Mike Keesey
@tmkeesey.bsky.social
Software engineer with occasional illustration and evolutionary biology work. I make prehistoric comics (https://www.keesey-comics.com) and a website with free silhouettes (https://www.phylopic.org/).
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Mike Keesey
@tmkeesey.bsky.social
· Sep 30
Keesey Comics
Comics about prehistory and disaster. Sometimes both.
www.keesey-comics.com
Keesey Comics has a new website! Now with page previews, trailers, and more. Check it out! www.keesey-comics.com
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Evolution doesn’t look how it’s depicted in pop culture. We often picture the famous “March of Progress” illustration where a series of apes stand in line leading to a modern human.
But evolution is not linear. It branches and divides and recombines.
Image: @tmkeesey.bsky.social
But evolution is not linear. It branches and divides and recombines.
Image: @tmkeesey.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Evolution doesn’t look how it’s depicted in pop culture. We often picture the famous “March of Progress” illustration where a series of apes stand in line leading to a modern human.
But evolution is not linear. It branches and divides and recombines.
Image: @tmkeesey.bsky.social
But evolution is not linear. It branches and divides and recombines.
Image: @tmkeesey.bsky.social
I Am Just a Note youtu.be/bCyG6dmcucI?...
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I Am Just a Note youtu.be/bCyG6dmcucI?...
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
1) When we got our first home computer (TI-99/4A) we never got any software for it, so I had to teach myself BASIC in order to do anything at all on it, and 2) I graduated college during the dot-com boom.
November 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
1) When we got our first home computer (TI-99/4A) we never got any software for it, so I had to teach myself BASIC in order to do anything at all on it, and 2) I graduated college during the dot-com boom.
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we gotta keep hammering over and over again just how fucking unpopular this guy is with every institution and every person in a position of power
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we gotta keep hammering over and over again just how fucking unpopular this guy is with every institution and every person in a position of power
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
I got that Velociraptor cough right now.
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I got that Velociraptor cough right now.
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This are some of the reasons why people are being fired at the FBI right now. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This are some of the reasons why people are being fired at the FBI right now. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
My holiday hot take is that “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is actually a good song. But even a good song can suffer from overexposure.
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
My holiday hot take is that “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is actually a good song. But even a good song can suffer from overexposure.
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Blender is up there with Wikipedia as one of very few truly good things on the internet at this point. Please support them while you can, blender has done so much for artists!
Did Blender help you this year? Help back! 🧡
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
#b3d
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
#b3d
November 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Blender is up there with Wikipedia as one of very few truly good things on the internet at this point. Please support them while you can, blender has done so much for artists!
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📢 rphylopic 📦 1.6.0 is now on #CRAN!
- resolve_phylopic() retries failing API calls 🔄
- geom_phylopic()/add_phylopic() work with ggplot2 4.0.0 🪛
- add_phylopic_tree() wraps add_phylopic() for base R trees
- get_phylopic() can get og source files from #PhyloPic 👤
rphylopic.palaeoverse.org
#Rstats
- resolve_phylopic() retries failing API calls 🔄
- geom_phylopic()/add_phylopic() work with ggplot2 4.0.0 🪛
- add_phylopic_tree() wraps add_phylopic() for base R trees
- get_phylopic() can get og source files from #PhyloPic 👤
rphylopic.palaeoverse.org
#Rstats
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
📢 rphylopic 📦 1.6.0 is now on #CRAN!
- resolve_phylopic() retries failing API calls 🔄
- geom_phylopic()/add_phylopic() work with ggplot2 4.0.0 🪛
- add_phylopic_tree() wraps add_phylopic() for base R trees
- get_phylopic() can get og source files from #PhyloPic 👤
rphylopic.palaeoverse.org
#Rstats
- resolve_phylopic() retries failing API calls 🔄
- geom_phylopic()/add_phylopic() work with ggplot2 4.0.0 🪛
- add_phylopic_tree() wraps add_phylopic() for base R trees
- get_phylopic() can get og source files from #PhyloPic 👤
rphylopic.palaeoverse.org
#Rstats
The first and last photos of Jean Louise “Scout” Keesey. We miss her terribly.
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM
The first and last photos of Jean Louise “Scout” Keesey. We miss her terribly.
Pencilled more of PALEOCENE #6 www.patreon.com/posts/143102...
Paleocene #6, pages 2–6 PENCILLED | Mike Keesey
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November 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Pencilled more of PALEOCENE #6 www.patreon.com/posts/143102...
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Of course the big paper on Azhdarchoid phylogeny comes out while I'm at a museum on a research visit (looking at Azhdarchoid cervicals, obviously) but now I'm back at the hotel so it's time to write a proper thread! 1/28
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Of course the big paper on Azhdarchoid phylogeny comes out while I'm at a museum on a research visit (looking at Azhdarchoid cervicals, obviously) but now I'm back at the hotel so it's time to write a proper thread! 1/28
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People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
November 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
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-A father and his two children, age 12 and 15, arrested by ICE on their way to school drop off.
-All detained (hands and feet cuffed) for 36 hours. Cell with no windows, lights on non-stop.
-Given only water and potato chips.
-Hit when they questioned their arrest.
-ICE arrested the wrong people.
-All detained (hands and feet cuffed) for 36 hours. Cell with no windows, lights on non-stop.
-Given only water and potato chips.
-Hit when they questioned their arrest.
-ICE arrested the wrong people.
November 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
-A father and his two children, age 12 and 15, arrested by ICE on their way to school drop off.
-All detained (hands and feet cuffed) for 36 hours. Cell with no windows, lights on non-stop.
-Given only water and potato chips.
-Hit when they questioned their arrest.
-ICE arrested the wrong people.
-All detained (hands and feet cuffed) for 36 hours. Cell with no windows, lights on non-stop.
-Given only water and potato chips.
-Hit when they questioned their arrest.
-ICE arrested the wrong people.
Pics from the Bob Baker Marionette Theater Annual Costume Ball
November 1, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Pics from the Bob Baker Marionette Theater Annual Costume Ball
Stayin’ up to date. www.phylopic.org/images/7dc35...
Nanotyrannus lethaeus by KoprX (CC BY-SA 3.0) - PhyloPic
A free silhouette image of Nanotyrannus lethaeus Zanno & Napoli 2025 by KoprX (License: Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported).
www.phylopic.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Stayin’ up to date. www.phylopic.org/images/7dc35...
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My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this:
Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.
Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.
The Case of the Tiny Tyrannosaurus Might Have Been Cracked
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this:
Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.
Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.
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Whelp, I suppose this is now Nanotyrannus lethaeus.
October 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Whelp, I suppose this is now Nanotyrannus lethaeus.
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Well now, would you look at that?
A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Well now, would you look at that?
A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
More work on PALEOCENE #6: www.patreon.com/posts/paleoc...
Paleocene #6, pages 2–6 LAID OUT and pages 2–3 PENCILLED | Mike Keesey
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October 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
More work on PALEOCENE #6: www.patreon.com/posts/paleoc...
New batch of PhyloPic silhouettes up. Here’s a fun one I did, see if you recognize it: images.phylopic.org/images/0df51...
October 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New batch of PhyloPic silhouettes up. Here’s a fun one I did, see if you recognize it: images.phylopic.org/images/0df51...
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yeah, look .... not sure who needs to hear this (actually, everyone does), but turn off the stupid AI suggestions in your search results, and def. go and use @wikipedia.org a lot more.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
yeah, look .... not sure who needs to hear this (actually, everyone does), but turn off the stupid AI suggestions in your search results, and def. go and use @wikipedia.org a lot more.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.
I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource.
Follow the trail of citations to primary sources.
It's good.