Not going to lie…it’s been challenging AF in #WarRavagedPortland today. But still found a break in the action to work on one of my favorite pine #Bonsai during one of the moments of calm. I do hope all the senseless #Ravagery and #Chaos subsides and the #SiegeOfPortland ends peacefully. #Portland

Last post of the day, from #WarRavagedPortland Things got pretty dicey today, after the drones were launched. Not sure their capabilities or intent…even means of launch looks suspect. Hoping to make it to morning. #CityUnderSeige #TheRavagery #BattleOfPortlandia #NeverForget #September29

Coming to you live from #WarRavagedPortland Things continue to escalate… Scene at Pioneer Square is truly #Barbaric #CityUnderSeige #TheRavagery #BattleOfPortlandia #WarRavagedPortland #NeverForget #September29

#WarRavagedPortlanf never looked so calm…but is it the calm before the StormTroopers? #SelfFulfillingProfitsScene

Not going to lie…it’s pretty Dodgy in #WarRavagedPortland right now. It’s also pretty Fordy and Chevy and Volvoey. #ResistanceIsFertile

Ravages, ravages, barely more than humane… youtu.be/8al5cSQNmME

O Portland! Show us your war-ravaged brunches! Show us the shitshow of your autumnal gardens and parks! Show us your cute dogs and cats and other animals in the chaos of your shattered homes!

Coming to you live from #WarRavagedPortland I will post as long as I am able, with updates on the action and on the scenes accounts of the ravagery. It is oddly silent at present…as if there actually is no war at all. #UnfuckingBelievable #UnPresidented #UnAmerican #Oregon #Politics #MAGAnonsense

Who missed this day in #Geology 101? ⚒️🪨

Test. A picture has been posted. This concludes the test.

Today is #Bonsai Day! Celebrate (and water) appropriately.

Imagine the #Perovskite Starship is ready for its scientific mission. Make sure your seatbelts are securely fastened and enjoy the ride. See more below. Vote for the future. #VotePerovskite Mineral Cup. Anyone can play. Vote below. #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

Who had Fascism, McCarthyism and Authoritarianism on their Bingo Card for 2025? I feel stupid because I only had Racism, AntiIntellectualism and Financial Failure. War Mongering was the free space…again, as usual. #MakeAmericaCraterAgain #SameOldRepublicanShite #PartyOfPersistentFailure

Potted up this very proto-bonsai for a friend. Perfect starter tree…really only requires morning sun/afternoon shade, water, fertilizer once a year and a bit of trimming from time to time. Bones are there…could be a good little tree in 5 more years. #Bonsai #MakeGoodChoices #HappyLittleTrees

Day 0 until it is “Still too soon to talk about gun control.” #MakeAmericaGunnierAgain

Interesting…

Feeling all of this… youtube.com/shorts/ilry6... ⚒️🌎🌋🧪🪨⏳🔥

All the polar region GeoEngineering analysis coverage has me thinking… All that we are Is all that we need to be All that we know Is you and machinery We're engineers We are your heartbeat We are your night life We are your 'low-line' We keep you alive for now We're engineers youtu.be/tLueX5MfhBs

Keep your chin up, fellow sciencers! youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w... 🌎🧪⚒️🌋❄️🏔️⛏️🦕⏳

Juniperus chinensis pyramidalis #Bonsai 🌱🇳🇿 Took all the wire off last night. First time seeing it without wire since styling gradually over the past year. Now also ready for the preying mantis eggs to hatch without me thrashing about unwinding wire.

Slightly diminish a book… Catch-21

I did a lot of work in the Holocene… Just helping the Anthropocene get its start. #Anthropocene #ClimateChange #MakeGoodChoices

I can get behind that arrangement! #MakeElementsOrganizedAgain!

In a new development, there appears to be an associated #MakeMetalsGreatAgain movement that is swelling across the US. Cinnabar-dyed hats are reportedly evaporating off retail counters at truck stops everywhere…along with realgar-based tanning lotion. #MinCup25

This just in…Nate Silver has just projected that silver…a known element, not mineral…as the overall winner of #MinCup25 When will the madness end? #MinCup #MakeGoodChoices #ElementsAreMinerals2?

Feature or flaw? Once a throw away tree, decided to pot, chop a few major limbs and see what develops. Spruce are quite brittle once limbs >1/4”, so setting some limbs will need to take place soon. Moving crown to accentuate or hide the two previous cuts? Thoughts?? #Bonsai #MakeGoodChoices

Feature or flaw? Once a throw away tree, decided to pot, chop a few major limbs and see what develops. Spruce are quite brittle once limbs >1/4”, so setting some limbs will need to take place soon. Moving crown to accentuate or hide the two previous cuts? Thoughts? #Bonsai #MakeGoodChoices

@organiccarbon.bsky.social I feel like RageAgainstTheMiocene and AnthropoceneMan are both selling the same “Let’s Not Go There” vibe?

"two primary causes: rising temperatures unleashed by using oil and gas, and widespread overpumping of water...eventually ends up as rain, measurably increasing sea level rise." 👀 "now contribute more to sea level rise than melting of mountain glaciers or the Antarctic or Greenland ice sheets."

This Is Geoscience is a new campaign launched by @geolsoc.bsky.social to showcase the sector's societal value and highlight career opportunities for the geoscientists of tomorrow. Discover more here: geoscientist.online/sections/new... #geoscience #geology #careers

I have a Cray at my side To remind me that my mind’s not fit To tell me all I need to do To tell me how to do it I’ve no need for remembering I’ve shed all need for thought I am happier in my newfound luxury I am happy to follow the bot

I have a Cray at my side To remind me that my mind’s not fit To tell me all I need to do To tell me how to do it I’ve no need for remembering I’ve shed all need for thought I am happier in my newfound luxury I am happy to follow the bot

Short Birds Nest Spruce with massive canopy. These trees (ground cover habit) seem like an easy species to cultivate as bonsai…due to their easy back budding and almost natural/inevitable pad formation. Getting them to spread vertically is a bit of a challenge… #Bonsai #MakeGoodChoices

Hinoki Cypress split trunk. This tree must be nearing 10 years in my care…after 10ish years in the back pasture of a local nursery. Been trying to bring canopy down/and compact…but they want to be leggy and don’t back bud! The winter storm took out some minor limbs. #Bonsai #MakeGoodChoices

A bendy Pinus Contorta in a free from #Bonsai pot from a local potter. This tree was a stowaway in a field collected hemlock I purchased at a local garden shop years ago. A nice bonus! About 6-7 years old now. #MakeGoodChoices

#Soils #Japan #Geology #Akadama #Bonsai #Andisols #Weathering Can you help? I continue to research the formation of Akadama soils from volcanic products under unique circumstances in the Kanuma City area of #Japan If you know the genesis of these soils…help! Putting out the call anew… ⚒️🪨🌋🧪🌲🌎

Specifically interested in information on the deposited materials (volcanic mudflows?) and the setting (valley fills to form low terraces in Kanuma, Japan) and deep weathering to allophane, gibbsite & imogolite characteristic of Akadama soils exported worldwide.

Conifer row… A bunch of swarthy pines and hemlocks and other stuff in the “hot zone” of the garage…newly rebuilt after last year’s devastating storm cleaved it with a falling fir. This is the location where all my bonsai were to shelter from the icy winds! #Bonsai #MakeGoodChoices

One of my oldest “ #bonsai ”…but the trunk’s a mess and had thickened into reverse taper before I got it. It barely qualifies…but in 8 weeks…it will be a showy beast of yellow, orange and red. I have tried to move it toward a path of legitimacy…but will instead just appreciate it for what it is.

Nice.. yep the club input can help lots. I was heading towards the opposite front on this but got a lucky 30mins with the club president & he pointed out the nebari flowing up to the trunk line along with position & angle of the first branch or sub leader helped the front seem to suit this side..

I’ve been chasing “the front” of this Japanese Larch for at least 4 years….hoping it will reveal itself to me. This is my best bonsai prospect, but all I see are tough choices ahead! I need to get the collective wisdom of the club to get me over the hump of this quandary! #Bonsai #MakeGoodChoices

Another deciduous azalea getting a late summer thinning/shaping and back on track for fall. Some major and minor limbs removed to open up the silhouette of trunk(s) and limbs. Azaleas offer a most pleasant amount of work/payoff after work is done. #Bonsai #MakeGoodChoices

My most presentable tree, a small Hinoki Cypress, cleaned up from a long and too busy year. Moss removal, some minor cleanup of branches/foliage and right side pulled down with raffia. This one was little effort and repotting/final shaping to come next winter/spring. #Bonsai #MakeGoodChoices

First relaxing morning in the newly inhabitable Bonsaitoranaseum. A bit of attention to the brood…starting with maples and azaleas. Mostly moving so more cleaning and paver work can be done…but while moving, can’t resist a couple hours of trimming and watering. #Bonsai #MakeGoodChoices

Every bonsai practitioner thinking “THOSE BELONG OUTSIDE!” #Bonsai #BonsaiHumor #ThatBelongsOutside

Niece works in one of the toughest schools in the state. Daughter recognized for creating a safe and inclusive space for learning at an assembly today. Other daughter teaches special education class. Wife starts her 36th year in the classroom. Son halfway through his prep to become an educator.

Brandolini's Law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

Self Fulfilling Profits “We corrupted social security to prove social security is corrupt.” “We broke the judiciary to prove the judiciary is broken” “We eliminated the separation of powers because it’s expedient.” “Our ends justify all the mean.” Mission Accomplished Grave Aftereffect

Palagonitised lapilli tuffs from subglacial volcano Cracked Mountain 🌋🇨🇦 line up for physical property measurements in Strasbourg! Will their properties vary as a function of distance from the dyke? 🧐 @alteringrocks.bsky.social

To be filed under fiddling through disaster filled times… Garage rebuilt, Backyard Bonsaitoranaseum being renovated to support future work…after being ignored for over a year. My proto-bonsai have managed to survive…some look better for the neglect, but most show some signs of minor neglect. 1/2