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Dawn of the Paul Riddell

@kyloboomhauer.bsky.social

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Former carnivorous plant gallery owner, recovering writer, custodian and chef to Parker the lynx-point Siamese. New project: St. Remedius Medical College. http://www.stremedius.com “…one of Dallas’s best eccentrics.” - Dallas Observer

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · Aug 13

New Perennial introduction, now Substack-free:
1989-2002: Angry young essayist for a range of now-forgotten magazines and weekly newspapers.
2008-2023: Owner/operator of Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery.
2024-Present: Trying this writing thing again. www.stremedius.com

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 1h

No, you don’t (at least, not me), but thank you for sparing us, no matter the motivation.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2h

like a book, because i love you

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 14h

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 2h

The real issue is in finding a suitable litter scoop: www.amnh.org/explore/news...

Fossilized Scat Provides Clues About T. rex's Diet | AMNH

Analysis of coprolites uncovers evidence of T. rex's powerful bite and feeding habits.

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 2h

TELL ME ABOUT IT.

Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 2h

And that’s why I’m moving everything from Substack. I am DONE.

Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 3h

This is disturbingly like my cat Parker’s attempts to chew HIS own tail, only without the weird somersaults he does across the living room floor.

Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 16h

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 3h

The first St. Remedius novel, already in progress: hot metal, ginkgo fruit, dust, and fresh deep-fried tarantula.

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 14h

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

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Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) @antonpnym.bsky.social · 6h

Wheeling this one back out, to the sound of squeaky tumbrel axles: bsky.app/profile/anto...

Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) @antonpnym.bsky.social · Aug 2

I used to joke about going long on guillotine futures in my retirement portfolio; alas, I had to stop because the joke stopped being funny and started sounding like financial advice.

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 3h

So long as he’s piss boy, why not?

Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 3h

For those who missed it: New St. Remedius, for the foodies. stremedius.com/2025/10/14/s...

St. Remedius Medical College: “What’s For Dinner?”

The Least Obvious St. Remedius Research Spinoffs Were The Tastiest (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Photo by Igor Rand on Unsplash When collecting and collating…

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 8h

Tricia Squire, 19, knows that her sensitivity to her environment and unique perspective on the world may seem like autistic traits, but they are actually proof that she represents the next stage of human evolution.

Highly sensitive indigo child just glad she’s nothing like those autistics

A supernaturally gifted woman has expressed relief that her otherworldly powers can never be mistaken for something as mundane as autism, according to sources. Tricia Squire, 19, knows that her…

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 4h

You try to defend celebrity biography publishing as something other than a money laundering and reputation confirmation scheme, and then THIS comes up. Olivia Nuzzi does for journalism what Whitley Strieber did for SETI.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 4h

If you see this, quote post with your favorite Pokemon (wrong answers only):

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 15h

FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 16h

Glad to see the "Chicago rat hole" (rodent-body imprint) of January 2024 Internet fame was studied more, but just to add my $0.02: Many folks missed the tracks leading away from the body imprint, meaning the squirrel (not rat) fell & splatted in wet concrete, but then walked it off. 🧪🐿️🐾

Photo showing the outline of small rodent body as a negative (concave) impression in sidewalk concrete, with left two limbs clearly defined but missing the upper right limb (arm) and only part of the right rear limb (leg); a thin tail is implied by a pointed imprint behind the main body imprint. The photo is labeled with "Direction of rodent movement" and a red arrow pointing to the upper right of the photo, and a red circle is around a set of rodent tracks in the upper right near the body imprint, labeled as "Rodent tracks."

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 18h

New St. Remedius installment out today, with discussions on earwax vampire restaurants and Texas's only bar/deer processing station, among many others...

https://stremedius.com/2025/10/14/st-remedius-medical-college-whats-for-dinner/

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Guy Verkroost @guyverkroost.bsky.social · 7d

1984 #cassowary #birdphotography #birding
#NaturePhotography #nature #bird The last shot in this series

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Cole Haddon @colehaddon.bsky.social · 20h

What could lead me to try to REPEATEDLY try to quit the first TV series I ever created? If you thought things went to a dark place in the last part of “The Horror of ‘Dracula’: The Unbelievable True Story of the 2013 TV Series”, you ain't seen (heard?) nothing yet. Listen to Part 3 now!

The Horror of 'Dracula': The Unbelievable True Story of the 2013 TV Series - Part 3

Podcast Episode · 5AM StoryTalk · 10/14/2025 · 15m

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 16h

Wait until he learns about libraries.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 17h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 19h

it's functionally trolling so you'll contemplate AI image generators doing this when they can't do eight seconds without shitting themselves and are utterly unable to take direction

Scientific American is trying to catch up to Nature for egregious AI pumping under the guise of "no no we're science"

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not just bad morally, it’s also bad art. “Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones” has no point or purpose, it’s just a mad lib

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 16h

St. Remedius fuel.

Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 16h

Now I need a barbecue cookbook featuring Matt Howarth’s Those Annoying Post Bros.

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Apr 15

Betty Crocker Cake Lover's Collection (1986-circa 1988): A line of deluxe cake mixes, featuring pouches of "mix-ins" to add to the batter, to make varieties like carrot cake, dutch apple cake, double chocolate, and chocolate almond. Featured cross-branding with the "Cathy" comic strip/cartoon..ACK!

A massive slab of layered carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, against a blue background. Above the cake is a 3-panel comic, featuring character, Cathy, raving about cake, around an image of shredded carrots and little raisins being poured into an orange-brown cake batter

Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 17h

Next year, I’m planning three fences: the extra sting one full of luffa squash, one with moonflowers, and one with blue passionflowers.

Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 17h

Good News: it’s October in North Texas, but the temperatures are closer to September. (We’re looking at highs around 33C for the rest of the week.)
Bad News: that weather keeps the mosquitoes going, and I just sprayed three with Deep Woods Off.
Good News: with the mosquitoes come MOONFLOWERS!

Moonflower (Ipomoea alba) bloom in front of a wall of green foliage

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 18h

"Pharaoh called in his wise men & sorcerers. The magicians of Egypt did the same thing by their spells: each man threw down his staff & they all turned into snakes."
Exodus 7:11-12

This is the 'Pharaoh's Serpents' demonstration, by YouTuber NileRed.

It uses toxic mercury(II) thiocyanate (Hg(SCN)2)

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