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@palaeoplushies.com

🪡🧵Portfolio post🦖🐟

I'm a natural history artist who specialises in designing and hand-making realistic plushies of animals!

I focus on under-represented species, using palaeoartistic techniques to reconstruct extinct creatures.

My work can be found on my website: www.palaeoplushies.com

A realistic plush anurognathus- a species of small pterosaur. It has brown fur and striking green-orange wing membranes. Shiny dark eyes look soulfully at the camera.

A realistic plush Oyster Toadfish. This fish is a mottled brown which would blend in well with it's environment. It has a fringe around it's face to break up the outline, and shining gold eyes. It looks rather grumpy.

A realistic plush depiction of a blue Neocaridina shrimp. This plush looks like it is made of transparent segments, but it is actually a digitally painted pattern printed onto soft velvet fabric. It has beady eyes and cord antennae.

A realistic depiction of a baby Diplodocus dinosaur. The colouration is a striped brown and deep orange. It has scales along it's tail, which is visible because the plush looks away from the camera.

October 22, 2024 at 9:00 PM

Ike

@boxy.bsky.social

TIL that the WWE operates an 'immersive experience' that includes memorabilia, a dress-up room, a statue of Hulk Hogan, and an Undertaker-themed escape room

It's in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

I might've picked Orlando or Vegas or something, but I feel sure they had their reasons

Photos: The WWE Experience opens in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Braun Strowman, Chelsea Green, Jinder Mahal and Natalya help ring in the grand opening of the incredible new WWE Experience in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

www.wwe.com

December 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM

Ike

@boxy.bsky.social

Ted Cruz, having finally realized he will never be president, angles for a Supreme Court appointment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Ted Cruz: "Mr President, I think objectively on the merits, the case can be made that there's never been a president who has had a greater positive impact on the children of America than you have."

December 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM

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Oliver Willis

@owillis.bsky.social

fox has been trying to rally the base with this "aoc of tennessee" push

December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM

Ike

@boxy.bsky.social

Career military people, by and large, would rather be Mark Kelly than Pete Hegseth.

Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 1d

what struck me reading this is that any benefit of the doubt that career officers might have been willing to grant to Hagueseth before his statements is now in tatters

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine being a career officer in the chain of command on Trump's boat bombings. You have deep moral and legal concerns about them. Your faith in leadership is shaky. Then you see Pete Hegseth tweet out a sadistic cartoon about it. Must be awful.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2037...

December 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM

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Lisa Diedrich

@lisadiedrich.bsky.social

For World AIDS Day, ACT UP New York has created posters as part of their Healthgate campaign, which capture the deadly consequences of creepy RFK Jr as head of HHS.
Dismantling Healthcare = Death!
You can download the posters here: actupny.com/act-up-ny-an...
#WorldAIDSDay
#IllnessPolitics

Lime green poster of a creepy-looking medusa-like RFK Jr with pink eyes & snakes coming from his head. HEALTHGATE is written in pink block letters across his chin. Text below reads:
RFK, Jr: THE PUBLIC MAN-MADE DEATH
As of Nov 5, 2025, it is estimated that USAID's dismantling has already caused the deaths of 630,000 people, 420,000 children.
Defunding health and science--and leaving HIV, TB, and vaccine-preventable illnesses untested, unprevenbted, and untreated--kills.
ACT UP
LEARN THE FACTS
DISMANTLING HEALTHCARE = DEATH

December 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM

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Howard A. Rodman

@rodman.bsky.social

I call my fists Patience and Fortitude because you’re about to read between the lions.

December 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM

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my views do not represent those of my employer

@zinelib.bsky.social

"Q: Does the @librarycongress.bsky.social replacement of MEXICO, GULF OF and DENALI, Mount (ALASKA) as subject terms following a Trumpian decree represent a case of abrogation of professional judgment and autonomy?"

preview of Sandy Berman's auto-interview coming soon to my website 📚 #sandynistas

December 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM

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Los Angeles Review of Books

@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

"Being convinced to play was probably the hardest part."

Martin Wong talks with Emily’s Sassy Lime about reuniting for California Biennial: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/still-not-geriatric-archiving-a-teenage-riot-grrrl-band/

A photo of Emily's Sassy Lime posing by an old car

November 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM

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Brian Goldstone

@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."

I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Brian Goldstone appears on a PBS News Weekend, speaking from a room lined with bookshelves. A lower-third caption reads: “BRIAN GOLDSTONE — Journalist and Author, ‘There Is No Place for Us.’”

November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM

Ike

@boxy.bsky.social

Most of the time, one of these:

The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are a Live

Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You

November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM

Ike

@boxy.bsky.social

Rafael Toral "Easy Living" (Official Music Visualizer)

YouTube video by Drag City

www.youtube.com

November 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM

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Alex Thomas

@alexhousethomas.bsky.social

Interested education reporters! Join our Little Rock newsroom and cover a education system that always seems to make headlines.

JournalismJobs.com - Job Listing - Public Education Reporter

JournalismJobs.com has journalism and media job listings with digital media, newspapers, tv stations, radio stations, magazines, nonprofits, and academia.

www.journalismjobs.com

November 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM

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Eric Michael Garcia

@ericmgarcia.bsky.social

h/t @adamwren.bsky.social

Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."