Dr. Thing Learner
@drthinglearner.bsky.social
I write and talk about science and ancient history a lot. Podcaster, children’s book author. Big fan of dogs and cool people, expert fun-haver. Occasional artist, sometimes musician. Walking pile of facts.
Find me at thinglearner.squarespace.com
Find me at thinglearner.squarespace.com
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Happy consumerism bonanza day!
Throw tomatoes at target/Walmart/Amazon! Get some freaky little presents from artists!
Big corps make the wealthy wealthier & artists are trying to buy wet food for their cats.
Artists, drop your shops!
For a start, check out SquidFacts.net
More of my faves below
Throw tomatoes at target/Walmart/Amazon! Get some freaky little presents from artists!
Big corps make the wealthy wealthier & artists are trying to buy wet food for their cats.
Artists, drop your shops!
For a start, check out SquidFacts.net
More of my faves below
Support Skype a Scientist with the Squid Facts shop!
The Squid Facts shop supports Skype a Scientist! We match scientists with classrooms, scout troops, and libraries. We also connect people with...
SquidFacts.net
November 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Happy consumerism bonanza day!
Throw tomatoes at target/Walmart/Amazon! Get some freaky little presents from artists!
Big corps make the wealthy wealthier & artists are trying to buy wet food for their cats.
Artists, drop your shops!
For a start, check out SquidFacts.net
More of my faves below
Throw tomatoes at target/Walmart/Amazon! Get some freaky little presents from artists!
Big corps make the wealthy wealthier & artists are trying to buy wet food for their cats.
Artists, drop your shops!
For a start, check out SquidFacts.net
More of my faves below
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A North Carolina-based friend of mine told me that many families are nervous to go to school or get groceries because of ICE enforcement! If you can, a generous thing to do is to donate a few bucks to help the people of Durham care for each other! bullcityschools.app.neoncrm.com/forms/84
Durham Public Schools Strong Fund
Durham Public School Strong, Durham for All and other allied community organizers have established the Durham Public Schools Strong Fund to meet urgent needs in our Durham Public Schools Community.
...
bullcityschools.app.neoncrm.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A North Carolina-based friend of mine told me that many families are nervous to go to school or get groceries because of ICE enforcement! If you can, a generous thing to do is to donate a few bucks to help the people of Durham care for each other! bullcityschools.app.neoncrm.com/forms/84
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social From a diet-specialist paleoarchaeologist (lapsed) and science communicator, thank you for making such a great episode about why Sapiens is such a dumb wrong book!
November 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social From a diet-specialist paleoarchaeologist (lapsed) and science communicator, thank you for making such a great episode about why Sapiens is such a dumb wrong book!
Why is “booking it” used to mean really hurrying?
November 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Why is “booking it” used to mean really hurrying?
I’m so tired that my feelings are tired
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I’m so tired that my feelings are tired
aw BEANS I misspelled the shop link! It’s thinglearner.squarespace.com/store OOPS
ironically…well, I tried.
ironically…well, I tried.
November 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
aw BEANS I misspelled the shop link! It’s thinglearner.squarespace.com/store OOPS
ironically…well, I tried.
ironically…well, I tried.
the gifting season is looming, and I sure would appreciate it if y’all shared this and the link to my art shop far and wide! many many thanks :)
#art #shopping #gift #artist
#art #shopping #gift #artist
This idea came to me in a dream, and even in the dream I thought “well, this is silly.” Gonna make a few more prints and put them up for sale in my shop. If you also feel like a fishperson who tried real hard, you can get one of your own.
thinglearner.squarespace.com/shop
thinglearner.squarespace.com/shop
November 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This idea came to me in a dream, and even in the dream I thought “well, this is silly.” Gonna make a few more prints and put them up for sale in my shop. If you also feel like a fishperson who tried real hard, you can get one of your own.
thinglearner.squarespace.com/shop
thinglearner.squarespace.com/shop
November 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This idea came to me in a dream, and even in the dream I thought “well, this is silly.” Gonna make a few more prints and put them up for sale in my shop. If you also feel like a fishperson who tried real hard, you can get one of your own.
