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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It can take up to four years after a fire for debris flow hazard to go back to background levels.

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the dark and silent deep, Where the ancient oceans sleep, Crystalline and fiercely bright, Wakes the cubic form of light. #Halite, born of sun and sea, Bound in perfect symmetry. The Salt of the Earth #MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿

White cubic halite stalactites. From Mindat: https://www.mindat.org/photo-427956.html

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A colleague of mine sat with Cary Elwes for an hour, helping him with a drainage issue near his house. She had no idea who he was until she called me an hour later as I was driving home and was all, "That was Cary Elwes!" I was like, "I thought you knew that!"

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Over 16,000 structures burned in the Eaton and Palisades fires. Only a few dozen have been rebuilt. Most fire victims were underinsured and can't afford to rebuild. They were already competing for consultants, contractors, labor, and materials. But now they've got to compete with data centers.

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Of course you don't bring an iced coffee to an interview. The purpose of the interview is to demonstrate complete and utter submission to the only real human on the planet – the corporation. Only rending your garments on bloody knees will suffice, and your knees are not bloody enough.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 25/09/2026

i heard woke is trying to do same-sex bathrooms now... they want our sons pissing next to each other to turn them gay

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

Look goddamnit It's entirely possible To eat a plum And not make a poem about it The one I just ate Wasn't even in the Goddamn refrigerator Or anything Sometimes a plum Is just a plum You can just eat it And go on with your life WHAT Why are you looking at me What'd I do now (looks) oh GODDAMNIT

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Mujib @mujib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

[Describing them as “superintelligence” or “rogue models” ascribes agency to products rather than to the companies building them. This framing markets these companies’ products as “superhuman” and, at the same time, helps the companies evade accountability for their actions.]

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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As far as I can tell, Effective Altruists are Utilitarians who are relieved that in the Trolley Problem, saving 5 people justifies their innate desire to kill the one guy

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So this is what they mean when they say, "AI is going to kill us all."

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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"the largest theft of labor in human history" "LLMs are a product that destroys its supply chain" Every poor sucker on the hook for millions because they were sharing MP3s shows that individuals get the unlubed dildo of consequences when Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others just skate.

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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anguish, motherfucker, do you speak it???

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Your regular reminder that a cubic foot of wet sand weighs about 120 lbs. A 5-foot-high column of wet sand weighs about 600 lbs. If the hole is higher than your head when it caves in, you will not dig yourself out.

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Mujib @mujib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

She was mysterious, like the tag at the end of a Bluesky post, implying he was just a placeholder in an incompatible relationship. P.S. This would probably be intelligible only on an unsupported device.

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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

SpaceX prematurely sunsetting the Falcon 9 in favor of a vehicle that has never reached orbit and had as many failures as the Saturn V had successes should be treated as a national crisis of both security and science.

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Them: "Give us more money to stop the thing we built that's going to kill everyone!" Us: "How will it kill us?" Them: "You gotta to pay to find out!"

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My high-vis vest allows me to go anywhere unchallenged, with the unintended consequence of attracting concerned citizens wanting to know what's going on.

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hopper crystals form when the outer edges of a crystal grow much faster than the center of its faces, creating a hollow, stepped, or staircase-like skeletal structure. More at: www.geologyin.com/2019/06/what... #MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿

Pink Hopper Halite crystal from Searles Lake, Trona, California.
Photo: Crystalminer

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tclark @tclark.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I suspect media verifiably created before roughly 2018 is likely to be the future's data-equivalent of low background steel.

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California Coastal Commission @thecacoast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The California Coastal Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to approve a settlement that requires a private company to restore a damaged Malibu shoreline and dedicate for public use a $2-million beachfront property. #californiacoastalcommission

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My 9/11 story involves haughty secretaries for military brass squatting between their high heels to pee on the side of the road out in the middle of the desert. I'll let you fill in the blanks.

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eddiegaedel @eddiegaedel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Goodness. If they're tight circles it's called doing a Brodie. Brodie knobs are those knobs about the size of a trailer hitch put on the steering wheel of vehicles for either fucking around (car) or getting things done in tight quarters (forklift, tractors, etc.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodie_...

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Brodie knob - Wikipedia

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 10/08/2023

My stupid fingers, who type "skinhole" instead of "sinkhole," and "pukes" instead of "piles," and who are trying desperately to get me fired, agree with you.

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was just gonna check in on Bluesky before I went to bed and now I feel like I need to fill out my timesheet. ⚒️❤️

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

For example, see the letters to the Wilson Observatory currently curated by the Museum of Jurassic Technology. (warning: dated website) www.mjt.org/exhibits/let...

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Letters To The Mount Wilson Observatory

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Image me telling the Goop Moms, "No, crystals don't have spirits in them, but they do have phantoms."

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Not to be confused with Aa, where you piss chunks of hot lava.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

3 hikers who say they used AI to plan their trip were rescued after becoming stranded on California's Mount Shasta 'They were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required,' the sheriff’s office said

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3 hikers who say they used AI to plan trip rescued after becoming stranded on Mount Shasta

Three hikers were rescued on Monday after they became stranded on Mount Shasta near Clear Creek Route.

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They didn't die of measles. They died of death. Measles just happened to be in the room for some reason.

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The forecast for the Labor Day weekend is scorching hot in California with freezing cold in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.

The results of the mydialect test showing a dark red gradient starting in California and then transitioning eastward across the USA to dark blue in the southeast.

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fuck you, Google Maps. Fuck you, Apple Maps. Fuck you, Waze. You utter craven cowards. Making the switch.

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

You should've seen my prof's face the first time I tired to pronounce "spodumene."

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's andalusite's year. I can feel it.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The source of the flood in Nepal is a collapsed glacier 🧪⚒️

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A New Color (1/5🧵)

Page 1: A man is walking home, smoking a cigarette, being quietly trailed by a UFO above him. As he enters his apartment, two aliens watch from inside the ship. Alien 1, who has a large head, says, “that’s him. Let’s move.”

Page 2: The man walks upstairs as the aliens watch from the entrance of the building. The man enters his apartment and greets his little dog. Suddenly there is a knock at the door.

Page 3: he peers through his peephole, and sees the two aliens standing in the hallway. Alien 1 is holding a briefcase. From behind him, the voice of alien one: “don’t scream.”

Page 4: The aliens are seated across the room on the man’s couch. Sadie is in her bed next to them. Alien 1 says, “you’re not in any danger. Have a seat.” The man looks at his dog and thinks, “sadie is unusually calm.” Alien 1: don’t scream, or it’s a problem.

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

They ate all kinds of stuff. But heck, if you were a pill-bug roomba scooting through a seafood buffet, wouldn't you "try a 'lil bite" of everything? 🧪 arstechnica.com/science/2023...

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We finally know for sure what a trilobite ate

Tens of thousands of fossils later, we've found a trilobite with a full stomach.

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Did she axolotl questions?

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Mujib @mujib.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

What’s he trying to do? It’s a conundrum.

Conan O’Brien smiling while playing a sparkling silver drum kit alongside a saxophonist, with the band name “Basic Cable” printed on the bass drum head.

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