If there’s one thing social media has taught me, and also cons, it’s that it’s better to actually not interact with famous people at all if you can help it, like eight times out of ten. If fame doesn’t make you an asshole, it definitely makes you too busy for whatever my bullshit is

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The fire has melted the dumpster and is spreading to the rest of the alley. The fire trucks have been blocked by Waymos that mistook the flames for traffic lights. The cockroaches are dancing around the pyre, singing. Glowing tentacles rise from the molten trash. Gasoline drips from a window above

I finally watched Animal Farm (1954). I’ve not read the book, would you say it goes harder? Or not as hard. Because that movie goes pretty hard

1. I’m so excited about this book! 2. One time when I was workshopping my pen name, another writer was like, “just think about what kind of things an author with that name would write.” The rebuttal that took me too long to think of was: Whatever the fuck they want

I haven’t been outside yet but I will have to, in about an hour, or my mom will be disappointed. But I don’t like it and I’m not prepared

I want to wish everyone Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays with this quick sketch of two Microraptorine dinosaurs in the snow ❄️. I hope everybody is having a great day and enjoying the presents! 🎁 🎄 🎅 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

It's #ChristmasEve, so I depicted Parasaurolophus under UV light, lit up like a Christmas tree - you can check out the rationale of this #paleoart on my #Patreon if you're already bored of holiday TV. Oh, and Happy Christmas to those who celebrate! #sciart #fossils www.patreon.com/posts/146578...

Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I tidied up this little thumbnail (of approximately 100 × 60 mm). It's all I could manage for now. 🥲

All I want is a game this gorgeous with dinosaurs in it. Not for fighting. Not for hunting. Just dinosaurs, like, around. Possibly for riding

Pervushovisaurus and Baculites friends

I just finished Lessons in Magic and Disaster by @charliejane.bsky.social (I know I’m very slow) and it’s so good, and wholesome, and queer, and exactly right, and full of feelings. Highly recommend.

If making minimum wage is enough to qualify as “extreme financial hardship” for jury service, why in the capitalist hell are we not paying jurors minimum wage

Congrats to my buddy Nanotyrannus for finally being canonized as a distinct species I’ve never doubted u 🫡🫡🫡 #paleoart

It’s very good, you should read it

Worf in dad jeans and a shark shirt directing DS9 is the timeline cleanse you didn’t know you needed 🖖

in which Gwendolyn Hicks makes me cry AGAIN

It’s my 2025 award-eligible stories! Featuring @reckoningmag.bsky.social @factorfourmagazine.com @susankayequinn.bsky.social @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social @morningtransport.bsky.social Links in my latest newsletter: buttondown.com/tkrex/archiv...

I won't talk about myself but I will certainly talk up my team ALL THE DAMN TIME. So here it is: ConCurrent's awards eligibility post.

Spent #FossilFriday tweaking my Anchiornis colour reconstruction. The black+white+red intepretation does entirely match the melanosome data recorded for this species, as there's evidence of phaeomelanin (= rufous hues) on the arm, and lots of grey across the body. #paleoart #sciart #paleontology

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Ok my email is bouncing and I will not be able to fix it until tonight so if you have emailed me recently and not heard back, shoot me a DM

Do not miss this incredible book about magic, intergenerational trauma, and 18th century queer literary gossip

Signed. AI has absolutely no place in investigative journalism, unless it's being used appropriately to analyze data -- not to write stories, not to summarize documents, and absolutely never to replace journalists.

Novels are, as it turns out, very hard

Palette cleanser. Kaiju using her own tail as a little pillow

Ran out of fucks today when a yuppie with a small dog started harassing a homeless person about littering and then got a knife pulled on her and made it my fucking problem as the closest minimum wage employee, anyway don’t fucking confront strangers on the street. De-escalation is your friend

People are really making a TBR for a specific year? Not just letting it accumulate like sedimentary layers until something fossilizes I call bullshit

this will be out in the winter issue in january!!! please look forward to it 🦞

2025 is the year I: - wrapped a 10-episode podcast commitment - started a local reading series - started smoking again - got a 1st Pushcart nomination - started getting pre-orders for my first book - started a parasocial relationship with raccoons - quit smoking again - stopped sucking at latte art

Fantastic palaeoart in a traditional Chinese style, used as a figure in a Royal Society publication, describing a false sabre-tooth feline, Taotienimravus songi. I hope this buckles the trend again "stylised" art in publications and press releases. Art by Yuefeng Song 🐈

Fresh off the digital canvas, my take on the Carboniferous verte... arthro... mollu... er... bilaterally symmetrical animal Tullimonstrum gregarium. Tully monsters are true palaeontological enigmas: 70 years after they were named, we still don't know what they are. #paleoart #sciart #fossil

Mothra vs Godzilla (1964)

August 25 is now officially Triceratops Appreciation Day forever, no take backs, and there better be fcking emoji next year

These are practical ideas. Non violate the laws of thermodynamics. Many of them exist somewhere. We've seen or tasted or heard about or read little snippets.

We can imagine the solar roofs and the bike lanes and the worker cooperative farms that are both at scale and humane. There's neighborhood composting and phones that are ethically made and will last a long time and can be repaired when needed.

It's when many of us can imagine a future we want. Not perfectly, but in pretty good detail. We can see the city buildings covered with green walls, the water running clear, the workers rested. We can imagine heath care and safety nets for everyone.

There's a thing I think is going on that we don't have a word for yet, at least I don't. I think it's one of the less noticed themes of 2025, actually.

Updating my website with a new web host and it is down and waiting for the DNS to DNS is so nerve wracking like should I call customer service? How about now? It’s only been an hour??? How ????

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

Let people be their true selves, as they know and understand them. Let children explore their identities. Celebrate difference and variety and the incredible spectrum of humanity. The only alternative denies an opportunity to celebrate the joy of human flourishing and is ultimately unspeakably cruel

New today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent anthology A CHORUS, DIVERGENT comes Abbie Goldberg's essay "How to Get Away with Chaining Myself to my Friends in Front of Heavy Duty Machinery," about the practical work of resistance and growing a movement. reckoning.press/how-to-get-a...

omg yes 🦖 💕

OMG look at this lineup

I am SO FREAKIN EXCITED about the rainy season lineup for Stir! If you’re in the Bay Area, get January 22 on your calendar right now. 1246 Folsom. 📚 Mukethe Kawinzi 📚 Jason Bayani @jasonbayani.bsky.social 📚 Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social 📚 Sam J. Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social

Hooray! This collection has so many stories that I love. It’s impossible to have only one favorite.

...it's a good guess, though no one will know until our parts are behind us, this is how it feels to be a node in a system shuddering towards re-organization for survival.

If you've always felt like you are going against the grain, swimming upstream, or been told you are too sensitive, too idealistic, too impractical, unreasonably focused on justice or those in harms way..... keep swimming, because

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/