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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️

@restingdinoface.bsky.social

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Bronto-queen, big cat, best-selling and award-winning author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, When the Earth Was Green, and Tyrant Lizard Queen (2026). 🔞 she/they/it. Skreeonk. http://rileyblack.net

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · Sep 6

Tyrant Lizard Queen will be stomping your way next year, so it’s a good time to get into When the Earth Was Green if you haven’t already. 🌱

When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

bookshop.org

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 1h

I really need to get another pair of these polka dot shorts. They were perfect

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 2h

premee has VERY good books if you have coins

Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 4h

"What do you mean" Well sometimes people ask me "So, do awards help with book sales?" and anyway, not universally. I definitely do NOT believe that I (or indeed any author!) am entitled to book sales. But I, uh. Can't live on mine. :)

a screencap from the ISFDB showing 'highest ranks authors and editors since 1950 by decade,' then the top 12 list showing premee mohamed at #3 for the 2020s. then a royalty statement indicating $209.10 total earned over a six month period, and, quite reasonably, an arrow pointing to a beetle with a clown face labeled 'me'

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Tansy 🔞 🔜 Furpoc AA @tansy.bsky.social · 8h

Patches tank top. What are our thoughts

A tank top featuring several small drawings of my little dog comfort sona Patches alongside the text: I love vaccines, autism, abortions, queers, hormone replacement therapy, & crime!

This text is originally from a vintage punk button from the 70s and doesn’t belong to any particular person that is traceable. I changed a couple works, replacing “homosexuals” with “queers” and “sex changes” with”hormone replacement therapy.”

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 2h

“The chair is just settling,” I tell myself as it approaches catastrophic failure.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 3h

Look, I wasn’t going to post it. We’re not in bluesky’s fun era anymore. But if you call me out

Photo of Riley’s backside in polka dot bike shorts

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 3h

Know the power of breaking a chair beneath you.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 3h

I’m not saying I have a fat ass but a friend has one less lawn chair because of me.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 3h

With a jumping spood, my favorite!

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 3h

hands you some bugs

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🍊 @sablecitrus.bsky.social · 3h

The Sound is Irresistible

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 5h

She decided to be baby the moment we met and had reminded me every day since

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 5h

Exactly. I love when I put on anything with a heel that takes me over six feet and Splash just looks up at me murmuring “Tall girlfriend.”

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 6h

She negotiates very well.

Strata the torbie cat cuddled on Riley’s legs, on tv is the MST3K episode Parts: The Clonus Horror

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 6h

I feel like my career is repeatedly wondering “What if a creature…”

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 8h

Vetulicolian studies. Cambrian weirdos #sciart

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Lina Svärd 🐻 Commissions open! @softlywool.bsky.social · 1d

Day ten of 31 Days of Fungi 🍄
This is Pig's Ear 🐷

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 1d

"...regional extinction rate of between 75 and 84% for squamates in the Western Interior of North America and suggests this group was more severely impacted across the K/Pg boundary than other small-bodied vertebrates."
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology

Diversity of North American squamates across the K/Pg boundary.

Late Cretaceous squamates from DMNH Loc.3648 (a–aa) and early Palaeocene squamates from DMNH Loc.2560 (bb–dd).

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 6h

Speaking of romance, I love the trope of a couple just dancing in the living room or kitchen for no reason. That always hits me in the feels.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 6h

Even better is

“Hey you’re short.”

“Really? Thanks! I could be shorter…”

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 6h

I love when someone short enjoys being told “Hey you’re short” and you can make their afternoon just by saying so.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 7h

Ahhh this is killer!

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HARPY @vampireharpy.bsky.social · 7h

oh shit i got dunk'd on

photo of op in a mirror showing off the tattoo more

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 7h

I have friends who want to attend and “see what it’s really like,” and I get the impulse. But cons, especially, are places where we owe no one explanations and don’t deserve the anthropological analysis. Come if you’re curious, for sure, but not to treat it like an actual zoo.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 7h

I hope the shirts fail and we can focus on making stuff - the freakier the better - for our own community. I want people to know enough to leave us to our thing but still keep the scene as a bit opaque, something to choose and be chosen back by rather than a place of normie tourism.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 8h

Strata rarely ever shows her belly. When she does, it’s when she feels I haven’t been responding to her bids quickly enough and she *really* wants some attention. She never leaves me to wonder what she wants.

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