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Earth Lover. Geology ⛏️, cartography🗺️, earth history, coastal processes 🌊 , sedimentation, volcanism🌋 , climate 🌎, soils…Oh, and bonsai🪴 and bad poetry and bad poetry about rocks 🪨 It is impossible to be bored, on such an amazing planet

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Steven J. Gibbons @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Last month we published a Comment in Nature Reviews: Earth and Environment entitled "Ethical considerations for #geohazard digital twins". The full article is on doi.org/10.1038/s430... There is a read-only link on rdcu.be/fw1xz Full text after embargo period and I can provide pdfs to individuals.
Screenshot of parts of the comment article "Ethical considerations for geohazard digital twins" published in Nature Reviews: Earth and Environment.
The full article is on https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-026-00811-0
There is a read-only link on https://rdcu.be/fw1xz

A full text will be made available after the embargo period but the read-only link is valid from now.
pdf-files of the final document can be provided in response to personal requests to steven.gibbons@ngi.no
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My teen came home from AP Computer Science yesterday and sat me down to lecture at length on the environmental injustice of data centers (I did not interrupt). If this is what they’re teaching the kids alongside Java maybe we’ll be alright.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 24/09/2026
Celebrating oceanographer Marie Tharp’s induction into the 2026 Women's Hall of Fame! 🥳🎉 Born in 1920, at a time when there were few options for women in science, Tharp revolutionized our understanding of the ocean floor. Learn more about this year’s inductees: go.whoi.edu/womens-hall-of-fame
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In the Early Anthropocene, we pretty much broke into two camps…Furries and Pelties. Not so sure what the latest controversy is even about.
Cave artist wearing pelt-based garments as he ponders his creation.
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great day, culminating in watching a NOAA weather balloon launch and live tracking of its ascent and descent. NOAA launches hundreds of these every day to feed their elaborate weather models…and thousands are launched daily across the globe. It’s nice to know some things still work. #Science 🎈💨 ⛈️
Weather balloon inside its hangar readying for departure.Live tracking application shows that it reached max altitude of 34,000ish meters before plummeting back to earth.
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So, you say the lands of Belgium are greater than 500 million years old, you say? Please cite your source… #DeadInternet #AISlop
Suspiciously similar and bland results for Geology of Belgium search…
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Two new acquisitions in hardcopy! At the intersection of #ecology, #toxicology, #environmental protection and public health…by friend and author Dr. Riki Ott. A dynamo of spirit, knowledge and subject matter authority…but also an endless energy devoted to making the public and responders safer.
Covers of two books on environmental protection and toxicology…by author Riki Ott

Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Sound Truth and. Corporate Myths: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We don’t have to choose which existential risk deserves our attention. Climate change is real and urgent. AI risks are real and potentially profound. We should be able to hold both ideas at once and tackle both. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/c...
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We should be more scared of climate change destroying humanity than AI
With everyone warning of an AI extinction event within a decade, we seem to have forgotten about the climate crisis already here – and its knock-on effects, from financial crises and conflict to new d...
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
After being warned for years…even threatened…about “weaponizing” #GIS data such that it could be used against us to impact infrastructure…we now enter full force into an era of AI systems that can hack into systems directly. Have utilities, government and industry prepared? #EmergencyManagement
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It’s a trap! [Every time is see lat/long coordinates on movie scene changes to give it an air of authenticity, I feel I have to double check them] #GIS #QAQC #DataQualityObjectives #UnnecesaryPresicion
Scene start in The Amateur indicating where the scene takes place…with Lat/Longs to indicate how legit it is.

Photo is of a dark slightly choppy sea with a small boat in upper right and captions indicating The Baltic Sea at lower left (plus coordinates if you should need to double check or plan a vacation).
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Do not ELI5 ELIPhD
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This just in: Dr. Fauci found guilty of committing the crime of being human.
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Day 3,435 of being frightened by nouveau GeoEngineered Climate Solutions… I feel like I need to listen to some John Denver and eat some Grape Nuts just to get through this day. Can I still get Grape Nuts in a wax paper lined box?
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Adventures in #symbology driven data aggregation in web-map #cartography. Don’t let your #map be led down a path toward unforced errors in interpretation. Three views, same #data. Pick the #RightTool4TheJob #GIS #Isopleth
Data aggregation and consolidated onto a symbology scheme that misrepresents the data at different scales.

Mapped Oregon air quality showing various particulate levels…and unhealthy air conditions (purple) for Eugene Oregon.

Lack of other values indicates the whole of the Willamette Valley is having a bad AQ day.Zooming into previous map a bit shows far less concerning AQ contaminant levels for Eugene now surrounded by yellow…with Portland at a higher value.Final zoom shows Portland exactly same slightly elevated AQ values as Eugene, with no poor AQ west of the Cascades Range
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Happy birthday to brilliant trailblazing US #geologist & prof Florence Bascom (1862-1945) 👩🏼‍🔬🐡🧪⚒️ #histsci who championed women’s education, & used polarizing microscopes for detailed petrographic analysis to show that rocks previously identified as sedimentary were in fact metamorphosed volcanic 🧵
 My linocut portrait of geologist Florence Bascom as a young woman from neck up, in blue, looking at the viewer with her curly hair pulled back wearing a blouse with large lace collar on green vinyl. Behind her are two geological cross-sections with layers carved with different patterns to indicate different rock materials in black. Below on either side are two circular diagrams: these are thin sections of rhyolite printed in pale beige, brown, and black.
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Although I heard Atwater talk in 1989…this paper had me literally quaking in my boots a decade later…by Goldfinger and others in 2003. #CSZ #Earthquake #Turbidite I see @earthjay.bsky.social worked with Goldfinger on turbidite sedimentology!
Figure from Goldfinger et. al. 2003 paper documenting turbidite deposit dates from submarine canyon cores across the eastern Pacific Ocean margin off Oregon, Washington and California.  Map shows core site locations in red, with inset table for the Puget Sound Canyon, Cascadia Channel and Rogue Channel.
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Sorrows of the Earth May our tears of rain wash down to bathe you This is what life is worth When the fires still burn and rage all around Can you hear that dreadful sound? Fire still burning on the ground G. Van Fleet
A fiery sky at dusk with billowy clouds lit by the setting sun.
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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
These two statements are incoherent: "70° rotation for the last 60 million years and 18° for the last 15 million years." "The motion of the Pacific Plate is dragging the Sierra Nevada block NNW, and in turn this block is pushing the Oregon Block northward." Why? Check next post.
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Rotating Crustal Blocks Form a Simplified Picture of Pacific NW Plate Motion — Geological Society of the Oregon Country (GSOC)
May’s GSOC Friday night lecture from retired USGS research geologist Ray Wells gave the listeners a big picture of the tectonic motion of the Pacific NW and explained much about the distribution and function of shallow crustal earthquakes and their associated faults in the region. This picture had
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Rise and shine (through)… #AquaScene #Aquarium #Shrimp 🐟 🦐
Light catching a Cherry Shrimp just right…to show internal organs through orange translucent body.  Orange shrimp on a piece of wood marked by bits of Java Moss in a tiny aquarium.
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Every other month sighting of my translucent friend in the jungliest part of the jungle tank. #AquaScene #Aquarium 🦐🐟
An elusive Amano Shrimp is caught on film perched atop an old Aponogeton leaf.
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CRESCENT @cascadiaeqs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The CRESCENT 3rd Partnerships & Applications Workshop is underway in Portland! Over the next two days, participants will explore “What’s the Scenario?” and collaborate to advance earthquake resilience across Cascadia. Learn more here: ow.ly/gOHT50Zhj6z
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Bertrand Laurent @bwakaiman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Beautiful! I write about the anthropology of blame: how societies project guilt, disorder, and failure onto nature, animals, outsiders, and institutions — and what that history reveals about modern governance. See my substack @bertrandlaurent.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
At the @cascadiaeqs.bsky.social meeting discussing earthquake scenarios and response planning. There’s a palpable sense of urgency in room about the importance of this work. Venezuela is at the forefront of everyone’s mind.
Woman stands at a podium talking to a room full of people sitting at tables. Screens at the back of the room show earthquake damage.
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I must say…for all the crap I give #ESRI for constant bloating of their ecosystem and the changing of the user interface…installing Pro is a breeze compared to the old days of individual license product keys! #GIS
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🔆 Good morning! “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing” -George Bernard Shaw Your brain responds to game-like mechanics with focus, persistence, and engagement Why your brain loves games — and how to use that to your advantage🧪 bigthink.com/mind-behavio...
A human skull, a game controller, and small artifacts are partially buried in dirt at an archaeological dig site with excavation tools nearby.
George Wylesol
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Question: When you give a presentation and ask for questions at the end…there’s always some guy who pointedly says… “This is more of a comment than a question.” I’m done with that guy. I didn’t ask for comments. I asked for questions. Me: “Please restate your comment in the form of a question.”
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I need a digital assistant Imbued with the latest cyber intelligence To advise me about life’s vagaries Sorted by machine learnt relevance To ease life’s tedium And the burden of thought Now that’s a life worth living If avoiding living is sought
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Orange is the new black, Jack! 🦐 🐟 #AquaScene #Aquarium #Shrimp #Fish
Orange-red Cherry Shrimp (Neocardinia) stares directly at the camera while perched atop an Anubius leaf.  An Endler Guppy and several guppy fry are swimming in the dark waters of the tank in the background.
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
#Tetras doing the tetra thing. “Gold Tetras” hovering in front of a backdrop of Aponogeton Madagascarensis and Amazon Sword. 🐟 #AquaScene #Aquarium
“Gold” Tetras against a lush green backdrop of Madagascar Lace.  They appear gold in natural sunlight when viewed from above…but typically show gold and bright silver with blue accents when viewed under aquarium lighting.
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Two months into growing season….and not too much change. In the refinement stage, slow growth is fine. 🌲🪾🪴🪹 #bonsai
Two views of a Japanese Larch that was slow to emerge from winter’s foliage drop…now well into spring/summer with decent but not profound growth.

A small bonsai with a canopy of extended finely foliated limbs that reach out in an arc from a tapered trunk in a formal pot.
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Placed into the files stuff I believed NOT to be the case…until someone actually did the work to prove otherwise. Goldfinger…explains time correlation of tsunami deposits across California and PNW…showing possible linkage between CSZ EQs and San Andreas EQ histories. ⚒️🪨🌊 youtu.be/A_et0-NdhBo
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Are Cascadia and San Andreas Fault Earthquakes Linked?
YouTube video by GSOC Geological Society of the Oregon Country
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Sharing here on Juneteenth a previously published piece proffering a series of narratives from newly freed enslaved people. As I note, “Freedom is not a given—it demands we do the hard work of making and remaking the path forward.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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The Complicated Path to Freedom (redux)
Juneteenth reminds us that the abolition of slavery was just the beginning of the personal and collective struggles to overcome America's original sin
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
What’s up? Whaaassssssuuuuuupppp!!!! 🐟 AquaScene
Ottocinclus chilling on an Amazon Sword leaf in a planted aquarium.
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KC @kcwinters.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A quick down & dirty on Rachel Carson (Silent Spring) for today's 250 minute from @hcrichardson.bsky.social. Today's video is hosted by Dr. Katherine Richardson, a professor in Biological Oceanography -- AND Dr Heather Cox Richardson's sister! Many reasons to tune in! youtu.be/d0B08VkEtpo?...
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Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” Narrated by Katherine Richardson
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
So how do we build a society that has actual ambitions to do something other than maximize death? I am tired of living at the threshold of the crypts of dottering old men.
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The harvest. Things got a little too jungly in the jungle tank…and the critters hardly had room to swim. Removed a dozen Vallisneria Gigantica or (Jungle Val) plant to donate at a local fish store. The blades were between 2’ to 4’ in length and really filled the tank as they spread. 🐟 #AquaScene
“Jungle Val” at their new temporary quarters at a local pet store.  The four foot tank is filled end to end with these leggy grass like plants.  I wonder what they will price them at and how long to take to rehome them.Tanks after removal of the Jungle Val still filled with long tail plants…giant Amazon Sword in foreground, Jungle Val on left but overtopping the 3’ wide tank…and some healthy Madagascar Lace (Aponogeton) peaking through.Closeup of the Madagascar Lace and an Onion Plant (curly stems) and Jungle Val in the background.
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Late night fish…an opportunity to get a photo of the most difficult of them to catch not zipping around…just chilling on the bottom catching some rest. 🐟 #AquaScene
A Gold Tetra about 3/4 of an inch in length with shiny irridescent gold along top and silver or silver blue along the sides and belly during waking hours.  Background is coarse sand along bottom and valisneria stems.
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Elon Musk A man barely emotionally alive We have built him He has the technology Made him richer, …more powerful, …more doogey The 1 Trillion Dollar Hominid
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Bionicman Racing: I Will Be Unstoppable
Alt: Bionicman Racing: I Will Be Unstoppable
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Make an over-used concept better by changing one letter: AnthropoScene
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I can’t believe it took until the late Anthropocene before one human amassed a trillion dollars. I had that pegged for the mid Robber Barron period. 💰🚀🏦🛰️🔥🐂
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’m still hoping I will go to live on a farm…like our first family dog did…reportedly! “How you going to keep ‘em, down on Broadway…after they’ve seen the farm?” Biff Rose from Half Live at the Bitter End
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This is the way…if the Anthropocene is to survive.
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I’m in the “brings coffee to drink en route to the coffee shop” phase of life. ☕️
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J. Raasch @jraasch.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
And our combined diversity of talent is our combined strength and resilience. It is our superpower.
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Every person is uniquely talented…and I believe every person has talents useful to themselves and the world. Not all direct those talents appropriately…and not all are allowed to develop them fully, or have cause/opportunity to use those talents they are uniquely and innately born with.
Just a beautiful late evening at the Oregon coast from Cape Perpetua area…which has nothing to do with the post itself and everything to do with it also.

