Riley Black 🏳️⚧️ 🦕
@restingdinoface.bsky.social
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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Brown hyenas always make me think of David Lee Roth
Return of the Brown Hyena — Night Visit at Namibiacam’s Namib Desert Waterhole
YouTube video by NamibiaCam
youtu.be
February 8, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Brown hyenas always make me think of David Lee Roth
I just want to see if this does anything
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February 8, 2026 at 3:40 AM
I just want to see if this does anything
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how it's going
February 8, 2026 at 2:33 AM
how it's going
Ok, everyone get cozy. Movie time.
February 8, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Ok, everyone get cozy. Movie time.
Plotting
Scheming
A little bit of dreaming
Scheming
A little bit of dreaming
a black and white photo of a man with curly blonde hair and a mustache .
Alt: Frederick Fronk-en-stein looking shocked and yelping “IT. COULD. WORK.”
media.tenor.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Plotting
Scheming
A little bit of dreaming
Scheming
A little bit of dreaming
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Has anyone noticed that she's actually rather sweet and charming?
February 8, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Has anyone noticed that she's actually rather sweet and charming?
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Vera Drew
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 6, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Vera Drew
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Toon in! the THIRD issue of Yiff! Magazine is OUT!
Classic toons with a furry twist, furry classics with a toony twist, all in a display-ready magazine with a full-color cover, tons of comics, pin-ups, articles and all the good goofy stuff!
yiffmagazine.bigcartel.com/product/yiff-3
Classic toons with a furry twist, furry classics with a toony twist, all in a display-ready magazine with a full-color cover, tons of comics, pin-ups, articles and all the good goofy stuff!
yiffmagazine.bigcartel.com/product/yiff-3
February 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Toon in! the THIRD issue of Yiff! Magazine is OUT!
Classic toons with a furry twist, furry classics with a toony twist, all in a display-ready magazine with a full-color cover, tons of comics, pin-ups, articles and all the good goofy stuff!
yiffmagazine.bigcartel.com/product/yiff-3
Classic toons with a furry twist, furry classics with a toony twist, all in a display-ready magazine with a full-color cover, tons of comics, pin-ups, articles and all the good goofy stuff!
yiffmagazine.bigcartel.com/product/yiff-3
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Anyway, I highly recommend horror fans go watch HORROR NOIRE: A HISTORY OF BLACK HORROR on @shudder.com. It's an outstanding documentary about Black Americans in Hollywood and their connections to genre film. #filmsky #horrorsky
February 8, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Anyway, I highly recommend horror fans go watch HORROR NOIRE: A HISTORY OF BLACK HORROR on @shudder.com. It's an outstanding documentary about Black Americans in Hollywood and their connections to genre film. #filmsky #horrorsky
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🎧 “Now you're at the bar holding his hand And I can't be mad 'cause he's your man
But I could be handsome
I could be kind
And I would keep you up all fuckin' night”
But I could be handsome
I could be kind
And I would keep you up all fuckin' night”
XANA - KITCHEN LIGHT (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Xana
youtu.be
February 7, 2026 at 10:42 PM
🎧 “Now you're at the bar holding his hand And I can't be mad 'cause he's your man
But I could be handsome
I could be kind
And I would keep you up all fuckin' night”
But I could be handsome
I could be kind
And I would keep you up all fuckin' night”
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Procrastinators, now is your time!
February 7, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Procrastinators, now is your time!
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🗣️ EVERYBODY'S SHORT ON ALL FOURS, NOBODY'S SCARY WHEN THEY'RE BOUND AND GAGGED
Top that tall chick, dom that scary girl, she's probably sick of being in control all the time.
February 7, 2026 at 2:36 PM
🗣️ EVERYBODY'S SHORT ON ALL FOURS, NOBODY'S SCARY WHEN THEY'RE BOUND AND GAGGED
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Read @heideerdrich.bsky.social's eloquent essay "Letter From Mni Sóta Makóče: 'No One is Illegal on Stolen Land,'” read @mprnews.org's article about the ice sculptures, then attend the vigil and ceremony at 6:00 p.m. this evening at the top of Lake of the Isles in MPLS. lithub.com/letter-from-...
Letter From Mni Sóta Makóče: “No One is Illegal on Stolen Land”
This is a place where some creatures, when gassed and shoved, bloom with butterflies and song, where jelly dongs rain down upon our enemies and where a censored snow sculpture melts and resolves in…
lithub.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Read @heideerdrich.bsky.social's eloquent essay "Letter From Mni Sóta Makóče: 'No One is Illegal on Stolen Land,'” read @mprnews.org's article about the ice sculptures, then attend the vigil and ceremony at 6:00 p.m. this evening at the top of Lake of the Isles in MPLS. lithub.com/letter-from-...
I know I’ve been boosting my new stuff, but if you haven’t read The Last Days of the Dinosaurs yet
🦕 it won the AAAS/Subaru prize for excellence in science books
☄️ hit the USA Today bestseller list
🌱 got mentioned on JEOPARDY!
Check it out.
🦕 it won the AAAS/Subaru prize for excellence in science books
☄️ hit the USA Today bestseller list
🌱 got mentioned on JEOPARDY!
Check it out.
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
bookshop.org
February 7, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I know I’ve been boosting my new stuff, but if you haven’t read The Last Days of the Dinosaurs yet
🦕 it won the AAAS/Subaru prize for excellence in science books
☄️ hit the USA Today bestseller list
🌱 got mentioned on JEOPARDY!
Check it out.
🦕 it won the AAAS/Subaru prize for excellence in science books
☄️ hit the USA Today bestseller list
🌱 got mentioned on JEOPARDY!
Check it out.
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The weirdness of the Paleogene must be appreciated.
February 6, 2026 at 2:08 PM
The weirdness of the Paleogene must be appreciated.
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My new favorite word that I am going to legitimately try to practice
February 7, 2026 at 1:18 PM
My new favorite word that I am going to legitimately try to practice
Some of my all time favorite Mesozoic movie creatures. When else does Chasmosaurus get to do anything cool? And I’m always cheering for the plesiosaur.
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) Stop-Motion shots
YouTube video by Patrick Parenteau
youtu.be
February 7, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Some of my all time favorite Mesozoic movie creatures. When else does Chasmosaurus get to do anything cool? And I’m always cheering for the plesiosaur.
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Learned helplessness.
Really feeling it lately.
Really feeling it lately.
January 20, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Learned helplessness.
Really feeling it lately.
Really feeling it lately.
Ornithopod dinosaurs are often ignored or derided as boring, lacking cool ornamentation or defenses. Haolong is a look at what we couldn’t see before, and makes me wonder about Camptosaurus, Tenontosaurus, Thescelosaurus, and friends.
Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A juvenile iguanodontian from the Lower Cretaceous of China preserves both spikes and scales in its skin that are different from integumentary structures in either non-avian dinosaurs or extant squama...
www.nature.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Ornithopod dinosaurs are often ignored or derided as boring, lacking cool ornamentation or defenses. Haolong is a look at what we couldn’t see before, and makes me wonder about Camptosaurus, Tenontosaurus, Thescelosaurus, and friends.
