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@raphlife.bsky.social

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.

GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.

But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

December 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM

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@kodasea.bsky.social

Cape Falmouth’s “Weeping Salmon”

December 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM

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Conor Nolan

@nolanillustration.bsky.social

Dragon illustration from the Dragon chapter of the Roll For Your Life book.

December 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖

@kekeflipnote.bsky.social

The truth 🐊

November 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM

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Emil L’Amour

@vireosy.bsky.social

yeti crab

#art #sciart 🎨🦑🦀

Drawing of a yeti crab on a dark slate gray background. It is a white crustacean with long forearms covered in fine hairlike filaments, tinted somewhat teal as if seen from underwater.

November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM

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Nicole 🪲

@fossilforager.bsky.social

I’m here at EntSoc’s annual meeting in Portland!! Come say hi/grab some goodies if you’re here, we’re running low on a few items and sold out of some pins already!! 🪰🦋💕 #entsoc25

A photo of my set up at EntSoc’s annual meeting, a conference for entomologists. My art prints, stickers, pins, and more goods are arranged on a golden table cloth in various acrylic and wooden shelf displays.

November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM

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Noll

@nollthere.bsky.social

Reposting some pigeon art because I've been working on sewing together a pigeon-themed blanket today.

Digital art close-up of a very fluffy pigeon from the top down, in a vague heart shape. It's very pink and lavender, surrounded by tinier bits of fluff and feather.

Digital illustration of a human hand holding a feral pigeon that is grey with dark and lighter spots and a light head. In its beak is a red thread that holds a golden, vintage key. The thread loops around the fingers on the hand.

Digital bust painting of a pigeon's head, with beautiful teal and purple neck feathers and orange eye.

November 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM

Bee

@boaceae.bsky.social

Fall-ish death's-head from November 1, 2013.
#deathsheadhawkmoth #sphingidae #insectart #invertart #traditionalart

Art of a death's-head moth from November 1 of 2013.
The moth appears to fly toward the top-left of the canvas (cardstock.)
Colours are mostly yellows, oranges, and tans, with some blues and purples to create contrast; the background is white.
On the right portion of the art, there are dotted-swirls and leafy patterns incorporated into the hind- and forewings, and flowing off of the page to the right.

November 2, 2025 at 3:12 AM

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Bee

@boaceae.bsky.social

Happy Halloween from "murder hornet."
#halloween #gianthornet #Vespamandarinia #insectart #traditionalart

November 1, 2024 at 2:52 AM

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Palaeo

@palaeosinensis.com

This is probably the largest art I've made in a long time; it's 16x48 inches at 300dpi. All of the animals are inspired by petroglyphs and cave art from around the world on top of the shapes found within the animals themselves. #art #caveart #petroglyph #deer #wolves #ravens #raven #wolf #elk

The artwork is made up of many different petroglyph-inspired animal figures. The animals are all moving to the left. In the foreground you see three wolves and four ravens chasing after two bull elk and one doe in fairly dark lines. In the background are similar style elk that use smaller artwork and lighter lines to represent being further away. All the foreground animals have gold foil circles into their design around their heart's location and airway location. The entire piece has been given a distressed treatment.

October 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM

Bee

@boaceae.bsky.social

-Started Oct. 21, 2024 for husband's birthday and 10-year anniversary of "Why did he literally move seats to sit by me???"
-Completed yesterday and delivered with homemade cookies.

(Happy two birthdays, husband. Thanks for befriending me 11 years ago.)

#Artober (2024-challenge) prompt 21: sliver.

October 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM

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★Jay ✩ Funkiest Bug

@erujayy.bsky.social

Mecynorrhina Oberthuri Decorata

My favourite beetle of all time ✨

#inverts #SciArt 🪲🦐

An illustration of an orange splotched beetle with cream stripes sits atop blue and purple flowers.

September 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM

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PokuriMio

@pokurimio.bsky.social

...and I believe...THEY CAN SAVE THE WORLD 🌪️

September 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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Maija Karala

@maijakarala.bsky.social

#SciArtSeptember 11 - Venomous

Whoops, I forgot to post this yesterday.

Cretan giant centipede (Scolopendra cretica). Though almost all endemic mammals of the Mediterranean islands are extinct, there is still numerous unique species to preserve: reptiles, arthropods, plants and so on.

Illustration of a Cretan giant centipede - a long, many-legged creature with orange, purple and bluish body segments, pale yellow legs and dark orange jaws.

