Omar Rafael Regalado Fernández
@mathchaos.bsky.social
I'm a Palaeobiologist working on #dinosaur evolution and #phylogenetics (🧁🍇🥤). 🇲🇽
Advocate for #decolonisation in palaeo and STEM (he/him).
ORCID: 0000-0002-6247-6181
Advocate for #decolonisation in palaeo and STEM (he/him).
ORCID: 0000-0002-6247-6181
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Thread 1 (from 12 September 2022)
This flower is called a Poinsettia in English. September is the best time to discuss the name's connection to colonialism and why I would never call this plant a poinsettia.
This flower is called a Poinsettia in English. September is the best time to discuss the name's connection to colonialism and why I would never call this plant a poinsettia.
Colonial heritage in natural history
Thread 1 - Poinsettia and Monroe's Doctrine
Thread 1 - Poinsettia and Monroe's Doctrine
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**SPOTIFY, target of a long and strong boycott campaign from @indivisible.org has announced ICE recruitment ads are no longer running on their platform.
**Another boycott target, Avelo Airlines just halted deportation flights.
**Next Up: Citizens Bank.
variety.com/2026/digital...
**Another boycott target, Avelo Airlines just halted deportation flights.
**Next Up: Citizens Bank.
variety.com/2026/digital...
Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform
Spotify has confirimed that ICE recruitment ads are no longer running on its platform following criticism from last year.
variety.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:43 PM
**SPOTIFY, target of a long and strong boycott campaign from @indivisible.org has announced ICE recruitment ads are no longer running on their platform.
**Another boycott target, Avelo Airlines just halted deportation flights.
**Next Up: Citizens Bank.
variety.com/2026/digital...
**Another boycott target, Avelo Airlines just halted deportation flights.
**Next Up: Citizens Bank.
variety.com/2026/digital...
In my insanity, I count my blessings. If the current discourse is transparent Monroe doctrine – peak 19th century colonialism –, I can finally stop taking seriously people who say "colonialism is death" or "is a thing of the past". Reclaiming 5 mins in a talk and a paragraph in the intro of papers
January 7, 2026 at 12:24 PM
In my insanity, I count my blessings. If the current discourse is transparent Monroe doctrine – peak 19th century colonialism –, I can finally stop taking seriously people who say "colonialism is death" or "is a thing of the past". Reclaiming 5 mins in a talk and a paragraph in the intro of papers
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So embarrassing — the Trump DOJ’s Maduro indictment accuses him of leading the “Cartel De Los Soles”, which as we previously mentioned is not a real thing…
…so they just changed it. 🤦🏼 🎪
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
…so they just changed it. 🤦🏼 🎪
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
January 6, 2026 at 3:06 AM
So embarrassing — the Trump DOJ’s Maduro indictment accuses him of leading the “Cartel De Los Soles”, which as we previously mentioned is not a real thing…
…so they just changed it. 🤦🏼 🎪
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
…so they just changed it. 🤦🏼 🎪
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
It does feel like a cosmic joke that the Nobel Peace Prize triggered a crime of aggression.
January 6, 2026 at 9:00 AM
It does feel like a cosmic joke that the Nobel Peace Prize triggered a crime of aggression.
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💚 Thanks to our global BHL community, we reached our USD 50,000 #GiveBHLWings goal by 1 Jan 2026! These funds support BHL’s transition, staff, and infrastructure, keeping biodiversity knowledge open worldwide. Special thanks to our recurring donors. More updates soon. 🌍 📖 🧪 #BHLTransition
January 5, 2026 at 2:45 PM
💚 Thanks to our global BHL community, we reached our USD 50,000 #GiveBHLWings goal by 1 Jan 2026! These funds support BHL’s transition, staff, and infrastructure, keeping biodiversity knowledge open worldwide. Special thanks to our recurring donors. More updates soon. 🌍 📖 🧪 #BHLTransition
"The US killed at least 40 people in its illegal aggression against Venezuela"
Refreshing not to see the abuse of the passive voice.
www.publico.es/internaciona...
Refreshing not to see the abuse of the passive voice.
www.publico.es/internaciona...
EEUU asesinó al menos a 40 personas en su agresión ilegal a Venezuela
Tras el ataque, se han conocido nuevos detalles sobre las víctimas, y fuentes venezolanas aseguran que el asalto dejó civiles muertos y daños en zonas residenciales....
www.publico.es
January 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM
"The US killed at least 40 people in its illegal aggression against Venezuela"
Refreshing not to see the abuse of the passive voice.
www.publico.es/internaciona...
Refreshing not to see the abuse of the passive voice.
www.publico.es/internaciona...
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My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
December 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
Residente - This is Not America (Official Video) ft. Ibeyi
YouTube video by ResidenteVEVO
youtu.be
January 3, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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🇻🇪🇺🇸 | 🇫🇷 Manifestantes ateiam fogo em um bandeira dos Estados Unidos durante um protesto em Paris contra a ação militar dos EUA na Venezuela.
🎥 LucAuffret/X
🎥 LucAuffret/X
January 3, 2026 at 7:32 PM
🇻🇪🇺🇸 | 🇫🇷 Manifestantes ateiam fogo em um bandeira dos Estados Unidos durante um protesto em Paris contra a ação militar dos EUA na Venezuela.
🎥 LucAuffret/X
🎥 LucAuffret/X
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¿Estamos de acuerdo que ya le cayó caca al pastel del mundial? Desde las deportaciones masivas, pues, pero con lo de los bombardeos en Caracas por Estados Unidos y el aparente secuestro de Maduro, no hay forma de que ésto se pueda realizar de forma vagamente funcional.
January 3, 2026 at 11:06 AM
¿Estamos de acuerdo que ya le cayó caca al pastel del mundial? Desde las deportaciones masivas, pues, pero con lo de los bombardeos en Caracas por Estados Unidos y el aparente secuestro de Maduro, no hay forma de que ésto se pueda realizar de forma vagamente funcional.
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Sheinbaum debería de sacar a Mexico del Mundial en protesta de esta invasión.
No podemos ser participes de las Olimpiadas de Berlin de 1936 modernas.
Apoyar a la propaganda del “Premio FIFA de la Paz” de Trump seria escupirle a toda la gente de este país.
No podemos ser participes de las Olimpiadas de Berlin de 1936 modernas.
Apoyar a la propaganda del “Premio FIFA de la Paz” de Trump seria escupirle a toda la gente de este país.
¿Estamos de acuerdo que ya le cayó caca al pastel del mundial? Desde las deportaciones masivas, pues, pero con lo de los bombardeos en Caracas por Estados Unidos y el aparente secuestro de Maduro, no hay forma de que ésto se pueda realizar de forma vagamente funcional.
January 3, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Sheinbaum debería de sacar a Mexico del Mundial en protesta de esta invasión.
No podemos ser participes de las Olimpiadas de Berlin de 1936 modernas.
Apoyar a la propaganda del “Premio FIFA de la Paz” de Trump seria escupirle a toda la gente de este país.
No podemos ser participes de las Olimpiadas de Berlin de 1936 modernas.
Apoyar a la propaganda del “Premio FIFA de la Paz” de Trump seria escupirle a toda la gente de este país.
Fox News sycophants framing things more accurately than Reuters—"those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty."
May the Republican and neoliberal regime crumble, its enablers and bystanders be cast out in disgrace and shame, and Monroe Doctrine die!
May the Republican and neoliberal regime crumble, its enablers and bystanders be cast out in disgrace and shame, and Monroe Doctrine die!
Trump says "something is gonna have to be done" about Mexico and President Claudia Sheinbaum in response to a question about whether the Venezuelan strike was a "message" to her government.
January 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Fox News sycophants framing things more accurately than Reuters—"those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty."
May the Republican and neoliberal regime crumble, its enablers and bystanders be cast out in disgrace and shame, and Monroe Doctrine die!
May the Republican and neoliberal regime crumble, its enablers and bystanders be cast out in disgrace and shame, and Monroe Doctrine die!
I am paralysed with anger and fear...
January 3, 2026 at 12:55 PM
I am paralysed with anger and fear...
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This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
January 2, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
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Every person, company and institution that went out of their way to suck up to Donald Trump and the New American Reich stuck a target on their back that they will not find easy to remove
January 2, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Every person, company and institution that went out of their way to suck up to Donald Trump and the New American Reich stuck a target on their back that they will not find easy to remove
Outer Wilds is frustratingly fun... "Oh, I get it... I have to..." *Explosion*
January 2, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Outer Wilds is frustratingly fun... "Oh, I get it... I have to..." *Explosion*
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🎆NEW YEAR, NEW VIDEO!🎆 We are halfway to fascism... here's a one year update on Project 2025 from a class conscious perspective! Join us for the premiere!
youtu.be/sId_CBceFtA
youtu.be/sId_CBceFtA
Decoding the Fascist Program
YouTube video by NonCompete
youtu.be
January 1, 2026 at 2:59 PM
🎆NEW YEAR, NEW VIDEO!🎆 We are halfway to fascism... here's a one year update on Project 2025 from a class conscious perspective! Join us for the premiere!
youtu.be/sId_CBceFtA
youtu.be/sId_CBceFtA
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This Brazilian woman hates AI
December 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This Brazilian woman hates AI
A year of intense creative energy ends with a look at the staging of Rocky Horror in Luxembourg.
I guess 2026, ready or not, here we go.
I guess 2026, ready or not, here we go.
a woman with curly hair is waiting in a room .
Alt: A scene from Rocky Horror Picture Show. Tim Curry as Frank N. Furter saying "I'm waiting in antici- pation". Cut to Susan Sarandon face as Janet between "antici-" and "-pation"
media.tenor.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A year of intense creative energy ends with a look at the staging of Rocky Horror in Luxembourg.
I guess 2026, ready or not, here we go.
I guess 2026, ready or not, here we go.
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For two whole days Trump's comments on local NYC talk radio just hung in the air without question. The President of the United States claimed a strike on a country with whom we are not at war, and 48 hours passed without a peep. That says a lot about our media environment.
December 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
For two whole days Trump's comments on local NYC talk radio just hung in the air without question. The President of the United States claimed a strike on a country with whom we are not at war, and 48 hours passed without a peep. That says a lot about our media environment.
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⏳ Only days left in 2025! 🌿
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BHL becomes independent on 1 Jan 2026. Help #GiveBHLWings and keep biodiversity knowledge open for future generations. 🧪 📖 🌏 💸
🌍 Donate to make a difference: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/GiveBHL... #ILoveBHL
December 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
⏳ Only days left in 2025! 🌿
BHL becomes independent on 1 Jan 2026. Help #GiveBHLWings and keep biodiversity knowledge open for future generations. 🧪 📖 🌏 💸
🌍 Donate to make a difference: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/GiveBHL... #ILoveBHL
BHL becomes independent on 1 Jan 2026. Help #GiveBHLWings and keep biodiversity knowledge open for future generations. 🧪 📖 🌏 💸
🌍 Donate to make a difference: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/GiveBHL... #ILoveBHL
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Historian here people forget the immigration regime being championed by the Trump regime and its bigoted heart in Miller. Make America 1924 again.
December 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Historian here people forget the immigration regime being championed by the Trump regime and its bigoted heart in Miller. Make America 1924 again.
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Im profoundly committed to access as care, access as process. Some of you need to understand that since chatGPT etc have entered the fray, many profs are seeing truly detrimental effects on students' engagement, learning and community. Caring about that isn't ableist/being a cop/technophobic.
December 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Im profoundly committed to access as care, access as process. Some of you need to understand that since chatGPT etc have entered the fray, many profs are seeing truly detrimental effects on students' engagement, learning and community. Caring about that isn't ableist/being a cop/technophobic.
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🐉 The book of the great sea-dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, [gedolim taninim] gedolim taninim, of Moses.
London, W. Pickering, 1840.
[Source]
London, W. Pickering, 1840.
[Source]
December 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
🐉 The book of the great sea-dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, [gedolim taninim] gedolim taninim, of Moses.
London, W. Pickering, 1840.
[Source]
London, W. Pickering, 1840.
[Source]
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We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.
December 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.