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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@luxomancer.bsky.social

He/them (ENBY) Photographer ( Macros, skies, cats and things). Citizen Naturalist ( INaturalist observation page https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=luxomancer&verifiable=any ) AUDHD. Gamer, cat servant, Mystic Pixie Dream Bear

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Muffy Saint-John @muffy.bsky.social · 59m ago

Seen in the wild today

Photo of a light blue bumper sticker on the back of a car that states SEND ZUCKERBERG TO THE HAGUE.

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 15h ago

The song of his people #cuddleUnit6

蓮猫 Lotuscat @lotuscat.bsky.social · 23h ago

姫ではないジョウゴゴケ。長野県佐久穂町八千穂高原 #地衣類 Tough looking pixie cup Cladonia. Yachiho Kogen, Sakuho-machi, Nagano #Lichen #FungiFriends

The cup part of a Cladonia or pixie cup lichen. It is funnel shaped and covered with small, green, round balls. The stalk part is covered with balls also.

Colony of pixie cup Cladonia lichen. The leafy structure that attaches to the rock is pronounced, as well as the long stalk with cups that are covered in grainy scales.

Punished Cat Guy (aka Johnny Bag o’ Snails)@majima.club · 22h ago

Clearly I have been falling down on the job - y’all haven’t gotten a dose of ENCHIRITO EAR WIGGLES. Sorry about the camera shake, hard to film one-handed

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@luxomancer.bsky.social · 22h ago

I appear to have interrupted IMPORTANT CAT BUSINESS. that #SideEye 😂 #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky

A photo of a very pale, almost blond orange cat and a tabby cat sitting in a window. The blond cat is closer to the camera, and is giving the photographer "side-eye" the tabby cat, is resting on the window ledge below the blond cat, her face can just be seen behind the blond cat's face and she has the same sort of catitude going on...

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@luxomancer.bsky.social · yesterday

LET US PREY. A VERY FRIENDLY itinerant evangelist visited last night.😁 Tenodera sinensis, the Chinese Mantid. #Fujifilm X-S10 #Laowa 65mm #Macro #MacroPhotography #Mantids #insects #BugLight #Awe and #Wonder

A photo of a large brown mantid perched on my hand at night. The mantid's spiney raptorial arms are held foreword and relaxed. Its triangular head with large glossy purplish gray eyes is looking to the left.

A photo of the mantid's whole body perched on my partner's hand. It is looking up at me inquisitively. it's wings shine with a faded golden sheen.

A photo of the mantid perched on my partner's hand from the front. It's eyes in this shot appear dark, it's legs are folded gripping her hand, and it is about to leap towards the camera.

A photo of the mantid's head and forebody from the side against a white background. The fullness of its raptorial arms can be seen in this image, the powerful limbs covered with long, sharp spines. Its head visible from the side, its eyes, dark in this view, glossy.

Bijhan Agha @bijhan.bsky.social · yesterday

RaeRae is my husband. They're nonbinary trans, and need top surgery for both gender affirming care as well as to relieve back and shoulder pain. Please give to their GoFundMe so we can get them the care they need! #trans #mutualaid gofund.me/01be1dff3

Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 2d ago

When you’re reading a romance involving Fae bargains and you start to hear a sweet little distant melody chiming through the air… Then you realize it’s an ice-cream truck. Then you remember you live on a side street backed up against the woods and have never once seen an ice-cream truck here.

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@luxomancer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Tonight's challenge mode, trying to take a photo one handed while also trying to adjust the manual focus ring (friend was on the other hand). The #BugLight adventures have been quite good tonight. 😁

Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 2d ago

The hammerhead condition has evolved numerous times in flies, resulting in various flavors. Last time we found an extreme one (flic.kr/p/2qeN7Hz) but this example is a bit more tame (still lovely, though! ❤️) [Coll.: Khong Lunaria] #FlySchool2026 Costa Rica #Richardiidae: #Richardia cf. telescopica

A yellow and brown fly sits on a white background facing to the right toward the viewer. It has a broad and somewhat triangular head, about twice the width of the thorax.

A yellow and brown fly sits on a white background facing to left. It has a broad and somewhat triangular head, about twice the width of the thorax.

A yellow and brown fly sits on a white background facing away from the viewer. It has a broad and somewhat triangular head, about twice the width of the thorax.

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@luxomancer.bsky.social · 2d ago

A #Food thread My friends, I know that Mondays are often not days of #joy and #celebration, but join me as I have found THE SAUCE. And by THE SAUCE, i mean an analog of an amazing sauce I first experienced 18 years ago at a wing place in South Georgia, a spicy lemon pepper garlic sauce that...

Natalie Wernimont | nataliejunewernimoon @nataliewernimont.bsky.social · 2d ago

Imperial moth + regal moth paintings, available on my website: www.nataliejunewernimoon.com #paintings #moths #insects #bugs #bugsky #sciart #nature #oddities #invertebrates #entomology #moth #art #originalart

Two realistic paintings (imperial moth on top, regal moth on bottom) in ornate frames. The pieces are sitting on a distressed white tabletop. There are hints of wood tone showing throughout the white surface, which you can also see behind the insects. This helps to indicate that they have been painted on clear glass, and look like they are floating in the middle of the frames.

Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 5d ago

With waves of gratitude and grace ... Thank you!

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · last wk.

Is time to send the babies back to school #SnackSociety Consider making a donation to do some good $InvitationAMEZ venmo.com/u/solomon-MI... giv.li/y9kwut

Nathan Fowkes Art @nathanfowkes.com · 2d ago

North Carolina swamp.

Hypertoroidal Pan @christbot.bsky.social · 2d ago

Los Angeles Public Library Unveils the World's Largest Pop-Up Book

"Luceros y Penumbres," designed by Daniel González and engineered by Matthew Reinhart, is an ode to learning and discovery.

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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 2d ago

Can I interest you in a very sweet but permanently angry looking kitty for your Monday morning

An orange Devon Rex cat looking like >:( with furrowed eyebrows and pretty green eyes

Socky Noob @sockynoob.bsky.social · 2d ago

The smallest El Fatto Farto I've ever witnessed. Look how tiny he is for his species @luxomancer.bsky.social @humanbyweight.bsky.social. I've confirmed he's Megatibicen grossus. He's just a lil runt. #Bugsky #InverteFest #Cicadas #Cute #Hemiptera #TrueBugs #Bug #Insect

Socky Noob@sockynoob.bsky.social · 2d ago

I love squeezing cicadas

Luis Cordoba Photographer @luiscordoba.bsky.social · last yr.

You think you've seen it all until you visit here. #storytelling #luiscordobapharchive #art #picoftheday #earth #mountain #landscape #show #blue #photographer #eastcoastkin #scape Please don't subscribe to harassment lists they are total anarchy. They are blocking good people by the hundreds

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@luxomancer.bsky.social · 2d ago

#SummerSkies 06.26.2026 The contrail at the cloud's summit was a happy discovery, I did not see it in the viewfinder... #Photography #skies #clouds. #Awe and #Wonder #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #ECK

A black and white photo of cumulus congestus ascending into the summer sky. Trees can be seen in the bottom of the frame, the popcorn-like convective cells of the cloud billowing into the sky above, rendered dark as if a red filter had been used. A tiny contrail and aircraft can be seen just to the right of the cloud's summit

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d ago

Chiron was known to be well-versed in medicine (having learned it from Apollo) making him the original Centaur for Disease Control

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@luxomancer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ascend, transition, unfurl your wings, and fly. Linne's #Cicada, #Neotibicen linnei #MacroPhotography #insects #transformation #Metamorphosis #Transition #awe and #wonder

A photograph of a the upper body of a very freshly moulted green and brown cicada. The cicada's eyes are glossy and brown at the front and gray at the back with a black spot on the inner sides. Three translucent red ocelli, primitive eyes are in the center of its head in a triangular pattern. Its head is greenish forward, then a band of brown behind the eyes, another band of green, then the rest of the body and foreabdomen is brown. Its wings are in the process of unfurling, and are a pale green.

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@luxomancer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ingredients for an "Interesting" waking. 1. Be tall and have your feet hanging slightly off the end of the bed. 2. Have said feet be ticklish. 3. Own an adorable furry goofball (pictured) who decides to show her affection by rubbing her face against those feet.😂😂😂 #Cats

A phot o the face of Biscuit, an orange cat's who is so pale as to be blond. Sunlight splashes against her adorable face, illuminating her golden eyes, her pink nose just in shadow.

Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 3d ago

Some crane flies in the genus #Geranomyia produce a little gel nursery to develop on leaves in the tropics. There they graze on algae & other organic matter. The mass provides moisture (other spp. live in water/soil) & likely protects from predators. #Tipulidae #Limoniidae #FlySchool2026 Costa Rica

A jelly mass on the midrib of a long leaf contains a long translucent larva within

A close up of a long, worm-like, translucent larva curving around inside a clear jelly mass

A thick jelly mass on a leaf surface has a long crane fly pupa suspended within

Two greenish crane flies with long beaks mating on a leaf. The female is resting above, while the male contorts himself underneath, connected by their genitalia.

Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 3d ago

I love finding old tree wounds, the leaking sap ferments into a yeasty mush that persists for years and is full of weird bugs. Here's a flat clown beetle, Hololepta sp, pulling a fly larva out of the muck. Western New York, last month.

Macro photos of a strangely flat black beetle, its body smooth like plastic, with pincer-like jaws pulling a yellow grub from mushy wet brown goop.

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@luxomancer.bsky.social · 3d ago

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT Chair leg repetition. #Photography #Abstract #Shiny

A photo of shiny silvery chair legs stacked. The bottom chair legs are "V's that are pount downwards, the upper ones are point upwards, a dark stripe in the middle of the rack that they are stacked on. A pleasing abstract image.

D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 4d ago

Perfect use for new macro camera: SLEEPY BEES! They do not move and so are much easier for novices (✋) to get in focus 😅 #bugsky

A sleeping bumblebee hanging underneath an ironweed leaf, seen from the side against a dark background. The bee's feet are covered with pollinia, little pollen packets from milkweed. The photograph is highly detailed.

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@luxomancer.bsky.social · 3d ago

The only AI I will endorse... Who needs shoes anyways? 🤪

Holmies At Home@holmiesathome.bsky.social · 3d ago

we present our new very business project ailurine* intelligence add cats to your business today! *cat-like

Sherlock, a fluffy cream and white Maine Coon cat, is lying in front of a door and raising a paw as if waving. The door has 'business' scrawled on it.

Crafty Cow Cat Sofas @craftycow.bsky.social · 4d ago

Its #Caturday.. and payday... so ..how about treating your cat to a cat sofa? Or just a lapmat? craftysharp.etsy.com

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Shop Cat Sofas and foot stools by CraftySharp located in London, United Kingdom.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 4d ago

Tentacle Pot 419

Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@luxomancer.bsky.social · 4d ago

Good morning friends. Here's a pleasant recent discovery from youtube. #Bastet #AncientLanguages #Egypt youtu.be/CaIGAgcr1RI?...

Hymn to Bastet Sung in Middle Egyptian

YouTube video by Siamun

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