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Kiana Mosser 🐇

@kianamosser.bsky.social

Lots of new people today, welcome to Bluesky! If you want more cute art on your feed, you’ve come to the right place 🌸✨

Dawn and Piplup from Pokémon standing atop a hill overlooking Floaroma Town in Sinnoh, which is filled with flowery meadows and bordered by forests. In the distance, some snow-capped mountains can be seen, including Mt. Coronet. There’s a light breeze, causing the windmills of Valley Windworks to turn. Some Starly are taking flight into the bright sky filled with fluffy clouds.

An illustration of Hazel, a witch with long hair and pointed ears, reading a storybook to her bunny and bird friends by the window inside their cozy cottage adorned with flowers and books. Outside the window are leaves with the sun shining through them and a mountain overlooking a lake.

Isometric pixel art rendition of Cherrygrove City from Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver. It's a small town by the sea, with lots of cherry blossom trees and flowers. Kris, Gold, Lyra, and Silver are in town with their starters. Around them, Pokémon are relaxing and floating in the gentle wind.

Illustration: Pichu looking up in the sky at a rainbow, surrounded by flowers. Two Cutiefly are also looking up. The wind is blowing, causing flower petals and dandelion seeds to float. Skiploom and Hoppip are flying through the air.

December 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM

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Requinoesis✨

@requinoesis.bsky.social

Merry Christmas to all of you, wherever you are, your support this year has been my greatest gift! 🎁✨

I hope you all can be there for those who bring you comfort and security, with lots of food! 🎄✨

An old abstract illustration titled "Shark Diva," created as a gift for shark activist Cristina Zenato.

The illustration depicts an unknown female figure, standing asleep, hovering above a mystical sea full of waves and a cosmic sky. She is dressed in a long dress made of sapphire-colored waves, and several small sharks swim around her, following the flow of magical, shimmering water. Above, a resplendent star hovers. The cone-shaped composition subtly evokes the symbolism of a Christmas tree.

December 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM

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Ramin Nasibov

@nasibov.me

December 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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Saskia W.

@saskiaw.bsky.social

Inari Krohn (1945, Finland) is a painter and graphic artist, who started with political paintings but moved to work with aquarelle and graphics in the seventies. Her themes became more focused in nature.
Krohn combines aquarelle, wood carving and etching, with very subtle results.

Untitled (1994)

This is an etching created by Inari Krohn in 1994. The specific print is number 16 in an edition of 40.
The image depicts a dark, nocturnal forest scene. It shows a snowy landscape in shades of light blue and white. Dense, dark blue and black silhouettes of pine trees dominate the center. A small, bright yellow, illuminated Christmas tree stands out in the center-right of the composition. The upper part of the image features a dark blue night sky dotted with numerous small white stars.

December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM

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Elaina Williams

@elainawilliams.bsky.social

Autumn 2020 at Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park #photography

November 17, 2024 at 4:21 PM

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Paul Welsh

@paulwelsh89.bsky.social

Joseph Cornell. Constellation (Project for a Christmas card). 1953

December 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM

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key-lime pie

@keymonster.bsky.social

Pumpkin-tailed cat movement study - Sketchbook 2024

[ #art #illustration #sketchbook #botanicats ]

A sketch page of a cat creature that has a long, leaf-like tail flowing behind it. The sketch appears to be exploring the movement of such a creature.

October 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM

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JBGarrity Photography

@joegarrity.bsky.social

I did a more Christmasy Christmas Tree Cluster. Sulfur-II + Hydrogen alpha = reddish orange (changed to red). Changed the oxygen-III (blue), rendering green for a holiday version. 🎄

#astrophotography #astronomy #nature #longexposure #christmastree #starcluster #christmas #eastcoastkin #photography

December 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM

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Whale Tales

@whaletalesorg.bsky.social

Orca Santa comes tonight!🎅
🎨: delphinidae
#ChristmasEve

December 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM

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BeijingPalmer

@beijingpalmer.bsky.social

a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.

December 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM

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Ello

@ellohcee.bsky.social

#ArtAdventCalendar 11 - Through the woods (2021)
#art #deer

Digital art of a path through a forest, covered in fallen leaves. The tree trunks are deep purple and the leaves all shades of gold and orange, wind blowing across the path and carrying blue and purple leaves. In the distance beyond rays of sunlight filtering through the trees is a buck with branch like antlers

December 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM

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Cristian

@cristianpintos.com

Merry Christmas everyone!
Also here's the rest of 'Inside Latinoamerica'

#art #illustration #drawing

December 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM

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🌿k

@km-c.bsky.social

Small walking bridge over Louise Creek at Lake Louise covered in fresh snow at night. Beyond the edge of the bridge on either side of the creek are snow covered coniferous trees.

December 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚

@gwen4braves.bsky.social

One day in July I just watched 3 little squirrels and a baby Cardinal. 🪶🦊

December 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM

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Marga

@margasib.bsky.social

Eastern Phoebe in the backyard looking for insects. One of the season's visitors to the area.

#birdwatching #wildlife #photography

December 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM

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Dr Faggot (They're Tired of Him)

@bitterest.bsky.social

The 2012 film The Lorax is explicitly about this

disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 1d

Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes twinks

December 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM

Blue Sonoran

@quailfan.bsky.social

Omg

December 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM

Blue Sonoran

@quailfan.bsky.social

Christmas tree cluster NGC 2264 🙂🎄

December 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM

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Politico

@politico.com

Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump name added to building

“When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,” Chuck Redd said.

dlvr.it

December 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM

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Athanaca

@athanaca.bsky.social

Have some cookies? 🍪🍪🤲✨
Hope everyone have a nice holiday 🥺💕💕
#christmas #birdart #illustration #food #animalart

December 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM

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JR

@from37to38.bsky.social

Often we look low
But if the time is just right
Fungi lives up high

🌿🍄📷

Undershot of a split gill mushroom growing out of a tree trunk.

Looking up at the gill array of a peeling oyster mushroom growing out of a tree trunk.

Undershot of two bright orange twiglet mushrooms growing out of a giant eucalyptus tree.

December 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM

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Shayna Cossette Birding 🇨🇦

@shaynacbirding.bsky.social

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

#wildlife #lynx #birding #happyholidays

A lynx looks up at the sky from a snowbank with the text" merry christmas and a happy new year" in red and green

December 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM

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Better Things Are Possible

@internethippo.bsky.social

Something not talked about as much as the right wing's dismantling of democracy is what they've done to the supposedly sacrosanct market system. It's not good to let a dozen morons have all the money and make all the decisions!