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otteroflore.bsky.social
Otter of Lore
@otteroflore.bsky.social
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Art, ecology, my little pony, snakes, and so on. Art-er of Lore on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW9ipDL9CnjQmhqOtYqChFg
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Otter of Lore @otteroflore.bsky.social · Nov 12
📌Hi, I make art, WIPs on ko-fi, process vids on youtube and post updates on tumblr:
☕️ko-fi: ko-fi.com/otteroflore
🟦tumblr: otterloreart.tumblr.com
🟥youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCW9...
Custom doll of Sally from the Nightmare before Christmas, made from a Disney Merida doll. She has a patchwork dress, striped socks and a bow on her head. 3D model of a cartoon pink snake with strawberries and whipped cream on its head Guide to ball python morph colors with visual pictures and labels
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jaunty.art
At last
jaunty.art Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · Feb 17
Something I’ve never bought and will never buy is a funko pop
I’d maybe buy this one. I photoshopped a funko pop of B3ta mascot ‘freebase’
November 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
otteroflore.bsky.social
youtu.be/y0vRlybpxcM
Always forget to upload things to here... anyways heres my Sid from Toy Story Legs doll
Making Sid from Toy Story's masterpiece: Legs, the fishing rod (with legs)
YouTube video by Art-er of Lore
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November 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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rnrkd.bsky.social
This is the highest median income neighborhood in the city.
unraveledpress.com unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 24d
Chicagoans chanting, "no ICE! No ICE!"
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
otteroflore.bsky.social
youtu.be/v2QmbXx4kTo
The new vid is up, and its about ~resin~ in ~childrens toys~ and how much i disliked the Rainbow High Creative Crystals kits.
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July 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
otteroflore.bsky.social
here are my furby related plans
July 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
otteroflore.bsky.social
tbh even though i moved "over" to bsky a while ago, im still kind of reluctant to use it in a similar way to twitter since its kind of unclear how well its doing or how long itll last... i basically completely moved back to tumblr.
July 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
otteroflore.bsky.social
Duality of Man
July 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
otteroflore.bsky.social
tummy hurt, forgot meds yesterday so dizzy, didnt eat lunch, extremely hot and sweaty = bad time on walk, but did get to see two conservative plants ive never seen before which briefly distracted me from the discomfort
June 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
otteroflore.bsky.social
#inaturalist problems...
June 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
otteroflore.bsky.social
well basically all filmings done, i still need to do some voiceover and edit this whollllle thing together. Wordcount for this section = ~2300, t= 17, roughly 137 WPM, which is roughly average per the word-to-speaking calculator i use. alas, at over 10k words this videoll be like an hour
June 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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chaseprairie.bsky.social
Please don't do this.

I'm a long-time user, a scientist who uses inat data, & a donor.

We don't want this. GenAI harms the environment, destroys the trustworthiness of the data, &, quite frankly, insults us experts who volunteer our expertise to build community knowledge.

Don't do this.
June 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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chaseprairie.bsky.social
Have opinions? Here's the official iNat forum post about the changes, including a poll on what you intend to do if they go through with this:

forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-th...
A quick poll: If generative AI was implemented and was not opt in/out and did not address community concerns, would you:
June 11, 2025 at 5:17 AM
otteroflore.bsky.social
youtu.be/y4YliiDd8KE Barbie-gator video is out now!
Making a Barbie Alligator (and articulating her joints!) - OOAK doll
YouTube video by Art-er of Lore
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June 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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chaseprairie.bsky.social
she was fighting for her life to get that good, good pollen

video: a bumblebee queen dangling from a shooting star flower by one arm, kicking and flailing
May 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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chaseprairie.bsky.social
the real reason I make things like my goldenrod book is so that *I* can ID the dang things
a layout of 12 goldenrods all at scale and with their flowerheads at scale
June 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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chaseprairie.bsky.social
the thing is there's too many flowers that are just like, white circular platforms made of tiny flowers. When people photograph pollinators, they don't make sure to catch things like leaves or context.

i started this because i couldn't ID a super zoomed in photo of Aegopodium podagraria
a ton of flowers that amount to big flat white circles
June 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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chaseprairie.bsky.social
do you ever get so annoyed with packera id on @inaturalist.bsky.social that you....
packera id sheets with flower photos and leaf herbarium vouchers packera id sheets with flower photos and leaf herbarium vouchers
June 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
otteroflore.bsky.social
<3 solomons seal
chaseprairie.bsky.social 🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · Jun 8
bees lost in the sauce today, penstemon and solomon's seal edition
BEE BUTT jammed into a penstemon flower bee jamming their head into a polygonatum biflorum flower bell
June 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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piinkberri.bsky.social
Regarding Discord's new official partnership with "DomoAI" that puts all artists who use the platform at higher risk of theft:

Report the app, tell Discord to REMOVE or ALLOW USERS OPT OUT PROTECTIONS.

