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Silly arse according to someone. Can't argue with that. Also Brexit refugee, making full use of freedom of movement. Here for bias confirmation and random geology. #noAFD
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LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly

WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST?

ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.

It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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More Greenland photos, featuring some geology. Scoresbysund has some fantastic exposures of columnar basalts, which are ~55 million years old (young for Greenland rocks!) related to flood basalts when the Atlantic was opening up. Fantastical shapes and fall tundra colors
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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🚨🦜🐧Cover reveal! Thrilled to show off the cover of my upcoming book: The Story of Birds!

Coming April 28. The whole history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to colossal extinct penguins & terror birds, to the 10,000+ species today. From @marinerbooks.bsky.social

Preorder 👇
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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It’s almost time!

We’re excited. You excited?

Monday 00:00 GMT. 24 hours a match. This is going to be FAST
It's time to make your predictions (and help us test the voting site). Which ore mineral do you think will win?

Bracket: www.mineralcup.org/ore-bracket
Make your predictions: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...

Competition voting starts on MONDAY NOVEMBER 3!
November 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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It's time to make your predictions (and help us test the voting site). Which ore mineral do you think will win?

Bracket: www.mineralcup.org/ore-bracket
Make your predictions: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...

Competition voting starts on MONDAY NOVEMBER 3!
October 31, 2025 at 4:27 AM
@earthquakes.au Yay, my #MegaQuake t-shirt arrived this week all the way from Australia. Fits perfectly. I hope it also rocks me.
October 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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10 days until the start of #OreCup and we have a bracket!

www.mineralcup.org/ore-bracket
October 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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With 5.5 hours remaining to vote, #Tugtupite has the lead by under 40 votes over #Dioptase.

Campaign for your fav and recruit new players to pick which mineral will compete in the #MinCup25 finals against #Kyanite!
September 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Also I feel like #tugtupite, the pink power stone of the North, is the last, best hope, against #kyanite, the blue demon of depths. Rise Tugtupers! Rise against the Kyanightmare! #MinCup25
September 30, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Oh no, I stopped getting notifications not only here but also elsewhere! I nearly missed the vote. #Stibnite it is, because it looks gorgeous, just like #Okenite but less fluffy and more stable.
September 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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We’re drafting the bracket next week, so get those nominations in!

Voting starts September 1st
Ideas for minerals to compete in #MinCup2025? Nominate them now! www.mineralcup.org/nominations

Want to be part of this year’s organizing team? We love volunteers! www.mineralcup.org/volunteer
Nominate Minerals — Mineral Cup
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August 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Okay, now I feel better.
July 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Strafbaar maken om mensen te helpen (bed, bad brood, praatje, medische hulp?)... Waarom per se dit land tot een onmenselijk hard gemeen wreed haatdragend agressief dom kil lelijk onaangenaam fascistoïde niet te harden afschuwelijke vreselijke plek willen vormen... waarom waarom waarom waarom waarom?
July 2, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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What this means is that we need to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into retrocomputing.
ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977
Despite all its advances, ChatGPT still, seemingly, is less smart than an Atari simulator on beginner mode.
futurism.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Nice gneiss. Nuuk, Greenland ⚒️🧪#geology
June 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Happy Pride to all you folk who make the world a better and more colourful place.

❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜
June 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#BlueSkyHealthClub
Ran 4km this evening. Not a lot, but I just had to take a 2 week break due to being sick and traveling. Will take a few more days until I'm able to run a bit better again.
May 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Looking at the different seasonality and trends in the magnitude of monthly temperature anomalies since 1940 for the Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Antarctic and Arctic...

Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...
May 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Small boulder the size of a large boulder on the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park ⚒️
May 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The US has pulled out of formal peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.

So much for ending the war on day one.

Another Trump Fail.
May 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
#playmobil wants me to build a raptor that walks on its arms. Raptor is confused. #geology ⚒️🧪
April 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility.

There’s much to do everywhere so that trans and non-binary people can live without fear.

Our single point of reflection is this:
what’s your organisation doing to support trans+ people?
March 31, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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This is a public service by Danielle Harlow, but by god it's depressing.

Map and tracker of people taken by ICE and either deported, rendered to El Salvador or in US detention.

public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
March 31, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Reading an excellent article on pineapples rn which really makes me want to go buy one worksinprogress.co/issue/king-o...
March 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM