Paul M
@monsone87.bsky.social
Hi. I'm new in town. Where do the cool kids hang out here?
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Prefacing that I liked Bugonia but this is wayyyy more interesting
November 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Prefacing that I liked Bugonia but this is wayyyy more interesting
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Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
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we need to find Prominent Baseball Man and throw him into a volcano. it probably won't work, but I'm out of ideas.
Sometimes you run across an old quote that stops you cold. From a Jayson Stark article in January 2000:
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
we need to find Prominent Baseball Man and throw him into a volcano. it probably won't work, but I'm out of ideas.
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But do I think ALL mid-sized Hell Creek tyrannosaurs are Nanotyrannus?
Not necessarily.
The big challenge now is differentiating specimens of Nanotyrannus from bona fide juvenile rex. And it will be tough, as they are probably really similar.
Not necessarily.
The big challenge now is differentiating specimens of Nanotyrannus from bona fide juvenile rex. And it will be tough, as they are probably really similar.
October 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
But do I think ALL mid-sized Hell Creek tyrannosaurs are Nanotyrannus?
Not necessarily.
The big challenge now is differentiating specimens of Nanotyrannus from bona fide juvenile rex. And it will be tough, as they are probably really similar.
Not necessarily.
The big challenge now is differentiating specimens of Nanotyrannus from bona fide juvenile rex. And it will be tough, as they are probably really similar.
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A ferocious paleontology debate -- over teenage T. rex vs. Nanotyrannus -- may finally be settled. @arctomet.bsky.social @stevebrusatte.bsky.social @jgn-paleo.bsky.social
As an editor of mine used to say... ain't no fight like a science fight. 🎁link: wapo.st/47D18l5
As an editor of mine used to say... ain't no fight like a science fight. 🎁link: wapo.st/47D18l5
A ferocious debate over teenage T. rex fossils may finally be settled
For decades, paleontologists debated whether fossils were of a young T. rex or a species called nanotyrannus. A new study settles it: Nanotyrannus is real.
wapo.st
October 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A ferocious paleontology debate -- over teenage T. rex vs. Nanotyrannus -- may finally be settled. @arctomet.bsky.social @stevebrusatte.bsky.social @jgn-paleo.bsky.social
As an editor of mine used to say... ain't no fight like a science fight. 🎁link: wapo.st/47D18l5
As an editor of mine used to say... ain't no fight like a science fight. 🎁link: wapo.st/47D18l5
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JAMES HOFFMAN: [visibly grimacing] that one tastes like a completely normal cup of coffee. lets try the next one
OH. oh no. thats appallingly average
OH. oh no. thats appallingly average
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
JAMES HOFFMAN: [visibly grimacing] that one tastes like a completely normal cup of coffee. lets try the next one
OH. oh no. thats appallingly average
OH. oh no. thats appallingly average
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Per message shared w/ me:
The State Department just notified certain staff they are to work during the shutdown because their job is "necessary for emergencies involving the safety of human life" or "essential to national security"
Except…some people who got this were laid off weeks ago in the RIF!
The State Department just notified certain staff they are to work during the shutdown because their job is "necessary for emergencies involving the safety of human life" or "essential to national security"
Except…some people who got this were laid off weeks ago in the RIF!
October 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Per message shared w/ me:
The State Department just notified certain staff they are to work during the shutdown because their job is "necessary for emergencies involving the safety of human life" or "essential to national security"
Except…some people who got this were laid off weeks ago in the RIF!
The State Department just notified certain staff they are to work during the shutdown because their job is "necessary for emergencies involving the safety of human life" or "essential to national security"
Except…some people who got this were laid off weeks ago in the RIF!
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BIRDS - The Eagles block the Rams FG and Jordan Davis *rumbles* for the TD
September 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
BIRDS - The Eagles block the Rams FG and Jordan Davis *rumbles* for the TD
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By the head of the Federal Communications Commission, in 2022:
September 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
By the head of the Federal Communications Commission, in 2022:
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Nice pull, Carl.
Seriously, read this statement they launched on day one of the administration and see how long you can make it before you feel like you're going insane.
Seriously, read this statement they launched on day one of the administration and see how long you can make it before you feel like you're going insane.
September 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Nice pull, Carl.
Seriously, read this statement they launched on day one of the administration and see how long you can make it before you feel like you're going insane.
Seriously, read this statement they launched on day one of the administration and see how long you can make it before you feel like you're going insane.
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The false promise of "originalism" is that the Founders agreed on what they intended to write (they didn't), that they understood exactly what they wrote (they didn't), and that the thought the Constitution was set in stone, never to be changed (they didn't). Originalism needs context.
yikes yikes yikes: With the support of dozens of Republican judges, the Heritage Foundation created an 800-page clause-by-clause breakdown of the Constitution "that seeks to establish originalism as the sole legitimate way to read the nation's founding charter"
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
In New Book, Think Tank Behind Project 2025 Takes On the Constitution
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The false promise of "originalism" is that the Founders agreed on what they intended to write (they didn't), that they understood exactly what they wrote (they didn't), and that the thought the Constitution was set in stone, never to be changed (they didn't). Originalism needs context.
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It's fun having to prove I'm overweight to get a vaccine....
September 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
It's fun having to prove I'm overweight to get a vaccine....
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sorry for such a partisan take but i think slavery was bad
August 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
sorry for such a partisan take but i think slavery was bad
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I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
July 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
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EXPOSED: COW CAUGHT WITH HUMAN TOOLS AT COLDPLAY CONCERT
July 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
EXPOSED: COW CAUGHT WITH HUMAN TOOLS AT COLDPLAY CONCERT
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i don't like your odds, jim
July 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
i don't like your odds, jim
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Paine looks up, sees that extra guac is only $1.50.
Thinks.
Writes.
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly..”
Thinks.
Writes.
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly..”
What'd you do over the weekend? Public Works began resurfacing the street in front of the Chipotle where Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense
July 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Paine looks up, sees that extra guac is only $1.50.
Thinks.
Writes.
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly..”
Thinks.
Writes.
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly..”
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Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
May 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
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"And here we have... the three strange homunculi... like manifestations of trickster gods, agents of chaos. It is Yakko who spins the Wheel of Morality, deceiving onlookers into thinking... there is a moral lesson to be learned here, where in fact there is none--"
April 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"And here we have... the three strange homunculi... like manifestations of trickster gods, agents of chaos. It is Yakko who spins the Wheel of Morality, deceiving onlookers into thinking... there is a moral lesson to be learned here, where in fact there is none--"
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Over on The Hellsite, JD Vance has now functionally called for an end to due process for migrants. His argument is riddled with deceptions, bad faith, and embarrassingly awful logic. I think it needs a real response, so here's what I put up over there.
First, his 20 million number is fiction. 1/
First, his 20 million number is fiction. 1/
April 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Over on The Hellsite, JD Vance has now functionally called for an end to due process for migrants. His argument is riddled with deceptions, bad faith, and embarrassingly awful logic. I think it needs a real response, so here's what I put up over there.
First, his 20 million number is fiction. 1/
First, his 20 million number is fiction. 1/
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Pope Leo X and Charles V discover environmentalism
April 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Pope Leo X and Charles V discover environmentalism