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I've long said if I win a big lottery prize, I'm going to have the folk at jamyk.pl build me a few paleozoic sea diorama, with lots of trilobites. I have some of their small models like Opabinia. Maybe a Mesozoic one with trees & anurognathid pterosaurs flitting about catching bugs. One can dream.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

To be honest, I mostly blocked bots for their lack of cat pics.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you've not already read it, you might check out the paper on the thagomizing abilities of Kentrosaurus by Heinrich Mallison. It's free online. Googling 'kentrosaurus mallison paleontologia electronica' will get the paper. First time 'thagomizer' made it into the literature, AFAIK.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The second pic reminds me of a scene from Beetlejuice.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Like the system that makes sure murders or tbe sexual abuse of children never happen again?

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Killing children. It's what the GOP does. Mostly in Africa & in Iran, but the GOP is happy to kill American children too. That's what 'patriotism' means to Republicans.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

As a pleased Canadian (cuz proud would be too jingoistic), I say welcome to Canada. I hope you enjoy your stay. I'm not one of those eejits who tells women to smile, but hearing the hard times you've been going through, it is nice to see such a big smile. I hope your future will hold many more.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

But with levels of gilding that would have Louis XIV saying 'Trop! Trop, trop, trop!'

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Pure barbarism. All over America, MAGAs will be masturbating to it.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'd already seen several frogs today, but another frog is always a welcome sight in my feed.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The cartoon doesn't work in Canada, where our Thanksgiving is on Monday the 12th of October.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey, if you just worked as hard as Barron Trump does, you'd make $150M a year too!

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I appreciate the sentiment, but you'd need Republicans to act & they're all cult members. Unless the Dems end up with 68 senators (need an extra because of fucking Fetterman), you're stuck with Trump. Besides, Vance is as evil, but can't be as incompetent as Trump is.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was hugely relieved when I heard my brother say 'Amazing, eh.' My brother is an avid birder & particularly with owls. He'd found the owl & asked if I wanted to come & see it. It was an amazing experience.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On a crisp, cold day, in a field knee deep with fine powder snow that absorbed all the ambient noise, I was within 15' of a great gray owl as it took off. It spread those huge wings, stepped off the branch it was on, & gave a few flaps. I heard nothing! I thought I'd suddenly gone deaf! 1/2

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Canadian gov't broke the law relating to gov't procurement in the case of PPE in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. You seem to think that is a grave sin. Or you just didn't think beyond 'That is pithy & hard hitting, so I don't have to think it through.' It's more complicated than that.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Quite a record of sustained excellence. Will have to pick up a copy.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fortunately, it is curable by the sufferer. Unfortunately, that requires self-awareness & not self-absorption & that does not play to a MAGA's 'strengths'.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sure, you voted early, but did you vote often?

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have to do this stuff in a couple of weeks, so I'm not feeling humorous about.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Amazing! I knew in the abstract they are big, but those pics really bring it home.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wait until after the mid terms. Dems fighting Dems is good news for the GOP. Don't be like the KPD & SPD in Weimar Germany, letting their Nazis win.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Most excellent! It is a fascinating story.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I would totally buy one, and wear it outside my house!, if these were available somewhere. I'd be envious, but, obviously, cannot begrudge the author the fruits of his work.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Brilliant photo. A work of art. Thanks for posting!

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Garfunkel & Oates' song 'Save the Rich' comes to mind somehow.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not a surprise Cornell was one of the schools that bent the knee to Trump. Selling out people who aren't white me is a Cornell thing.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Considering much of what is wrong with the world is owed to people who remembered WW2, I find it hard to credit your claim. Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan & GHW Bush all remembered WW2, as did so many of their voters. That your claim comes with no evidence or reason is another reason not to credit it.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Folk think Hasan Piker is important because righties & 'centrists' (i.e. righties after plausible deniability) are using him to beat up Dems on the Sunday morning news shows, especially progressives, with Piker's witterings.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Indigenous folk immigrated to the Americas. It was just a longer time ago. Only some (most likely) Africans are not immigrants or descended from the them.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Traditional conservatives supported segregation, support white supremacy & are all for letting children die for lack of healthcare & go hungry so that billionaires & millionaires could be even more fabulously wealthy. Traditional conservatives were & are just Trump with social graces.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

'Featuring Real Bursting Into Flames Action!'

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There has been a gender war waged by patriarchical men against women. Just as there is an ongoing class war waged by the wealthy against the workers who actually produce.

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How has your frog army done this past dire summer?

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Mike Traynor, a know-It-all @miketrilobite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The problem these days is that the right doesn't even accept the idea there are facts independent of what Trump claims.

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