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Dr. Gabes of November 🌬️🚢
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Upjumped farmboy from Missouri. Visiting Professor at Wesleyan University interested in volcanism of Venus, Earth, Mars, etc. #FirstGen. Do good recklessly. He/Him.
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Dr. Gabes of November 🌬️🚢 @gabeeggers.bsky.social · Mar 7
Nine years ago today I saw a BIG rock in Mexico that even had wispy steam emission from its summit, so you could say that was a good day.
A rare clear view of the summit of Popocatépetl, a volcano near Mexico City. Before a dark foreground of pine, the steep, rocky sides of the volcano are bright white with snow and ice as the sun shines on it. As the view is straight on from ground-level, you cannot see the crater at its summit, but white wispy clouds of water vapor rise from it.
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fleerultra.bsky.social
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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🧪⚒️Just posted Keith Klepeis on how plutons form. He identified conduits, feeder dikes, and mushroom-shaped sheets that form as magma rises from the base of the crust to the upper crust. A tilted batholith in NZ provided him with a rare continuous exposure of 20 km of crustal section. #geology
Block diagram showing the internal components of the Misty pluton, which is one of the plutons of the Southern Fiordland batholith. A conduit rising through the lithospheric mantle feeds a sheet-like basalt structure, which in turn connects to steep-sided granitic bodies in the middle and upper crust (colored in mauve and pink). Schematic cross section of an active continental margin subduction zone, showing the dehydration of the subducting slab, hydration and melting of a heterogeneous mantle wedge (including enriched sub-continental lithospheric mantle), and crustal underplating of mantle-derived melts. Remelting of the underplate to produce tonalitic magmas and a possible of crustal melting are also shown. As magmas pass through the continental crust they may differentiate further and/or assimilate continental crust. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Prentice Hall Western coastline exposure of the deepest, lower-crustal level shows steep feeder zones and conduits where mafic, crystal-rich magma was injected into lower-crustal diorites. Most of the rocks in the feeder zone here are hornblendites, which are composed almost entirely of hornblende. The hornblendites are thought to be modified products of mantle-derived melt. Outcrop of fully-fledged dikes and thick pegmatites that occur away from the base of the Misty pluton. The coherent structure of the intrusion suggests the magma was emplaced into a fairly well-crystallized host capable of exhibiting brittle-like breaking. A crystal-rich host results from fractional crystallization and the progressive removal of the remaining melt. The horizontal alignment of the crystals suggests that the host mush has been compacted and enough melt has been removed to enable the crystals to align. At the same time, the undulose margins of the dike and the exchange of the dark hornblende crystals across its margin indicate that, although crystal-rich, the host was not fully crystallized and could still exhibit ductile behavior. This supports the general picture that as the host mush becomes increasingly crystal-rich as melts are gradually extracted, the dikes that move magma through the crystallizing mush become more organized and regular in shape. The dyke here is about 30 cm across.
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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aelkus.bsky.social
as i keep saying i now 100% believe everything ancient historians wrote and can't do that "it was just a poetic allusion" or "it combined different figures together" bullshit
andycraig.bsky.social Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16h
America has long feared it would suffer the same fate as the Roman republic, but never quite truly appreciated how utterly absurd Roman elites had become by the time of the late republic.
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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opb.org
On this day 55 years ago, blubber went boom at the Oregon Coast.

That's when officials made the legendary decision to blow up a dead whale.

Here's a look back at the explosive piece of Oregon lore with a 2020 story by OPB's Tiffany Camhi written ahead of the whale of a tale's 50th anniversary.
‘It was like a blubber snowstorm’: Why Oregon blew up a whale in 1970
The exploding whale is a piece of Oregon lore that just won’t go away. It’s one of those real-life stories that just sounds too strange to be real.
www.opb.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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astrokimcartier.bsky.social
Double, double, toil and trouble; water plumes vent and hydrothermal systems bubble. Cool it with an ocean world’s blood; then the (organic mixture) is firm and good. 🥣🧙‍♀️

My latest for @eos.org 🧪🔭:

eos.org/articles/spe...
Speedy Flyby Adds New Organics to Enceladus’s “Primordial Soup” - Eos
A new analysis of old Cassini data has also verified past detections of complex organics in Saturn’s E ring, strengthening the chemical ties between the ring and its progenitor.
eos.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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hawaiianimages.bsky.social
Tapping the XKCD sign again to explain that no, I won't be seeing an aurora tonight. Or at least I really hope not. That would be bad. :)
XKCD meaning of auroras cartoon, showing "normal" at poles, "cool and exciting" in temperate zone, "someone should go check on our satellites" in subtropics, and "A bunch of open questions in Solar-Terrestrial physics are about to be answered" at the tropics
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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drandrewthaler.bsky.social
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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setiinstitute.bsky.social
#PPOD: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to shoot video of Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, eclipsing the Sun. It’s the most zoomed-in, highest-frame-rate observation of a Phobos solar eclipse ever taken from the Martian surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI 🧪 🔭
Still image pulled from a video showing the irregular, small moon Phobos passing in front of the Sun. Phobos is covering a portion of the lower right. There are some sunspots to the left of Phobos.
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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chrissteller.bsky.social
For the midnight crew on this #EdmundFitzgwtald50 anniversary, I have added more markups to the Newsweek article that gave Gordon Lightfoot his template for His "Wreck of" song lyrics.
six pairings of words or passages the songwriter drew directly from the magazine article
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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santiagomayer.com
It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not.

If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
gabeeggers.bsky.social
One of the first things I do upon moving to a new place is get a library card, and I've got to say, this makes moving to St. Paul pretty compelling.

(@duperier.bsky.social has been trying to convince me to anyway.)
bentallen.bsky.social Ben Tallen @bentallen.bsky.social · 4d
The Prince library card is super cool but I would have really liked to get this one.
A limited edition library card from the St. Paul Public Library. It features a loon on a green and blue background with a laser coming out of its eye.
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
gabeeggers.bsky.social
Thank goodness Bsky has sports now. Truly, I miss nothing from Old Twitter anymore.

Also, WHAT A CATCH!!!
cjzero.bsky.social CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 4d
Ridiculous catch from Indiana's Omar Johnson for a TD (via fox cfb)
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
gabeeggers.bsky.social
This screencap feels like a personal attack.

But for real, I've been meaning to watch this film for awhile.
datesinmovies.bsky.social Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · 4d
Nov 8th - Reluctant bachelor Marty Piletti's birthday. One night he meets the "plain" science teacher Clara, and they hit it off. However, when he tells his friends, brothers and his mother about her, they belittle her.

📽️📅 Marty (1955)
2 Screenshots from the movie "Marty" (1955): First, a black-and-white image shows a man in a suit talking to a woman on a busy city street at night. The subtitle reads, "You know how long ago I graduated high school? June 1937." Second, in another nighttime street scene, the same man and woman continue walking. The man looks pensive as he says, "Where'd it all go? I'm gettin' old. I'm gonna be 35 years old November 8th. 35!"
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
SNAP benefits are currently being held hostage by the Trump administration and their fate now lies with the Supreme Court.

Beneath the legal arguments are real people who simply need food—a former federal worker, a single mother of 4, a disabled man. I spoke to them. Here are their stories:
The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
gabeeggers.bsky.social
Not gonna lie, it's a really nice feeling when you see students taking your class this semester registering for your class next semester.
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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moreorloess.bsky.social
The bathymetry of eastern Lake Superior, the part that would be crossed by an ore carrier coming from the NW, trying to make Whitefish Bay in a storm, is fascinating. I have heard those N-S troughs explained as subglacially eroded tunnel channels, but there are probably other ideas out there.
Map of Lake Superior bathymetry, which shows multiple deep north-south troughs in the easternmost part of the lake.
November 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
gabeeggers.bsky.social
Honestly, I'm shocked. It must be the first news story he's heard of in months.

Maybe information is finally penetrating the dark closet he keeps himself in between media interviews? Nah.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
Mike Johnson on the tariffs case before SCOTUS: "I'm cheering for the president that the executive will win on this. Now, I say that as a jealous guardian of the legislative branch of government, Article 1."
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
gabeeggers.bsky.social
I just grabbed the free ebook of this, and after scanning through... I'm thinking I'll definitely buy the paper copy.

(Proud to hail from the New Madrid Seismic Zone!)
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
gabeeggers.bsky.social
I'm proposing a 1.5-week mini-season between Halloween and Thanksgiving where we choose display names inspired by the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and and its sinking or the iconic 1976 folk rock ballad by Gordon Lightfoot that commemorates it.
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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anildash.com
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
gabeeggers.bsky.social
Did the thing!

Also, my polling location is in an elementary school, and the PTA always has a bake sale going as you leave after voting. Picked up some coffee and Nonna's coffee cake!
A round "I voted" sticker still on the paper that says "I VOTED TODAY." The sticker is divided into red, white, and blue horizontal strips with one word each. White stars ring the edges of the red and blue strips. My hand holding a small loaf of brown coffee cake. It is in a tin loaf pan and wrapped in plastic cling wrap. On it is a white sticker with "Nonna's Coffee Cake" written in light blue marker.
November 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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calabro.io
This is a fun chart!

The green is the main bsky load balancer traffic throughput from Saturday night, and the purple is how much traffic there was 7 days before (the previous Saturday)

The spike is due to the world series - pretty incredible! ⚾
A chart of the main bsky backend load balancer request throughput compared to 7 days earlier (the previous Saturday). There's a massive spike during the world series game.
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
gabeeggers.bsky.social
Don't threaten me with a good time, Mr. Speaker.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d
Johnson: "If they had no filibuster, they would pack the SCOTUS. You'd go from 9 to 17 or however many liberals they could pack. You would make DC & Puerto Rico into states, which would give 4 additional Democrat senators & make us a permanent minority. You'd see massive restrictions of 2A rights"
November 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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docrevan.bsky.social
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
gabeeggers.bsky.social
UGH.

I'm going to bed.
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM