thagsimmons.bsky.social
@thagsimmons.bsky.social
Sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them
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You can tell who read the actual piece (to say nothing of the statement) by who's reacting to this as if it's a moral victory by paleontology as a whole, rather than a reaction to the hilariously cowardly and shameful statement put out by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists
February 10, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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The one rule regarding dinosaur integument is that we should never underestimate its diversity
February 6, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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The Pitt got greenlit for a season 3, out next February, and the announcement has very funny comment from HBO chairman Casey Bloys that’s like “yeah, turns out if you just make a TV show like how we used to make TV shows you can have a 15+ episode season every year 🤷‍♂️”
February 2, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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“Epstein plausibly responsible for /pol” is too much for me
January 31, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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have no profound insights, wasn’t a crazy fan or anything only seen her obvious stuff but she was good even in dogshit movies like home alone 2 which i have unfortunately seen 700 times. simply wanted to add to the chorus. too young honestly is woody allen even in here
January 30, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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listen here you stupid leftoid, if you just voted blue in 2024, ICE would be ruining the lives of immigrant families quietly and efficiently in a way where we wouldn't have to hear about it on the news
January 27, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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in 2024 i was always hearing "it sucks, but dems have to follow the polling" on immigration, which had them backing extreme far right wing bills on the border. now that there's been a huge shift to the left in polling, the response is "how about 1/100th of what you guys want". funny how that works.
January 27, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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i feel for all the radical centrists out there now confronting the fact that their ideology was the one built in a bubble and formed by groupthink. with enough exposure to facts and logic they will, some day god willing, catch up to the left
January 25, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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I know I’m a broken record about this but it never ceases to amaze me that these Nazi and Confederate fetishists have, out of the gate, combined the most catastrophic and ruinous errors of both.
January 25, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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There has to be a word beyond outrage for when this loathsome, lying pack of slovenly frauds uses a Web 2.0 version of the Klan to publicly butcher the best humanity has to offer and then dare you to question their right to do it and laugh in your face about it
January 25, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.
January 24, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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you get used to the thought of "they don't care about us, they only care about themselves" and then you watch in action that their self-centeredness is a specific kind that cannot even recognize that they might be in danger. baby walking through a construction site shit but it's an octogenarian rep
January 21, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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it's all Omelas kids, except the Omelas kids also fucking suck
January 19, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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seeing "the slogan was stupid" w/defund bubble up again and am again going to say that it did not and does not matter, and also, winning over voters is not the important part.

because we've passed police reforms before. skimpy, but they're there.

enforcing them, however? seemingly impossible.
January 11, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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Once again tapping the sign - the natural world today is full of behavioural chaos, and this must have been the case throughout much of deep time.
BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
January 9, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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the most concerning thing about them justifying murdering an obviously completely innocent murder by ICE is if they can justify and defend this, there’s nothing that’s too far for them. anything you can imagine them doing is very likely something they’ll stand behind
January 7, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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in these moments, in my view, it is a political and spiritual DUTY for my outrage and anger to be as fresh as if I'd never heard how they shot Fred Hampton in his bed. As fresh as if I didn't know Bobby Hutton was surrendering when they shot him. 1/2
January 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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i want to believe the US will not let trump get away with saying that the shooter was actually ran over, and injured, and he is in hospital recovering & it is surprising he survived. none of that is even conceivably a bend of the truth, it's just a completely different reality. beyond the pale
January 7, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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We had a good run
2026 could be great. We simply don't know.
January 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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After four months and 36 illustrations, I present the final Kem Kem chart – a look at of one of the most incredible ecosystems the world has ever seen.

Short thread below!

#sciart #paleoart
December 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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The chart is almost complete! I'm happy with my selection of >1m animals, but this is your last chance to request a critter if you think I've missed an important one (no guarantees I'll add it though!).

Keep your eye out for the final chart - there is more to come! 👀
December 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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IT'S HERE! We have a new video! This time around, we take a deep dive on Deinocheirus, the hunchbacked mega goose. youtu.be/Kye28-iEHpo
December 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Waning Hours
November 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Area party upset to discover that years of sadistic, violent rhetoric and actions critically eroded political norms they forgot that they also relied on, news at 11
There's so many of these btw, NoVa right wingers realizing that their neighbors genuinely hate them
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Congratulations to the Cuomo team: it takes a lot of dedication and money to lose one election twice.
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 AM