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Natalie Metzger @thefuzzyslug.bsky.social · 6h

😭 hope it’s mild ‘n’ quick!

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Amanda Heidt @scattercushion.bsky.social · 10h

🧪Did I really have time for this story? No, I did not, for reasons I'll be sharing soon. Did I absolutely feel compelled to write it anyways? You know I did! A viral mystery solved by science. Read on @sciencenews.bsky.social

Also, I have a new to-do for my trip to Chicago for #SciWri25 next month!

The viral Chicago ‘Rat Hole’ almost certainly wasn't made by a rat

Researchers used methods from paleontology to analyze the quirky local landmark, created when a rodent of a certain size fell into wet concrete.

www.sciencenews.org

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 17h

"Help"

a concerned-looking salmon toy being clawed by a fluffy black kitten with an intense expression

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 1d

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY (aka fuck Columbus day 😝)
For me making my beadwork, and for yall buying/wearing beadwork is a great way to say fuck Columbus, fuck colonizer assholes, fuck fascism. Im gonna stay celebrating my culture, the culture that they tried to wipe out from this land → cvkvlv.com

My hand holding a pair of long black beaded dangle earrings with red, orange, and yellow accents and silver bugle beads

My hand holding a pair of black beaded loop earrings with red, orange, and yellow accents and silver bugle beads

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 1d

Hey what are we looking at

(I love seeing them share the same seat on the cat tree, it has to be said)

a fluffy grey tabby and a fluffy black kitten sitting on the same level of a carpeted cat tree, looking intently outside at an apple tree (presumably something in it?? a squirrel or bird??)

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Jay 🌲➡️ Howloween 2025 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · 1d

Today is Indigenous People’s Day!! I’m Wet’suwet’en, oooooo look at my art 🌀🌀🌀 my stomach is still cramping so that’s all the introduction I have the willpower for 👍

Website: www.jazzjosart.com
Online Shop: ko-fi.com/telekitnetic...

#indigenouspeoplesday #formline #indigenousart

A formline design of a cocoon and an emerging butterfly, coloured in the same shades as the transgender flag. The cocoon has half of a human face on it, and the butterfly’s wings are made of human hands.

An assortment of formline stickers. The designs include a hyena, a chickadee, an otter head, a capybara, and a harbor seal.

A picture of the vendor booth for TeleKitnetic Art at Canfurence 2025.

A picture of a formline wooden pin. The design is of a sitting wolf and a wolf pup in grey-brown. The wolf pup is pawing at its parents leg with its tongue stuck out.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 2d

Is life often terrible? Yes.
Are there still always people out there going “Let’s make a cool ass thing for other people to see?” Also yes.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 2d

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Sarah Becan @sarahbecan.bsky.social · 1d

New Sauceome comic this week, because it's winter squash season!

(also, a little rumination about what's up in Chicago these days)

buttondown.com/sarahbecan/a...

Roasting Winter Squash

It’s winter squash season! I drew this using butternut squash, but this method works for pretty much any winter squash: acorn, autumn frost, delicata,...

buttondown.com

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 1d

A group of Willets strutting their stuff on a beach in Hamilton back in May. #birds #birding #BirdOfTheDay #HamOnt

Four large shorebirds strutting along the shoreline towards the right side of the image, with small waves crashing to shore behind hem. They are stippled gray, black and white, with long, very slightly up-curved bills.

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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 2d

On the one hand, #WorstBirdPic

On the other hand, hey - it's not the side you typically get to see on a White-breasted Nuthatch! 😂

On the third hand - WOOHOO I have a White-breasted Nuthatch in the yard and at the feeder!

#birds #becurious 🪶

photo of a white breasted nuthatch on a wooden pallet behind chicken wire. they are facing downward with their underside facing the camera.

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SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · 2d

Tiny fish for the fish sketch hashtag. #SundayFishSketch

Tiny reef fish miniature sculptures. Hand sculpted from white and black clay.

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SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · 2d

👋 May I offer 🫴 a Tiny Shark 🦈 in these trying times? 🥺

🦈 Hand sculpted from clay.

#Tiny #Shork #ArtYear #MarineLife #Cute 🦑🐡

Tiny black tip reef shark sculpture, balancing on the artist's left hand.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 2d

Amber is the color of my energy topatoco.com/collections/...

A screenshot of a shirt preorder with 311 sold

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 2d

Stay Weird Portland! 🔥 Today Portland had an emergency naked bike ride to the ICE facility. IN THE RAIN.

It was around 50°. Thousands were fully nude, half nude, or wearing costumes.

Portland is VERY dedicated to exposing the absurdities of injustice.

Here are some photos & videos. 🧵👇🏼

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Yet Another Emily @anomily.bsky.social · 2d

My favorite

Person 1: Hit My name is Jason

Person 2: Ah! Nice to meet you, Jason

Words in the person 1’s brain: Jason, FRIENDS, FAMILY, BRASSICA OLERACEA

Person 1: Say Jarvis, did you know that over a dozen common vegetables are actually the same plant species?

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Natalie Metzger @thefuzzyslug.bsky.social · 3d

😍💖🕷️

Cinderoid✨ @cindervoidz.bsky.social · 3d

Your loyal steed is here! ✨
It's 2 am and I had a cursed idea, enjoy.
I'm off to bed 💤

Image shows a sketchy illustration of what looks like a hybrid of a tarantula and a unicorn.

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Natalie Metzger @thefuzzyslug.bsky.social · 4d

🤞🤞🤞🦸

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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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Sarah Crumb @sarahscrumbs.bsky.social · 4d

Continued progress on my orca.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 4d

Frogby is a fan of the Portland frogs

my little frog Frogby in the style/colors of the Portland protest inflatable frog costume, his eyes are red, he has a lighter belly and darker spots on his arms and legs and is smiling

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 4d

Happy world squid and cuttlefish day!!

Text your friend a squid fact. Watch a video of a cuttlefish doing something cute.
Doodle a squid and then show it to me.

The world is cruel but squid are good.

A giant Australian cuddle fish swims up from the Moy seafloor and looks at the camera. She is red with w shaped curious pupils

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 4d

🌺🏵️🌸💮🌻

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Natalie Metzger @thefuzzyslug.bsky.social · 4d

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 5d

If you need a weird break from *gesticulates erratically* I’m back on my bullshit talking about weird apples again fyi

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 5d

Do you hear the distant rumbling? The thrum and tumble? That's the herd of apples, on the move again. Careful. Don't spook 'em or they'll stampede.

What I mean is, today's apple review is live. Up now: HOLSTEIN. P.S. there's also some waffle-piffle about art and audience in there too if you care.

Apple Review #11: Holstein (With bonus Ruminations On Art Vs Audience)

The push and pull of art is, I think, the part where you do it for yourself versus where you do it for other people. And yes, this is sort of about me making my weird apple videos. And no, I don&#8…

terribleminds.com

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Natalie Metzger @thefuzzyslug.bsky.social · 5d

😍!!

Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 5d

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

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