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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 13/03/2025

Book 5 of 2025: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. Read this bit of dialogue set in the 1980s and now staring at Oregon 2025. #youdiedofdysentery #BookSky💙📚

"You're not supposed to make me laugh.
Do people truly die of dysentery?" Sam asked.
"In the olden days, I guess they did."

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 06/03/2025

Mardi Gras Day | March 4, 2025 | New Orleans, LA “The system of patriarchy can function only with the cooperation of women.”

Dressed as Medusa for Mardi Gras Day; planning to make and collect stones for the foreseeable future.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 16/02/2025

Krewe du Vieux rolls! We march and dance and claim these streets tonight with even more of our sociopolitical satire because this is what we are fighting for. Let’s remember the krewe’s philosophy following Katrina: Preserve our culture and heritage first, and the recovery will follow. #NOLASky

Krewe du Vieux is Revolting! Title float.

SOUL brass band with the dancing Muffalottas!

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 11/02/2025

Reported a Google Maps content error: This portion of the Gulf of Mexico is erroneously labeled. The Gulf of America does not extend beyond the southern maritime boundary between the US and Mexico. If you’re going to do it, do it correctly. Higher accuracy generates greater use.

Screenshot of Gulf of Mexico with “Gulf of” in American waters and “America” in Mexican waters, where it is actually the Gulf of Mexico.

Official Mexico-US maritime boundary agreements for Gulf of Mexico drawn in 1970 and 1978.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 28/01/2025

From the Andrea Carlson “Shimmer on Horizons” collection at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Oil, acrylic, gouache, ink, colored pencil, and graphite on paper. Ancestor and Descendant, 2023 Perpetual Care, 2024 Cast a Shadow, 2021

“Ancestor and Descendant” artwork by Andrea Carlson. Oil, acrylic, gouache, ink, colored pencil, and graphite on paper

“Perpetual Care” artwork by Andrea Carlson. Oil, acrylic, gouache, ink, colored pencil, and graphite on paper

“Cast A shadow” artwork by Andrea Carlson. Oil, acrylic, gouache, ink, colored pencil, and graphite on paper

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 27/01/2025

Petty is right. Instigating American consumer panic over simply requests for empathy and humanity is more than a comprehension problem. It’s a bullying problem. But that’s a tell.

Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
It's worth emphasizing that the Colombia fight was not about accepting deportations.
It was that the Colombian president demanded deportees be treated humanely, and not as props for Trump's performative cruelty. That simple request for decency was enough for Trump to instigate a trade war.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 21/01/2025

Gulf of Mexico coast, USA | January 21, 2025 Flick says he saw some grizzly bears near Pulaski's candy store!

A couple of inches of snow on a front yard.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 18/01/2025

And so it begins again. I like working two jobs in January and February. #kreweoftucks

Mardi Gras throws and decorations that will be turned into Krewe of Tucks throws. #NewOrleans

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 12/01/2025

Yeah so … how about something pretty from Wisconsin? Proterozoic Baraboo quartzite clasts in a quartz-rich vein. The pink sparkly thumbnail is a complete coincidence. #geology 🧪⚒️🧀

Hand sample of quartz vein containing pink quartzite clasts. Thumb for scale.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 11/01/2025

The Cult of the Rubber Chicken is risen, with a resounding rendition of “The knife stays in the box!”

The head of a golden sparkly rubber chicken wearing a purple feathered crown.

Rubber chicken with king cake in a box with a knife.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 08/01/2025

2 down, 2 more Big Ones to go. It’s a long slog of backups and downloads before deletion when you once were an early adopter of social media. #backintheday #getoffmylawn #bringlonghashtagsback

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 08/01/2025

Back in the olden days when DEI was all the rage, at least we women got awards for being Resilient in a male-dominated industry (“nothing will change but keep going on your own steam, atta girl”).

Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction. Caption: “Say Resilient one more time!”

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 25/12/2024

Sample 3: Best guess is zeolite crystals in basalt

Small and large light-colored crystals filling vesicles/holes in basalt.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 24/12/2024

Sample 2: Feldspar porphyry / porphyritic basalt

Hand sample of feldspar porphyry / porphyritic basalt. Fine-grained basalt with large, jagged crystals of feldspar.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 24/12/2024

New-ish Xmas tradition: The relatives bring me rocks to identify and pay me in cheese. Homemade baked brie this year because the rocks are from Copper Harbor at the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan. Here we go. Sample 1: Copper Harbor Conglomerate, Mesoproterozoic (1.6-1.0 Ga)

Lovely clast in Copper Harbor conglomerate (red lithic).

Red-colored matrix of the Copper Harbor conglomerate with smaller green and yellow clasts.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 21/12/2024

Winter solstice sunset over downtown Chicago | 21 December 2024 16:15

Sun setting behind skyscrapers in downtown Chicago. View looking westward from Museum of Contemporary Art.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 09/12/2024

A GeologyPage meme, but now I am inspired to write this book. Who wants to be my co-author? 🧪⚒️

Adult reading to a baby from a book called “Structural Geology for Babies.”

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 04/12/2024

I feel like I’ve reached some kind of high-amplitude nexus in the continuum when my Currently Reading trio was written by three of the best science fiction authors of our time. @charliejane.bsky.social @annleckie.com Kaliane Bradley #scifi 💙📚

Photo montage of three book covers - The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders, Translation State by Anne Leckie, and The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 26/11/2024

Welp after 2+ years of disuse, the old Xitter account has been completely deactivated and the app deleted. May take down my Mastodon instance, too. I now tend to make these decisions slowly after The Great Flickr Debacle of 2021.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 17/11/2024

Studying this beautiful new hydrologic map of the contiguous USA by @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social. Fluvial hydrologists, is there a resource where one can calculate how long a tracer dropped in, say, the Wisconsin River would take to reach the mouth of the Mississippi? #geology #hydrology

Hydrologic map of the contiguous USA with 3D elevation by @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 20/10/2024

Collected from: Big Maria Mountains in the Mojave Desert, CA Collected by: Kyrsten Johnston, University of #Wisconsin Originally interbedded sandstone and limestone of the Supai Formation metasomatized (altered by fluids) to quartzite (dark brown) and wollastonite (white). #geology

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 18/10/2024

At the #Wisconsin Geoscience department reunion this weekend. Always fascinating and humbling to remember how much we have contributed to the study of the earth. Van Hise, Chamberlin, Twenhofel, Dott, Pray, Anderson, Bentley, Wang, Bahr, Valley #geology

Charlie Byers giving a lecture on the history of geology at Wisconsin

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 07/10/2024

A timely meme for my recent experience during #MinCup24. Google is flooded with so much crystal healing garbage as top hits now. #misinformation #geology

Meme uses characters from Friends to poke fun at Google throwing up “Crystal healing!” when asked “show me scientific data about minerals.”

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 29/09/2024

From deep crustal growth into my hands. How lucky are we to study metamorphism with this gorgeous aluminosilicate? #Kyanite #MinCup24

Kyanite hand sample held up between two fingers.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 23/09/2024

Beautiful birefringent #Calcite! Here’s my hand sample on a ruler and with a German 10 pfennig coin from 1950 that I just discovered in my stash of stuff. #geology

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 20/09/2024

Go, Sb2S3, also known as antimonite! Pretty sure my ancestors decorated their eyes with stibnite-based kohl, which explains some things. Sample from a friend’s family collection in picture below. #geology #MinCup24

Stibnite sample - with nothing for scale.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 17/09/2024

Not a sketch artist by any stretch of the imagination, but here are ca. 1997 preliminary sketches of Devonian gastropods from central Kentucky and Ordovician trilobites from Northern Illinois. #sciart #artshare

Thorax and pygidium of trilobite Illaenus sp., dorsal view. Shown with specimen.

A really terrible preliminary sketch of trilobite Calliops sp., dorsal view

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