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Mike Keesey

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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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Fortunately she isn’t. Orwell never said that.

05.03.2026 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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noem's dog looking down from heaven

05.03.2026 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2460    πŸ” 269    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 10
Dinosaur Desert Book

Dinosaur Desert Book

A Polish lady doing graffiti of P in war torn Warsaw

A Polish lady doing graffiti of P in war torn Warsaw

From the Dinosaur book, reflections of Soviet inaction in Warsaw Uprising

From the Dinosaur book, reflections of Soviet inaction in Warsaw Uprising

I was campaigning to highlight achievements of Polish Women in Palaeontology. And bang, here's a children's book about this very topic. 🧡

Rarely you come across books covering both, turbulent Polish history.

04.03.2026 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s a foreign accent.

04.03.2026 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fish’s
Fish’s
Fishes’

(All pronounced the same.)

04.03.2026 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Enough with the Norman Rockwell guy-standing-up-at-an-assembly meme. It’s a great painting, yes, but I don’t need to see it recontextualized every single time I scroll my feed.

03.03.2026 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.

The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

01.03.2026 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3854    πŸ” 973    πŸ’¬ 139    πŸ“Œ 88

Episode IV is pretty much that and Flash Gordon and Dune and The Dambusters stuck in a blender. A delicious smoothie.

02.03.2026 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Some of his first few movies are pretty rough, while he was still cutting his teeth. Not that I would say they weren’t worth watching.

02.03.2026 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe they also primed everyone to see Cretaceous megafauna as β€œbig lizards”, since they’re the one group where that is actually true.

28.02.2026 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

28.02.2026 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 10265    πŸ” 2807    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 136

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

27.02.2026 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 19188    πŸ” 4334    πŸ’¬ 1075    πŸ“Œ 170
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Gorillaz "The Mountain" 8-minute short film is now online.
Directed by Jamie Hewlett, Max Taylor & Tim McCourt at The Line studio.
An homage to the golden era of 2D animation, produced with a hybrid analogue-digital workflow.
>> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-02...

27.02.2026 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 7300    πŸ” 2749    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 204

What about Killer of Killers?

27.02.2026 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Epstein Files: NPR Finds 53 Missing β€˜Trump’ Pages β€” the DOJ Has No Explanation NPR finds 53 Epstein file pages missing from the DOJ release, deepening questions about transparency in Trump’s own Justice Department.

AT LEAST 53 PAGES OF FBI INTERVIEW SUMMARIES AND NOTES APPEAR TO EXIST IN THE TRUMP/EPSTEIN FILES BUT ARE NOT IN THE PUBLIC DATABASE

26.02.2026 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2620    πŸ” 1068    πŸ’¬ 169    πŸ“Œ 57

In a state of over 3,000,000 people, Kansas is attacking less than two thousand trans people's ability to formally interact with any legal system. Scaremongers said trans people were taking over! It's only two thousand trans men and women simply unfortunate enough to be surrounded by teeming bigots.

26.02.2026 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's not getting much press coverage, but last month the Department of Education quietly stopped fighting a lawsuit challenging the infamous DEI "Dear Colleague" letter. This effectively means the letter is unenforceable. This is a huge win that deserves celebrating, and we can thank unions!

26.02.2026 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 161    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Ahhhhhhh

26.02.2026 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
tclark’s post showing a black image with a small white/grey loading spinner.

tclark’s post showing a black image with a small white/grey loading spinner.

26.02.2026 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

25.02.2026 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5103    πŸ” 1880    πŸ’¬ 96    πŸ“Œ 128

It doesn’t matter what name, fresh in life is the same.

25.02.2026 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Tim, your GIFs never load for me for some reason.

25.02.2026 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to US surveillance efforts | Fortune Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.

Et voila. fortune.com/2026/02/24/d...

24.02.2026 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The DoD now has more money than it knows what to do with.

Imagine if we spent that money on healthcare or housing instead.

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” -MLK

23.02.2026 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4200    πŸ” 1468    πŸ’¬ 236    πŸ“Œ 92

Essentially the entire plot of THE CHAIR COMPANY.

23.02.2026 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For now.

23.02.2026 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Everything is β€œfor now” with the internet.

23.02.2026 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Those niche spaces are now on Discord.

23.02.2026 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Arco (film) - Wikipedia

Just saw special screening of ARCO, a nominee for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, with director Ugo Bienvenu doing Q&A after. I feel like it was not promoted at all in the U.S., and it’s a real gem. Seek it out if you can. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arco_(f...

23.02.2026 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And it looks like butt. Use real cartoonists.

22.02.2026 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0