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David Clark

@clarkeocrinus.bsky.social

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I'd rather be crinoid hunting. Invertebrate enthusiast, Paleo artist, Fossil prep, President of Friends of the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · Jul 31

All right, let's do this one last time.

My name is David Clark. I was bitten by a radioactive crinoid, and for 13 years I was on the bird site as clarkeocrinus.

I'm pretty sure you know the rest.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1h

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 6h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 14h

I'm painting a little series of colorful autumn minis. These will be added to my shop sometime next week. Sign up for my emails on my website if you'd like to have early access.

Tisha Mark ©2025, Autumn Mini No. 2502, oil on gessobord, 4"x4"

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#art #painting #TraditionalArt #ArtYear

Photo of a hand holding an original autumn landscape painting by Tisha Mark, "Autumn Mini No. 2502" 4"x4" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). The painting shows an autumn landscape where the leaves are turning red, orange, and gold, and the grass is starting to turn a lighter shade of green. There is a body of water reflecting colors from the leaves as well as colors from the sky which is purple, peach, and blue. A paint palette with puddles of oil paint and a paintbrush and palette knife are visible in the background.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 16h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 15h

Flat Run Fossils just opened their quarry this year. The Friends of UMMP have a field trip this weekend, but it's open to the general public. I think their season ends in about a week though.

flatrunfossils.com

Flat Run Fossils - Fossil Hunting Experience

Discover and collect well-preserved trilobites at Flat Run Fossils! A hands-on fossil hunting adventure in Ohio.

flatrunfossils.com

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 15h

I've been taking my kids collecting since they were 3 years old.

I love every trip with them.

David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 16h

I have a few Flexicalymene from this area, but I would love to find an Isotelus for my collection.

David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 16h

I'm taking my kids to Mt. Orab this weekend to hunt trilobites. It's an Ordovician site (Arnheim Mb. Richmond Fm.) near Cincinnati with Flexicalymene retorsa and Isotelus, though much less common.

I'm hoping to see my little girl find her first complete trilobite.

#FossilFriday

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20h

someone has a hard on for a kent state reboot

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1d

Trump appears to be openly considering ordering the construction of an imperial monument to his vanity as the gateway to this republic's most solemn national gravesite.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

Press pool: “On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial”

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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 2d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 1d

“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist.”

The Nobel committee didn’t just snub Trump — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado received the peace prize — its announcement gave him the middle finger. Bravo.

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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 1d

You know, I think it would be nice if I could go back to just posting about art making and history and art history and costuming, whatever odd things catch my eye and funny things my kids do.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. ...”

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 1d

That (NPR!) journalists think AI is a creative engine that can finesse iconic productions is not just context for the crap quality of writing in media but alarmingly the inability among a class of supposedly professional scrutinizers to distinguish between art and slop, good and bad, truth and lie

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 🔥🧊 @chrisdafer.bsky.social · 1d

To be fair, we thought they said "the best and the brightest" but obviously they said "no breasts and the whitest."

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Without comment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 1d

Patrick has an OnlyFans account.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

I was recently scuba diving in Indonesia and I can 100% confirm that the dick starfish are real and they actually look like this:

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 1d

That's not how science works. That's not how any of this works.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

This is what they signed up for!

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Without provocation, masked federal agents indiscriminately shoot peaceful protesters with rubber bullets from the rooftop of the Portland ICE facility.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

its very much "all the crooks in gotham have too much sense to stand up to the joker but guys like two-face are just insane enough to do it"

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

One of the things that's terrifying about what's happening now is the number of Republicans who won't stand up to Trump because they're cowards who are terrified of backlash. MGT strikes me as just unhinged enough to not be sensitive to that, which turns out to be a liability for them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 1d

Get a room. This is embarrassing.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Huge, huge swathes of *Trump voters* will effectively have no health care available except for emergency ER.

It is simultaneously a) the worst way to maintain public health and b) the most *expensive* way to do it.

Idiocy from moral degenerates. That's our country now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Dr Thomas Clements @taphonomist.bsky.social · 1d

Had the amazing privilege earlier in the year to watch a lithographic limestone plate be made by one last plate makers in Germany. Each plate is cut and then hammered by hand into shape - and after having a go it's very skilled work. Currently they have no apprentices, so a truly dying art.

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K. Liakos @kliakos.com · 2d

America 2025:

The facade of a store in a Delaware strip mall called its fashion but the lights on the o n and exclamation point are out so it says it’s fashi

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