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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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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What kind of tree connects a stem mammal to a chicken by way of a turtle?
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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Look how well abundant US oil has done thwarting war in the Middle East. It is, however, stretching out the viability of fossil energy when we most need to end it.
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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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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We just got a 2026 Toyota BZ. Way too many EVs are priced only for the wealthy. I’m onboard for future low maintenance, but also see more frequent tire purchases and replacements for our car model’s poorly managed 12v battery.
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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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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And wars started based on lies and fear-mongering.
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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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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Your excessive coverage of this anniversary is appalling.
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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Utah has the usual share of Christians in name only.
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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Can the infamous be defamed?
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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The AI that can speed progress finding molecular treatments for disease can also streamline bioweapon design. It's still humans at the helm, but that doesn't make the tool less dangerous.
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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You don't trust the intentions of people who stole the world's IP to build their businesses? The folks who think of Democracy as an impediment to progress and "freedom"? The self-declared cultish stewards of future who tell us how dangerous their product is and how only they can avert extinction?
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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Potato, potahto.
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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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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We must join the battle to enshittify space.
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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Land of the imprisoned and the home of the craven.
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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Uhm, “dangerous”? Nope.
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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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Dennis Goris
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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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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I fail to see the situation where Trump falls headfirst into a wood chipper. Color me skeptical of instant karma.
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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If it was a legal option I’d pick an air burial in support of condors.
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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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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I've never liked cartoon + live action hybrids. It's hubris to make a movie based on the materpiece created by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese.
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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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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Good episode, hate to hear Roman shill for Meta in the commercial pushing so-called Instagram youth protection.
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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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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Swaggering chickenshit.
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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Good luck pushing that rope, as much as I agree with you.
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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Why not call out the author, Gilad Edelman? He seems to enjoy the rehabilitation beat when he’s not writing about wearing shorts to the office or dealing with snoring.
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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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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’m awed that I can look back at my ancestors’ billions of years of unbroken reproductive success starting with the common ancestor of every living thing on this planet. Surviving the branch into Homo sapiens is trivial by comparison.
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BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
They were given all the details about distance and still effed it up.
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Fascism will come at the hands of brainwashed, brainless, Americans."
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