Patrick
@patrx.bsky.social
Just some guy. Producer, photographer, VFX hobbyist; I mostly post about natural history and superheroes. He/him
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
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Spielberg influencing Zyuranger, there by influencing Mighty Morphin Power Rangers that came out the exact same year as Jurassic Park.
Six Degrees of Big Budget Tokusatsu, kiddies.
Six Degrees of Big Budget Tokusatsu, kiddies.
This is the 1991 PLEX character art for Zyuranger.
According to producer Takeyuki Suzuki, his decision to use a dino motif was thanks to Spielberg's acquisition of the rights to Jurassic Park in May 1990.
According to producer Takeyuki Suzuki, his decision to use a dino motif was thanks to Spielberg's acquisition of the rights to Jurassic Park in May 1990.
June 2, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Spielberg influencing Zyuranger, there by influencing Mighty Morphin Power Rangers that came out the exact same year as Jurassic Park.
Six Degrees of Big Budget Tokusatsu, kiddies.
Six Degrees of Big Budget Tokusatsu, kiddies.
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Paleontologists have just announced a prehistoric sawshark named after - you guessed it - Pochita.
Check out my latest blog post for more! 🧪
Check out my latest blog post for more! 🧪
All Devils Are Born With a Name — Riley Black
Paleontologists have named a new prehistoric sawshark after the iconic Chainsaw Man.
rileyblack.net
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Paleontologists have just announced a prehistoric sawshark named after - you guessed it - Pochita.
Check out my latest blog post for more! 🧪
Check out my latest blog post for more! 🧪
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We missed Godzilla Day yesterday, but here’s an exclusive, never-before-seen photo from the set at Studio Toho!
This early design was supposedly due to creator Tomoyuki Tanaka‘s sympathy/solidarity towards Crystal Palace FC being relegated from the Third Division South in the 1953-54 season…
This early design was supposedly due to creator Tomoyuki Tanaka‘s sympathy/solidarity towards Crystal Palace FC being relegated from the Third Division South in the 1953-54 season…
November 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We missed Godzilla Day yesterday, but here’s an exclusive, never-before-seen photo from the set at Studio Toho!
This early design was supposedly due to creator Tomoyuki Tanaka‘s sympathy/solidarity towards Crystal Palace FC being relegated from the Third Division South in the 1953-54 season…
This early design was supposedly due to creator Tomoyuki Tanaka‘s sympathy/solidarity towards Crystal Palace FC being relegated from the Third Division South in the 1953-54 season…
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'You're adopted'
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(For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)
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(For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)
November 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
'You're adopted'
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(For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)
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(For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)
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Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖
October 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖
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Museums of the future. A digital aquarium tunnel of the Triassic marine life, at the Geological Museum of Guizhou, China.
September 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Museums of the future. A digital aquarium tunnel of the Triassic marine life, at the Geological Museum of Guizhou, China.
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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
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
September 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
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If Jurassic Park had feathered its dromaeosaurids in 1993, I'm telling you that this would be the GOOD timeline. And yet here we are.
September 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
If Jurassic Park had feathered its dromaeosaurids in 1993, I'm telling you that this would be the GOOD timeline. And yet here we are.
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we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
September 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
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Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least
September 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least
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i really hope it sticks now for any lost young buckaroos who find something interesting about a libertarian trot or similar way: these people have been fakin it the whole time. none of them actually care about free speech. they are either: 1 embarrassed conservatives or 2 dummies
September 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
i really hope it sticks now for any lost young buckaroos who find something interesting about a libertarian trot or similar way: these people have been fakin it the whole time. none of them actually care about free speech. they are either: 1 embarrassed conservatives or 2 dummies
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Education is the enemy of fascism.
September 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Education is the enemy of fascism.
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Mild take:
The vilification of "virtue signalling" was a political project designed to make even the most subtle reminders of what decency is uncouth and it fucking worked.
The vilification of "virtue signalling" was a political project designed to make even the most subtle reminders of what decency is uncouth and it fucking worked.
September 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Mild take:
The vilification of "virtue signalling" was a political project designed to make even the most subtle reminders of what decency is uncouth and it fucking worked.
The vilification of "virtue signalling" was a political project designed to make even the most subtle reminders of what decency is uncouth and it fucking worked.
On 1/4/2024 I lost my beloved beaky boy, Cosmo. Soon after, @stickasaurus.bsky.social reached out with the idea to create a new hero design in Cosmo's honor. The community joined together to make it happen.
Here's to you, little buddy. I hope you're out there shattering eardrums among the stars.
Here's to you, little buddy. I hope you're out there shattering eardrums among the stars.
September 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
On 1/4/2024 I lost my beloved beaky boy, Cosmo. Soon after, @stickasaurus.bsky.social reached out with the idea to create a new hero design in Cosmo's honor. The community joined together to make it happen.
Here's to you, little buddy. I hope you're out there shattering eardrums among the stars.
Here's to you, little buddy. I hope you're out there shattering eardrums among the stars.
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i've masked everywhere for over 5 years at this point & to the best of my knowledge i've never been anyone's typhoid mary or had it myself & i love to see it in the world.
also, i clearly need to get it together if that's 48yo buffy. anyone out there parasocial enough to get me a personal trainer?
also, i clearly need to get it together if that's 48yo buffy. anyone out there parasocial enough to get me a personal trainer?
Buffy the COVID Slayer: Sarah Michelle Gellar posts masked selfie on set of reboot
'I will wear a mask in my shower if that means I don't get this again' said Sarah Michelle Gellar after recovering from COVID-19
www.thecanary.co
September 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
i've masked everywhere for over 5 years at this point & to the best of my knowledge i've never been anyone's typhoid mary or had it myself & i love to see it in the world.
also, i clearly need to get it together if that's 48yo buffy. anyone out there parasocial enough to get me a personal trainer?
also, i clearly need to get it together if that's 48yo buffy. anyone out there parasocial enough to get me a personal trainer?
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If we cannot all be on the same page that the sitting president threatening to invade a US city is fascist dictator shit then truly I do not know what to do.
September 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If we cannot all be on the same page that the sitting president threatening to invade a US city is fascist dictator shit then truly I do not know what to do.
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It took a lot of effort... a lot, but I managed to get both of the David Armsby models home via public transport from Glasgow via Aberdeen (much further in the north) to Southampton. And thus here they are. Wow.
August 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
It took a lot of effort... a lot, but I managed to get both of the David Armsby models home via public transport from Glasgow via Aberdeen (much further in the north) to Southampton. And thus here they are. Wow.
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“Investing in the stock market” is just “betting on which companies will exploit workers and natural resources most efficiently”
August 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
“Investing in the stock market” is just “betting on which companies will exploit workers and natural resources most efficiently”
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One lingering aspect of this LLM stuff, even after it collapses, will be the knowledge that many of my peers don’t make things to enjoy the making, but to enjoy the having made. I just assumed everyone really dug climbing that mountain too. Nothing noble about it, no judgement, just a lesson learned
August 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
One lingering aspect of this LLM stuff, even after it collapses, will be the knowledge that many of my peers don’t make things to enjoy the making, but to enjoy the having made. I just assumed everyone really dug climbing that mountain too. Nothing noble about it, no judgement, just a lesson learned
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It's out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuHY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuHY...
August 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It's out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuHY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuHY...
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Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.
Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to
August 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.