Feisty Tiktaalik
@annerooney
Crawling from the swamp. Writer of books for people big and small. Some about dinos, evo, space and all that, some made-up shizz (aka fiction). Favourite dino: Kentrosaurus. Views mine, all mine
@theguardian.com PLEASE change this caption IMMEDIATELY! He is using an eclipse viewer. Do NOT suggest it's OK to watch through binoculars!!
I've just finished this #stainedglass panel. Not #paeleo this time, but some medieval fish copied from @yorkminster.bsky.social
WTAF is wrong with #adobe? Note that this image of 'Dimetrodon' can't be used in a 'misleading' way. It's very existence is misleading. Does no one ever check this AI slop? #permian #airart #dimetrodon
I wrote this book 10 years ago. It wasn't meant to be a public challenge to FAFO
Ooh, new books! The Essential Book of Consciousness, out in November. Look at the lovely foil! Hardback! And only £12.99. Book pricing is a mysterious art
#AIslop #clankershite Dimorphodon by AI: six limbs and bifurcated feet. *This* is what makes my job hard
New book! I had to wait a while for my copies as it ships from the US, but here it is
I would send copies of my books on vaccination and on pandemics, too, but they are for 7-11 year olds and prob too hard. Plus we can no longer post things to the USA from my country
Should I aslo send copies of two of my books, "You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Vaccinations" and "You Wouldn't Want to Be in a Virus Pandemic"? They are for 7-11 years, so I hope not too advanced, published by Scholastic. There's one about antibiotics and resistance too, but it might be too hard
The death rate for unvaccinated people was between 4 and 10 times the death rate for fully vaccinated people over the course of 2021-23 varying over that peiod (different variants of covid at dif times). You can find info and explanation at ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths...
Well done, Adobe AI. 'Realistic' portrayal seems to show #spinosaurus wearing its sail like a skirt around its waist 😅
Let me remind you again why generative AI is a pile of toxic crap
New book! Actually it came out in Jan but sold out s I didn't get my copies until they reprinted it. #dinosaurs #dinos #kidslit
Yum - home grown kiwi, homegrown wild strawberries, Bulgarian yoghurt, honey, chia seeds
Evil bastard caterpillar. Is this rare or can I chuck it in the field to eat something else?
Here is my wildflower-filled micro orchard, doing well. Lots of apricots on the tree in ghe foreground
Lovely day in Old Stevenage with my dear friend and ex-editor Nigel. And we found this memorial to E.M.Forster
What to do with left-over Easter eggs? (OK, those you have bought up cheap on Easter Tuesday) Chocolate Wiwaxi corrugata! One Easter egg, chocolate buttons and some chocolate icing as glue #paleoart #eastereggs #fossils #Cambrian #food
Oh frabjous day! My desk is so messy I had no idea this packet of delicious biscuits was hidden under the mess!
I went to #Greenland last summer to visit a friend who lives there. It's a beautiful place that Trump must keep his filthy hands off and filthy felons out of. Posting a photo a day in solidarity
If you can, please join the Society of Authors in protesting against Meta stealing the work of authors to train their AI. Authors earn an average of £7000 a year, yet Meta decided not to pay for their work, instead using a pirate site of stolen work! #DoTheWriteThing
Good showing at #BCBF25 - I wrote four of the books in this photo, and was consultant on at least one of the others!
First egg from my new chickens. Cost of chickens plus feed puts this egg at about £80. Could prob sell it into the US at a profit, even with tariffs. (Obviously I won't, because boycott)