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franz
@franzanth.bsky.social
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i draw bugs and stuff. offline on the weekends.
please ask before using my images.
he/him 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇩

contact: franzanth at gmail
portfolio: franzanth.com

Hashtags: #Art #SciArt #Gardening

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · Dec 3
Activities for this season of #InverteFest:

Community science
www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...

Art book submission form
docs.google.com/forms/d/1jHk...
franzanth.bsky.social franz @franzanth.bsky.social · Aug 4
Greetings, chordate comrades. #InverteFest is upon us.

tl;dr: Over the last 7 days every April, August, and December, we invite you to show the internet your coolest bugs & slugs.

Go find critters, post your art, write wikipedia pages, do whatever you like to celebrate invertebrates with us!
What is #InverteFest? It's a periodic event where we invite you to celebrate the overlooked invertebrate fauna around you and share the joys of discovery online. #InverteFest takes place every April, August, & December over the last 7 days of the month. Going out? 1. Find invertebrates 2. Share observations online using the hashtag #InverteFest 3. Interact with others who are celebrating the event NOT Going out? - Post your squid painting - Stream a game where you play as a crab with a knife - Selfie with your 27 beetle enamel pins - Write wikipedia pages Questions? ask franzanth / maureenbug / saimihanma More info and ideas on: invertefest.com
franzanth.bsky.social
FISH HELL IS OVER I SENT THE INVOICE
franzanth.bsky.social franz @franzanth.bsky.social · Jun 10
because people keep asking what fish hell is, here's a quick visual sample of my suffering
thumbnails of various realistic fish drawings, close ups of too many tedious scales and fin rays
February 11, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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danielrericha.bsky.social
RÁNO U IKONY…
z ranního focení u ikonického vrcholu Kirkjufell v západní části Islandu 🇮🇸
Zasvítilo sice mezerou mezi mraky jen chvilku, ale o to hezčí to byl zážitek...

#island #kirkjufell #krajina #landscapephography #focenikrajiny
Z krásného rána u magického vrcholu Kirkjufell v západní části Islandu.
February 10, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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nicodelort.bsky.social
dealing with any tech in 2026 is spending an inordinate amount of time trying to disable useless ai assistants
let me out
February 10, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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gpike.bsky.social
Age verification? I am currently being treated for back pain. XD
February 10, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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pikaole.bsky.social
Bees 🐝
This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!
February 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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jolantru.bsky.social
It's close to Lunar New Year!

closetfulofbooks.com/products/oys...
Oyster Girl
Written by Joyce Chng | Illustrated by Teressa OngpaperbackXiao Wei's grandma is an awesome hawker, well known for her Hokkien oyster cakes. But Xiao Wei always wanted to know why this snack was so s...
closetfulofbooks.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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mammalssuck.bsky.social
“Additionally, we find it deplorable that some established palaeontological organizations are not taking firm action to protect their members... As such, executive committee members from organizations that are not issuing public bans to these individuals are also banned from our events."
February 10, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
Happy Crablentine's Day everyone.

Calappa calappa x Phalaenopsis amabilis
Coenobita rugosus x Macodes petola
Paromola cuvieri x Paphiopedilum sanderianum
Allogalathea elegans x Vanda suavis

#Art #SciArt
Calappa, a dome-shaped crab in dark color, seen from the front. Behind its body and in front, hiding its claws and most of its face, are phalaenopsis, moth orchids with roughly circular shape, in lighter colors. Black and white drawing. Coenobita, a bright-colored hermit crab barely out of a white round shell, looking adorable. Under and around it are leaves of Macodes jewel orchids, dark leaves with white streaks. Behind it are stalks of flower buds of the plant. Black and white drawing. Paromola, a crab with long legs and spikes all over. The last pair of its legs are small and pointing up like carrying a tray. It's carrying a whole plant of Paphiopedilum slipper orchid in bloom. The four flowers have pitcher-like structures and long ribbony bits that trail very far downwards. Black and white drawing. Four Allogalathea crabs sitting on the petals of a flower. The crabs are shaped like lobsters with folded tail and black and white stripy bodies. The Vanda orchid flower is mostly white with black spots all over. Black and white drawing.
February 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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lordsovorn.bsky.social
My eyes are back there

#pixelart #украрт
A pixelart of two squid girls with reddish pink outside coloration, yellow inside and subtly glowing suckers, posing slightly and coiling their arms in a variety of ways. Squid arms form a band around the torso on the shoulder level, and a blind bald head emerges between them (because it's on the inside cephalopod arms, that is, NOT the head of the creature but merely a structure around the mouth). Wavy squid fins adorn the upper sides of the legs. The second squid girl poses with her back to the viewer, and you can see the two cephalopod eyes around her shoulder blades, as well as the line dividing the cephalod head (girl's upper torso) and the mantle slightly below that.
February 6, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
being nice to bugs is hot
October 2, 2025 at 5:13 AM
franzanth.bsky.social
new sea stars just dropped, Chris uploaded the pics in the replies
echinoblog.bsky.social Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 1d
CRAZY diversity of sea stars fr NEW CALEDONIA! I describe 28 NEW SPECIES,3 NEW GENERA! #echinoday #goniasteridae #openaccess. My thanks to colleagues at the @MNHN.fr in Paris! for my many visits in order to complete this research! Will share some of my favorites herein! mapress.com/mt/article/v...
New genera, species and occurrences of Goniasteridae (Valvatida, Asteroidea) from New Caledonia | Megataxa
mapress.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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mxmorgan.com
also just sent an email.

