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@vdewolfe.bsky.social

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Writer, Artist, Naturalist I’m posting #plants, animals, #art, and that gay shit. She/her. Fan of #Hannibal & #GoodOmens. Full time #naturalist. PFP: drawing of a woman with purple hair & sunflowers Background: a great-horned owl

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · Nov 10

Welcome new followers! I work as a naturalist in New England (USA) & I post about plants, animals, art, crafts, gardening, science, queer joy, & eating the rich.

I also love horror films/books, & Good Omens. Feel free to chat with me; I only bite when the timing is right.

Also here is a good dog.

Ada the red and white Australian shepherd stares at the camera with pale blue eyes. She wears a gold glittery crown, as befitting her station in the family.

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Anton ☾ @antonarcana.gay · 4d

Ideal conditions for starting your passion project will never come. You will never feel skilled enough to make it. There will never be a moment where you stop being scared to start. Do it anyway. Do it badly. Do it scared. Just make that thing that’s clawing at the door of your soul; It wants out.

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Annie Stegg Gerard @anniestegg.bsky.social · 1d

Wishing you a spooktacular (almost) Halloween! You can find prints available at Gallery Gerard, and the original piece is currently on display at @ixarts.bsky.social all weekend.⁠
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"The Woodland Harvest" 12x16 inches, oil on board⁠
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#oilpainting #magic #opossumart #blackcatart #spookyseason

The Woodland Harvest by Annie Stegg Gerard depicts a mother opossum carrying a basket of woodland treats, joined by her four children, a black cat clutching a pumpkin, and a pair of toads making their way to a festive autumn feast.

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Riley Neville @riley.sbug.games · 2d

This is the longest I've spent on any single project in my life! Please remind your friends that Isopod is coming out tomorrow!

Sbug Games @sbug.games · 2d

3 and a half years of isopod rolling down big hills!
Isopod is finally coming out tomorrow!
store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/...

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The Well-read Naturalist @wellreadnaturalist.bsky.social · 3d

Seen at the @princetonupress.bsky.social stand at the Cape May Fall Birding Festival: an advance look at the forthcoming 2nd edition of the "Princeton Field Guide to the Social Wasps of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean." #Booksky

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3d

From the Merrimack Valley Horror Festival today:

A picture of a pumpkin ghoul holding a sign that says NO KINGS BUT STEPHEN

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 3d

Up early to drive to my hometown of Lexington MA (where the first No Kings day was arguably held in 1775). If you don't know where it's happening near you, here's the guide.

Please turn out--this is one of those days that matter in American history
www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=t...

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d

Remember our mantra:

Don't Engage, Just Block.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4d

The mist-shrouded morning at Point Reyes National Seashore, hiking with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social, felt not just haunted or ethereal, but otherworldly. The zenith of that sensation came when a huge bull elk appeared out of the landscape as if a ghost from another land entirely.

slope of darkness with mist over the ocean cliffs

huge antlers over low bushes, in the mist

the bull elk slowing appearing out of the mist

bull elk framed by mist, suddenly come clear to us, casually eating a plant, with plant stalks draped over part of his rack.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 4d

Apparently even ants can figure this shit out.

phys.org/news/2025-10...

Ants alter their nest networks to prevent epidemics, study finds

Ants make a series of clever architectural adjustments to their nests to prevent the spread of disease, University of Bristol research has uncovered.

phys.org

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 8d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 8d

An app just asked me if it wanted to AI summarize a contract I was looking at and I beg you to please read your contracts with your own eyeballs.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 8d

I’m listening

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Jada Fitch Illustration @jadafitch.bsky.social · 9d

You can now grab a signed copy of The Forest Revealed in my Etsy shop. Each book comes with an 11x15” coloring sheet.
jadafitch.etsy.com

#forestrevealed #naturebooks #bookillustrator #books #kidsbooks #maineartist #watercolorillustration

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 11d

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 11d

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 12d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 11d

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better
—Kurt Vonnegut

Wishing you a lovely #Scape Friday🌱

#ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #trees #treescape #photography #photographersofbluesky #StIgnace #NorthCountryNationalScenicTrail #SaveOurNationalParks #Michigan

A dense green treescape within the North Country National Scenic Trail, St. Ignace, MI. At the center, the sun shines through tall pines and birches. At the base of the trees are their long dark shadows, some fall leaves, and brown dirt.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Sep 19

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.

We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.

That's the revolution.

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Molly Nash Rouzie @mollynashrouzie.bsky.social · 13d

Joining you in noticing family Asteraceae, the family most prominently in flower right now in NYC.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12d

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 13d

Good news for heron fans. Not such good news for pocket gopher fans.

Reposted so more stabby stabby, less me breathing into the mic. 🪶

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 12d

Thousands of federal workers at the U.S. Dept. of the Interior and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were fired earlier this year.

The dangerous effects of these mass firings are coming into focus, but it's not too late to stop this.

Take action ➡️ bit.ly/4nGbKGv

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Sarcastic Shark Art @sarcasticsharkart.bsky.social · 12d

Showing how I mask off the background area & try something a little different than usual.

Used the Copic markers to create a sort of stipple ombre fade.

Blacktip Reef Sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus).

#shark #marinelife #sciart #Reef #nature #fish #fishart #animal #animalart #ArtYear #aquatic

Illustration masked off to apply Copic marker background

Finished illustration of Blacktip Reef Sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus). Marker and Prismacolor on Strathmore gray toned paper.

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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · May 7

Twin Spotted Sphinx [Smerinthus jamaicensis]
Moths are like nature’s silent fireworks. Small, bright flashes in the night - elegant, complex, and so very temporary. #sciart #lepidoptera

A symmetrical drawing of a twin spotted sphinx moth against a background of green and gold colored circles.

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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · Jan 16

Emergence 🌱
Thinking about that luxurious thawing mud smell coming soon to a wetland near you. Starnosed mole (Condylura cristata) and early saxifrage (Micranthes virginiensis)

An ink drawing digitally colored of a star nosed mole above ground surrounded by early saxifrage.

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 13d

It's still International Lesbian Day for one hour here, it counts and colloquially so do these two.

Prompt #21, "Love of my life"

#OC-tober #scribbles #inamorata

Two women, one in black and one in white, lying on their backs in opposite directions, their heads turned to face each other, fingers loosely playing with one another's hair, noses just barely not touching. They gaze at one another, infatuated.

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