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Skepticalme

@skepticalme.bsky.social

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old woman watching the madness . Love family, democracy, astronomy, cats, birds, nature. Recipes from unusual threads. To relax I try to imagine flying a kite on Venus (it’s a gravity thing)

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Skepticalme @skepticalme.bsky.social · Jul 15

I’m trying to understand the sounds of the universe that we cannot hear. So I am sitting on the shores of Kraken Mare on Titan with my cosmic cello. My cello translates these sounds and plays to me. Incredibly relaxing exercise.

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Tweeti @tweeti.bsky.social · 3h

I don't know much about bears.....

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Linda Davis @littletreeswallow.bsky.social · 5h

A Meadow Katydid…I will miss their sound now that the frosts have come..

A short winged katydid is bright green and rusty brown sitting on hairy green leaves and grass

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 12h

Good morning from the Squirrel of the Day for October 15, 2025 #sqrlpix

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Mary @mjwyatt.bsky.social · 10h

Mt. Hood (Wy’east) wearing a lenticular cloud Monday. Portland Oregon. Have a beautiful day. 💙

Mt. Hood. Dark green conifers, close up of the mountain top with snow and some rock exposed, a white lenticular cloud above the peak and down the right side, pale blue sky above.

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 11h

Black-throated sparrow in a juniper tree, high desert. 🪶

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Jackie Burns @artistburns.bsky.social · 16h

Prompt for today’s Spacetober Challenge is Blackhole. This is my digital draft of a blackhole. I’ll be painting it in acrylic on stretched canvas after Christmas. From my Circles Portfolio. #Spacetober_Challenge #sciart

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Pirjo Sundqvist @pirjosundqvist.bsky.social · 8h

I look at Luna and I feel love. 💚

#WhiskersWednesday
#catsofbluesky #cat
#WindowsOnWednesday
#ArtChallenge
#photography
#EastCoastKin

Grey and white cat sitting on the windowsill with her side towards the window looking down at the floor in deep thought.

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Annie Parker @annieparker.bsky.social · 22h

Dolly has taken the wheel…
#FarmLife #LittleFarm #TinyChook

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 8h

Skinningrove, north Yorkshire, 1970s, photo by Graham Smith.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

#4 👍

Zohran sitting in the corner seat on a subway.

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Danielle Eubank @eubankart.bsky.social · 7h

Donkey on the Isle of Inishmore, #Ireland from my #sketchbook.

Danielle Eubank
#Inishmore
Oil on paper
8x6 in

#expeditionartist #losangelesartist #donkey#paintingonpaper #sketch #tinyart #small #works

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David Allan @davidallanphoto.bsky.social · 6h

As the BBC marks 100 years of the daily 'Shipping Forecast', the general cargo vessel 'Cellus' is pictured here heading out into a stormy North Sea from the Port of Sunderland in North East England.
#england #sunderland #shippingforecast #sunderland #bbc #coast #photography

The general cargo vessel 'Cellus' pictured leaving the Port of Sunderland in North East England as darkness falls. Stormy conditions ahead as the daily Shipping Forecast on the BBC celebrates a 100 hundred years.

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Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 8h

Charming Flights of Fancy Fill Vanessa Gillings’ Imaginative #Illustrations

Link for information & #photos of her #art: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/vane...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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Norah 🦋 Mami’s Small But She is Mighty 🔥 @thenoraheffect.bsky.social · 1d

The Bering Sea— A reminder that beauty lives where danger breathes 😌

Good morning and happy Tuesday

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Matt Berry @matthewberry.bsky.social · 18h

Good morning Marsh Frog 🐸 from Greece 🇬🇷

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rwhooster @rwhooster.bsky.social · 18h

One more of Monday night's three Merveille du Jours. It was totally unnatural for me to stage and take pictures of moths in Yearsley Woods. But I guess needs must when you're away from your home and dedicated shed to take photos in.

#teammoth #mothsmatter #moths

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Kara @kehall25.bsky.social · 12h

Mabry’s Mill, Blue Ridge Parkway, VA

#virginia #landscape #photography #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 1d

Reflecting low tide sunset from my photo archives. See you tomorrow. 🌅

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 7h

Here is your Wednesday Weevil, Watching Warily. Seen at night in a Costa Rican rainforest. Love the giant eyes on this little nugget of a beetle. 🐙🌿 🕶️

A macro photo of a mottled, brownish-orange weevil atop a moss and lichen covered, tattered green leaf. The weevil is seen from a front 3/4 angle; it has a long, backward curved snout and very large, black compound eyes that take up virtually its whole head.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 7h

Today, Steve is hard at work, helping to clean the kitchen. He's suggesting I use him as a mop.

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Frostee Lens O'jay @frosteelensojay.bsky.social · 19h

15/500

Gone macro this morning. Appreciating nature and adding on the count.

"500 pictures for a better camera prize from this platform"

#yourphotographyfeed #blueskyphotography #photography #bluesky #nature #macrophotography

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

It's time to pledge your fealty to MADAM MCQUILLEN!

MADAM is a full-color 164-page supernatural horror comic that picks away at the false faces we wear and reveals the dark thoughts lurking within.

Feast thine eyes on this KILLER exclusive cover by @cotronis.bsky.social!!

Link below!

MADAM Kickstarter-exclusive variant cover by Yorgos Cotronis

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Orca Behavior Institute @orcabehaviorinstitute.org · 1d

New Bigg's killer whale calf alert! 👀

This little one was seen today in the San Juans traveling alongside T36A2 Kailas. If she is confirmed as the mother, this is her first known calf at age 13.

OBI's research assistant Alex got on scene while out with Maya's Legacy and sent along this photo! 😍

New killer whale calf traveling with the T36As

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 1d

Home alone

#seabirds #ukwildlife
#photography

Puffin peers out of the burrow at the human peering in.

Farne Islands 2016.

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