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July 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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requinoesis.bsky.social
This is a tribute to Peter Benchley, author of 'Jaws', who dedicated his life to reversing the unexpected negative impact his book had on the image of sharks.

We kill millions of sharks annually and demonize them in our media, who is the real monster? 💀

#Jaws #sharks #shark
An allegory of the "Jaws" movie poster that caused damage and negative stereotypes to the image of sharks that persist to this day (I'm glad it's slowly changing, but it's still too slow to be considered forgivable). Now with a reversal of roles, with the human victim replaced by a simple wild shark and the terrible stereotyped shark replaced by a monstrous human skull seeming to want to devour the shark (this is the reality, we kill thousands of sharks every year, many of them killed for irrational reasons, who is the real cruel killer?)
March 11, 2024 at 2:15 PM
mildlylively.bsky.social
January 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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moudhy.bsky.social
I’ve spent most of my life steeped in anxiety, and one thing that made me feel less alone was knowing how unsurprisingly not new anxiety and related experiences are.

It’s in fragments, but this is one of many clay texts from ancient Mesopotamia that describes anxiety (possibly depression)
A fragmentary clay tablet with broken lines of text preserved. At the bottom is a multicoloured ruler showing that it is about 7cm wide. On a blank portion is written in ink upside down “K. 5968” and right-side up “k 9334”, meaning that these are two different fragments joined together to make a fragmentary whole.
January 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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drkatfish.bsky.social
how your email finds me:
bookowl.bsky.social Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · Jan 7
Juanita the six-banded armadillo at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden has decided to take a nap inside her exercise wheel. I feel ya, Juanita.
📸 www.instagram.com/cincinnatizoo/
A female six-banded armadillo named Juanita, asleep on her back inside of an exercise wheel. Her claws are in the air and her tail is sticking out the wheel. Her belly is a gold-orange color. There is some cardboard and other shredded paper in her living space.
January 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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debcha.bsky.social
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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miski.bsky.social
Souping through it. 🍲

Senshi commission (sophie edition) for @prozdishere.bsky.social
illustration of Senshi from Dungeon Meshi sitting down to a pot of soup in a cozy dungeon corner. The scene is warm.
January 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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quailtea.bsky.social
Endangered Species of Japan 🌸
A print of animals in burgundy on a cream colored canvas. Titled Endangered Species of Japan, it features such endangered animals as the Ryukyu Black Breasted Turtle, Ishikawa’s frog, Japanese eel, Okinawa woodpecker and the Iriomote cat, to name a few
January 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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faunwood.bsky.social
ocean soup ✨

(2021, acrylic paint)
an acrylic painting featuring an array of semi-fictional ocean creatures. Near the bottom is a coelacanth with branching plant tendrils that lead to a seadragons, nudibranchs, and mollusks.
January 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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tlalchemista.bsky.social
December 31, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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juliartworld.bsky.social
wooden snakes for lunar new year 2025 and the patreon rewards for december.
The first three snakes are stickers and the one with the background is a postcard print.

Each snake is inspired by a pace I visited or want to visit.

www.patreon.com/juliartworld
December 30, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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shanhoran.bsky.social
California Quails in the desert!
December 30, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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holz-bau.bsky.social
there are no 70 year old generals - they are required to retire at 64

sure wish politicians had the same requirement.
kenklippenstein.bsky.social Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Dec 30
Gerry Connolly the 74 year old congressman suffering from esophageal cancer who Democrats just picked for a leadership position defends their decision, declaring hoarsely: "We need the best general we can put on the battleground...and that's what the Democratic caucus overwhelmingly decided to do."
December 30, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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ninaturner.bsky.social
Yes, the cashier at Target should be able to afford rent, groceries, and bills with their paycheck alone. That’s what jobs are for.
December 30, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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tessmachling.bsky.social
"A request made through ChatGPT, an AI-based virtual assistant, consumes 10 times the electricity of a Google Search"

This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!!

www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
AI has an environmental problem. Here’s what the world can do about that.
The sprawling data centres that house AI servers churn out toxic electronic waste and are voracious consumers of electricity, which in most places is still produced from fossil fuels.
www.unep.org
December 28, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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americanfietser.bsky.social
“Perhaps most importantly, they can support the positive well-being of communities. From a psychological perspective, interacting with nature reduces physical stress and can improve symptoms of mental ill health, including anxiety or depression.”
Can micro-forests save our cities?
Our cities are polluted and overcrowded - but planting trees in urban spaces can increase biodiversity and create wildlife habitats for the future.
www.euronews.com
December 30, 2024 at 9:34 AM
mildlylively.bsky.social
Bonn
A beautiful green space with trees and flowers in front of mixed use housing with shops on the ground floor in Bonn Germany
December 30, 2024 at 11:32 PM
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katypillar.bsky.social
Stay alert during the period between Christmas and New Year’s Day. This is one of the strongest liminal events of the year and is known to cause temporal anomalies. If you get lost to time, rest assured it will return to its normal state shortly. Hopefully.
December 27, 2024 at 4:41 AM
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lartist.bsky.social
Cartoon: Rudolph weighs a soul to determine if it's Naughty or Nice.
An Anubis inspired Rudolph weighs two Christmas stockings on a scale that is a giant candy cane. One is marked 'Naughty' in heiroglyphics and the other is marked 'Nice' in heiroglyphics.
December 26, 2024 at 4:56 AM
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dhilrukshi.bsky.social
I studied a little marine science at James Cook University and the University of Tasmania and was NEVER taught this!

Why do baby octopuses take jellyfish for a ride? This should have been on an exam.

www.inverse.com/science/baby...
Watch: The scientific reason why baby octopuses ride jellyfish
The image of a baby octopus riding on top of a jellyfish is the pick-me-up you didn't know you needed right now.
www.inverse.com
December 26, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Happy Christmas Eve. Every year I inflict this upon you, one of my least popular comics ever. Enjoy!
A 6-panel comic. In panel 1, two people talk against a snowy backdrop. In panel 1, the first person says "Did you know that if you rearrange the letters in SANTA, you get something sinister?" and the other says, "Yes: A ANTS." In panel 2, the first person says "Wait, no, that's-" The second says, "How do you think Santa finds his way to all those homes at night? Pheromone trails!" In panel 3, we're down in an ant nest. "Once the night is over, Santa returns to the North Pole, mates with the Queen Claus, and dies." There's a festive ant nest with an ant-bodied Mr and Ms Claus looking at each other lovingly. Panel 4, "The Queen begins laying eggs that will hatch into next year’s workers." The Queen lays eggs, and the workers are ant larvae with elf heads. Panel 5, "Next December, she will produce fertile Queens and Santas and the cycle will begin anew." The Queen lays eggs with both Santa and Ms Claus heads. In panel 6, we return to the two people talking, and the second person says "Of course, one queen must best the rest in combat, and the workers can't interfe-" "Stop." "But I haven't told you about the Santa-mimic spiders!"
December 24, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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drwendyrocks.bsky.social
Periodic table colored by lickability. 😛
The periodic table color-coded by liability. Most of the elements are green, which means they can be licked. All of the elements along the bottom row, as well as a few other elements are purple, which means you should not lick them. Most of the elements in group one two and 17 are not lickable
December 23, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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yumbrite.bsky.social
Some romping wooloo and cutiefly!

[ #art #cuteart #pokemon ]
December 23, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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abigaillarson.com
Happy Yule ✨
illustration of a baby Yule Goat jumping in the snow with a berry garland
December 20, 2024 at 11:31 PM