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. https://linktr.ee/restingdinoface
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🎧 “Big dick energy, crying ironically
Yet you act like I'm your mother and your therapist
It's not that big
Big dick energy, I don't owe you anything
Your woke persona is completely fucking terrifying
Why? You're really not big”
Yet you act like I'm your mother and your therapist
It's not that big
Big dick energy, I don't owe you anything
Your woke persona is completely fucking terrifying
Why? You're really not big”
Lambrini Girls - Big Dick Energy (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Lambrini Girls
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February 11, 2026 at 7:41 PM
🎧 “Big dick energy, crying ironically
Yet you act like I'm your mother and your therapist
It's not that big
Big dick energy, I don't owe you anything
Your woke persona is completely fucking terrifying
Why? You're really not big”
Yet you act like I'm your mother and your therapist
It's not that big
Big dick energy, I don't owe you anything
Your woke persona is completely fucking terrifying
Why? You're really not big”
Completing a task, then doing a board of Vampire Survivors as a little treat.
February 11, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Completing a task, then doing a board of Vampire Survivors as a little treat.
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find what you have to offer, and offer it.
January 25, 2026 at 5:24 AM
find what you have to offer, and offer it.
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Oops I accidentally spent three hours making a powerpoint presentation on phylogenetics and legless gecko diversity/appreciation.
Look at how cute Aprasia inaurita is!
📷 Nick Volpe @nvolpe.bsky.social
Look at how cute Aprasia inaurita is!
📷 Nick Volpe @nvolpe.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Oops I accidentally spent three hours making a powerpoint presentation on phylogenetics and legless gecko diversity/appreciation.
Look at how cute Aprasia inaurita is!
📷 Nick Volpe @nvolpe.bsky.social
Look at how cute Aprasia inaurita is!
📷 Nick Volpe @nvolpe.bsky.social
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Aided by genAI models like ChatGPT, “writers” hoping to get paid for fake stories have become an even bigger problem for publications big and small. One such writer almost pulled one over on COYOTE — until @soleilho.com, who is a nerd, spotted a key idiosyncrasy.
How COYOTE Almost Got Slopped by AI
The sordid tale of the freelancer who never was.
www.coyotemedia.org
February 11, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Aided by genAI models like ChatGPT, “writers” hoping to get paid for fake stories have become an even bigger problem for publications big and small. One such writer almost pulled one over on COYOTE — until @soleilho.com, who is a nerd, spotted a key idiosyncrasy.
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having your city noticed by the president is now a natural disaster on par with a hurricane or major flood
February 11, 2026 at 2:12 PM
having your city noticed by the president is now a natural disaster on par with a hurricane or major flood
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Well, ghouls! The time is finally here! Lor Gislason’s COSMIC DYKE PATROL is out now through Ghoulish Books. Glorious goopy sex! Romantic body horror! Strange otherworldly creatures! This book has it all! Get it here: ghoulish.rip/who-ya-gonna...
@lormaggot.ca
@lormaggot.ca
February 10, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Well, ghouls! The time is finally here! Lor Gislason’s COSMIC DYKE PATROL is out now through Ghoulish Books. Glorious goopy sex! Romantic body horror! Strange otherworldly creatures! This book has it all! Get it here: ghoulish.rip/who-ya-gonna...
@lormaggot.ca
@lormaggot.ca
The waiting game sucks, let's play hungry hungry hippos
This New Animal Attack Thriller Features Some HUNGRY, Hungry Hippos
Madison Davenport faces off against one HUNGRY, hungry hippo in a new look at James Nunn's animal attack thriller.
www.fangoria.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:35 PM
The waiting game sucks, let's play hungry hungry hippos
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Valentine’s sticker from last year.
February 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Valentine’s sticker from last year.
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Minimalist Microraptor
February 11, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Minimalist Microraptor
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A Normal Magic User
February 11, 2026 at 1:36 PM
A Normal Magic User
Ages ago, while out in the Triassic of New Mexico, paleontologist Kevin Padian told me - apropos of nothing - “You’re a good writer, Riley. Not great. But good.”
And to this day I think Fuck You Kevin.
And to this day I think Fuck You Kevin.
February 11, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Ages ago, while out in the Triassic of New Mexico, paleontologist Kevin Padian told me - apropos of nothing - “You’re a good writer, Riley. Not great. But good.”
And to this day I think Fuck You Kevin.
And to this day I think Fuck You Kevin.
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The Dish: This North Charles Street cafe wants to talk about sex
The Dish: This North Charles Street cafe wants to talk about sex
A cafe focused on free expression and intimacy has come to North Charles Street in Baltimore City.
buff.ly
February 11, 2026 at 11:00 AM
The Dish: This North Charles Street cafe wants to talk about sex
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finished com for @hekersobek.bsky.social
Love their big crocodile!
I had a lot of fun with this one, got to play with scale and movement a bunch
Love their big crocodile!
I had a lot of fun with this one, got to play with scale and movement a bunch
February 10, 2026 at 8:27 PM
finished com for @hekersobek.bsky.social
Love their big crocodile!
I had a lot of fun with this one, got to play with scale and movement a bunch
Love their big crocodile!
I had a lot of fun with this one, got to play with scale and movement a bunch
If you’re not sold on When the Earth Was Green, you can check out at sample at Smithsonian all about the goopiest time in Earth’s history. 🦟
How a Fragile Insect Living 100 Million Years Ago Becomes a Fossil
A bug, a dinosaur and a tree intersect, creating the perfect conditions for resin to capture a moment in time
www.smithsonianmag.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:58 PM
If you’re not sold on When the Earth Was Green, you can check out at sample at Smithsonian all about the goopiest time in Earth’s history. 🦟
Mosasaurs had more than one set of teeth. Look at the palate of this Tylosaurus, one of the largest mosasaurs we know of. See? More teeth, perhaps to help keep a grip on prey as the lizard manipulated its meal in its mouth. 🧪
February 11, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Mosasaurs had more than one set of teeth. Look at the palate of this Tylosaurus, one of the largest mosasaurs we know of. See? More teeth, perhaps to help keep a grip on prey as the lizard manipulated its meal in its mouth. 🧪
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Tyrannoroter is perfect and I will not hear a word against this cute little pinecone. (art by Hannah Fredd.) 🧪
www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/...
www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/...
February 10, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Tyrannoroter is perfect and I will not hear a word against this cute little pinecone. (art by Hannah Fredd.) 🧪
www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/...
www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/...
The wormle got me.
February 11, 2026 at 1:45 PM
The wormle got me.
When Strata’s serious she bites and rolls so all her paws are at the ready.
February 11, 2026 at 12:08 PM
When Strata’s serious she bites and rolls so all her paws are at the ready.
Goo morning, monsters.
Field no.: RWB-4-25
Coordinates: [illegible]
Formation: Morrison
Member: Brushy Basin
Field id.: Hyoid?
Photo(Y/N): Y
Collected(Y/N):
Notes: Hyoid apparatus? (Not thick enough for furcula.) Top of section. Huge. ~25 in. ant/pos. Thin. Immense carni [obscured by red fluid]
Field no.: RWB-4-25
Coordinates: [illegible]
Formation: Morrison
Member: Brushy Basin
Field id.: Hyoid?
Photo(Y/N): Y
Collected(Y/N):
Notes: Hyoid apparatus? (Not thick enough for furcula.) Top of section. Huge. ~25 in. ant/pos. Thin. Immense carni [obscured by red fluid]
February 11, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Goo morning, monsters.
Field no.: RWB-4-25
Coordinates: [illegible]
Formation: Morrison
Member: Brushy Basin
Field id.: Hyoid?
Photo(Y/N): Y
Collected(Y/N):
Notes: Hyoid apparatus? (Not thick enough for furcula.) Top of section. Huge. ~25 in. ant/pos. Thin. Immense carni [obscured by red fluid]
Field no.: RWB-4-25
Coordinates: [illegible]
Formation: Morrison
Member: Brushy Basin
Field id.: Hyoid?
Photo(Y/N): Y
Collected(Y/N):
Notes: Hyoid apparatus? (Not thick enough for furcula.) Top of section. Huge. ~25 in. ant/pos. Thin. Immense carni [obscured by red fluid]
We’re starting Seven Dials and I ask Splash “Wait, is one of the dials a…”
February 11, 2026 at 1:53 AM
We’re starting Seven Dials and I ask Splash “Wait, is one of the dials a…”
This cat herds me. Strata will meow and meow at me until I start to go in the direction of what she wants, then she’ll wait for me to walk past her so she can make sure I’m going, then run past me to go indicate what she wants.
February 11, 2026 at 1:03 AM
This cat herds me. Strata will meow and meow at me until I start to go in the direction of what she wants, then she’ll wait for me to walk past her so she can make sure I’m going, then run past me to go indicate what she wants.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
BEY03F is a great name. bee-yowf
There’s a wolf in LA for the first time in 100 years. A collared gray wolf entered the mountains of north Los Angeles County yesterday. Known as “BEY03F” she traveled hundreds of miles from her pack in Plumas County crossing highways, mountains, creeks and valleys.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
A wolf has come to Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a century
Around 6 a.m. Saturday, the 3-year-old female arrived in the mountains north of Santa Clarita, as tracked by a GPS collar.
www.latimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:55 AM
BEY03F is a great name. bee-yowf