A marketing company and biotech groups are advertising "real" Tyrannosaurus skin handbags, which they claim they can grow in the lab thanks to T. rex DNA - which we do not have and decayed away millions of years ago. All I want is for these techbro assholes to leave my prehistoric animals alone. - ThreadSky

restingdinoface.bsky.social • 53 days ago

A marketing company and biotech groups are advertising "real" Tyrannosaurus skin handbags, which they claim they can grow in the lab thanks to T. rex DNA - which we do not have and decayed away millions of years ago.

All I want is for these techbro assholes to leave my prehistoric animals alone.

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r3db34r.bsky.social•53 days ago

We knew extinct animals would be grown for slaughter and commerce

swordznsorcery.bsky.social•53 days ago

They've written T-rex though, not T. rex. Maybe it's Marc Bolan leather?

restingdinoface.bsky.social•53 days ago

Always boosts my confidence in a company when they can’t even get spelling down

jverheul.bsky.social•53 days ago

dogblud.bsky.social•53 days ago

future sucks, I want less future

restingdinoface.bsky.social•53 days ago

Yeah there’s a reason this song has been hitting for me lately

rifka.bsky.social•53 days ago

📌

lawjr3.bsky.social•53 days ago

Probably because customers don’t want to have paint thrown on them when they realize they’re holding a rhino purse.

samcritter.bsky.social•53 days ago

I saw this as a headline and just groaned....I knew it was bullshit but so many ppl will think it's true. I hate it here.

punisherharpzone.com•53 days ago

Created from that Colossal snake oil salespeople behind the "Direwolf" project, I bet.

Promoting fraud no different than Dumb Idiot Ken Ham's promotion of an unrealistic oil tanker "ark."

korybing.bsky.social•53 days ago

Jesus Christ this is so dumb why are the ultra rich interested in extinct animals for all the wrong reasons

restingdinoface.bsky.social•53 days ago

Remember when the offensively rich were like “It’s not fair to redistribute our wealth, you just want our money” and the response was like “No, you earned that 1%er, and I’m sure you’ll trickle some on us plebes.”

We should have just taken their money.

pseudandry.bsky.social•53 days ago

thedescenters.bsky.social•42 days ago

Luigi (darkly): here we go

thejessness.bsky.social•53 days ago

looool dude at work was shouting about this today and i was like uhhhh i don’t think that’s true.
he’s also super into genAI tho so 💁🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

alexpetrovnia.bsky.social•53 days ago

finally! MORE media for people who love jurassic park with zero media literacy or understanding of what jurassic park is about! thank god!

alexpetrovnia.bsky.social•53 days ago

they had the entire reboot leave us alone lmao

aspentangle.bsky.social•53 days ago

I remember in the 90s when tech was cool and new and we were finding out how to do stuff we saw in star trek. And instead of you know, developing ecologically sound sources of power or stuff, we just... say we're doing stuff we just cant do and try to fleece rubes.

tobyleaf.bsky.social•53 days ago

Well I guess it's still star trek but humans are more ferengi than expected

aspentangle.bsky.social•53 days ago

Honestly, people have given the ferengi guff for being 'racist' but I really do see them as a expression of modern, current humanity and their greed and obsession with capitalism. So true lmfoa

bibliolagus.bsky.social•53 days ago

Weren't they supposed to be based on European colonial-era traders, or was that just the name? If they were, an assumption of their culture's superiority would make sense.

aspentangle.bsky.social•53 days ago

I'm honestly not sure their reasoning, as it was such a dumbass statement I couldn't even handle it LMFAO i was like "okay I'm out". Like to me, it would be like saying the w*ndigo is a racist depiction of black people like 'WHAT. WHERE ARE THE DOTS!!?!?! HOW ARE YOU CONNECTING INVISIBLE DOTS!"

tobyleaf.bsky.social•53 days ago

I can see where the racist aspect comes in, I tend to assume it wasn't consciously done. I do think they come across as a warning of "don't take this path, humanity" and I wish we had listened

aspentangle.bsky.social•53 days ago

Yeah, I generally assume unless it's painfully obvious (Gringotts goblins), it's not antisemetic. I've seen people claim *trolls*, as in the beings from northern folklore, as being intentionally antisemetic. usually its just uncomfortable associations and personal biases.

tobyleaf.bsky.social•53 days ago

Really I'm quite new to learning about this because although I'm sure there is antisemitism in Britain, I've not heard it the way I've heard people being racist about other groups. So until the last few years I didn't know the stereotypes to spot them.

emilylorange.bsky.social•53 days ago

i mean if it's leather, even if it were lab grown, surely all you have to do is send a swatch for diagnostic and learn it's actually made of alligator or something right

restingdinoface.bsky.social•53 days ago

It's not even fun to dunk on. It's more bullshit by and for the super-rich that cannot be what's advertised, preying on ignorance to sell something lackluster at best.

furplanet.com•53 days ago

Yeah, it’s not fun to dunk on. It’s just depressing at this point.

jverheul.bsky.social•53 days ago

I respectfully disagree, I found it fun to dunk on.

docmidnight.bsky.social•53 days ago

I was just saying to someone that the key here is that stupid people really want to believe that they are smart people. We know this is a scam but they think, "Smart Guys Make stuff and I'm smart and wanna be IN, so it has to work! Wait til I show Briannna and Kayla at work!"

freydalpishti.bsky.social•53 days ago

And the press are going with it as usual. You can say and market the biggest techbro brainrot, and free coverage will hail you as the new messiah.

amagire.bsky.social•53 days ago

society if the tech press learned to say "lmao, bullshit" instead of repeating whatever the shareholder memo says

cosmicapybara.bsky.social•42 days ago

The longer I look at the nonsense being peddled as the 'future' to people who are either too gullible or too greedy to think, the more I am convinced that we've avoided the best of all possible worlds by a mile or two, and now trudge through a hell of our own making.

facinruin.bsky.social•53 days ago

T. Rex are not available in the USA so the hides must be imported and have a 2000% tariff. Not that this will reduce the demand.

kiddocut.bsky.social•53 days ago

The most boring people on the planet want to do ground breaking scientific advances for consumer products we already over produce, and I think that’s both incredibly stupid and pathetic.

bowlerhatscience.org•53 days ago

I do, however, want mushroom leather. I was promised mushroom leather.

restingdinoface.bsky.social•53 days ago

Oh right I think that was in Super Mario Bros, we’ll have to ask Big Bertha

rwmartin.bsky.social•53 days ago

Please tell me more! I probably also want mushroom leather.

bowlerhatscience.org•53 days ago

I was at a talk ~10 years ago where the speaker presented a bunch of things you can do with mycelium, and one concept was growing a leather-like substance you could use for things like seat covers or shoes. I have no idea what the status of that project is, though.

rwmartin.bsky.social•53 days ago

That’s neat. We should have mushroom leather seats in our high speed trains!

talitherose.bsky.social•53 days ago

It wasn’t as durable as hoped, but you can buy some & play with it.

~ from, a leather crafter, hobbyist

rwmartin.bsky.social•53 days ago

So no train seats. Bummer.

kimichitsuzuku.bsky.social•53 days ago

Also, why bother with a super reach like dino (unless it’s a marketing stunt) when there’s already huge high-fashion demand for exotic leather?

If the quality is right, then find a credulous celeb like Ye to make LE run of gene-leather shoes in green snake or purple lizard.

andifluffkitten.bsky.social•53 days ago

I want techbro leather.

sarahkorse.bsky.social•53 days ago

About ten years ago I saw a sidewalk display of leather fanny packs labeled "Hipster Skin". I was in a hurry, so I couldn't stop and investigate, and I will regret that to my dying day.

restingdinoface.bsky.social•53 days ago

“Hipster skin” sounds like a condom branding mistake

lizalbin.bsky.social•53 days ago

Presumably it’s chicken skin

jverheul.bsky.social•53 days ago

sharkastic.bsky.social•53 days ago

Jurassic Purse

013enterprises.bsky.social•53 days ago

*look inside*
*it's just chicken skin*

srutis.bsky.social•52 days ago

neverending gimmicks by rich dipshits

deadling.bsky.social•53 days ago

Chicken Leather.

sbisson.com•53 days ago

It's chicken feet, isn't it?

chromeguardsman.bsky.social•53 days ago

Probably alligator/crocodile hide. They're the only extant archosaur with skin that makes good leather.

wargonopsid.bsky.social•53 days ago

so...ok as someone who has done leatherworking, we already stamp gator textures etc etc into hide, and we have skin impressions from various dinos. Why the hell would we not just make a stamping dye based on the skin impressions?!

restingdinoface.bsky.social•53 days ago

This is actually a much better idea than whatever nonsense these corps are doing

wargonopsid.bsky.social•53 days ago

I mean, I grew up in renaissance festivals so I have Opinions on materials/crafting hah. Like, I've worked with exotic leathers, but I dont prefer them. It...it just seems so obviously the easier better call to use what we allready use??

jainusvt.bsky.social•53 days ago

Ah, Nexus of Torment, welcome back to the world!

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