David O
@anatotitan.bsky.social
Printmaker, designer. Naturey art and gifts at blueasterstudio.com | Paleoartish stuff at chasmosaurs.com/orogenic | He/Him
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David O
@anatotitan.bsky.social
· May 30
Here's a reintroduction thread because it feels like the right time for one. Here's me, my spousal unit Jennie, and the chef statue at Gelsosomo's pizza in Chesterton, IN. We are NOT a throuple - don't believe every cockamamie rumor you read.
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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
September 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Keesey Comics has a new website! Now with page previews, trailers, and more. Check it out! www.keesey-comics.com
An oldie from the vault for #ArtAdventCalendar. Falcarius in display mode, for sex reasons. 2017, vector illustration. 🐡🎨
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
An oldie from the vault for #ArtAdventCalendar. Falcarius in display mode, for sex reasons. 2017, vector illustration. 🐡🎨
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This picture has been making the rounds again, and is being misidentified again.
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
December 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This picture has been making the rounds again, and is being misidentified again.
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
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Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS.
Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
I feel the clients now using GenAI to do stuff and going "good enough" when they used to nitpick at every last detail is due to them finding out all those nit picky changes take time and work they cant be bothered to put in.
December 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS.
Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
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My parents were free-wheeling Boomers convinced things were only ever going to get better, financially. They had good reason, then. They could afford a house, car, and weekly nights out on two full time assistant manager jobs at a fast food chain. But they also got caught up in emulating wealth trap
December 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
My parents were free-wheeling Boomers convinced things were only ever going to get better, financially. They had good reason, then. They could afford a house, car, and weekly nights out on two full time assistant manager jobs at a fast food chain. But they also got caught up in emulating wealth trap
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Things that make me stop eating my meal: grievous injury of a loved one, bad earthquake, toxic chemical cloud closing in
Things that make my dog stop eating a meal: one of the humans moved a little bit, a leaf blew off a tree three states away, a butterfly exists
Things that make my dog stop eating a meal: one of the humans moved a little bit, a leaf blew off a tree three states away, a butterfly exists
December 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Things that make me stop eating my meal: grievous injury of a loved one, bad earthquake, toxic chemical cloud closing in
Things that make my dog stop eating a meal: one of the humans moved a little bit, a leaf blew off a tree three states away, a butterfly exists
Things that make my dog stop eating a meal: one of the humans moved a little bit, a leaf blew off a tree three states away, a butterfly exists
During the YMO hiatus in the 80's, Harry Hosono had a project called F.O.E. and it's funky as hell
music.apple.com/us/album/lun...
music.apple.com/us/album/lun...
Lunar Gloom by F.O.E on Apple Music
Song · 1986 · Duration 5:58
music.apple.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
During the YMO hiatus in the 80's, Harry Hosono had a project called F.O.E. and it's funky as hell
music.apple.com/us/album/lun...
music.apple.com/us/album/lun...
My head canon is that Liz Fraser is singing about a singing sawbones in Fotzepolitic
December 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
My head canon is that Liz Fraser is singing about a singing sawbones in Fotzepolitic
I keep a daily music listening diary on a blogger, but I want to create stats so I can do my own wrap-up more accurate than what Apple music creates (since it is maybe 50% of my listening)
I'm going to switch to a spreadsheet for 2026 but if you know of another way to do it let me know!
I'm going to switch to a spreadsheet for 2026 but if you know of another way to do it let me know!
December 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I keep a daily music listening diary on a blogger, but I want to create stats so I can do my own wrap-up more accurate than what Apple music creates (since it is maybe 50% of my listening)
I'm going to switch to a spreadsheet for 2026 but if you know of another way to do it let me know!
I'm going to switch to a spreadsheet for 2026 but if you know of another way to do it let me know!
Today for #ArtAdventCalendar here is my Ceraurus milleranus trilobite illustration. 🐡🎨
December 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Today for #ArtAdventCalendar here is my Ceraurus milleranus trilobite illustration. 🐡🎨
I'd love to hear an album length billy woods and El-P collab
billywoods.bandcamp.com/track/corint...
billywoods.bandcamp.com/track/corint...
Corinthians featuring Despot, by billy woods
from the album GOLLIWOG
billywoods.bandcamp.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I'd love to hear an album length billy woods and El-P collab
billywoods.bandcamp.com/track/corint...
billywoods.bandcamp.com/track/corint...
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A tick... on an ELECTRIC EEL???
That's like finding a cymothoid isopod on an elephant
#Invertebrate 🧪
entomologytoday.org/2025/12/03/t...
That's like finding a cymothoid isopod on an elephant
#Invertebrate 🧪
entomologytoday.org/2025/12/03/t...
Ticks on an Eel: Museum Specimen is a First of its Kind
Two ticks found on an 1873 electric eel specimen mark the first recorded case of ticks parasitizing a fish—but only documented just this year.
entomologytoday.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A tick... on an ELECTRIC EEL???
That's like finding a cymothoid isopod on an elephant
#Invertebrate 🧪
entomologytoday.org/2025/12/03/t...
That's like finding a cymothoid isopod on an elephant
#Invertebrate 🧪
entomologytoday.org/2025/12/03/t...
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New large peacock sun catcher! It's slightly shorter than it's blue sibling, but no less spectacular. This will be available @ the Jingle & Mingle Mat-Su Market, 300 Kalli Cir., Wasilla, AK on Dec 13th from 10:30am-4:30pm!
$250/ea or $400 for the set. #BSNM
Also avail. to ship anywhere in the US!
$250/ea or $400 for the set. #BSNM
Also avail. to ship anywhere in the US!
December 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
New large peacock sun catcher! It's slightly shorter than it's blue sibling, but no less spectacular. This will be available @ the Jingle & Mingle Mat-Su Market, 300 Kalli Cir., Wasilla, AK on Dec 13th from 10:30am-4:30pm!
$250/ea or $400 for the set. #BSNM
Also avail. to ship anywhere in the US!
$250/ea or $400 for the set. #BSNM
Also avail. to ship anywhere in the US!
#BandcampFriday thread!
Finally picked up Musik von Harmonia...
harmoniamusic.bandcamp.com/album/musik-...
Finally picked up Musik von Harmonia...
harmoniamusic.bandcamp.com/album/musik-...
Musik von Harmonia, by Harmonia
8 track album
harmoniamusic.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
#BandcampFriday thread!
Finally picked up Musik von Harmonia...
harmoniamusic.bandcamp.com/album/musik-...
Finally picked up Musik von Harmonia...
harmoniamusic.bandcamp.com/album/musik-...
Sexy Krampus
In parts of Europe naughty children get visited by Krampus.
Apparently sometimes Fraulein Krampus visits naughty chaps to teach them a lesson.
That'll teach 'em.
Apparently sometimes Fraulein Krampus visits naughty chaps to teach them a lesson.
That'll teach 'em.
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Sexy Krampus
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A #PudgyHorse tribute to the Lascaux cave paintings, painted with the Strata Trio watercolours made by @thoughtsupnorth.bsky.social from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.
Might as well post this one as it's been stolen and sold on Australian Temu. 🙃
#ArtAdventCalendar
Might as well post this one as it's been stolen and sold on Australian Temu. 🙃
#ArtAdventCalendar
December 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
A #PudgyHorse tribute to the Lascaux cave paintings, painted with the Strata Trio watercolours made by @thoughtsupnorth.bsky.social from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.
Might as well post this one as it's been stolen and sold on Australian Temu. 🙃
#ArtAdventCalendar
Might as well post this one as it's been stolen and sold on Australian Temu. 🙃
#ArtAdventCalendar
#ArtAdventCalendar day 4 is from a few years back, one of my dinosaur portraits inspired by 80's hair styling posters. Lambeosaurus. 🐡🎨
December 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar day 4 is from a few years back, one of my dinosaur portraits inspired by 80's hair styling posters. Lambeosaurus. 🐡🎨
I was waiting for an open self-checkout at Kroger. There were only three w/ green lights above, so I was waiting. Someone tapped me on the shoulder to tell me registers were open... That's how I figured out that the red and green lights are just FESTIVE and don't mean CLOSED and OPEN
December 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I was waiting for an open self-checkout at Kroger. There were only three w/ green lights above, so I was waiting. Someone tapped me on the shoulder to tell me registers were open... That's how I figured out that the red and green lights are just FESTIVE and don't mean CLOSED and OPEN
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A while back back, I asked Bluesky for random questions about the world. I'm finally sharing some answers to three of them!
Why is cinnamon "hot"?
Why is mint "cold"?
Why does soda fizz more when you add ice? 🧪
news.ncsu.edu/2025/12/why-...
Why is cinnamon "hot"?
Why is mint "cold"?
Why does soda fizz more when you add ice? 🧪
news.ncsu.edu/2025/12/why-...
Why Does Cinnamon Taste Hot? And Why Does Mint Taste Cold?
And while we're at it, why does soda fizz more when you put ice in the glass?
news.ncsu.edu
December 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A while back back, I asked Bluesky for random questions about the world. I'm finally sharing some answers to three of them!
Why is cinnamon "hot"?
Why is mint "cold"?
Why does soda fizz more when you add ice? 🧪
news.ncsu.edu/2025/12/why-...
Why is cinnamon "hot"?
Why is mint "cold"?
Why does soda fizz more when you add ice? 🧪
news.ncsu.edu/2025/12/why-...
My third #artadventcalendar piece this year is my 2021 illustration of a burnt Hell Creek forest. Two stem-chickens (not based on a specific taxon) forage in the ash as a lone tyrant passes on the distance. 🪶🎨🐡 #paleoart
December 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
My third #artadventcalendar piece this year is my 2021 illustration of a burnt Hell Creek forest. Two stem-chickens (not based on a specific taxon) forage in the ash as a lone tyrant passes on the distance. 🪶🎨🐡 #paleoart
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We're happy to announce that Bandcamp Fridays will be returning in 2026. Check out the full list of dates below and get your wishlists ready for the final #bandcampfriday of 2025 this Friday, December 5th.
Bandcamp Fridays Return in 2026
daily.bandcamp.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
We're happy to announce that Bandcamp Fridays will be returning in 2026. Check out the full list of dates below and get your wishlists ready for the final #bandcampfriday of 2025 this Friday, December 5th.
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#COMPANIONSofCHRISTMAS: Père Fouettard!
Père Fouettard was a butcher and cook whose tavern was visited by three children on their way to boarding school. Seeing their nice clothes, wicked Fouettard assumed that they must be rich, and, being children, would be easy to rob. 1/
Père Fouettard was a butcher and cook whose tavern was visited by three children on their way to boarding school. Seeing their nice clothes, wicked Fouettard assumed that they must be rich, and, being children, would be easy to rob. 1/
December 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#COMPANIONSofCHRISTMAS: Père Fouettard!
Père Fouettard was a butcher and cook whose tavern was visited by three children on their way to boarding school. Seeing their nice clothes, wicked Fouettard assumed that they must be rich, and, being children, would be easy to rob. 1/
Père Fouettard was a butcher and cook whose tavern was visited by three children on their way to boarding school. Seeing their nice clothes, wicked Fouettard assumed that they must be rich, and, being children, would be easy to rob. 1/
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Question for paleo folks: I know we have really lovely, elaborate floating crinoid forests on Jurassic driftwood. Do we know whether or not crinoids would have established similar forests prior to that? On floating Lepidodendron or other lycopsid trees, for example?
December 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Question for paleo folks: I know we have really lovely, elaborate floating crinoid forests on Jurassic driftwood. Do we know whether or not crinoids would have established similar forests prior to that? On floating Lepidodendron or other lycopsid trees, for example?