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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 5h

Responding to knock knock jokes by standing very still and pretending I'm not home until they leave

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citrus sapling 🍋 mcm lnd 2p7 @citrussapling.bsky.social · 10h

I spy... With my 30-40cm diameter eye #art #watercolour #sciart

A watercolour painting of a colossal squid, with eyelashes on it's large eye. The text around it reads "I spy with my COLOSSAL eye".

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🪕🐻Banjo Critter🐻🪕 @takaalive.bsky.social · 27d

happy national fox day !!! 🦊🍂

a red fox up on a ledge, smiling back at the camera. around him are lots of autumnal trees and mountains, clouds in the distance

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Alissa Grosso @alissagrosso.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my. I am so very, very old.

Alissa Grosso @alissagrosso.bsky.social · 1d

It's spooky season! I put together this collection of some of my favorite Halloween and spooky designs: www.pinterest.com/alissagrosso... #halloween

Halloween '25 on Pinterest

Explore a hand-picked collection of Pins about Halloween '25 on Pinterest.

www.pinterest.com

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 1d

my dream job is to be the guy who renames streaming services every 12-18 months ($725k/yr)

Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 1d

Apple says Apple TV+ streaming service is being renamed as Apple TV, with "a vibrant new identity" (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)

Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Michael Brunström @michaelbrunstrom.bsky.social · 1d

Once more in London!
Michael Brunström Sings Ten Songs about Moths
Tues 2 December, 8pm. FREE!
Aces & Eights Saloon Bar
www.acesandeightssaloonbar.com/events/micha...

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 3d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Annie Parker @annieparker.bsky.social · 1d

Aren’t bumblebees just awesome?
#FarmLife #LittleFarm

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Jun 11

Black rain frogs (Breviceps fuscus) look like angry avocados and I'm here to share them with you.

(📷: Tony Rebelo, iNaturalist)

Black rain frogs (Breviceps fuscus) is swollen up with air to make it harder to eat, and it has a downward facing mouth, making it look like it's sad or angry or grumpy. It's black and bumpy like an avocado, with undersized limbs sticking out from underneath. It's sitting in leaf mold that is indistinct.

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Alissa Grosso @alissagrosso.bsky.social · 3d

Love this!

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Alissa Grosso @alissagrosso.bsky.social · 4d

Reskeet with a frog to scare ICE

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 4d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Alissa Grosso @alissagrosso.bsky.social · 4d

Since today’s prompt was #broom I made an attempt at painting Winnifred Sanderson. Her hands certainly are the stuff of nightmares.

#doodlewashoctober2025 #art #watercolor #hocuspocus

Ink and watercolor illustration of the Winnifed Sanderson character from Hocus Pocus with very wonky hands and a broom in the background.

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Alissa Grosso @alissagrosso.bsky.social · 5d

My paper on Oskar Schindler that I wrote hours before it was due because Dad broke my computer got an A and shared with the class as an example of how to write a paper.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 6d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
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wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Kellee aka IrishJayhawk66 @kelleepratt.bsky.social · 5d

Dear media- stop reinforcing MAGA propaganda by repeating the false term, “Antifa.” As though that’s some actual organized group. Antifa is a made up word that means being ANTI FASCIST. This entire nation and our allies won an ANTI FASCIST world war about 80 years ago.

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 6d

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Alissa Grosso @alissagrosso.bsky.social · 6d

I have no idea what I was thinking! I think I tried getting in touch after my first book came out, but learned she had retired. i mean probably because of she was at retirement age, but maybe because of getting scary stories from students. LOL!

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Alissa Grosso @alissagrosso.bsky.social · 6d

In honor of it being spooky season I wrote about that time I terrified an English teacher, without meaning to creativityandcontentment.com/2025/10/08/t...

That Time I Terrorized an English Teacher (But Not on Purpose)

It is officially spooky season, and so far it’s been a pretty scary week. In the publishing world one of the biggest book distributors (and the very biggest for libraries) Baker & Taylor is goi…

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 6d

A very young American Herring Gull on a very rainy day. It was following our boat in hopes of grabbing a morsel of food.

Bay of Fundy, #NewBrunswick, Canada
September 2025

📸 #birds #AHGU #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

A very tight shot of a greyish-brown gull flying foward and to the left with wings spread wide.

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Alissa Grosso @alissagrosso.bsky.social · 7d

I once got mansplained about the Pennsylvania town I lived in at the time by someone who didn’t understand the difference between townships and boroughs.

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 7d

Osprey flying into #TalonTuesday with landing gear lowered. Just look at those fishhooks!

Jemseg, #NewBrunswick, Canada
April 2025

📸 #birds #osprey #OSPR #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

A brown and white osprey is frozen in mid-air with its wings spread wide and its legs and talons extended as it descends toward its nest below.

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 7d

On her own blog, my @skiffyandfanty.com co-host @pematson.bsky.social reviewed ALL OF US MURDERERS on Sunday

whatsthewordnow.blogspot.com/2025/10/book...

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mattstarrfineart.bsky.social @mattstarrfineart.bsky.social · 8d

BIRDTOBER 2025- DAY 6 with acrylic paint: Green pigeon

#mattstarrfineart #birdtober #birdtober2025 @aholmesartstudio #bird #birds #birdart #birdillustration #birdpainting #birdartist #artchallenge #greenpigeon #greenpigeons #green #pigeon #pigeons

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