Mike Keesey
@tmkeesey.bsky.social
Software engineer with occasional illustration and evolutionary biology work. I make prehistoric comics (https://www.keesey-comics.com) and a website with free silhouettes (https://www.phylopic.org/).
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Mike Keesey
@tmkeesey.bsky.social
· Sep 30
Keesey Comics
Comics about prehistory and disaster. Sometimes both.
www.keesey-comics.com
Keesey Comics has a new website! Now with page previews, trailers, and more. Check it out! www.keesey-comics.com
Pencilled more of PALEOCENE #6 www.patreon.com/posts/143102...
Paleocene #6, pages 2–6 PENCILLED | Mike Keesey
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November 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Pencilled more of PALEOCENE #6 www.patreon.com/posts/143102...
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Of course the big paper on Azhdarchoid phylogeny comes out while I'm at a museum on a research visit (looking at Azhdarchoid cervicals, obviously) but now I'm back at the hotel so it's time to write a proper thread! 1/28
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Of course the big paper on Azhdarchoid phylogeny comes out while I'm at a museum on a research visit (looking at Azhdarchoid cervicals, obviously) but now I'm back at the hotel so it's time to write a proper thread! 1/28
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People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
November 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
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-A father and his two children, age 12 and 15, arrested by ICE on their way to school drop off.
-All detained (hands and feet cuffed) for 36 hours. Cell with no windows, lights on non-stop.
-Given only water and potato chips.
-Hit when they questioned their arrest.
-ICE arrested the wrong people.
-All detained (hands and feet cuffed) for 36 hours. Cell with no windows, lights on non-stop.
-Given only water and potato chips.
-Hit when they questioned their arrest.
-ICE arrested the wrong people.
November 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
-A father and his two children, age 12 and 15, arrested by ICE on their way to school drop off.
-All detained (hands and feet cuffed) for 36 hours. Cell with no windows, lights on non-stop.
-Given only water and potato chips.
-Hit when they questioned their arrest.
-ICE arrested the wrong people.
-All detained (hands and feet cuffed) for 36 hours. Cell with no windows, lights on non-stop.
-Given only water and potato chips.
-Hit when they questioned their arrest.
-ICE arrested the wrong people.
Pics from the Bob Baker Marionette Theater Annual Costume Ball
November 1, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Pics from the Bob Baker Marionette Theater Annual Costume Ball
Stayin’ up to date. www.phylopic.org/images/7dc35...
Nanotyrannus lethaeus by KoprX (CC BY-SA 3.0) - PhyloPic
A free silhouette image of Nanotyrannus lethaeus Zanno & Napoli 2025 by KoprX (License: Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported).
www.phylopic.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Stayin’ up to date. www.phylopic.org/images/7dc35...
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My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this:
Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.
Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.
The Case of the Tiny Tyrannosaurus Might Have Been Cracked
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this:
Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.
Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.
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Whelp, I suppose this is now Nanotyrannus lethaeus.
October 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Whelp, I suppose this is now Nanotyrannus lethaeus.
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Well now, would you look at that?
A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Well now, would you look at that?
A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
More work on PALEOCENE #6: www.patreon.com/posts/paleoc...
Paleocene #6, pages 2–6 LAID OUT and pages 2–3 PENCILLED | Mike Keesey
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October 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
More work on PALEOCENE #6: www.patreon.com/posts/paleoc...
New batch of PhyloPic silhouettes up. Here’s a fun one I did, see if you recognize it: images.phylopic.org/images/0df51...
October 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New batch of PhyloPic silhouettes up. Here’s a fun one I did, see if you recognize it: images.phylopic.org/images/0df51...
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yeah, look .... not sure who needs to hear this (actually, everyone does), but turn off the stupid AI suggestions in your search results, and def. go and use @wikipedia.org a lot more.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
yeah, look .... not sure who needs to hear this (actually, everyone does), but turn off the stupid AI suggestions in your search results, and def. go and use @wikipedia.org a lot more.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
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The first page of PALEOCENE #6 is complete! This post shows the entire process of making a comic book page. www.patreon.com/posts/140787... #paleoart #comics #sciart
Paleocene #6, Page 1 COMPLETE | Mike Keesey
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October 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The first page of PALEOCENE #6 is complete! This post shows the entire process of making a comic book page. www.patreon.com/posts/140787... #paleoart #comics #sciart
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The subtext of this story is because we aren't launching as many weather balloons and as a result of the deep cuts to NOAA, weather forecast models didn't see that Typhoon Halong was going to take a different track than predicted:
theconversation.com/typhoon-leav...
theconversation.com/typhoon-leav...
Typhoon leaves flooded Alaska villages facing a storm recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever experience
‘As the storm approached Alaska, everything went sideways,’ leaving people no time to evacuate and little time to prepare. An Alaska meteorologist explains what happened and the challenges ahead.
theconversation.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The subtext of this story is because we aren't launching as many weather balloons and as a result of the deep cuts to NOAA, weather forecast models didn't see that Typhoon Halong was going to take a different track than predicted:
theconversation.com/typhoon-leav...
theconversation.com/typhoon-leav...
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In 2010, a scientist argued that 2.1 billion-year-old African specimens showed complex life appearing 500 million years ahead of schedule. His critics say they are — literally — fool's gold. At stake? The question of when and how complex life arose at all.
My cover story (!) for @sciam.bsky.social!
My cover story (!) for @sciam.bsky.social!
These Enigmatic ‘Fossils’ Could Rewrite the History of Life on Earth
Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once
www.scientificamerican.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
In 2010, a scientist argued that 2.1 billion-year-old African specimens showed complex life appearing 500 million years ahead of schedule. His critics say they are — literally — fool's gold. At stake? The question of when and how complex life arose at all.
My cover story (!) for @sciam.bsky.social!
My cover story (!) for @sciam.bsky.social!
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NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:
ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.
Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.
www.thehandbasket.co
October 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:
Drew Struzan made some of the greatest movie posters of all time.
October 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Drew Struzan made some of the greatest movie posters of all time.
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Today is (or was, depending) Columbus Day.
I can’t encourage you enough to go read 1493 by the very thoughtful Charles Mann @charlescmann.bsky.social.
1493 engages frankly with the changes wrought upon the world from connecting Europe to Asia through the Americas.
Fascinating, and educational.
I can’t encourage you enough to go read 1493 by the very thoughtful Charles Mann @charlescmann.bsky.social.
1493 engages frankly with the changes wrought upon the world from connecting Europe to Asia through the Americas.
Fascinating, and educational.
October 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Today is (or was, depending) Columbus Day.
I can’t encourage you enough to go read 1493 by the very thoughtful Charles Mann @charlescmann.bsky.social.
1493 engages frankly with the changes wrought upon the world from connecting Europe to Asia through the Americas.
Fascinating, and educational.
I can’t encourage you enough to go read 1493 by the very thoughtful Charles Mann @charlescmann.bsky.social.
1493 engages frankly with the changes wrought upon the world from connecting Europe to Asia through the Americas.
Fascinating, and educational.
The first page of PALEOCENE #6 is complete! This post shows the entire process of making a comic book page. www.patreon.com/posts/140787... #paleoart #comics #sciart
Paleocene #6, Page 1 COMPLETE | Mike Keesey
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October 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The first page of PALEOCENE #6 is complete! This post shows the entire process of making a comic book page. www.patreon.com/posts/140787... #paleoart #comics #sciart
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Happy World Octopus Day! To celebrate, here’s the first piece in my series of Octopolis tarot cards: The Fool!
#octopolis #worldoctopusday #octopus #tarot
#octopolis #worldoctopusday #octopus #tarot
October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Happy World Octopus Day! To celebrate, here’s the first piece in my series of Octopolis tarot cards: The Fool!
#octopolis #worldoctopusday #octopus #tarot
#octopolis #worldoctopusday #octopus #tarot
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Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
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And PLEISTOCENE is a mini-comic about humans and not-quite-humans living 60 millennia ago. www.keesey-comics.com/comics/pleis...
Pleistocene
A mini-comic about an encounter in the Late Pleistocene. He was a brave hero, a great hunter, a natural leader of men—or so he thought of himself. Ridiculed by his people, he undertook a quest across ...
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September 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
And PLEISTOCENE is a mini-comic about humans and not-quite-humans living 60 millennia ago. www.keesey-comics.com/comics/pleis...
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Keesey Comics has a new website! Now with page previews, trailers, and more. Check it out! www.keesey-comics.com
Keesey Comics
Comics about prehistory and disaster. Sometimes both.
www.keesey-comics.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Keesey Comics has a new website! Now with page previews, trailers, and more. Check it out! www.keesey-comics.com
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PARRY ‘N’ CARNEY: FRIENDS FOR LIFE is a webcomic compilation about dino-buddies. (Featuring an introduction by Charles Darwin!) www.keesey-comics.com/comics/parry...
Parry ‘n’ Carney: Friends for Life
A webcomic about dinosaurs and the things dinosaurs do. Parry the Parasaurolophus and Carney the Carnotaurus are friends for life! Right???
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September 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
PARRY ‘N’ CARNEY: FRIENDS FOR LIFE is a webcomic compilation about dino-buddies. (Featuring an introduction by Charles Darwin!) www.keesey-comics.com/comics/parry...