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TheKittymeister
@thekittymeister.bsky.social
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River rat, cloud enthusiast. Myriad interests: anime, FFXIV, crochet, knitting, hiking, all music, kaiju films, plants, birds, weather, logistics/transportation. Will brake for a good mushroom/mycelium. Paheli aficionado.
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pyromancer (2023)
2023 limited tone fantasy pet portrait looking in from a vine covered tower window, we see a black cat conjuring forth fire for warmth, their staff raised and their face illuminated.
December 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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maxwaughphoto.bsky.social
A White-bellied Sea Eagle is escorted out of the neighborhood by a flock of Javan Mynas.
White-bellied Sea Eagle chased by Javan Mynas in Borneo.
December 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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cornellwriter.bsky.social
All of this. Be extremely wary of those words. They’re part of the reason I withdrew a story from a dream market this year.
rsagarcia.bsky.social R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 2d
If you see the words 'irrevocable', 'in perpetuity', 'formats not yet invented', 'net after costs', 'all rights', you're selling every damn thing you could make money from as an author for a one time payment, or in this case, a promise.

Signing this gives the publisher money meant for you forever.
victoriastrauss.com Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 2d
Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...
December 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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stevewaycott.bsky.social
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Groups (groups of 4 or more birds) we have a quartet of Double-crested Cormorants hanging about on a deadhead tree in the middle of the river.

#birds #photography
Four tall black/greyish birds are perching on a dead, leafless tree with four gnarled branches sticking up out of the grey water. There is a red lifejacket tied to one of the branches.
December 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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tomtaylormade.bsky.social
Why does this grandma carry an axe? 🪓
Who has partnered with Mordred?
Can the Children of the Round Table survive their training in Camelot?
Issue 4 of C.o.R.T is out today! @dinicuolo.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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guilhernunes.bsky.social
The kitten wanted to fish, but was afraid to disturb the forest monster that was near the lake. (Commission)
A painting of a cat dressed as a fisherman hiding behind a tree, with a river in the background and a giant mushroom monster.
December 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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andicomics.bsky.social
Jonesy
July 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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shaferbrown.com
graveyard shift (2024)
2024 full color commission perched on a dumpster, a wolf in a heavy coat uses a small chunky laptop. Power lines extend into a rainy multicolored light shadow of a city behind him.
August 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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ilookatclouds.bsky.social
This picture I just took on Sunday of a lesser goldfinch feeding on some flower seeds, works well for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #NaturesPantry
December 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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For the #BirdoftheDay theme of #NaturesPantry, here's a Red-breasted Nuthatch feeding on a sunflower in my yard. Every year, we let a few of the sunflower heads go to seed to feed the birds! #Nature #Photography #Birds #PNWBirding #WillametteValley #Oregon
December 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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crawlieswithcri.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay #WinterBirds

Going with "Classic Winter Bird + Surprise! Winter Bird"

(well, not a surprise in my yard, but often surprising to folks)

#becurious #birds🪶
photo of an oregon form dark eyed junco and a male anna's hummingbird sitting on the small, snow covered branches of a snowball bush. the junco is down left, in profile facing right. the anna's is upper right in 3/4 profile facing front slightly left.
December 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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stevewaycott.bsky.social
Our #TalonTuesday friend this week is a Bald Eagle chillaxin on a gorgeous summer morning.

Sheffield, #NewBrunswick, Canada
July 2025

📸 #birds #eagle #BAEA #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A mature bald eagle with brown body and white head and neck is perching on a tree branch with green leaves all around and blue sky in the background.
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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lizziewallis.bsky.social
Waxwing.
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme set by @alan678.bsky.social is #NaturesPantry, birds interacting with berries, seeds, or flowers.

A rare visit to my local patch by a small flock of waxings.

I would contest that a kingfisher with a fish also fits nature's pantry....🤭
#EastCoastKin
#birds
A bird sits on a berry laden branch, tossing a red berry into its mouth. The bird is a pale pinky buff colour with distinctive black stripes around the eye and beak. It has a distinctive laid back crest.
December 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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cincinnatizoo.bsky.social
We need your voice for wildlife! A new proposal would eliminate the Endangered Species Act (ESA) “blanket rule,” which provides automatic safeguards for newly listed species.
December 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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stevewaycott.bsky.social
A Great Blue Heron takes the spotlight two days in a row for my #BirdOfTheDay submission. Today the theme is #ScratchersAndPruners. Here's a GBH a-scratchin' and a-prunin'.

#birds #photography
A vertical image of a large bluish-grey bird (great blue heron) standing on one long stick-like leg while pruning its feathers.
December 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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maxwaughphoto.bsky.social
Hard to believe it's been about a year since I kicked off my last winter adventures in Yellowstone. No park fun for me in the coming months, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll make it back sometime before my 2027 tours.
American bison and geyser steam in Yellowstone
December 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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conniemenefee.bsky.social
Red-breasted Nuthatches ... short-term visitors - surprisingly bold and endlessy beep squeaking 🪶
Collage with four photographs of small bluish birds with striped heads and rusty bellies
December 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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mahoukarp.com
Its almost crisis 🎅
#art #sharks
Illustration of a shark saying happy crimus its chrismun merry crisis merry chrysler
December 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
I tend to crop my photos so that only one bird species is visible, so I can put them on iNaturalist or eBird to help train their algorithms.

But I couldn't crop this photo of the leucistic goldfinch, because that House Finch face is just too goofy to lose haha

#birds
Photo of an American Goldfinch on a sunflower seed feeder; it should be yellow-gray with black wings, but instead the bird has a bunch of white splotches and a snow-white belly. On the other side of the feeder is a pink-headed House Finch, twisting its head to the side like it is possessed.
December 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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conniemenefee.bsky.social
Meerkats ... I know we need these as the snow piles up 💞 Cincinnati Zoo
Four meerkats together, one standing with arm on another's back Meerkat standing up, belly exposed to the sunshine Four meerkats smooshed together with one stretched across the two little ones Little meerkat looking with lovely brown eyes
December 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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willquinnart.bsky.social
Daily bunny no.3168- finders keepers
Three bunnies lift a large treasure chest, and carry it back to their boat. They are on a tropical desert island. Unbeknownst to the bunnies, three pirate ghosts follow behind them
December 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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elleskinner.bsky.social
Last batch of pet portraits from Kumoricon :)

A dapper tuxedo cat with a very sweet face and a trifecta of bunnies up to no good. What are the bunnies summoning? Don't worry about it

#petportraits #commissions #art #watercolor
A tuxedo cat with a red bow smiling at the viewer a trio of black and white bunnies in front of a pentagram
December 14, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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parliamentarygoose.bsky.social
Adult Southern Giant Petrel (L) and juvenile Northern Giant Petrel for #SuperSeabirdSunday. South Atlantic off Cape Town, August 2019.
December 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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unlikelyworlds.bsky.social
Hampstead Heath, 08:09
Sun rising beyond the stark outlines of leafless trees and their reflections in a channel of dark water. The dawnlight picking out a few reed heads in a long shadowy reed bed.
December 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Semi-infaunal squid?

Everyone update your mollusk theoretical ecospace diagrams and let me know if you got bingo with this one

www.livescience.com/animals/moll...
'Very novel and very puzzling': Unknown species of squid spotted burying itself upside down, pretending to be a plant
A new study reveals an unknown species of whiplash squid burying itself upside down in the deep sea — a first-of-its-kind behavior for cephalopods.
www.livescience.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM