Justin Andell

Every time I see someone posting about Iran and World War III, I add them to my growing list of “would have been gullible enough to support the Iraq War” Bingo Sheet

Hand clutching cartoonishly beneath a small pterosaur in a limestone slab as if conjuring a spell (specimen is behind glass).

Tilly Edinger’s first described specimen after she moved to the US

Exactly this.

now that Newsom has apparently decided now is the moment to throw trans people under the bus in service of his overwhelming ambition, I return once again to one of my oldest political maxims

do not trust a man who smiles like this

“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

Leslie Halligan, District Court Judge Fourth Judicial District Missoula County Courthouse 200 West Broadway Missoula, Montana 59802 (406) 258-4771 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY SUSAN EDWARDS; MONTANA TWO SPIRIT SOCIETY; KAEL FRY; ANNA TELLEZ; EDEN ATWOOD; SHANNON ALOIA, Plaintiffs, v. THE STATE OF MONTANA; GREG GIANFORTE, in his official capacity as GOVERNOR OF MONTANA, AUSTIN KNUDSEN, in his official capacity as ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MONTANA, Defendants. Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DV-23-1026 ORDER ON CROSS MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT This matter comes before the Court on opposing motions for summary judgment. Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment on Counts I, II, & III (“Motion”) seeks to declare Senate Bill 458 as facially unconstitutional. Defendants’ (collectively, the “State”) Motion for Summary Judgment seeks to dismiss Plaintiffs’ claims arguing the absence of a case or controversy. The Court has considered both motions, the parties’ supporting and opposing briefs, and the

Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional.

This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on!

Huge win for trans people in MT!

Tech bros will say anything to make themselves feel better about being lazy and intellectually uncurious

Every one of these guys thinks they’re Oppenheimer mixed with Andrew Carnegie and they own something called SplortDotCom that got bought by Boozoo

Wishing a not good day to any professor who says, “review your notes” to equations they showed us two minutes ago

PLINY THE ELDER: it says here that roasted millipedes are a cure for asthma

RFK Jr: correct

PLINY: and boiled frogs fix whooping cough?

RFK Jr: also true

CATO THE ELDER: and a flock of flying birds…

RFK Jr: yes, yes, can predict the shape and size of an infant’s cranium

Yeah for real, why didn’t he pass legislation after the war? It is a real mystery that we may never solve

Scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzinni says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen"

OpenAI right now

Well my solution is to just not use it and move on to refuse ad revenue and usership metrics

Completely annihilated my Twitter from orbit, I refuse to stay on a place run by a literal nazi

A photo of a small mixed breed dog laying in bed, taken on the morning of his final day being with us.

A photo of the same dog standing on a tile floor, taken shortly after we moved into our current home.

A photo of the same dog basking in the sunlight in our old house. His eyes are closed and he looks away from the light source.

A photo of the same dog outside in a dog park. He’s smiling.

You were the the best little gremlin in the whole world, and there’s not a day that’ll go by where I won’t love and miss you with my entire being. You lived a long life, despite what felt like your efforts to get into as much shit as possible. Rest easy, Cheerio, you’ll always be my little baby man💔

The key element that the Jurassic World movies lack, compared to the original and The Lost World, is balding guys in the cast

Geology Prof: “Later on in the semester you guys will be drawing Phase Diagrams from memory on the board and NOT cartoons”

Me: “That’s actually a Face Diagram that I drew from memory”

Sign the Petition Save the Museum of the Earth from Imminent Closure

I’m spreading the word about a petition from some friends of mine in support of the paleontological research institution, a remarkable museum which is unfortunately in danger of closing forever soon. www.change.org/p/save-the-m...

Cryptobots have migrated from their ancestral lands of Bird App in a great journey to greener pastures, nature is healing

I was made aware of something incredibly unfortunate about my favorite Neotype

Join me and these amazing musicians for Valentine's Day!

I almost told my friends that I am John Lennon’s biggest hater, but then I realized that I am a Silver Medalist John Lennon Hater at best

Imagine not only being hunted to extinction by a hairless bipedal ape, but having those same apes carve your likeness into a fragment of your teeth after hunting you. I would simply find a way to haunt them forever

The seals to any hiker named Tony

New World Cuckoos aren’t brood parasites as far as I know. Cowbirds here though? Very parasitic with their eggs

Right side view of man in white robes with blue and yellow stripes, and a white archbishopy hat. He faces a huge brown door and holds aloft a ?bronze staff with a rather large curled top that has a purple (amethyst-like) crystal in the centre. He is using the other end of the staff to pry open the gate.

The (level 20) Archbishop of Paris uses his +5 Holy Staff of Radiant Holiness to open the doors of Notre Dame again:
www.reuters.com/world/europe...

ANTERIOR CROCODILE ALLIGATOR, I DRIVE A CHEVROLET MOVIE THE-ATER

Led my first Paleobiology Lecture/Lab the other week. I decided to include a pathological Walrus Baculum as one of the specimens. The look of indifference on the faces of the women in the class compared to the looks of horror on the faces of the men in the class was truly an incredible contrast

Hi, my name is Justin, you should use pens instead of pencils when creating a map in the field for the first time ever

grey rock cleavage plane with perpendicular striations of “Skolithos” burrows

grey rock cleavage plane with “skolithos” burrows

Some of my first Cambrian fossils seen in the field, burrows of Skolithos at the type locality for this ichnotaxon