Why is the Onion writing niche humor for me, specifically

Artist be like if I shift this line 0.05 cm to the left, increase overlay by 2%, and move this character’s head slightly by 3° will make a life changing difference that everyone notices

Douglas Adams predicted ChatGPT in 1987

Happy Halloween! Throwback to some of my favorite #octooctober sketches from a couple years ago

Gone fishing 🐙🐋🐡

My friend said he wanted to make comics but he's bad at drawing so with these crude little examples I tried to explain that you don't need to be a good artist to make good art. Lighting and composition are cheat codes. People don't care about skill, they care about emotion

*eats the rich so capitalism can't consume me*

Words to live and die by. 🐙🐡🐋

I got to tour my local recycling center! The good folks at @republicservices.bsky.social were kind enough to show us around. I left with a renewed respect for the complexity of the work involved. Below are some key takeaways: #environment #recycling

shells! 🐚

Welcome to America where the sick people don’t wear masks so the vulnerable have to

Thanks @octonation.bsky.social for drawing with me! That was a blast. I loved diving into coloring octopuses at the end, that’s a whole area of exploration in itself!

Come draw an octopus with me! Link to join the livestream:

I hope @danharmon.bsky.social is getting royalties for this

We are live in 2.5 hours!

Love this journey through an artist’s octopus drawings

Next up in my Octopolis Tarot deck: The Magician! As in classical antiquity, these reality-shapers are called 'alchemists'. #octopolis #tarot #octopus 🐙🐡

I will be doing a 'How to Draw an Octopus' livestream with @octonation.bsky.social this Thursday at 10AM PDT! The event is free to join, so please drop in if you're so inclined. Link to calendar event below:

It's #MolluscMonday ! So with that, we want to highlight our colorful nautilus pins~ They come in a wide selection of pride colours so there's something for everyone ❤ Find them in our store - link in the bio! #ammonite #lgbtq #fossils

Great to have a batch of new followers overlap with #portfolioday! Welcome all, I'm S.S. Julian: cartoonist, designer and #sciart artist. I make Octopolis, a science-fantasy comic series about the future when humans are extinct and octopuses have inherited the Earth! Portfolio: ssjulian.com

Were you excited about the ‘Carnarvon flapjack octopus’, but disappointed at the lack of cute photos? To rectify this, I have read the article and here offer my artist's interpretation of the newly described species: #sciart #octopus

This is a treasure trove, perhaps THE treasure trove of Bluesky.

Life imitates art?

Making this my goddamn desktop background

Pandemic Season 4 is going to be fucking impossible

When an animal group displays both sequential hermaphroditism and parthenogenesis, you gotta expect they’re gonna be for trans and reproductive rights

Glad to see frogs being reclaimed by the left

out of context ttrpg development

topical

Hey Bay Area! Come join us in celebrating Octoberfes— I mean, OCTOfest, this Sunday at Ocean View Brew Works in Albany! @dannastaaf.bsky.social will be speaking at 4 pm about why octopuses are the best animal, and I will be determining which of Ocean View’s beers pairs best with shellfish!

Was not actively participating in #invertober this year but I do have this old drawing of a scaly-food gastropod that I simply must share

Day 9: Flamboyant cuttlefish (Ascarosepion pfefferi) [ #invertober #invertober2025 ]

Happy #WorldOctopusDay! My newsletter today has a guide for teaching tricks to your pet octopus 🐙🦑 or maybe it's research about octopus arm flexibility in the wild, read it and find out! buttondown.com/dannastaaf/a...

Happy World Octopus Day! To celebrate, here’s the first piece in my series of Octopolis tarot cards: The Fool! #octopolis #worldoctopusday #octopus #tarot

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Completely blown away by this, howling at myself at not having considered the full ramifications of crustacean armor. Top notch stuff

I’m sorry what?!? Incredible news

Spectacular googly-eyed octopus does battle with a lobster in this 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic from Pompeii! 🐙 🦞 Fantastic fishy onlookers too! 👀 From the House of the Geometric Mosaics. Now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

Every autumn the maple fish take on their fall colors.

Rest in peace Jane Goodall

Paging @aptshadow.bsky.social

"Uplifted cephalopods are natural candidates for hard-vac wetwork with millenia of evolution in Terran seas having prepared them amply for navigation in zero-g. The minds and bodies capable of moving with such ease through such an alien environment, however...

TIL: axolotl is pronounced more like ah-SHO-lotl

Pyjama squid

I'll be at LA Comic-con this weekend! Drop by to say hi and be among the first to grab the new Octopolis coloring book! 🐙

"Octocentrism" 🐙🪐 I had a "what if," idea and decided to run with it. What if there was an Octopus at the center of our solar system and he was the sun, manipulating all 8 planets within his 8 arms? #gouache #art #octopus

Working on an octopus coloring book 🐙🐡🐋🦑

PALEOCENE #5 is now on sale. The post-apocalyptic saga continues — find out what happened to Sister after she was snatched from the nest! www.keesey-comics.com/paleocene/is... #comics #comicbooks #paleoart #sciart #paleofiction #paleontology #evolution #comicart #primates #prehistoricanimals

Creatures of the Intertidal Zone 🦀🐚💕