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Claude, they/them, 24. Writer, thembo, palaeontology enthusiast, occasional funnyman.

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · May 28

a quiet night 🍃🦖
in the forests of late triassic argentina, dusk is approaching, and a male herrerasaurus is preparing to embark on a night-time hunt with his mate. at 6 metres long, his size wards off most rivals, though he still carries battle scars
comm by @ansh7163.bsky.social!

a bust of a herrerasaurus based on specimen PVSJ 53 against a forested backdrop. he is moderately feathered, and his colouration and patterning are reminiscent of a melanistic jaguar. his eyes are dark amber, and he has a visible scar on his face

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Panic Restaurant @panicrestaurant.bsky.social · 13h

pete !! @peterokii • Mar 28
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oh poor baby do do do you need the robot to make you pictures?
yeah?
you need the bo-bot to write you essay too? yeah ??? you can't do it?? do so you're a
moron?? so do do you need chat gpt to fuck your wife ??

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 12h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 18h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4h

Tl;Dr: lots of supposed free speech, anti cancel culture, activists are travelling to Oxford to try and cancel George Abaraonye for exercising his free speech.

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DrongoJackBirb_art @drongojackburb.bsky.social · 7h

Koolasuchus cleelandi Illustration!
In this Illustration, I have depicted a scene of koolasuchus making a desperate attempt to flee the dangers of a fellow Koolasuchus. The seasonal flooding has brought new hunting grounds, and so more competition and fights for those hunting ground rights #paleoart

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1h

Following the announcement of YourParty, support for 'Others' in opinion polls increased from 3.7% to 6.0%. It has since dropped back to 3.7%, with the Greens seemingly gaining, reaching a peak of 10.7%.

electionmaps.uk/polling/vi

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Palaeoncryptozoologist Briton @raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social · 1h

NEW #SurvivingEarth POSTER REVEALED IN MIPCOM CANNES!

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 4h

FINALLY a path to financial viability for OpenAI.

Hampus 🎃 @hampus.bsky.social · 4h

The real money is in blackmailing all the creeps who provided a photo ID to generate illegal porn

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Brennan Stokkermans @brennanstokkermans.bsky.social · 48m

“The Bull”

This piece was done over the last year as a commission for the new card game “Zoic”

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hirohero @hirohero00.bsky.social · 44m

ほっ。

#セキセイインコ #birds

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 5d

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 32m

My absolutely fav thing is when right wingers insist we ‘stage’ calls at LBC (we never do. We invite on guests - as announced - but everyone else just calls in on the number we give out) because the people supporting their point of view sound too daft to be real.

Anything but introspect, eh?

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𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖜 𝖑𝖊𝖊 瀬川 @crowlees.bsky.social · 7h

these are the other 2 i got cookin

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SaurianCYH @sauriancyh.bsky.social · 3h

spent my entire day at school drawing god damn dinosaurs

colored sketches of different dinosaurs: Oviraptor, Yi, Nothronychus, Jakapil, Hadrosaurus, Spiclypeus, Baryonyx and Patagotitan.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 3h

Very funny that the government thinks highly qualified people who speak English even better than the locals want to live here to be chased down the street by drunks waving flags 🤣

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 23h

🚨NEW TRIASSIC THEROPOD NAMED🚨
a warm welcome to anteavis crurilongus, a basal theropod that was found in the late triassic ischigualasto formation of argentina! the paper by martinez et al. can be found here
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(art by jorge blanco)

art of the ischigualasto formation depicting several small dinosaurs alongside the large dicynodont ischigualastia

a figure from the paper showing the known elements of anteavis' skeleton

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Mx. Fee - FREE LINK @mxfee.bsky.social · Nov 11

Getting tired of so-called leftists on here using the term "sanewashing" ad nauseam.

Stop linking racism to mental illness.

Stop linking transphobia to mental illness.

Stop linking climate denial to mental illness.

Stop linking anti-vaxxers to mental illness.

You are being ableist as fuck.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 20h

IMAGINE if Brits retiring to Spain or Thailand were told to take a language test.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 22h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Brynnester @brynnester.bsky.social · 9d

Me: *thinking to myself after someone wrongs me* You made an inconsequential and powerless enemy today my friend

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Dr Marie Allitt @marieallitt.bsky.social · 20h

So who’s teaching and testing this, because you’ve repeatedly argued that an English degree is not valuable and you are actively destroying universities??

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 16h

Inkotober, day 14-as ever, his cage door is open, but he doesn't want to come out. What he wants is for me to fill his forage toy on the left there

#parrotSky 🪶

A photo of a Green cheek conure inside his cage, the door wide open. He is stood on a concrete perch, with one foot up on the bars on the cage. On the left is a hanging acrylic forage toy

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 18h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 19h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Lauren Walsh @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 17h

I saw something recently that said a strategy for adhd is you just need to commit to doing 30%. The full scope of 100% of a project is just too overwhelming. So just start with some thumbnails or sketches for now and then commit to another 30% another day or week. Any progress IS progress

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Joanna Kobierska @joannakobierska.bsky.social · 16h

Hello #PortfolioDay , I'm a 3d artist specializing in extinct fauna!

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Tess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 16h

Camarasaurus 🌲🦕

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