Karen Poole

@renpoole

Dinosaur paleontologist teaching human anatomy to medical students. Interests: ornithischians, systematics, diversity in science and medicine. Avi by @blackmudpuppy

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Karen Poole@renpoole· Jul 26

Weird thing for an immigrant to say. Any post by Musk talking about “remigration” needs to be flooded with the response: you first.

Screen cap of Aileen B posting “thank God for Elon Musk” with a picture and quote of Musk saying “A government that treats foreigners better than its own citizens is, by definition, treasonous and illegitimate”. Adam Carolla shared this, saying “agreed”. Musk replied with a USA flag emoji.

Karen Poole@renpoole· Jul 13

Wow! Over 340,000 today!

Karen Poole@renpoole· Jul 12

This is straight up “But his smart lil bow tie!”

Cartoon in four panels. Panel one: Character in baseball cap says “Hey, is everything okay?”. Another character, reading phone and wiping eyes says, “It’s just…the bone farmer…has died”. Panel 2: Baseball cap says, “he was that thing that would break into people’s homes and steal their skeletons while they slept, right?”. Response, “So sad”. Panel 3: Cryer, “I mean obviously, ideologically, I didn’t agree with him, with regards to skeleton ownership. But his smart lil bow tie!” Baseball cap says, “you have to admire his tenacity for a cause he believed in”. Panel 4: Reveals a third character with distorted human features held together in a large glass tube saying “Gonna have to disagree with you folks here.” Baseball cap replies “Too soon, Geoff!”

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Karen Poole@renpoole· Jun 24

“On the one hand, the case appeared designed for a Supreme Court that has consistently sided with religious interests in recent years.”

Goose meme with goose chasing a guy asking “Whose religious interests does SCOTUS defend?”

Karen Poole@renpoole· Jun 20

Blue and red stripes showing strong warming trend from 1850 to present day in Memphis, Tennessee.

Karen Poole@renpoole· Jun 12

First, this model has no bladder. She can never pee. That’s generally, in medical terms…bad for survival. 2. There is a vagina, but it leads to some weird open sac. There’s no defined cervix or uterus. 3. The menstrual cup is punching through the wall of the weird vagina sac. 2/

Cursed AI image showing very very wrong placement of a menstrual cup in an anatomy diagram that is also very wrong, reasons in thread.

Karen Poole@renpoole· Feb 12

One thing this post by Horner confirms is that he's being investigated by SVP. Regardless of the outcome of the investigation, I'll reiterate that the way to actually stop someone from coming to meetings is for their friends to denounce (or at least say they can't be seen associating with) them

Facebook post by Jack Horner

So, while I'm being investigated by SVP, why don't you outraged paleo-people get back to doing some factual science, using the scientific method. You seem to have forgotten how that works, you know, using actual evidence? For Darren, I think this is essential, as I get the impression from his DinoCon disinvite, he's still cheesed off from Kevin and I pummeling him over the whole Darwin sexual selection argument back in 2013. But, I do thank you Darren, for weeding out the invasive nuisances from my social media platforms, I was curious as to how I was going to do that on my own.

Karen Poole@renpoole· Jan 10

I guess we’re catching up to Futurama.

Screenshot from the show Futurama with an advertisement for Bachelor Chow, “now with flavor”.

Karen Poole@renpoole· Dec 27

We’re doing books as academic origin stories? Here’s mine.

A book cover with a cartoon dinosaur titled “Dinosaur Time: An Early I Can Read Book”.

Karen Poole@renpoole· Dec 24

One really big claw and some hefty fused carpal bones? Iguanodon approves!

Line drawing of a smiling Iguanodon giving a thumbs up. Caption reads “Iguanodon: he’s pretty okay with everything”.

Karen Poole@renpoole· Sep 21

We’re really going to fix our infrastructure by deporting construction crews. Abolish ICE.

The Butterfly meme, asking “Is this infrastructure week?”

Karen Poole@renpoole· May 20

Officials at the FDA published recommendations in the New England Journal of Medicine that, in their own words, will kill people involved in vaccine trials. This is incredibly unethical. Article: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Karen Poole@renpoole· May 16

Pew data shows people in their early 30s have become less likely to be religiously affiliated over time: www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

Graph showing the percent of US adults who identify as Christian at ages 30-34. One line shows those raised Christian: 90% identified as Christian in 1990, while only 65% did in 2020. Another line shows those raised religiously unaffiliated. 44% identified as Christian in 1990 while 21% did in 2020. Another graph shows the inverse of this: that more 30-34 year olds identify as religiously unaffiliated in 2020 than in 1990, whether they were raised Christian or religiously unaffiliated.

Karen Poole@renpoole· May 1

I refuse to believe Zuck is an actual human around my age. The TV of our formative years clearly tells us the average American has 6 friends!

Opening credits of the TV show Friends, showing Ross, Monica, Phoebe, Rachel, Chandler, and Joey splashing each other in a fountain.

Karen Poole@renpoole· Apr 26

A reminder that a citizen of a country, by definition, cannot be deported from that country. If a citizen is forced to leave, some possible words might be: exiled, banished, kidnapped, forced out. Do not let governments or journalists get away with misusing language to normalize these actions.

deportation noun

1 : an act or instance of deporting
2 : the removal from a country of an alien whose presence is unlawful or
prejudicial

Karen Poole@renpoole· Apr 17

In response to RFK Jr.’s utter bullshit, let’s celebrate some autistic poets! Here’s an interview with award winning poet Karl Knights, listing several of his favorite autistic poets. Please comment with other recommendations! poetrybusiness.co.uk/2021/10/27/k...

Are there any autistic writers or artists that inspire you?

Gosh, too many to name! Coming across Joanne Limburg's collection, The Autistic Alice (Bloodaxe: 2017) was one of the first times I saw autistic experience reflected in poetry. I still think that collection didn't get anywhere near the amount of attention it should have got. I think that, when the histories of autistic poetry come to be written, that book will be seen as a landmark, groundbreaking collection. I've been re-reading the poetry and prose of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, a writer who deserves to be more well-known on these shores. I've been revisiting Cyree Jarelle Johnson's book, Slingshot, too. It's always a joy to be shown what a poem can do, and how much a poem can hold, and Johnson's expansive book reminds me of what poetry is capable of in droves. I'm looking forward to Jane Burn's forthcoming collection, Be Feared, from Nine Arches Press. I've been returning to a poem by Mollie Russell called 'My Nephew's Second Birthday: A Saga of Self-Stimulatory Behaviour' that people can find in The Emma Press Anthology of Illness. Each time I read Russell's poem I get so much pleasure out of this line: 1 am not broken. My bones just need more oiling.' I've been enjoying the erasure poems of Chloe Erin a great deal, too. There's an optimism to them that I like a lot, but it's not a twee or hokey optimism, it's hard-edged, hard won and earned.

Karen Poole@renpoole· Feb 22

Cool idea, but why use an AI image that doesn’t even show what you’re talking about? I found a public domain image on Wikipedia in under a minute.

A diagram showing the distribution of median, ulnar, and radial nerves to the skin of the hand.

Karen Poole@renpoole· Feb 19

Hey guys, is this authoritarian? (From new executive order found here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...)

Sec. 7. Rules of Conduct Guiding Federal Employees’ Interpretation of the Law. The President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch. The President and the Attorney General’s opinions on questions of law are controlling on all employees in the conduct of their official duties. No employee of the executive branch acting in their official capacity may advance an interpretation of the law as the position of the United States that contravenes the President or the Attorney General’s opinion on a matter of law, including but not limited to the issuance of regulations, guidance, and positions advanced in litigation, unless authorized to do so by the President or in writing by the Attorney General.

Karen Poole@renpoole· Feb 15

Oh, so now Trump is trying to install himself onto Saint Luigi’s defense council, too?

Tweet by Donald J. Trump stating “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

Karen Poole@renpoole· Feb 6

Cartoon of an Iguanodon stabbing a Raptor with its thumb spike captioned “talk dumb, get the thumb”

Karen Poole@renpoole· Feb 1

🔥🔥🔥

Although RFK, Jr., and Luigi Mangione are both responses to the same underlying problem of US healthcare corruption, there is a major difference between them: one allegedly operated outside the law to kill one person in defense of millions, whereas the other-via his egomaniacal disregard for scientific evidence-seeks to use law itself to inflict preventable death on those millions.

Karen Poole@renpoole· Jan 28

A reminder to Congress: YOU CONTROL THE MONEY! Allowing the executive branch to decide how taxpayer money is distributed is unconstitutional. So stand up and do the job you were elected—and swore an oath—to do. Text of Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution: www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

Section. 8.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States,
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;-And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Karen Poole@renpoole· Jan 20

Mood today.

Karen Poole@renpoole· Nov 16

Congrats, Scott—you made it!

Screenshot showing that Scott Williams has 1000 followers.

Karen Poole@renpoole· Nov 16

He’s already over 600, so 🤷🏻‍♀️

Karen Poole@renpoole· Oct 31

Why are the iguanodontians always dead? 🫤 #2024SVP