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Deshan Tennekoon
@deshan10.bsky.social
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Animal animal: a weekly letter to you & the kid, filled with science, art, and love: https://tinyurl.com/4ttamcer
Mary Anning's Grewsome Beasts (palaeontology for kids): http://tinyurl.com/5f9
Writer|Book designer|Fulbright scholar| He/him: onlinedesho.com
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deshan10.bsky.social
Hey, Prints for Lanka are selling art to fundraise 10,000 USD for Cyclone Ditwah relief on the island. Have a look and if you can, buy a print. There's some amazing work:
printsforlanka.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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vajra.me
I mean sure "cellar door" and all, but just hold "nanocrystalline metacinnabar" in your mouth a minute
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
deshan10.bsky.social
You've had a tough year. You or someone you love needs an original ink drawing of a Sri Lankan devil. Come by the shop; find one you like:
www.onlinedesho.com/shop/origina...
December 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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deshan10.bsky.social
I have a new yakshini for sale in the shop (an original ink drawing). She's coping with one of those months where everything goes wrong. Maybe you can give her a loving home this Christmas:
www.onlinedesho.com/shop/origina...
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
deshan10.bsky.social
I have a new yakshini for sale in the shop (an original ink drawing). She's coping with one of those months where everything goes wrong. Maybe you can give her a loving home this Christmas:
www.onlinedesho.com/shop/origina...
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
deshan10.bsky.social
Thought you might enjoy this 1-hour documentary directed by a dear friend of mine about an ancient Lankan dance practice called the Kohomba Kankariya in modern times and the lives of its teachers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Bw...
December 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
deshan10.bsky.social
I have a few more yaksha for sale, in case you wanted to adopt a devil for Christmas.

India ink drawings, drawn with human hands, at A4 size (ish). Have a look:
www.onlinedesho.com/shop/origina...
December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
deshan10.bsky.social
But your Granny called and said she wants a hand-drawn picture of a Sri Lankan yakshaya for Christmas:
www.onlinedesho.com/shop/origina...
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
deshan10.bsky.social
It's time to tell your kid about skunk bums. Also, I'm selling some original art soon. More in the new edition of Animal animal: www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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bertonemyia.bsky.social
It's almost the weekend! 🥳

If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨

Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!!

drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...
A few panels from the coloring guide: a scorpion, an isopod, and a tachinid fly (along with their info).
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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direkris.itch.io
You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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stavrossk.bsky.social
A couple of Nebulasaurus taito enjoy a nighttime swim as they cross a lake in China during the Middle #Jurassic. 🦕🦕🏝️

(Just a regular lake, nothing to do with #dinosaur reproduction… 😏)
#paleoart #sciart #sauropod
A couple of sauropods, Nebulasaurus taito, enjoy a nighttime swim as they cross a lake
November 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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solrad.bsky.social
WE CONTAIN MULTITUDES.
Come lean and loafe at your ease and check out SOLRAD, the online literary magazine for comics.
solrad.co
November 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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itoromo.bsky.social Ito Romo @itoromo.bsky.social · Oct 31
“Ito Romo's vampires step across centuries with dignity, but with desperation, too—you don't want to get close to them, but you can't look away.”
-Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. As always, gracias, @sgj.bsky.social. Pre-order now wherever you buy your books. ❤️👊🏼❤️
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶
A brown pelican, just appearing as a black bird against a muted orange sky, dives into the ocean.
October 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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vajra.me
Among other things, about Beckett's science-fictional play KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
vajra.me/2025/10/30/t...
The Butterfly and the Crab
Cancer and Krapp.
vajra.me
October 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
deshan10.bsky.social
Thank you! This was very useful.
lizshannonmiller.com Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · Oct 27
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.
October 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Scarry Movie (1990)
Scarry Movie (1990)
October 26, 2023 at 2:01 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
A map of all the different names for woodlice in the United Kingdom
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
deshan10.bsky.social
This is utterly gorgeous. Can it come to a bridge near me?
whistberry.bsky.social Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · Oct 25
The excitement I felt reading these words...

this but huge, hanging off the Golden Gate Bridge lazily snatching at cars with sleepy, blinking eyes
October 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
deshan10.bsky.social
Mary Norris eye twitch meme
jennysinclair.bsky.social Jenny Sinclair @jennysinclair.bsky.social · Oct 13
Finding typos in The New Yorker is hard enough. But an actual mistake is like seeing a unicorn.
October 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
deshan10.bsky.social
Still the best Nosferatu poster (Albin Grau, 1922):
October 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
deshan10.bsky.social
Happy #PortfolioDay to all who celebrate!

I'm a book designer and editor. Drop me a line if you need a book made : )
October 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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jakevig.bsky.social
Sorry I pointed and screamed "El Diablo!" and threw holy water at your baby.
October 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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timcurran.bsky.social
theconversation.com/a-tiny-fossi...
A tiny fossil suggests bowerbirds once lived in ancient New Zealand – new research
New Zealand’s ancient bowerbird was smaller and more slender than the species living in Australia and New Guinea today.
theconversation.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM