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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋
@buglady.bsky.social
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Illustrator/painter who loves bugs, bones, and cool rocks. Anti-fascist, anti-racist, and pro-human rights. I block crypto/AI/NFT grifters who follow me. She/her. Support my art: https://linktr.ee/christinehutson
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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · Oct 7
Leopard slug (Limax maximus) crawling along my page. #SciArt.
Watercolor illustration of a large spotted leopard slug on light gray paper. The slug is depicted with a light gray painted trail of mucus trailing behind it, wandering all over the paper.
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Mike Mignola @mikemignola.bsky.social · 16h
Big Hellboy news today over at @nerdist.bsky.social.

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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 18h
After months of speculation, Maine Gov. Janet Mills officially announced on Tuesday she’s running for U.S. Senate in 2026 to try to oust long-time Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

via @mainemorningstar.com
Ending months of speculation, Gov. Mills announces campaign for Collins’ Senate seat
This story may be updated. After months of speculation, Maine Gov. Janet Mills officially announced on Tuesday she’s running for U.S. Senate in 2026 to try to oust long-time Republican Sen. Susan…
www.newsfromthestates.com
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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 19h
Just in case I've not made it clear, I believe everybody on the planet should get free healthcare.

Yep, those people too.

Some folks aren't down with socialised medicine, and that's their opinion. This is mine.

Ask me about my stance on UBI....
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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 22h
"I asked you first" is grade school stuff. Weak tea.
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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 22h
I told you. I. Am. Not. A. Journalist. I still get to have an opinion. I have stood up to physical violence and walked away. These people are not facing guns, they are being asked to comply in advance.
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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 22h
Why aren't you doing it? No, tell me. Why aren't you there, being a journalist, and refusing to hand in your press card?
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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 22h
Um, because I am not in the White House press corps? Fool.
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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 22h
People like you are why these people are in power right now. If you ever wondered what you would have done in the face of the Nazis in the lead-up to the Shoah, you are doing it now. In your case: nothing. Refusing to comply is the least anyone can do. I guess you capitulate, yes?
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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 22h
I...do. I have always been strong-willed, and I have regularly gotten punished for saying no to authority figures. It got me beaten with a paddle multiple times by school principles and teachers back when I was a kid. An ex of mine aimed a loaded shotgun at me, and I just walked away. Fuck. You.
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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 23h
Waiting for just one if them to say, "No. Make me". Much stronger than just quietly handing in the press pass. And if enough of them did that, it could make news. Make the fascists demand it from you. Make big waves.
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NPR @npr.org · 1d
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 1d
I'm seeing a lot of JPL love in my mentions - and rightly so.

Good Night Oppy gives you such a beautiful sense of the people who work there, and what they do:

(Yes, you should watch it)

Losing any fraction of this is such a tremendous loss, and another thing for this admin to answer for.
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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 23h
I really liked this much more than I had expected to.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d
To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
Right to protest under ‘sustained attack’ across the west, report finds
Right to protest under ‘sustained attack’ across the west, report finds
Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says FIDH The right to protest has come under “sustained attack” across the west , according to a report highlighting the growing criminalisation of pro-Palestinian demonstrations. The study by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) pays particular attention to the UK, the US, France and Germany, where it says governments have “weaponised” counter-terrorism legislation as well as the fight against antisemitism to suppress dissent and support for Palestinian rights in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Continue reading...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d
ICYMI:

Stephen Miller's spouse doesn't know Joe Biden exists.
A screencap of a tweet from Katie Miller. Why are there no living female hostages? 12:30 PM · Oct 13, 2025 · 3M Views
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Emily Hare @emilyhare.co.uk · 1d
Only ten spaces left for anyone to get all four Strangehollow books! Each book does stand on its own, but if you wanted to grab the set, now is your chance. Campaign ends on Thurs! buff.ly/Mg3qB6F
#artbook #fantasyart #folklore #fairytales #creatureart #watercolour
a mockup of four colourful books, a green one, Strangehollow, a grey one, secrets of strangehollow and a blue one, seas of strangehollow and a pink and green one, savage strangehollow!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d
The Dinosaur Superhighway.
In the footsteps of giants - BBC News
One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quarry near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d
The hostage release is a reminder of how bad the Dems are at politics. Not only did Biden refuse to force this deal on Netanyahu & thereby help Harris win, but most people aren’t even aware that Biden got way more Israeli hostages (over 100) released with his 2023 ceasefire than Trump did with his.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d
Today I learned there is such a thing as National Boss's Day, and that allegedly it is this Thursday and I SWEAR TO GOD that if I find out any of you have participated in such a craven act of subservience to the ownership caste I will find you and give you SUCH a noogie
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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 1d
Wow!
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BugLady 🎨🌿🦋 @buglady.bsky.social · 1d
Sadly, after looking at job ads, that seems to be the case
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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · 2d
#SundayFishSketch ... some small icefish studies.
small sketch of two icefish hovering over their eggs and nest of stones skerchbook page showing an icefish hovering over its circular nest of stones and its clutch of eggs
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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 3d
Digging into @anatosaurus.bsky.social's manifesto on Magnestism > Pollingism.

Genius from her diagnosis of what's missing from most 2025 "autopsies" on: why we want to win.

"...to enact the agenda you believe in or, at the very least, blunt the authoritarian assault against Americans now underway"
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
www.weekendreading.net
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samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social · 19d
A reminder today that things don't always go as you planned in life.
I absolutely couldn't make a go of it doing colour pencil drawings like this. But I did get there in the end.

If you can afford to keep trying, keep trying x
5 colour pencil drawings of flowers from the garden. 1 watercolour of Irises in a neighbours garden. All by me, Sam :-) Samantha when my parent's are cross with me!
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