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Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · Sep 1

First post is a bunch of artwork I've commissioned and received.

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Shaun @darkcerbshaun.bsky.social · 17m

That !was! the plan some of them told me like I was supposed to take it seriously.

To post so good they'd carve out a leftist vanguard there, fighting the good fight not to surrender the space...the space owned by a nazi.

It's all just clout poisoned nonsense.

Wootmaster @wootmaster.bsky.social · 32m

Like sincerely WHAT WAS THE PLAN? You were never going to be able to post your way out of the site owner being a white supremacist who turned the site into an arm of fascism.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13m

Drive Through Rich Neighborhood Exposes Dad’s Shortcomings As Provider https://theonion.com/drive-through-rich-neighborhood-exposes-dads-shortcomings-as-provider/

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Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 9m

Works for everyone else mostly.

Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 10m

I’m not sure? How would I look that up? I may be able to send you my comps specs.

Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 10m

Congratulations!

Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 9h

and it doesn't work, gets stuck in infinite match loading screen. Just like the Beta.

Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 10h

71 GB for BF6!? It better work on my pc.

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Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 9h

I'll have to see. Right now it won't even load a match, it just gets stuck in the loading screen. I'm doing a validation of the files on Steam, and it saw that three need to be reacquired.

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Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 10h

71 GB for BF6!? It better work on my pc.

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Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 10h

Here's the video: youtu.be/NIS-eYn04d8

Silent Hill 2 (2001) - Eerie Twitch Stream Part 2 - Apartments, Room 209 -Action Easy, Riddle Normal

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Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 12h

Starting a brief OG Silent Hill 2 stream. This is the 2001 version of the game. www.twitch.tv/goldenraptor7

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Eerie Silent Hill 2 Stream

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Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 15h

Fifth cigar. It went out about this point unfortunately. Brand was Montecristo, which apparently is popular in my area.

Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 18h

Amazed to see that Wolf Children is finally on YouTube. Didn’t know it got a remake as well.

Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 18h

Belle. It has some nice scenes in it.

Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 18h

Ah, but not one or two k yet!

Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 19h

Probably should note passing the 700 mark on here. Really cool to see!

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Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 1d

Pizza and a comfort movie to cheer up.

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Soosh @5ushiroll.bsky.social · 2d

Undying embers

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Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 1d

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Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 1d

Last day of the job is saddening. I'll never see the place again, people there I won't see again. I hate goodbyes. I'll miss everything.

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Nouan @nouanonymous.bsky.social · 2d

Hello, I'm open for commission! These are just guidelines, price may vary depending on the piece. If you are interested, feel free to contact me :D

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Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 2d

Last day of work before new job.

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Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 2d

Visited Big Bone Lick a second time and attempted to visit the Hopewell mound complex. Due to the shutdown, the visitor center was not open. I was hoping to get passport stamps for a specific date, but the stamps offered had only a specific range of dates. Cincinnati was having fireworks meanwhile.

Big Bone Lick
THE BIRTAPLACE OF
AMERICAN VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY
Big Bone Lick in Science (250 Years Ago to Present)
Equally as significant as the Big Bone Lick bones themselves, is the role they played in hundreds of years of scientific inquiry and debate. Thousands of bones from numerous small and large-scale expeditions conducted at the lick during the mid-18th through late 19th centuries were deposited in museums and private collections around the world. Thomas Jefferson dispatched William Clark to collect specimens in one such expedition in 1807, which became the first organized vertebrate paleontology expedition in the United States. Specimens from Big Bone Lick fueled scientific debates in the halls of the American Philosophical Society and the Royal Society of London, among others. Most of these early discussions focused on how to interpret Big Bone Lick megafaunal remains and whether or not any of these animals could be found still living on Earth. By comparing Big Bone Lick and European specimens, the French anatomist and paleontologist Georges Cuvier successfully argued that the mammoth and mastodon were extinct. Cuvier's hypothesis revolutionized the existing view of the Earth by suggesting that there was a history of animals that extended long before man walked the Earth.
The study of fossils from Big Bone Lick contributed to the development of the new scientific concepts of extinction and climate change, and led to the discovery of several species new to science. Big Bone Lick also helped to place North America on an equal footing with Europe, by shining a spotlight on important contributions to science by leading American scientists and naturalists, thereby changing the European perspective of North American inferiority.
Thomas Jefferson was a strong advocate for the collection, preservation, and scientific study of the fossils at Big Bone Lick. He concluded that the "new animal" from the lick was similar to, but distinct from, an elephant.

Ancient Monuments
When Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, and Jesus lived, the Hopewell culture built and used Mound City Group. We do not know what the Hopewell called this sacred place, but early archeologists named it for the great number of mounds found here. In 1846 Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis, pioneers of American archeology from Chillicothe, excavated several of the mounds. Their investigation greatly increased our knowledge of the Hopewell culture, but they concluded the mounds "were places of sacrifice." This was later discounted. The Hopewell did perform elaborate burial practices, but the earthworks were also used for other activities including ceremonies and celebrations.

Our view of the Hopewell's world focused historically on the study of burial practices. Today, however, many researchers take a broader view. They are studying many aspects of Hopewell life, like the nature and location of Hopewell settlements. Objects recovered from Hopewell sites speak of deeply spiritual, artistic, and nature-connected people.
Squier and Davis described Mound City in 1846 as covered by a "primitive forest" and had this cover sketch drawn (above). During World War I the military built a training camp, Camp Sherman, atop the mounds, completely destroying half of the mounds and earthworks and degrading the rest.
Beginning in the 1920s, the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society managed Mound City Group National Monument for the War Department and, later, the Department of the Interior. Mound restoration quickly followed, and in 1946 the National Park Service began administering the site.

A Flourishing Culture
On Mordecai Hopewell's Ohio farm archeologists excavated Indian mounds in 1891 and found copper ornaments, stone tools, effigy pipes, obsidian spear points, ornamented bear teeth, shark teeth, intricately carved bones, mica cutouts, and much more. From this astounding find, archeologists later defined an American Indian culture they named the Hopewell that lived 2,000 to 1,600 years ago.
The Hopewell were not the first American Indians to build mounds and earthworks, nor were they the only Indian culture of their region and era. But the Hopewell were a culture living in a cultural explosion. They represent a rich blossoming of art, architecture, and ritual, coinciding with a geographic expansion of cultural influence and exchange. This was unprecedented in North America until their time.

The Hopewell culture used materials obtained from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada and from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains. Here in southern Ohio the culture thrived. Living mostly in river valleys, the Ohio Hopewell built hundreds of varied and unique ceremonial earthworks. They were skilled artists who worked with many exotic materials.

This beautifully crafted sculpture (from Seip Earthworks is)... a wonderful depiction of an American Indian face.

Five sites make up Hopewell Culture National Historical Park.
Mound City Group, named for Its high concentration of burial mounds, is one of the carliest constructed Hopewell earthworks.
Seip Earthworks is a large, irregular-shaped geometric earthwork with several mounds, including one containing over 100 graves.
Hopewell Mound Group is the original site where archeologists first defined the Hopewell as a distinct culture.
Hopeton Earthworks is a large geometric earthwork site that contained several small mounds without burials.
High Bank Works's original design
Illustrates the culture's sophisticated understanding of geometry.
This site is closed to the public.

Golden Raptor @goldenraptor.bsky.social · 2d

Love the expressions on these creatures.

OnlyYotes @onlyyotes.bsky.social · 2d

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OnlyYotes @onlyyotes.bsky.social · 2d

#hourly #yote https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/yotes/tumblr_c963af91a3cfb0e4c75dca4d58a97d3a_0f2e2baf_640.jpg

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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