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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 15h

“Oy! When’s your birthday!”
“22nd of February.”
“What year?”
“Every year!”

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Lalo @lalo-atx.bsky.social · 1d

Today is (or was, depending) Columbus Day.

I can’t encourage you enough to go read 1493 by the very thoughtful Charles Mann @charlescmann.bsky.social.

1493 engages frankly with the changes wrought upon the world from connecting Europe to Asia through the Americas.

Fascinating, and educational.

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 4d

The first page of PALEOCENE #6 is complete! This post shows the entire process of making a comic book page. www.patreon.com/posts/140787... #paleoart #comics #sciart

Paleocene #6, Page 1 COMPLETE | Mike Keesey

Get more from Mike Keesey on Patreon

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 4d

The first page of PALEOCENE #6 is complete! This post shows the entire process of making a comic book page. www.patreon.com/posts/140787... #paleoart #comics #sciart

Paleocene #6, Page 1 COMPLETE | Mike Keesey

Get more from Mike Keesey on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 6d

Happy World Octopus Day! To celebrate, here’s the first piece in my series of Octopolis tarot cards: The Fool!
#octopolis #worldoctopusday #octopus #tarot

$A digital illustration within a tarot card frame titled ‘The Fool’. The images is of a mimic octopus bursting through the surface of the ocean into a sunlit day. The octopus is covered in many colored stripes. It holds one arm up through which light refracts. In another arm it holds a bundle of kelp. Beneath the water is a yellow cuttlefish looking very happy.$

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 6d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 5d

Someone doesn’t understand the difference between “baby giant” and “giant baby”.

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 13d

And PLEISTOCENE is a mini-comic about humans and not-quite-humans living 60 millennia ago. www.keesey-comics.com/comics/pleis...

Pleistocene

A mini-comic about an encounter in the Late Pleistocene. He was a brave hero, a great hunter, a natural leader of men—or so he thought of himself. Ridiculed by his people, he undertook a quest across ...

www.keesey-comics.com

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 13d

Keesey Comics has a new website! Now with page previews, trailers, and more. Check it out! www.keesey-comics.com

Keesey Comics

Comics about prehistory and disaster. Sometimes both.

www.keesey-comics.com

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 13d

PARRY ‘N’ CARNEY: FRIENDS FOR LIFE is a webcomic compilation about dino-buddies. (Featuring an introduction by Charles Darwin!) www.keesey-comics.com/comics/parry...

Parry ‘n’ Carney: Friends for Life

A webcomic about dinosaurs and the things dinosaurs do. Parry the Parasaurolophus and Carney the Carnotaurus are friends for life! Right???

www.keesey-comics.com

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 8d

(I guess that’s not a movie.)

Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 8d

He’s kind of the actual main character, though.

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 8d

Arthur from The Tick, although he’s the sidekick.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 10d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 11d

open.substack.com/pub/vinceman...

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 11d

“a poor, ignorant, malicious, crapulous mass” —John Adams

(He was referring to one of Thomas Paine’s pamphlets, but I believe it applies better to Trump.)

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 13d

PALEOCENE is a comic book series about our ancestors who survived the asteroid impact that ended the Age of Dinosaurs: www.keesey-comics.com/comics/paleo...

Paleocene

A comic book series about our early primate ancestors. Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Earth, killing three quarters of all living things. But our tiny ancestors survived. Wi...

www.keesey-comics.com

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 13d

At long last, PhyloPic has smut. www.phylopic.org/images/c2fad...

Mycosarcoma maydis by Arcadia Science (CC0 1.0) - PhyloPic

A free silhouette image of Mycosarcoma maydis (DC.) Bref. by Arcadia Science (License: CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication).

www.phylopic.org

Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 13d

Haha, be warned, it’s more violent than it looks. (In a silly way.)

Flop-o-saurus, ouch.

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 13d

And PLEISTOCENE is a mini-comic about humans and not-quite-humans living 60 millennia ago. www.keesey-comics.com/comics/pleis...

Pleistocene

A mini-comic about an encounter in the Late Pleistocene. He was a brave hero, a great hunter, a natural leader of men—or so he thought of himself. Ridiculed by his people, he undertook a quest across ...

www.keesey-comics.com

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 13d

PARRY ‘N’ CARNEY: FRIENDS FOR LIFE is a webcomic compilation about dino-buddies. (Featuring an introduction by Charles Darwin!) www.keesey-comics.com/comics/parry...

Parry ‘n’ Carney: Friends for Life

A webcomic about dinosaurs and the things dinosaurs do. Parry the Parasaurolophus and Carney the Carnotaurus are friends for life! Right???

www.keesey-comics.com

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 13d

THE FLESH is a horror series about an existential threat to life on Earth. www.keesey-comics.com/comics/the-f...

The Flesh

From a sleepy suburb, a grotesque abomination emerges, its insatiable hunger leaving a trail of carnage and terror, as unlikely survivors fight to endure in a world overrun by unspeakable horror. In a...

www.keesey-comics.com

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 13d

PALEOCENE is a comic book series about our ancestors who survived the asteroid impact that ended the Age of Dinosaurs: www.keesey-comics.com/comics/paleo...

Paleocene

A comic book series about our early primate ancestors. Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Earth, killing three quarters of all living things. But our tiny ancestors survived. Wi...

www.keesey-comics.com

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 13d

Keesey Comics has a new website! Now with page previews, trailers, and more. Check it out! www.keesey-comics.com

Keesey Comics

Comics about prehistory and disaster. Sometimes both.

www.keesey-comics.com

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 14d

Hey, stop trying to make me look.

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