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Dawn of the Paul Riddell

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Former carnivorous plant gallery owner, recovering writer, custodian and chef to Parker the lynx-point Siamese. New project: St. Remedius Medical College. http://www.stremedius.com “…one of Dallas’s best eccentrics.” - Dallas Observer

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · Aug 13

New Perennial introduction, now Substack-free:
1989-2002: Angry young essayist for a range of now-forgotten magazines and weekly newspapers.
2008-2023: Owner/operator of Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery.
2024-Present: Trying this writing thing again. www.stremedius.com

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 3m

New St. Remedius installment, on the five (possibly six) intelligent dinosauroid species known as "The Cretaceous Conglomerate."

https://stremedius.com/2025/10/08/st-remedius-medical-college-gaps-in-the-social-record/

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 2h

Happy World Cephalopod Day! 🐙This sucker for adventure feels its way through the world!

With thousands of chemical receptors and millions of texture receptors packed into each sucker, the giant Pacific octopus has a real sense for exploration.

A red-colored giant Pacific octopus with one eye poking out from its body while stretching out its arms, and showing off its white, round suckers

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 2h

Just wait until Kash starts running the footage from Dallas: youtu.be/WIEP0h4vWc8?...

ZOMBIES: Pure motorized instinct

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 3h

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

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Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 3h

What would it be like if cats and whales changed places? My partner sent me these pictures from a Russian children’s book and I can’t stop thinking about the little whale drinking from a saucer. 🐋

Illustration of a giant cat in the ocean with birds landing on it. Below, a tiny indoor house whale laps from a saucer

A tiny whale curled up on a bed. Above, tiny whale is silhouetted climbing in a fence at night

Giant sea cat amidst some ships with Russian text. Above, a small wall pounces at some mice, landing on its flippers

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 3h

Ask Stephen about the Slave Leia bikini.

Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 3h

Life imitates art: fuckyeahjhonenvasquez.tumblr.com/post/3508404...

Fuck Yeah, Jhonen Vasquez

Fuck Yeah, Jhonen Vasquez is a blog featuring past and present work, interviews, screen caps, discussion, and more about Jhonen Vasquez. Check out Fuck Yeah, Jhonen Vasquez Fan Art for appreciative ar...

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 4h

Solidarity. I'm the same way about Dallas: we screw up a lot here, and I'm very loud about it, but I'm all about "remove the beam from thine own eye" when people who have never been here want to complain without seeing the things we CAN do and do well.

Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 4h

Story of my life, but it was an armadillo that jumped in my face and nearly knocked out my front teeth.

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 6h

Back during a summer break in high school, I tried to do this, which ended with me walking down the main street of Emory's camous with an absolutely furious canada goose wrapped my now goose-befouled shirt

Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 6h

noticed a goose with a broken or damaged wing on my walk & called three different orgs about it. one of them was like, can you get it and bring it in?

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Maja Öberg @majaoeberg.bsky.social · 4h

Same energy

Panel 1: Harry Kim from Voyager saying "want to know what I think" with the text white guys in pick up trucks on YouTube on him

Panel 2: Tuvok from Voyager looking down on a data pad saying "No" with the text everyone on him

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 4h

Sloths! Reminder that I have to finish that plate of the sloths that went extinct in the last 20,000 years

Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 6h

Sloth World, Part 1! There are a LOT of sloths, let's look at some recent developments... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/10... #mammals #fossils #xenarthrans

Sloth World, 2025 (Part 1) — Tetrapod Zoology

Like me, you are no doubt a big fan of sloths...

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 4h

In a better world, she'd be one of the Mean Girls organizing the next high school class reunion and screaming about "(Football Team Mascot) Pride" when nobody showed up specifically because she was there.

Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 4h

Life imitates art: youtu.be/aW5Pxm17vro?...

HI COW!!

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 5h

...the need for our panels. The company still supports those panels, 12 years after I left, but the last touch panel line they ever made saw release the week after I'd moved on. And we all STILL talk about the nightmare of Shittervision.

Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 5h

...improving hardware and firmware so he could. Management would deny it, but the engineering team called it "Shittervision." Ironically, the company made lots of royalty money off the patents for Shittervision when Apple used them for the iPad, even as the iPad completely wiped... 3/

Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 5h

Specifically, Very Big Client wanted a touch panel where he could watch feature-length movies while on the toilet, with no preloads and no buffering. This led to an all-hands crisis to resolve this issue when he got his panel and he couldn't watch on the loo, and the company spent months... 2/

Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 5h

I'm slightly at fault for this: I worked for the company that started the whole wireless touch panel revolution 20-odd years ago, and one of our sales people sold A Very Big Client on one of our big touch panels, particularly its video capabilities. Video capabilities that it simply didn't have. 1/

Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 5h

The back story on Cat Piss Man: these days, it's his world and we're all paying rent on it. Sadly. stremedius.com/2024/08/04/b...

Backstories: "The Wrath of Cat Piss Man"

A partial tribute to my best friend, the late Paul Mears, part three of several Photo by Guido Coppa on Unsplash (Backstory the First: The reason things have been quiet on the newsletter front lies…

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 5h

And this is the installment where the Predators all race off-planet, crying "MOMEEEEEEE!"

Rebel Against Hate @rebelagainsthate.com · 8h

This is fucking terrifying. 10/10 evolved pig species in the next Predator series.

Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 22h

I read about a pig farm that would get uncooked biscuit dough rejects from a Pillsbury factory, big lumps of dough. The pigs would chew dens in the dough, climb inside, and then wait for starlings.

Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 5h

And this is personal, but you can't go wrong with the St. Remedius Medical College Women's Football team: stremedius.com/2025/09/16/s...

St. Remedius Medical College: “Porkskin Preview”

The Saga of St. Remedius’s Only Foray Into College Sports (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Photo by mahdi chaghari on Unsplash A much-accepted aspect of s…

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 5h

Flash Gordon. youtu.be/qjFCVTpsIps?...

Flash Gordon (2/10) Movie CLIP - Football Fight (1980) HD

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 5h

Hey, Cat Piss Man Heaven looks suspiciously like Hell for the rest of us, you know?

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 6h

Guys like Miller could sleep easy knowing that if anyone tried to punch him in the face in high school, everyone involved would get sued to within an inch of their lives. (I've had the singular pleasure of watching those people 40 years later, when Daddy's money was gone and the police didn't care.)

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Udarnik 🇺🇦 @udarnik.bsky.social · 8h

My son disco napping on his show cow, which was also disco napping. It’s not just confined to Highlanders (that one was an Angus/Shorthorn mix, even though it looked like a Holstein).

A boy in t-shirt and blue jeans napping face down on the back of a steer in the stalls at an agricultural fair.

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Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 6h

And that sums things up, too. 20 years of incessantly reading wankery about The Singularity, and now they figure "I can make a boom-boom ALLLLL by myself!"