nice little curious dino, I like the night time backdrop too

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artist comment: Psittacosaurus sp., one of the few dinosaurs we already knows it's true colors and padronations! Here I made one of these cuties feeding on gingkos. It's scales and quills (on it's tail) were perfectly preserved and we also can see on it's fossil the dark scales on the arms.

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artist comment: A group of Unenlagidae rest on top of what appears to be rocks, but in fact they are Armadillosuchus buried in the mud. Without noticing the presence of one of them in his "armor", an Armadillosuchus gets up and starts walking slowly, while the little theropod continues it's stay.

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artist comment: A group of Guaibasaurus walking peacefully. I made one of them with a cute tiny baby slepping on it's neck, inspired by young anteaters who make the same.

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random stuff pulled out from the Polish osint guy's last interview from Friday:

• The Yuzhmash factory in Dnepropetrovsk had around 40k employees during the late USSR years, it made ballistic missiles but also other stuff like trolleybuses. It kept producing and servicing stuff for the Russian army like the R-36M ICBMs. After the 2014 coup in Ukraine it lost 80% of its business. In 2018 it had around 7k contract workers left and it has been making ballistic missiles like the Hrim-2 for the Ukrainian army, so it makes sense it would be a strike target for Russia.

• He suspects the Russians notified the west about a return strike when the embassies started closing and not 30 mins before the strike like Peskov said.

• Pro-Ukrainian propaganda is saying the Oreshnik strike is no big deal actually because 'Russia only has a few of these missiles' and also the 'US is going to reverse engineer it from the scraps at Yuzhmash'. Dnepropetrovsk has at least one Patriot system, which failed to intercept it.

• He thinks the new missile is called Oreshnik because it looks like a hazel flower when it comes down.

• In his short address Putin said Russia reserves the right to attack objects belonging to countries that have shared weapons with Ukraine which were used for attacks on Russian territory. Since he said 'objects' and not 'territory' that could for example mean submarine strikes on UK/French military bases in the Caribean sea or in Africa.

• Some pro-Ukrainian analysts say one Zircon missile got shot down over Kyiv, but he's not convinced.

• Ukraine has Patriot-Fs (newer model) because one was identified after kinetically intercepting an Iskander-M over Odessa and falling down.

• There's a bit about the Russian nuclear doctrine update but it's long enough for another post. The previous version's language was more precise and listed a range of specific scenarios, the new one is much more loose about the qualifying circumstances. Russian military bases abroad and military ships are covered now. Belarusian territory is mentioned now.

my fav is probably croc with a bird on top

ascribing everything to George Soros and 'the globalists', complaining about 'the lgbt agenda', warning about the 'impending fall of western civilization', complaining about there being too many immigrants and talking about civilizational incompatibility, suggesting shooting at boats with migrants in the Mediterranean, calling liberal politicians communists, trying to redeem Francisco Franco

feel that too, just want the various critters living happily together, I guess tamagochi was following that thinking a bit

been listening to Repeated Tragedy, good one

very sad news, hit me a few times today, we can hope to give our pets the best life possible, I don't think he could have had a better caretaker until the end, if it has to happen then at least he knew you were there with him

for burned into brain it's definitely chiptune music from NES games I played as a kid like:

Big Nose the Caveman - Level 2

Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy - Pirate Ship

The Jetsons - Cogswells Caper! Level 1

also I guess the Quake 3 Rocket Arena 3 theme from back in the day

when parts of this or this come on while playing ESO in the Morrowind region it feels special

There's also a lot of game music I like but from games I never played so I won't list any of those

this really sucks, Mr. Softie is a good friend, wish it wasn't his time yet but it sounds like it might be from what you are describing, I had a dog for around 18 years and it was the worst when she died, had no pets since then, hope you can get through this ok

I feel like when Ukraine comes up in interviews with Biden he becomes more clear minded and excited all of a sudden, I think he's pretty on board with escalation, heard theories he's out of it and just being used by his staff now but I think he's generally aware of what he's doing

He was saying in the same interview he thinks the 'Kursk only' limit was some sort of media disinformation and if Ukraine is getting more ATACMS (they don't have many right now) from US storage then the US plans to use them at the full 300 km range, which covers around 15 Russian airports, but Russia evacuated most of their airplanes from those airports because ATACMS use has apparently been discussed for a few months now, so these new attacks might disrupt some Russian fuel depots or ammo depots, but also those kinds of spots have already been hit by Ukrainian drones up to 1000km deep in Russia, so it's not some game changer for the war like western politicians or media might want to present it. His 'Russian response list' was thinking about a scenario where the US keeps using ATACMS at the full range from now on.

I'm not a military head so i don't know, I assume Russia will not be provoked to do anything fast but will answer when they think the time is right.

Was listening to this Polish osint guy yesterday throw out some ideas about possible Russian responses to escalation:

• roll out some nuclear tipped Iskander Ms (500-700km range) in Russian territory near Alaska
• have submarines with Bulava ballistic missiles leave the Kola peninsula and shake off US surveillance and start lurking in the ocean
• start doing regular strategic bomber patrols with nuclear tipped ballistic rockets
• give the Houthis Oniks/Bastion (500km range) supersonic anti-ship missiles

been appreciating Kai Winn and Gul Dukat much more while re-watching DS9 for the first time lately, great writing and acting, she is a scary political operator