Jen Mesch
@jenmesch.bsky.social
Dancing on the Late Cretacous
Measurer of hearts
Filmmaker, paleontology volunteer
A bunch of other stuff, too
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www.dance-conspiracy.org
Measurer of hearts
Filmmaker, paleontology volunteer
A bunch of other stuff, too
🇺🇸🇨🇦
www.dance-conspiracy.org
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I don't really know what to do with the realization that we have a pope who can likely quote lines from The Blues Brothers from memory
May 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I don't really know what to do with the realization that we have a pope who can likely quote lines from The Blues Brothers from memory
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NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah.
But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.
By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com
But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.
By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com
Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped.
Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.
www.propublica.org
April 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah.
But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.
By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com
But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.
By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com
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Scaphognathus, my beloved
April 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Scaphognathus, my beloved
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#wormwednesday GLAM purple polychaete Myrianida from Hawaii! www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Genus Myrianida
Myrianida from Kihei, HI 96753, USA on December 3, 2011 at 07:17 PM by cory-pittman. found by Pauline Fiene
www.inaturalist.org
April 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#wormwednesday GLAM purple polychaete Myrianida from Hawaii! www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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I finally got this working. Pro & uropatagium to follow.
Side note, while I'm aware of hypotheses about actinofibril function, I'm not a fan of the trope of pterosaur wing membranes shrinking to almost nothing when grounded rather than just being allowed to fold, even a little bit.
Side note, while I'm aware of hypotheses about actinofibril function, I'm not a fan of the trope of pterosaur wing membranes shrinking to almost nothing when grounded rather than just being allowed to fold, even a little bit.
March 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I finally got this working. Pro & uropatagium to follow.
Side note, while I'm aware of hypotheses about actinofibril function, I'm not a fan of the trope of pterosaur wing membranes shrinking to almost nothing when grounded rather than just being allowed to fold, even a little bit.
Side note, while I'm aware of hypotheses about actinofibril function, I'm not a fan of the trope of pterosaur wing membranes shrinking to almost nothing when grounded rather than just being allowed to fold, even a little bit.
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March 25, 1925: Fossils found by crews digging the foundation of an apartment house in upper Manhattan are verified to belong to a more than 10,000-year-old mastodon. The Ice Age creature was likely a baby, judging from its teeth, says the American Museum of Natural History.
March 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
March 25, 1925: Fossils found by crews digging the foundation of an apartment house in upper Manhattan are verified to belong to a more than 10,000-year-old mastodon. The Ice Age creature was likely a baby, judging from its teeth, says the American Museum of Natural History.
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March 9, 1925: A civil trial begins in Wyoming in which the Teapot Dome special prosecutor aims to cancel oil leases granted by ex-Interior Secretary Albert Fall. He and oilman Harry Sinclair are accused of “one of the greatest frauds ever practiced on the government.”
March 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
March 9, 1925: A civil trial begins in Wyoming in which the Teapot Dome special prosecutor aims to cancel oil leases granted by ex-Interior Secretary Albert Fall. He and oilman Harry Sinclair are accused of “one of the greatest frauds ever practiced on the government.”
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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FWIW, it's perhaps worth noting that when Benjamin Franklin visited France between 1776 and 1778 to ask for military support for the then-new-formed United States of America, he wore a coonskin cap. "Proper" French court attire at this time was a powdered wig.
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
FWIW, it's perhaps worth noting that when Benjamin Franklin visited France between 1776 and 1778 to ask for military support for the then-new-formed United States of America, he wore a coonskin cap. "Proper" French court attire at this time was a powdered wig.
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"Let's understand who our true enemy is. Is it a virile, often shirtless man on horseback who poisons political opponents and journalists and who’s causing the deaths of countless innocent people? Or is it a children’s book about a kid with two dads?"
Vladimir Putin May Have Launched an Unprovoked Invasion of Ukraine, But at Least He’s Never Asked You to Use a Same-Sex Bathroom
“Has Putin shipped every middle-class job in your town to Russia? Did he manufacture a worldwide pandemic that wrecked your business? Is he teachin...
buff.ly
March 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"Let's understand who our true enemy is. Is it a virile, often shirtless man on horseback who poisons political opponents and journalists and who’s causing the deaths of countless innocent people? Or is it a children’s book about a kid with two dads?"
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Exciting news from the Isle of Man. Iron Age spoons are incredibly rare; this is only the 28th example that we know of & implies trading of these special ritual tools west from Britain.
Congratulations to the finder, landowner and Manx National Heritage 👏
manxnationalheritage.im/news/iron-ag...
Congratulations to the finder, landowner and Manx National Heritage 👏
manxnationalheritage.im/news/iron-ag...
Iron Age divination spoon discovered on the Isle of Man
A 2000 year-old bronze spoon believed to have been used for ‘telling the future’ has been discovered on private land in Patrick, on the West Coast of the
manxnationalheritage.im
February 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Exciting news from the Isle of Man. Iron Age spoons are incredibly rare; this is only the 28th example that we know of & implies trading of these special ritual tools west from Britain.
Congratulations to the finder, landowner and Manx National Heritage 👏
manxnationalheritage.im/news/iron-ag...
Congratulations to the finder, landowner and Manx National Heritage 👏
manxnationalheritage.im/news/iron-ag...
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bunch of employees who work at the government facility where they keep ET wet freaking out because they need five things for the email but all they did last week was spray water on ET
February 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
bunch of employees who work at the government facility where they keep ET wet freaking out because they need five things for the email but all they did last week was spray water on ET
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*New paper* Denialism campaigns are growing in attempts to discredit science, scientists, and the scientific process generally. Biodiversity loss denial is a new phenomenon that needs our attention.
-With @alexanderlees.bsky.social + Eliza Grames!
#CommSky 🧪🌏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
-With @alexanderlees.bsky.social + Eliza Grames!
#CommSky 🧪🌏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
*New paper* Denialism campaigns are growing in attempts to discredit science, scientists, and the scientific process generally. Biodiversity loss denial is a new phenomenon that needs our attention.
-With @alexanderlees.bsky.social + Eliza Grames!
#CommSky 🧪🌏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
-With @alexanderlees.bsky.social + Eliza Grames!
#CommSky 🧪🌏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Usually the flex is how many jobs have been added.
Now it’s about how many have been lost.
So let’s hear some numbers. How many jobs lost in the US since January 20?
Now it’s about how many have been lost.
So let’s hear some numbers. How many jobs lost in the US since January 20?
February 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Usually the flex is how many jobs have been added.
Now it’s about how many have been lost.
So let’s hear some numbers. How many jobs lost in the US since January 20?
Now it’s about how many have been lost.
So let’s hear some numbers. How many jobs lost in the US since January 20?
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Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.
February 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.
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Quite the difference in the crowd reaction during the U.S. and Canadian national anthems during the 4 Nations Face-Off tonight
February 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Quite the difference in the crowd reaction during the U.S. and Canadian national anthems during the 4 Nations Face-Off tonight
Saw/heard this Janet Cardiff piece at the Art Gallery of Alberta over the weekend
February 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Saw/heard this Janet Cardiff piece at the Art Gallery of Alberta over the weekend
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A quick search of Cotton’s accounts show that the first time he posted a single word critical of USAID was 5 days ago, despite serving in the Senate for 10 years and the House before that.
February 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A quick search of Cotton’s accounts show that the first time he posted a single word critical of USAID was 5 days ago, despite serving in the Senate for 10 years and the House before that.
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"Bannon plans to plead guilty in a deal with NY state prosecutors to resolve fraud charges connected to fundraising for a U.S. southern border wall & allow him to avoid any prison time." www.reuters.com/world/us/for...
Former Trump advisor Bannon to plead guilty in border wall fraud case, avoid jail, Law360 reports
Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon plans to plead guilty in a deal with New York state prosecutors to resolve fraud charges connected to fundraising for a U.S. southern border wall and allow him to avoid any prison time, legal trade publication Law360 reported.
www.reuters.com
February 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"Bannon plans to plead guilty in a deal with NY state prosecutors to resolve fraud charges connected to fundraising for a U.S. southern border wall & allow him to avoid any prison time." www.reuters.com/world/us/for...
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BREAKING: Bird Flu Confirmed at NYC Zoos – 3 Ducks at Queens Zoo, 12 Birds at Bronx Zoo Dead.
February 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
BREAKING: Bird Flu Confirmed at NYC Zoos – 3 Ducks at Queens Zoo, 12 Birds at Bronx Zoo Dead.