Garry Hayes
@geotripper.bsky.social
I'm a geology professor in central California, avid birder, traveler, photographer, and environmentalist. I'm pro-democracy, and I stand for the equality for all. Little attention paid to DMs.
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Garry Hayes
@geotripper.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Hi all! I am a geology professor in Central California, a birder, and nature blogger at geotripper.blogspot.com. Supporter of human rights, friend of LBGTQ, kindness, and equal justice. I travel all I can throughout the American West, and yes, I'll talk about rocks and faults and birds all day.
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Today Donald Trump saved us from some of the tariffs he put in place, in order to bring down the price of groceries he said never went up.
November 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Today Donald Trump saved us from some of the tariffs he put in place, in order to bring down the price of groceries he said never went up.
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ICEstapo detained 81 people in Charlotte, NC yesterday.
The internet is littered with videos of them using excessive force and ignoring legal documentation provided by the detainees.
Here’s my advice for ICEstapo:
Take a night off.
Go to the movies.
Watch “Nuremberg”.
Your time is coming.
The internet is littered with videos of them using excessive force and ignoring legal documentation provided by the detainees.
Here’s my advice for ICEstapo:
Take a night off.
Go to the movies.
Watch “Nuremberg”.
Your time is coming.
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
ICEstapo detained 81 people in Charlotte, NC yesterday.
The internet is littered with videos of them using excessive force and ignoring legal documentation provided by the detainees.
Here’s my advice for ICEstapo:
Take a night off.
Go to the movies.
Watch “Nuremberg”.
Your time is coming.
The internet is littered with videos of them using excessive force and ignoring legal documentation provided by the detainees.
Here’s my advice for ICEstapo:
Take a night off.
Go to the movies.
Watch “Nuremberg”.
Your time is coming.
In four days, my rain gage near Modesto has recorded 3.75 inches of rain. I know other regions get prodigious amounts, but for us that's about 30% of an entire water year. Put another way, we're running 300-400% of normal.
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
In four days, my rain gage near Modesto has recorded 3.75 inches of rain. I know other regions get prodigious amounts, but for us that's about 30% of an entire water year. Put another way, we're running 300-400% of normal.
Hey crystallographers: I've been taking students to Black Chasm Caverns in the Sierra Mother Lode for three decades, mainly for the incredible helictites. Yesterday I noticed (for the 1st time) this very long single crystal of what I presume is calcite. Does this happen often? #crystallography
November 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Hey crystallographers: I've been taking students to Black Chasm Caverns in the Sierra Mother Lode for three decades, mainly for the incredible helictites. Yesterday I noticed (for the 1st time) this very long single crystal of what I presume is calcite. Does this happen often? #crystallography
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A tale of two years at the Ione clay mine pits with @geotripper.bsky.social’s MJC geology field trip of the Central Motherlode. We are using our imagination this morning, LOL.
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A tale of two years at the Ione clay mine pits with @geotripper.bsky.social’s MJC geology field trip of the Central Motherlode. We are using our imagination this morning, LOL.
Not the same detail as people are getting from farther north, but only the third time I've seen the auroras from Central California, in the prairies east of Modesto. There were a few wispy clouds in the mix.
November 12, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Not the same detail as people are getting from farther north, but only the third time I've seen the auroras from Central California, in the prairies east of Modesto. There were a few wispy clouds in the mix.
Went out salmon hunting on the Tuolumne River today! Saw a few, but also a beautiful sunset on the river and five Great Horned Owls!
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Went out salmon hunting on the Tuolumne River today! Saw a few, but also a beautiful sunset on the river and five Great Horned Owls!
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O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
Foggy morning in California's Great Valley.
October 31, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Foggy morning in California's Great Valley.
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Moulton: He’s auditioning to be the weakest Speaker in American history. And actually, maybe it’s not an audition anymore — he’s affirmatively the weakest Speaker in American history. He’s completely throwing out the Constitution. He might as well not be in Congress.
October 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Moulton: He’s auditioning to be the weakest Speaker in American history. And actually, maybe it’s not an audition anymore — he’s affirmatively the weakest Speaker in American history. He’s completely throwing out the Constitution. He might as well not be in Congress.
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What’s draining tax dollars isn’t SNAP, it’s corporate welfare and billionaire tax breaks.
FACT: Even people working two jobs still need SNAP.
Where’s the outrage about that?!
FACT: Even people working two jobs still need SNAP.
Where’s the outrage about that?!
October 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
What’s draining tax dollars isn’t SNAP, it’s corporate welfare and billionaire tax breaks.
FACT: Even people working two jobs still need SNAP.
Where’s the outrage about that?!
FACT: Even people working two jobs still need SNAP.
Where’s the outrage about that?!
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So the president took a dementia test, and then they administered an MRI. Where’s the media on this?
October 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
So the president took a dementia test, and then they administered an MRI. Where’s the media on this?
Del Puerto Cyn in CA's Coast Ranges is threatened by a useless dam. Here's how it looked yesterday. A precious place. #savedelpuerto
October 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Del Puerto Cyn in CA's Coast Ranges is threatened by a useless dam. Here's how it looked yesterday. A precious place. #savedelpuerto
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Back in the 1960s, the Smothers Brothers made fun of President Lyndon Johnson and his policies many times on their popular television show. The president wrote them a letter in response.
October 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Back in the 1960s, the Smothers Brothers made fun of President Lyndon Johnson and his policies many times on their popular television show. The president wrote them a letter in response.
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He got the Speaker he wanted - a cuck who will sit in the corner and let him do whatever he pleases whenever he wants.
October 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
He got the Speaker he wanted - a cuck who will sit in the corner and let him do whatever he pleases whenever he wants.
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Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."
October 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."
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When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.
October 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.
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The United States is expanding its network of concentration camps as the dictator builds himself a golden ballroom.
The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement aimed at getting the centers built faster. https://cnn.it/4oDFP9W
October 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The United States is expanding its network of concentration camps as the dictator builds himself a golden ballroom.
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It's getting tough to put into words how bad this looks for Jamaica. Here's my futile attempt this evening.
Melissa is now a rapidly intensifying hurricane, and it is plausible that it will produce an almost unimaginably bad outcome for Jamaica over the next 48 hours. Details below or at theeyewall.com.
Hurricane Melissa is rapidly intensifying southeast of Jamaica tonight
A devastating, catastrophic storm is expected in Jamaica, with torrential rain, flooding, and more for portions of Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic as well
theeyewall.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
It's getting tough to put into words how bad this looks for Jamaica. Here's my futile attempt this evening.
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BREAKING: Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose crypto exchange has been boosting the Trump family’s own crypto venture, WSJ reports.
The most corrupt president in history.
The most corrupt president in history.
October 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
BREAKING: Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose crypto exchange has been boosting the Trump family’s own crypto venture, WSJ reports.
The most corrupt president in history.
The most corrupt president in history.
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Frogs in slowly heating water is a popular allegory for being unaware that you are being destroyed in an incrementally worsening situation.
But I'm drawing hope from the past week that we frogs may be a bit more aware of our situation than those allegorical frogs. #Hop
But I'm drawing hope from the past week that we frogs may be a bit more aware of our situation than those allegorical frogs. #Hop
October 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Frogs in slowly heating water is a popular allegory for being unaware that you are being destroyed in an incrementally worsening situation.
But I'm drawing hope from the past week that we frogs may be a bit more aware of our situation than those allegorical frogs. #Hop
But I'm drawing hope from the past week that we frogs may be a bit more aware of our situation than those allegorical frogs. #Hop
So proud of my hometown Modesto, easily 2,000 people out to protest fascism.
October 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
So proud of my hometown Modesto, easily 2,000 people out to protest fascism.
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On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️🌈
October 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️🌈