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@springcritter.bsky.social
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XFX, loving Xiao Zhan ❤
New and old SPINs: birds, Critical Role, MDZS, Discworld etc.
Hobby artist, Music lover 🎶
+30, she/her, Queer and Autistic
No AI, no NFT
No RPS
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rosemarymosco.com
Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.
A comic called Animals with Misleading Names. There's an electric eel labeled "not an eel". There's a mountain goat labeled "not a goat." There's a maned wolf labeled "not a wolf." There's a king cobra labeled "not a cobra. Also, snakes are typically self-governing." There's a peacock mantis shrimp labeled "Not a peacock. Not a mantis. Also, not a shrimp." There's a horny toad labeled "Not a toad. Only thinks of you as a friend." There's a mayfly labeled "active through the spring and summer." There's an eastern kingbird labeled "found in the west. Many birds do not recognize its authority."
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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hannahtempler.com
"Our reality is being destroyed all around us"
thoughtrise.bsky.social .chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 24d
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
expanding the image past the cover I have photoshopped a guy using a power saw to slice off the girder the AI CEOs are all sitting on.
December 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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secondnaturemb.bsky.social
I took a detour to the edge of the city to take a picture of these amazing sundogs over Winnipeg caused by ice crystals blowing around in the sky.
An almost complete circle reflections surrounding the sun in a cold blue sky over a snowy field.
December 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
People get so pissy when I speak out against breeding, as if I'm being pointlessly mean and grumpy about their favorite color or clothing brand. Cats are not colors. They are not clothing. They are sentient creatures who should not have to suffer for human convenience or aesthetic preferences.
animal-welfare.bsky.social Animal Welfare - the UFAW Journal @animal-welfare.bsky.social · Nov 28
🔍NEW STUDY highlights the welfare challenges facing purebred cats in the UK and presents a new framework that encourages an evidence-based perspective.

🔗 Read the full press release: https://ow.ly/qAIk50XyNlj

🔗 Read the open access paper in Animal Welfare: https://ow.ly/QO3n50XyWro
A photograph of a grey British Shorthair cat laying down looking at the camera. The text reads: A framework to refocus the conversation around the welfare of UK purebred cats by Clare Roberts, Rae Foreman-Worsley, Dan G O'Neill and Jennifer McDonald.
December 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
THREAD.

The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.

1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
I took this photo on the Teign Estuary in Devon in spring 2022. I thought I was just taking a photo of an attractive hole in an old tree. It was only when I got home and looked through my camera roll that I saw the leaping dog, who I'd caught perfectly framed, mid-leap, totally by chance. I remembered the dog immediately, because of what an annoying twat it had been.
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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theglazeproject.bsky.social
Heather's new TED talk on AI and human identity, is now online.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdJZ...
How artists can protect their work from AI | Dr. Heather Zheng | TEDxChicago
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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skullmandible.bsky.social
The more things I've made, the less I've been interested in publicly criticizing the things that other people make, because once you make a few things you start to understand what a miracle it is that anything gets made at all
August 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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melynart.bsky.social
🐱; born to nap, forced to work ✧⁠*⁠。

[ #art #cute #cats #meme #draw ]
August 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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dominictarason.com
Because some people haven't heard it yet: PAYPAL IS NOT A BANK, DO NOT LEAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS SITTING IN YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME. MOVE IT TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY.

Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.
August 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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birdietam.art
Mood
A silly doodle of a rat disgusted by people
August 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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demiliopics2.bsky.social
For a medieval monastic chronicler, a headline to die for
A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia
August 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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idrawbagman.bsky.social
The Valley of Omar
August 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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redgoldsparks.bsky.social
List of resources in the thread ❤️🖤🤍💚
A white banned says FEED GAZA in front of a digital drawing of red poppies with black and white details and green leaves in front of a blue sky with clouds
August 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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drawingpolygon.bsky.social
#artfight I have a new obsession and it's called Findiana Jones, thanks to @spiritcrowart.bsky.social
I will die for this tuna

#art #movieparody #indianajones #lastcrusade
August 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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washingtonpost.com
Aspen trees are growing taller in Yellowstone thanks to wolves that prey on elk, which graze on trees.
Since wolves’ return, Yellowstone’s aspens are recovering, study finds
The researchers found a 152-fold increase in sapling and young-tree density.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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criticalrole.bsky.social
CAMPAIGN 4 IS COMIN' ATCHA! 🎲🔥

Join us in a new world for a whole new story led by Game Master Brennan Lee Mulligan on Thursday, October 2nd. We can't wait to share more with you in the coming weeks!

WATCH THE FULL UPDATE TODAY AT youtu.be/mEuwZbNde2s?...
August 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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effinbirds.com
If you don't know what my reskeets about Unbound/Boundless are about, here's my previous statement on 'em: effinbirds.com/post/7856233...
Statement on Unbound
June 6th, 2025 Unbound, my former UK publisher, owe me a lot of money. What’s worse, though, is that during their collapse, it came to light that they were underreporting my sales and shorting my...
effinbirds.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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atropius.bsky.social
there is nothing I love more than making random art gifts for people and I cannot recommend it enough
gaussbarrels.art 「 RHEL 」- ART RAFFLE @gaussbarrels.art · Jul 22
people keep saying they want year round artfight and i’m here to hold your hands and tell you the greatest power you have as an artist is slam dunking random gift art into someone’s dms and watching them freak out
July 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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atomicpopwi.bsky.social
No one is safe from their violence. Her story is absolutely horrific. No one should be traveling to the US.
Swiss woman is denied entry at the US border and detained
«You have no right to be here.» A teacher wanted to celebrate her birthday in New York. Instead, she was jailed in New Jersey before being deported. A lawyer warns that something similar could happen ...
www.nzz.ch
July 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
Makes me think of some birdwatching advice I once got: If it's a bird? It's a crow. If it's a beak with a bird attached? It's a raven.
July 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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ologies.bsky.social
WE HAVE OCD. A whole episode w/ ICON Dr. Wayne Goodman.

Ruminations. Rituals. Checking. Suffering. Stigmas. Hope.

Plus: origins, comorbidities, intrusive thoughts, deep brain stimulation, genetics, medications, finding a doc + the best therapy for it, ERP.

www.alieward.com/ologies/ocdn...
Obsessive-Compulsive Neurobiology (OCD) with Dr. Wayne Goodman — alie ward
Ruminations and reassurances. Checking and counting. Suffering and stigmas. It’s OCD, babes! OCD is now considered one of the most common psychiatric conditions, afflicting 2% to 3% of the general pop...
www.alieward.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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thetransfemininereview.com
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: In a dangerous evening escalation of the anti-porn war on the gaming industry, indie platform @itch.io has banned a number of NSFW titles and delisted thousands of others.

Trans authors are caught in the crossfire.

MasterCard, Visa, and anti-porn group Collective Shout drove the ban.
Major Indie Marketplace Itch.io Shadowbans NSFW Content, Trans Authors Impacted
A dangerous escalation against free speech and literary preservation from a longtime haven for transfeminine literature.
thetransfemininereview.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM