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Deshan Tennekoon
@deshan10.bsky.social
Animal animal: a weekly letter to you & the kid, filled with science, art, and love: https://tinyurl.com/4ttamcer
Mary Anning's Grewsome Beasts (palaeontology for kids): http://tinyurl.com/5f9
Writer|Book designer|Fulbright scholar| He/him: onlinedesho.com
But your Granny called and said she wants a hand-drawn picture of a Sri Lankan yakshaya for Christmas:
www.onlinedesho.com/shop/origina...
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
It's time to tell your kid about skunk bums. Also, I'm selling some original art soon. More in the new edition of Animal animal: www.onlinedesho.com/animal-anima...
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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It's almost the weekend! 🥳

If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨

Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!!

drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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A couple of Nebulasaurus taito enjoy a nighttime swim as they cross a lake in China during the Middle #Jurassic. 🦕🦕🏝️

(Just a regular lake, nothing to do with #dinosaur reproduction… 😏)
#paleoart #sciart #sauropod
November 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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WE CONTAIN MULTITUDES.
Come lean and loafe at your ease and check out SOLRAD, the online literary magazine for comics.
solrad.co
November 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Want
“Ito Romo's vampires step across centuries with dignity, but with desperation, too—you don't want to get close to them, but you can't look away.”
-Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. As always, gracias, @sgj.bsky.social. Pre-order now wherever you buy your books. ❤️👊🏼❤️
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶
October 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Among other things, about Beckett's science-fictional play KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
vajra.me/2025/10/30/t...
The Butterfly and the Crab
Cancer and Krapp.
vajra.me
October 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Thank you! This was very useful.
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Scarry Movie (1990)
October 26, 2023 at 2:01 PM
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I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This is utterly gorgeous. Can it come to a bridge near me?
The excitement I felt reading these words...

this but huge, hanging off the Golden Gate Bridge lazily snatching at cars with sleepy, blinking eyes
October 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Mary Norris eye twitch meme
Finding typos in The New Yorker is hard enough. But an actual mistake is like seeing a unicorn.
October 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Still the best Nosferatu poster (Albin Grau, 1922):
October 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Happy #PortfolioDay to all who celebrate!

I'm a book designer and editor. Drop me a line if you need a book made : )
October 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Sorry I pointed and screamed "El Diablo!" and threw holy water at your baby.
October 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Today, we send solidarity greetings to all involved in the #NewZealand #Megastrike.

100,000 teachers and medical staff taking action.

Share this post and support the strike.

#StrikeMap
October 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Moms of writers everywhere, sitting up, suddenly given unrealistically high expectations of what their kids can do for them.
Ryan Coogler says he’s rebooting ‘The X-Files’ for his mom, a major fan of the show, and she’s already read some pages: ‘She’s fired up.’
Ryan Coogler Is Rebooting The X-Files for His Mom
Ryan Coogler says he’s rebooting ‘The X-Files’ for his mom, a major fan of the show, and she’s already read some pages: ‘She’s fired up.’
www.vulture.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Lovely news to wake up to!
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
vajra.me
October 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
want
Human artists?

Use one piece to convince people to follow you!
October 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Going to do a new pinned post as I'm changing domain, my domain is now bigbeardedbookseller.uk and everything is going on this domain now.

I'm writing about pretty much anything I'm interested in when I have something to say, so no timetable as such.

#Introduction #PinnedPost
August 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Day 20 #Invertober2025 - By-the-wind sailor (Velella velella) ⛵

#SciArt #invertebrates
October 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM