Also see the Halifax explosion of 1917. Led to hundreds of eye operations, half of them enucleations, necessitated by flying glass.

Putting this here for my own reminder: Someone has painted "No ICE in...[Ames, IA, the USA]" on the sidewalk. It's on top of paint covering prior graffiti. Someone else (?) has written "they covered pro-Gaza but left anti-ICE" next to it…but the thing is, "they" didn't.

Went to the National Zoo in Washington D.C. today, & as a geologist I was horrified by the overcrowded conditions of the caged rocks there. Let them fall freely, as rocks are meant to do! 🪨

Good news, Boston friends! Today we might have successfully dodged a meteor strike!

I made this back in 2017 on Twitter and it's been stolen so many times so I better post it here too before someone else does! 🧪⚒️ #geology #minerals #volcanology

I cannot tell you how many golf balls we found using an ROV in the Pacific over the years, but even 50 nautical miles out to sea it was way too many.

With Friday strike, over 200 people killed by US military in alleged drug boat strikes. Overwhelming consensus of experts, myself included, assess these to be murder because no armed conflict (and war crime if it were armed conflict). 200 killed also raises serious question: crime against humanity

I am never, ever going to accept computer generated picture-mush garbage for my kid, myself, or for ANYONE. We all deserve art and pictures that are made with care and consideration, be it an illustration or a photograph. Anyone who can't see this has irrevocably lost my trust.

"Private security guards" (also known as "mercenaries") are now aiding state and federal forces in suppressing the anti-concentration-camp movement.

Dr Evil has reviewed today’s agenda, and declined. #caturday

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met a very suspicious little fren today

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The goodest road trip buddies

Galapagos Octopus O what a Joye to us! Galapagos Octopus Do what you do! Raucous and Bumptious, Galapagos Octopus! Azure and Splendorous -- Tinye and blue!

In case you missed it. In case you don’t get it. Read this, then see my earlier posts for the link for public comment as this administration tries to kill the competitive grant process, where the ability of scientists to do good science is judged by… GASP! Other scientists!

Grants = grad students. It means fucking over a bright and talented twenty something about halfway through their PhD or Master's. *All* of our technical workforce, whether they go into industry, public service, or academia start off as bright and talented twenty somethings doing this.

Oh how I wish I could go see this!

…how're you gonna call yourself a mammal & not be properly endothermic?!

These people are captives of a concentration camp fighting back against their heavily armed captors with only their bodies. Their heroism is extraordinary. Thank you to all of the protesters standing with and for them.

hard to emphasize how much power this takes away from career civil servants and experts/scientists and gives it to trump and his deputies like vought. spitting in the face of congress and the rule of law

Most of the national state fair discussion has been about the musical acts, but can we talk about how nationalizing the idea of a state fair homogenizes everything good about them?

The 12yo has declared it Vancouver Island Marmot Day! One of Canada’s most critically endangered mammals, Marmota vancouverensis only live in meadows facing south to west, above 1000 m (3300’) elevation on Vancouver Island … but they have been staging a quiet comeback and we are here for it!

I don't know who needs to hear this, but even IF they were LEGALLY detaining murders, rapists, pedophiles, and drug dealers, the punishment is detention. Not mistreatment, malnurishment, and substandard living spaces. FFS

New video on our Fish Leather Workshop at @uwmadison.bsky.social! Kudos to our communications team for always being excellent! @uwiscseagrant.bsky.social youtu.be/Tnv7U3KdUYU?...

i was such an avid reader of stuff i did not even get CLOSE to understanding as a kid and all it did was make me read more, and ask more questions about the world. there's a concerted effort from almost every consolidated power on this planet to make people less curious!!!!

Did we even formally do this with the Soviet Union during the actual by God "nuclear war at any moment" Cold War?

