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Sam Critter (he/they)
@samcritter.bsky.social
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🌿27 yo Canadian science artist and illustrator
🌿Lover of bugs, weird critters, plants and all things nature
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robmacwolf.thevoice.dog
When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.
mattburgess1.bsky.social Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · Oct 14
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases. In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing). In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
October 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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selfcaregamer.bsky.social
there is literally nothing wrong with being disabled, and you will be so much happier once you accept that
October 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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parkparr.bsky.social
hi #PortfolioDay!
I’m Parker, a Queer artist living in Philly painting dreamy landscapes!

I have a shop with prints and stickers plus a monthly print + sticker club! My personal comms are open this season as well
🌐 parkerparrella.etsy.com
🌷 patreon.com/parkparr
💌 [email protected]
A landscape painting of a warm pink and purple sunset with a rainbow arching across the sky and dipping below the red tree line. The rainbow is made of small pink, yellow and blue stars. A landscape painting of a birdseye view of green farmland and large white clouds hanging low over the fields. One cloud hiding among the others is shaped like a four-point star. A landscape painting of a green forest with a pond in the center. A large white star descends from the pale sky, surrounded by a double halo A landscape painting of a red, pink, and purple forest with a stream running through it. Three large stars with halos hover just above the surface of the water, reflecting below.
October 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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athanaca.bsky.social
-This is not the sky-

😢It is really sad to see adorable birds dying because of the reflection on windows, so I made this illustration for some bird protection organizations to propagandize this situation.

#bird #illustration #animalprotection #originalart #animal #digitalart #animalart #artist
an illustration of a long tailed strike hitting onto the glass, which reflects the the sky
October 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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cheesecakechik.bsky.social
fuck your transphobic emotional support wizard book, I only support real magic, like those of these Etsy witches
September 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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originalist.bsky.social
Pritzker succeeding while media failing at this:

"We have a bit of a natural experiment here.
Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago.
May be revealing."

bsky.app/profile/josh...
nhannahjones.bsky.social Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Sep 10
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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thetriibe.com
Some of the things Charlie Kirk has said as a right-wing influencer and Trump ally:

• “We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s”

• George Floyd was a “scumbag”

• Gun deaths are “worth it”

thetriibe.com/2025/09/live...
LIVE: Charlie Kirk, who once called the Civil Rights Act 'a huge mistake,' shot dead • The TRiiBE
ALSO, an emergency anti-ICE rally will take place at an area hotel where federal agents are reportedly staying.
thetriibe.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
if you are ever tempted to write off the residents of a "red" (i.e., gerrymandered) state and say "set them adrift, let them secede, they deserve what they voted for", you are missing all the thousands of stories like this where the human beings in those states are pushing back every single day
August 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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caterwaul.bsky.social
one very real, concrete way to help feed Gaza right now is through donating to World Central Kitchen
wck.org World Central Kitchen @wck.org · Aug 21
WCK’s mobile bakery in Gaza is currently producing 45,000 loaves of bread every day. With more supplies, including flour and fuel, we'd be able to more than double that daily output and support more Palestinian families in need. #ChefsForGaza
August 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Some tarantulas come in blue raspberry flavor
A overhead shot of a deep blue tarantula. It has whitish markings on its legs and down its midsection.
July 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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beccaisoutside.bsky.social
parenting is hard
an adult robin and a juvenile both hold one worm tangled around their bills. the adult says "go one, just hold tight" as the baby responds "but its wiggling!"
July 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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nao70shark.bsky.social
Dinomorpho
July 17, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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paraplyshop.com
clover dream 💚

#art #cuteart
An illustration of a mouse wearing red garments and a little red hat, smiling with their eyes closed. They are sitting among giant clovers and sparkles.
June 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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beebrookshire.bsky.social
This is lovely.

A guy saw a rock that looked a little like a face. So he took some paint and gave it a lil' nose.

It was 43,000 years ago. And the guy was a Neandertal. www.sciencenews.org/article/olde...
A 43,000-year-old Neandertal fingerprint has been found in Spain
An ochre dot in Spain may hold one of the oldest, most complete Neandertal fingerprints, hinting at symbolic behavior in our ancient relatives.
www.sciencenews.org
June 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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sailorrooscout.bsky.social
GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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grimmla.bsky.social
hands down one of my most popular designs
the tri banana hydra
April 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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lioninthetrees.bsky.social
Reduction block print inspired by the Blue Heron 🪶🌿
Done for my Print Pals' crew over on my patreon ~*
www.patreon.com/lioninthetrees

#art #SciArt #NearbyNature2025 #printmaking
A stylised illustrated block print featuring a Blue Heron in an oval framed by floral details. Colours used were a teal, lime green, yellow, and a dark green/blue.
April 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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vireosy.bsky.social
Perhaps it would behoove me to boost this to the #SciArt feed lol
vireosy.bsky.social Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · Mar 31
POLAR LIGHTS 3 now live!

POLAR LIGHTS 3: MIDNIGHT is a digital charity anthology featuring original art and writing from 56 creators. All proceeds benefit the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition.

Grab the zine for as little as $2 here: polarlightszine.itch.io/polar-lights-3
A graphic with previews of the PDF cover (a moose in a field of fireweed under a midnight sun) and digital wallpapers (mockups featuring polar bears, Svalbard reindeer, and three others). Text reads: Polar Lights: A charity anthology for Arctic and Antarctic life. $2+. Digital PDF (104 pages) • Digital Downloads (4 desktop wallpapers, 4 mobile wallpapers, 1 icon). All proceeds benefit the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition. On the bottom right is the Itch.io logo with "polarlightszine.itch.io" and the Tumblr logo followed by "polarlightszine". A series of illustration crops featuring a muskox, grizzly bear, caribou, puffin and ptarmigan, sea angel, pink salmon, glacial lanternfish, ringed seal, and stoat. A series of illustration crops featuring a colossal squid, nudibranch, Antarctic shags, blue petrel, swimming penguins, aurora, Antarctic fur seals, Campbell Island teals, and a sooty albatross.
April 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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tkingfisher.com
Ok, this is the kind of April Fools joke I love. Read the extracts below!
rspb.bsky.social RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · Apr 1
WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.

The results tell us a lot!

Extracts below... 🧵
The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”
April 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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fossilforager.bsky.social
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An illustration of a very lush mossy green redwood tree stump with redwood sorrel and ferns growing from it. There are large orange mushrooms growing from the base of the tree in soil. On top of the stump is a pacific wren perched on the edge. A yellow banana slug is on the moss on the tree, which a rough skinned newt takes shelter under a mushroom at the base of the tree stump. It is illustrated on a vibrant swamp green background.
April 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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dragonsofwales.bsky.social
The sketch, the illustration and the exhibition.
Hadrosaurus and infant, one of a series of illustrations commissioned last year for “Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction”. #SciArt
A montage of the three pictures showing an illustration of Hadrosaurus, larger herbivorous dinosaur, lying on a beach with its infant nearby. The first picture shows a rough monochrome sketch, the second shows the full colour illustration, and the third shows the illustration printed at around six meters wide and installed in the exhibition.
April 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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pepperraccoon.com
Hey fam, just a wee reminder that I'm an artist and I draw lots of nature-inspired cool stuff including apparel, bandanas, and stickers (and enamel pins!) over at pepperraccoon.com <3 would appreciate some folks checking out the store, it's been real sleepy!
A black t-shirt with a hot pink angry raccoon on the back, it says Back Off! A person holding up a black bandana with lime green spooky illustrations of bones, bats, and spiderwebs a closeup of a green bandana with eels and aquatic plants printed on it a flatlay of four native bird stickers, featuring the kokako, kakapo, kea, and tieke in rubberhose cartoon style
April 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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jlappen1.bsky.social
I see your Disco Worm and raise you Party Snail (Calliostoma annulatum)
The gold-and-purple shell of the marine snail Calliostoma annulatum on a kelp blade.
March 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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jdebbiel.bsky.social
Would you? Could you? RT for my 29th bday 🙂‍↕️🎂 nothing else is happening in this country
jdebbiel.bsky.social Deb JJ Lee @jdebbiel.bsky.social · Jan 14
hello :) looking for posters, covers, detailed work in 2025

🌱 Debleeart.com
🐳 Instagram.com/jdebbiel
#portfolioday
illustration of makima from chainsaw man looking at the viewer away from a painting of a wolf being attacked by dogs Illustration of a girl holding onto a heron with a snake curled around its beak An illustration of a first person view of tea with Medusa, whose eyes are covered by the silver platters Illustration of a dune poster where Paul is staring into the two moons as an altar like structure surrounds him
January 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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gnsiart.bsky.social
A feature from the latest Journal of Natural Science Illustration: Nurturing the Next Generation of Scientific Illustrators by Field Museum ecologist Catherine Hu.

Image: Bombus affinis, rusty patched bumble bees with native plants they depend on. Digital illustration. © 2023 Sorin Sukumaran (1/3)
A colorful #sciart illustration of several rusty patched bumble bees pollinating some detailed purple flowers against a backyard fence. There are also a few illustrations of bee's anatomy to the side. © 2023 Sorin Sukumaran.
January 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM