Happy 300th birthday, James Hutton! You changed the way we view the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H... ⚒️

Can't speak, but can be present, and in a way that is more powerful still www.bbc.com/news/article...

Catalogues - Tuesday, June 2, 2026 1 guess 😻 🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...

When this monstrosity was announced (last week?), it was the most angry I have been since the attack on January 6. This news hits me as a relief.

What proportion (by volume) of this pebble is the original (gray) rock?

Classic graphing mistake of encoding in one dimension (length) but scaling in two (length and height). A 3X increasing registrations looks like 9X. The art deco vibe is impeccable, however. 📊

Ordinarily I skip these fad chains, but I happen to have a *very* cute cat on my phone from over the weekend so I will share her with you. Meet Juno:

Damn it all to hell. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c... ⚒️🌊

New video showing bedding/cleavage relationships in a roadside outcrop of Edinburg Formation: Ordovician limestone strata (with a dash of Taconian mud) overprinted by late Paleozoic Alleghanian mountain building. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcjd... ⚒️

Enjoying the benefits of societal investment in infrastructure today - visited friends in the DC suburbs yesterday and this morning took the Metro to the Amtrak and I'll take that back home to Charlottesville. $5+$18 for a three hour trip. 👍👍👍

WEATHER CHICKENS: If the chickens are wet, it's raining. If the chickens are not wet, it's not raining. If you can't see the chickens, it's foggy. If the chickens are spinning, it's windy. If the chickens are jumping up and down, it's an earthquake. If the chickens are missing, it's a tornado!

Meowie Antoinette

This is Randy’s wife, Betsy. I know he loved his bluesky people fiercely and truly valued being part of the community. It hurts me to have to share that he died last week. Here’s his obituary www.endersandshirley.com/obituary/ran.... Thank you all for your kindness and for making Randy feel seen.

I'm very tired of seeing Russel Vought's bearded chin in my feed. 👎

Vesicle pipes! (in the Esperanza Basalt, Baja California Sur, Mexico) ⚒️

Thinking like Hutton: Shaping the next 300 years. Royal Society of Edinburgh, 3 June, 6 pm. A panel led by Prof Iain Stewart will talk about James Hutton's legacy and how it shapes geosciences today. Popular event - in-person is full, but you can watch online. rse.org.uk/event/thinki...

I had to update my laptop today, and let me tell you people: the best panorama generating software is Microsoft Labs's Image Compositing Editor ('ICE,' unfortunately), discontinued in 2021, but still available via the Internet Archive.

A couple of details - Sand dollar fossil in the San Ignacio Fm. and vesicle pipe in the Esperanza Basalt. ⚒️

Newly processed GigaPan of one of the outcrops I saw in Mexico last month: San Ignacio Fm (marine) overlain by (deltaic) Atajo Fm, and finally the sediments are capped by the Esperanza Basalt (9.9 Ma), an important marker layer in central Baja. ⚒️

BRING BACK HEADPHONE JACKS ON MOBILE PHONES, YOU COWARDS

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Learning about Paso Robles geography... 🍷

Swamp Lemon today on the banks of the James River. #birds 🦉

𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘴!

"We have Star Wars at home" And it's Slavic folklore and contemporary history. [Popular media under-utilises East Europe as a setting]

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Mood

Feeling for my college friends this week --- one estranged from their family, one a newfound widow, one staring down divorce and losing custody of the kids. 🙁

Magnitude 6.0 earthquake 13 km S of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Beautiful UK rainfall-as-elevation map Wind direction plays a big role in UK rain. (By Alasdair Rae @undertheraedar) www.linkedin.com/posts/alasda...

We found an absolute ton of shell fossils from the Western Interior Seaway at a remote roadside site in Central Kansas last weekend. This is just a tiny fraction. I was looking really hard for a shark tooth, a personal life goal of mine lol 🤠 #FossilFriday #Paleontology #CretaceousPeriod

My "representative" in the U.S. House, ladies and gentlemen...

These annotations are killing me 😣 ⚒️

And you can shoot it into the stratosphere as a form of solar radiation management. ⚒️

New species for my Albemarle list today - the Semipalmated Plover. Two of them at Chris Greene Lake. #birds 🦉

Very well written - about one of our unique local landmarks. I gave a geology lecture there a couple summers ago; surely one of the more idiosyncratic places for a talk about Appalachian tectonics! ⚒️

YOU GUYS!! We live on a planet where the perfect combination of chemistry, atmospheric temperature and pressure, and geometry means that this ridiculously beautiful thing just HAPPENS sometimes!!! Earth is so damn neat! We have the best planet!

Okay, I'll bite: 1. Aretha Franklin 2. John Prine 3. Aimee Mann 4. Cake 5. The Pixies 6. Bèla Fleck & the Flecktones 7. Tito Puente 8. The Allman Brothers 9. The Indigo Girls 10. David Byrne

I realize I sound like old man yelling at clouds but... ...in my day WE READ ALL THE CITATIONS BEFORE WE CITED THEM. That's how you GAIN THE KNOWLEDGE TO CITE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE. Signed: Someone who literally read two whole books on the color blue just to write a single 1000 word article.

Yard frog 🐸

And wait until you see what the inside of their mouth looks like!! (Hint: YELLOW) #birds 🦉

That's better. The same source, ladies and gentlemen:

Oh come on.

#Birds on dead limbs 🦉

Wow, the news in the US suuuuuuucks. Very depressing. Logging off.

"The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world." - Alexander von Humboldt

A strained sandstone. From the William & Mary rock garden. ⚒️

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Amak Island #DY2603 #AlaskaSky #akwx 🧪🌊🦑