one thing i really love about #nomadsculpt and #3dsculpting is being able to get clean joints and sockets to enable a sculpture to move. even this little limited sculpture with only 1 arm but jointed hand can move and come alive #3dsculpt #3dprint #3dresin #bjd

@robcrank68.bsky.social‬ 's #birdoftheday is any bird with 3 or more colors so i'm posting 2 US westcoast favorites - male woodduck and brown pelicans in breeding plumage -every pelican has different head and neck markings during mating season #birds #photography #birdphotography #wildlife #nature

Folks are looking for press covering ICE in Adelanto, CA. San Bernardino County.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

for Alan H's #birdoftheday - theme today is #birdsinmygarden I spent a couple of years stuck in my house and spent hours every day in my tiny california backyard photographing whatever couldn't escape me. Tiny Pine Siskins have such attitude! #birds #photography #greensat #coloraday

rainbow. was taking closeup portraits of geese at Bosque del Apache when rainbow burst out - everyone around me ran to put on their wider angle lens but i knew i couldn't swap in time. Love it anyway. old image, i need to re-edit it. #photography #Rainbow #bird #birdphotography #flyday

just for fun - today's bird of the day is 'smallest bird' so couldn't resist posting this hummingbird behind #birdoftheday #hummingbird #bird #birds #photography #birdphotography #nature #flyday

maples in the redwood forest #forestfriday #photography #olympus #landscape #nature

natural abstract - king penguin preening - they are such beautiful birds. #abstract #yellowthu #bird #photography #nature #wildlife #penguin #birdphotography

for red wednesday - don't really know what these king penguins were doing - but they chased each other around the colony the whole time i was there #Redwed #bird #nature #wildlife #penguin #birdphotography #photography

thank you @robcrank68.bsky.social for this one - i had almost forgotten these shots 'Any Bird Having a Bath' - rockhopper penguin showering in the Falklands -red eye and mini waterfall for #RedWed #waterfallwednesday #Birdoftheday #photography #bird #nature #wildlife #penguin

San Diego - juvenile Black Phoebe on a rock for 'not on a branch' and 'rockintuesday' #photography #birds #birdoftheday #rockintuesday #birdphotography #notabranch #nature

Backyard bird - Bird of the day - any bird with yellow on it. Townsend's Warbler - this little guy only showed up in my yard a few times but what a beauty. #birdoftheday #birds #photography #nature #wildlife

black-browed albatross flying over huge colony on Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands. the colony seemed to stretch for miles #stunday #birds #bird #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #birdsofbluesky #ICM

attitude! tern chick - Nickerson Beach #birds #bird #photography #birdphotography #nature #wildlife

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

simpler time for me. Yellowstone bison in winter. #wildlife #B&W #photography #monochrome #BlackandWhite #nature #Yellowstone

backyard birds - golden crowned sparrow #bird #birds #sparrow #olympus #photography #birdphotography #garden #nature

golden afternoon wood duck - one of the most beautiful ducks (and funny -they jump up into trees to pick acorns) #duck #photography #birdphotography #bird #birds #nature #wildlife

Behold: www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

backyard birds - chickadee coming in for a landing. #birds #birdphotography #photography #nature #bird #garde #olympus

Meagan and i distracted ourselves by making some bjds - including this 1/12th scale mermaid. her face is about 3/4", her body is about 22" long, 41 pieces sculpted in nomad sculpt, printed on 3d resin printer. #bjd #3dsculpt #nomadsculpt #bjddoll #bjddolls #3dsculpting #3dresin

Golden. a coot running on the water preparing to take off. #birds #birdphotography #photography #stunday #nature #bird

backyard tree - #home for #BlueSkyArtShow #photography #nature #foliage #olympus #abstract #garden

backyard birds - young chickadee #birds #birdphotography #olympus #nature #garden #photography #chickadee #backyard

Backyard bird. Nuthatch #photography #birdphotography #birds #nuthatch #olympus #garden #natureNuthatch

sorting through some shots of backyard birds. we had a family of nuthatches in the yard that year. #photography #birdphotography #olympus #garden #nature #birds #nuthatch

As we recover from the Eaton Fire, my Etsy shop is still my only source of income. These poppy shirts are all screen printed by hand in the closet of our temporary apartment! www.etsy.com/listing/4312...

Thank you on this labor day!!

Ne Zha II has been raking in money in cinemas worldwide. Now the story based in Chinese mythology is out with an English voice cast. n.pr/4mBskag

An idea:

For we come on the ship they call the Mayflower, We come on the ship that sailed the moon We come in the age’s most uncertain hour and sing an American tune Oh, but I’m alright, I’m alright We can’t be forever blessed Still, tomorrow’s gonna be another working day And I’m trying to get some rest ❤️

Still available!

reflections of light through a glass vase. #photography #abstract #olympus

san jose has a couple of rose gardens - these are from the newer one #flowers #flowerphotography #garden #olympus #roses #photography

Chickadee from the yard. pandemic pic. very high iso #birds #photography #garden #olympus #flowerphotography

I remember when this happened.

After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)

One of my favorite scenes for a Friday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxQt...

difficult times. so trying to push myself to photograph a bit. a favorite agave has bloomed a flower stalk about 20 feet tall and now is dying - the leaves turning beautiful colors, the thorns tearing into my hands. #garden #photography #agave #olympus #macrophotography

I found a non-exhausted list of Indigenous radio stations that you can donate to in order to keep them afloat after the defunding If anyone has a better list, please let me know, and I will happily repost it (I couldn't find anything on here)

Everyone, please repost this very important numbers. They could’ve lives.

This is a new Murderbot short story, coming out later this week on Reactor Magazine. It’s about ART and its crew, set before Network Effect, and how ART finally decided to tell them about meeting a rogue SecUnit.

read Assigned Media not Atlantic.

Atlantic 1 Jul 25 -- Atlantic up a major anti-trans piece that illustrates the mainstream disinformation bubble and how it ended up disbelieving the science, titled, "The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine: How the left ended up disbelieving the science."

If you don't know about mosquito dunks, you should! They're floating plant material containing a type of bacterium that only attacks mosquito larvae. Just put one in the water and stop mosquitos from hatching. They're inexpensive and highly effective. Signed, a friendly bluesky entomologist.

BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.

hi, cis folks! the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor. if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵

It’s started raining in the Chiricahuas- the start of the monsoon- which means the bugs should be hopping by this weekend’s BugShot photography workshop!