thinglearner.squarespace.com/shop
thinglearner.squarespace.com/shop
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Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
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Israel will tell us with a straight face that it's a leader in green energy while doing ecocide to Gaza and emitting more than 100 countries. As COP30 begins let's remember that military emissions aren't even calculated. #cop30
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Israel will tell us with a straight face that it's a leader in green energy while doing ecocide to Gaza and emitting more than 100 countries. As COP30 begins let's remember that military emissions aren't even calculated. #cop30
Hello! I got my shit together and set up a shop page on my website! I’m doing a limited run of several of my favorite prints for now. Eventually I’ll have an option for original pieces and commissions! You can buy ‘em! I’d love it if you did. #gifts #art
thinglearner.squarespace.com/shop
thinglearner.squarespace.com/shop
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Hello! I got my shit together and set up a shop page on my website! I’m doing a limited run of several of my favorite prints for now. Eventually I’ll have an option for original pieces and commissions! You can buy ‘em! I’d love it if you did. #gifts #art
thinglearner.squarespace.com/shop
thinglearner.squarespace.com/shop
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As you read the homages remember that strong commitments to racist and misogynistic beliefs when one holds potions of power and prominence shape disciplines, knowledges, and practice. All the contributions, beneficial, ignorant, and harmful, should be on the table. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
James D. Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
As you read the homages remember that strong commitments to racist and misogynistic beliefs when one holds potions of power and prominence shape disciplines, knowledges, and practice. All the contributions, beneficial, ignorant, and harmful, should be on the table. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
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continuing to update this resource for SNAP recipients in the Bay Area — now with 31 food businesses/restaurants where folks can get free or subsidized hot meals 💖 www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...
These Bay Area Restaurants Are Offering Free Food to SNAP Recipients
Amid a government shutdown that will cut off aid for 42 million Americans, local food scene folks plan to pick up the slack.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
continuing to update this resource for SNAP recipients in the Bay Area — now with 31 food businesses/restaurants where folks can get free or subsidized hot meals 💖 www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...
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Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
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ICE has been seizing people in Allston. Boston area folks, spread the word about the LUCE hotline to report ICE sightings. And here's stickers you can print and put up anywhere:
Massachusetts folks: I made these stickers sharing LUCE's ICE hotline ☎️ 617-370-5023--they verify sightings and share confirmed info. Stickers fit 1"x2.6" label (Avery 5160). Image below or follow link for a full sheet. Print, stick every&anywhere. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7v098...
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
ICE has been seizing people in Allston. Boston area folks, spread the word about the LUCE hotline to report ICE sightings. And here's stickers you can print and put up anywhere:
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This is the kind of thing which makes me think better things are possible.
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This is the kind of thing which makes me think better things are possible.
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
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Planet ahoy! The currents is anxious and smells strongly of chili peppers. Will you go there with me?
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Planet ahoy! The currents is anxious and smells strongly of chili peppers. Will you go there with me?
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I wonder if a large number of Americans are just sick of this crap and would like to go back to having a government that works and not having to think about the president every day.
BOOM! @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social calls NJ Gov for @mikiesherrill.bsky.social!
November 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I wonder if a large number of Americans are just sick of this crap and would like to go back to having a government that works and not having to think about the president every day.
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I will not bow the knee to fascism, both emphatically on principle, and because I’m 39 and it hurts to get down there and back up again. #ow
November 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I will not bow the knee to fascism, both emphatically on principle, and because I’m 39 and it hurts to get down there and back up again. #ow
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“Little guy” is a gender-neutral term
November 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“Little guy” is a gender-neutral term
Interesting, but regrettably I *did* have to zoom in on the Vitruvian Man’s mathematically-proportioned dongle to see what the article was even talking about.
October 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Interesting, but regrettably I *did* have to zoom in on the Vitruvian Man’s mathematically-proportioned dongle to see what the article was even talking about.