Gettysburg oak at little round top. Diabase, spheroidal weathering

What a great idea!

Lit Brothers. A store from my childhood.

Philly #notaryhotel

Greeting card I printed today. Seemed appropriate given the times.

Achados de pesquisadores no sítio de Aguada Fénix mostram organização social única mais de mil anos antes de Cristo

Rampant bread cheese and meat lamination in our cities. The horror.

So many names spring to mind.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s... What does Trump have against NASA? Or science?

www.politico.com/news/2025/11... It points to California’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, among others, as having a “very expensive” contract structure …The document also proposed a case study for the agency to look at the lab’s purpose, asking with a seemingly skeptical tone, “What is ‘built’ at JPL?”

He seems determined to destroy what made us proud

Well done, Pennsylvania

Knock knock joke greeting card I just printed.

Australia has so much clean energy they're literally giving it away. Meanwhile, GOP is in all-out war to stamp out solar www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

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While this is good news I’m waiting for RFK Jr to come out in favor of drug resistance

“They were careless people,” Fitzgerald wrote, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

“Would Americans be so accepting if, instead of observing the detached remoteness of a missile from the clouds, we watched our servicemen board the vessels and simply execute everyone on board without asking a single question? It is, in every way, the same thing.”

This isn’t just an improper blending of church and state. It’s a twisted mockery of Christianity that ought to offend any actually devout Christian. Showing armed soldiers moving into battle as you lip service “… as we forgive those who trespass against us” sorta misses the point.

What could possibly go wrong?

We tend to be oblivious to the life spans of animals.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... It’s almost like we could learn from the past

How it was. How it’s going

OTD one year ago it was just 365 days short of today.

Stop me if you've heard this before, but this feels like a major escalation www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

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Bread

Wordle 1,592 2/6 ⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Very nice resource

But we dare not mention the title

Reykjavík

This is how you use tenure, people

That’s no ballroom…

Social security go up 2.8% next year. Inflation up 3% this quarter.

Moss covered basalt with columnar cooling

They know how to relax in public

So I keep typing specular reflectance on basalt and spellcheck insists it’s speculative

More columnar basalt

Glacier, basalt, outwash, clouds and sun.

On a day when 1/3 of a historic building was destroyed, enjoy some calm.

An unassuming gem in DC

Amazing columnar jointing.

And more moss covered lava

Rift

Law rock

Iceland 🇮🇸