A Sitka Spruce’s boughs frame a misty undulating forested shoreline as the sun sets over the Pacific Ocean barely visible through the lapping evening fogs.  A hint of blue sky can be seen upper left through scattered clouds.
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Shhhhhh! We’ve been keeping the OC on the down low! Glad you enjoyed the visit. I have been to every beach from Mendocino to Cape Flattery and know we are truly blessed…but also a bit envious of your usual haunts.
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Canadian Geographic @cangeo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Today on Can Geo: Though it’s the largest ecosystem on Earth, we know less about the deep ocean than the surface of the moon. As the threat of mining looms, will its fate be decided before we know enough to make such a far-reaching choice? Read more: bit.ly/3S6gKXk
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Wonder and loss: the deep ocean and its future
Though it’s the largest ecosystem on Earth, we know less about the deep ocean than the surface of the moon. As the threat of mining looms, will its fate be decided before we know enough to make such a...
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Everything.
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AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅ @anthropoceneman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
When you’re making up fake aliases and legends…but they are too ridiculous to be believable. 🗺️🧭📍 #GIS #Cartography
Guy explaining his fake alias is a mapmaker.

Woman has quizzical look.

Screenshot from Animal Control TV series Woman in center explains it’s not a good choice because there would be no follow up questions, implying it’s too random or boring.

Screenshot from Animal Control TV series Guy revises his legend to “mapmaker for fun”.

Screenshot from Animal Control TV series First woman can’t hide her skepticism as she tries to control her laughter by biting her lip.

Screenshot from Animal Control TV series
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