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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 29/06/2026

I know there are a lot of bad things happening, but this too is quite bad and I haven't seen a lot of folks on here talking about it! papersplease.org/wp/2026/06/2...

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California legislature agrees to upload driver’s licenses to national database – Papers, Please!

Even after the fact, neither California nor individual Californians will know that this has happened or be able to challenge it.

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Climate.us @climate.us · 26/06/2026

We got a big bump in traffic yesterday when people learned about us on NPR. Thank you to @npr.org for covering our launch and bringing our story to people's attention! And thank you to all our new followers. We can do this together! 🌍️🧪💪 #ClimateAction #ClimateForUs #ProtectScience

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Hey folks! Was just made aware of this website that's "selling" Parks passes and USGS maps (which are always free in digital form). Just a reminder that legit government websites ALWAYS end in .gov, and you can only purchase NPS passes from the official NPS and USGS sites.

Screenshot of a fraudulent .com website purporting to be the USGS and "selling" USGS products. It features a Screenshot of the Lansat Earth as Art series and a typical shopify-type layout.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 07/04/2026

Donald Trump just threatened to unilaterally destroy an entire civilization. Is there genuinely no limit to what Republicans will allow this unhinged, unwell man to do? Congress must come back to Washington to rein in this dangerous behavior immediately.

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Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 12/02/2026

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Welp, time to cancel that Ring subscription and set up a private camera system so I can watch the delivery folks chuck my packages over my fence. Oy.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 31/01/2026

"After a decade on dating apps, I’ve decided to enter a different market. This is why I’m listing myself on Zillow until I find a good match—which, to my understanding, will be about forty-eight hours."

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Tinder Hasn’t Worked, So I’m Putting Myself on Zillow

After a decade on dating apps, I’ve decided to enter a different market. This is why I’m listing myself on Zillow until I find a good match—which, ...

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Good riddance. Let's spend 2026 not actively destroying the world, mkay?

One crudely drawn cartoon character kicking another screaming cartoon character off a cliff. The falling character is labeled 2025 because this year definitely deserves to die at the bottom of a pit

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Not on Bluesky because we weren’t allowed to join, but people get mad because we posted updates reminding them that California's volcanoes are NOT erupting.

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Seriously considering asking for one of those noise-blocking screaming pillows for Christmas. Anyone have a favorite brand? (Small business artisinal screaming pillows preferred...)

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a cartoon girl in shorts and a pink shirt is standing in a room

Alt: Animated GIF of Noni from the cartoon Lilo and Stitch movie as she grabs a throw pillow, clutches it to her face, and screams

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

"Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

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I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Absolutely speechless as this press conference basically ignores that NSF is already working, living, loving this building. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdct...

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Live: The New Golden Age of HUD | Secretary Turner Unveils HUD’s New Building

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Not seeing nearly enough coverage of this.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

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Annie @anniemcg.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This is how it’s done! 👊🏿👊🏾👊🏽👊🏼👊🏻

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

A very important doggo from one of today's #NoKings protests. (The other side of his signs says "No tariffs on treats") @weratedogs.com

A pale yellow lab on a red leash looks happily at the woman petting him. He is adorned with red white and blue pompoms and wearing a sign on each side. The visible sign reads "Pro Democracy, Pro Choice, Pro Science, Pro Women, Pro Dogs". Around him, protesterscmill about with similar signs.

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

If anyone wants to hear me and my observatory's monitoring chief talk California volcanoes, this week's NSPR Blue Dot podcast is out! 🧪⚒️🌋 Blue Dot: The Golden State's volcanic legacy: The USGS California Volcano Observatory | NSPR share.google/mko4KMElJXsU...

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Blue Dot: The golden state's volcanic legacy: The USGS California Volcano Observatory

Host Dave Schlom discusses one of his favorite topics, California's volcanoes, with two United States Geological Survey staff members from the USGS California Volcano Observatory based at Moffett Fiel...

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Imagine this thread, with added volcanoes, and you've got a decent idea of what my job feels like nowadays. I'm either depressed or angry, unable to plan, constantly on edge. Utterly maddening when all I want to do is help people.

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Well, that's the presidential proposed USGS budget for FY26. It’s not just NSF and NASA that would be taking earth science research hits if it's enacted.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/04/2025

Orogeny xkcd.com/3070

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Paige Jarreau @fromthelabbench.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Looking for scientists to feature! Is your work affected by mass firings and defunding of federal science? Tell us your story! Bit.ly/faces_of_science #sciart #scicomm

A female scientist looks at a flask. Text: They can’t fire science. Tell us your story. Link: bit.ly/faces_of_science

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I live in Silicon Valley and the obliviousness and waste when they could be doing some real good for the world is MADDENING.

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Glad I have this elegant lady in my life. #geokitties 🐾

A long-haired tabby-tortie mixed cat sits demurely on a puffy blanket in the yard of an apartment complex

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I want to be outside getting exercise in nature, but instead I have a headache and cramps and I'm clutching a pillow wrapped in a heating pad and trying not to eat an entire bag of Oreos out of self-pity. Do lemon laws apply to bodies? If so, I want to return this one for a refund.

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a man with a mustache and a striped shirt is saying `` i hate everything '' .

Alt: a man with a mustache and a striped shirt is saying `` i hate everything '' .

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This includes the USGS Hawaiian and Alaska Volcano Observatories. HVO's Ironworks is a temporary space while a new facility is built to replace the Observatory critically damaged in 2018. Both groups are near their volcanoes. Neither has anywhere to go and both have been forbidden from telework.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/03/2025

every day I spend time thinking about how stupid and unnecessary all of this is and I hate it

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K On The Beach @konthebeach.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Constant simmering rage should really burn more calories.

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Dear manager, last week I: 1. Got up early 2. Stayed up late 3. Exhibited uninterrupted prosperity 4. Used a machete to cut through red tape 5. Toured the facility and picked up slack 🎵👩🏼‍🔬👗🧥🎵

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Kim Wood @drkimwood.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes *worldwide* because of USGS.

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Jim Whittington🔥 @jimwhittington.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

To all affected, I'm terribly sorry. There is no way, we, as a society, can make it up to you. We are in a sudden & long-term disaster. Disaster responders have experience slowing down time, looking at options, & limiting bad outcomes. We all need to start thinking like a responder right now. 1/

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Volcanologist: I used the cup for sampling and now it's half full of lava and the water has boiled off. Also, it's on fire. 🌋

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

what we need around here are more dragons

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watching the final season it felt so ridiculous that Daenerys could go mad within a two episode arc but 40 days into 2025 and like I get it now

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

My low productivity colleagues and I (NSF funded) studied how lava flow levees deform and fail, and what to look for to help forecast future events. The associated hazards are fast, dangerous, and important to understand from an emergency management perspective. www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.ph...

A stepwise panel showing photographs on the left and drawings on the right that illustrate how a lava levee deforms and fails in four parts. the initial levee is formed by stagnant flow margins. Hot fluid lava then seeps into those levees and cause vertical displacement. Lava then begins to ooze and the levees deform horizontally. The levee eventually fails.

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Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪 @tuffcookie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

#themoreyouknow: All USGS published data is either available on our Publications site (www.pubs.usgs.gov) or Sciencebase (www.sciencebase.gov), in case you're worried about access or want to archive something. ⚒️🧪

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The California Geological Survey is now on BlueSky! @cageosurvey.bsky.social 🧪⚒️

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This is genuinely an important article. The two main lessons from Hungary appear to be: DO NOT WAIT DO NOT UNDERREACT Authoritarians like Orban and Trump rely on opposition being unwilling to believe that what is happening is actually happening. That’s their window. www.vox.com/politics/398...

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