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BJ Nicholls

@bjn2.bsky.social
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Retired graphic designer and marketing consultant. Volunteer fossil preparator. I love deep time and geoscience, but my curiosity is ecelectic. He/him.

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DeBisco @debiscomusic.com · 07/10/2026
Imagine having media literacy in 2026? ArtCraft is vibe-coded slop, and not a single line of code has been decompiled from Adobe Creative Cloud. Worst of all? They were FOUNDED as a GenAI startup! I implore people to RESEARCH before they repost 🙄
"The open-source studio for controllable AI image and video.

hello@storyteller.ai""Storyteller AI

We're Now ArtCraft

ArtCraft is an open source desktop and web app for AI video and image generation with 3D scene building to get the exact shot you want."
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pretty sure Trump’s grandfather’s bordelo in Alaska had a similar vibe
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Nice to see this getting some attention. It's completely true, and I dearly wish more journalists understood where these common narratives about AI actually come from.
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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#FossilFriday: the displaced vertebrae at the base of the unexpectedly long neck of the Plesiosaurus discovered by Mary Anning in 1823 which caused some discussion at the time, and Henry De la Beche's fun interpretation of how the bones came to be displaced in his 1829-31 lithograph Duria antiquior.
Left, photograph of the long neck of a plesiosaur skeleton with a scatter of vertebrae (circled) at the base of the neck; right detail from an 1830 reconstruction of a plesiosaur with its neck being bitten by a large ichthyosaur.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A brilliant and honest look back at the 9/11 attacks and how the Bush administration misled the American people into the Iraq War by Joel Pett. Be sure to support him on substack: joelpett.substack.com/p/75-months-...
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75 months, 40 panels, 0 sense at all
September 11, 2001 to December 2, 2007
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What would an AI code of ethics for creators look like? @micahloewinger.bsky.social spoke with @davejorgenson.bsky.social about how to earn your audience’s trust in the age of AI.
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Chris @asmarcd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm a white Arab American. Most ppl would never know that's my background by looking at me. The day after 9/11, family friends, who did not know, where at the house and openly talking about how all Arabs and Muslims in the US should be rounded up into camps. I was 12 years old. We were never united.
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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Charnia & other late Ediacaran macrofossils preserved in turbiditic deposits of the Indreelva Member (Finnmark, Norway) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #FossilFriday
Top left: Map of study localities (red circles) on the Varanger Peninsula, in relation to northern Europe (inset).
Top right: black and white photograph of the Kommagnes Charnia (TSGF 18952): a high-relief specimen embedded within a clay-rich turbidite; scale bar in lower right corner is 1 cm.
Bottom: Stratigraphic long (on the left) and photograph (main image) of part of the cliff from which the Kommagnes specimen was recovered, showing many horizontal layers of sediments. Scale on the left shows that the height of the section between the yellow lines is approximately 10 metres.
Blue rectangle at top centre is a cover image from the journal Palaeontology.
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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s Fieldwork Friday! Today we are highlighting our recent 2026 fieldwork near Ferron Mountain. Here are some shots of our amazing team with some amazing fossils! #fieldworkfriday #fossilfriday #volunteers #fossils #paleontology
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Escape Pod @escapepod.org · 10/09/2026
Good news, sophonts: a new story has arrived! If you like stories about sapient digital intelligences and environmentalism, "Extrasolar Ghost Tours: Safety Questionable, Lizards Guaranteed" by @hansew.bsky.social should be one you'll really like. Also the lizards!
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Escape Pod 1062: Extrasolar Ghost Tours: Safety Questionable, Lizards Guaranteed
I am a hundred and seventy-nine years old when I commit my first betrayal. It is a small one, relevant only to the blue-flecked lizards on Alda Safiya’s southernmost desert landmass.
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Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance @protectwildutah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New polling shows, once again, majority of Utahns do not support the shrinkage of national monuments. Read more from @sltrib.com: www.sltrib.com/news/environ...
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Most Utahns want Trump’s cuts to Bears Ears, Grand Staircase reversed, survey finds
A new survey of Utah voters found that most respondents want to see Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments restored to their previous boundaries.
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ToddRockford @toddrockford.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GRAND Staircase Escalante and Bears Ears both protected national fossil treasures, sacred Native sites, and unique wildlife habitats. washingtonsun.com/climate-envi...
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How Trump Unleashed an Existential Fight Over America's Dinosaurs
In Utah, Trump resurfaced a decades-long dispute over how to protect some of the country’s crown jewels.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026
AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026
For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs
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September 11 Docs
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Jim Zub @jimzub.com · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. The only AI I 'use' is shit foisted on me - summaries and slop vomited on my screen as part of internet browsing or injected into programs I work with until I turn those settings off or rip those parts out by the roots.
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Paul Harnik @paulharnik.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Devonian Seastar FTW!
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Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 09/09/2026
I just started reading Spencer Cox’s book (for work). HE MADE A TURNING POINT JOKE WHEN TALKING ABOUT THE SHOOTING OF CHARLIE KIRK! How the hell did he think that was a good idea. This was the introduction. What other literary horrors await me?
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
At a propaganda event pretending to honor 9/11 victims, the orange felon lied about being rescued by firefighters and said he was jealous of a 9/11 hero and victims for being more famous than him. It never amazes me how much of an evil piece of shit he is.
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
There is a plant which can mimic the leaves of other plants - including plastic ones - and the best explanation for this ability is that it has some form of vision. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Boquila trifoliolata mimics leaves of an artificial plastic host plant
Upon discovery that the Boquila trifoliolata is capable of flexible leaf mimicry, the question of the mechanism behind this ability has been unanswered. Here, we demonstrate that plant vision possi...
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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This Fossil Friday we are showcasing this beautiful conifer from the Neslen Formation (~75 million years old). Conifers dominated forests for over 200 million years! Conifers can be identified by their needle-like foliage, which are in your backyard! #fossilfriday #conifer #paleobotany #wesleyan
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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#fossilfriday A fossil crab (Cancer or Metacarcinus) I collected in June from the Purisima Formation near Santa Cruz, CA. Specimen is approximately 6 myo. 🦑🦀🦖🧪
Two photos, one of the carapace of a fossil crab, and the ventral surface showing the abdomen and legs. Most of the legs are broken off. The specimen is a dark brown color with light brown sand infilling voids.A fossil crab embedded in a sandstone boulder with a ~6" orange handled wood chisel. The ventral surface is exposed showing the abdomen and legs. Most of the legs are broken off. The specimen is a dark brown color and the boulder is a light brown.
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Michael Banach @m1db.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Leaked Pictures of the new 2027 CyberTruck
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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BecauseMy😼SaidSo 🐸🇺🇸 @scarpity026.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Some good info here... refuseuline.com
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Refuse Uline
Uline is a purposely political company aligned with extreme right-wing ideology. Despite their politics, millions of small businesses and artists still use ULINE completely unaware of what their dolla...
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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#fossilfriday The hefty jaw of the "killer" walrus Pelagiarctos, a sea lion-like pinniped from the early Miocene Topanga Formation of southern California. Our analysis suggested it was primarily adapted to eating fish. 🐬🦖🧪
A large pale tan jaw with dark brown teeth, including a very large canine.A closeup of the teeth of Pelagiarctos. The cheek teeth are double rooted, multicuspate, and have oval to square outlines.A graphite illustration of the cheek teeth of Pelagiarctos.
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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
For #fossilfriday, here's an old friend; the giant stem tetrapod Gaiasia jennyae from the Permian of Namibia.
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Fascism will come at the hands of brainwashed, brainless, Americans."
Nick Anderson
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
LEFT: Dignified and belongs in Washington, DC. RIGHT: Tacky as sh*t and belongs in Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A new Scientist in the Spotlight display at the Natural History Museum of Utah for #FossilFriday I spent over 10 yrs. of Sunday afternoons prepping bones from a juvenile Sphenacodon ferox including the articulated verts on display. Bear's Ears area. #Permian #synapsid
Photo of museum exhibit with Sphenacodon fossil bones and interpretive plaque showing a skeleton and body reconstruction.Two plaques. Top shows an artist reconstruction of Sphenacodon's body, bottom shows a skeletal drawing highlighting position of bones on display.Interpretive plaque discussing the changing climate from the Carboniferous ice age to Permian desert conditions for the Permian animals whose fossils are on display.Wider view of temporary display with Permian shark teeth and Sphenacodon bone and interpretive plaques.
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Cam Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time ⏰ ⚒️) @cambriancam.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Welcome back to #FossilFriday Here is a beautiful example of a cross section of a Stromatolite (Cryptozoon?) from the Lower Ordovician (Tremadocian-Floian) Gasconade Dolostone collected by the late Dr. Bruce Stinchcomb in Sullivan, Missouri.
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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
At least once, I'd like to see a museum reconstruct a skeleton in bone white instead of fastidiously reproducing an irrelevant mineralization color. An exhibit expressly putting flesh on bone would be a great opportunity.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
CNN 1
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
If there is another pandemic, the United States government will prioritize doing nothing, so that the maximum possible number of Americans die.
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“When you repeat the outlandish claims made by tech barons, but put at the end of it, ‘And that's bad,’ in brackets. You're just helping them sell.” – @doctorow.pluralistic.net lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
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On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Heat and Wildfires During the K‐Pg Mass Extinction Enhanced by Fine Dust - Johnson - 2026 - Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Heat and Wildfires During the K‐Pg Mass Extinction Enhanced by Fine Dust
Recent studies of expanded K-Pg boundary sites imply that the Chicxulub impact produced abundant fine dust Fine dust greatly enhances the infrared heat pulse produced by spherules reentering the ...
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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
#FossilFriday #paleontology
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.
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‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)
A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
True👇 All recent appointments to state Universities and all 12 people recommended by the Legislature for the Utah Supreme Court slots are white, male Mormons Call it the MoBro Club
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Baran Karapunar @barankarapunar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🦈 New #Open-access paper 🥳 on the impact of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction 🌋 on marine vertebrates 🐠, from the Dolomites (Italy) together with @aswolniewicz.bsky.social, Carlo Romano & others. We report the first Early Triassic marine reptile from the Dolomites 😎 #FossilFriday
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New insights into the extinction and recovery of marine vertebrates across the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event in the Dolomites, Southern Alps, Italy
The impact of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction on marine vertebrates is incompletely understood due to their scarce fossil record. To better understand marine vertebrate extinction and recovery...
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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
For #FossilFriday, the enigmatic trace fossil Lumbricaria, interpreted as fecal strings left by ammonites, from the Late Jurassic (~150 mya) Solnhofen Limestone, Germany & seen earlier this week in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh PA. 🧪🪨💩 ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021PPal....
Rectangular slab of gray-yellow fine-grained limestone with a long, thin, and tangled "string" on its surface, ending in a pile on the right, with handwritten label on its upper left corner, a Carnegie Museum of Natural History on its lower right corner, and the number "14" in a black circle below that.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Like, I cannot stress this enough: in the Iliad, Achilles fights Scamander, the river god who is also the *river Scamander.* There is no historically accurate way of depicting a bronze age warrior fighting a RIVER which is also a god. "What were Bronze Age anti-river tactics?" Shush.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets
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People are making wildfire bets on prediction markets. Experts say it could lead to disaster | CNN
As the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires raged last year, people placed bets on how how many acres the fires would consume, which locations they would reach and when they would be contained.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Patrice 🇺🇦 @patricebrost.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Senator Mike Lee believes that there's a portal to another world on Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. This is a person who makes laws in the USA. 😬
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Republicans will be giving away YOUR public lands to their donor buddies after Trump destroys Bears Ears Monument
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money". But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings: doi.org/10.1093/9780...
Screencap of page for linked article, reading: 

Contents
Introduction
AI Is a Research Field
AI Is an Approach to Cognitive Science
AI Is a Parlor Trick
AI Is an Ideology
AI Is a Way to Hide and Devalue Human Labor
AI Is a Way to Shift Accountability
AI Is a Way to Centralize Power
Conclusion
Notes
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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Purfuit of happineff. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s?...
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Long s - Wikipedia
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