@CPursall

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Some late Cretaceous ammonites bask near the oceans surface. This art was made for the fantastic paper released by @JoeFlanSan in @NatureComms .
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Hanshi🔪@Hanshi_trup14h
Weretober Day 25 - Mollusk #weretober #weretober2026
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Pete@ChatGPetey23h
Rare proud moment for the UK.
Sulla
@spqr_sullaOct 24
Your based and redpilled youth, sir
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@ratlimit
@ratlimitOct 25
A few bowhead whales born around 1815 might still be alive. They were in their 30s when they first saw a commercial whaling ship; in their 60s when they first heard a propellor; over 100 the first time they heard sonar. I wonder if they remember the silent ocean.
yoshimi battles dracula@nise_yoshimiOct 24
the reason moby-dick remains such a vital piece of human art is that it addresses what is probably one of humanity's greatest collective atrocities, the genocide of the whales, with an ambivalence it cannot itself fully articulate. melville is distraught, but he can't explain why
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Being swallowed by a giant sea creature is one of humanity's oldest and most repeated stories, across cultures and religions. Acting like this film is some unique evil because it engages with the trope is performative nonsense.
spencer 🦈@Unpop_ScienceOct 19
Setting aside the offensively stupid premise, there is something about the spirit of this plot — clinging to the monsterization of profoundly intelligent, social creatures that we feared for centuries and massacred in wanton ignorance — that is uniquely corrosive and hateworthy.
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Especially silly to critique it down these lines when the movies premise absolves the whale of any fault
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Breaching Tylosaurus my beloved
Hank Sharpe@PaleoartologistOct 9
#FossilFriday New work by @Formorphology just out in Current Biology quantifies burst swimming speeds in mosasaurs! Based on her results, this is how we imagined a fully-grown Tylosaurus could successfully breach. Paper below
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Hank Sharpe@PaleoartologistOct 9
#FossilFriday New work by @Formorphology just out in Current Biology quantifies burst swimming speeds in mosasaurs! Based on her results, this is how we imagined a fully-grown Tylosaurus could successfully breach. Paper below
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The monsterverse really isn't the sort of franchise to expect taxonomic rigor from.
BatteryMaster (C0mms 7/8)@BatteryMastorOct 9
How did it take THIS long to get dinosaurs in the Monsterverse? Assuming these are in fact dinosaurs and not some weird taxonomy-defying bullshit like the death jackals.
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david lynch bisaya vibes@autohysteriaOct 8
i never felt so close 2 ü.
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Schmidt Ocean@SchmidtOceanOct 8
Meet Planctoteuthis sp. 🦑 “Images have finally enabled the description of this tail, but no one knows what it is used for. It looks like a siphonophore from a distance, and one hypothesis is that it could be used for siphonophore mimicry.” — #SamplingGap Co-chief Sci Dr. Perez
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Eat shit Bezos.
Justine Moore
@venturetwinsOct 7
Someone discovered a new Amazon AI feature that summarizes what it knows about you and I am crying of laughter
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Callum Pursall (DM for commissions)@CPursall5 Feb 2024
The "Karetai Carcass" was entangled in the lines of the vessel where it had been fed upon by cookiecutter sharks. The original film was recovered from the first mate of the Karetai after the publication of the image in 2019. Analysis of the image has been inconclusive thus far.
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Kay Burley
@KayBurleySep 26
When you hear people say “let them drown”, this is what those words mean.
Louis Witter@LouisWitterSep 25
Un homme, mort, gisant dans l’eau après avoir tenté de traverser la Manche pour trouver refuge au Royaume-Uni. Cette image a été prise par le photojournaliste Sameer Al-Doumi sur la plage d’Hardelot, en France, il y a deux jours. Dans l’indifférence. instagram.com/p/DdqjKYZDVHh/…
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I just don't see how you can have Twin Peaks the return anywhere outside of the top 10. It is one of the defining art pieces of the 2010's and exists in full conversation with the medium of nostalgic revival TV and prestige drama which defined the era.
LOST
@TheLOSTworld_Sep 25
The New York Times’ final list of the 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century is now complete. What do you make of the final ranking? Which placements surprised you the most?
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Russel Crowe in master and commander is, in the films eye, the coolest and most competent man who ever lived.
Tor Parsons ⍼
@parsons_torSep 22
Are there any movies where the protagonist is not, at any point in their character arc, an underdog? Are any of them good?
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Rudolf Hima@HimaRudolfSep 16
Temnodontosaurus
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Stephen Ford
@StephenSeanFordSep 15
any time i see a glass table irl i think of
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caxela@caxela1Sep 8
Homology
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Quokka & Co@IluvbadthingsSep 8
No Country for Old Men- why does the good guy lose? Confusing. Too niche 12 Angry Men - guy is guilty. No need for talking. Talking boring. Stalker (1979) - too much walking. Why did no one go into the room? Are they stupid?
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Joanna Kobierska
@JoannaKobierskaSep 7
Yi qi is known for its bizarre webbed wings, but we should also appreciate its equally peculiar head and dentition.
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