One Of The Most Important Things, Perhaps The Most Important Thing I Have Learned In My Life Is That

one of the most important things, perhaps the most important thing I have learned in my life is that nice people can fuck each other up in monstrous ways. people can be bone deep kind and loving and self reflective and still lash out under pressure. people can be earnestly neighbourly and charitable and hospitable and generous and still find themselves in situations where they become selfish. people can be well meaning and easygoing and gregarious and hold deep seated opinions that turn them into vicious little bullies under the right conditions. nobody is just one thing, and nobody stays one way. every person is a kaleidoscope and they will surprise you. you will surprise yourself. it's not a warning and it's not a judgement and it's not an excuse, and it's certainly not a reason to stop trying or to stop trusting. it is just a fact.

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trust tw: mental health swear words important life lessons

Below the poll is a series of animal images labeled A through J. A is the least close to the birds we have today; J is the closest. If you encountered these animals in the wild, which would you call birds? If you pick a higher up option, then that means you consider all the below ones birds as well - so if you pick A, then BCDEFGHIJ are all birds. If you pick J, only J is a bird.

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H:

I:

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PLEASE REBLOG THIS SO IT CAN LEAVE PALAEOBLR. I NEED PEOPLE WHO DON'T RECOGNIZE THESE ANIMALS ON SIGHT TO VOTE.

I apologize to all of y'all with vision impairments for whom this poll is inaccessible. Alas, this is an experiment, and I cannot name the taxa. Thank you.

All alt text includes artist attribution; I did not make these pictures myself.

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pied-piper-the-survogel

10 months ago

He do be skating.

The skateboarding coelophysis from the Walking with Dinosaurs bonus animations.

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pied-piper-the-survogel

1 year ago

reblog and put in the tags 3 extinct creatures you would bring back if you could

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dodo kauai oo great indian bustard forgive the third one but it's going to happen soon and i am not ready

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pied-piper-the-survogel

4 months ago

Blaze and Brighteye

A large, light grey, fluffy bird with blue eyes, an elephant-like trunk and no arms looking off into the distance. On her back rests a dark blue bird with a green color on the back of his neck, white at the front of his neck, and a light blue tail. His beak and legs are grey. The both of them are in a barren, snowy background with a light snowfall.

Some fanart I made of Serina - this is also posted on my DeviantArt, might post here too maybe?

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pied-piper-the-survogel

1 year ago

"The wrong Amazon is burning"

Sticker spotted in Anchorage, Alaska

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pied-piper-the-survogel

10 months ago

A silly little meme I made for the tenth anniversary Kulinday, hosted by @a-dinosaur-a-day.

This IndiHome Paket meme was made on Scratch 3.0 (don't judge me, I don't have proper video editing software).

Meme template adapted for Scratch by @-PhantomAnimations- on Scratch, aka https://scratch.mit.edu/users/-PhantomAnimations-/ .

Happy Kulinday, fellow palaeonerds!

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dinosaurs feathers dinosaur paleoart palaeoart kulindadromeus kulinday neornithischian indihome

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pied-piper-the-survogel

10 months ago

Of course it's not over.

"Pride month is over"

WRONG! Your pride month is over! Me and all the other disabled queers are having pride month two: disability edition

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pied-piper-the-survogel

1 year ago

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Wait. WAIT.

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{ID: Image shows a man, Walter White from Breaking Bad, falling to his knees and then falling onto his right side. He appears distraught. He is partly bald, has black hair, and is wearing glasses and a beige coat over a blue shirt. He is in what appears to be the Mojave desert. end ID}

Fig. 1 - "Compy" fans and people with OCs who are "compsognathid" fans.

But hey! on the bright side, even if Sinosauropteryx was a juvenile, we know that there were baby dinosaurs that looked like red pandas. :) And such is the way of science.

NEW PAPER FROM CAU HUGE IF TRUE

Cau A. (2024). A Unified Framework for Predatory Dinosaur Macroevolution. Bulletin of the Italian Paleontological Society , 63(1): 1-19. doi:10.4435/BSPI.2024.08

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dinosaurs paleontology theropod sinosauropteryx Palaeontology compsognathidae salty fans

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pied-piper-the-survogel

10 months ago