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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 54m

Steelers Victory Squirrel! 4-1

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 3h

Butterfly Rest Stop by Janet Echelman, aerial installation #sciart www.echelman.com/butterfly-re...

Gigantic sculptural installation in the form of a green, orange and yellow net

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 3d

Be the posts you want to see on Bsky

a list of things to do including look at art be art make art and show art

Alt: a list of things to do including look at art be art make art and show art

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 4h

Vertex, quilt by Betty Busby #sciart

Quilt with yellow rust, red and brown shapes that suggest radiolarians

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 9h

Dental Phantom, c.1898. Or, what it feels like to live in 2025.

The dental phantom was first created by the Glaswegian dentist Eduard Oswald Fergus a few years earlier as a tool for students to practice their craft before working on human subjects.

A metal head with a mouth wide open as if it is screaming. Inside are a full set of dentures.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 4h

Elaine Whittaker, detail from Ambient Plagues, mixed media #sciart. share.google/oFLvHe5iS7YX...

White wall with images inside petri dishes

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 4h

Anna Dumitriu, Plague Dress, mixed media #sciart

19th century looking brown dress with embroidery. It is filled with plants

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 4h

Fungal Wall, hand-tufted rug by Lizan Freijsen #sciart

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 5h

Susan Aldworth, from the Brainscapes series, etching inspired by brain scan #sciart

Semi-abstract etching of brain structure in white on a dark purple blue background

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 7h

The classic oak-tree pose: Squirrel of the Day for October 12, 2025 #sqrlpix

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 8h

Wayne Thiebaud, Cup of Coffee, 1961

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 8h

“Free knitting classes for furloughed feds have been a regular offer at the Fibre Space yarn shop in Alexandria, Virginia, since 2013, when the government shut down for 16 days. Fibre Space staff and volunteers held the classes again during the 34-day shutdown of 2018.” 🎁🔗

Furloughed and frustrated, feds channel stress into new socks

Since 2013, the Fibre Space yarn shop in Alexandria has offered free knitting classes for furloughed federal workers during long government shutdowns.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 8h

10 seconds of the Army 10-miler

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 20h

Little basement window on a DC street will improve your day

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 9h

Untitled (Moose Pair)
Norval Morrisseau ~ Anishinaabe
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 11h

Yayyyy all the art!

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 11h

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 1d

Squirrel of the Day for October 11, 2025 reaches for the helicopter seeds in a maple tree #sqrlpix

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 19h

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 19h

OMG a squirrel!!!!!

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20h

Portland 🔥

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 19h

And then it's back to trying to focus while working across the street from a giant construction site 🙁

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 19h

I am so very tired but my studio sublet ends in 2 weeks so I'm just like

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 19h

Painted some xylem for a thing. Pretty pleased. #sciart

Watercolor painting with blue and red blobby shapes

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A Cheeseburger Pillow @cheeseburgowski.bsky.social · 1d

Every shitty ChatGPT essay is alike, but every shitty human-written essay is shitty in its own way.

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 20h

Little basement window on a DC street will improve your day

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