I’ve finally completed & made available a small series of my print “Our Fate is Tied To That of The Insects”. People kept asking for the one that is on exhibit. Get your native bee & pollinator propaganda now! minouette.etsy.com/listing/4512... #linocut #printmaking 🧵🧪 #nativeBees #pollinators

here's a great chance to tell OPM how funny it's going to be when they try pulling out an NDA like this in front of a Federal Judge

Supper clubs are in fact all that. Variety in Midwest slightly-fancy foods, nicer than a bar but not Fancy-fancy, better than any chain, & ice-cream drinks. Cheese curds, too.

the books are the college. the herbarium is the botanical heritage of a whole region and generations of faculty the spanish department is there to let farm kids encounter the world you would have us crawl like dogs and do tv/vcr repair

My hometown isn't known for anything, but, Wisconsin: cream puffs ain't shit. Put some flavor in there for crying out loud; better still, cream*cheese*.

This misrepresents the bill. It redefines life as fertilization, so it affects certain kinds of birth control (like some IUD's) as well as IVF embryos. It's not just abortion providers.

And there you have it. The anti trans campaign in Maine was never some "grassroots movement." It was bankrolled by billionaire Richard Uihlein, who poured over $800,000 into targeting trans kids over sports and bathrooms.

Hey, are there any women in cutting-edge clothing design? At all right now? Because heading into summer I'm looking for a cooling bra. Wish me luck!

My safety coordinator at work shared this with me today. youtu.be/3qiI1P1rP6E?...

Friends! Allow me to introduce you to one particular variant of the scholar-beauty novels of China (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caizi_j...): the 19th-century wuxia novels (like Wen K’ang's THE GALLANT MAID) in which the martial artist is the woman and the beauty-in-need-of-rescuing is the male scholar.

Part of the dynamic here is that surveillance systems are too readily accepted as a cheaper alternative to larger necessary investments in public safety infrastructure, like better housing, healthcare, and safer, more well-designed roads for pedestrians and children.

“The plan will essentially transform school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles, taking a technology that was originally designed to issue tickets to people illegally passing stopped buses and using it for much wider and general law enforcement, likely without a warrant.”

The 12yo has declared it Iridogorgia chewbacca Awareness Day! Looking like a standing figure covered in hair, this newly discovered deep-sea bamboo coral has been named after a certain beloved Wookie. (Not beloved by the 12yo who just appreciates coral, but derisively refers to “that space Yeti”).

I used this to clean up a load of accounts who don't exist, are suspended or have blocked me (the bastards) recently. Needs an app password set up via settings. cleanfollow-bsky.pages.dev Might be of use. I know this is more of a tidy up situation but spring clean, might as well get rid.

Day 26 of #CoverBirds! Amongst the silliness are a few covers I would like to make real and this is one of them. The coverbird for “Poster Birds” is a Brewer’s Blackbird, perched on a lichen-capped fence post #birds (1/4)

This is brilliant. Romance has long been a giant in the publishing world (it outsells any other fiction genres). It's got incredibly potential for reaching a large number of people.

507) Ricebot. There's nothing worse when you're cooking some lovely rice than having it go all gloopy and stick together. Avoid this tragedy with this robot that breaks up clumps of rice as it cooks. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Okay, so obviously this is very dumb, but for an explanation of why: The "rules being eased" is really "unwinding the phase-out of HFC refrigerants." HFCs are responsible for the extremely high global warming potential of refrigerants, and our previous saner government was working to fix this 1/x

my sincere hope for this moment is that people understand that these reports apply to every detention site, and that detention in of itself is a potential death sentence for anyone in this country no one should experience these horrors regardless of what they’re accused of

Crews are hard at work up and down the Los Angeles River, including multiple spots in Long Beach, cleaning up after thousands of gallons of crude oil leaked from a ruptured pipeline in East LA Friday. Read more from @brandonrichardson.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/east-la-oil-...

Took the scruffian out beach rambling and he had the time of his life. Also took his first train journey and he was a star.

I'd say erased but anyway a reminder that Memorial Day started because African American Charlestonians took it upon themselves to give a proper burial to the union soldiers

People really struggle with this concept but: How will you prove YOU deserve due process if you aren’t afforded due process?