Mike Keesey
@tmkeesey.bsky.social
Software engineer with occasional illustration and evolutionary biology work. I make prehistoric comics (https://www.keesey-comics.com) and a website with free silhouettes (https://www.phylopic.org/).
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Mike Keesey
@tmkeesey.bsky.social
· Sep 30
Keesey Comics
Comics about prehistory and disaster. Sometimes both.
www.keesey-comics.com
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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Moose (Alces alces)
Swamp Wallaby (Wallabia bicolor)
Garibaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus)
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
Island Fox (Urocyon littoralis)
Moose (Alces alces)
Swamp Wallaby (Wallabia bicolor)
Garibaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus)
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
Island Fox (Urocyon littoralis)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Humpback whales
Giraffes
African Elephants
West African or Nile monitor lizard
Moose
Humpback whales
Giraffes
African Elephants
West African or Nile monitor lizard
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Moose (Alces alces)
Swamp Wallaby (Wallabia bicolor)
Garibaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus)
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
Island Fox (Urocyon littoralis)
Moose (Alces alces)
Swamp Wallaby (Wallabia bicolor)
Garibaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus)
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
Island Fox (Urocyon littoralis)
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Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
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Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
Reminder that if you want to spice up your biological diagrams you could use this free silhouette resource instead of feeding your work into an AI slop generator. www.phylopic.org
PhyloPic
PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...
www.phylopic.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reminder that if you want to spice up your biological diagrams you could use this free silhouette resource instead of feeding your work into an AI slop generator. www.phylopic.org
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
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Dinosaurs were nearly wiped out 66 million years ago, long before the start of the Quaternary ice age. However, #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge shows that the few surviving dinosaurs (birds) would go on to become highly successful. Let's meet the ice age dinosaurs featured in the series! 🪶🧪
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Dinosaurs were nearly wiped out 66 million years ago, long before the start of the Quaternary ice age. However, #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge shows that the few surviving dinosaurs (birds) would go on to become highly successful. Let's meet the ice age dinosaurs featured in the series! 🪶🧪
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I haven't had a chance to sit down and write a proper review of Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, but it is a genuinely a knock-out impressive visual spectacle. (And it's very, very obvious how much work, thought and care went into all aspects of it.)
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I haven't had a chance to sit down and write a proper review of Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, but it is a genuinely a knock-out impressive visual spectacle. (And it's very, very obvious how much work, thought and care went into all aspects of it.)
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Evolution doesn’t look how it’s depicted in pop culture. We often picture the famous “March of Progress” illustration where a series of apes stand in line leading to a modern human.
But evolution is not linear. It branches and divides and recombines.
Image: @tmkeesey.bsky.social
But evolution is not linear. It branches and divides and recombines.
Image: @tmkeesey.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Evolution doesn’t look how it’s depicted in pop culture. We often picture the famous “March of Progress” illustration where a series of apes stand in line leading to a modern human.
But evolution is not linear. It branches and divides and recombines.
Image: @tmkeesey.bsky.social
But evolution is not linear. It branches and divides and recombines.
Image: @tmkeesey.bsky.social
I Am Just a Note youtu.be/bCyG6dmcucI?...
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I Am Just a Note youtu.be/bCyG6dmcucI?...
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
1) When we got our first home computer (TI-99/4A) we never got any software for it, so I had to teach myself BASIC in order to do anything at all on it, and 2) I graduated college during the dot-com boom.
November 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
1) When we got our first home computer (TI-99/4A) we never got any software for it, so I had to teach myself BASIC in order to do anything at all on it, and 2) I graduated college during the dot-com boom.
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we gotta keep hammering over and over again just how fucking unpopular this guy is with every institution and every person in a position of power
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we gotta keep hammering over and over again just how fucking unpopular this guy is with every institution and every person in a position of power
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
I got that Velociraptor cough right now.
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I got that Velociraptor cough right now.
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This are some of the reasons why people are being fired at the FBI right now. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This are some of the reasons why people are being fired at the FBI right now. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
My holiday hot take is that “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is actually a good song. But even a good song can suffer from overexposure.
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
My holiday hot take is that “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is actually a good song. But even a good song can suffer from overexposure.
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Blender is up there with Wikipedia as one of very few truly good things on the internet at this point. Please support them while you can, blender has done so much for artists!
Did Blender help you this year? Help back! 🧡
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
#b3d
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
#b3d
November 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Blender is up there with Wikipedia as one of very few truly good things on the internet at this point. Please support them while you can, blender has done so much for artists!
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📢 rphylopic 📦 1.6.0 is now on #CRAN!
- resolve_phylopic() retries failing API calls 🔄
- geom_phylopic()/add_phylopic() work with ggplot2 4.0.0 🪛
- add_phylopic_tree() wraps add_phylopic() for base R trees
- get_phylopic() can get og source files from #PhyloPic 👤
rphylopic.palaeoverse.org
#Rstats
- resolve_phylopic() retries failing API calls 🔄
- geom_phylopic()/add_phylopic() work with ggplot2 4.0.0 🪛
- add_phylopic_tree() wraps add_phylopic() for base R trees
- get_phylopic() can get og source files from #PhyloPic 👤
rphylopic.palaeoverse.org
#Rstats
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
📢 rphylopic 📦 1.6.0 is now on #CRAN!
- resolve_phylopic() retries failing API calls 🔄
- geom_phylopic()/add_phylopic() work with ggplot2 4.0.0 🪛
- add_phylopic_tree() wraps add_phylopic() for base R trees
- get_phylopic() can get og source files from #PhyloPic 👤
rphylopic.palaeoverse.org
#Rstats
- resolve_phylopic() retries failing API calls 🔄
- geom_phylopic()/add_phylopic() work with ggplot2 4.0.0 🪛
- add_phylopic_tree() wraps add_phylopic() for base R trees
- get_phylopic() can get og source files from #PhyloPic 👤
rphylopic.palaeoverse.org
#Rstats
The first and last photos of Jean Louise “Scout” Keesey. We miss her terribly.
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM
The first and last photos of Jean Louise “Scout” Keesey. We miss her terribly.
Pencilled more of PALEOCENE #6 www.patreon.com/posts/143102...
Paleocene #6, pages 2–6 PENCILLED | Mike Keesey
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November 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Pencilled more of PALEOCENE #6 www.patreon.com/posts/143102...
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Of course the big paper on Azhdarchoid phylogeny comes out while I'm at a museum on a research visit (looking at Azhdarchoid cervicals, obviously) but now I'm back at the hotel so it's time to write a proper thread! 1/28
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Of course the big paper on Azhdarchoid phylogeny comes out while I'm at a museum on a research visit (looking at Azhdarchoid cervicals, obviously) but now I'm back at the hotel so it's time to write a proper thread! 1/28
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People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
November 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
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-A father and his two children, age 12 and 15, arrested by ICE on their way to school drop off.
-All detained (hands and feet cuffed) for 36 hours. Cell with no windows, lights on non-stop.
-Given only water and potato chips.
-Hit when they questioned their arrest.
-ICE arrested the wrong people.
-All detained (hands and feet cuffed) for 36 hours. Cell with no windows, lights on non-stop.
-Given only water and potato chips.
-Hit when they questioned their arrest.
-ICE arrested the wrong people.
November 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
-A father and his two children, age 12 and 15, arrested by ICE on their way to school drop off.
-All detained (hands and feet cuffed) for 36 hours. Cell with no windows, lights on non-stop.
-Given only water and potato chips.
-Hit when they questioned their arrest.
-ICE arrested the wrong people.
-All detained (hands and feet cuffed) for 36 hours. Cell with no windows, lights on non-stop.
-Given only water and potato chips.
-Hit when they questioned their arrest.
-ICE arrested the wrong people.
Pics from the Bob Baker Marionette Theater Annual Costume Ball
November 1, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Pics from the Bob Baker Marionette Theater Annual Costume Ball