David Jones
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David Jones
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A ginger with a soul enjoying dinosaurs, Legos, art, and rocks.
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I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.

Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
September 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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team cherry

- radio silence for years
- revealed to just be chilling and "it'll be done when it's done"; no crunch or stress
- breaks the internet with the announcement in two weeks, causing people to shift events and game releases
- 1/3rd-1/4th the price of the average AAA title
- breaks steam
September 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Trump's very first example of the Smithsonian's "corrosive ideology" was an exhibit that correctly stated "Race is a human invention." How is scientific consensus (that biological races don't exist in humans) corrosive? We are asking scientists to co-sign our statement: forms.gle/kqKQF9CZ3jPB...
September 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording
August 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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US is now like, fully openly fascist, no?
The Trump administration is now seeking to replace PBS with “Prager University,” a far-right propaganda organization that isn’t actually a university.

One of their “kids videos” has Christopher Columbus telling them that slavery was “no big deal” and “better than being killed.”
August 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Took a bit of a break from drawing, was able to come back with a tree drawing.
I found this tree standing with its rock in Cannock Chase Forest. Lots of beautiful ancient oaks still hanging around there and summertime is really beautiful in England, it’s hard not to draw it

Graphite on paper
August 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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As of this week, there is nobody left on Earth who witnessed this moment live.
August 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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I get into fights with palaeoartists over this, but, privatisation will never deliver the same way as non-profit public resources can. People shouldn't pay to have access to education or culture. Privatisation spells doom for people low on the socioeconomic ladder.
In 1969, Mr. Rogers helped break down racial barriers on his PBS show.

Today, PBS' parent company announced that they are shutting down due to Trump administration funding cuts.
August 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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AMAZING NEWS!
apple tv has just announced a NEW pleistocene-focused series of #prehistoricplanet! streaming on november 26th
July 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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I just want to say “thank you” to the people who turned “Discovery Channel” into “Ghosts and Bigfoot” and “The Learning Channel” into “Granite Countertop Propaganda” for being a guiding light* for me as an owner of an educational media company.

*to run away from.
July 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today!
This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures!

I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart
July 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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This baby pterosaur is no bigger than my thumb
July 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Don't just say it's unconstitutional, remind people that the constitution is full of very good ideas designed to prevent authoritarianism, and most people who want to ignore it want that specifically because they are authoritarian.
June 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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You might have guessed where I'm going with this:



Who is going to do this today? America is giving up its scientists, driving them out with racism, closed-mindedness, and a simple lack of funding, just as Europe did 100 years ago.

Who are the random department store owners who will hire them?
May 14, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.
April 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.
April 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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JFC. I mean, not a surprise, but the Mauna Loa CO2 observation started by Keeling in the 1950s has been the longest continuous monitoring of atmospheric greenhouse gases in the world.
The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.
Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution
The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.
CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
March 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there.

The show must go on.
February 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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So we have joined the Russian Mafia. Not a question!
February 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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I've exhausted every possible expression for what we're seeing. Fresh f*ckery every f*cking day. Hard won progress — testaments to the triumph of endeavour, of science, of compassion, of understanding; beacons of comfort, joy, and celebration — being violently demolished at a stroke.
February 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Enjoy Ukrainian palaeoart 🇺🇦 from the 1930-1960s gracing the halls of Kyiv Natural History Museum. Featuring works of Ukrainian Greats, like Іван Їжакевич or Федора Кричевського. Also А. Л. Эккерт and Наталья Покатаева.
February 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM