Bill Rulon-Miller
@reptiledude.bsky.social
Checking out BlueSky because family is here and Twitter is no more. He/him. My degree is in history and my passion is in wildlife biology, conservation, and especially Herpetology. If you DM me and I don’t know you I may not answer so don’t get angry.
Happy Wednesday!
December 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Happy Wednesday!
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Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017
Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb
Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017
www.newscientist.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017
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Sam Altman seems like such a subnormal that his dumb toy IS probably better than him at parenting, in the sense that a wire hanger would be a better parent than Joan Crawford.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Sam Altman seems like such a subnormal that his dumb toy IS probably better than him at parenting, in the sense that a wire hanger would be a better parent than Joan Crawford.
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I really love this book we made. Hard to believe that it was actually released this year. It feels like it's been out for longer. You can also engage resources related to the book here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al... - a friend sent me a short clip of him reading with his son ❤️
December 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I really love this book we made. Hard to believe that it was actually released this year. It feels like it's been out for longer. You can also engage resources related to the book here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al... - a friend sent me a short clip of him reading with his son ❤️
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I’m sad to see it end!
I could listen to @iwriteok.bsky.social, @margaret.bsky.social, and friends play TTRPGs every day of the week!
Loved this whole miniseries!
Hopefully they do more again soon!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
I could listen to @iwriteok.bsky.social, @margaret.bsky.social, and friends play TTRPGs every day of the week!
Loved this whole miniseries!
Hopefully they do more again soon!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
CZM Book Club: Pathfinder: Dawn of the Frogs, Part Six
Podcast Episode · Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff · 12/07/2025 · 1h 44m
podcasts.apple.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I’m sad to see it end!
I could listen to @iwriteok.bsky.social, @margaret.bsky.social, and friends play TTRPGs every day of the week!
Loved this whole miniseries!
Hopefully they do more again soon!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
I could listen to @iwriteok.bsky.social, @margaret.bsky.social, and friends play TTRPGs every day of the week!
Loved this whole miniseries!
Hopefully they do more again soon!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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The jumble of bones looked like porridge. It turned out to be a new species of pterosaur preserved in prehistoric vomit, the latest fossil find extracted from dinosaur excretions. I’ll tell you more in my latest for NatGeo. 🧪
How dinosaur vomit has solved these prehistoric mysteries
A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions.
www.nationalgeographic.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The jumble of bones looked like porridge. It turned out to be a new species of pterosaur preserved in prehistoric vomit, the latest fossil find extracted from dinosaur excretions. I’ll tell you more in my latest for NatGeo. 🧪
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Indonesia says 1,000 dead, some 1 million displaced from rains as report points at the threat posed by climate change.
Indonesia counts human cost as more climate change warnings sounded
Indonesia says 1,000 dead, some 1 million displaced from rains as report points at the threat posed by climate change.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Indonesia says 1,000 dead, some 1 million displaced from rains as report points at the threat posed by climate change.
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Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social
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White people: *overwhelmingly vote for Trump*
Also white people: "So how can we blame this on vanishingly small black communities?"
Sit your racist ass down.
Also white people: "So how can we blame this on vanishingly small black communities?"
Sit your racist ass down.
December 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
White people: *overwhelmingly vote for Trump*
Also white people: "So how can we blame this on vanishingly small black communities?"
Sit your racist ass down.
Also white people: "So how can we blame this on vanishingly small black communities?"
Sit your racist ass down.
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity
December 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity
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Among the most unusual of living cetaceans is the striking Spectacled porpoise: it has a very neat colour scheme and - sometimes - a radically big dorsal fin. Here's an article on it, originally published in 2019... tetzoo.com/blog/2019/9/...
Extreme Cetaceans, Part 2: the Spectacled Porpoise — Tetrapod Zoology
Recall the recent article about ‘extreme cetaceans’? Well, here’s the second one in the series.
tetzoo.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Among the most unusual of living cetaceans is the striking Spectacled porpoise: it has a very neat colour scheme and - sometimes - a radically big dorsal fin. Here's an article on it, originally published in 2019... tetzoo.com/blog/2019/9/...
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On an expedition to a remote Peruvian reserve to search for a squirrel last seen 30 years ago, researcher Silvia Pavan’s team instead discovered a new mouse opossum species, Marmosa chachapoya.
With reddish-brown fur and a narrow face, it highlights how understudied the eastern Andes remain.
With reddish-brown fur and a narrow face, it highlights how understudied the eastern Andes remain.
Peru’s Río Abiseo park yields new marsupial, hinting at more undiscovered species
In 2018, Brazilian biologist Silvia Pavan traveled to Río Abiseo National Park, in Peru’s San Martín region, following the trail of a squirrel species first described from there in the 1990s. At the…
news.mongabay.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
On an expedition to a remote Peruvian reserve to search for a squirrel last seen 30 years ago, researcher Silvia Pavan’s team instead discovered a new mouse opossum species, Marmosa chachapoya.
With reddish-brown fur and a narrow face, it highlights how understudied the eastern Andes remain.
With reddish-brown fur and a narrow face, it highlights how understudied the eastern Andes remain.
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Our friend the Bleeding Toad is a critically endangered toad from West Java, Indonesia! They get their name from their bright red spots and the red liquid they secrete when stressed! (photo by A. Restu Dwikelana)
December 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Our friend the Bleeding Toad is a critically endangered toad from West Java, Indonesia! They get their name from their bright red spots and the red liquid they secrete when stressed! (photo by A. Restu Dwikelana)
December 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This edition of #FossilFriday brings you the skull and rack of the Megaloceros giganteus, commonly referred to as the “Irish Elk”, it was, in fact, found throughout Eurasia in its heyday. Photo taken at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
December 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This edition of #FossilFriday brings you the skull and rack of the Megaloceros giganteus, commonly referred to as the “Irish Elk”, it was, in fact, found throughout Eurasia in its heyday. Photo taken at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
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"Belize is on track to protect 30% of its marine environment by 2026. What does that mean for those doing the protection?" Uprooter @andrehabet.bsky.social for @climatespotlight.bsky.social
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‘Marine Protected Areas are Everybody’s Business’
Over the course of six months, Climate Spotlight spoke to representatives from 6 of 7 of Belize’s Marine Protected Area co-managers to learn more about their job and what they believe it will take …
climatespotlight.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"Belize is on track to protect 30% of its marine environment by 2026. What does that mean for those doing the protection?" Uprooter @andrehabet.bsky.social for @climatespotlight.bsky.social
climatespotlight.com/marine-prote...
climatespotlight.com/marine-prote...
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As her first bill in Congress, Rep. Adelita Grijalva is presenting the Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act.
Her father, Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva, defended the Apache sacred #OakFlat throughout his career, and she is continuing that tradition.
Her father, Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva, defended the Apache sacred #OakFlat throughout his career, and she is continuing that tradition.
December 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
As her first bill in Congress, Rep. Adelita Grijalva is presenting the Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act.
Her father, Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva, defended the Apache sacred #OakFlat throughout his career, and she is continuing that tradition.
Her father, Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva, defended the Apache sacred #OakFlat throughout his career, and she is continuing that tradition.
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If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.
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US policing IS inherently racist and has always been. This is not controversial. The fact that people pretend that it is IS actually the problem. You're welcome.
December 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
US policing IS inherently racist and has always been. This is not controversial. The fact that people pretend that it is IS actually the problem. You're welcome.
A new Jaguar has been spotted in Arizona! The thing about wildlife is that it does not recognize human concepts such as borders or nation states. Such things are but geological blinks of the eye in the span of hundreds of millennia #NoBorderWall #WildlifeConservation
www.abc15.com/news/region-...
www.abc15.com/news/region-...
New jaguar spotted in southern Arizona
The University of Arizona Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center (WCC) has found a new jaguar in the United States.
www.abc15.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
A new Jaguar has been spotted in Arizona! The thing about wildlife is that it does not recognize human concepts such as borders or nation states. Such things are but geological blinks of the eye in the span of hundreds of millennia #NoBorderWall #WildlifeConservation
www.abc15.com/news/region-...
www.abc15.com/news/region-...
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A Slice of Idaho Prison Life — in Drawings
A Slice of Idaho Prison Life — in Drawings
A visual of life inside the Idaho State Correctional Institution.
prisonjournalismproject.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A Slice of Idaho Prison Life — in Drawings