September 12, 2025 at 6:20 AM

Bee

@boaceae.bsky.social

Got lost in the squash with this one...
Squash bees are specialists on cucurbits, and I think that's pretty cool and niche of them.

Sept. 8 Prompt: niche
#squashbee #xenoglossastrenua #cucurbitaceae #traditionalart #sciartseptember

An ink and marker drawing of a squash bee (Xenoglossa strenua) for the prompt, "niche."
The bee is facing right and has a pronounced nasal region of its face; I don't know specific anatomical names for bee facial structures (I would guess it is the labrum...)
It basically looks like a hairy bee with a big nose.
There are squash/gourd flowers, tendrils, and gourd shapes incorporated throughout the art: flowers are mostly on the hind legs+ thorax, and the plant tendrils are mostly background features.
Color scheme is primarily greens, yellows, orange, and tan.

September 12, 2025 at 6:42 AM

Bee

@boaceae.bsky.social

Thanks for the love on the alligator art yesterday.
Starting tomorrow, gonna work on some of this September's prompts; hoping to return to my roots (bees) a little.
For now, another piece from the 2022 collection (6 of 30.)

Prompt: soft
#rosymaplemoth #dryocamparubicunda #sciart #traditionalart

An ink drawing done with ballpoint pen and markers featuring a rosy maple moth sitting on a pale-brown maple twig.
The moth is perched on the twig, facing the viewer, with its typical pink and yellow coloration, and a fluffy composition. The antennae appear very feathery.
The background is mostly white with 3-4 grey maple leaves with red leaf venation.

September 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM

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Noll

@nollthere.bsky.social

Day 5 of #SciArtSeptember: Corridor
Ocelots are one animal that uses wildlife corridors in Texas to get around. This one is giant and destroying every road in its path like a cat with a roll of toilet paper though. #Art

Digital painting of a giant ocelot walking down a highway at night. Lights from a town up ahead lighten its determined face and yellow eyes. Smaller roads are wrapped around its body like swirling ribbon.

September 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM

Bee

@boaceae.bsky.social

Still debating on if I want to try and do some prompts for this year's SciArtSeptember...
While I continue to flounder with indecisiveness, here's one from the 2022 prompts (5 of 30.)

Prompt: mirrored
#americanalligator #alligatormississippiensis #sciart #traditionalart

An ink drawing done with ballpoint pen and markers featuring an American alligator waiting at the water's surface, mostly the gator's head; its reflection in the water.
Both contour lines and stippling were utilized for the drawing.
Chartreuse and grey-greens are the main colors, with hints of copper-brown to further tie in the implied swamp habitat surrounding the gator. There is vague dark blue lineart to emphasis the gator.

September 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM

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Quil

@quilbug.bsky.social

Insectember day 5: Rosalia Batesi
Common name: Black-spotted blue longicorn

A distinguished gentlebug!

🎨 #insectember2025 #anthro #bugart

An illustration of an anthropomorphized black-spotted blue longicorn beetle greeting someone gleefully, waving and raising it's top hat. The beetles segmented body is a bright cobalt blue with some sea-green faded on its abdomen and back of its thorax. It has contrasting black spots on its elytron, faded around its limb joins, and on its face. Its antenna are longer than its body and between each blue segment is a black puff. Its top pair of arms are raised, one holding its top hat up from its head and the other waving. Its one bottom arm rests a hand on its hip, and the other holds onto a fancy cane.

September 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM

Bee

@boaceae.bsky.social

Level 32 👉 Level 33
Something quick for my birthday so it starts off nice.

#watercolor #ballpointpen #pokemon #psyduck #golduck

A watercolor and ballpoint pen artwork of the Pokémon Psyduck floating on its back in water that gradients from red to yellowish-green to turquoise. Psyduck is relaxing, as it should be.

A watercolor and ballpoint pen artwork of the Pokémon Golduck sitting on a shoreline, pondering life, I guess. There are wavy shapes/contours incorporated into feathers. Water is blueish-purple and appears as small waves, the rest of the background is supposed to be very vague yellow and orange sandy shore.

September 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM

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David Guthrie Music

@davidguthriemusic.bsky.social

✨ NEW ORIGINAL SONG ✨

💙 Moe♡Moe Kyun! 🩷 ft. Hatsune Miku 🎀
my first ever Vocaloid and hyperpop song! it's a bop 💃

tuned by the amazing @chinjireta.bsky.social 🐹
adorable art by @chiro.fish 🐟
incredible MV by @riguruma.bsky.social 💖

FULL SONG AND MV ⏬ Please RT 🙏
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-7e...