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Glendon Mellow
@flyingtrilobite.com
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Science + Visual Communicator
Past: SciAm, Scholastic, Yale U Press
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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · Jan 16
🔸A reintroduction.

I’m Glendon Mellow, aka @FlyingTrilobite.com.

Illustrator, fine artist, writer.
glendonmellow.com

By day, life sciences marketing strategist (seeking new role).

Toronto-based, asthmatic cyclist, grateful dad.

Admin of the popular SciArt Feed 🐡:
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Parrot-Winged Trilobite from “A Field Guide to Flying Trilobites”. Ink drawing with digital paint (ArtRage). Green feathery winged trilobite perched on a branch, with some field notes in cursive below. Neutral background, except the trilobite appears to be on vellum taped to the page. That’s a trompe d’œil effect, I painted on. #sciart Darwin Took Steps Oil on canvas paper. Portrait of elder Charles Darwin with a partial staircase arising from his forehead. A sketch of his “I think” sketch is beside him in red-gold. Lots of umbers in this piece.
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Important thread, fellow Canadians. This @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social article is chilling.
antihate.ca Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca · 19h
3/ We got photos of all of them and got to work finding their names. CBC verified our identifications and added two. By bringing in the CBC, we were able to reach a much larger audience to talk about the threat of white nationalism in Canada.

Read CBC's reporting here:
MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News
This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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harkthorn.bsky.social
Red river hog sketch. I enjoyed drawing the warthog the other day despite how difficult it was (for me personally), so tried something similar for this page

-3231 🎨🐡 #art
A black ballpoint sketch of a red river hog, standing, facing to the left of the image, slightly turned towards the viewer
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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stevengawoski.bsky.social
Marjum Scree 11/2021 28 X 20.5 inches [71 X 52 cm] Colored Pencil on Paper #sciart #gawoski #fossil #trilobite
November 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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dragonsofwales.bsky.social
A walk in the woods.
Cretaceous style.
#SciArt
A digital illustration of a T.rex walking through a forest of towering trees. Rays of sunlight pour between the trunks, silhouetting the dinosaur.
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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catalyst-artworks.bsky.social
This chicken-of-the-woods mushroom painting is for sale now at Cline House Gallery in Cornwall, Ontario.

#botanicalart #fungi #painting
A painting of a cluster of chicken of the woods mushrooms. They are overlapping, shelf shaped, polypores with deep orang moving to yellow at the scalloped edges.
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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lukeplunkett.com
WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE

This has consumed around 4 months of my life. We've rebuilt the business from the ground-up. New site, new backend, new customer experience, new platform, new everything.

we spent two years flailing, having no idea how to run a business. now...we have more of an idea.
aftermath.site Aftermath @aftermath.site · 16h
Despite the ravages of age and an internet steeped in misinformation, your eyes – in this one case – do not deceive you: Website different. It’s taken an immense amount of time and effort, but welcome to Aftermath version 2.0:

aftermath.site/aftermath-rela...
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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flyingtrilobite.com
This article by @tedgioia.bsky.social is 💥phenomenal💥.

#NoAI
#DisgorgeTheDatasets
The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public
This isn't innovation, it's tyranny
www.honest-broker.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
If People magazine of all places is writing about safer streets and giant SUVs then maybe our political leaders could show some courage and not capitulate to the vocal minority who want drivers to keep on killing
usa.streetsblog.org Streetsblog USA @usa.streetsblog.org · 17h
“There are solutions out there,” Cohen insists. “We don't need to wait for something to be invented. We just need our leaders to have the political will to put them in place so we can start saving lives.” Via @people.com.
Her Son Was Run Over on His Way to Soccer Practice. Now Part of a ‘Horrible Club,’ Mom Fights to Spare Others
The number of pedestrians being hit or run over in the U.S. has increased at an alarming rate. Amy Cohen and others want to end the heartache
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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bill-comeau.bsky.social
Canada has lost its measles elimination status.
A sad day, a win for anti-vaccine ignorance and politicized public health, a new age where children, families, and communities will face additional health risks for no good reason other than the comfort of joining others with similar fact-less beliefs.
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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emmasartworks.bsky.social
They were giving away unused pumpkins at the library last weekend; this one was too far gone for eating so I painted it instead.
🐡 #watercolour #botanicalArt
Watercolour painting of a pumpkin patterned with orange, yellow and green.
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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🐙 2017 - 2025 🐙 the Octopus Tea Cup series is retiring! 🥹

🥳 Celebrating good endings & making space for a new series, we're having a 20% OFF "Goodbye" Sale!!

sculptedreef.com/collections/...

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
A hand sculpted octopus depicting the species Hapalochlaena lunulata, also known as the blue ringed octopus.
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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albertkoehl.bsky.social
Funny how cycling in the winter is treated as the bicycle's Achilles' heel.

It's not like motoring fares particularly well. #biketo

www.thestar.com/news/gta/opp...
OPP reports 220 collisions in GTA on first snowy day of the season
In addition, there were another 120 incidents where vehicles were in the ditch or stuck and the OPP were not able to attend.
www.thestar.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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thenarwhal.ca
Reports of a bigger, more aggressive coyote wandering the streets of Toronto draw a lot of attention. The truth is, it’s the same coyote we’ve been seeing for decades, and it’s not humans they’re putting at risk, it’s wolves. thenarwhal.ca/coywolf-onta...
There’s truth to the myth of the Ontario coywolf | The Narwhal
Sightings of the so-called coywolf on Toronto streets draw attention, but the biggest threat might be to endangered wolves in Ontario
thenarwhal.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
flyingtrilobite.com
C’mon Americans. Be like Adam.
adamszym.bsky.social Adam Szym @adamszym.bsky.social · 18h
I will door knock and phone bank for ANYONE who doesn't have Nazi tattoos who wants to primary Schumer.
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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susannashore.bsky.social
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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creedscholars.com
"We cannot choose the way the world is. Our only choice is how to face it."

Cheers to 5 years of Assassin's Creed Valhalla 🍻

📸 Edit by @subject72.bsky.social
#AssassinsCreed #CreedScholars
Eivor.
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Stunner: Kwakwaka’wakw-style “Urchin Mask” by artist Tim Alfred @vanartgallery.bsky.social
A Kwakwaka’wakw-style “Urchin Mask” in red by artist Tim Alfred @vanartgallery. Part of ‘We Who Have Known Tides.’
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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jacquelyngill.bsky.social
Three children were killed by lawn darts in the 70’s and they were banned in the US.

ChatGPT has caused how many deaths at this point?

If corporations are people, why aren’t we holding them criminally liable?
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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caxela.bsky.social Caxela @caxela.bsky.social · 1d
Waning Hours
Digital Drawing. A large dicynodont (Ischigualastia) is knelt on the ground, struggling to lift itself up with its forelimbs. A gash is visible on its thigh. Three small dinosaurs (Eodromaeus) observe from nearby. The sky is a pale blue - the sun has already moved below the horizon.
November 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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abigaillarson.com
"Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure." - excerpt from 'Carmilla' by Sheridan Le Fanu
digital illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a hand with a lace web pattern glove. The hand has sharp fingernails dripping a tiny amount of blood. A black butterfly is perched on the hand.
January 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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npr.org
Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk. n.pr/3LsPthh
Nova Twins: Tiny Desk Concert
Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk.
n.pr
November 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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kellyknowles.art
i'll repost this forever i'm so proud of it
digital drawing of a psychedelic house interior in a fisheye perspective. it has a vibrant but somehow musty color scheme. rooms intersect at impossible angles and some walls are missing, opening up to a huge black void. endless rooms and hallways fade into the distance.
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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tomflood.bsky.social
The beautiful chaos of a used bookstore is unmatched.
Looking into a bookshop from the storefront window
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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spavel.bsky.social
The cure to the loneliness epidemic is just liking things.
joanwestenberg.com JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 3d
There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is.

The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
November 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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hypercubexl.bsky.social
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photo of vince gilligan with a quote from variety: "AI is the world's most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit." - Vince Gilligan on why he hates AI
November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM