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Prairie Griffin, modeled off the prairie chicken and bob cat. Seizes a snake inside its beak.

Prairie Wyrm, a dragon-like creature with a heron head and lizard body.

Two goblins abscond with farm produce on the back of a wild deer.

Two fisherman grapple on a boat with an enormous fresh water serpent with the head of a tiger Muskie.

𝔖𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔓𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔯𝔦𝔢, 𝔏𝔞𝔨𝔢, & 𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔠𝔨𝔢𝔱

From Beyond The Fields We Know: An Almanac of Midwestern Prairie Spirits.

would love to know who made the absolutely adorable grocery facsimiles in this video. so charming + effective and also i would put any and all of them on my wall in a frame

A split bar chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Americans are most likely to say T. Rex is their favorite dinosaur, but many don't have a favorite." The chart has the sub-headline: "Which of the following is your favorite dinosaur? (%)." The chart has the note: "Note: "Other" includes responses of archaeopteryx, spinosaurus, plesiosaur, ankylosaurus, allosaurus, parasaurolophus, dilophosaurus, diplodocus, iguanadon, and pachycephalosaurus, as well as responses of "other." We know pterodactyls and plesiosaurs aren't dinosaurs. Opinion about dinosaurs comes from the question, "How much do you like or dislike dinosaurs?""

A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur.

And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops).

Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...

“Getting it Wrong”: The First City-Funded Shelter Focused on the Trans Community is a Nightmare — Assigned Mariah Lopez, Executive Director of S.T.A.R.R., continues to fight for justice in the New York City shelter system conditions for trans clients and employees alike.

In NYC, a shelter for trans people experiencing homelessness should be a godsend to the most vulnerable members of our community, but issues including predatory cis men lying their way in have made it a nightmare.

And @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social isn't answering activists' emails...

much to dislike about american food culture but my greatest beef (pun not intended) is about how hard it is to find snacks that aren't too sweet. i should not have to go to kalyustan's just to get apricots that haven't been drenched in corn syrup!

Paul Binnie - Cranes
#ShinHanga #Woodblock #Print #JapaneseArt #Ukiyo-e

A wintery landscape with brown-grey colour scheme

Cold spring in Liaoning. Two anchiornithids fighting. Tianyulong unbothered.

We didn't deserve this day.

Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair | Apr 9-12 Apr 9–12, 2026 at PHA. The borough’s first and only fair dedicated exclusively to fine art printmaking, connecting artists, educators, collectors, and print lovers.

Oh hello! We didn't see you there. It's been a while! Sorry, we've just been busy getting ready for a bunch of great stuff—including the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair! ✨

Are you coming? We'd love to see you there from April 9–12 at Powerhouse Arts.

Get tickets here: powerhousearts.org/print-fair

:astonished: 😲 cut up and scanned

photo of a set of small etchings laid out in a grid on a tabletop

photo of a stack of prints, all individually wrapped in clear plastic, held in a person's hand

all my creatures, packed up and ready for the booth!

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

california quail monk

brother quail
(commission)

A loose watercolor paint of a maned wolf laying down and looking to the right over its back, one ear cocked to the right.

Splashy maned wolf study.

I agree with this, and the thing too is that LLMs are the printing press: you cannot uninvent a technology. social media as it currently exist are specific networks from specific companies and you can destroy networks. modern social media can be made to go away in a way that LLMs simply cannot.

Cambrian on my mind #sciart

A woman riding a gallimimus races through a misty hillside alongside a fellow hunter. She wears a long white robe that billows out, supplemented with leathers and feather trims. Soft clouds sweep overhead.

'Swift Hunters'

I'm very pleased to present the work I did for @paulscottcanavan.com 's MIR mentorship. He's a fantastic teacher and our cohort was lovely!

Pink pterosaurs, pink water. A flock of pterosaurs adapted for filter-feeding soar along a Jurassic coast undergoing a phytoplankton bloom, exposing the source of the pink carotenoids that they sequester into their fuzz to make their bodies and faces pink. Marine carotenoids would have been especially common from the Mesozoic onwards, and it's very plausible that animals like pterosaurs would have picked them up in their diets.

Still alive as work on Book 7 enters the last few days, though I am quite sleep-deprived. And which joker organised daylight savings so close to my deadline? Thanks, jerk.

Here's some #paleoart of the Jurassic pterosaur Balaenognathus soaring over dinoflagellates, the source of their pink bodies.

Artwork depicting a Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus battling with the T. rex being gored by the two long horns of the Triceratops. The image composed of oranges and blues with the blood being bright red. Underneath the image is the text "Death to the Tyrants".

Be safe out there today.

No kings!

a drawing of three Utahraptors--Raptor Red and her consort are snuggling and being cute. Raptor Red's sister in the foreground is gagging about it.

raptor red fanart

I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am

six square prints arranged in a 2x3 grid, showing (top row, L-R): a tyrannosaur, a Dunkleosteus, a flying grasshopper, (bottom row, L-R) a mammoth, a spiky, urchin-like Cambrian organism, and a thylacine. all the prints are aquatint etchings with ghostly silhouettes of the animals in white against a deep black background.

current project: an A-Z of extinct animals, in the form of tiny etchings!

this is what ive been working on during+since my Feb residency; i plan to drop all 26 prints at the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair (April 9-12). super fun and challenging project—can't wait to share the final series! #sciart

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

a small bird-like dinosaur is sleeping with its tail curled around itself and its snout tucked under its wing. Surrounding it is a low fence and scattered gingko leaves and redwood needles. The print is in dark red-brown ink on pale green paper.

a detail of the dinosaur focused on its head. one of its eyes is slightly open.

a detail of the gingko leaf impressions.

The Dragon at Rest in a Garden is my latest major print release! inspired by the unicorn tapestries, this lithograph includes stamps of real ginkgo and redwood leaves with the famous troodontid Mei long, or the “sleeping dragon.” (available @ store.cypressure.ink) #paleoart #sciart #printmaking

an illustration of an armored fish swimming through mud

an illustration of an ichthyosaur washed up on a beach

an illustration of a graptolite colony in a spiral formation

an illustration of a beaked whale periscoping

#paleostream : waterworld edition

Three women armed and dangerous, one's smoking while standing, the one next to her has a kinge between her teeth and is kneeling above a bleeding man on the ground, followed by one holding up a rifle

Melinda Gebbie

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Edit of the "Sickos Yes" meme featuring Calvin's Dad from Calvin and Hobbes, in particular the one where he hoped gas prices would go up