Claude ✡️🦖🦕
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Claude, they/them, 25. Writer, thembo, palaeontology enthusiast, occasional funnyman. In no way affiliated with Anthropic's LLM of the same name. AI bros begone! Profile pic by @wargonopsid
Today on @volts.wtf: @climatecabineteducation.org's own Saleem Chapman talks with Dave Roberts about the paper Dave calls: "The first time I’ve seen a comprehensive strategy [for protecting consumers from the impacts of data centers] laid out in one place." www.volts.wtf/p/what-shoul...
What should state policymakers do about data centers?
A conversation with Saleem Chapman of Climate Cabinet.
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It’s tiring hearing over & over that clinicians, scientists, & public health professionals MUST spend time with MAHA & MUST find common cause & learn from them To quote Mark Crislip, MD: “If you mix cow pie with apple pie, it does not make the cow pie taste better; it makes the apple pie worse”
Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 8h agoTaking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:
A new investigation reveals that at least 50 police officers from all over the U.S. have been caught abusing their access to Flock's automatic license plate reader database, including to stalk women. This is just one of the many reasons to get these creepy cameras off our streets.
ACLU of Wisconsin@acluofwi.bsky.social · yesterdayWisconsin is making national news because so many police officers have been charged or convicted with using the Flock surveillance network to stalk people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/02/how-police-officers-used-vast-network-cameras-spy-their-exes/
“fetuses 7 to 11 may have been scattered by gas explosion after death.” My latest for my premium Buttondown subscribers, all about an early "fish lizard" that was very, very gravid. 🧪 Sign up and read on Buttondown! buttondown.com/restingdinof...
Early Ichthyosaurs Had Big Litters
An exceptional ichthyosaur skeletons preserves a massive litter - and clues about ichthyosaur evolution.
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Let’s work together to make a better future where AI is universally understood to mean Allosaurus Images.
After a few exhausting days of vet visits, leg checks, and bandage changes, we are spending some time enjoying the sun and a bath in between PT sessions and lots of rest. In a week or so we'll have a better idea how his bones are healing. 🪶 #wildliferehab
E.A. Meilak, N.J. Gostling, C. Palmer, P. Provini & M.O. Heller (2026) Hop, hop and away: On the take-off of Archaeopteryx using a multiple leaping mechanism Developmental Biology (advance online publication) doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.yd... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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THIS IS WHY!!!! WE CALL!!! GREAT JOB EVERYONE 🩷 KOSA did pass the house but remember the senate has a conflicting version. Keep calling, it matters!
Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 9h agoSCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!
And to think some people say you can't discern behavior from fossils theonion.com/new-evidence...
New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras
BOZEMAN, MT—Upending long-held beliefs about how the prehistoric reptiles commemorated a juvenile female’s transition into adulthood, new evidence published Thursday by researchers at Montana State Un...
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Mourasuchus, an incredible animal, literal whale-caiman, lots of cool postcrania undescribed, often oversized based in skull-length regressions it has prominent telescoped eyes, often-ignored semicircular squamosal horns over the ears, and holes on the premaxilla where the dentary teeth poked thru
The sea mouse is not a mouse. It's a chunky marine worm covered in felt-like hair that diffracts light into shifting reds, blues, and golds, some of the best natural photonics we know of. A brown lump on the seafloor that turns into a rainbow when the light hits right. #WormWednesday #marinelife
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
not a moment too soon, here's the paper by citron et al. 🦤 academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
The sensory world of the Dodo and Solitaire revealed by endocast and skull anatomy
Abstract. The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) and its close relative, the Rodriguez Solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria), are two of the most recognized symbols of hum
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Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus)@mmarcosaurus.bsky.social · 8h ago
Meet the Sea Muppets! Don't let the common name fool you. These are, in fact, a new genus of syngnathid fish that have independently evolved morphology strikingly similar to that of their famous Seahorse cousins.🐟🧪 journaloflostspecies.org/index.php/jl...
Australyichthys gen. nov. (Teleostei, Syngnathidae), a lost mesophotic lineage from southern Australia, with description of A. aegis sp. nov. and reclassification of Hippocampus minotaur and H. parado...
Australyichthys gen. nov. is described as a new genus of Syngnathidae (seahorses, pipefishes, seadragons, pipehorses and pygmy pipehorses) endemic to temperate mesophotic habitats of southern Australi...
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A too close encounter with what the locals call... "The Devil from the Mountains" 🏔😈 *Creature featured: Anteosaurus 🥩🍖 #anteosaurus #permian #paleoart #prehistoric #paleontology
A wealth of fossil seeds found in New Mexico rewrites what we thought we knew about how dinosaurs gardened ancient forests. To get pieces like this first, sign up for my newsletter on Buttondown. buttondown.com/restingdinof...
Flowers For Dinosaurs — Riley Black
A wealth of fossil seeds reveal a burst of flowering plant evolution before the big asteroid strike that ended the Age of Dinosaurs.
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media literacy is all about finding a balance between critical thinking and surface level enjoyment. too much surface level enjoyment and u become a chud excusing horrible things. too much critical thinking and ull be grasping at straws and will never enjoy any piece of art for the rest of ur life
A Cretaceous Cold Case: The mysterious affair at Mullurina Mayu (Bolivia) blog.pensoft.net/2026/08/05/a...
A Cretaceous Cold Case: The mysterious affair at Mullurina Mayu (Bolivia) | Blog
This study reports a large bowl-shaped depression from Late Cretaceous fluvial deposits in Bolivia, associated with sauropod trackways.
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I was alive and well in 2007 while this man danced on Brittany Spears’ proverbial grave. Ive seen him tear down many a woman. I pray someone shows him more mercy than he has spent his entire career depriving others of.
Life & Style Weekly @lifeandstyleweekly.bsky.social · 11h agoPerez Hilton has been transported to a Florida hospital after a disturbing livestream in which he appeared to commit self-harm, per multiple reports.
A massive Delapparentia is left behind after getting stuck in the mud. It’s not a natural trap; he’s simply very old, and his weakness and difficulty moving do the rest on a surface that the herd has crossed without any trouble—a herd that will leave him behind without a moment’s hesitation
this so funny to me, like hey non-smokers, how would you fare if cigarettes were suddenly banned?? HMMM??? I am very intelligent!
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterdayGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
No one should face exclusion or discrimination because of who they are. The Green Party stands in solidarity with the trans community and will keep fighting for equality that includes everyone.
Why would you rush to release an offender kept off the streets for the victim's safety, when you *know* they're an active threat to the victim, you know you are giving them permission to reoffend, and you even know whom they'll target? So much for tackling #VAWG? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What kind of society fast-tracks early release for domestic abusers? This is gambling with women’s lives | Joan Smith
Andy Burnham inherited the crisis in our prison system – but the solution cannot be to further endanger the women and children who have survived violence, says writer and campaigner for women’s rights...
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Day 5: Moon! The Moon Bill is a large drake that uses it's bright strange shaped beak to sift it's food from local ponds and streams as well as attract mates! #smaugust #smaugust2026 #smaugustcircle #dragon #creaturedesign
