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Otter of Lore
@otteroflore.bsky.social
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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📌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...
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At last
Something I’ve never bought and will never buy is a funko pop
November 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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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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This is the highest median income neighborhood in the city.
Chicagoans chanting, "no ICE! No ICE!"
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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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
here are my furby related plans
July 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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
Duality of Man
July 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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
#inaturalist problems...
June 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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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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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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...
June 11, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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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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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the real reason I make things like my goldenrod book is so that *I* can ID the dang things
June 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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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
June 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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do you ever get so annoyed with packera id on @inaturalist.bsky.social that you....
June 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
<3 solomons seal
bees lost in the sauce today, penstemon and solomon's seal edition
June 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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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
May 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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
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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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a two page spread from my dissertation, pondering on pawpaws
May 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I love pawpaws.... I love maps... I love this dataset
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)
May 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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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…
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May 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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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
May 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM