Riley Black 🦕 🏳️⚧️
@restingdinoface.bsky.social
Bronto-queen, big cat, award-winning author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs and The Tree of Life (2025). 🔞 she/they/it. Skreeonk. https://ko-fi.com/laelaps
That’s 6:07 every morning when my alarm hasn’t gone off but they know breakfast approaches
The tone of “I’ll see you in hell” but said “I’ll see you in bed”
She won’t settle if I don’t give her a spot to lay against
Bury me in the bean hole
I'm not even a bean person but every time I see a recipe like that it makes me think about the bean hole beans
I somehow forgot SLC’s Pride stuff is this weekend so time to do a pasties trial run
I talk about them in my new book! Stand-ins for early early land plants
So many buns it’s a 🍞 aisle
Current view of my yard: they seem to be reproducing like . . .🐇🐇🐇🐇
I will be making references to Jurassic Park until I die, I’m sure 😹
We could definitely use some more science examples in film that aren’t stuck in 20th century Spielberg tropes
Hi, I'm a paleontologist! My greatest hits include “I’m sorry, but that’s just a rock,” “Actually, that’s not a dinosaur but a different kind of reptile,” and “No, not like Ross on Friends.”
Hi, I'm a jeweler! My greatest hits include "no, that's not candy, you can't put it in your mouth, you shouldn't put it in your mouth, i know you think it looks like candy" over and over again until i die
I’m glad dinoborbs are still here
If you've ever recommended one of my books to someone, thank you. I think The Last Days of the Dinosaurs only went as far as it has because of word of mouth, and I hope the same will be true for When the Earth Was Green.
When you share what you love, it makes a difference.
They’re just flaunting their bad decisions for all to see, rolling along in their toxic masculinity mobile
It looks so much shittier in real life! Like a VirtuaBoy wire frame someone tried to make into a real car
I THOUGHT IT WAS A DUMPSTER SO I WASN'T READY TO TAKE A PHOTO LMAO
Oh gosh, yeah, I remember coming home from a summer science camp in high school with my toenails painted and my parents immediately making me go get polish remover to take it off
There were no signs ✨
My first girlfriend told me the “You’re like if a man were a lesbian” thing and yeah I just should have followed that thread in 2001, ha
I’m still finding them, too. All those moments where I didn’t mask, that felt weird at the time, and now… “Ohhh so that’s what that was…”
Which makes me think of the time an asshole tried to pick a fight with me at a Hanson concert (?!). Of all the shows I’ve been to, still bizarre to me that it was a fucking Hanson show where someone wanted to start shit.
Face biting has been popular for millions of years
The Dakota Badlands Used to Host Sabertoothed Pseudo-Cat Battles
The region was once home to a plethora of catlike creatures called nimravids, and fossils show they were an especially fractious breed
www.smithsonianmag.comStrata loves everyone in the house and does a lot of herding, leading me to what she wants and also putting herself on watch at night. When we adopted her, the shelter staff told us she had been found with her mom and her mom’s new kittens by a dumpster - her devotion is part of who she is.
How can she rest if I’m not where she can keep an eye on me?
Strata expects punctuality for family couch time.
Ooo gummy
I just saw those colors and immediately recognized where I had seen them before, near the checkout at QuickChek…
I started writing one book from page one and another from what will be the last page, so I don’t know what’s going to happen when I pass the midpoint coming from opposite directions
I want to pop this jawbreaker in my mouth
Basic physics says the Sun's poles should spin faster than the equator.
More advanced physics says the equator should spin faster by a lot.
Neither are true, but why?
My latest for AGU Eos has the story and a possible answer:
Spiral Waves May Explain the Sun’s Baffling Rotation - Eos
New observations and models show a connection between high-latitude waves in the Sun’s interior and the different rates of spin between the solar equator and poles.
eos.org
It can be astounding, when we look back and understand what was really happening.
I was thinking on it the other day, how I was starting to come out in 2016 but I had an abusive partner who was also queer, so I thought “Well if they don’t get it, maybe I’m not really?” I had to get free first.
It’s heavy work and unfolds over time, and I am glad you’re doing it. I’m sorry, and angry on your behalf, you had to overcome so much to come out and feel like you, but I am glad you did. Wherever this question takes you, I hope it brings more love for your past self and who you are now. 🩵
I was so ready to write off all those years as lost. Instead I see this kid who so wanted to feel safe and loved, trying to find these small ways to show herself in such hostile places. I am so angry for what I had to survive, but so proud of that girl who held on until she found the space to grow.
Yes! For myself, it twines with now knowing I’m autistic. So many times I felt isolated, got bullied & abused, it had to do with parts of myself that were obvious but I lived in a shitty conservative town. The push was for me to be “normal.” It’s infuriating, but also grows kindness for my past self
I feel similarly, and it’s taken me a long time to really see all the ways I was struggling to come out and make space for myself in the years prior to transition. It’s a strange combination of seeing fragments of myself but also feeling disconnected, the depression was so heavy then.
Dinosaurs are a great way to start the day! I hope you like the book.
Many thanks to the wonderful @blackmudpuppy.bsky.social for helping my pfp match my handle
Bunger!
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