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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hi friends,

Many of you know me, some it’s the first time meeting.

Here’s an introduction from last month when BlueSky has a multitude of new accounts. It’s a decent overview of my social media interactions & goals.

TL;DR: daily natural wonders, always punch a nazi, good faith engagement.

Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · Oct 17

Welcome new friends and friends I haven’t seen in awhile~

If you’re sharing this BlueSky space with me you’ll be seeing a lot of mountain & desert adventures, the wonders of the cosmos, and lots of invertebrate creatures. 💜💙💚
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Devil Postpile national monument with multiple columns of basalt in the side of a mountain surrounded by conifer trees

A desert lake with pinkish purplish and reddish auroras above it and reflecting in the water.

A small metallic blackish greenish fly with iridescent wings getting nectar from a small purple flower

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1h

Sometimes Crows look black and sometimes they don't #birds

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 2h

What’s his genre? A pound-hound with a wild heart so maybe a modern day Johnny Cash.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 12h

I have the deepest respect for those priests doing our Lord's work in Chicago.

Faith without works is not faith at all.

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 12h

Puppy love

Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you! Definitely easy to take decent landscape pics around here.

Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 12h

Any more where he can wander through the sage is a very happy morning.

Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah this is definitely graboid territory. I look around some areas of Nevada and think yep, this is the place.

Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 12h

Absolutely! I’m not too jealous since I get to tag along.

Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 12h

With a wild heart!

Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 12h

His mouth just slightly opened indicating he’s definitely done sitting on that dang rock 🙃

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 18h

a woman in a blue tank top is drinking from a mug

Alt: a woman in a blue tank top is drinking from a mug and is spitting out her drink laughing

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Pan: The Reverist @ok2panic.bsky.social · 20h

8 Chocolate Scorpions and about 20 Ghost Peppers. That’s a special kind of October Scary 🌶️🔥👻 🍽️🍜

Dark purple twisted and contorted, agony inducing peppers sit atop a wholly separate world of fiery pain.

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EverydayHiker @everydayhiker.bsky.social · 18h

High Rocks via Left Boundary Trail
Wytheville, VA

Moderate, 9.3 mi out and back
1,398 mi elevation gain
Hiked 10/10/25

#Virginia #hiking #photography

The view to the southwest from High Rocks viewpoint. I believe that is Stuart Mountain in the center and Little Dry Run Wilderness behind it. Some fall color showing, but the overcast clouds took a lot of the color away.

A couple types of mushroom seen sharing the base of this tree.

The view from High Rocks towards what I believe is the town of Stone Mill, VA.

What I believe to be Stuart Mountain, as seen from High Rocks viewpoint. Fall colors were muted by the gray sky.

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 18h

Cowards

Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited sh*t pic.

A very large black bear spoor on a hiking trail.

The broken open very large black bear spoor on a hiking trail. It is full of apples, cherry seeds and corn.

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 19h

🎶 They've all come to look for America 🎶

Artwork depicting a steer holding a pizza that says prairie pizza

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 1d

SuperDog Rex says good autumn morning from the hills.

A brown brindle dog with a white chest sitting on a boulder. He is looking right at the camera. It is a sage Rush landscape with forted mountains in the background. The sky is mainly clear except for clouds sitting on top of the mountain.

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited sh*t pic.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 1d

The place where the first report of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia in a cohort of gay men revealed the disease that came to be called AIDS

Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 1d

They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 1d

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 1d

The pull to book a flight is sooooo strong! Especially with the active volcano!

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! I’d love to recreate it right now.

When I landed, I bought a leis to wear for the remainder of my visit. Part of the visit was vacation, part was work. When I gave a work presentation, I definitely decked out in a lei 🌺

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 1d

Neurodivergent solidarity

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Scott Kardel aka Palomar Skies @palomarskies.bsky.social · 1d

🔭 1/2 Here's the Tulip Nebula (Sharpless 101) a glowing cloud of hydrogen gas located about 6,000 light years away in the direction of the constellation of Cygnus, the Swan. The nebula is nice but what makes me happiest is what is also in this image.

A telescopic image of a dense field of stars. At center in the Tulip Nebula, a red cloud of glowing gas with an irregular shape. Two dark "fingers" of dust can be seen extending up from the bottom part of the nebula.

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 1d

Ah nostalgia! It’s weird how some memories, emotions, sense of self & place just appear without warning…

It’s early, but I really would love to celebrate Día de Muertos Hawaiian style again.

Me, with short hair, wearing a black Día de Muertos T-shirt with sugar, skulls plus flowers, and a Hawaiian lei, with a cloudy sky and palm trees behind me.

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 1d

I definitely see it on FB from Boomer Progressives. They’re as bad as Extreme Right.

AI images definitely don’t help with critical thought either: “but I saw it with my own eyes!” No. No, you didn’t.

And this from highly educated Boomer Progressives. If I didn’t see them socially, I’d unfriend.

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