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Corinna Bechko

@corinnabechko.bsky.social

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Eisner nominated NYT best-selling author (Blood Type, Green Lantern: Earth One, The Space Between). Fossil preparator. Comics & critters. Horror & weird fiction. She/her

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Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 3h

I thought the owner died?

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Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 4h

Very interesting overview of our current state of fungal knowledge.

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J. Effingham Booweather @jeffinghambellw.bsky.social · 8h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Young and smoking hot Jack and Roz Kirby

#comics

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Star Warsologies @starwarsologies.bsky.social · 14h

Secret bonus YouTube episode! Check out "Lifeforms of Legends" panel from Legacy Expo, feat. SW comics writer @corinnabechko.bsky.social. Ysalamiri, voxyn, & more! w/ @paleoparadox.bsky.social @melissatruth.bsky.social & @jamesjawa.bsky.social @cosplayforscience.bsky.social youtu.be/pY5yFXrJuYU

Legacy Expo panel "Lifeforms of Legend"

YouTube video by Star Warsologies

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Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 3d

It’s very beautiful and filled with creeping dread.

Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 3d

Badlands? Not horror but maybe adjacent?

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Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 3d

She’s dead, wrapped in plastic.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 3d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · 3d

Since #Croctober has just kicked off, here's an older illustration of the VERY distant relative to crocodilians, the Triassic archosaur Teleocrater. I made this illustration in 2019, just 2 years into my career, for the Field Museum of Natural History's Evolving Planet exhibition
#sciart #paleoart

Digital painting showing a long, lizard-like reptile running up a rocky slope against a white background. The animal is red with black markings, and loosely painted vegetation pokes between the rocks the animal is clambering over.

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Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 4d

That cheetah looks shocked at the size of this snake skeleton.

A taxidermy cheetah sits behind the skull and ribs of a huge boa

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Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 4d

Ichthyology brought out the anglerfish tonight! This is a very cool specimen.

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ReBecca @dinochick.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Establishment date Dinosaur National Monument! On this day in 1915 President W. Wilson created the monument to protect the Carnegie Quarry: “...an extraordinary deposit of Dinosaurian & other gigantic reptilian remains of the Juratrias period, which are of great scientific interest & value...”

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Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 4d

I’m very happy with this shirt I bought earlier in the summer catmagicpunks.com/collections/...

ABOLISH (M)ICE

ABOLISH (M)ICE was first printed in 2018 to make a statement against the racist and dehumanizing actions of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE). A portion of the proceed...

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Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 4d

Haunted Museum is early this year but full of reptiles

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7d

We should all lead a life as interesting and useful

www.npr.org/2025/10/01/4...

Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91

Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

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Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks!

Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 5d

Isn’t it??

Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 5d

I was traveling on our actual anniversary day but this perfect gift was worth the wait! New frog purse glows in the dark.

A green frog purse being investigated by a grey cat

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 5d

What Keezy said. This. Definitely THIS.

Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 5d

listen, anybody can make a comic. anybody. but most people aren't dumbass enough to bother. and I think, as a demographic, that makes us really special

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 6d

I mean, that’s less frightening?

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Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 6d

I was afraid to find out!

Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 6d

Helping Brenda’s mom move from Deming to Pasadena!

Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, I just… Couldn’t.

Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 7d

Guilty as charged!

Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 7d

I’m in a gas station in the middle of nowhere AZ and thinking about lunch but I don’t think this is it.

No offense to people who like gas station sushi. But I’m not that brave.

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Corinna Bechko @corinnabechko.bsky.social · 8d

Oh gosh, best wishes to both of you!