Report link: discord.com/discovery/ap...

#noAI
Discord message screenshot with the following text: Please consider reporting this AI app that Discord is forcing into EVERY chat and server with no option to opt out. This app will allow bad actors to enter *any* public server, or even DMs, and easily alter any artwork sent there through the AI app. Someone could ask you for commission examples just to steal your art and run it through the bot. Or someone could join your server just to poach from your art channel. Obviously these are things people could already be doing, but the bot being integrated into Discord *with no option for server owners to remove it* enables this behavior and makes it more easy than ever. To report, go to this link and click "Report" under the 3 dots menu. A new page will open allowing you to provide detailed feedback. I encourage you to spread to your servers as well if you care about protecting artists from AI (and you should care!) This is the only option we have to get Discord to take our concerns seriously. Even better, **consider cancelling your Nitro and citing this AI integration as the reason.** https://discord.com/discovery/applications/1153984868804468756 If you need inspiration, this is what I wrote in a rushed lunch break submission lol: This application threatens the security, copyright protections, and integrity of all artists and artist-centric communities on Discord. An extremely high number of visual artists rely on Discord as a secure platform for showcasing their work, collaborating, and even securing sales. The forced implementation of this bot threatens Discord's efficacy in all of those categories. You are alienating this large group of dedicated users and forcing them to seek an alternative, secure platform, when many would stay if they simply had the ability to, at the very least, protect their messages from this bot. This app encourages and enables art theft. The official integration of this bot makes Discord itself complicit in every instance of theft. Screenshot from the Domo AI announcement article: What to Expect from the DomoAI Image Restyle App? The Image Restyle app has a unique set of features that set it apart: Artistic Transformation: Users can transform images into various styles, such as cartoon looks or American comic art. Multiple Generations: Generate up to 4 stylized images at once for 2 credits. Upscaling Option: Choose your favorite image and upscale it for improved quality. User-Friendly Experience: The app is designed with simplicity in mind. Choose from random styles or customize over 18 options.
May 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
otteroflore.bsky.social
ew, discord introduced a generative art theft content bot, its called domo and its garbage. reminder that that trash is 1. just theft and 2. destroying the environment. discord will never be getting any of my money thats for sure
May 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
otteroflore.bsky.social
youtu.be/3XoKmzHy4rI
Ayy I hit 5000 subscribers on yt. Thats nice. thanks for liking my pony.
Making A Fancy Firefly Custom! - Collaboration with Retrogeekcrafts
YouTube video by Art-er of Lore
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May 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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chaseprairie.bsky.social
a two page spread from my dissertation, pondering on pawpaws
A comic book spread about Pawpaws - A native fruit tree of eastern north america The Illinois / Wisconsin border has been considered a northern edge But thats changing Pawpaws have historically & continue to move around because people like pawpaws and pawpaws like people The fruit pawpaw is a sweet treat like a banana in the shape of a mango Depending on ripeness and variety, pawpaws taste like custard, banana, mango, caramel, melon You can eat them as bread, ice cream, jam & curd or straight up Left to their own devices, pawpaws form thickets that don't make much if any pawpaw fruit each fall A helping hand with spring pawpaw flower pollination helps guarantee better fall harvest There has never been a time where pawpaws were not eaten in Illinois A wordless set of four panels, depicting a Potawatomi woman picking a pawpaw, cutting it open, dropping seeds, then the seed grows into a tree There has never been a time where pawpaws were not eaten in Illinois... until science and the law had something to say about it
May 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
otteroflore.bsky.social
I love pawpaws.... I love maps... I love this dataset
chaseprairie.bsky.social 🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · May 4
Data set I've been siting on for years now:

Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, & Wisconsin pawpaw presence by county (green), observations (green dots), and the lovely butterfly they are exclusively host to: zebra swallowtail presence (pink), and zebra swallowtail observations (pink dot)
map displaying the states around lake michigan, densely packed with green dots (pawpaw trees) and pink dots (zebra swallowtails)
May 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
otteroflore.bsky.social
nohiketoosmall.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/m...
I don't really have a separate place to link to these, but I did a new post on my nature blog.
Meacham Grove – Gems of Chicagoland
This spring has been a busy time, full of ups and downs. I have been trying to go out regularly since the snow began to melt. This is in no small part because my partner has seen far more snakes th…
nohiketoosmall.wordpress.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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chaseprairie.bsky.social
purged 95% of my tweets, but im leaving the final bell bowl prairie salvage tweets, it feels right

Bell Bowl Prairie, an impossibly-rare sand gravel prairie, was destroyed by the Rockford Airport, despite years of protests.

I had the honor of salvaging some plants from the rubble
Dirty hand holding up a clump of roots in front of a pile of dirt A dirty hand
May 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM