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Natty🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🏐🏈🐕🐴📎 @grillnatty.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is from Danny Trejo’s daughter. I couldn’t figure out how he got involved with it. Looks like Shapiro duped Trejo, which isn’t surprising. I won’t watch the movie

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Visited the Academy of Natural Sciences museum in Philadelphia to see the place one last time before it closes. Was inspired to create this ghostasaurus based on the museum’s Hadrosaurus exhibit.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Visited the Academy of Natural Sciences museum in Philadelphia before it permanently closes. Got to see the bones of Hadrosaurus, the first semi-complete dinosaur scientifically studied in North America.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Liberty Biberty is such a lame corporate sanitized “weird” mascot. He can’t hold a candle to Eagleman youtu.be/O4-e4nlfdRI?...

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Eagleman (The Original)

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What are your feelings on those who are not the mama?

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Love how the height of the hat implies that Musk has a head shaped like Mr. Gone’s from The Maxx

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Even if the protest doesn’t save the museum, it’ll still have a ton of other benefits like bringing together like-minded people, creating a boiling pot of ideas. I have no doubt a lot of progress will come out of this in unexpected ways.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I can do both. (Me, who hates making phone calls: *shaking and screaming internally*)

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Is there an address for the mayor we can send letters to? What about the people in charge of the Museum at Drexel? I’m not sure how the administrative politics work there and who is in charge of what.

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Senator Nikil Saval @pasenatorsaval.com · 01/09/2026

It is unacceptable for a world-class city like ours to allow its major natural history museum to close. We cannot allow it. My statement ⬇️

The text of Senator Saval's statement on the closure of the Academy of Natural Sciences museum. The words are in white on a blue background. Senator Saval's image is in the lower-right corner.

"For nearly two centuries, the museum of the The Academy of Natural Sciences has been the physical embodiment of a commitment to public natural history education. I was outraged to learn of the plans for its closure, both as a long-standing member of the museum and as an elected representative committed to the health and vitality of Philadelphia. It is unacceptable for a world-class city like ours to allow its major natural history museum to close.

The mismanagement of such a treasured asset is a profound insult to the residents of the city and to the incomparable workers and curators at the museum. We cannot allow it."

The text of Senator Saval's statement on the closure of the Academy of Natural Sciences museum. The words are in white on a blue background.

"This museum is a place where generation after generation first became enthralled with our world, and as we face the enormity of the climate crisis and an unprecedented loss of biodiversity, the continuation of the museum’s legacy of marvel and care for the natural world has never been more urgent. Partners from all levels of government must unite in our efforts to see this vital work continue."

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This sucks so much. The Academy Museum was where I saw the first semi-complete dinosaur skeleton in the world (Hadrosaurus). Haven’t been there in years but I’d been meaning to take a trip back eventually.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I lost a ton of respect for universities in general when the university of Michigan, my alma, cut a bunch of DEI stuff to suck up to Trump.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A fuzzy Dilophosaurus at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. Possibly inspired by the famous “sitting Anomoepus” track from the Connecticut Valley which may show feather impressions. Also possibly based on Dyzio, a feathered Dilophosaurus model at the Geological Museum at Warsaw.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci 🧪

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Some last minute (I made them yesterday, so it still counts) Pride month designs based on 50s B-movie monsters created by Paul Blaisdell 1. Nonbinary flag She-Creature 2. Trans flag It Conquered the World! 3. Genderqueer flag The Beast with a Million Eyes 4. Pansexual Invasion of the Saucer Men

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Made a Tyrannosaurus cut-out to greet guests coming to my trolley museum for Dinosaur Weekend in July.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Made some new plywood dinosaurs for Dinosaur Weekends at my trolley museum. This year it’s Maiasaura and Dimetrodon.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Made some paper bag prehistoric creatures for Dinosaur weekends at my Trolley Museum. Featuring Cryolophosaurus, Yutyrranus, Lystrosaurus, and Triceratops.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Hey everybody RT this, please? While mural making I haven't had time to fundraise (it would be so cool if there were 2 of me). I wanna do some cool projects this fall so I gotta sell some shirts.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

My version of the newly-described “Cretaceous Kraken”, Nanaimoteuthis. I created this as a shirt design for my TeePublic shop.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

These photos popped up in my FB feed so thought I’d reshare them here. This was a dinosaur track scavenger hunt I designed for the Connecticut Science Center to go along with a dinosaur exhibit. Fossil footprints are abundant in the Connecticut Valley and I like making more people aware of them.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Drew some aliens from the lost protplanet Theia which crashed into Earth 4.5 billion years ago to form the moon.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

A review I did on one of the cooler TTRPG books I’ve read. The fey explained as energy beings that imperfectly minic mortal appearances and behavior. readingradiodont.blogspot.com/2026/04/rpgb...

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RPG/Book Review: The Memoirs of Auberon of Faerie by Jeff Grubb

(Note: The original version of this review was written for an issue of Astrovitae, a magazine of speculative biology. The magazine is curren...

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

book bees I made for a display at my library.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A spring pollinator display I put together for the children’s section at my library job.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Me when a song on the 1920s radio station at my museum casually drops the most bizarre racial slur in the middle of a jaunty ragtime ditty.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Started doing book reviews again because I love sharing the stuff I read with others. I’m also reviewing fun little indie RPGs like this one. readingradiodont.blogspot.com/2026/03/rpg-...

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Some studies I did for this drawing based on stills from the movie.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Drew one of my favorite alien designs, the being from the original ending of Disney’s 1980 gothic ghosty story film “The Watcher in the Woods”. The reshot ending of the theatrical release depicted the Watcher as a column of light, but the original alien puppet is waaay cooler.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Just wanted to show off this little display about nature in winter that I put up at my library job.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Took the cryptids to my planetarium job today. Mothman from the Mothman Museum. Flatwoods, Van Meter Visitor, Enfield Horror, and Vegetable Man from @cryptidcomforts.bsky.social

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Parking lot ice and salt stains that look like spacecraft views of Kuiper Belt objects.

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Caprellid party off the docks today 🐙🦑🌿

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A slightly late entry for Goblin Week. Made to express my frustration at white supremacist losers using Mac Tonight as a mascot for their racist rap albums, and thus making me feel uncomfortable about using moon-headed creatures in my fantasy artwork. (It’s, uh, a bit of a niche frustration.)

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Goblin Week Day 2! This green dude’s playing is playing one of my favorite weird musical instruments, the glass armonica! Made of a series of glass bowls stacked inside each other and turned on their sides and played with wet finger tips on the bowl rims.

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I was on Tune FM (the University of New England student radio station) to talk about Sponges, Carnivorous Sponges, and a worm that lives with carnivorous sponges 🧪 #Invertebrate www.tunefm.net/2025/12/19/c...

Chondrocladia lampadiglobus carnivorous sponge, which looks like a pole with several translucent spheres at the top.
Photo taken by the Cyana submersible, during the GEOCYARISE 2 campaign, on the East Pacific Ridge.
Sourced from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Campagne_GEOCYARISE_-_Eponge_carnivore_Chondrocladia_lampadiglobus_(Ifremer_00703-81529).jpg

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Ali Nabavizadeh @vertanatomist.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Fantastic article on these amazing creatures by the incredibly talented @restingdinoface.bsky.social! (Also, for more on evolution of elephant/proboscidean tusks & trunks, check out my recent exploration/review paper [More to come soon!]) anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...)

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Putting out some winter decor this morning.

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John Meszaros @dilophosaurusbard.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

First post for Goblin Week 2026! Here’s a little dude based on the clothing moth Tineola bisselliella. I think Tineola is super cool because it’s descended from moths that feed on keratin-rich bits from mammal carcasses like fur and horns- parts that other scavengers don’t eat.

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