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woke tyrannosaurus 🦖 (taryn)

@actualraptor.bsky.social

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she/they | STEM femme queer gamer, academic & writer with a focus on horror and dinosaurs. writing queer horror & TTRPGs, & putting dinos in both. MESci in Geology. MSc in Palaeobiology. https://linktr.ee/actualraptor

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woke tyrannosaurus 🦖 (taryn) @actualraptor.bsky.social · Feb 18

Now there's more activity here, new intro time!

Hi everyone, I'm Taryn. I'm a queer writer/academic, beginner paleoartist, occasional AP performer, and a ttrpg gremlin/dice hoarder.

I specialise in queer horror/SFF and, more importantly, dinosaurs and prehistoric reptiles (namely hadrosaurs)🦕

A selfie of Taryn. She has green hair with an undercut, wearing a hoodie and 'Zoro' earrings.

Photo of Taryn at a dig site in Montana. They're wearing flannel, t shirt, walking trousers and a sunhat. They're carrying a plaster cast of a hadrosaur ischium.

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 13d

In all honesty, it’s not rhetoric any more. It’s not narrative. I’ve experienced more racism in the last 4 months than I can ever remember. The wheels are off in the UK and it’s being led by 3 political parties.

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woke tyrannosaurus 🦖 (taryn) @actualraptor.bsky.social · Sep 2

very overdue another BG3 run so maybe I start that soon idk

woke tyrannosaurus 🦖 (taryn) @actualraptor.bsky.social · Sep 2

devastating to my mental and physical health to discover my go to is called a redneck margarita

🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · Sep 1

www.tumblr.com/elliegoose/7... This chart of cocktail names for different types of Mountain Dew mixers is killing me. I didn't even know there WAS hard Mountain Dew.

a chart with liquors on one axis and different brands of mountain dew on the other axis. Drink names include things like "Super Mario Moonshine" and "Hell At the Bell" and "You've Fucked Up"

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Trish @slowpiracy.bsky.social · Aug 31

"You'll get more conservative as you get older"

Me:

Ren, Noted Boat Media Enthusiast @softoctober.bsky.social · Aug 31

Me at 11 watching the X-Men movies: Xavier is doing his best in a difficult world!

Me now: Magneto should be allowed to hunt every senator that supported the mutant registration act for sport

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woke tyrannosaurus 🦖 (taryn) @actualraptor.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm one minor inconvenience away from rewatching all the Transformers movies for comfort

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · Sep 1

The minute it became September I felt my body unclench slightly.

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Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · Aug 26

I don't want to repost the awful stuff in that Chat GPT suicide case. But I will say that Chat GPT should be destroyed, financially and legally. The data centers should be disassembled and recycled. Sam Altman should go to prison.

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Weird Al Jazeera @cyberstalin.bsky.social · Aug 26

i havent seen a lot of people talking about this for some reason but all my love and solidarity to lil nas x right now. leo herrera had a really beautiful post about this situation on instagram. unconditional support for struggling queer black people.

CNN @cnn.com · Aug 25

Lil Nas X was charged with four felonies after police say he charged at them when they confronted him for walking naked down a Los Angeles street last week.

Lil Nas X charged with attacking police officers as he walked naked on Los Angeles street | CNN

Lil Nas X was charged Monday with four felonies after police say he charged at them when they confronted him for walking naked down a Los Angeles street last week.

www.cnn.com

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · Aug 21

Museums play a fundamental role in preserving cultural and natural history. They also educate the public, enrich our lives with knowledge, and inspire us to build a better future. The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see 🧪

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Camp @campfireharve.st · Jul 11

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!"

This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows:

Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity.

When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers.

Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="

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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · Aug 26

Erebor - watercolor and acryla gouache on paper

Complete with Lake Town and a tiny Bilbo in an alcove

✨Prints on saIe!✨

A painting of Smaug lying in his hoard beneath the dwarven caves of the Lonely Mountain.

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phase @phaseknight.bsky.social · Aug 26

Ghilan’nain is still one of the coolest costumes I’ve ever made. I love you, dragon age 🖤

#dragonage

Ghilan’nain costume from dragon age the veilguard made by me

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · Aug 23

Welcome to a new member of the Isle of Wight iggy family! Congratulations @valdosaurus.bsky.social!

The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · Aug 22

A new sail-back ornithischian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wealden Group of the Isle of Wight & the origins of neural spine elongation in iguanodontians onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday #PapersinPalaeontology

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Minataur @minataur.bsky.social · Jun 12

actually unreal how funny this image is

a two-panel image comprised of edited stills from Sam Raimi’s first Spider-Man film.

in the first panel, The Green Goblin is lifting J. Jonah Jameson by the throat, while the newsman desperately says, “It’s a PNG, I swear!”

in the second panel, a close-up of The Green Goblin reveals that he’s wearing a jpeg of a hat with a fake checkered ‘transparent’ background behind it, and shouting, “You’re lying!”

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Aug 18

It’s wild that the most unrealistic part of Terminator 2 is now the idea of a tech founder being told their creation will enslave humanity and they decide to destroy their product & company.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · Aug 13

Do NOT run at me in the Weapons (2025) pose. Do not teach my children to run Weapons (2025)-style. Everyone please run normally, thank you.

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · Aug 17

Can't stress enough how there's never been a movement against censorship of adult media this widespread or getting this much attention. We have a real chance to get something done so keep going with me

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🐰 soren @ 7.3 ✧･ﾟ comm grind again (1/2) @vieraways.bsky.social · Aug 12

do u ever just explode bc u love ur oc so much

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woke tyrannosaurus 🦖 (taryn) @actualraptor.bsky.social · Aug 17

seeing so many dino nerds with sickass dino tattoos this weekend has given me the itchhhhh

need to go get thagomizer, raptor claw and t rex tooth tats STAT

woke tyrannosaurus 🦖 (taryn) @actualraptor.bsky.social · Aug 17

me when I'm called out immediately for saying this during the closing ceremony

woke tyrannosaurus 🦖 (taryn) @actualraptor.bsky.social · Aug 17

charity auction is somehow a free comedy sketch show and we're all thoroughly enjoying every minute

bonus accidental dick joke

#DinoConUK

woke tyrannosaurus 🦖 (taryn) @actualraptor.bsky.social · Aug 17

I can't even judge @tetzoo.bsky.social because I too would be stood there letting numbers rock my world trying to keep track of hands in a sea of people

woke tyrannosaurus 🦖 (taryn) @actualraptor.bsky.social · Aug 17

the kangaroo court of this auction as we all heckle and argue is bliss

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woke tyrannosaurus 🦖 (taryn) @actualraptor.bsky.social · Aug 17

charity auction is somehow a free comedy sketch show and we're all thoroughly enjoying every minute

bonus accidental dick joke

#DinoConUK

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Crimson Mayhem @crimsonmayhem.bsky.social · Aug 15

“When we were crafting the story we used to always compare it, Rumi's story, as like she's coming out of the closet and coming clean to her parent who is, you know, wanting her to be something that she's not.”

~ Maddie Kang, Director of KPop Demon Hunters, addressing the LGBTQ+ subtexts in the film

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Katra Ariello, Golden Apple Audio Narrator 🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · Aug 14

You wouldn't disobey Angewomon wouldn't you?

picture of angewomon with two speech bubbles

1: "Well, you heard them didn't you?
2: "Hop on it"

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