Claude ✡️🦖🦕
@cascoclauda.bsky.social
Claude, they/them, 25.
Writer, thembo, palaeontology enthusiast, occasional funnyman.
Profile pic by @wargonopsid
Writer, thembo, palaeontology enthusiast, occasional funnyman.
Profile pic by @wargonopsid
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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 🐉
yeah it's something we are painfully familiar with
January 18, 2026 at 6:08 PM
yeah it's something we are painfully familiar with
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Whatever did happen to David Cameron’s “70,000 moderate rebels”, by the way? I’m assuming they’re these Al Qaeda guys, and I’m also assuming they got a lot of their guns from us. Anyway, they’ve been fighting Kurdish forces to force them out.
BREAKING: The Syrian gov't has announced a ceasefire has been agreed with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces that will involve the withdrawal of the latter’s forces from areas west of the Euphrates River, according to Syrian state media aje.news/xvr9dp
January 18, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Whatever did happen to David Cameron’s “70,000 moderate rebels”, by the way? I’m assuming they’re these Al Qaeda guys, and I’m also assuming they got a lot of their guns from us. Anyway, they’ve been fighting Kurdish forces to force them out.
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The “regime shift extinctions” hypothesis and mass extinction [sic] of waterbirds in Hawaiʻi - Harmon - 2026 - Ecosphere - Wiley Online Library esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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January 18, 2026 at 2:32 PM
The “regime shift extinctions” hypothesis and mass extinction [sic] of waterbirds in Hawaiʻi - Harmon - 2026 - Ecosphere - Wiley Online Library esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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January 18, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Disinformation and gullible people have always been a thing, and there are more important expressions of the problem right now by far, but it’s starting to get alarming how often I hear from acquaintances about “all those people who don’t believe in dinosaurs” when I share my profession.
January 18, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Disinformation and gullible people have always been a thing, and there are more important expressions of the problem right now by far, but it’s starting to get alarming how often I hear from acquaintances about “all those people who don’t believe in dinosaurs” when I share my profession.
no jacob i cannot possibly understand the intricacies of the dem establishment slandering mamdani to try to get a sex pest into the NYC mayoral office. it's all part of their plan to stop the fascists, obviously
January 18, 2026 at 5:37 PM
no jacob i cannot possibly understand the intricacies of the dem establishment slandering mamdani to try to get a sex pest into the NYC mayoral office. it's all part of their plan to stop the fascists, obviously
"you guys don't understand american politics!" ah yes i am just a dumb foreigner who cannot possibly comprehend the 4d chess manoeuvre newsom is pulling by chatting with ben shapiro and agreeing with him on everything. my bad
January 18, 2026 at 5:33 PM
"you guys don't understand american politics!" ah yes i am just a dumb foreigner who cannot possibly comprehend the 4d chess manoeuvre newsom is pulling by chatting with ben shapiro and agreeing with him on everything. my bad
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The fact that Gavin Newsom is even talking to the likes of Shapiro is a sign that he’s a non-starter. I’ve never forgotten how Shapiro said that Trayvon Martin deserved to die. Not fucking ever.
Ben Shapiro: "Israel did not commit a genocide in Gaza"
Gavin Newsom: "I agree with you."
Gavin Newsom: "I agree with you."
January 17, 2026 at 9:06 PM
The fact that Gavin Newsom is even talking to the likes of Shapiro is a sign that he’s a non-starter. I’ve never forgotten how Shapiro said that Trayvon Martin deserved to die. Not fucking ever.
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I’m no Kemi fan but she did exactly the right thing getting rid of Jenrick. Starmer should do the same to Streeting. Corbyn didn’t get rid of him - now look!!
Copying the Tories and ousting a high-profile figure for speaking his mind would only backfire, says @rentouljohn.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/voices/wes-s...
www.independent.co.uk/voices/wes-s...
It’s Starmer who is undermined by his allies saying Streeting is being disloyal
The defection of Robert Jenrick from the Conservatives to Reform has triggered another outbreak of Labour infighting, with unnamed cabinet ministers suggesting the PM should copy Kemi Badenoch and sac...
www.independent.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I’m no Kemi fan but she did exactly the right thing getting rid of Jenrick. Starmer should do the same to Streeting. Corbyn didn’t get rid of him - now look!!
are we sure this isn't a trick question and it's a coywolf?
January 18, 2026 at 5:22 PM
are we sure this isn't a trick question and it's a coywolf?
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ICE agents at a hotel in St. Paul woke up this morning to news that they’re getting kicked out of their hotel today at noon.
January 18, 2026 at 4:42 PM
ICE agents at a hotel in St. Paul woke up this morning to news that they’re getting kicked out of their hotel today at noon.
