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Natalie Metzger

@thefuzzyslug.bsky.social

💀 She/her 🎨 Illustrator and designer 🏔️ Pacific Northwest 🔗 https://thefuzzyslug.neocities.org/links 🪲🦀 Here Be Bugs 🕷️🦐 🚫 No genAI

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Chentomology@chentomology.bsky.social · 6h ago

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! 💚

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Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · yesterday

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.

Wendy N. Wagner 🎃@wnwagner.bsky.social · 3d ago

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Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com · 2d ago

Yeah definitely this... I've never understood why for *this* particular use there would be any sense of pleasure or accomplishment. "Oh look, something gave me some homework that I will now have to spend ages laboriously fact-checking rather than doing my own work" is not my idea of a good time.

Kate Holzemer@katebits.bsky.social · 2d ago

Another thought: in his statement, Hank Green expressed quite a lot of shame about the "dopamine hit" he gets from using AI. As a non-AI user I don't really know what he's referring to here. Is the AI voice flattering him while also doing his job (presumably poorly)? Because that's big weird.

Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com · 3d ago

Everybody better watch it or I'll open up my Ko-Fi like I threatened to "Give me $50 and get a terrible book cover designed by me, a huge bug, from one of my very own photos" commissions

franz@franzanth.bsky.social · 5d ago

Activities for this season of #InverteFest: Community science project www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv... Art book submission form forms.gle/xCcLKLjia5JJ...

franz@franzanth.bsky.social · last yr.

Greetings, chordate comrades. #InverteFest is upon us. tl;dr: Over the last 7 days every April, August, and December, we invite you to show the internet your coolest bugs & slugs. Go find critters, post your art, write wikipedia pages, do whatever you like to celebrate invertebrates with us!

What is #InverteFest? It's a periodic event where we invite you to celebrate the overlooked invertebrate fauna around you and share the joys of discovery online. #InverteFest takes place every April, August, & December over the last 7 days of the month. Going out? 1. Find invertebrates 2. Share observations online using the hashtag #InverteFest 3. Interact with others who are celebrating the event NOT Going out? - Post your squid painting - Stream a game where you play as a crab with a knife - Selfie with your 27 beetle enamel pins - Write wikipedia pages Questions? ask franzanth / maureenbug / saimihanma More info and ideas on: invertefest.com
Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hey Portland! Call to action for Chocolate, red-tailed hawk who will be released after window strike *into the same situation* at Daniels High School. Please email as appropriate to push for bird-strike proof windows. A screech owl recently smashed into them as well, plus dozens of smaller birds 1/3

As an Oregonian and fellow neighbor, Mel and I know that you know how valuable our wildlife is to our neighborhoods. Our neighborhoods would not be the special place it is without our wildlife and the habitats they rely on. Will you send a message today to support installing commercial Window Strike Bird Film on the windows at on McDaniel High School and other schools that are having this issue? McDaniel and the current windows on the school are the cause of hundreds of bird deaths each year. This will only worsen as the habitat shrinks for our wildlife. A simple solution of commercial Window Film will mitigate this issue. Chocolate will hopefully be released soon and he will go right back to his home which is at the McDaniel High School. Next time we may not be able to save him from a Window Strike. Now is our chance to do something about this, but we can’t do it without your help. Portland Public Schools/McDaniel High School need to hear from you on how much you care about Chocolate and all of the other wildlife today! Please use the information above and send your support for the Window Film to the following contacts: The new Principal at McDaniel High School is Ben Kates: bvanderlaankates@pps.net McDaniel School Board Member: Virginia La Forte vlaforte@pps.net schoolboard@pps.net publiccomment@pps.net
madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 5d ago

Happy Friday everyone, as promised, here is my personal theory on this. I think Redwall takes place in our world, after an apocalyptic event of the nuclear variety caused rapid but varied growth of all animals, including humans, leading to our extinction and their mental development. Okay? 🧵

Nora@lighthousenora.bsky.social · 2w ago

i would love your historical architecture take on the relative size of redwall abbey to its natural surroundings and inhabitants. like are we talking a tiny abbey in a tiny forest or what