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frapis.bsky.social
@frapis.bsky.social
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Photographing mostly critters, plants and rocks.
San Francisco, California
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frapis.bsky.social @frapis.bsky.social · Jan 2
My bird bestie Jay K. Simmons, a California Scrubjay living in San Francisco.

#Corvids #nature #Birds #BirdPhotography #SanFrancisco #ThursJay
Detailed head short of a California Scrubjay looking directly at the camera.
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kentremendous.bsky.social
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10d
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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craignewmark.bsky.social
Okay, I've formally signed up for the Giving Pledge, sometimes considered the Billionaire's Pledge, though I've never been a billionaire, particularly after I gave away all my craigslist equity to my charitable foundation.

www.givingpledge.org/pledger/crai...
December 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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sciencesocks.bsky.social
Let's do a giveaway for my new #Apollo11 bootprint hoodies! 🚀

Enter for a chance to win a #bootprint hoodie! Available in 5 colors. ✨

💫 How to participate:

1) Follow me
2) Enter here sciencesocks.com/giveaway
3) Like & repost

🚨 P.S. Hoodies for sale here:
sciencesocks.co/products/apo...

🔭🐡🧪🎨
bootprint hoodie graphic with overlaid text reading "lunar bootprint hoodie giveaway." Iconic lunar bootprint photo from apollo 11 in the background
December 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
frapis.bsky.social
This early bird got an extra peanut for Thanksgiving today.
#birds #scrubjay #photography #corvids
Silhouette of a scrub jay shortly after sunup in November, camera pointed at the pale sun burning through the fog.
November 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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dzyla.bsky.social
Proteins are dynamic structures, but structural biology often shows them as static snapshots. Inspired by long-exposure photography and generative art, I built ProteinCHAOS, an artistic tool inspired by molecular dynamics to capture protein flexibility over time, much like long-exposure images.
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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wildgorillaman.bsky.social
Picture of a husky looking at the camera with a sarcastic expression Text: OH, YOU RAN A MARATHON? HOW HEAWY WAS THE SLED?
November 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
frapis.bsky.social
My scrub jay buddy Jay K. Simmons, going vertical.
#birds #photography #corvids
A scrub jay on a wooden fence, facing straight at the ground with one eye looking at us.
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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kokogiak.bsky.social
Seeing the World Up Close - Shortlisted images from the 2025 Close-Up Photographer of the Year, celebrating “close-up, macro, and micro photography.” Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
A flying fox, seen face-on, wings out, flying through a splash of water (© Douglas Gimesy / cupoty.com) A beetle opens its wings while clinging to stalks of wheat in a field. (© Marek Pál / cupoty.com) A close view of a bee's head, its entire body coated in water droplets. (© Andrei Chetronie / cupoty.com) A frog, its front half poking through a small hole in a wall (© Roman Willi / cupoty.com)
November 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
frapis.bsky.social
Caw!
#crow #birds #photography
An American Crow flying in grey fog, caught in stillframe at the bottom of her wingbeat. Lit from above and behind, the bird is a black silhouette with very subtle highlights on shoulder and wing.
November 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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artistburns.bsky.social
Jet/Plane is the prompt for today’s Spacetober Challange. This is my digital artwork of the Shuttle piggyback on a specially adapted Boeing 747. From my Circles Portfolio. #spacetober_challenge #sciart #digital
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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chrisbaraniuk.com
New - my first piece for @science.org !

Absolutely crazy footage of rat behaviour in Germany.

Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time | Science | AAAS share.google/WAsAIQ8j0MKp...
Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time
Stunning hunting behaviour captured in German cave
share.google
October 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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ricosuavejd.bsky.social
Imagine telling the guy who wrote the Wire that he needs an idiot machine to help him transition scenes.

That thing was TRAINED on his writing.
October 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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drsabinemetzger.bsky.social
🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #American #Contemporary
Cody Jimenez
FEAST ON WHATEVER THEY FIND, 2025
Acrylic on wood panel
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/cody-jimenez-feast-on-whatever-they-find
September 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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incnaturalist.bsky.social
A little Lesser Dog-faced Fruit Bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) tucking into a juicy fig. When I walk my local trail at night I have hundreds of these guys above. Cute little guys 😌
August 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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armandsarlangue.bsky.social
Sometimes we found some really big icebergs while sailing in Greenland…
Beautiful soft moment during endless sunset.
September 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
frapis.bsky.social
@azbatrescue.bsky.social is this the correct procedure for "rescuing a bat from a swimming pool?"

Asking for an AI friend
"Gemini Pro, please create an illustration showing steps for rescuing a bat from a swimming pool" 3-panel illustration. Panel 1: "First carefully approach the pool and confirm that it is a bat in the water…" (person pointing at a struggling bat in a swimming pool) Panel 2: "Gently remove the Bat from the water" (person using a pool skimmer to lift the bat out of the pool) Panel 3: "Place the Bat on a Dry Towel" (person gently placing a wet baseball bat on a towel, on the grass)
August 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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stonkers.bsky.social
it’s the last week of my opening month sale, so if you have had your eye on anything, now’s the time! 20% off all fiber art through the end of august www.aknitomy.com/shop
a knitted dissected frog and a knitted dissected white rat each pinned into a black frame with black background. their innards are needle felted a knitted dissected fruit bat and a knitted dissected fetal pig each pinned into a black frame with black background. their innards are needle felted and the fruit bat’s organs are different types of fruit! a hinged frame with needle felted kidney illustrations a matched set one on either side, and a large square frame with a human head bisection illustration, complete with squiggled up knitted brain two oval frames with knitted backgrounds. One is horizontal and features a needle felted illustration of the anatomy of the human eye, and the other is vertical and features a needle felted illustration of a human heart
August 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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earthlymission.bsky.social
Being right in the bifrost of the Northern Lights. Taken from the ISS on November 4 by astronaut Thomas Pesquet.
August 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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aristofontes.bsky.social
They do it for love of the game.
August 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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willquinnart.bsky.social
(My favorite version, for those unfamilliar with the song. I call it the “wah wah wah” version)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc0D...
August 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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weratedogs.com
We only rate dogs. This is the goth cousin of Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. Please understand it's not just a phase, and only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 (credit u/vincidelaunc)
a fluffy black orb like a soot sprite is sitting on a white floor. there’s a small crescent shape of white right in the middle, with a black round spot centered within it. at first glance, it has the appearance of a single eyeball floating in the middle of the void. at second glance, it still looks like that. but maybe on third examination, it’s clearer that the white is from a dog’s little snout, and the black in the middle is the dog’s nose, and any other distinguishing feature like eyes, ears, and paws are absorbed into the black void. an exceedingly fluffy black dog stands expectantly on the floor and looks up at a little kid in a high chair who presumably has snacks to share. the little bit of white on the dog’s nose and their pink tongue is the only interruption in the otherwise endless sea of darkness. but at least from this angle, they have a more defined body and tiny feet, so she’s a little less “orb” and a little more “dog.”
August 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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xkcd.com
Canon

xkcd.com/3123/
Comic. PERSON 1 [to person with white hat]: It’s so weird reading these 18th Century scholars argue about minor Biblical details. It’s like they’re an online fandom or something—They’ve developed this whole elaborate canon. [caption] It’s fun when a word’s usage goes full circle and, by analogy, lands back on its original meaning.
August 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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blisterpearl.bsky.social
Please enjoy this Klimt Eastwood
The image is a piece of fan art titled "Klimt Eastwood," created by Carl Tétreault in 2016. It depicts actor and director Clint Eastwood in a style inspired by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, specifically referencing Klimt's "The Kiss".
August 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
frapis.bsky.social
First time I've been tempted by AR glasses.
nathievr.bsky.social Nathie @nathievr.bsky.social · Jul 23
This developer made an app for AR glasses that blocks ads in real life.
July 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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unclefishbits.bsky.social
I have to use sheer force of will to not go on ebay and buy every single miniature model that salespeople used to carry around for cold calls and meetings.

The idea of being a neon salesman in the 1930s with a briefcase of tubes with onboard electricity is just such a wonderful different world.
July 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM