Gabriel S. Jacobs

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Paleontologist. Educator. Big galoot. Bespoke homemade opinions. (he/him)
Arthropod enthusiast, echino-curious.
Eamus Catuli, illegitimi non carborundum.

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lord i see what youve done for other peoples

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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NYT says their performance on Threads today was an aberration, & not indicative of deeper problems they've had with social media. Unfortunately, that hasn't satisfied many observers whose concerns are growing louder. The stakes are too high. For the good of the news, the Times should step aside

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When the France election results are good

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“You MUST see The Lion King.” = The last time you were in New York, Michael Bloomberg was mayor and nobody knew what a cronut was. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...

What Your New York City Tourist Recommendation Says About Youwww.mcsweeneys.net “You MUST see The Lion King.” The last time you were in New York, Michael Bloomberg was mayor and nobody knew what a cronut was. “Why not try kayak...

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Look I Know Miss J.D. Ferguson Said This Pot Was Used By Bonnie Prince Charlie But As A Local Historian I Have Standards You Know.

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“no such thing as unskilled labor” what about the person who reviewed my manuscript

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Photo from my colleague Pete Berquist (Va. Peninsula CC) - Miocene sediments exposed at Chippokes State Park, with a cobble of Cambrian Antietam Fm. dead center - distinctive because of its internal collection of Skolithos trace fossils. ⚒️

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Well this is grim

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Let us never forget: Kansas City has a Tyrannosaurus model that was assembled with it's butt on backwards. Wife for scale

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reminded of a scene from Terry Pratchett's Going Postal

A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.

In crosswalks, Gonzo often tiptoes across on the sides like a tightrope. But he does it even when the crosswalk is in shade, so maybe it's not that the white lines are cooler, just that he likes the smooth paint better than rough asphalt. The eternal question: is the dog smart? Or is the dog weird?

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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working

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Biding their time. At low tide, the voracious sea stars retreat to a wave-washed surge channel, but their high-tide ferocity is evident in the bare zone on the shore above them. 🌊⭐️🍽️ #MarineLife #Invertebrate 🦑🌿

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regardless of what you think of America there are a lot of good people here worth fighting for, and that’s what I’m going to hold onto regardless of what happens in November and those people are worth celebrating

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Just a reminder that "Judeo-christian" values are just way to blame Jews for Christian nationalism, and just because they steal the Torah doesn't make us belief buddies. Judeo-christian values are just Christian values in fancy dress.

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It really is a weird symmetry that this year the UK elections are the 4th of July and the US elections are the 5th of November.

They should make another movie like Under Paris but set in Philadelphia instead. Call that: Jawns 🦈

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Relevant to that NYT piece that's going around...if your vote didn't still matter, they wouldn't be trying everything to convince you it was worthless.

He voted in both 2020 and 2022.

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And now for the traditional July 4th blessing: Happy Independence Day, may you end the day with as many fingers as you began it with.

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one hilarious thing about living where I do is the intensity with which residents here police the county's no fireworks rule. Can't get them to stir for an earthquake but 10 min ago some cluck down the street did one & there are now like 15 Desi White and Black boomers outside demanding his manager

Oh cool, the dog has learned to open a door that previously was enough to keep his silliness contained.

I can use descriptive ALT text, and by golly so can you!

It is Disability Pride Month - the perfect time to learn about ALT text and start using it! www.perkins.org/resource/how...

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OK on a day like today I think we all need to read my absolute favorite judicial opinion ever as a palate cleanser.

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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.

It's not the worst of it, but what I may be actually angriest about (right now) is Roberts' smarmy smugness and dismissiveness in the final two paragraphs of section IV and the whole of section V. "Fear mongering," "extreme hypotheticals," "our perspective must be more farsighted," and this.

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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

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Today we celebrate a milestone in science history, the presentation on July 1 1858 of 3 major unpublished evolution papers by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace. These are worth your time to read. 🧪🌏

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look i'll be clear, I will be voting, and encouraging everyone I know to do the same, against donald trump and the end of democracy in this country in november. I do not care if that means i'm voting for a man who is literally dead.

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Strange quirk of history that the Court has effectively gutted Nixon's environmental legacy by kneecapping the EPA but just wrote this line into law