Today's four (not so random) random pieces of palaeoart: Charles Knight's Carboniferous Coal Swamp, E. Boyd Smith's Permian Scene, @prehistorica.bsky.social's Arthropleura, and Matt Celeskey's Cotylorhynchus!

Acrophyseter sp from Chagres Fm, Panama, partial mandibles suggest this animal was even smaller than their peruvian relatives, a pygmy killer sperm whale. I drew one back in 2023 for Benites-Palomino et al. 2023. along other small odontocetes from Chagres. #paleoart

RIP bonnie tyler. lotta folks tonight are gonna learn the extent to which 'total eclipse of the heart' is outside their karaoke range

Sony considering deleting accounts after inactivity of about three years is insane can you imagine if Steam did that? You want people to go all digital but want to hold them at gunpoint if they don’t log in.

It is impressive how consistently the major newspapers platform the last person in a field to grasp the staggeringly obvious.

There's a lot -really a lot- to be written about financial nihilism, but when you a) use AI imagery and b) your first example of 'degeneracy' is somebody doing well for themselves through sex work you lose me.

If you are a #disability charity, you should really listen to your work & welfare advocates when they warn you that something is off with a DWP consultation or plan. If you don't, you can find yourself ignored, or worse, quoted praising its co-production while they rewrite the narrative behind you.

The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

07.07.2026 03:45AM MOVEMENT DETECTED Artfight revenge for @valeofthesoil.bsky.social!

Oh for fuck sake

I don’t think journalism was meant to become a machine for refining and selling people’s grievances back to them

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Glover having some fuss ✨️🐦 #pigeonsky

More footage of just-hatched grebe babies from the Koll Wetlands. So cute.

men will really go on the public internet and show more sympathy for a guy who got exposed for being a rapist and domestic abuser than for literally any of his victims

Being neurodivergent is avoiding the bad spoon in the cutlery drawer until there's no other option.

The “Chicken Yard” track site, lower Cretaceous of Germany, in an older oil painting. This piece won’t be in the upcoming PALAEONAVIX SHOP, but awaiting a new home with some friends of ours. #wealdengroup #cretaceous #Dinosaurs #theropod #oilpainting #paleontology #art #research #chickenyard

You want to know what Platner actually was? He was someone for male leftists to uphold as a symbol of moving past women's concerns in politics, representing a desire to leave behind even the pretense of caring about misogyny, and they're fucking apoplectic it blew up in their worthless faces.

They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...

The Bannerthane spits flaming, boiling acid at dragonhide to break through the iron scales and access the meat within. Imagine what it can do to the poor, traveling merchant!

Me if you even care

Cognitive dissonance BBC printing hype about the Jackdaw gas field alongside the consequences of the fossil fuel industry’s actions Really, the fossil fuel industry will do anything to prolong their calamitous activities

They’re not gonna get the “kids” with this shit, either. My young adult GenZ sons clock every instance of this and make fun of it. Also, they hate the aesthetic, which is so immediately recognizable

The federal government told the Klamath Tribes they weren't a "salmon tribe" because dams wiped out their fish 100+ years ago. So the Yurok Tribe applied for the $5.9M grant & passed the funds through. This is Indigenous solidarity in action. www.hcn.org/articles/the...

This is what Kamloops looks like right now while the liberals are building more pipelines and data centers

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

One of the things about modern transmisogyny is that it gave right-wing regimes an avenue through which they institutionally recuperate feminism while actively eroding the rights of women and queer people, openly trialing new anti-gay marriage arguments and reifying womanhood as reproductive.

#SurvivingEarth An Ichthyornis simply KNOWS how to be photogenic.

I’ve just seen the video of Rupert Lowe and Joe Rogan dismissively describing Dunblane as ‘one murder’ and expressing incredulity that this was enough to bring in tighter gun control laws and this should have garnered a lot more coverage and a lot more outrage.

what do you mean "whether". he is literally doing that and you just said he is doing it

Why is everything so shit? I can't buy software outright any more, I have to subscribe every year for the same software with hardly any differences from the same software I used when I was 22. I can't use said software without it asking me to use the mobile app or the AI I don't want or need, or

this is rich coming from someone who grabbed me and tried to make out with me at a party in college when he was piss drunk

Proof Mother Nature has a sense of whimsy.

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

Few sexual assaults get reported, investigated, charged, prosecuted, or result in any legal penalty. This is because every formal system required for “justice” to be served treats women as unequal or like property. Men in the public eye, & their stans, keep using this dynamic to their advantage.

I was lucky enough to be asked to do the concept designs pf both mosasauroid lizards from last week’s episode of Surviving Earth: Tylosaurus and Portunatasaurus #SurvivingEarth #paloeart #sciart

Math teacher Jason Agan was deemed “unfit to teach.” But the finding was never made public. This is how California allowed him — and dozens of other educators found to have committed sexual harassment or misconduct — to keep their credentials. (Published May w/ @kqednews.kqed.org)

So they are federal charging people for pulling a piece of already peeling paint off? That’s absolutely nuts. These cases are going to be laughed out of court. But the chilling effect is very real.

We Didn’t Just Fail to Stop Ebola. We Caused It. https://therevelator.org/ebola/

🧵#Timms Review: "For some people, the current design and delivery of PIP itself can create barriers to participation, including in work, physical activity and community life." I.e the process, not the award can create barriers. But in the media release, PIP itself is framed as the barrier. Subtle?

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 DR UK issues our statement on the Timms Review interim report, which was published today. "With the hostile political backdrop, Disabled people are fully justified in being concerned about the scope of the Review recommendations" In full👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uk-s...

250 million years ago there was a massive release of greenhouse gases and ok sure it led to the extinction of most life on earth but after that we got dinosaurs

is discord down??

Houses near data centres could drop in value by $35,000, with four in five people refusing to buy nearby without a price discount, according to new data www.realestate.com.au/news/data-ce...

If men think they don't know any women who've been sexually assaulted, then they don't know any women who trust them enough to tell them.

UK waters hit with extreme heatwave as global sea temperatures reach record levels. Experts warn that some marine species are at risk of ‘mass mortality events’ in ever-warming oceans. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“The life of the nation is only secure when the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.” ~Frederick Douglass, 1885. Image: James Presley Ball/Cincinnati Museum Center, via Getty Images.

For many queer teens, the internet isn’t just entertainment, it’s a lifeline. Canada’s Bill S-209 could make online resources and social spaces harder to access by treating broad swaths of LGBTQ+ content as adult material. Writer Lucy Uprichard explores: https://ow.ly/nTYZ50ZlSQT

“Say what you want about ChatGPT, but most of the time it’s just really effective.” So is poisoning your neighbor’s dog for barking too much, what’s your damn point