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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 23

This feels like a spot of good news

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold

Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...

www.sciencedaily.com

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GT @granitetide.bsky.social · Aug 22

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

90s computer desk with shelves for speakers, tower, printer, pull-out mouse and keyboard drawer etc

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · Aug 21

Take a break from doomscrolling.

#birds #art #timelinecleanse #painting #kingfisher #icon #peace

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The saddest girl to ever hold a martini @lifeisterrible.bsky.social · Aug 17

important

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ApocalypseElf @apocalypseelf.bsky.social · Jul 27

Hildegard of Bingen enjoys a scalp massage from Cthulhu while she repairs a convent radiator

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Taedis The Librarian @taedis.bsky.social · Jul 27

I've posted this 1947 Mark Severin drawing before. It's majestic, beautiful, and erotic all at the same time. One of my all time favorites.

Until recently, I haven't had any luck finding more of Severin's Size content.

#giantwoman
#sizesky

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · Jul 27

A lot of people need to hear this

The Black Panthers didn't mock people for their lack of education. They taught people how to read

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Tampa Bay resister 🇺🇸🇨🇿🇨🇴🏴‍☠️⚡️🐶🎧 @depechemodefan101.bsky.social · May 22

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · May 13

This is the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris), and it's just straight up a dinosaur.

Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur.

(📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)

A coal-black bird with a bill that covers the whole front of the face. A long grackle-like boat tail, muscular legs and an alert black eye. The bird sits on red sand next to water, as if a mud puddle or stream.
CREDIT: Suzie McCann, eBird, 01 Jun 2019, Santa Clara Ranch, Starr, Texas, United States

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🍎 @pommeplisa.bsky.social · Apr 13

quick doodle over a sketch from two years ago

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Matt Gaetz Forehead @mattgaetz4head.bsky.social · Apr 9

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · Apr 9

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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Carlow Weather @carlowweather.bsky.social · Apr 7

High resolution satellite image from NASA of a cloudless Monday

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Apr 4

'Blosdom boughs' by contemporary US painter
Erin Hanson #WomensArt

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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · Mar 26

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · Mar 26

This is Bella and Hank. They have a commensal relationship in which Bella benefits and Hank neither benefits nor is harmed. 13/10 for both

a small, tan, scruffy dog is perched on the back of a senior golden retriever. Bella the little pup, has her paws placed on Hank the golden's forehead, pushing his skin down so his eyes are closed. Bella's tongue is out and her eyes are wide. seems like she's preparing for a treat, and Hank is used to the arrangement.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · Mar 25

#NASAWebb provides high-resolution details of Herbig-Haro 49/50—an outflow from a nearby still-forming star and background galaxies. Webb reveals the fuzzy object at the tip of the outflow in the Spitzer image is actually a distant spiral galaxy: webbtelescope.pub/4iGQg9K 🔭 🧪

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Simon S. Andersen @snakepixel.art · Mar 25

Needed a break. Was seeing colors in my head, so here's a quick evening speed-paint.

A stone canyon under a starlit sky, light hitting its side as a large feathered being is being witnessed by two onlookers

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · Mar 25

[youth pastor voice] you know who else got in trouble by accidentally adding the wrong person to his group chat with the boys

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OBDsity - Bunnies in a Bun Dance @obdsity.bsky.social · Mar 23

Close-up of where the kisses happen 😘😘😘

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · Mar 23

Random Fact

In the Spider-verse films, Spider-characters are animated at twice the frame rate of everything else, giving them an ineffable grace that observers subconsciously pick up on.

Miles starts at the low frame rate and accelerates into the Spider frame rate over the course of the film.