Claude ✡️🦖🦕
@cascoclauda.bsky.social
Claude, they/them, 25.
Writer, thembo, palaeontology enthusiast, occasional funnyman.
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Writer, thembo, palaeontology enthusiast, occasional funnyman.
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Claude ✡️🦖🦕
@cascoclauda.bsky.social
· Oct 29
thank you to the amazing @literallymiguel.bsky.social for this wonderful art for my fantasy worldbuilding project, the dragonbinder chronicles! this is the protagonist, aurora, with her familiar, gwen 🐉
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Starmer is bad, just bad at everything, and does so whilst sounding like a cartoon, the man is a joke
January 19, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Starmer is bad, just bad at everything, and does so whilst sounding like a cartoon, the man is a joke
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Not even an unfair summary, the key point appeared to be that not saying or doing anything is a great virtue
For anyone who missed it, here's a summary of Keir Starmers speech this morning: the UK govt will not stand up to Trump.
January 19, 2026 at 9:44 AM
Not even an unfair summary, the key point appeared to be that not saying or doing anything is a great virtue
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Remember the period of 2017-9 when Theresa May would hold a late night press conference every couple of weeks and then announce that nothing had changed?
January 19, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Remember the period of 2017-9 when Theresa May would hold a late night press conference every couple of weeks and then announce that nothing had changed?
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What professional politicos rarely seem to understand is those moments where your opponent has become widely despised and their politics toxic, that's the moment where you should define a new consensus that benefits you. "The ideas are fine but we'd execute it better" is such a missed opportunity!
January 19, 2026 at 9:40 AM
What professional politicos rarely seem to understand is those moments where your opponent has become widely despised and their politics toxic, that's the moment where you should define a new consensus that benefits you. "The ideas are fine but we'd execute it better" is such a missed opportunity!
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Art train!!
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Tagging:
@nataliajagielska.bsky.social
@jamespascoe.bsky.social
@tessasaurus.bsky.social
@palaeojules.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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Artillery Dragon commission
Probably the most fascinating topic I've worked on in a while. If Dragons are like fighter jets, then this guy is AAA. It will blast you out of the skies, track down your grounded body, and rip into your ribcage.
Probably the most fascinating topic I've worked on in a while. If Dragons are like fighter jets, then this guy is AAA. It will blast you out of the skies, track down your grounded body, and rip into your ribcage.
March 31, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Artillery Dragon commission
Probably the most fascinating topic I've worked on in a while. If Dragons are like fighter jets, then this guy is AAA. It will blast you out of the skies, track down your grounded body, and rip into your ribcage.
Probably the most fascinating topic I've worked on in a while. If Dragons are like fighter jets, then this guy is AAA. It will blast you out of the skies, track down your grounded body, and rip into your ribcage.
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Norwegian PM Støre says Trump repeatedly raises—complains about, pleads for, and demands—the Nobel Peace Prize every time they meet. Støre gives same answer each time: decision is made independently by Norwegian Nobel Committee, with no role for Norwegian gov—a concept Trump appears unable to grasp.
January 18, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Norwegian PM Støre says Trump repeatedly raises—complains about, pleads for, and demands—the Nobel Peace Prize every time they meet. Støre gives same answer each time: decision is made independently by Norwegian Nobel Committee, with no role for Norwegian gov—a concept Trump appears unable to grasp.
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It really does feel like they're actively trying to lose. They have their finger on something but it sure ain't the pulse of the public.
ICE is seriously going to be Gaza all over again for Democrats isn’t it. They’re going to try it again, insisting if they just don’t talk about it then it’s not actually an issue that matters to millions of voters.
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
January 19, 2026 at 2:43 AM
It really does feel like they're actively trying to lose. They have their finger on something but it sure ain't the pulse of the public.
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Oreodonts are extinct mammals that looked similar to pigs and sheep, but were more closely related to camels. They are the most commonly found fossil in the White River Badlands in South Dakota, and this exceptional specimen from our collection shows an oreodont curled up inside its burrow.
January 18, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Oreodonts are extinct mammals that looked similar to pigs and sheep, but were more closely related to camels. They are the most commonly found fossil in the White River Badlands in South Dakota, and this exceptional specimen from our collection shows an oreodont curled up inside its burrow.
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Excuse me while I hit this curb into another dimension.
January 18, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Excuse me while I hit this curb into another dimension.
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We can barely read or think anymore and it shows.
Americans check their phones over 140 times daily. And reading comprehension scores are declining.
Pausing for just a few seconds to critically evaluate information can counteract the mental habits that make us susceptible to misinformation, according to a literacy expert. buff.ly/XMSkj6d
Pausing for just a few seconds to critically evaluate information can counteract the mental habits that make us susceptible to misinformation, according to a literacy expert. buff.ly/XMSkj6d
Deep reading can boost your critical thinking and help you resist misinformation – here’s how to build the skill
Reading comprehension scores are tanking, and fewer Americans are picking up books. But practicing deep reading can help you process content more carefully and keep you from falling for…
buff.ly
January 19, 2026 at 1:00 AM
We can barely read or think anymore and it shows.
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Maybe we shouldn't have based our entire civilization around a thick black goo formed from countless dead lifeforms over millions of years, essentially the concentrated essence of death
October 8, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Maybe we shouldn't have based our entire civilization around a thick black goo formed from countless dead lifeforms over millions of years, essentially the concentrated essence of death
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Today I got to see a mummified ankylosaur name Zuul and I love him.
January 18, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Today I got to see a mummified ankylosaur name Zuul and I love him.
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Baryonyx, Iguanodon sketch
January 19, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Baryonyx, Iguanodon sketch
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Fun fact: Black Panthers doing perfectly legal (at the time) open carry in CA in the 1960s spurred then-Governor Reagan to sign the Mulford Act into law in 1965, prohibiting it.
These people have no consistent politics outside a desperate, leering need to keep hold of power and privilege.
These people have no consistent politics outside a desperate, leering need to keep hold of power and privilege.
January 19, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Fun fact: Black Panthers doing perfectly legal (at the time) open carry in CA in the 1960s spurred then-Governor Reagan to sign the Mulford Act into law in 1965, prohibiting it.
These people have no consistent politics outside a desperate, leering need to keep hold of power and privilege.
These people have no consistent politics outside a desperate, leering need to keep hold of power and privilege.
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If you think this technology isn’t eventually being used on you, you’re kidding yourself. Either we smash it or destroys us.
This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING
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CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
January 19, 2026 at 4:46 AM
If you think this technology isn’t eventually being used on you, you’re kidding yourself. Either we smash it or destroys us.
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Man this is not twitter if you're gonna try to get in a fight with me I am just blocking you. Talk to me like an adult
January 19, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Man this is not twitter if you're gonna try to get in a fight with me I am just blocking you. Talk to me like an adult
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Jackalopes, a clade of hegetothere notoungulates, from the houze prairie.
January 18, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Jackalopes, a clade of hegetothere notoungulates, from the houze prairie.
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esults from the #paleostream!
Once again, 3 wishes, one for myself.
Messapicetus (for Tim), Nierkoppia (for Eru), Aquilonifer (for ultraluther) and finally Ferenceratops.
Once again, 3 wishes, one for myself.
Messapicetus (for Tim), Nierkoppia (for Eru), Aquilonifer (for ultraluther) and finally Ferenceratops.
January 19, 2026 at 2:26 AM
esults from the #paleostream!
Once again, 3 wishes, one for myself.
Messapicetus (for Tim), Nierkoppia (for Eru), Aquilonifer (for ultraluther) and finally Ferenceratops.
Once again, 3 wishes, one for myself.
Messapicetus (for Tim), Nierkoppia (for Eru), Aquilonifer (for ultraluther) and finally Ferenceratops.
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More #kakapo matings - another from Whenua Hou, and Te Kākahu/Chalky Island is off the mark! That's particularly exciting, as it's our low-intensity management site.
Whenua Hou: Tumeke 💚 Gulliver
Te Kākahu: Rimu 💚 Jack
#conservation #parrots A
Whenua Hou: Tumeke 💚 Gulliver
Te Kākahu: Rimu 💚 Jack
#conservation #parrots A
January 19, 2026 at 8:06 AM
More #kakapo matings - another from Whenua Hou, and Te Kākahu/Chalky Island is off the mark! That's particularly exciting, as it's our low-intensity management site.
Whenua Hou: Tumeke 💚 Gulliver
Te Kākahu: Rimu 💚 Jack
#conservation #parrots A
Whenua Hou: Tumeke 💚 Gulliver
Te Kākahu: Rimu 💚 Jack
#conservation #parrots A
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another sunday, another short story from me!
cascoclauda.substack.com/p/requiem
cascoclauda.substack.com/p/requiem
Requiem
Grief is the thing with feathers
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January 18, 2026 at 5:02 PM
another sunday, another short story from me!
cascoclauda.substack.com/p/requiem
cascoclauda.substack.com/p/requiem
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ICE agents. are putting. stuffed animals. on dashboards. to fool children. into thinking. they won't be kidnapped.
Thanks. We have folks in our community giving vulnerable students rides to school, and a teacher shared that they were putting small stuffed animals on their dashboards to help kids identify safe cars. ICE picked up on it and started doing the same. Horrifying.
January 18, 2026 at 9:04 PM
ICE agents. are putting. stuffed animals. on dashboards. to fool children. into thinking. they won't be kidnapped.
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How embarrassing to work for the organized kidnapping ring known as "ICE." Rolling out of bed every day to be a brainless goon. You are lower than a worm to me
May 31, 2025 at 8:20 PM
How embarrassing to work for the organized kidnapping ring known as "ICE." Rolling out of bed every day to be a brainless goon. You are lower than a worm to me