Clearly not enough people are familiar with gorgeous chatoyant #sanidine phenocrysts in rhyolite tuffs based on current voting patterns 😣 #MinCup25

#Calcite is nice and Iceland spar is pretty cool, but it has nothing on #Perovskite, easy choice in today’s #MinCup25 vote.

Has to be team danger to start off this year’s #MinCup25 for me! #TeamChrysotile #Chrysotile

Just experienced the worst customer service from @giffgaffnetwork.bsky.social. Ordered a new phone on special offer (£90 off), DPD lost it after attempting delivery to the wrong address, and now GiffGaff refuse to send a replacement and say I’ll have to pay the extra £90 if I want a new phone 🤬🤬🤬

More highly questionable calls from AF. Not a stretch to say that the Lions have won this series in spite of Farrell, not because of him. About time to appoint a Lions head coach who isn’t in charge of one of the home nations. #Lions #B&ILions #rugby www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

Very glad I’m no longer having to apply for F or J visas (or even live in the US). Pretty sure telling a consular official to go fuck yourself is unlikely to end in a successful application.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Because he’s a racist, and racist-pandering (i.e., the Republican base), c**t?

Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🌋

Wow, this final round of the #Masters 😳

“You’re a very smart guy”, kudos for saying that with a straight face, the only false words in the whole address. 🇨🇦

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

The ICC guarantees accountability for international crimes and gives a voice to victims worldwide. It must be able to freely pursue the fight against global impunity. Europe will always stand for justice and the respect of international law.

“Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch,” Buttigieg www.yahoo.com/news/buttigi...

Today, the Sentinel-2C spacecraft will take over from S2A in providing operational data. This is wonderful news, and will ensure continuity of the Sentinel data for many years to come. Great effort from the S2C commissioning team! See here for more info: sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel...

Four years ago, officers of the law stood their ground to protect Members of Congress and staff as violent insurrectionists stormed the Capitol. These brave officers were beaten, crushed, bear sprayed, maced, and left to defend democracy with their bare hands.

Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice. www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.

Made the switch to Bluesky. Hello, Bluesky! Decided my first post here should be an ancient #GPS receiver. It's the one from the #USSMidway - glad I don't have to carry that into the field! #gischat

A new visualization showing the Keeling Curve alongside the Antarctic ice core CO2 data. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5447

⚒️Asked ChatGPT to "draw a picture of a subduction zone". Some absolutely fantastic stuff in here... the more you look the better it gets. Gonna show this to my intro class and have them list "ten things wrong" with this picture. HINT: its pretty much all wrong😂

I seem to have upset the Nigel Farage fan club - so let me be clear. This man sows hate, lies and division. He is a grifter and a conman. He does not represent the vast majority of Britons. Repost if you agree P.s. multiculturalism is great.

Walks on Boxing Day have become a lot more interesting since moving to the #IsleofLewis

It's absolutely minging outside today, but we're going to have to pretend it isn't. Here's a picture from Coigach looking at Suilven in Assynt.

The commissioning phase of the Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite is now officially over 🛰️! S2C has met its requirements and it’s now ready to start operations, supporting a huge range of applications such as agriculture, emergency management or methane emissions monitoring. A great end to the year!

For the past six months my awesome team at Space Intelligence has been mapping land cover across central Africa to support EUDR compliance for cocoa and coffee suppliers. We’ve mapped > 100 billion 10m pixels (~ 1 billion hectares) across 12 countries for 2 time points. 🛰️ 🌍 🌳 🗺️ 🍫 ☕️

Otters everywhere.

#introduction post I’m a former #geology professor in the US, now back home in Edinburgh, Scotland, working as a geospatial professional. Currently a Senior Mapping Scientist at Space Intelligence, leading a team making satellite data-based land cover and biomass maps in support of #nbs projects.

Someone is waiting patiently to play in the snow! Those eyes say it all 😃

#Sentinel1c is up and communicating! www.esa.int/Applications... It is such an important mission. So many companies are building / have built businesses around the free and open data policies. #eochat #earthobservation

A reminder that earth.nullschool.net is a great resource for visualising the weather now. #StormDarragh visible in the surface image below; going to different pressure levels will help you see the jet stream. (Thanks @cambecc.bsky.social!)