Joey Atreides 🏳️‍⚧️

Deep Time Dreamer. Avocational paleontologist, teacher, science educator & naturalist. Avian evo devo. Trans, intersex & neurodivergent. Dirty pagan commie.

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Please help me resolve debt and attain my top surgery I’ve been struggling for decades to get. Thanks all for your consideration: https://t.co/Rrye6IChD9

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@jk_rowling You’re such a hateful piece of 💩.

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I have known I was trans since I was a child, started socially transitioning in my late teens and early twenties. Now finally, after fighting for so long, I will have access to HRT in a matter of weeks. I’m so relieved I could cry. I’m 41. JFC.

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@sandiek64 @Carolinepennyc @GovStitt Nobody is forgetting them, but Julius Jones didn’t kill them 🤷🏻‍♂️ Maybe stop using murder victims as an excuse to be racist and bigoted. Just be honest, you want to see an innocent black man lynched, just like the “good ole days” don’t you. Vile.

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@GovStitt “Prayerful consideration” you vile hypocrite. You still couldn’t do it without screwing over an innocent man and his family, and waiting til the 9th hour too. Evil racist. I guess there’s a reason why Stitt rhymes with 💩 because that’s exactly what you are. ����

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Two Dryptosaurus locked in a dance of courtship

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A collection of Mucrospirifer thedfordensis & associated crinoid stems, from the Widder Formation of Atkins, Ontario, Canada. I love brachiopods, they are some of my fave invert fossils along w/ ammonites & trilobites. #nationalfossilday #earthscienceweek #paleontology #geology

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Two specimens of Paraspirifer brownockeri, from the Middle Devonian Silica Formation of Sylvania, Ohio. The brachiopods have been replaced with pyrite in the fossilization process. #NationalFossilDay #EarthScienceWeek #geology #paleontology

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Today is #NationalFossilDay, so I’ll be sharing some fun fossils from my own collection. Here is a sphere carved from a Stromatolite—Greysonia sp., from the Vendian (Ediacaran) of the Miraflores Formation of Potosí, Bolivia. #fossils #paleontology #palaeontology

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Rhynie Chert for #nationalfossilday, some of the earliest fossil evidence for early vascular plants and associated fauna. Early Devonian, Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Dryden Flags Formation). #paleontology #palaeontology #fossils #geology #geosciences

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For #EarthScienceWeek, here are specimens of Franklinite & Willemite on calcite, collected from the Sterling Hills Mine in New Jersey. Fluorescence was used to detect the presence of valuable minerals in the mine. #geology #geosciences #mining #nj #eastcoastgeology

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Been going through a lot lately in my life, but the storm is starting to clear and things are starting to look up. Plus I find, it’s #EarthScienceWeek! I’m ready for it. More later.

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@PaleoCameron Fantastic!

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You know #geology is your jam when you read a whole lot about thrusting and it has nothing to do with porn.

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Having another panic attack, which I’m trying to abort by counting pegmatites at work. I hate my brain, but the rocks are nice.

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Am I the only one that will cut a bitch over these cardboard specimen trays? 😂 #geology #paleontology #rockhounding

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Feldspar, biotite and quartzite eroding out of the ground just outside where I work. #geology #mdgeology #marylandgeology

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Work grounds are really producing some awesome specimens. Gneiss, schist, feldspars. Even some nice-sized biotite sheets. I should start taking more photos. Really, this place is quite geologically rich for a school in the middle of a wealthy suburban neighborhood.