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Feisty Tiktaalik

@annerooney.bsky.social
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Crawling from the swamp. Writer of books for people big and small. Some about dinos, evo, space and all that, some made-up shizz (aka fiction). Favourite dino: Kentrosaurus. Views mine, all mine

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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Sneaky microedit to make Trmp look coherent? @nytimes.com : "when you have to pay a little bit more [for gas], you’re at $4, it’s OK,” he said. “I’ll never apologize.” @theguardian.com Guardian: “When you have to pay a little bit more, you’re at $4, it’s OK, I mean, it’s not. I’ll never apologize. ”
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
@theguardian.com PLEASE change this caption IMMEDIATELY! He is using an eclipse viewer. Do NOT suggest it's OK to watch through binoculars!!
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Opinions of middle-aged white men: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Thanks, @theguardian.com . Are there no women in Clacton? Apart from the 'ex-wife' of one interviewee, whose own words are not given, only summarized, and who is immediately contradicted by her ex-husband. WTAF?
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‘It’s Wizard of Oz stuff’: Clacton voters divided over Farage byelection
Voters’ views range from adulation to scepticism to outright cynicism over contest triggered by sitting MP
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
@countbinface.bsky.social where has the donate link gone on your kofi page? Is the establishment trying to deny you funding? 😱
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Like El Cid riding out to lead his trops, dead, strapped to his horse
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
So families who haven't paid taxes into the UK system for years are not going to be able to claim the advantages that are paid for by taxes. Is that so unreasonable or am I missing some point here? www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
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Brexit rule change means British teens in EU face soaring student fees for UK degrees
‘Home fee’ qualification ends in 2028, leaving those hoping to study in UK not now eligible for British loans
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Fleur Hitchcock @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Sign, sign! openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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Open letter to Andy Burnham: Ditch Labour’s disastrous stance on AI
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
haha, stupid scam algorithm... fooled you!
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...
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Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin
Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Just 26 more signatures to hit 20,000! A significant threshold - come on, we can do it!
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Seem to be spending my days searching for the length of large prehistoric beasties and the mass of extant insects. Former often given mass, latter often given length. Why?
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Dear Bluesky, anyone know how much a giant Malaysian leaf #insect weighs? (Pulchriphyllium giganteum) Can't find out anywhere - needed for a kids' book #entomology #leafinsects #biology #science
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Proving you didn't use AI - how writers can cover themselves against spurious claims of cheating awfullybigblogadventure.blogspot.com/2026/04/back...
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Back to basics (1): I am not a robot — Anne Rooney
Children's authors writers from the UK share thoughts on books and writing
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Anyone got any idea what colour Dickinsonia might have been? I'm hoping for flamingo-pink/orange on the basis of epossibly ating algae rich in carotenoids, but it's only a guess. Any better ideas? #paleo #stainedglass
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Back to working with paper (and pastries)
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I've just finished this #stainedglass panel. Not #paeleo this time, but some medieval fish copied from @yorkminster.bsky.social
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Booked #DinoCon2026 for lots of dino goodness in July. Can't wait! www.dinocon.co.uk
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DinoCon
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Went through my office looking for books I could get rid of. Found zero. Or maybe one. But it's not worth the aggro of getting rid of one book, so it stays. Just have to rearrange to make room for more shelves
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Just found a new favourite paeleoartist: @juliuscsotonyi.bsky.social
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
That's me done for #lbf for another year. Lovely to see publishing friends, as ever
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
WTAF is wrong with #adobe? Note that this image of 'Dimetrodon' can't be used in a 'misleading' way. It's very existence is misleading. Does no one ever check this AI slop? #permian #airart #dimetrodon
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It's warm and sunny, the tortoise is outside for the first time this year and the garden smells strongly of violets. I'll take the good days as they come
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Has anyone suggested that #Epstein killing himself *was* the plea deal? Things like changing his will two days prior and sending a message that intimated he would die (taken the short route home) combined with no footage and faulty cameras look like it was agreed and arranged to avoid the shitshow
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Airport security, Tromsø. A new type of threat - that I'll strangle the pilot with a USB cable? Security chap, on seeing my laptop in the tray: You have a charger? Me: No, just a USB cable SC: How many USB cables? Me: Two SC: Put them in the tray, not your bag
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
On the train from Kings Cross to Cambridge, I listened in to an American couple going to Ely. "It's very green round here." Fair, I guess, even in Jan. "Cambridge looks a bit industrial." Industrial?? It was the hospital and surrounding biotech labs. We must have different idea of industrial
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Just read this article about protein bros in the US. Crazy that 'healthy' eating incs cinnamon Cheerios as long as they have extra protein! But... how do Americans cope with counting *grams* of protein when they measure their food in ounces? Doesn't make sense www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
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America Has Entered Late-Stage Protein
This has gone too far.
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
"Weapons themselves can tempt a man to fight" Homer, Odyssey, Book 19, trans Emily Wilson 3000 years later, the USA still doesn't get it
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
ChatGPT just told me I'm dead. I died peacefully in my home, apparently, after a long illness. Yeah, you wish. Could this have anything to do with my book on AI coming out next week, which does't give you a good rep? No, you're not that smart #deathoftheauthor #AI #ChatGPT
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I pay £56 pcm for #Adobe Creative Cloud and ignore the AI crap they push. Price is rising to £66 pcm to have apps + AI crap. Or switch to a useless cut-down contract for £51 that excludes full PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat Pro. WTAF? Creatives want to create not churn out #AIslop
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Ooh, new books! The Essential Book of Consciousness, out in November. Look at the lovely foil! Hardback! And only £12.99. Book pricing is a mysterious art
Books in a box: The essential book of consciousness, by Anne Rooney
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"Sometimes moving as fast as 125 miles per hour" - the UK has a v. poor network, yet we introduced the Intercity 125 trains at this speed 50 years ago. And we don't have all these deaths on train tracks in Europe. The US just doesn't know how to do trains www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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A ‘Death Train’ Is Haunting South Florida
The Brightline has been hailed as the future of high-speed rail in the United States, but it has one big, unignorable problem.
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
#AIslop #clankershite Dimorphodon by AI: six limbs and bifurcated feet. *This* is what makes my job hard
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WIRED @wired.com · 25/09/2025
"I will not give them what they want. I will not just leave. I’m going to make it as difficult as possible for these fuckheads.” WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as DOGE tore through their offices.
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The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Reform was alive and well in 1711, apparently: "[I] was just preparing to write a Letter of Advice to a Member of Parliament, for opening the Freedom of our Towns and Trades, for taking away all manner of Distinctions between the Natives and Foreigners...
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Hey, @nhm.org, we had a spider on last year's membership card — why do we have a spider again? When will there be a plesiosaur 🧡 on the card?
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A #butterfly has come into my garden office. In summer, I put them outside. Might this one be here to hibernate? I will turn the heating on when the weather gets cold, though. Should I move the visitor to the shed or put it outside to find somewhere else?
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
New book! I had to wait a while for my copies as it ships from the US, but here it is
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
#paleo BlueSky can you help? I want a book with good, reliable illustrations of diff types of plesiosaurs. I see @tetzoo.bsky.social seems to have one on marine reptiles but is it out yet? @nhm.org site says Sept 25. Any other suggestions?
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
If you enjoyed Freaky Friday, don't waste your money on seeing Freakier Friday. One of the worst films I've seen in a long time. The actors do well with terrible material — it's not their fault
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Absolutely brilliant post on ideas, tracking them, hoarding them and cooking them into something from the super-talented @mini3grey.bsky.social picturebookden.blogspot.com/2025/03/wher...
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Where do I Begin? A look at starting points for stories with Mini Grey
“Where do you get your ideas?” is a question you get asked a lot on school visits. I suspect AF Harrold has also often been asked this que...
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Well done, Adobe AI. 'Realistic' portrayal seems to show #spinosaurus wearing its sail like a skirt around its waist 😅
spinosaurus standing in a swamp, but with sail across rather than along the body
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Let me remind you again why generative AI is a pile of toxic crap
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
From Ovo, relating to payment for solar power I've fed back into the grid: "we’ll work out how much you’re owed. This normally takes about 8 weeks". How can it possibly take 8 weeks? Are they pretending it's worked out by actual people? Is there computer powered by potatoes, like a potato clock?
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
New book! Actually it came out in Jan but sold out s I didn't get my copies until they reprinted it. #dinosaurs #dinos #kidslit
Book cover: Weird and wonderful dinosaur facts, Anne Rooney (words) and Ro Ledesma (pictures)
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
NYT should know better. Of the Bezos wedding: 'Meanwhile, missiles and bombs have been falling just a few time zones away.' One time zone to Tel Aviv; Tehran is one of the oddities in a half-hour zone, so two zones but 1.5 hours from Venice
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Yum - home grown kiwi, homegrown wild strawberries, Bulgarian yoghurt, honey, chia seeds
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Am I the only one concerned by how many Americans feel they are at risk of 'Marshall' [sic] law? What do they think it is? Now, if you're worried about 'martial' law being imposed, that's a very reasonable thing to worry about
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
MB reads every day, as much of the time as she can. Now her teacher is saying unless she fills in a reading log showing three books she read every week, she has to do extra learning in break time. The work won't be reading. She is Yr6, post-SATs. They know she reads at well above her chronological
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
So I have a book I should deliver today. I know the editor is way behind on the last one so I'm not bothered about delivering today. But instead of fixing it up, I'm reading The Atlantic and thinking about spending the afternoon drawing owls in Illustrator. WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN??
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Feisty Tiktaalik @annerooney.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Evil bastard caterpillar. Is this rare or can I chuck it in the field to eat something else?
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