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Sam B.
@somebeees.bsky.social
🌈 She/They
🎨 Artist and illustrator of nature and more
📷 Native plant and bird photographer
🃏Graphic Designer for Board Games
🪡 Garment/Semi historical sewist
🙈 Human with too many hobbies
☀️ Based in San Diego, CA
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One of my biggest inspirations since childhood. I love Jann Brett’s books.
absolutely nothing compares to jann brett's anthropomorphic art. i feel like she might've been one of my very first artistic inspirations.
October 24, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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tea kettle guys
October 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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"It's the one hobby I really have that hasn't been saturated by AI and now it's feeling more and more out of reach."

All these small physical connections in globally linked hobbyist communities are being severed...in a moment where our digital communities are being flooded with AI slop. 🫠🫠🫠
‘It's Just a Mess:' 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined Their Hobby
"The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside."
www.404media.co
September 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Went to the Bird & Butterfly garden in the Tijuana River Valley and got some pics of some lesser goldfinches being some cutie patooties.

#birds #lessergoldfinch #birdphotography
September 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Sat down to doodle and made this little ladybird! I’m really enjoying working with colored pencils.

#art #ladybug #coloredpencil
September 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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THANK YOU, @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov, for supporting bills that will address the puppy mill pipeline in Cali! This will help reduce animal cruelty & protect CA's from puppy mills. @caspeakerrivas.bsky.social, @buffywicks.bsky.social, please support these bills! secure.aspca.org/action/ca-pmp
California, Urge State Lawmakers to Stop the Puppy Mill Pipeline
While retail puppy sales ended in California a few years ago, an investigative report conducted by the Los Angeles Times uncovered a disturbing underground puppy resale market that uses deceptive tact...
secure.aspca.org
August 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Such a great article. There is no such thing as an "easy" pet!! Please do your research before getting any pet and realize that some creatures shouldn't be pets at all.
August 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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I usually tell people that *so far*, habitat loss, not climate change, has been the major driver of bird population declines... but now we're starting to get analyses directly connecting bird declines to extreme weather events fueled by climate change. 🪶 theconversation.com/70-years-of-...
70 years of data show extreme heat is already wiping out tropical bird populations
A study using more than 90,000 scientific observations shows Earth is getting too hot for many tropical birds.
theconversation.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
What a gorgeous photo! I love the contrast of the rattlesnakes colors against the flowers.
Mexican Black-tailed Rattlesnakes (Crotalus molossus nigrescens) are a subspecies of black-tailed rattlesnakes, and they live in the highlands of Mexico.

📷 albertolobato on iNaturalist
📍 Mexico
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
August 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Had a bleh week a few weeks ago so went to my local fabric store and picked up this pretty cotton and just finished this little outfit!

The top is the #saguaroset from Friday Pattern Company and the shorts are the #chanterellepants from Sew Liberated.

#sewing
August 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Ah, to be a globular springtail adventuring among towering fungi.

📷 criag_l on iNaturalist
📍 Australia
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
August 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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John H. White's stunning photographs of Black Chicago, taken as part of the DOCUAMERICA project which sought to produce a visual record of 1970s US: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-h-white-documerica
August 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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inspired by hiking thru wildflowers 🌷🌾🌻🌼✨

#pixelart
August 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Went with some friends to the El Cajon courthouse to check out the amazon parrot roost! It was so cool to watch these rowdy little friends show up over time and hang out, groom, and be cute.

#photography #birds #parrots
August 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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This is incredible
August 4, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Working my way through old photo archives. Found these awesome great horned owl photos I took. They were such a cutie, I just watched them for a while one evening up in the tree in 2023.

#greathornedowl #birds #photography
August 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Trying to go through my photo archives and actually edit some of the photos I've taken on hikes. These are from May 26th 2023. It's fun editing older photos with the knowledge I know now after a couple of years of photo editing.

www.flickr.com/photos/19737...

#photography #birds #nativeplants
July 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Loving animals does not necessarily mean you are qualified to care for said animals, in the case of many a viral exotic animal “rescue.” The average social media viewer does not understand that what they’re seeing is animal abuse because they don’t know how to identify it
June 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Feeling an intense amount of grief lately about things that once were and are no more. There’s a reason why American history only teaches post European contact. You’re not supposed to think about the thousands of years of human and natural history colonization destroyed in a microsecond
June 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Had the idea to make a little magic american coot! I love coots they have such funny feet. Tempted to get this as a tattoo now.
#art #birds #americancoot
May 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This is a piece that’s taken me a while! My ttrpg group is playing Mythical Bastion soon (a game where you are knights) which inspired me to first attempt drawing armor which then became a whole piece! I’m super proud of how it came out.

#knights #art #illustration #ladyknight #procreate
April 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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exhausted janitor jesse answering the hotline is everything 🙏
Cleaned up some old jesse faden sketches ehe #controlremedy
April 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Fe Fi Fo Fum
April 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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the milkweed motel is open :) 🐛
April 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Going to a fun event at the San Diego Natural History Museum this Friday and the theme is “prehistoric prom” so I made a dinosaur crown!

#dinosaurs #flowercrown #diy #crafts
April 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM