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transmasc AuDHD animal • 30s • AgriScience undergrad • entomologist • dog nerd • horror fan • werewolf storyteller 🌖🦴 • 💚💍@cyborking.bsky.social‬ •
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Fig @hemipepsis.bsky.social · Oct 1
Hey guys, my fiancé is really struggling to bind with his chronic illnesses but living in Florida means he cannot stop doing so without putting his safety at risk. Please consider just donating $5 so we can get him this surgery he so desperately needs. gofund.me/44bd3f02
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mollymoss.bsky.social
January 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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crawlieswithcri.bsky.social
In other Hymenoptera macro size comparison news:

~3/4" Sweat Bee so sweet and teeny...

...then there's the chalcid wasp following her...

#inverts #becurious
macro photo of a sweat bee and a chalcid wasp waling on a leaf. they are both in profile facing right. The sweat bee is exponentially larger than the chalcid. The chalcid could hide on the sweat bees leg.
January 4, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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shugowah.bsky.social
look at this! it's just a handful of blue triangles with vertex colors. virtually nothing on disc space for this gorgeous backdrop
January 4, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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lorebynightvtm.bsky.social
I love it when women (are gay and polyam).
A detailed piece of science-fiction manga artwork depicting a young woman, Major from Ghost In The Shell manga, resting atop a large, red, spider-like combat mech. The mech’s cockpit is open, exposing dense internal machinery—wires, pistons, and mechanical components—while the pilot sits casually on its shell, one leg bent and her head propped on her hand in a tired, contemplative pose. She wears a simple, light-coloured outfit that contrasts with the mech’s bulky, industrial design. The machine itself has multiple articulated legs, visible sensors, and mounted hardware that suggest both military and reconnaissance purposes. The colour palette is muted and earthy, giving the scene a worn, lived-in feel rather than a sleek futuristic gloss. Overall, the composition emphasizes the relationship between human and machine, blending vulnerability and power in a quiet, reflective moment rather than active combat. A black-and-white manga panel presents a tense, intimate scene framed around dialogue as much as imagery. In the foreground, a person lies reclined with their head tilted back and eyes closed, suggesting injury, exhaustion, or unconsciousness. Standing over them is a short-haired woman with a rigid, authoritative stance and a hard expression, her body language conveying control and emotional distance as she says, “I know…she and one of my men, Togusa, used to be an item.” Behind her stands an older man with a deeply lined face and receding hair, dressed formally and observing the situation with a grave, almost weary expression. He responds quietly, “That’s the foreign minister’s interpreter…" The sparse but heavy dialogue reinforces the somber mood, hinting at personal history entangled with political power and dehumanisation. The stark line work, strong shadows, and close composition keep the focus on the characters’ faces and words, making the scene feel morally charged and quietly unsettling rather than overtly dramatic.
January 1, 2026 at 12:41 PM
hemipepsis.bsky.social
I am in need of food and necessities!
hemipepsis.bsky.social Fig @hemipepsis.bsky.social · 4d
Alright, I'm in the red again and need a buffer until my next payment in 2 weeks time. If anyone could help me get my meds I'd super appreciate it!

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January 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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kamitenz.bsky.social
This is an urgent time sensitive request. She needs to get medicine asap before this becomes worse. #Palestine
January 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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butterflybexi.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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alexwild.bsky.social
Discerning a sense of size from macro photographs is hard. Camponotus intrepidus, for example, is one of Australia’s largest sugar ants at slightly under an inch long.

But did you see the little Pheidole ant at her heels?
Macro photo of a leggy, slightly fuzzy black ant with blackberry red infestations on her thorax, standing alert on dirty white sand. A barely visible dark red ant nips at her hind leg.
January 4, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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goop.monster
paying in $2k for the next month, largest independent contributor out of 5 others.

keeps me off streets & avoiding fatal pneumonia from SCI-IDS. It is a rough moment

gonna drain my bank, leaving little for the neurologists, & needs, or the next months rent

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December 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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official-adham.bsky.social
This is my family last call ..🚨
I won't say anything about our situation because you all already know what we're going through!!

Please consider Sharing and Donating 💙🙏
Comment with 🍉🇵🇸 to spread this post ‼️
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A young man with a neatly trimmed beard smiles at passersby as he sits in a courthouse courtyard. He appears professional, wearing a gray jacket and white shirt, holding his mobile phone and looking to the side. In the background, people move about inside a spacious, naturally lit building, giving the scene a sense of everyday life and work. A young man sits atop the ruins of his destroyed home, surrounded by concrete blocks and scattered stones. He is dressed in black and gazes into the distance with eyes that blend sadness and hope, while behind him lie crumbling walls and broken windows, a scene that reflects the devastation and loss.
January 3, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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meganbarkdull.bsky.social
Thrilled to share that @corriemoreau.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in Evolution, digging into the varied ways that extreme worker plasticity impacts genome evolution in turtle ants!

Paper 📃: doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Image 📸: Steven Wang, tinyurl.com/2rbjbyjh
Image of Cephalotes varians workers and a soldier nestled in their twig nest. Image via https://stevenwang.smugmug.com/Ants/List-of-Genera/Cephalotes/i-CjXZ3b9
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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laurenwalshart.bsky.social
Drink some water.
Go for a walk.
Put your phone down.
No amount of doom scrolling is going to make things better.

If you want to do something, make a plan to protest and call your representatives. Dont run your nervous system ragged on socials rn
January 3, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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vexwerewolf.bsky.social
Now more than ever
THERE IS NO “DEFAULT” PERSON A note to GMs on representation: there’s an unfortunate tendency in written media for an audience to assume that a character is white if there isn’t a stated skin color, straight if there isn’t a stated sexuality, cis if they’re not stated to be trans, and so on. But Calliope is a diverse place, so keep in mind that even if it's not stated, a character’s sexuality, gender, ability, neurotype and skin color can be broader than cis, male, able, neurotypical and white. This book is written with that idea in mind. This is important to state plainly. Part of making fictional worlds enjoyable for your audience is ensuring they’re able to see people like themselves represented within them. A story doesn’t have to be about diversity for diversity to be important.
January 3, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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brushwolf.bsky.social
Tonight’s #drawing grew partly from the werewolf’s facial expression. When I played a Black Fury the all women part was less interesting to me than the Greek part, so I made up some lore about them, including tongue out (like a gorgon’s head) being a formal challenge. #bskyart
Two were creatures, a wereboar in vaguely medieval costume attacking with an axe, and one of the Kindly Ones in crinos in front of a beat up vaguely garage background.
January 3, 2026 at 4:52 AM
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opfuchs.gay
I'm hardly original in saying this, but a lot of people are going to try to make this about whether Maduro being gone is good or bad as such, rather than the blatant violation of international and US law in a destabilizing act of aggression.

Don't fall for it.
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
hemipepsis.bsky.social
writing up a training plan for the owner of the french bulldog that bit me, my little autistic brain is having a GREAT time with this
January 3, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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chuffed.org/project/161145

She needs IV fluids! She has a child and she’s sick and deteriorating- please, let today be the day you step in.
baraa2026.myatproto.social BARA'A🍉🕊 @baraa2026.myatproto.social · 1d
I need treatment😭
I need treatment😭
I need healthy food🥺
I need healthy food🥺
My health is deteriorating💔
I have the flu and a stuffy nose Because of a severe cold🥶I need to be strong for my child. Please support me🙏👋
I need an intravenous solution😞
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@mommunism.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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please help us
gayleywilliams.meangirls.online charlotte $735/$2000 @gayleywilliams.meangirls.online · 2d
removing the bills due later this month and focusing just on rent for now to make it less confusing

lost my job in november due to injury, unemployment is pending appeal

please help my wife and me stay housed

$86/$2000
venmo: gayley_williams
cashapp: gayleywilliams
paypal.me/chemrain

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gayleywilliams.meangirls.online charlotte $735/$2000 @gayleywilliams.meangirls.online · 4d
internet paid, now we need to focus on rent. $2000 needs to be paid by the 5th

please help peggy and me stay housed while i try to find work. getting injured and subsequently fired has cost us almost everything

$635/$4750
venmo: gayley_williams
cashapp: gayleywilliams
paypal.me/chemrain

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January 3, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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onidraws.bsky.social
❗ Just for visibility, if you're from Venezuela and need help, comment here and I'll boost your post ❗

Please stay safe and take care everyone.
January 3, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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jordanhallwx.bsky.social
Never before seen footage‼️

Tornado genesis of the Clear Lake, South Dakota tornado earlier this year.
@myradar.bsky.social
#tornado #weather
January 2, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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erinys.uwu.lgbt
hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
January 3, 2026 at 7:02 AM
hemipepsis.bsky.social
hello new followers please consider boosting + donating to my partner's transition fund 🧡💚
hemipepsis.bsky.social Fig @hemipepsis.bsky.social · Oct 1
Hey guys, my fiancé is really struggling to bind with his chronic illnesses but living in Florida means he cannot stop doing so without putting his safety at risk. Please consider just donating $5 so we can get him this surgery he so desperately needs. gofund.me/44bd3f02
Donate to Help Florida Trans Man Get Top Surgery!, organized by Jojo Lund
Hi, my name is Jojo, I'm a gay nonbinary trans man living in the state of Florida wh… Jojo Lund needs your support for Help Florida Trans Man Get Top Surgery!
gofund.me
January 3, 2026 at 8:35 AM