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Mike Keesey

@tmkeesey.bsky.social

Software engineer with occasional illustration and evolutionary biology work. I make prehistoric comics (https://www.keesey-comics.com) and a website with free silhouettes (https://www.phylopic.org/). He/him

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Pleistocene A mini-comic about an encounter in the Late Pleistocene. He was a brave hero, a great hunter, a natural leader of menβ€”or so he thought of himself. Ridiculed by his people, he undertook a quest across ...

And PLEISTOCENE is a mini-comic about humans and not-quite-humans living 60 millennia ago. www.keesey-comics.com/comics/pleis...

30.09.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Keesey Comics Comics about prehistory and disaster. Sometimes both.

Keesey Comics has a new website! Now with page previews, trailers, and more. Check it out! www.keesey-comics.com

30.09.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Parry β€˜n’ Carney: Friends for Life A webcomic about dinosaurs and the things dinosaurs do. Parry the Parasaurolophus and Carney the Carnotaurus are friends for life! Right???

PARRY β€˜N’ CARNEY: FRIENDS FOR LIFE is a webcomic compilation about dino-buddies. (Featuring an introduction by Charles Darwin!) www.keesey-comics.com/comics/parry...

30.09.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

(I guess that’s not a movie.)

05.10.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He’s kind of the actual main character, though.

05.10.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Arthur from The Tick, although he’s the sidekick.

05.10.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

04.10.2025 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 6256    πŸ” 3401    πŸ’¬ 443    πŸ“Œ 532

open.substack.com/pub/vinceman...

02.10.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œa poor, ignorant, malicious, crapulous mass” β€”John Adams

(He was referring to one of Thomas Paine’s pamphlets, but I believe it applies better to Trump.)

02.10.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Paleocene A comic book series about our early primate ancestors. Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Earth, killing three quarters of all living things. But our tiny ancestors survived. Wi...

PALEOCENE is a comic book series about our ancestors who survived the asteroid impact that ended the Age of Dinosaurs: www.keesey-comics.com/comics/paleo...

30.09.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mycosarcoma maydis by Arcadia Science (CC0 1.0) - PhyloPic A free silhouette image of Mycosarcoma maydis (DC.) Bref. by Arcadia Science (License: CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication).

At long last, PhyloPic has smut. www.phylopic.org/images/c2fad...

30.09.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Haha, be warned, it’s more violent than it looks. (In a silly way.)

Flop-o-saurus, ouch.

30.09.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pleistocene A mini-comic about an encounter in the Late Pleistocene. He was a brave hero, a great hunter, a natural leader of menβ€”or so he thought of himself. Ridiculed by his people, he undertook a quest across ...

And PLEISTOCENE is a mini-comic about humans and not-quite-humans living 60 millennia ago. www.keesey-comics.com/comics/pleis...

30.09.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Parry β€˜n’ Carney: Friends for Life A webcomic about dinosaurs and the things dinosaurs do. Parry the Parasaurolophus and Carney the Carnotaurus are friends for life! Right???

PARRY β€˜N’ CARNEY: FRIENDS FOR LIFE is a webcomic compilation about dino-buddies. (Featuring an introduction by Charles Darwin!) www.keesey-comics.com/comics/parry...

30.09.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Flesh From a sleepy suburb, a grotesque abomination emerges, its insatiable hunger leaving a trail of carnage and terror, as unlikely survivors fight to endure in a world overrun by unspeakable horror. In a...

THE FLESH is a horror series about an existential threat to life on Earth. www.keesey-comics.com/comics/the-f...

30.09.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Paleocene A comic book series about our early primate ancestors. Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Earth, killing three quarters of all living things. But our tiny ancestors survived. Wi...

PALEOCENE is a comic book series about our ancestors who survived the asteroid impact that ended the Age of Dinosaurs: www.keesey-comics.com/comics/paleo...

30.09.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Keesey Comics Comics about prehistory and disaster. Sometimes both.

Keesey Comics has a new website! Now with page previews, trailers, and more. Check it out! www.keesey-comics.com

30.09.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Hey, stop trying to make me look.

29.09.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That sounds like Looney Tunes logic, where the character doesn’t fall until he looks down and sees he’s not standing on anything.

29.09.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Stuff for PhyloPic | Mike Keesey Get more from Mike Keesey on Patreon

New stuff for PhyloPic: an article on image usage and the Collections Drawer feature, and improved integration with NCBI.
www.patreon.com/posts/new-st...

28.09.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I go by my last name a lot, too, to the point some people don’t realize it’s a last name at first.

27.09.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Those dang SVP name tags.

27.09.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Microraptor, inspired by inspired by old Chinese an Japanese art.

Microraptor, inspired by inspired by old Chinese an Japanese art.

Microraptor repost time!

27.09.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1907    πŸ” 556    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 5

Right. Also a little thing called The Simpsons.

27.09.2025 07:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The affiliate blackout lasted about as long as a Hegseth blackout.

26.09.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Report: Friend Has Been Going By Middle Name This Whole Fucking Time CALABASAS, CAβ€”Astounded that it had never come up at any point in the six years they had known each other, local woman Lucy Reed, 25, reported Tuesday that her friend Nicole Silberthau had apparently ...

I have something to confess theonion.com/report-frien...

27.09.2025 07:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

I dunno if that’s selling me, but the clip looks good.

26.09.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There used to be this thing called β€œFlash” that combined animation with a JavaScript-like language (ActionScript). Actually, it’s still around as Adobe Animate.

26.09.2025 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Excellent choice.

25.09.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My local video store (speaking of old things) has Strongbad emails on DVD. Happy to report my kid found them hilarious.

25.09.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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