David Clark
@clarkeocrinus.bsky.social
I'd rather be crinoid hunting.
Invertebrate enthusiast, Paleo artist, Fossil prep, President of Friends of the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology
Invertebrate enthusiast, Paleo artist, Fossil prep, President of Friends of the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology
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David Clark
@clarkeocrinus.bsky.social
· Jul 31
All right, let's do this one last time.
My name is David Clark. I was bitten by a radioactive crinoid, and for 13 years I was on the bird site as clarkeocrinus.
I'm pretty sure you know the rest.
My name is David Clark. I was bitten by a radioactive crinoid, and for 13 years I was on the bird site as clarkeocrinus.
I'm pretty sure you know the rest.
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You can give the Kannemeyeria skull a spin here: umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/specimen-...
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
You can give the Kannemeyeria skull a spin here: umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/specimen-...
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Some AMNH display specimens with UMMP connections. Pretty sure this Kannemeyeria is a cast of UMMP VP 14530. The Dimetrodon skeleton was collected by E.C. Case in 1906, a year before he started at the University of Michigan. Case would later go on to be UMMP's first director. #FossilFriday
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Some AMNH display specimens with UMMP connections. Pretty sure this Kannemeyeria is a cast of UMMP VP 14530. The Dimetrodon skeleton was collected by E.C. Case in 1906, a year before he started at the University of Michigan. Case would later go on to be UMMP's first director. #FossilFriday
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There is always SOMEONE who has never seen a LIVING BRACHIOPOD! For for that person? Here ya go! with lophophores in view! 735 m from Giacomini Seamount in the North Pacific (Alaska) #Okeanos #fossilfriday
November 27, 2024 at 4:22 PM
There is always SOMEONE who has never seen a LIVING BRACHIOPOD! For for that person? Here ya go! with lophophores in view! 735 m from Giacomini Seamount in the North Pacific (Alaska) #Okeanos #fossilfriday
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BRACHIOPOD! for those have never seen a living one! here ya go, Solide Seamount, 1227 m #okeanos #saveNOAA #fossilfriday
April 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
BRACHIOPOD! for those have never seen a living one! here ya go, Solide Seamount, 1227 m #okeanos #saveNOAA #fossilfriday
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“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
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[P] goddammit
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
[P] goddammit
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They’re going to take anyone they can get their hands on. They’re evil, folks!
"They had submitted extensive paperwork and paid fees. The foreign spouses had been fingerprinted and passed medical exams. None had criminal records. None had entered the country illegally. They had already been granted employment authorization." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
They’re going to take anyone they can get their hands on. They’re evil, folks!
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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Go my Bothriolepis... This year's fish pecan pie! Bothriolepis was a peculiar-looking placoderm from the Devonian period or the Paleozoic. It had two long pointed pectoral fins and silly little eyes on top of its head.
#fossil #fish #paleontology #bothriolepis
#fossil #fish #paleontology #bothriolepis
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Go my Bothriolepis... This year's fish pecan pie! Bothriolepis was a peculiar-looking placoderm from the Devonian period or the Paleozoic. It had two long pointed pectoral fins and silly little eyes on top of its head.
#fossil #fish #paleontology #bothriolepis
#fossil #fish #paleontology #bothriolepis
Still waiting for the WaPo article about Trump potentially escaping to Russia or Argentina.
Or do they only write about countries we plan to overthrow?
Or do they only write about countries we plan to overthrow?
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, facing U.S. pressure and potential military intervention, may consider Turkey as a safe haven. Turkey’s president, a close ally, could offer refuge with guarantees against extradition.
Maduro’s ties to Turkey could smooth path to possible exile
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s close relationship with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could make Turkey a possible safe harbor if he decides to flee Caracas.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Still waiting for the WaPo article about Trump potentially escaping to Russia or Argentina.
Or do they only write about countries we plan to overthrow?
Or do they only write about countries we plan to overthrow?
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Personally, I think it's a bad thing when people in the government post AI images without disclosing that they're AI.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Personally, I think it's a bad thing when people in the government post AI images without disclosing that they're AI.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
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No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.
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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
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[rereading it to correct initial impression that he laid the eggs ON Kimmel] no no this is still problematical no matter how the sentence is written
Picturing this guy's now on the run from the same feds who hunted down Alf
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
[rereading it to correct initial impression that he laid the eggs ON Kimmel] no no this is still problematical no matter how the sentence is written
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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Something tiny for you!
Tisha Mark ©2025, To Dream by the Sea No. 2509, oil on gessobord, 4"x4"
Original is available (with maple frame):
tishamark.com/product/to-d...
#art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
Tisha Mark ©2025, To Dream by the Sea No. 2509, oil on gessobord, 4"x4"
Original is available (with maple frame):
tishamark.com/product/to-d...
#art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Something tiny for you!
Tisha Mark ©2025, To Dream by the Sea No. 2509, oil on gessobord, 4"x4"
Original is available (with maple frame):
tishamark.com/product/to-d...
#art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
Tisha Mark ©2025, To Dream by the Sea No. 2509, oil on gessobord, 4"x4"
Original is available (with maple frame):
tishamark.com/product/to-d...
#art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
Just the worst people.
GROSS
"The interior department has announced new 'America-first' entrance fees for national parks, commemorative annual passes featuring Donald Trump & 'resident-only patriotic fee-free days for 2026' including Trump’s birthday." @cecilianowell.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"The interior department has announced new 'America-first' entrance fees for national parks, commemorative annual passes featuring Donald Trump & 'resident-only patriotic fee-free days for 2026' including Trump’s birthday." @cecilianowell.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US triples national park fee for non-residents, amid ‘new’ fee for Americans
Interior department, which has defunded conservation organizations, claims fee hike is for conservation
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Just the worst people.
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This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
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Karoline Leavitt's brother says his only concern is for his son. The mother of his child can rot in hell.
I bet he wears a big shiny cross around his neck too.
I bet he wears a big shiny cross around his neck too.
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Karoline Leavitt's brother says his only concern is for his son. The mother of his child can rot in hell.
I bet he wears a big shiny cross around his neck too.
I bet he wears a big shiny cross around his neck too.
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Roses are red
That dino looks ill
That dino looks ill
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Roses are red
That dino looks ill
That dino looks ill
Republicans really want to kill Americans.
Especially if they can make money doing it.
Especially if they can make money doing it.
Republicans plan to challenge stop sign and building fire alarm mandates, declaring that these issues should be addressed by the free market
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Republicans really want to kill Americans.
Especially if they can make money doing it.
Especially if they can make money doing it.
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So either Trump spoke to Bolsonaro about plotting to escape to the US right before the latter got caught trying to saw off his ankle monitor, or Trump imagined a conversation he didn’t have. Both scenarios are incredibly dark
An amazing new Trump controversy, Part II of II:
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Bolsonaro White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro
Did the Republican president talk to Bolsonaro as the Brazilian plotted to escape? Trump said yes, but the White House isn’t so sure.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
So either Trump spoke to Bolsonaro about plotting to escape to the US right before the latter got caught trying to saw off his ankle monitor, or Trump imagined a conversation he didn’t have. Both scenarios are incredibly dark