Gargoyles, grotesques, and corbels reading books are my favorites.

For those who missed it last night, St. Remedius Radio is back on the air: stremedius.com/2025/11/21/s...

These days, kids have to learn about lanthanides and actinides on the street. This wasn't always true.

Time for Cat.

Shot + chaser

For @quantamagazine.bsky.social, I wrote about an incredible arctic expedition, the deep blackness under the polar ice, and the mind-bending limits of photosynthesis among the organisms that live there

Hear ye, hear ye! Come get your biblically accurate crustacean from the deep, named after the Greek goddess of victory. #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/05/dend...

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

For those unfamiliar with Allen and Argyle, let’s just say both towns are places where white supremacist fantasies go to die.

you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong

Happy to share our new paper is now published! 🎉 We developed a non-invasive method to model animal hearing using 3D photogrammetry and showed it on bats 🦇 and a pig. It even allowed us to capture the 3D mesh of an alive and awake bat and model its hearing! 🔉 Article: doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🧪

The onslaught of piped in Xmas music is workers rights issue. It was THE thing I complained to management about when I worked @ B&N.

As one of those jobhunters, My last few jobs has me in a mood where I don't care if I find one or not. Need insurance for cancer treatments, but not at the expense of constant abuse and willful ignorance.

New St. Remedius Radio, of particular import to frustrated jobhunters these days: stremedius.com/2025/11/21/s...

And the only comment from Divine about AI content that we really need (and yes, from THE Divine, so be warned in advance): youtu.be/a0OHfQBnTyQ?...

It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation: Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.

"Do you have a few minutes to discuss our lord and savior Horus?" 🐦

Oh no everything digital from Retro Supply Co is 50% off this weekend oh NO I'm gonna get so many FONTS. www.retrosupply.co

Stunning resin models at reasonable prices. If you can’t get a nineteenth century glass #Blaschka one www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

#FossilFriday The walking sea cow Pezosiren at the National Museum of Natural History

Another reminder: tomorrow is Dallas’s most sacred holiday. Who’s up for some time traveler impersonator shenanigans? stremedius.com/2025/11/06/p...

“waaah my art isn’t good enough to fully portray my GREAT IDEAS, I need to use AI” listen i spend years putting my terrible art online and having strangers tell me it was terrible and off-putting and then i did it long enough that it got less terrible so sorry if I have 0 sympathy for your plight

Notice how adding water is bad. Follow the instructions that come with your turkey fryer. Use your turkey fryer away from your home. Have a working fire extinguisher.

If you don’t want to read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein together by candlelight whilst sharing dark chocolate and a vintage bottle of Château Margaux in an abandoned castle on the Irish coast during a full moon, then please don’t tell me you’re “down for a good time.”

Y way of @simonowens.skystack.xyz , the new growth model in publishing: licensing deals with AI scraper bots. digiday.com/media/inside...

hey does anybody want to mind some rich moron's five neglected kids while getting malnutrition in a shack full of dangerous snakes lmk. no pay

What if I told you dinosaurs rose to power because Earth entered a rainstorm that lasted nearly TWO million years? My new video breaks down the event that changed everything 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/Z5IbhQX

really wish that Fridays on Bluesky were "everyone post your weirdest finds / shower thoughts of the week" I mean, we could just do it

THIS IS HOW YOU DO ALT-TEXT OMG 😂

In today's word wrangler, hunt for a few of the many animals in Texas on the endangered species list. https://www.texasmonthly.com/games/word-wrangler-november-21-2025/

The Australian pitcher plant (Cephalotus follicularis) not only is not related to other carnivorous plants, but its closest living relations include roses and apples…and the last common ancestor lived over 90 million years ago.

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky:

The 10-Kilo Lint-Covered Breast Implant, mere seconds after he literally cannonballed my ribcage:

In winter, a boule is preferred to a standard loaf.

I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide titled COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, that’s all about finding out what works for specific sensory needs and how to customize food for them. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience necessary.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1836: Don't write the book you think 'people will buy'. No one knows for sure what people will buy, incuding the people who sell books. Instead, write the book you need to write. The book that makes a difference.

The Era Of Smiles Begins

Premium: This is Vol 2 of the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, an 18k word guide to the major public/private players in AI, with bits on why ads won't save OpenAI, why vibe coding is a scam, and how we must hold every booster accountable once the bubble bursts. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...

The crowdfunding will be happening HERE, come January 2026: www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

I passed on a lot of comics since I quit pro writing, but nothing will get me to let go of my four issues of “Tyrant,” and now you’ll know why. Get your copy ASAP, because this is, no understatement, a big deal.

Saturday is JFK Day in Dallas. Who’s up for some time traveler shenanigans at noon? stremedius.com/2025/11/06/p...

A movie nerd friend reminded of odd novelizations, so here are a few from my collection. Unfortunately, my Dawn of the Dead (the original!) novel is in storage, but I think this is a pretty nice group. REPTILICUS in notable because the author added so much smut he was almost sued by the filmmakers.

New, on Heat Death! Thrilled to run this absolute banger from @goldwagnathan.bsky.social, on the bizarre way that concepts from 20th century Golden Age sci-fi have lingered in the scientific imagination, despite never coming within spitting distance of becoming — what's the word? — real

Periodic PSA, the only currently licensed Murderbot merch is at Worldbuilders Market, where it's sold as part of a charity fundraiser. You may want to sign up for their new product notices because they should have a new Murderbot thing coming up: worldbuildersmarket.com/collections/...

*asking about a 4000 year gap on a resume* now it says here you were in “The Bog”?

There can never be too many patron saints of Hating ChatGPT. If Pope Leo declares St. Remedius to be the first, I’d rejoin the Church. (Your moment of horror: 40 years ago, I almost joined the priesthood, so this offer is saying something.)

Writing *fiction* with AI-based summation tools in mind is just fucking stupid though, and whoever gave that advice is a joyless hack extruding shitty content through a meat tube. AI content is to novels as bottom shelf hot dogs are to Mangalitsa sausage.

Hat tip to @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social for introducing me to this: we’ve now reached beyond writing for the SEO and now it’s about pumping out extruded writing-like product to make the chatbots’ jobs easier. Now my life goal is to write St. Remedius stories specifically to poison the LLMs forever.

Come and do a PhD on 'Genome duplication, extinction and diversification in the evolution of flowering plants' with myself @jameswclark.bsky.social and Ilia Leitch @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social and join the @wgdip.bsky.social studying rediploidisation. Apply: tinyurl.com/26pmfvvc by Jan 8

Unique visions of Texas: last night, we got torrential rains after months of dryness. There’s something about walking on the yard where you can feel the first couple of centimeters of ground squish slightly…and feel the brick-hard clay underneath.