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Gabriel S. Jacobs

@gsjphd.bsky.social

Paleontologist. Schoolteacher. Big galoot. Bespoke homemade opinions. (he/him) Arthropod enthusiast, echino-curious. Eamus Catuli, illegitimi non carborundum.

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I don't have strong opinions about cannabis, but I'm coming around to the uses of hemp.

08.03.2026 01:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

whole lot of people being Very Normal in the comments

08.03.2026 01:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This argument works equally well for ELIZA.

07.03.2026 22:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Christian nationalists are currently supporting a guy who says he's never asked God for forgiveness and whose fanbase enthusiastically makes obeisance to idols of him. I don't think they're interested much in theological specifics.

07.03.2026 22:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

having lived for several years in the south, and having multiple times asked the sequence of questions:
"Is there any pork in this dish?"
"Okay but what kind of sausage?" (it was pork sausage every time)

I believe it.

07.03.2026 18:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

we are dead and this is hell

07.03.2026 18:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

07.03.2026 16:41 — 👍 5717    🔁 953    💬 65    📌 20

hell yeah you're twelve, buddy

07.03.2026 18:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

mom said it's my turn to post that

07.03.2026 18:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
07.03.2026 17:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

LA CREATURA

07.03.2026 03:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Magnificent giant soft green moth with 4 eye spots and long twisty "tail", at rest with wings spread on the side of a pine

Magnificent giant soft green moth with 4 eye spots and long twisty "tail", at rest with wings spread on the side of a pine

Luuuuuuuuuunaaaaaa 💚

Few local creatures stop me in my tracks like this, just the sheer size and soft colors and markings. Like, welp, day instantly better.

05.03.2026 02:03 — 👍 754    🔁 148    💬 12    📌 4

I am once again tapping the "support independent, worker-owned, billionaire free news" sign. the most powerful people in the world should not be deciding whether or not we know about this sort of thing. putting Marisa's subscription link below

06.03.2026 22:34 — 👍 1610    🔁 392    💬 6    📌 1
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A really nice example of a Dolatocrinus calyx from the Devonian Thunder Bay limestone of Alpena. The stem would have connected in the center of the star and the arms would have attached on the U shaped bumps on the left pic.

This shows the 5 point symmetry common in most echinoderms.

#FossilFriday

06.03.2026 19:12 — 👍 285    🔁 28    💬 14    📌 0

vertebrate paleontologists have demanding fieldwork. invertebrate paleontologists can often get by on highway shoulders if there's a decent roadcut.

06.03.2026 20:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

that's why Juarez made sure Maximilian didn't get to walk away from his attempted empire.

the usurper who tries to wear a crown shall have nothing on which to wear it.

06.03.2026 20:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

my good dude, the skeet you were responding to was explicitly about the education they got.

06.03.2026 19:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

hey quick question: what is the tetrapod with the largest genome?

06.03.2026 17:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the first sentence in this skeet, in response to the education of fascist leadership

06.03.2026 17:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

okay but the Nazi higher-ups, the ones who plotted the overthrow of the Weimar Republic, got their educations *before* seizing control of Germany.

we do understand time's arrow here, right?

06.03.2026 17:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

what are the odds it would happen twice?

06.03.2026 15:47 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

dermestid beetles shaking tiny bug fists in impotent rage, unaware that the bones inside are too dry even for them to eat.

06.03.2026 15:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

okay but "some academics were purged, some collaborated" is completely different from "humanities in that day was basically getting a degree in white supremacy". and remember, if you're looking at what academia was like under (not before) the Nazi regime...you're looking at the post-purges version.

06.03.2026 15:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

the other way of cleaning rugs is looking more appealing these days

06.03.2026 12:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

[citation needed]

the fact that the Nazis and every other fascist regime carried out purges of academia is a point against your claim.

06.03.2026 12:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

he's seathing and maulding about it

06.03.2026 12:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined

05.03.2026 17:12 — 👍 3171    🔁 1076    💬 47    📌 24
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a close up of a man 's face with a purple hair and a black background Alt: Kishibe Rohan from Stardust Crusaders saying "I refuse"

absolutely not.
Messianics are just Christians who appropriate our culture and I refuse to read their literature.

you know the saying "two Jews, three opinions"? well, the one thing that all Jews of all denominations and cultures agree on is that Messianics are not Jews.

06.03.2026 09:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"There are Christian Jews"
I assure you there are not.

06.03.2026 00:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

05.03.2026 23:19 — 👍 12894    🔁 3339    💬 2106    📌 568