰🙏

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you 🥰

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you 🥰

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you 🥰

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks 🥰

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 8h

2 years #sober today. 🤘😁🤘

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 16h

my biggest complain about these tiny creatures is that they're so adorably smol, i have yet to photograph one in the wild

Jake Withee @witheelabs.bsky.social · 1d

My latest for @bizarrebeastsshow.bsky.social concerns these li’l cuties that live in our homes and ride around on other bugs.

The Tiny Scorpions* In Your House

YouTube video by Bizarre Beasts

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, i have been able to learn from scientists and nature enthusiasts and converse with them in ways I would never have without it. I have also been able to share my photography and love of nature with lots of people 😁

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 13h

Happy #Invertober day 8!

Bee-killer robber fly (mallophora fautrix)

#SciArt #Invertober2025

A black and gold insect that looks like a bee but is actually a species of fly that mimics bees. It is crawling through thick green grass.

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 13h

Loving the burst of pseudoscorpion posts! Gave this grabby guy some bristles and a bit more attitude 😈 (remember in reality they’re like sesame seeds with attitude) #arachtober

A gray resin sculpture of a pseudoscorpion, sitting in my open hand against a white background.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, apple reviews, I can't quit you. Today, the snake oil panacea in apple form, sold out of a rickety wagon along with various potions, goos and bezoars: HUDSON'S GOLDEN GEM.

Apple Review #10: Hudson’s Golden Gem

WE MUST BETRAY THE ALGORITHM AND BURN IT ALL DOWN wait I’m getting ahead of myself, sorry. Man, that’s a helluva way to open a fucking apple review, isn’t it? All right, to rewind…

terribleminds.com

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 12h

NEEEEED

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 12h

I would be so tempted to respond with one of the following greetings...

"Yo"
"Fellow Meatbag"
"Distinguished Thumb-haver"

🤪

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Amara @farai5.bsky.social · 8d

Hey guys kinda had a crazy month, kinda strugglingwith rent and stuff, if you can spare anything itd be appreciated

Cashapp:$fai919
Venmo:@fai919

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 12h

That psudoscorpion has ambition! 😂

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Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung.bsky.social · 14h

My first pseudoscorpion observation was pure luck. Happen to see this wasp and took a shot. It was only later did I see what was hanging on the antenna.

On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ]

A brown pseudoscopion hanging on to the antenna of a wasp. The wasp is yellow with black stripes and transparent wings.

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 12h

I just saw an Alaska license plate that has a standing #bear (Kodiak? Grizzly?) standing in the center and now I need to move to Alaska! 😁

#MoreBearsInMorePlaces

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you it gladdens me that you enjoy them 🥰 I love sharing and learning about the weird friends that I find. Our world is amazing!

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