David Clark

All right, let's do this one last time. My name is David Clark. I was bitten by a radioactive crinoid, and for 13 years I was on the bird site as clarkeocrinus. I'm pretty sure you know the rest.

no amnesty

Carved pumpkins tonight. I should not have picked the heirloom pumpkin because it had a strange greenish white color. It was intended for pies and was about 4 inches thick. Turned out nice, but it was a pain to carve.

Who do I give to to get this in front of as many Michigan voters as possible?

I just need 3 more of the Dark Horse Archives trades of Turok Son of Stone. Still searching for reasonably priced volume 2, 8 and 10. #Comics

Sturgeon or DRAGON? Cool shot by @garlab.bsky.social PhD student Griffin Blegen of characteristic protective bony plates (scutes) on a juvenile Lake Sturgeon 🐉

Beauty of a day today with my middle son clearing the site at #InnerMeadow. It’s hard work these days to make progress but it’s always well worth it for the new #Ediacaran fossils . Today’s pick of the finds was a #Charnia brasieri.

Hi, the political party that is murdering fishermen in boats, starting wars, setting up concentration camps, and killing hundreds of thousands of poor children in developing countries does not in fact give a shit about other people.

An example of how media props up fascists. "Failed to stop"; is not true, of course. GOP policies *actively caused* inflation. But the wording still implies Republicans are good faith actors who want to help Americans. That is the bigger lie, and the one they desperately want us to buy.

#MacroMonday with my new love ! This creature is a leaf tailed gecko from #BirminghamWildlifeConservationPark He uses the frilly edges that run right round it's body to suction to glass in this case and leaves/trees in the wild, he was around 8 inches nose to tail! Beautiful! @macrohour.bsky.social

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

What’s Portuguese for schadenfreude?

The next 10 days will be monumental, with elections in Serbia, Brazil, Israel and the US. This one was a victory for democracy.

A small flock of ghosts. Perhaps #SpookyNature #SpookySeason #FungiFriends 🌿

Early results in Brazil’s runoff election have gamblers dropping Bolsonaro like a rock.

This has all become so normalised and yet... this is not normal.

Jesus Christ, these people fucking suck. What is even the point of not responding with a simple, "Yes, of course"? Even for people who don't like El-Sayed, you sound like a fucking mutant who was raised in a lab with this answer.

The mantis is called the 'rice-pounding grasshopper' in Thailand (ตั๊กแตนตำข้าว), from the motion of its raptorial forelegs resembling the traditional manner of pounding rice to remove the husks. This one was drawn with this very brush.

Superheated trilobites

Fossil Friday! Arrakiscolex, a Cambrian 🪱named after F. Herbert's fictional planet Arrakis. Note how the plate covering extends from one annulus to the other (arrowhead). I was excited to discover a pair of caudal hooks when preparing this fossil 😍. Marjum Fm., UT. ⚒️

My daughter's friends know I'm the fossil guy because I've talked to her class every year. Her bestie found this on a beach and asked her to bring it home so I could help identify it. 🥰 These are Devonian Mucrospirifer brachiopods, probably about 375 million years old. #FossilFriday

Soon.

I had to check which MI district I'm in, because this feels so real.

literally illegal

Great headline. "His final term", but I see TRUMP 2028 flags in the picture. It has nothing to do with his record low approval or that he shits out alphabet soup at his hate rallies.

100% this and proud to have @lydiakauppi.bsky.social on our team.

Aulacostephanus, ammonite, obviously #Ammonites #cephalopod #Jurassic #invertebrate #Mesozoic #digitalpainting

If you ever wondered what hurricanes likely looked like during the late cretaceous hothouse, this is probably pretty close. Super Typhoon Champi, 185mph sustained winds, 220+mph gusts. Let's keep pumping more carbon out.

A president saying clearly and with his full chest “I am directing the Department of Justice” to do … anything, would have been a five-alarm scandal in previous years. Now? It’s just a Tuesday.

I will have Coyote Star with this weekend at IX.

Insanity

Republicans want to make it illegal for Republicans to lose elections because they don't believe the American people should be free to govern ourselves.

We planted dahlias this year and they are blooming. Find some beauty in the world.

Jesus Christ: Japanese horse girls have to cancel their two-day concert in Los Angeles because the Trump administration repeatedly refused to issue visas for performers to enter the U.S. I personally would not piss off the anime demographic two weeks before Election Day: umamusume.com/news/100113/

If our system of justice can determine that shooting a one year-old is justified, then we do not have a system of justice, and our goal should be the eradication of the system we have and its replacement with something better.

If we don't tax billionaires out of existence, there are other ways...

The mainstream media is addicted to rote repetition of bullshit from billionaires without giving it any context

If we tax Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires appropriately, every child in America can have healthcare, education, and a well funded social safety net instead of some racist billionaire’s pathetic pr stunt