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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My eyes start watering when I eat that notoriously spicy food, yogurt.

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

PhyloPic is having an October fundraiser. The goal is to raise enough money to cover web hosting for the past six months. Please share the link, and chip in a bit if you can! www.phylopic.org

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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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merr-itt came from outer space @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

Also, the sand will flow into the void your chest makes when you exhale so you can't breathe in. Don't dig deep holes in beach sand.

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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

I will expect your first draft on my desk by the end of the day.

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

I wrote a whole thread on alternate ways to pee in the field: bsky.app/profile/geol...

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

I have a vague, not fully formed memory of eating Jell-O that had chopped onions in it. I know now that can't possibly be true, but at the time it sure seemed like it.

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

He looks just like me – menopause beard and all!

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

If anyone can play a female geologist and win an Oscar, it'll be Nicolas Cage.

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Earth wants to be a perfect sphere. The grains yearn for the core.

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've seen some of my peers end up in one-man firms who were unable to qualify to get licensed. This is the gatekeeping I'm talking about. It is so much harder to get licensed in California as a geologist than it used to be.

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Encourage them to take the Fundamentals (GIT) exam as soon as they can so they can get on the path to licensure. And advise them to work for companies with enough licensed geologists and engineers to vouch for their experience to sit for the PG / CEG / CHG / or PGP.

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I know several geologists who have been trying to retire who can't because there's nobody to step in and continue the work they're doing. It's good to be that in demand, but it is a double-edged sword.

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is an unfortunate consequence of licensing gatekeeping in a time of increasing hazards that allows me to continue to provide service and make a comfortable income. Fewer geologists are coming up behind us older professionals to take our place, which keeps the rest of us in high demand.

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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 · 10/09/2026

Just gonna sneak in real quick while no one is looking and say that one of my coworkers is the City geologist for RPV. I don't work on that one myself, but it's a huge project that requires a lot of ongoing monitoring and reporting to the City.

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Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

See, I remember calling them brodies when I was little, too. I don't know if I forgot the knob or never learned it, but it makes a lot of sense.

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