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Worlds this year was incredible but I think we can do MUCH MORE to tell even more stories in this high level of competition!

Support your local VGC scene, support smaller players, support queer competitors! It's the only way for this champion roster to grow even more diverse 💛

Bonus: Couldn't decide which tail I liked most. I wanted to go for an overgrown herb garden feel but I don't think I got that on any of them. I wanted this to be better but I got to call it at some point before I get back to work. Enjoy my peeled mega meganium!

My prediction / take of #megameganium before any potential announcements for #pokemonlegendsZA at Day 2. #pokemon #playpokemon #meganium Couldn't decide what I wanted to do with the tail.

The holotype specimen (NMV P256471) was discovered in 2019 by a member of the public for which the species is named: Ross Dullard. It was found in what we informally call unit 1 of the Jan Juc Marl, other taxa from which can be seen in the artwork.

New species of 25 million year old toothed mysticete whale from Australia! 🐋 Say hello to Janjucetus dullardi.

Congrats to @inxcetus.bsky.social's on their excellent first PhD paper. He also did the amazing artwork!

STM 19–59, the smaller individual of Kunpengopterus sinensis associated with a pellet https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2021.0043

Q: Pterosaur "fun fact"

We have a baby (barely 6 cm long skull) Kunpengopterus pterosaur preserved surrounded by its own vomit. Doing palaeontology is seeing animals at the worst points in their lives.

‘Deceptively cute’ ancient whale with razor-sharp teeth and eyes the size of tennis balls discovered in Australia Scientist says new species described from 25-million-year-old fossil found in Victoria ‘was a gnarly whale I wouldn’t want to get in the water with’

DolphinSeeker@mstdn.social - ‘Deceptively cute’ ancient whale with razor-sharp teeth and eyes the size of tennis balls discovered in Australia www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science #FossilFriday #Prehistoric

A partial mandible of a Miocene impala (Aepyceros sp.) From a site in Kenya for #FossilFriday!

Foto mostrando o fóssil de uma arraia encontrada na Chapada do Araripe, entre Ceará, Pernambuco e Piauí. O esqueleto é cinza escuro, dentro de uma rocha amarelada que segue o formato do corpo. Está sobre um fundo preto e ao lado há uma régua branca que mede 7 cm (O fóssil mede 30 cm de comprimento).

Esta arraia do Araripe esperou 110 milhões de anos pra esta foto. #FossilFriday

Italian Farmer Stumbles Upon Largest Blue Whale Fossil Ever Found An unsuspecting Italian farmer found the whale's vertebrae protruding from a lake he was using to irrigate his fields.

Italian Farmer Stumbles Upon Largest Blue Whale Fossil Ever Found https://allthatsinteresting.com/italy-largest-blue-whale-fossil 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science #FossilFriday #Prehistoric

Lower tooth in jaw fragment on weathered surface next to a scale bar.

Half a molar in hand

Small astragalus in hand

Small patella in hand

A #FossilFriday that’s #LiveFromTheField! I’m doing fieldwork in the Cenozoic deposits of Kyrgyzstan currently, we started out with a really cool Eocene site called Toru Aygyr. My best find was this little tooth!

I'm sorry I'm a bit obsessed with how bad AI is at Pokemon I found this article and its FASCINATING

A.I. bros are jealous of jealous artist.
#art #artdiscourse #a.i #a.i.art #aiart #llm #llms #discourse #arttalk #nokings #thatincludesYOURoko'sbasiliskandit'sfollowers #rokosbasilisk

So of course, those who do not need to sell such large of a portion of themselves ( like a soul ) do not see the issues of copying, fraud and A.I. / LLMs ( Large Language Models ).

Copying art wouldn't be ( as much? ) of a problem if selling yourself wasn't a key component of staying alive.

Trademarks, Intellectual property, copyright. These are the tools artist, and the groups that may or may not represent them, use in a corporate setting to stay alive.

All the behaviour from artist that A.I. bros hate stem from the same culture bros perpetuate. In order to stay " economically competitive ", artist have to pigeon hole their skills into certain styles, brand their very being and stave off attempts at replicating their "souls" if you will.

does anybody actually get this or am i in too deep? 🦗🦗🦗🏏🦗 #coproliteposting #paleontology

Happy #fossilfriday
Here is a beautiful fossil slipper shell from Florida
#Calyptraeidae
#fossilsofflorida
#pleistocene ?

It's been a while since I drew a xeno.
Always feels like a benchmark subject for art progression. Ever since school.

A photo of a Red Fox Agate, it has black smooth surface with red bands on the outside, and large red bubbles inside.

A close up of the same spot, showcasing the color and how light reflects on it.

The under side of the rock, showing the intricate shapes the bands have, aswell as the contrast between the red and the black.

Close up focusing on the large red bubbles on the inside, from this side the outside is black and rough.

AAAA RED FOX AGATE AIOFJIOAGIJOGANIOAGOI
I LOVE HER!!!!!! SO MUCH!!!!!!!! AFJIOAEFJOIEFIJOAEOIJ
MY WIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SHE IS SO FULL OF IRON OXIDES!!!!!!!!!!!!
KAGKOPAGRJIAGEJIOAEOOUAGEUAGUGA
#agate #rockhound #redfoxagate

Ah, yes, the Gamer rock. I'm glad you have her!

An ink drawing showing the back of a figure in the woods facing away from the viewer. She is wearing a red cloak and gazing into the woods. A large wolf gazes back.

🐺

Illustration of Vampire Hunter D wielding his sword across his face. He is glaring beautifully at you over the blade and brim of his hat. His hand is outstretched to catch Charlotte’s ring to collect his bounty.

My full piece for Vampire’s Vestige, a Vampire Hunter D charity zine🦇🖤

You can still get a copy if you missed out! All proceeds go to PCRF 🖤

vampiresvestige.bigcartel.com

What you do is a large part of who you are, but it does not define you. There is no cutie mark to define you, & none to define the people around you or those in history. Beethoven did more than produce the music you hear in your community, as do the musicians around you. That, is performative.

I have a handful of purr.

Calling it now: When more English-speaking folks learn what "performative" actually means, it'll be the next buzzword appropriated by the right. "What do you mean being a [GENDER] is performative? I'll always be [GENDER]!" > "Being a [OCCUPATION] is performative? Don't you take away my identity!"

Enough with unicorns and dinosaurs – show children the magic of real, living animals instead | Isabel Losada Put up pictures of lemurs, penguins and wolves, and introduce tomorrow’s environmentalists to the amazing nature in our world, says author Isabel Losada

I agree with the need to engage children more with natural history, but dunking on dinosaurs for not being "real" or living animals is amazingly wrong and short sighted (birds, hello?). In the right hands, dinosaurs are gateways to natural history, not monsters.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This, precisely, is what I think Dem voters want from their representatives: direct confrontation with people who are used to bullying others both as a matter of substance and style. You don't have to back down to these fucking clowns.

a 2 panel comic of my gf's fursona (a shark with yellow and black markings) looking disinterested in the first panel, her head rested on her hand. the second panel is exactly the same except her ears are perked up, as though her interest has been piqued

saying ur wife's favourite words... #eggucart