Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Portrait. Given that it's Valentine's Day, can I stretch it to this one? A pair of Mute swans displaying to each other. #birds #photography

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Here is your look onto the possible romantic life of a pair of Polacanthus. #dinosaurs #paleoart #sciart #happyvalentinesday

*something, something "Valentines!" art post*

Happy birthday to one of the greatest, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, he didn't know his actual birthday, but chose to celebrate it on this day. Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.

happy valentines day to the lovers and the biters 💗

Always bombing somewhere 🫩

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

It's still a shock to find a new PFAS forever chemical hotspot, even when it's inevitable. A bit of digging around paper mills, which often use PFAS, revealed the banned carcinogen PFOS at levels as high as 3,000ng/l in groundwater in south Cumbria www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’m tired of the ignorance of voters saying “idk what the big deal is about requiring id to vote”🤦🏽‍♀️ ppl take a civics class & understand the 24th Amendment makes poll taxes ILLEGAL! Ah yes that word illegal. You can’t make ppl PAY for a document to vote… it violates the constitution, so no SAVE Act!

I thought I was middle class until I went to university. Then I overheard a middle class girl tell her friend “I don’t know why anyone would choose to be poor, if I were poor I’d just invest £10,000 of my savings into stocks and reinvest the dividends until I had a sustainable passive income”

Happy valentine's day #paleoart #ypupiara #dinosaur

Happy #FossilFriday! MOR Assistant Lab Manager Cassi Knight comes face to face with #BigAl (#MOR693). Typically, the skull of this #Jurassic carnivore is on display in MOR’s Hall of Giants, but today it’s undergoing regular conservation in the Paleo Department.

This selective solidarity always reveals just how superficial many of these people’s support for Palestine actually is. For many Western anti-imperialists, the Palestinian cause has become a “progressive” mask to conceal deeply held pro-authoritarian sympathies. (1)

The idea of writing weirdly to differentiate ourselves from AI, like fremen walking arhythmically to evade Shai-Hulud is certainly intriguing and perhaps an amusing basis for an OuLiPo exercise, but imagine having to do that all the time. If I were to write again all I'd want to do was to find the

For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years. The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.

happy valentine's day! this is agapornis longipes, an extinct species of lovebird from the early pleistocene kromdraii fossil site in south africa 🦜 as with living species of agapornis, it can be expected that these lovebirds mated for life (art by martina cadin)

Happy Valentines everyone! 💖💕 Look after yourselves, get some treats and I hope you all have a lovely day! [ #art #birds #illustration #ValentinesDay ]

Dr Oz thinks people should “prove they matter” get healthcare. He thinks the GDP should be improved by forcing people to enter the workforce younger age & stay past retirement. He sees people as commodities. Pawns to enrich the wealthy. Of course he’s in the Epstein files

‪Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

After watching the way the Epstein victims and survivors have been treated, no one should ever again ask the question: why didn't she report?

Once more: Columbia could have fought; it chose not.

Posting some more paleo oldies. These ones have more of a plant focus.

I also did this sequence, under the same theme, as if a camera trap had recorded the different species to visit a lake in Central Brazil during the Pleistocene. #paleoart #SciArt #artbyjulio

Horror movie idea: A woman with a thing for fixer-upper guys starts dating a werewolf. Deciding her loser boyfriend is more attractive as a monster, she gets a tattoo of a full moon, allowing her to trigger his transformation whenever she likes. Call it "But I Can Change Him."

i really hope the rumour about daemon blackfyre's casting isn't true

14/02/2026 Valdosaurus { #paleoart, #Sciart }

Good morning! 🪶

Happy valentine❤️‍🩹(ON EVERYONE SOUL IM GETTING A VALENTINE THIS YEAR) #art #fyp #deinotherium

It gets worse. Discord's new age verification/personal data harvesting system is via Persona, a company co-funded by Peter Thiel of Palantir. Surely nothing could go wrong with that... www.pcgamer.com/software/pla...

women carry the emotional labor of calling out harm and pushing for structural change… and then are penalized for the tone of their resistance rather than the substance of their claims. Meanwhile, those who benefit from the system can afford silence. Silence is safer when the structure protects you

Yes. And when we speak up, we’re dismissed as hysterical, emotional, overreactive, “too political,” or “unprofessional.” The very act of demanding accountability becomes reframed as instability.

We are worse tbh

Happy Valentine’s Day 💕 🪶

The Land Of The Sunken Moon

A short selection of books that have similar eeriness to The Haunting Of Hill House. share.google/mfcic01oS8ic... #horrorbooks #ghoststories #horrorsky

Zoomies with our emus going crazy on Valentine’s

最短距離ギリのジョビヲ #土アップ #ジョウビタキ #車から降りないと逃げないのは何故

With more people getting the opportunity to play Metal Gear Solid 4, it means more people will understand one of my favorite posts online

Random troodontid sketch

Holotype Geminiraptor suarexzarum maxilla, not a Troodon but another basal therizinosaur a bit younger than Falcarius utahensis and Martharaptor. MicroCT found teeth ! Suarez Site discovery day 2002. #FossilFriday Mounted skeleton coming someday at @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social

Keir Starmer has got a nerve lecturing other parties on security when his government appears to have no qualms about making every aspect of the UK’s essential infrastructure more & more reliant on Trump-supporting tech firms that have clearly shown themselves hostile to liberal democracy.

the greens are basically a centre-left party @lucympowell.bsky.social and keir starmer describing them as *extreme* left says more about how far the labour party has strayed from their core values than it says about the greens it really doesn't say anything about the greens lab are embarrassing

We always knew this would be a long and hard fight. We are going nowhere. We will fight until the battle is won: https://goodlaw.social/m3oe

they're here! meet perry the psittacosaurus and hazel the hatzegopteryx, and thank you to @therbis.bsky.social and @savage-mojo.bsky.social for these gorgeous plushies 😍

I know western nations want us to be very scared of Russia and China, but personally I am terrified of America

Artists, quote with something silly!

Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵) Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM. Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.

shout-out to kris straub for no reason

If you are also dealing with a sense of betrayal, I think this is a good listen. Scientific societies (plural) have failed us because they are, in the end, still behaving like boys' clubs. Also TW about the incident in SVP24 Minneapolis. pca.st/episode/d8b6...

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)