For #FossilFriday here's a trackway in the Navajo Sandstone that I found last week. Not the 3-toed dinosaur tracks that one typically sees in the region, but there were lots of bipedal vertebrates running around out here in the early Jurassic. This photo shows 3 of 6 tracks. #hiking #Arizona

I have a concrete suggestion in response to Trump and his gestapo’s “f**k you” to the rule of law: “Democratic senators and representatives should be flying to Minnesota now and standing together in a show of force and solidarity.” www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...

A rather igNobel gaslighting… We should get a reward. #USPolitics #CovertOverthrow #Politics #Diplomacy #Democracy ? #DemocracyInAction

Subcutaneous contusion An interior effusion Of a rather dubious sort Akin to delusion The cure is ice Ice Baby. #InternalBleeding #USPolitics #ICE ❄️🩹

Words we need: CartoCumulus The innate proclivity to agglomerate maps, regardless of current or future utility. #WordPlay #PseudoVernacular 🖋️📝

Who is #AnthropoceneMan? Is he pro-MAGA? Only if the G stands for Glacial. Is he even a he? No. AnthropoceneMan is a Hominid living in the post-intelligence Age of Mankind…after HomoSapiens gave away their rights to corporations…and before they gave away their agency to the AI/CyberSapiens.

Who had “Pandemic won’t be the worst thing that happens in the 2020s” on their bingo card? I need a better Free Space

This semi-conscious Late-Stage Anthropocene Era Carbon Sack also chooses Science. Science - Our Most Precious Resource 🌎⚒️🧪🔭. #Science youtube.com/shorts/igndc...

Bunkered And now I’ve finally made it I’m the sole master of my destiny My coffers are overflowing My future is laid out splendidly I have private security to protect me I have stocked my bunker with provisions I can now live life to its fullest I have all the good life envisions

Finally turned on the news tonight. Had heard bits about something happening in Minneapolis. Now I’m sick to my stomach. Every fucking day this administration gets worse…more sick…more twisted. I go to bed each night thinking it cannot possibly get worse. Nightmares have now become our reality.

What’s your nerdiest hobby? Go ahead…you can say it!

The world doesn’t need needless suffering…there’s plenty enough built into the human experience already. But like wealth vs greed, some cannot be happy unless they are certain that others are more miserable than they are.

The pandemic was a long overdue opportunity for introspection…a time of quiet in the storm when many took a look at their lives, what’s important, what they believe in, what they value (through decisions made daily) and how they wanted to live going forward… 1/2

Lancivus Is Here! For those who celebrate, be sure to find your lifetime supply of lancets you received at diagnosis…and get ready to swap your finger pokers out at midnight! But seriously…Here’s to another year of living the Sweet Life …doing whatever it takes to get the job done. #T1D #Lancivus

2025 can just go away now. A year of tragedy, hard work and rebuilding…personally. I’ve never been more exhausted from the mere passing of a year’s time…though it actually began with a fir tree taking out our garage in Jan 2024.

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few. Democrats must remember this — and act on it.

New Rule: “Christmas Movies” shall not feature guns or weapons of any kind. Maybe that’s an old rule that just never got mentioned much. #WhatGunWouldJesusUse

I blew off social media lately, and for that I apologize. But I can’t let #ArtAdventCalendar pass without posting at least ONCE! So here’s something different, a photo of a lone surfer, three weeks ago during the King Tides at Cannon Beach #Oregon, just two days before all the flooding hit.

How we’ve spent Christmas Eve so far…recording our favorite children’s books read aloud for the grandchildren. Richard Scarry Margaret Wise Brown Lane Smith James Marshall Seuss

PPP loans of $755 billion were forgiven, including loans to Trump Org. Students get fucked over...

@paulguinnessy.bsky.social What are the “two books” for those leaving the nest?

Not saying #iOS sucks…just that the new upgrade sucks more than any before it. Bent geology. Liquid font of timelessness. Win win!

I think one acceptable use of AI might be to make the insipid soundtracks for commercials…so that no actual musicians are harmed in the process of bastardizing good music. #FuckAI www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwRT...

Apropos Again Between Atmospheric Rivers

Worst #badpoetry of the year, or best #badpoetry of the year?

Recently, family in town asked me to meet them at a local tiki bar in #PDX. Afterward, they wanted to stroll a bit and see some lights…so we wandered back toward my house…and there were not one, but two roving bands of young street toughs singing carols in the hood. We yelled “In a War Zone?!!!”

Son taking a 300 level science elective…Earthquake Geology of the PNW He has never taken a geology course in his life, but is a math major. Interesting times…or catastrophism? ⚒️🪨🌎🌋

Last night’s windstorm reminds me of 30 years ago…a season that began with 50-80mph winds in December and ended with a 500 year flood event in early February after biblical scale snows/ice and rain.

30 years hence…the winter that climate change showed its face full throttle in the PNW. It began with a wind storm and ended with a 500 year flooding event…but in between was a snow/ice event unlike any I have seen before or since. #Climate #ClimateChange 🌎⌛️❄️🌬️🌊💧 youtu.be/bfVH7usmHkg

Hoping to get Blue ✔️ before the end of the Anthropocene. Feeling like that sign of approval may not come through in time. What was it for, again? #AnthropoceneManApproved #DubiousAchievement #Certified4EndOfTimes

Why does every iOS update result in less utility, lesser ease of use and just overall shite changes of “look” over function? This newest update makes everything harder to see. I don’t want a “liquid look”. I want clear and distinct symbology…Not see through borders. #iOS #Craptastic

The USPS is one of our greatest institutions and we need to protect it at all costs.

It’s not heart vs. head after all. Caring and thinking are intricately intertwined in making us more generous. Empathy and reasoning actually work together and people who have more of either one are more likely to help strangers and make choices that help the most people. buff.ly/N8UzfRE

Please congratulate my 15 year old daughter, whose Spotify age is 70

The mystery of the missing porcupines [via @highcountrynews.org]

I am all for miracles because the universe we live in is far richer than we can imagine. The alchemy of stars, hydrogen atoms seemingly awakening to explore themselves, the scale and depth of everything around us... nothing we know is short of a miracle.

“The scope of science is to ascertain truth in every possible branch of knowledge. There is no sphere of inquiry which lies outside the legitimate field of science. To draw a distinction between the scientific and philosophical fields is obfuscation.” The Grammar of Science Karl Pearson - 1892 🧪🌎⚒️

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Why become a geologist? Why get a degree in geology? It is certainly not a gateway to the easy life in the sciences. Never has been. Not sure such a path exists. There are those who (through hard work and opportunity) land career making jobs (looking at you, USGS!) but even then…

We might have thought that the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust were enough to inoculate us against the toxins there revealed and unleashed. But our resistance quickly fades. A new generation gladly abandons its critical and skeptical faculties. Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan.

How was it possible to have 8 geology-related jobs in a bit over a year in the 1980s? Graduated and returned to Topo Mapping I had been doing summers with USGS (1) Went to private cartography company (2), hated it, begged for old job back and got it(3).

Best line in Netflix movie Train Dreams: “The world needs a hermit in the mountains just as much as a preacher in a pulpit.” More…some might say.

Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild. Terrestrial edition. Marmot Fox Timber Rattler Cougar Black Bear

"Fire was very rare until the last 12,000 years, when humans were in the landscape. Here we show that, due to human activity, our present interglacial, the Holocene, has a distinctive vegetation composition and ecological trajectory compared with six previous interglacials."

You will be visited by 3 spirits The three spirits…

However you may celebrate the day…let us be thankful that a hospitable planet has made it all possible.

"We invented phonetic writing so we could put our sounds down on paper and, by glancing at a page, hear someone speaking in our head—an invention that became so widespread in the last few thousand years that we hardly ever stop to consider how astonishing it is." -Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions

More #LegendsOfGeology Ellen Morris Bishop from Oregon State University Her seminal book: In Search of Ancient Oregon, mixes her knowledge of earth history and #Geology, and her passion for photography to help bring the fascinating story of Oregon’s origins to life. ⚒️🪨🌋⏳🌎

Think about how many times I have fallen Spirits are using me, larger voices callin' What Heaven brought you and me cannot be forgotten CSN What’s say we not keep digging our grave? 🌎⏳🏭🔥⌛️