Gender Affirming Care?!?

They are trouble!

Red Hot Chili PADDs?

Ah, a Brit! My son read a biography of Mary Anning when he was younger, and now is obsessed with Jurassic/Cretaceous aquatic reptiles! I’ll post a fun thing in that regard soon.

As for your holocene (well, Pleistocene in this case I guess) itch, my son and I just visited Hot Springs, South Dakota a couple weeks ago:

Oh wow! That’s amazing! Given the 4 or 5 chambers in the top picture I figured was something interesting. I forgot to get a picture of it in-situ, but the sediment layers curved around it which I thought was interesting.

Is your buddy in Colorado as well?

I think it’s Cretaceous (especially given the ammonite we found), but the geology in that State Park is very wonky. All the sediment layers are perfectly vertical where I found the piece.

We had to give them to the rangers. I doubt any paleos have even seen them officially.

The dig we did was with https://gofruita.com/dinosaur-journey/ museum, and the local University (Colorado Mesa). We paid a small fee, which included transportation to the site, tools, lunch, water, and access to 3 full-time paleontologists who were each working on site (each working on a large bone). They taught you the process, answered way too many questions, and were delightful (they love people who appreciate their work). As soon as we found the tooth, they all stopped to document/sketch the find. Our names will be attached to the find.

Call/visit any local dinosaur/geology museum or university and ask. It’s not a satisfying answer, but works.

SubRosa:

They forgot another character:

LOL!

You joke, but it was over 100 degrees that day, with no clouds. It was brutal. He put on sunscreen every 30-45 minutes or so.

They have Spot but no O’Brien?

It does look like stickers :(

if you look at the NCC1701 on the bottom

Done! https://mander.xyz/post/41296152
https://mander.xyz/post/41296715

This meme was me growing up.

Now, my son:


The 2nd one is a Camarasaurus tooth we found as a volunteer on a dig

I must not eat Chocolate.
Chocolate is the mind-killer.
Chocolate is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my Chocolate desire.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the Chocolate has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.