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H. McGill

@hannahcomb.bsky.social

Day 9: Ichthyosaur

Apparently the closest living relative to an ichthyosaur is a turtle? Can anyone out there correct me on this?

#ArtAdventCalendar #art #DigitalArt #PaleoArt #Ichthyosaur #SciArt #Reptile #Nature #Animal #ocean #blue

Digital cel-shaded art of an ichthyosaur leaping, dolphin-like, out of an isometric square chunk of open, frothing ocean water. The ichthyosaur has been colored like a mashup between a sea turtle and a common dolphin, with a long white stripe along its sleek body, white countershading on the belly and under each fin, and a pop of yellow around each eye. Its eye takes heavier inspiration from sea turtles with sideways, wrinkly eyelids and broad but hydrodynamic scale patterns all over the face. In most respects this animal looks like a dolphin except for its nostrils being closer to its eyes, tail being vertically-oriented instead of the mammalian horizontal orientation, and a big toothy grin full of reptilian teeth in its beak. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

December 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM

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H. McGill

@hannahcomb.bsky.social

Day 8: Inostrancevia

It's such a shame that it will be 251 million years before this gorgonopsid can try to fit through a narrow doorway and not realize the bone can't go with them (bonk)

#ArtAdventCalendar #paleoart #art #digitalart #SciArt #gorgonopsid #permian #animal #science #dogs

Digital cel-shaded art of a gorgonopsid, inostrancevia, one of the Late Permian reptilian mammals (or perhaps mammalian reptile). This animal most closely resembles a pit bull’s musculature crossed with a monitor lizard’s splayed legs. It is colored with big brown patches on yellow, orange, and green lizard-like scales, inspired slightly by komodo dragons but more bright and saturated. It’s very freckled and speckled all over with its patches of color migrating into each other. It sits in a pose reminiscent of how dogs sit when they don’t care about being noble: Leaning to one side, legs akimbo, tongue dangling out. It parked its silly butt on an isometric chunk of sea-green limestone. The gorgonopsid has a giant head compared to dogs, proportionally, and in its mouth is the thick femur bone of a dicynodont. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM

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PrairieGh0st

@prairiegh0st.bsky.social

Dinocember - Day 9 - Moros Intrepidus
#dinocember2025

December 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM

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❤️‍🔥 🍁 Otoño 🚫 👑

@llfarm.bsky.social

"A few people have asked why I vehemently oppose Trump. Let me make this perfectly clear. It's not about politics. I've voted for both parties. It's about me, as a patriot, rejecting a cheating, lying, racist, treasonous, fascist, and vile man who attacks the free press, and wants to lead the country I love. It's really that simple.
- Dan Rather

December 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM

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Cajunator

@tcrotte.bsky.social

I sincerely hope that Democrats are making a video library of video shorts of Trump to play when the next Democratic president takes office. When they criticise the new President then they should play the stupid insane shit Trump said on the same topic.

December 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM

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LisaLisa

@lisalisa42.bsky.social

We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.

December 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM

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PrairieGh0st

@prairiegh0st.bsky.social

Dinocember - Day 8 - Centrosaurus
#dinocember2025

December 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM

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Adrianna McIntyre

@adrianna.bsky.social

Weedy but important detail: The HSA lump sums would only be available to enrollees opting into the skimpiest — catastrophic or bronze-tier — ACA plans.

Most Marketplace enrollees in most states have incomes < 250% FPL and receive extra help with cost-sharing — but only if enrolled in a silver plan

Axios @axios.com · 2d

SCOOP: Senate Republican chairs circulate health plan as ACA subsidies hang in the balance

Scoop: Senate GOP chairs circulate health plan as ACA subsidies hang in the balance

Two key Republican chairmen circulated the plan as the GOP struggles to unite around health policies.

www.axios.com

December 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM

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Aled Thompson

@aledthompson.bsky.social

Winter phoenix ❄️

A bird with spiky blue feathers perched on a tree stump in the snow

December 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM

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Helen Czerski

@helenczerski.bsky.social

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM

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Jeff Lees

@leesplez.bsky.social

Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.

Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal

Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests

www.theguardian.com

December 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM

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Sarah Andersen

@sarahseeandersen.bsky.social

The image is of a comic.
Panel one depicts a young girl in bed. She hears "CLOP CLOP CLOP" noises.
Panel two depicts the same girl with an excited expression. She thinks, "That must be santa on the roof!"
Panel three depicts the girl smiling.
Panel four depicts a possum on the roof in heels making the "CLOP CLOP CLOP" noises.

December 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM

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PrairieGh0st

@prairiegh0st.bsky.social

Dinocember - Day 7 - Deinotherium
#dinocember2025

December 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM

Curtis Lanaghan

@clanaghan.bsky.social

I'm a little late, but I'm jumping on the #nanotyrannus bandwagon because #tyrannosaurs are awesome! So cool that these dinos definitely valid, and with such amazing specimens and science to boot!

#dinosaur #paleoart #trex

December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM

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ogyhara

@ogyhara.bsky.social

dinos quick sketch
#rkgk
#illust
#イラスト

December 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM

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Let’s embrace the darkness with momma

@broshidos.bsky.social

Old study

#art #dragons

Really rough 2020 sketch of a grey monster snarling with his teeth bared as a few sparks fly from his open mouth. His body is armored and his head has a vaguely shark-like shape to it.

October 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM

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Michael Adams-Hurta

@adams-hurta.bsky.social

They say Democrats need good candidates all the way down the ballot. They say going progressives need to run for office, too.

I checked both those boxes off today.

I just filed to run for Texas's Fourteenth Court of Appeals, an intermediate appellate court here in Houston.

www.adams-hurta.com

I'm at the Texas Democratic Party office in Austin, tired but smiling and holding the following sign: "I'm on the Ballot"!

December 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM

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SPiNDLE

@aidenr0.bsky.social

motivation left me on read 😔

a two panels comic strip by Spindle of a random pink-haired character (persona i guess? not me but also represents me, self-insert? idk what it's called) with two hair buns wearing a black hoodie, sitting in front of a desk that has a "Wacum" tablet on it. Behind the character is a faded screenshot of an empty canvas on Clip Studio Paint.

The first panel the character is saying "Time to draw!" at 11:00AM
The second panel, same as the first only night time, and a circle is drawn on the canvas. 10:00AM on the clock

December 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM

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Steve Brusatte

@stevebrusatte.bsky.social

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 3d

It's over.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.

www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...