if you are a monthly nitro subscriber do the right thing and cancel your sub, and let them know why you cancelled.
aimeecozza.com Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 1d
My email to support@discord.com is sent

Let the backlash be swift and unrelenting
theverge.com The Verge @theverge.com · 1d
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
February 9, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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aimeecozza.com
My email to support@discord.com is sent

Let the backlash be swift and unrelenting
February 9, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Botany valentine. Another oldie.
A four panel comic. In panel 1, there are three beautiful blooming roses, and the text says "Roses are red..." In panel 2, there are some lovely violets budding and blooming, and the text says "Violets are blue..." In panel 3, there are some terrifying red and flesh colored plants with toothy maws and the text says "Hydnora are leafless, bizarrely fleshy, and incapable of producing chlorophyl..." and in panel 4 there are some cute hearts and the text says "And so are you. Happy Valentine's Day"
February 9, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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flyingtrilobite.com
18,000 followers—! Thanks everyone. Let’s do an #ArtShare!

🐡🎨
Mythical Flying Trilobite Fossil III. Oil on shale, pencil, some digital. “ART SHARE” text in green overtop. A dragonfly winged trilobite next o some crinoids.
February 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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jordancollver.bsky.social
Here's another favourite spread of mine from our Ancient Rome book coming out this week. @rikworth.bsky.social writes pages like this he knows I'll get a kick out of drawing.
Two page comic spread from Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Rome feauting giant monstrous animals (eagle, tortoise and boar, donkey and scorpion, dog) engaged in battle on the left, and their corresponding Roman military namessakes on the right (aquila, tortoise and wedge shield formations, catapult and crossbow)
February 8, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
This is really the critical point: Firefox is packing its browser with AI slop functions by default; relying on a user actively choosing to turn it off.

That isn't neutral - that is a political and ideological statement that they want more reliance on these tools
These features will be available first on Firefox Nightly – an unstable test version of the browser under development – before reaching all users on 24 February. “When AI controls become available, the Block AI Enhancements toggle will be off by default,” a Mozilla spokesperson told Bleeping Computer. “AI controls will reflect your existing choices in Firefox. Features you have previously used will appear as enabled. Features you have previously turned off will appear as blocked. Features you have not used before will appear as available.”
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 AM
franzanth.bsky.social
"Sisyphus, king of Corinth, has tricked the Gods and Death. To punish him, the Gods condemned him to push a boulder uphill forever, only for it to roll back each time.

But Sisyphus didn't give up! He decided to livestream his infinite struggle as a way to seek joy in a futile repetition."

wait wat
Imagine Sisyphus Happy on Steam
Sisyphus is Streaming! A weird mixture of Streamer Simulator, Clicker and Quick-time actions about life, spectacle, and making the grind worth living. Push the boulder, do tricks, play mini-games, gro...
store.steampowered.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:23 PM
franzanth.bsky.social
I've always hated instagram for UX reasons, but seeing a professional artist/environmentalist made a cutesy "teehee try this CGPT prompt to make a caricature of yourself" made me want to burn the platform to the ground.
February 8, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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aevris.bsky.social
redrew a sketch from 3 years ago of one of my favourite tumblr posts #art
A polyptych representing four animals. The text above it reads "And God gave the beast-kings gifts that they might share with their people." The first panel is a panting wolf and reads "To the Wolf, God gave ripping teeth and the Law of the Pack." The second is a roaring bear with the text "To the Bear, God gave crushing jaws and terrible strength." The third is a falcon looking over a pastoral scene, the fields stretching all the way to the horizon. "To the Falcon, God gave slicing talons and great sight." The last is a simple snapping shrimp just sitting by some rocks. "And to the Shrimp, God gave the concussive plasma cannon."
January 24, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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americanbeetles.bsky.social
just a little baby child (from @mosquitolab.bsky.social's pitfall samples; I can see how this one got sorted into the beetle pile)
teeny tiny wingless parasitic wasp, probably genus Baeus. It is so round and fat and perfect. Its head is the size of the rest of its body.
February 6, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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jenchristiansen.com
Attention visual journalists: I’m always open to pitches for @sciam.bsky.social’s Graphic Science column. The column tells concise stories on topics in science via graphics (dataviz, illustrated diagrams, comic-style explainers, etc). It appears in both print & online. DM me for a pitch guide.
February 7, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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nollthere.bsky.social
gooooooooood night
#art
Digital painting of a hummingbird sleeping in a leaf, dripping with sugar water and holding a white flower in his feet.
February 6, 2026 at 4:13 AM
franzanth.bsky.social
i know several of you here also had "fun" encounters with dicky dawks on science twitter. this is getting hilarious how pathetic he is.
February 5, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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spahn711.bsky.social
Did you know?

They're called salt flats because the salt is flat.
February 5, 2026 at 8:18 PM