Natalie Metzger
@thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
💀 She/her 🎨 Illustrator and designer 🏔️ Pacific Northwest 🔗 https://thefuzzyslug.neocities.org/links 🪲🦀 Here Be Bugs 🕷️🦐 🚫 No genAI
This project has been extremely well received across the city. Bars and cafes have been super excited to partner with us, which is critical for the success of the project! Here's an intro-to-the-project article in Billy Penn: billypenn.com/2026/02/24/s...
Plant native blooms in time for spring with Philly’s favorite squid scientist
Local butterflies and bees need more homes. Philly’s science community has some creative solutions.
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Our Native Plant Project has distributed 25,000 packets of free native plant seeds from 2025-2026. We're able to do this thanks to 100s of hours of volunteer labor. Over 200 people helped! Our venue isn't able to donate space this year, so I need to find sponsors! givebutter.com/native-plant...
Native Plant Project 2027
By Skype a Scientist
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I was reminded today what a miracle it is that I was able to create a queer trans goofball superhero with @deuxdel.bsky.social, who then found a home in the hearts of so many and this year will be in her second graphic novel and a Justice League book. So thanks, all of you, for making that happen.
FIRST OF ALL, MY ASSUMPTION WAS I WOULD NEVER HAVE TO WARN PEOPLE ABOUT THIS
My standard reply to all ai book scammers that I am a practicing witch and placing a curse on them unless they cease their wicked ways. Highly recommend this strategy to other writers & publishing folk. Twice now I've had scammers email back to ask me to lift the curse.
Happy International Cat Day! I asked Fiasco and he said it was actually INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY day and could I make him a poster, so I did
Remember when this wasn’t happening everywhere all the time
CTV News Vancouver@ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 2d ago‘Conditions that we have never seen before’: Devastation in B.C.’s Okanagan as wildfire explodes in size
“hello. would u like 2 buy sticky? payment in fries or meat cookies plz and thx u.” janky popup artist alley in the food court at Lloyd Center Mall’s last day
Boosting this again! The financial administrative burdens of this packaging regulation will force a lot of EU small businesses out of the market. If you're someone living in the EU who enjoys buying enamel pins, plushies, stickers, little handmade items, art of any kind- this impacts you especially.
Anya 🌹"Chinny" | CZGoldEdition@czgoldedition.bsky.social · 3d agoHey friends, if you don't want your favorite small artists in the EU to be unable to ship to their neighbors, it would mean a lot if you sign this: www.change.org/p/stop-destr...
Pleased to finally announce... Abdication, the last Southern Reach novel! "There will come the days of the watcher, the drowned woman and the shadow of a man who keeps falling apart with each step, but first comes the moment the birds appear at night from the gaps between the stars, far from home."
30 colorful crows take flight across Portland in new Wildwood art trail. Starts today!
30 colorful crows take flight across Portland in new Wildwood art trail
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A new flock is taking over Portland, but these crows are meant to be admired, not chased away. “Wildwood: Follow the Crows” opens Friday, bringing 30 hand-painted crow sculp…
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I'm making something extra sparkly exclusively for patrons! Sign up for my Ko-fi campaign this month and get this exclusive holographic sticker. It's so shiny! ko-fi.com/lunaseastudios
This is it. And I’d add, a lot of us have done SciComm, for free, essentially as a time-consuming hobby, because it wasn’t well-respected or supported in academia and only a few lucky people were able to find, or build, paid SciComm work to make it career.
Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 5d agoOne of most heartbreaking things about Hank Green turning to LLMs is that he gets to do science communication full-time to a massive audience and is well-resourced. He doesn't need to cut corners or outsource his thinking. Meanwhile, there are so many people doing amazing work with zero resources.
The new Nepenthes bag is coming soon! I spent so much time working with the manufacturer on the sample, and now I’m finally happy with it! It will be a perfect bag for our bug friends, and totally safe for them😉 I am expecting the whole batch to be done and available in September! 💚
Commission of a raccoon on a beanbag eating popcorn. I had so, so, so much fun getting the right attitude on this little critter! #watercolor #raccoons #art
Eastern screech owl Mixed media of watercolor, pencils and gouache on 13x19" hotpress paper For #OwlAwarenessDay
*pulls out the stash of extra long stakes I had been saving for a vampy-day* #CorgiForScale
Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6d agojesus along with all the other threats right now... be careful, portland...
It's a strange thing to watch Bluesky think of courting the right/far-right to join here. Whether they like it or not, they have an audience present, and it'd be much smarter to serve the extant audience instead of alienating them. Which is what will happen. Not everything has to be for everyone.
The crow children have been in peak screamy demanding corvid adolecent drama these past few weeks. I witnessed one crow parental unit dealing with FIVE of their caw-whiny brats. 😅
"Book Worm" I wanted to try painting a few little dragons this month for #Smaugust. I started by thinking about unusual dragon hoards and so I started thinking about a book dragon making its nest in a library. And then I thought a little smaller than that. #art #watercolor #dragons
