#meig's blogs

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

My Tumblr Blogs

Ahem, if you ever wanted to find me (Meig) on other places on this site, here's an updated guide (I just added a new blog so)

this one, @a-dinosaur-a-day: for paleontology and ornithology fun. plus some miscellany bc this blog has the most followers by a huge margin. other people are authors on this blog, but they'll use a sign off to indicate they aren't me

@jewish-kulindadromeus: my Jewish blog. also has social justice stuff.

@zygodactylus: my dumping ground. where basically everything I like goes. also personal rants.

@anachronornis: my account blog, which I don't use very much. I just kind of keep my cute bird pictures there so they're in one place. but this is where I reply from.

and now, new and shiny, I have @punk-kulindadromeus, for music posting. basically where I'm gonna dump songs I like. and maybe songs I write. but definitely the first one. mostly punk and alternative, but there'll be some other stuff (I like a lot of Jewish music, for example).

so yeah! there you go!

[spacelazarwolf]

Seen you rb from them a lot but there's easily 100s of posts calling out Jewish Kulinadromeous on this blog just FYI this is just a few

https://www.tumblr.com/is-the-owl-video-cute/731044766029086720/meig-is-fucking-taking-her-parrot-to-a?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/is-the-owl-video-cute/731043649173012480/i-literally-dropped-out-of-paleo-courses-because?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/is-the-owl-video-cute/731024787478118400/not-the-same-anon-but-i-used-to-follow-dino-days?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/is-the-owl-video-cute/731029592394137600/im-anti-harrasment-over-fiction-my-brother-in?source=share

stop fucking sending me your tumblr beef. also “hey jew, i noticed you reblogged from a jew i don’t like. stop that.” fuck off.

[killdeercheer]

Hey! If you don't know already, I co-host a natural history-themed YouTube series called Through Time and Clades with my good friend @albertonykus! We cover all sorts of topics from biology to anthropology, but in about a week we're going to be hosting an interview with our friend and paleontologist @zygodactylus (of the amazing blog you know and love @a-dinosaur-a-day). If you have any questions for Meig, feel free to leave a comment or DM me or Albert, and we'll be sure to get it! Many thanks and see you there!

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

I haven’t seen many posts from Meig about israel at all. I’m not the type of person to believe a claim like this without seeing the posts for myself. Has someone compiled a list of posts by them that reflect zionism from them? I’ve only seen that they’ve reblogged fundraisers for several palestenian families

anon. Look at me. Do you think I mean ey post about it on the dinosaur a day blog and not eir side blogs?

[pied-piper-the-survogel]

Fossil Novembirb, the first nine days

Hello World. I never thought I'd be on this site, but here I am. This blog was created for the purpose of participating in a-dinosaur-a-day's Fossil Novembirb. Fossil Novembirb is a yearly art event founded by Meig Dickson, a vertebrate palaeontologist who, as far as I can tell, studies dinosaurs, especially theropods. Don't fight me or em over birds being theropod dinosaurs. Neither ey nor I want to have this conversation, so enjoy the art!

I started off my Fossil Novembirb with Vegavis iaai. What makes this fluffy anseriform special is that we found a fossilised syrinx (avian voice-maker) belonging to one of these, so we can reconstruct their sounds. This Vegavis was coloured based on a bunch of anseriforms that are alive today, like ruddy shelducks and cotton pygmy geese.

For Day 2, I did a bit of spec evo and pulled out a scientific name I told myself I'd assign to a newly-discovered fossil genus. This sketch has a Serina-like text description for Phantasmavis.

Tropicbirds! I chose to draw Clymenoptilon because I was hoping "tropicbird" meant "brightly coloured bird". Even though they aren't that brightly coloured, they're still cool. And Kumimanu (approximately to scale in this drawing) didn't really have the obligation to be black-and-white like most extant penguins (because Inkayacu), so I went... mild-wild with the colours.

No... one's... tall like Gastornis, no one calls like Gastornis! In the bottom right, no one feeds small like Gastornis!

I've seen the "Andy's Prehistoric Adventures" episode featuring these megafowl, realised it was Walking With Dinosaurs with a human inserted, and drawn a mildly speculative colouration for these Gastornis. To the left, two adults have their necks out towards each other and are calling into the sky. Whether this is courtship or a challenge, nobody knows. But a calmer scene happens in the bottom right, where a mother shows her chick red berries on a branch to show them that it is food.

"Don't make me fly up there, you punk!" is one way to interpret the screamerduck Anachronornis' call in the direction of the Primoptynx owl. This scene unfolds in the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum ecosystem of the Willwood Formation before it was rock.

It's a twilight hummingswift! We know the colour of this iridescent little birb from the Danish Fur Formation. I watched a tutorial on painting iridescence, but I'm not really satisfied with the parent feeding their chick to the left of the flying Eocypselus rowei. It's hard to see, but there's a baby hummingswift being fed a Cimbrophlebia scorpionfly.

London Clay has a lot of plant fossils. Not all of them are listed on Wikipedia, but there's a photo of a pencil-root mangrove seed listed. Featuring a speculatively-coloured Eotrogon, a Dasornis carrying away a mackerel, and a Prophaeton just gliding, and repeat telecasts Gastornis parisiensis and Eocypelus rowei, Eocene London was a birder's dream (believe me, I'm a kinda-birder).

This Tynskya art was somewhat late, rather dissatisfactory, and mildly rushed. I had an exam the next day. Don't judge me.

And here's a better Primozygodactylus! I couldn't tell the specific species because it wasn't listed for the Wikipedia image. But here we are: a bird that gives off ashy prinia/sparrow/orange-headed thrush vibes.

This concludes the first nine days! I don't know if I'll be doing the tenth because nobody's giving me straight answers about the palaeobotany of the Green River formation.

Enjoy!

[plokool]

Where am I?

I don't know if anyone who follows this blog has wondered, but just in case, I've been functionally taking a break from tumblr for a while now. Basically, I've been feeling extremely hopeless about pretty much anything and I can't scroll here without getting depressed. So I reblog the daily Daria posts because I can do that right from the blog and sometimes I'll reblog something if Meig sends it to me (or on the rare occasions where I make myself worse by going on my dash and I see something I want to reblog), but otherwise I'm pretty much inactive for the time being

[kimbazee]

Evening Poetry, November 7

This post contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click through and make a purchase, I will receive a small compensation at no extra cost to you. This helps keep my blog ad-free. Meigs Falls during Autumn by National Park Service is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 November by William Cullen Bryant Yet one smile more, departing, distant sun! One mellow smile through the soft vapory air, Ere, o'er the…

[starkiddreamcasting]

Broadway A Very Potter Musical

You gotta get back to Hogwarts with a dreamcast for A Very Potter Musical! After discovering a certain fact about this musical (if you know the fact you’ll see the joke in the cast) I found it perfect for my blog!

(This dreamcast was apart of my April Fools ‘Broadway Dreamcasts’)

1. Santino Fontana as Harry Potter 2. Christopher Fitzgerald as Ron Weasley 3. Montego Glover as Hermonie Granger 4. John Tartagila as Draco Malfoy 5. Kara Lindsay as Ginny Weasley 6. Danny Burstein as Dumbledore 7. Lucas Steele as Voldemort 8. Adam Chandler-Berat as Professor Quirrell 9. Spencer Moses as Serverus Snape 10. Zach Adkins as Ensemble/Harry Potter (u/s) 11. Kathryn Boswell as Ensemble 12. Ixchel Cuellar as Ensemble/Hermonie Granger (u/s)/Ginny Weasley (u/s) 13. Julian DeGuzman as Neville Longbottom/Ensemble/Ron Weasley (u/s) 14. Morgan Siobhan Green as Belltrix Lestrange/Ensemble 15. Curtis Holland as Ensemble/Serverus Snape (u/s) 16. Timothy Hughes as Goyle/Rumbleroar/Ensemble 17. Matt Meigs as Ensemble/Draco Malfoy (u/s) 18. Katie Ladner as Molly Weasley/Ensemble 19. Monette McKay as Ensemble 20. Nathan Peck as Ensemble 21. Aleks Pevec as Ensemble/Voldemort (u/s) 22. Jeff Pew as Cedric Diggory/Cormeilous Fudge/Ensemble/Harry Potter (u/s)/Dumbledore (u/s)/Professor Quirrell (u/s) 23. Hayley Podschun as Crabbe/Ensemble/Draco Malfoy (u/s)/Ginny Weasley (u/s) 24. Lance Roberts as Ensemble/Dumbledore (u/s)/Voldemort (u/s)/Serverus Snape (u/s) 25. Chelsea Morgan Stock as Cho Chang/Ensemble/Hermonie Granger (u/s) 26. Sam Strasfeld as Ensemble/Ron Weasley (u/s)/Professor Quirrell (u/s) 27. Erica Wong as Lavender Brown/Ensemble 28. C.K. Edwards as Swing 29. Karla Puno Garcia as Swing 30. Leah Hofmann as Swing 31. Ryan Worsing as Swing

Make sure to leave any show suggestions or any questions on my casting choices so I can explain them.

[theloniousbach]

CELEBRATING THE 50 QUARANTINE CONCERTS BY JORMA KAUKONEN FROM FUR PEACE STATION

This venerable series has come to an end with an acoustic Hot Tuna concert with an audience from Fur Peace Station’s new outdoor stage. It was cold cold cold Saturday evening and Jorma and Jack were bundled up, Jack playing in sleeveless gloves which kept his hands arms but that he was cold in hi chest and asking once to play something so he could stop shivering.

It was a rather subdued show all in all with Casady’s bass coming to a proper rumble with the home stretch of Let’s Get Together Right Down Here, Good Shepherd, Come Back Baby, and True Religion. Jorma’s voice too didn’t have one of the power it built up from a year of (mostly) being home. So it was all autumnal in a way.

Certainly I will miss these fixtures of the pandemic. They started the evening with a rerun of the very first one from 4 April 2020 (mostly songs, Vanessa reading questions but off mic, nonetheless stories about the Airplane, mention that Jack was playing along at home (he started posting clips most weeks here at the end), and life in Meigs County.). It seems we were there from the start, mostly in real time, getting a weekly guitar lesson and watching both Kaukonens becoming more and more genuine.

Jorna’s blog for years and years has been candid and exploratory—about kids, family, loss, enthusiasms, regrets, music and struggles. His memoir was equally very much him. Vanessa too fussed and ranted. They bickered, at least once really but deftly and then in a more stylized way that still had a little bite.

It became Saturday Nights with the Kaukonens with Fur Peace Ranch as part of the story. Daughter Izze sang twice as did Vanessa. Roadie Myron Hart got a few tunes, but caretaker/old friend John Hurlbut became a regular feature with fine taste in songs and capable singing for which Jorma could stretch out on lead. I didn’t feel compelled to get their album but his tunes became an expected feature and a prompt for stories about the road, the Ranch, and rural life. It was almost, not quite, a hippie Prairie Home Companion (more music, real ads for new products from the company store, a picture of small town characters, stories stories stories from childhood to college to the Airplane days and beyond, fan questions (one of mine on resonators got answered), but virtually no guests).

But the one gets that mattered was Jack Casady who came out in July, October, and now here at the end. Their 65 year friendship is something to behold—teasing and supportive, affectionate and candid.

Plus the playing is amazing. The saying is if you don’t know Jorma, you don’t know Jack. But you have to know Jack to really get Jorma, that Jack’s lines illuminate the possibilities in the songs. There are those formative mostly Piedmont finger picking blues (including this last time a Trouble in Mind from a forthcoming album based on tapes that Jack made in his parents’ rec room in 1960 when Jorma had only begun fingerpicking) but even more the poignant probing songs replete with minor chords in just the right places that are immediately recognizable (they blew 50 years of dust off Turn My Life Down from Volunteers that Marty Balin sang. It has possibilities as a Jorma song but there’s more to do).

They said they were taping another show the next day and that will see the light of day sooner than later. Things are opening up; they can play in public; the series has served its purpose. But they built something important and there is a community of us who are drawn to the long heritages Jorma represents.

Vanessa said they thought they were doing a mitzvah—and Jorma nipped any thoughts of monetizing it directly in the bud. But they both said that it gave them a creative outlet that couldn’t be matched. Jack too went out of his way to say that the pandemic allowed him to refocus on music.

I treasure the further vistas this series opened up as Jorma and Hot Tuna did more than 50 years ago.

Yikes!

[starlightomatic]

i think meig is the only person who understands all the seemingly absurd shitposting i’ve been putting on my blog these past few weeks

[usnatarchives]

Black History Month: the 54th Massachusetts

By Austin McManus | National Archives History Office

To commemorate Black History Month, we celebrate the story of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, the first African American unit of the U.S. Army. These brave men served honorably during U.S. Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in American history.

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in the middle of the war, signaling that the war for union was also a war for freedom and the abolition of the institution of slavery.

The Proclamation most notably freed slaves in the rebellious states. However, an additional provision is often overlooked: it authorized the U.S. Army and Navy to receive African American men “of suitable condition” into their ranks.

Shortly thereafter, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton authorized Massachusetts Governor John Andrews to call for volunteers for an all-black infantry regiment. He received help from a number of Massachusetts men and women, many of whom were abolitionists, such as Frederick Douglass and Wendell Phillips, to recruit hundreds of African American men for the regiment.

Governor Andrews also hand-picked many of the white officers for the regiment, many of whom grew up in abolitionist families. One of these officers was Robert Gould Shaw, the son of wealthy abolitionist Francis Shaw, who encouraged his son to accept the Governor’s promotion to colonel of this new all-black regiment.

While initially resistant to the idea, Shaw ultimately accepted the commission to lead the newly formed 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.

Recruitment poster, 1863. (National Archives Identifier 1497351)

Muster roll for 54th Massachusetts, 6/30/1863. (Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, National Archives)

The new regiment trained at Camp Meigs in Readville, Massachusetts. Although they would be fighting alongside their white counterparts, they weren’t paid as much. In response, the entire regiment—soldiers and officers alike—boycotted by refusing their pay altogether. (Congress rectified this on September 28, 1864.)

They also faced an additional threat. Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, issued a proclamation stating that any black men enlisted with the Union Army and their white officers captured in battle would face capital punishment, most likely death. Yet the regiment faced this daunting fate in service of a country that had not granted them equal rights as citizens.

The 54th Massachusetts departed for Beaufort, South Carolina, on May 28, 1863, marching through the streets of Boston to intrigued and supportive spectators. They first saw action on July 16 when they fought Confederate troops on James Island in the Battle of Grimball’s Landing.

Read more, including the actions that earned Sgt. William H. Carney the Medal of Honor on the Pieces of History Blog and checkout the #ArchivesHashtagParty happening on Twitter Feb. 2, 2018 @USNatArchives which is hosted by @NMAAHC  #ArchivesBlackHistory

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

thanks to your pinned I now know you're multiple people running this blog, my brain has also decided that means yall are stacked on top of each other in a dinosaur shaped trench coat

So like legit for a while we joked that we were multiple Kulindadromeus in a trench coat… there were cartoons made…

[erminiapalma]

week blog

Summary: 

When they were listening to the news, she gave birth to shiva son but saling son for meige and love. Saline, sang the song that Marry signed to him when he was little while holding his newborn baby boy. After the declaration of national emergency there was like a never ending midnight all over the country. The prime minister wanted the people to see her as agades, but she did not have any power whatsoever so she hated the midnight childrens when she found out about them, so shoulder for then to be haunted. The military came to where saline and his wife live with a huge tank and demolition trucks, they were throwing down the houses while innocent people were running for their life. Thinking of what to do next without a place to live, Thor was destroyed by the soldiers. Salina when running to go and find his wife Barbaty and the body sense they were still inside the house and the demotion in t4ruck was camen towards then but unfcorntunati he was found by Shiva and they stare to fight but sense Shiva is the most stronger all the midnight children he was able to benefit Saline. Bardayty found herself trapped and so she decided to hide her newborn baby and her magic basket, however she was trapped. 

Critical analysis. 

“In Pakistan my second period of hurtling growth came to an end … “(page 360)  I feel like this quote represents what many of the people whose houses were destroyed feel like when they saw no hope in their features and their corrupted liders. It made me feel like their lives in India came to an end and that they would not be able to recover after that . 

Personal response. 

 I wonder if weeder Bardaty was able to get out of the house in time and if not I wonder if she died. I wonder if her baby  made it out safe too. I can wait to find out where Shiva took Saline and for what? I think that in the end they became friends though. 

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

https://www.tumblr.com/spacelazarwolf/756113624654839808/cant-tell-if-this-is-in-support-of-meig-or-not?source=share

""can’t tell if this is in support of meig or not but for the record this person has been harassing meig for like. several years now. ey don’t want them dead, ey want them to leave em alone. also it’s so funny when ppl call meig a zionist when they are very explicitly and openly not. but then again, at this point “zionist” is just “jew i want to discredit” so i’m not surprised. ""

Apparently you've been harassing meig according to rhem lol you legit haven't ever. You told meig facts and meig got in a piss over it

it’s really really funny these people cannot tell “wants me dead in the dirt” is what one might call a hyperbolic joke.

Also can zionists stop whining that they’re being targeted for being Jewish? Do you know how obnoxious I would be if I said these people were just trying to discredit me, a trans black person they don’t like? No, honey biscuit, I have a problem with people supporting a genocide, most zionists aren’t even Jewish, equating and conflating these terms is antisemitism. If I’ve been harassing Meig for several years by saying a handful of times that people who are anti-Zionist shouldn’t fw the dinosaur a day blog because it’s run by a Zionist, even though I haven’t mentioned em in months, then I suppose we can call that harassment. We can all misuse words. I haven’t interacted with em directly nor have I told anyone else to do so.

Me calling someone a dumbass and a racist a few times over the past year or two does not a several-year harassment campaign make.

[mathewingram]

The story behind those tiny doors in the US Capitol

As they tour the Capitol building in Washington, some eagle-eyed visitors notice tiny, rounded doors at floor level — looking like fairy doors, or something Alice in Wonderland might have used after she shrunk herself. What are they? If you open one, you will see a small room with nothing but a faucet sticking out of the wall — useful for filling a bucket to clean the hallways. But why the need for such a tiny door? Why not use a regular broom closet?

The reason for the doors goes back to 1851, when a fire broke out in the Capitol building, in a room that housed the Library of Congress. A guard noticed the flames through a window, but there was no water source anywhere nearby, so he had to run downstairs to get some. By the time he got back, the library was in flames, a fire that would destroy more than 35,000 volumes, including almost two-thirds of the books that were acquired from Thomas Jefferson’s estate. Manuscripts, maps, artwork, all burned.

The government asked Captain Montgomery Meigs of the US Army Corp of Engineers to design a water system that would bring water into Washington and also supply it to the Capitol building to prevent future fires. He built an aqueduct system that brought fresh water in from the Potomac, and through pipes to faucets hidden behind those small rounded doors. The building now has modern plumbing and fire-suppression systems, but in a pinch they could always use the faucets that Montgomery Meigs installed behind those miniature doors.

via https://www.aoc.gov/blog/meigs-miniatures-story-tiny-doors-us-capitol

The story behind those tiny doors in the US Capitol was originally published on mathewingram.com/work

[travelonlinetips-blog]

New Post has been published on https://travelonlinetips.com/wandering-the-waterfalls-of-great-smoky-mountains-national-park-lonely-planets-travel-blog-2/

wandering the waterfalls of Great Smoky Mountains National Park – Lonely Planet's travel blog

The Great Smoky Mountains NP is a wonderful showcase of nature’s power © Nick Alvarez

Lonely Planet Pathfinder, Nick Alvarez of Be Real Travel, recently returned from a trip to Great Smoky Mountains National Park – one of our best value destinations for 2019. Armed with his camera and tripod, he embarked on a journey to capture the park’s numerous waterfalls in full flow.

As the most-visited national park in the USA, Great Smoky Mountains is packed with magnificent sights including majestic mountains, captivating wildlife, and historic buildings. However, for this particular trip, I had one focus – waterfalls. Thanks to high elevations and abundant rainfall, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a waterfall chaser’s dream. Near the end of winter, despite temperatures often being below freezing, I set out to visit six of the park’s waterfalls, and to illustrate what makes each of them unique.

Up-close-and-personal

On our first day in the park, my wife and I hiked to Laurel Falls, one of the its most popular attractions. Upon reaching the waterfall, I immediately understood why it is so popular – water streams down multiple levels of rock to incredible effect. The cherry on top of the cake however, is a walkway located just a few feet from the base of the waterfall, which allowed us to appreciate the grandeur of the streams up close. Though much of the hike to this waterfall is uphill, it isn’t too difficult – if my pregnant wife can do it, so can you!

Fast and furious

As the park is home to over a thousand black bears, I carried an air horn with me on all hikes, ready to defend myself in case of an encounter. Though I didn’t end up bumping into a bear, I did confront another beast: Abrams Falls. I was awestruck by the speed at which such a large volume of water raged down the waterfall. As I gazed at its raw power, I pondered, ‘would an air horn actually scare a bear off?’ I’m glad that I didn’t have to find out!

Small, but perfectly formed

In addition to epic Instagram opportunities, there is another benefit to visiting a waterfall – it’s very therapeutic. Lynn Camp Prong Cascades is a great example of this, as the waterfall is set within a beautifully tranquil scene along a river. What this waterfall lacks in size, it makes up for in serenity. It was the perfect place to de-stress and relax, aided by the soothing sounds of trickling water.

What a tease

Meigs Falls taunted me from behind the moat-like Little River, which we weren’t able to cross due to heavy rain. Forced to admire the waterfall from afar, I revelled in the lush scenery that surrounded it that much more. Visible from the road, this waterfall is ideal for those that are unable to (or prefer not to) hike. I’m all for the sense of fulfillment that comes with completing a challenging hike, but if a waterfall requires minimal work for me to visit and enjoy, you won’t hear me complaining!

Immersed in the action

While Mouse Creek Falls is an entrancing, multi-leveled waterfall, what makes it truly magical is the way in which it can be experienced. This waterfall exhibits two uncommon characteristics: first, unlike many waterfalls that flow along a river, this waterfall flows down into the side of a river. Second, rocks jut out from the riverbank opposite the waterfall, which allows you to step out into the middle of the action. With the river rushing on both sides of me and the waterfall crashing down in front of me, I wasn’t merely an onlooker, I was a part of the scene.

A song of ice and snow

Hiking in below freezing temperatures can be a harsh endeavor, but through it all, I was inspired by the possibility of seeing a partially-frozen waterfall. My resilience was rewarded by Ramsey Cascades, a towering behemoth lined with ice and snow. I marveled at humongous chunks of ice breaking off and crumbling down the waterfall. If there’s one thing that Great Smoky Mountains National Park taught me, it’s this: a waterfall isn’t just a sight, it’s an experience.

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