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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if you ever type the words "anti-nazi slop" a robot hand should come out of the computer and point a gun at you until you say "jk". and if you don't say jk something else happens
January 18, 2026 at 4:45 PM
if you ever type the words "anti-nazi slop" a robot hand should come out of the computer and point a gun at you until you say "jk". and if you don't say jk something else happens
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Anyway, the mere existence of ICE (and of borders) is a human rights violation. People are meant to move around the world freely, and any restriction of that movement is immoral.
January 17, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Anyway, the mere existence of ICE (and of borders) is a human rights violation. People are meant to move around the world freely, and any restriction of that movement is immoral.
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Not kidding it's because they saw too many nazi memes on twitter about america dying because we eat tofu and there are gay people here or whatever
Fight and help win a world war.
Establish a global order that cements your national power for 80 years.
Blow it all up.
What am I missing?
Establish a global order that cements your national power for 80 years.
Blow it all up.
What am I missing?
January 18, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Not kidding it's because they saw too many nazi memes on twitter about america dying because we eat tofu and there are gay people here or whatever
isn't impersonating a healthcare working illeg- oh right, the gestapo have prosecutorial immunity
There have been confirmed reports from local organizers in Portland ME that ICE is knocking on doors claiming to be from MaineCare and “offering help“
January 18, 2026 at 4:12 PM
isn't impersonating a healthcare working illeg- oh right, the gestapo have prosecutorial immunity
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scientific community is trained in reading papers presented as defense of preset conclusions (or hypotheses to the same effect) and struggles to react meaningfully to exploratory research written in an exploratory way. "what if this is a thing? let's see. huh turns out it isn't!" baffles reviewers.
January 17, 2026 at 7:35 PM
scientific community is trained in reading papers presented as defense of preset conclusions (or hypotheses to the same effect) and struggles to react meaningfully to exploratory research written in an exploratory way. "what if this is a thing? let's see. huh turns out it isn't!" baffles reviewers.
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Sixty-six million years ago, two types of long-necked, four-legged dinosaurs had an edge over other sauropods because they could readily rise up & remain standing on their hind legs for long stretches of time. scitechdaily.com/these-giant-... #palaeontology #biology #science #SciChat
These Giant Long-Necked Dinosaurs Could Stand Upright – and Scientists Finally Figured Out Why
By applying computational engineering methods to model weight and gravitational forces acting on sauropod femurs, researchers found that these massive four-legged dinosaurs were generally able to stay...
scitechdaily.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Sixty-six million years ago, two types of long-necked, four-legged dinosaurs had an edge over other sauropods because they could readily rise up & remain standing on their hind legs for long stretches of time. scitechdaily.com/these-giant-... #palaeontology #biology #science #SciChat
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Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"
January 18, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"
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Hotel Item of the Day - Cat Plushie 🐈 😻 🐈⬛️ ♥️
This may be our new favorite 3.0 item. 🐱 8 varieties are Gray Tabby, Orange Tabby, White, Black, Calico, Cream & Brown, Gray, and Yellow. Which is native to your island? Favorites? 🤔
Also...toe beans for days 😋
This may be our new favorite 3.0 item. 🐱 8 varieties are Gray Tabby, Orange Tabby, White, Black, Calico, Cream & Brown, Gray, and Yellow. Which is native to your island? Favorites? 🤔
Also...toe beans for days 😋
January 18, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Hotel Item of the Day - Cat Plushie 🐈 😻 🐈⬛️ ♥️
This may be our new favorite 3.0 item. 🐱 8 varieties are Gray Tabby, Orange Tabby, White, Black, Calico, Cream & Brown, Gray, and Yellow. Which is native to your island? Favorites? 🤔
Also...toe beans for days 😋
This may be our new favorite 3.0 item. 🐱 8 varieties are Gray Tabby, Orange Tabby, White, Black, Calico, Cream & Brown, Gray, and Yellow. Which is native to your island? Favorites? 🤔
Also...toe beans for days 😋
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The history of modern political philosophy can be summed up like this: all humans were created equal, and so should be treated thusly. This is the proclaimed ideal. Then, in practice, an ever more nuanced web of exceptions has been spun, through which the universal human is defined ever narrower
the thing is, universal human rights are only universal if they include everyone, even the groups of people society has decided are less important (children, prisoners, people with names you can't pronounce, homeless people, the unemployed, disabled people who don't make good inspiration porn, etc)
January 18, 2026 at 6:23 AM
The history of modern political philosophy can be summed up like this: all humans were created equal, and so should be treated thusly. This is the proclaimed ideal. Then, in practice, an ever more nuanced web of exceptions has been spun, through which the universal human is defined ever narrower