Paul Riddell
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New project: The Annals of St. Remedius Medical College. What Dallas could have been…if we had teacup hodag breeders, exoparasitic pikas, endurance karaoke competitions, and earwax vampires. http://www.stremedius.com
i WAS going to say “‘Wall Street’ and ‘Dawn of the Dead,’” but that was pretty much “Land of the Dead,” wasn’t it?
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 6d agoName 2 film franchises that need a crossover film.
Solar reactor that eats plastic! www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/07/scie... A Trade in Blood is out today!! amzn.to/45F6FH0 LinkedIn has decided to remove their "draft with AI" feature and revert it to... a proofreading function 😆 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen . . .at scale.
A Cambridge University team made the device with simple materials using a paint sprayer—offering a possible dual fix for plastic pollution and dirty hydrogen production
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Lisa No Thank You@ohseafarer.bsky.social · 18h agoDid I miss any good news today?
I have been pleading with my boss for us to get these for years, but "they're not safe" THAT'S WHY WE NEED THEM
alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 19h agoi don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
An assortment of ferns from the Late Cretaceous of North America, as described by Holian et al. 2026. Specimens come from the Denver, Hell Creek and lower Raton Formations. I only included those found in the Cretaceous (and excluded a couple I deemed not worth illustrating.)
The thought occurs that having examples of your work prior to about 2023 is the artistic equivalent of low background steel
About the only place where an original Beatles song remains after nearly 60 years of media updates, because Lennon and McCartney gave perpetual rights for its use: youtu.be/d0NPodmP3TU?...
Prisoner - Fall Out revolt
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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 18h agoName your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.
It’s time for a reboot of the 1980s experimental CGI video “Chromosaurus,” and this may be it.
Dr Matt Dempsey@sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · last wk.For about a year, I've been working as vizdev artist, science guy, & 3D CAD designer on an awesome project - Future Fossils. Directed by Jay Jay Burridge, Future Fossils is manufacturing a pack of life sized Megalosaurus skeletons, stylised as living machines. A thread (1/6) 🧵
Not only does this fill some great unfilled niche, but if I had the money, i’d consider something like this for reptiles. Sulcata tortoises, corn snakes, iguanas…suddenly I really miss having my old dog-tame savannah monitor Afsan snoozing on my lap while reading.
Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · 17h agoNew idea just dropped: a cat library. Like a cat cafe, but with books. Read your library book with a cat in your lap.
A thread of abolsutely fantastic woman and enby pterosaur palaeoartists (you should follow, platform and shower with compliments) 🧵 Like, look at avi🌧️ over here, baller:
avi 🌧️@barghest-land.bsky.social · 2y agoi think it's time to introduce Gentle Wind - my personal project about pterosaurs. there will be quite a few animations done to appreciate those beautiful creatures. here's one of them :) more to come! i'll be talking about it under #gentle_wind tag☁️ #paleoart #sciart
There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.
I think I have to use my cat’s nonplussed stare of judgement as a reaction meme
And so much for the various attempts to revive the tradition of the dinner party. Odds are pretty good this guy would just leave it there after he was done for the hosts to clean up.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 21h agoOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Thanks to technology, you no longer have to wait for your kids to wise up in their thirties and forties and go no-contact with your narcissistic ass. Now you can start at infancy!
Alexandra Petri@petridishes.bsky.social · 21h agoif you make the mistake of talking with your kids now you might be stuck talking with them your WHOLE LIFE www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
I think I've found a new St. Remedius meetup spot: www.coffeemoshq.com
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I think we have a word to describe my library.
Grandiloquent Word of the Day@grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 2d agoRhyparography [RAHY-puh-ROG-ruh-fee] (n.) - The artistic or literary depiction of sordid, vulgar, degrading, or otherwise unworthy subjects, especially those associated with the demimonde.
A palace. A mystery. A riddle. The Uptown, Chicago's largest, most magnificent movie venue, has been boarded up for almost half a century. I got inside, took a lot of pictures, and tell the story, also with a lot of pictures, at the link. arcchicago.blogspot.com/2026/08/aura...
Auras and Materialities: Chicago's Uptown Theatre, where a legendary past confronts an uncertain future.
It would have been better had I been alone, running through the great castle-like lobby like Belle through the Beast's haunted corridors in...
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Julien Kimmig @jkimmig.bsky.social · yesterdayWelcome to the CAMBRIAN FECAL REVOLUTION. We didn't name it the Cambrian fecal explosion for obvious reasons. I'm happy to share this paper on fecal matter and its role in Cambrian ecosystems. So if you want to read a really shitty paper (50 days free access): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYg8cZ3X7...
I assure you that this would never happen with a stage production of “Dawn of the Dead.” We’d just eat each other and LIKE it.
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
I told you all five years ago: the MBAs have spent years setting themselves up to be replaced, and they wouldn’t be smart enough to realize it when it happens.
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 4mo agoSo this is Heart of Steel Pt. II. By now H.A.R.D.A.C. has either set things in motion to, or has already replaced its creator with a humanoid duplicant. Zuck's AI either misunderstood an order or had already gained sentience & has assumed control. He may be alive or he may have died weeks ago.
happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" day to all who celebrate
Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”
For those who missed it last night, new St. Remedius Radio: in Dallas, Mondays aren’t the worst day of the week. stremedius.com/2026/08/03/s...
St. Remedius Radio: “Pray For Monday”
Monday Isn’t The Worst Day of the Week (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Photo by Konrad Pistol on Unsplash In most places in the world, the day of the wee…
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Aperiodic reminder that Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus has a subsurface liquid water ocean that it's blasting into space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)
Fun fact: Several villages in my story use larger fairy coins as actual money.
Kieran@toadally.bsky.social · 2d agoIt’s so tiny! (They’re fairy coins/crinoid fossils)
New St. Remedius Radio, on the blessed relief of Mondays. stremedius.com/2026/08/03/s...
St. Remedius Radio: “Pray For Monday”
Monday Isn’t The Worst Day of the Week (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Photo by Konrad Pistol on Unsplash In most places in the world, the day of the wee…
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