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Marion
@mhkilgour.bsky.social
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Engineer, science nerd. Mostly a lurker, you aren't likely to see me post things. Keep wearing a respirator!
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bertonemyia.bsky.social
Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁 As such, I'm required to provide photos of insects wearing Santa hats.

Whether you celebrate or not, I hope you have a wonderful day!
A female scorpionfly sits on the leaf covered ground with a tiny Santa hat on her head. A metallic blue fly sits on a leaf with a Santa hat on. A red bush cricket sits among the plants with a Santa hat on. A green sharpshooter leafhopper sits on a leaf with a Santa hat on.
December 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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tinylongwing.bsky.social
Reposting this older Christmas classic - Santa Habronattus! A tiny little guy perched on a Christmas ornament, with his bushy white beard and Santa Claus colors.

#SciArt #Spiders #Invertebrates
Male H. pyrrithrix on a red christmas ornament. He has lots of fuzz and big cute eyes and the white bristles on his pedipalps are like a fluffy Santa Claus beard.
December 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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stefscribbles.bsky.social
dress up warm ❄️
December 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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sleepimali.bsky.social
🐰🧋🍓
Watercolour painting of a bunch of white bunnies around a glass of whipped cream matcha boba with strawberries, on a light green background. Two of the bunnies are climbing a rose gold metal straw poking out of the whipped cream on top, most of the others are just chilling, except one who is in the air, mid leap. Tea leaves and strawberries are scattered around the scene
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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scragglebird.bsky.social
Three Time the Chaos!

A character design commission for the wonderful @shhasum.bsky.social of a three-headed chicken! Two silly hen heads and one patient rooster head!

I'll be adding a background later and turning this into a print :>

#bird #art #illustration
December 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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sheena-mck.bsky.social
#WhiskersWednesday #ChristmasEve
December 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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inahoyura.bsky.social
今年もおつかれさま〜
ゆったりした年末を過ごそうね
December 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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raggamog.bsky.social
The last one for Art Advent Calendar. I painted this a few years ago on a circular board. Hares still remain my favourite animal, and this one seemed appropriate for this time of year.

#ArtAdventCalendar #Yuletide #Christmas
An original artwork of a hare in snow with a full moon. Created on a circular board using acrylic paints.
December 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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yrglrgl.bsky.social
Canada Goose Barbarian was first class/animal combo that I decided on, lol.
#Goose #Barbarian #D&D #ArtAdventCalendar #yrglart
A drawing in a style inspired by Medieval Illuminated Manuscript Illustration. It depicts a Canada Goose dressed as a Barbarian from Dungeons and Dragons. It is wearing two leather shoulder guards with pale fur trim. It is holding a rusty battle axe in each wing, and they are crossed below its body as it hisses in fury and rage. The background is patterned like old parchment paper.
December 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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lurrlonde.bsky.social
I drew some demure chickens 💅
Three chickens dressed in 50s glam.
December 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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mangiotto.bsky.social
Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.
December 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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sciencesocks.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 20:

Remember this iconic astronaut boot print from the moon? 🌕

I recreated the boot's sole in silver.

To go full circle, I then traveled to Florida (2022) and made this imprint on the beach close to the Kennedy Space Center, where Apollo 11 launched from 🚀

🔭🧪 #SciArt
replica of sole of moonboot in sterling silver with all the horizontal ridges imprint of astronaut Buzz Aldrin's boot in a thick layer of powdery, light grey dust. replica moon boot imprint in sand of KSC beach
December 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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rangerwang.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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shaneanderson.bsky.social
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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drkristopherwells.bsky.social
A citizen e-petition has been launched in the House of Commons calling on the Federal Government to its disallowance power to override Alberta and Saskatchewan’s use of the notwithstanding clause to violate the human rights of trans Canadians.

Sign here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7027 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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fpiatti.bsky.social
Nanny Ogg + Greebo
#discworld
December 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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shunkpunkart.bsky.social
Artists, Quote with something silly🥔✨

Hippotato :)
December 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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sculptedreef.com
🪸🎨🐙 Handcrafted Coral + Octopus sculpted from poly clay

#ArtYear #Art #Coral #ArtGallery #MarineLife #Invertebrates #InverteFest #ArtAdventCalendar 🦑🐡
A mixed media artwork featuring handcrafted corals made from tiny glass beads. An octopus sculpture depicting the species Larger Pacific Striped Octopus can be seen inside a tea cup that lies on its side.
December 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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madeleinefjall.bsky.social
A quick study of Equestrian portrait of Louis XIV

I took some shrimperties 🦐
a quick study of Equestrian portrait of Louis XIV but he's on a red shrimp instead of a white horse
November 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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donrice.art
Sketch art · donrice.art
Shop · ebay.com/str/donrice
#artadventcalendar #sketch #art
week three · art advent calendar · day fourteen
Tree Squirrel Eating a Sunflower Seed
A North American red squirrel happily munching away on a sunflower seed that was found on the ground below a bird feeder. Sketch art by Don Rice.
December 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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gardenofknots.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar day 14🍄

just finished up 2 more teacup gardens!🍄‍🟫☕️🐌

these will be used as christmas gifts this year🥰
2 tea cups filled with moss. each cup has a stained glass snail and mushroom
December 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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ajediday.bsky.social
Saturday
The image shows a gray cat with a white chest sitting indoors in front of a glass door. Outside, in the snow beyond the door, there are paw prints forming an elongated oval pattern, suggesting the cat may have walked in circles. There is snow covering the ground, and a small patch of snow is seen on the balcony. The exterior scene includes some snow-covered foliage to the left. The cat stares directly at the camera with green eyes, and its ears are perked up. Transcribed Text: Back home after a morning walk.
December 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social
This is one of the best synopses of Symptoms Syndrome I've ever read 😭
thisaliennerd: chronic pain diagnoses are all like yeah. we don't know what this is or why it happens. we also dont' know how to treat it. good luck out there solider. girl-mercury: you got symptoms syndrome. yeah it's permanent. what is it? like... what, is it? well it's a thing where this set of symptoms usually comes in a variety twelve-pack, what do you want. symptoms syndrome. don't overuse the ibuprofen aralintheobsessive: you should probably also get checked out for Overlapping Symptoms Syndrome, they often come as a two-for-one kinda deal. what can we do if you've got that too? well we can tell you to exercise. it'll probably make some of the symptoms better but others worse. yeah, worse. it's all we've got so take it or leave it. slivergyrphonart: alright fine if you really want a recommendation, we can at least tell you to ignore all the advice your well-meaning friends and family give you. healthy people advice will make most of your symptoms worse. you need advice from other people with symptoms syndrome. lower your standards about peer review because actual data doesn't exist yet.
December 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social
all of this is actually the BEST advice about Symptoms Syndromes, condensed

frfr
December 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM