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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
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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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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 2h

This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2h

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Lynzie Flynn @lynzieflynn.bsky.social · 10h

The Golden Hour
#mandarinduck #birds #wildlife #photography #audubon #nature #naturephotography #birdnerd #wildlife #natgeowild #bbcwildlife #bbcearth #birdsofbluesky #birdphotography #blueskyartshow #planetbirds #photography #bestbirdshots #lynzieflynn #beautifulbirds

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_crocodiles @crocodiles.bsky.social · 10h

It’s Blondie, a beautiful Nile crocodile!

I’ve seen yellow reptiles like this often referred to as xanthic. Mutation? Polygenic morph? Anyone know more?

#croctober 🐊

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

watching donald trumps administration be the most terminally online presidency in history has made me realize that we can never have this again. it’s way too soy, and so so annoying in a completely inescapable way that will hopefully backfire on them

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 11h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 10h

A young male Crowned Woodnymph this morning at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#birds #hummingbirds #nature

Close-up of a perched hummingbird with iridescent green and deep blue-purple feathers, a slightly curved black bill, and a smooth green blurred background.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 12h

Strike a pose (Common Grackle) #birds 🌿

Iridescent black bird with bright blue neck and head, yellow eye and pointy, downward curve beak. Bird is perched on the edge of a concrete bird bath with beak pointed skyward. Background is soft focus green and pink.

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hirohero @hirohero00.bsky.social · 9h

こんにちは。今朝のピースさんです。体重30.9g。ごはんの量を0.5g減。ケロケロしそうにはなるけど、何かに取りつかれたようにはしなくなったのでこのまま様子見です。ごはんの催促はしますが、飛翔もそれなりにしてくれるので良い運動は出来ているようです。
#セキセイインコ #birds

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Terre Logsdon @terreal.bsky.social · 10h

Wild turkeys roost in trees. When doing so at sunset, they often fly *straight up* from the ground (as a helicopter can), hauling their 20lb selves up and onto the branches. Trippy to see!

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☆ Astrapionté ☆ @astrapionte.bsky.social · 8h

a Golden Columbian Mammoth for that azz.

#paleoart

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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brie skull emoji @brie-skull-emoji.bsky.social · 8h

Abolishing ICE is the moderate position.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 8h

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 17h

tired of blather from public intellectuals that haven't understood the political moment at any point in the last ten years

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Curlew Action @curlewaction.bsky.social · 2d

Today (date), the Slender-billed Curlew was declared extinct. The first bird extinction on mainland Europe in 500 years — on our watch. Extinction is final. No going back. Think about that.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 4h

on every level except physical i am making you a curative soup

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James Pascoe @jamespascoe.bsky.social · 14h

They really did choose some truly iconic artwork for this book, and I think this would be my first ever encounter of the fabled @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social since my copy is from 1988 and I’d only been alive a few years at that point 😅 Some truly beautiful vintage Palaeoart on display here

Pterosaurs restored with bat like wings flying above a gorgeous landscape. Check out the rays of the sun and those ferns

Megalosaurus looking a little leaner than its usual representation and again a stunning and detailed landscape

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6h

Lower Bills.

Protect our NHS.

And invest in our communities.

Let's make hope normal again.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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Kiabugboy @kiabugboy.bsky.social · 21h

The Crinoid hat video is up on my channel!
youtu.be/ZdPTYamnqQA

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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 16h

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Jack Stack @jackstack.bsky.social · 16h

I remember two years ago when someone on here told me that AI was advancing rapidly and that it would be replacing scientific knowledge. Many billions of dollars later it still can’t figure out how many fingers humans have.

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 16h

#Paleoctober2025 day 11 and 12 paleoart sketches with the Precambrian microfossil Melanocyrillium and the Late Cretaceous antler-like crested pterosaur Nyctosaurus.

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #Melanocyrillium #Nyctosaurus

Close up of the microscopic vase-shaped cell.

Portrait of a brown with white spots Nyctosaurus with its beak pointing downward to the right and its long crest only visible toward the base with the rest going off screen. A rocky shore is in the background.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 15h

So my buddy Carlota, who is taking over Dogskull Patch, has a group of feral cats to deal. She’s been trapping and neutering as possible, but one sweetheart named Big Daddy showed up on the porch limping. Some asshole shot him. She’s raising money for his amputation and care. gofund.me/3b6cf293e

Donate to Help Big Daddy Recover from being Shot, organized by Carrie Sykes

There's a colony of lovely cats living in a rural neighborhood in Goldston, NC. Fr… Carrie Sykes needs your support for Help Big Daddy Recover from being Shot

gofund.me

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