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Vivian Sotomayor
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viviansotomayor7.bsky.social
Haven't posted in a while. Took a much needed social media break. But had to post this pic if Ellie I just took for #Caturday ##CatsOfBluesky
Black cat inside a drawer. Wooden drawer is only open about three inches. Cats green eyes are visible along with most of her nose, but nothing else.
October 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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bobthebird.bsky.social
Dioptase is very pretty with that rare colour. But #Wavellite has undeniable alien star quality, and gets my vote.
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
viviansotomayor7.bsky.social
Hiked Balconies Cliffs Trail at Pinnacles over the weekend
Cliffs from the Balconies Cliffs Trail at Pinnacles National Park. Cliffs are pale reddish brown, a couple of trees and a bush in foreground, sky is blue.
September 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
viviansotomayor7.bsky.social
Vivianite didn't make it in this year. Time to pick a new favorite
mineralcup.bsky.social Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · Aug 29
Behold, the #MinCup35 bracket!

Use it to follow along, plan campaigns to support your favs, or make predictions on how voting will shake out. We start at the top left on September 1st, then alternate left and right as we work our way down.
A sports-style elimination bracket of 32 minerals labeled "Mineral Cup 2025". Text below reads, "Daily voting takes place on www.MineralCup.org in September. Campaign on your favorite social media using #MinCup25." The starting matches are, in chronological order: chrysotile versus pectolite, stibnite versus okenite, jeremejevite versus haüyne, calcite versus perovskite, silver versus baryte, carpathite versus leucite, sanidine versus hematite, pollucite versus tugtupite, kosmochlor versus azurite, dioptase versus wavellite, titanite versus thortveitite, zunyite versus molybdenite, topaz versus kyanite, cuprosklodowskite versus ikaite, taenite versus nontronite, and paddlewheelite versus mannardite.
August 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
viviansotomayor7.bsky.social
Cooper'sHawk in my backyard trying to grab a smaller bird for its meal.
A Cooper's Hawk showing off their striped tail feathers. They are sitting on a wooden backyard fence. Bird's body is facing neighbor's yard, face turned toward camera.
August 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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cingraham.bsky.social
have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Nature headline "I invented a life-saving frog sauna." Photo of said frogs in said sauna
August 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
viviansotomayor7.bsky.social
boop!
Close up of black pitbul face, aka Debo's boopable nose.
August 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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nb23.bsky.social
Monday mood
a toad on a rock, background is a blur
August 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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julielfrost.bsky.social
What's up, Saturday?

A green frog, known for a call that sounds like a "loose banjo string."

#Green #BlueSkyArtShow #GreenSat #ColorADay #Frogs #Animals #NaturePhotography #Amphibians #Photography #Wildlife
A green frog, partially submerged in a pond, looks directly into the camera.
August 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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butterflyguy99.bsky.social
Tattered yet beautiful…

Macro lens shot of a Silvery Checkerspot butterfly for #MacroMonday 

You can somewhat see the scales of her wings. Those “hairs” are simply specialized scales too. Almost every butterfly has them that I have seen.

#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋
August 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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irm424.bsky.social
Blue-tailed #Damselfly
#MacroMonday
#TheWildImages
#Nature
#Libellen
June 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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terjemar.bsky.social
Just loafing around...
#Caturday
One gray and white cat, sitting in a loaf position on a gray carpet, no legs or feet showing. She is pointedly ignoring the camera.
August 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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butterflyguy99.bsky.social
An enormous male Spicebush Swallowtail this morning.🖤💙🤍🧡

#Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋 #SwallowtailSeason
August 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
Nymphidium onaeum at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#butterflies #invertebrates #lepidoptera #nature
A butterfly with white wings bordered in black and orange perches on a red flower. The butterfly is viewed from above, showing its full wingspan against a blurred green background.
August 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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see3trees.bsky.social
Chilling out — #EastCoastKin #nature #insects #bloomscrolling
A Slatey Skimmer on top of a Swamp Rose Mallow hibicious
July 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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astronomisty.bsky.social
Apparently today is World Embroidery Day! So please enjoy my version of the Wonders of the Night Sky, cross stitch and embroidery on navy Aida fabric, pattern by Climbing Goat Designs 🧶 🔭
A large stitched piece is matted in blue edged in gold and framed with brown wood. The fabric of the piece is navy blue, slightly darker than the mat, and the design is the celestial sky with 88 constellations, stitched in pale yellow, pale blue, and white. The phases of the moon are depicted in the corners, and Saturn, a comet, and various stars decorate the in-between space.
July 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
viviansotomayor7.bsky.social
#MusicSky
@listigeplaylists.bsky.social

"이뤄지지 않는 꿈속에서
피울 수 없는 꽃을 키웠어"

My first comeback as ARMY

translation:
"In a dream that can't come true,
I grew a flower that can't bloom"

#방탄소년단 #아포방포 #BTS

open.spotify.com/track/6m1TWF...
FAKE LOVE
BTS · Love Yourself 轉 'Tear' · Song · 2018
open.spotify.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
Hercules Skimmer (Libellula herculea) today above the pond at Casa Bentbill #CostaRica

#dragonflies #invertebrates #insects #nature
A dragonfly with a bright red abdomen and dark thorax is perched on the tip of a dry plant stem. Its transparent wings are intricately veined and have dark tips. The background is a smooth, warm brown, making the insect stand out clearly.
July 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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miya1156.bsky.social
Monday..
July 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
viviansotomayor7.bsky.social
Debo and Cupcake
#DogsOfBluesky #CatsOfBluesky
Mostly black pitbull (Debo) and tortoiseshell cat (Cupcake) laying on a bed. They are both partially curled up from their sleeping positions, backs against each other. Both have also lifted their heads and turned to face each other.
July 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
viviansotomayor7.bsky.social
#MusicSky
@listigeplaylists.bsky.social

@butterflyguy99.bsky.social posts pictures of these beautiful great spangled fritillaries (and black swallowtails and more).

They remind me of this song. One of my favorites by the #CocteauTwins.

open.spotify.com/track/2Mp01N...
Great Spangled Fritillary
Cocteau Twins · Echoes In A Shallow Bay · Song · 1985
open.spotify.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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kameronhurley.com
Excellent article about how LLMs perform their feats of "magic" by exploiting the same psychological hacks that psychics do when performing cold readings.

::Chefs kiss::

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
softwarecrisis.dev
July 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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nb23.bsky.social
#waterWednesday
a green frog on a piece of wood facing right, water with bits of duck weed in background
July 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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butterflyguy99.bsky.social
A gorgeous female Black Swallowtail on a light yellow Zinnia for #TextureTuesday 🖤💛💙🧡

#Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋 #SwallowtailSeason
July 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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colleenmiller.bsky.social
An interesting butterfly. I think it’s a Doris Longwing

#butterflies
#insects
A blue black and white butterfly on light and dark green leaves
July 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM