This headline is obviously ultra-simplified but at some level it's correct, my retirement account is at the mercy of the stupidest, most gullible prats (acting collectively on the belief that everybody else is stupid) in the world

Absolutely jaw dropping, spectacularly preserved & beautiful fossil crinoid (left) and blastozoan (right) echinoderms. These fossils are from the Bromide Fm of Oklahoma and nearly all specimens shown here are from the type collection at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History 🧪

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

This is a cool paper led by OU undergraduate researcher Colby Higdon, who examined * thousands * of paracrinoid blastozoan specimens in the Invertebrate Paleontology collection at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

I added something special to my Paleo library last week.

This is the 3 volume North American Crinoidea from Wachsmuth and Springer from 1897.

This is considered the "book" for early crinoid research.

Volume 3 is just the plates with stunning artwork.

I have Asterina starfish in my saltwater tank that reproduce this way.

Our love will tear us apart.

Don't look away, America. This is your country now.

A cop killed someone again and it’s just a “deputy involved shooting.”

The Dem establishment is going to back Mills over the absolute phenom outsider Platner in Maine, which tells you everything you need to know about how well they understand the current moment & how prepared they are to meet it.

We love guns more than kids. I don't see how you can interpret this as anything other than a diseased country in the latter stages of destroying itself.

Nothing says a nation irredeemably gone to hell like its government kidnapping children and whisking them out of state.

“Who are you?!”

“Ask me who I was.”

“Who were you then?”

"A pal! A wonderful thing! Something of an enigma, you might say."

Some people might laugh but there's something actually important in this as I have heard others talk about how a fear of dying is palpable among fascists. They carry hell with them in real life.

If Joe Biden was unable to close an umbrella there would have been +/- 1,000 think pieces in the newspapers of America questioning whether he was capable of discharging the duties of the office of President of the United States.

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

It’s endlessly depressing watching all these tech oligarchs try and convince themselves they’re geniuses instead of people who just happened to benefit from capitalism requiring their products and then the entire political and banking system gassing them up with with free money and tireless support.

The trilobites are the big draw at Mt. Orab. It's full of Flexicalymene and Isotelus.

This was a nice surprise - a scolecodont jaw from a polychaete worm.

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

"You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time."

I didn't think George Stephanopolous had that gear, but good for him. That's how it should always be done.

This is amazing work by @kiabugboy.bsky.social about crinoids and snails. I have to remind myself that this is art and not live video.

He even featured two crinoids from my collection.

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.