Adam S. Smith / is on Nostr

Curator at the Nottingham Natural History Museum, Wollaton Hall

Palaeontologist working on Mesozoic marine reptiles, especially plesiosaurs

Children’s author: The Plesiosaur's Neck and The Tyrannosaur's Feathers

Founder of the Dinosaur Toy Blog, Animal Toy Blog and Plesiosaur Directory websites

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2024-10-22 10:26:04

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@npub1fjv…x8tc You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes, not from the front, but from the side, from the other two Bobs you didn't even know were there.

2024-10-22 09:42:28

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@npub1fjv…x8tc Are the magnifiers on the *inside* of your normal glasses!?

2024-08-30 17:33:10

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@npub1qqa…qkq2 Collecting the full set! Some of these I inherited from Wang Qi. 😪
https://cdn.masto.host/sauropodswin/media_attachments/files/113/052/166/092/871/559/original/9a093269322d21b5.jpeg

2024-08-30 15:55:16

A fantastic recent addition to my palaeo-library. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the history of palaeontology and palaeoart!
Congratulations @markwittonon on this magnificent achievement!
#FossilFriday #books #palaeontology #bookstodon #CrystalPalace #Dinosaurs #MarkWitton
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2024-08-30 12:02:59

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@npub1fjv…x8tc Oh, beautiful. I hadn't seen this one before.
Polymer clay this time?

2024-08-20 09:57:35

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@npub18zz…rd6u 'member Chewbacca!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJoQJKTc3nM

2024-08-13 10:42:28

I own the 'official' FossilFriday account on Twitter. Obviously I've been letting it languish for the past two years. What, if anything, should I do with it?

2024-08-13 09:50:26

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@npub18zz…rd6u I also prefer a smaller phone. I have the iPhone SE, which replaced an identically sized iPhone 6 after that poor phone experienced a horrifying ordeal in the washing machine.

2024-07-25 13:46:25

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@npub18zz…rd6u Is it one where you have to pull the whole damn thing out? I have them in our bathroom and they're a nightmare. The spring-loaded metal arms that hold them in are so strong they can buckle the unit.

2024-07-17 23:35:16

$45 million for a Stegosaurus skeleton. At that price there's surely no way it's going to a museum – it's gone to someone who thought "only 45 million!? bargain!" hasn't it.

2024-06-30 13:56:49

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@npub1q50…uvf3 I'm on Mastodon. You're on mostr.pub

2024-06-30 11:55:33

@npub1q50…uvf3
Urzeitshop, is there a reason why your Fedi account name contains a long string of random characters?

2024-03-23 16:20:57

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@npub1psa…xhme I think that's what used to happen, yes, but I can see how that wasn't ideal. Still, it was better than not being able to comment at all under the 'enable blog' mode. There are pros and cons to the 'enable authors' and 'enable blog' modes.
I suppose there's no simple way to have both a blog profile (for all posts) *and* separate user profiles (for comments only).
Thanks for looking into it!

2024-03-23 15:28:40

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@npub1psa…xhme Thanks. Yes, so if I changed it to multi-user mode I can post as my individual blog user? I have 23 users, but most visitors want to follow the blog as a whole, not 23 separate users. So I've adopted single user mode. So I think I'm stuck unless there's a way to get the best of both worlds - federate posts as the blog, but comments as users...

2024-03-23 14:58:14

I can seemingly no longer reply to federated comments on my Wordpress sites from my blog accounts. I'm forced to "reply on the Fediverse" and then jump through some hoops to post a reply from a different account. It seems like a step backwards, I really liked the two-way federation of comments. Now it only seems to go one-way. Am I missing something? Is there a way to make the "reply on the Fediverse" optional, so I (if not visitors) can choose to reply on my blog as my blog?
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