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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I dropped, covered, and held-on for the Great Shakeout (while reviewing papers and grading after a run). Did you?

A white dude with glasses and a dumb smile, and very frizzy hair underneath a desk with a computer screen up above

A phone lock screen it says 10:15 AM with a picture of a little boy in a storm trooper helmet and a T-shirt with a tie on it and shorts with the MyShake earthquake drill, notification push notification on the screen

Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Did a shit ton of work on the backyard patio/pergola renovation today. Including renting and physically picking up a plate compactor to put into my EV9. All the mow strips are in and level, now to screed level the sandy soil for pavers and put up the skeleton of the pergola for foot placement.

How the lawn started this morning after I used a sod cutter yesterday to cut underneath it. There’s a fence in a garbage can and a good piece of lawn on the right side. I ended up taking all of this sod and lawn and putting it in holes to fill in our dirt and gravel alley.

The after side view after all the grass was taken out and all the new mower edge was put into place. We had a few boards of mower edge left over from the last time. We did the patio like 20 years ago and they still worked great and we recycled the rest.

I’m more front on View of the soon-to-be patio with a sample paver in front that looks like Flagstone. It’s actually engineered concrete. Some of the furniture is on the dirt pad because I had to mow the lawn.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Lots of repaving and steam rolling happening three blocks away from my house this morning. They're the very sharp spikes on my seismograph

24 hour graphical output (seismograph) showing various wiggles and squiggles from around the world in my basement. Here the bottom several hours show lots of sharp spikes in in the bottom 6 rows representing the last three hours. That's from some sort of heavy machinery flattening the road surface. The cigar shapes are trains on one of three nearby tracks You can see the doppler-like build up of the waves as they get closest to my station, then gradually space out as train moves away.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I’ve only got a few scale model volcano tissue box cover left in this lot! Sales will remain open through this afternoon PST. Ships tomorrow! phaneritic.etsy.com

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Note the right lateral offset of the yellow centerline of you look across the fault. (Traffic spotters had my back for this quick snap).

A road through the central coast of California, as viewed from the central line of the highway, looking off into the distance before the road turns. There’s mountains in the background and a few oak trees on the side of the road, but the important feature is at the bottom of the photo where there’s a rumble piece of asphalt that goes across the entire highway. That is the San Andreas fault and if you look across the rumble area, you can easily see the yellow center line has been offset to the right by a couple inches. this offset has happened within the last 10 years or so as they frequently repave this section.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I’ve just realized that AI thinks all food is made of rice cakes.

Advertising photo from Quaker rice cakes, showing three Styrofoam looking circles next to some cinnamon sticks on a gray tray with a cup full of apples above it in a bag of apple cinnamon rice cakes

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My tired ass burst out laughing the second I rounded the corner to see this rock. Immediately sent this pic to my 13yo son. 😂

A very exciting and erect cock rock hoodo near the top of a ridge next to a scraggly pine tree amongst a chaparral-filled canyon in background.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Once @geotripper.bsky.social said he was giving students 2hrs to explore, I immediately thought I felt good enough to try the entire Condor Gulch to Moss Springs via High Peak Trail. I’d never been to High peaks, so making the 5mi, 1500’ hike in 1hr47min while still getting photos made me giddy.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Please enjoy a small moment of solitude along the High Peaks Trail this afternoon in Pinnacles National Park. The rhyolitic rocks are the eroded remains of a 22Ma composite volcano complex whose other half is down south 185 miles or so in Lancaster, CA thanks to San Andreas Fault.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Slight cracks! I think this is year 3

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Next stop in Hollister to check out a creeping portion of the Calaveras Fault. (Yes, yes, @xenolith.bsky.social I admit Hollister’s have their faults). Check out the right lateral offsets in town!

Concrete drainage gully in an asphalt alley that is offset to the right where it crosses the Calaveras Fault.

Sidewalk in front of a cool Victorian house. The sidewalk has been offset in the right lateral fashion by about 10 inches or so.

The most famous right lateral offset feature in the town of Hollister is the concrete retaining wall in front of somebody’s front yard that was built circa 1945 and has been offset from the straight section of the wall about 40 inches. Quick math shows that that’s about a half inch of slip per year over the 80 years to offset it that much.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Great exposures of massive cobble/boulder conglomerate within turbidites of the Great Valley Sequence exposed along the shores of San Luis Reservoir near the visitor center (which was closed!)

Finer siltstone and sandstones in upturned layers of great valley sequence with finger for scale and group of students in background

Chonkier cobbles and boulders of granitic and andesitic origins making up the bottom layer of a turbidity sequence that sloughed off the Mesozoic delta into forearc basin floor. Finder for scale.

While I I don’t have a picture of the fault offset here is my finger on a small fault showing gouge and crumbled other pebbles and cobbles that were sheared in a left lateral sense

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A very blustery day welcomed us to San Luis Reservoir and the exposures of uplifted Great Valley Sequence of rocks.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

On the road with @geotripper.bsky.social and his students today to Pinnacles and Calaveras Fault!

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I know the @raspishake.bsky.social team was likely 100+ miles away from the M7.7, but I hope everyone fared well! Here’s the seismogram from my Shake in Turlock showing impressive arrival of seismic waves.

Screenshot from the raspberry shake data output showing the epicenter of the magnitude 7.7 earthquake in central Panama drawing a line from there on a great circle to my raspberry shake in Turlock in Central California, which is 3246 miles away. The right side of the image shows way forms with the wiggles, jumping pretty nicely when the pee wave arrives and the bottom graph showing the frequency and hertz and there’s a distinct impulse and then low frequency rumbling

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Already 2/3 sold! BUT… some of my favorites from this batch still remain including the very first 1 of 1 Mammoth XL prototype with the view from town on the back side. Also really love the green and pink! Use code GSA26 to get 10% off through Saturday (if they last that long). phaneritic.etsy.com

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I just didn’t have any red filament this time around. Definitely will have some for the holiday extravaganza release.

Olympus mons vertically exaggerated nine times as a corrupting tissue box cover in red

Zoomed in detail of Olympus mons vertically exaggerated nine times as a corrupting tissue box cover in red

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There are still a couple large ones! Not sure if the color you want,

A large peacock colored tissue box cover in the shape of mammoth Mountain

A large gray tissue box in the shape of mammoth Mountain erupting a tissue

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sales are live for my scale model volcano tissue box covers! Use GSA26 for 10% off through Saturday. I’ve got some really unique colors in this launch. But more importantly, this batch includes the first ever Mammoth Mountain boxes in both large and small sizes! phaneritic.etsy.com

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Get ready for a volcano tissue box drop in about 30min! May even toss in my first-ever discount code in celebration of #GSA2026.

Birdseye view of 25 or 30 tissue boxes that look like volcanoes laid out on a hardwood floor next to a large towering stack of unassembled cardboard boxes

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My California Official Voter Information Guide is 175 pages long. I hope folks take the time to learn the gist of the props in this consequential election.

A white dudes thumb and fingers peel back a thick 8.5x11 voter pamphlet to reveal page 175. The booklet is about 1/2” thick made of very thin recycled paper.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ok then… (there seems to be a weak upper L kicking off these small showers. Not the usual October faire.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is as close to alpenglow as we’ll get in Turlock I suppose.

A post sunset picture showing altocumulus clouds, glowing pink with the dark silhouettes of our Neighbourhood and trees in the foreground

Our backyard lit up because it’s nighttime with the glowing altocumulus clouds that appear overexposed in this photo, but still pink with blue sky behind it

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Really looking forward to the wet winter ahead and soup/baking season. 103.5F at 3pm just isn’t fun.

Screen shot of Wunderground showing station reporting 103.5F and 56F dew point. Map shows neighborhood stations reporting similar temps in low 100’s.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

May have done some yard work this morning and had to quit at 11am after sun made it over trees. Already 91F. Blech.

Closeup of A middle aged white dudes forearm extended with palm of hand opened up towards camera. The wrist is clean but a loamy sand midline is delineated on the wrist where the glove was covering the hand.

Middle aged white dudes hairy lower quads and calves covered in loamy sand mud. Upper quads covered by blue and tan floral board shorts and feet covered by white puma socks.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One feature of @everythingwx.bsky.social I really enjoy is the embedded normal and record temps.

Screenshot of the EverythingWeather app for Turlock, California showing a wind forecast for the day on the top going anywhere from 3 to 5 miles an hour but highlighting the today weather section. It says it’s going to be mostly sunny with a high near 97 W. north Northwest wind 1 to 6 miles an hour. Underneath that it says the normal high temperature for the day is 82° and the record high is 105 from 2024

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Dome fire in Yosemite keeps slowly chugging along to the north in a little bit to the east. it’s been burning for 19 days now and it’s growth has somewhat been hampered by the granitic composition of the terrain. Crews are now doing structure protection measures at Ostrander Hut.

Screenshot of the Watch Duty app showing the Dome fire footprint in red with active hotspots in orange dots on the north end eastern perimeter of a fire footprint that is for 5 miles long and a mile wide or so. All of this is overlay on a satellite map showing that the fire is very close to glacier point Road.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I just may have to have a GSA sale since I can’t be in Denver this year.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here’s the largest one on my @raspishake.bsky.social. Just to clarify, you heard the first for a minute and second one for nearly 2min?! That’s bonkers. Do you suppose some of what you heard were triggered rockfalls? I wonder if anyone in Desolation will report stuff today.

A map print out of my raspberry shake recording magnitude 3.3 earthquake that happened Friday early morning. The map shows the line in California from the epicenter near Lake Tahoe down to my raspberry shake icon, which is in the central Valley of California near Modesto. The top right end graph shows the way forms in micrometers per second with a pretty apparent, PNS wave jolt, and the bottom picture shows the frequency and hertz showing a big increase in frequency at the same time the wavefront arrive

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here’s a pika above the Hess Mine in 20 Lakes Basin and the description from our 2012 NAGT field guide to the area.

Furry small pika on lookout in a broken boulder field with a few sprigs of greenery in between. Caption from field guide reads
“Figure 21 - Pika above Hess Mine. Its ill temper, hideous looks and propensity for attacking unsuspecting victims with a leaping, fang-first attack have helped it become one of the most reviled and feared mammals known to man.”

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

LOL, my 2011 photo of the Holei Sea Arch and its caption “Holei Sea Arch. It won't be there for long”. Nostradamus is my middle name.

Screen cap of Holei Sea Arch that is black basalt protruding out into ocean with big waves smashing into it.caption in photo reads “It won't be there for long.”

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

After several weeks of prototyping and redesigning I think my next demonstration tool is almost ready to be revealed! Some sealant and epoxy have to cure before I put it through its paces. I wonder what it is?

A mysterious green cylinder with a bike valve stem, and a valve on the right with a red handle to release fluid flow is held above another green cylinder with a silicon gasket around it, which looks like it’s sitting on top of a jaritos bottle.
The bottom cylinder also has an orange and white PocketLab sensor suspended in it

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Granodiorite of Bummers Flat (where are the fire started ) has interesting xenoliths of diorites and gabbro with very lengthy hornblende crystals.

A chunk of xenolith from the bummerflat Granodiorite showing gabbro on left and more dioritic-like masses of long black hornblende crystals in whitish k-spar matrix. there is a lens cap on the rock for scale. The cap is about 4 inches across making the rock about 15 inches wide.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The good news about the Piute Fire is that it’s surrounded by a LOT of granitic rocks of several intrusive suites, but the marshy meadows areas in drainages are forested and fairly dry now. Here’s Piute Lake In 2012. Next to a busy trail leading to Crabtree TH. share.watchduty.org/i/122922?ts=...

Screenshot of the Piute fire on Watch Duty app showing its general location just above Buck Meadow Creek in a few miles south of three chimneys and Highway 108

A small several acre lake is pretty shallow with meadows and trees and encroaching on the right side and a dome of granite in the background that is sparsely populated with pine trees this is Piute Lake

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Little Falls Fmt! Speaking of 80’s check out the Tojan car that we saw driving to the collecting site:

A red weird 80s sports car that’s both boxy and aerodynamic with a stupid spoiler and stupid solid rims.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Vote #quartz! I found this doubly terminated Herkimer “Diamond” in NY a few years ago by cracking tons of dolostone searching for vugs coated in small quartz crystals (druzy) that are black from hydrocarbons. This piece opened, but not enough to let the crystal fall. I kept it like this b/c it’s rad

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Look at what I was treated to today when opening an old Play Doh can we use for our topography lab: halite crystals! The lid was slightly ajar letting evaporation do its thing since February. Halite crystals and hairs grew on thin ridges w/high surface area to volume ratios. Vote #halite!

Macro phone shot of various cubic, hairy and planar halite crystals sticking out of a crusty play doh ball that is black. A yellow empty playdoh container is in background for scale. The hairs are about 3.5mm long and the crystals about 2mm.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here you go! This sketch will be followed by a video explainer in just a moment. Here’s a link to magnet in diagram a.co/d/00IdSBHK

Top-secret plans that are sketched out on a piece of paper showing how to make a trash Cano. A diagram some 55 gallon oil, drums, magnets, smart bottles and rope, and it shows how to assemble them to make a successful trashcano

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If anyone’s in Turlock tomorrow, the Carnegie Art Center is reviving its Garden Party at the Greenery nursery tomorrow night from 6-8pm. I’ll have two photos and a large Lawetlat’la tissue box for sale as a fundraiser. carnegieartsturlock.org/discover/eve...

Outstretched arm holding 34” wide landscape photo of sunset on mountains (Mt Humphreys) with dark clouds above it.

Pano of aurora over Pinecrest from 2024z purple fades to pink and green with silhouettes of pine trees in foreground

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That AI survey sent to faculty at the CSU’s caught my wrath, man.

csu
The California State University
We thank you for your time spent taking this survey.
Your response has been recorded.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Really neat inversion evident this morning at the Dome Fire in Yosemite. Old smoke has followed the cold, dense, overnight air down into the surrounding drainages with a warmer layer of less dense air above being aided by morning light (energy) on the higher topography.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New big-box Mammoth tissue box cover prototype. Which side of the mountain do you think looks better facing the text? Start of vid is view from town, the reversed side at end of video is the slope facing away from town.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Side-eyes yesterday’s LA Times headline:😒

Screenshot of a LA Times article with the title
“A 'super' El Niño is about to crash into California: 9 essential ways to prepare
Amid warnings of a wet and potentially destructive winter, The Times asked experts for their best tips to be prepared.”
In reality, it’s not El Niño itself that’s going to crash into California, but it is related weather associated with El Niño down in the tropical Pacific that is making the oceans very warm and loading the atmosphere with a lot of moisture

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Spent the afternoon de-rosing our decrepit pergola before I tear it down and we redesign with a less-messy metal roof pergola and new patio layout. This lady banks was gorgeous in the spring for 3 weeks, but it was so, so dirty.

Me on top of the pergola looking at the remaining hard stuff to cut out of the Lady Banks Rose. An electric chainsaw and hedge clippers are in the bottom picture.

Top view of the pergola with about 3/4 of it bare

A completely barn pergola with four or 5 feet worth of rose clippings on either side

Lady Banks Rosen full bloom on a pergola, beautiful yellow flowers everywhere with a Flagstone patio underneath

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The mammoth Mountain tissue box cover in its eruptive state.

A yellowish green tissue box cover shaped like mammoth Mountain a Kleenex tissue out of the top vent

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