Elizabeth Bollen
@amphibolizard.bsky.social
Geologist 🪨 PhD, nature lover 🌼, gardener, chili pepper farmer 🌶️
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The StarTribune live blog is paywall free:
- The man shot by federal agents this morning has died
- Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building.
- ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- The man shot by federal agents this morning has died
- Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building.
- ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 24, 2026 at 4:47 PM
The StarTribune live blog is paywall free:
- The man shot by federal agents this morning has died
- Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building.
- ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- The man shot by federal agents this morning has died
- Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building.
- ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
So, why are crampons allowed in a carry-on bag (at TSAs discretion), but microspikes are not? According to the TSA website.
Snow chains for feet? No, too dangerous.
Knife feet? Sure!
Snow chains for feet? No, too dangerous.
Knife feet? Sure!
January 22, 2026 at 11:04 PM
So, why are crampons allowed in a carry-on bag (at TSAs discretion), but microspikes are not? According to the TSA website.
Snow chains for feet? No, too dangerous.
Knife feet? Sure!
Snow chains for feet? No, too dangerous.
Knife feet? Sure!
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The ICE administrative warrant memo gives its officers authority greater than the general warrants used by the English that the 4th Amendment was designed to prevent. It allows law enforcement to enter homes based on "warrants" that they themselves approve, removing any external check.
January 21, 2026 at 10:47 PM
The ICE administrative warrant memo gives its officers authority greater than the general warrants used by the English that the 4th Amendment was designed to prevent. It allows law enforcement to enter homes based on "warrants" that they themselves approve, removing any external check.
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Good morning, I got about three hours of sleep last night--too much anticipation for what tonight could shape up to be. Here is the NOAA SWPC ENLIL model for the X1.9 CME. The impact time is identical to NASA's prediction - 1 UT Jan 20 or 7 pm CST Jan 19. Tonight is the night!
January 19, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Good morning, I got about three hours of sleep last night--too much anticipation for what tonight could shape up to be. Here is the NOAA SWPC ENLIL model for the X1.9 CME. The impact time is identical to NASA's prediction - 1 UT Jan 20 or 7 pm CST Jan 19. Tonight is the night!
Our New Years ramen turned out phenomenal. Complete with chashu pork, marinated egg, fresh radish, and pickled lotus root! 🍜
January 1, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Our New Years ramen turned out phenomenal. Complete with chashu pork, marinated egg, fresh radish, and pickled lotus root! 🍜
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An important work from a rediscovered artist has been absent from public view since the 1970s. A New York curator is hunting for it. n.pr/4qfSDVj
This painting is missing. Do you have it?
An important work from a rediscovered artist has been absent from public view since the 1970s. A New York curator is hunting for it.
n.pr
December 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
An important work from a rediscovered artist has been absent from public view since the 1970s. A New York curator is hunting for it. n.pr/4qfSDVj
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Here's a long shot: a big orphan pebble collection from the USGS, yours if you can take and treasure it. See alt text
December 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Here's a long shot: a big orphan pebble collection from the USGS, yours if you can take and treasure it. See alt text
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We're back December 13th, for our annual Fat Squirrel Peppers Holiday Booth at Tuscaloosa River Market. We'll have lots of our custom spice blends and salsas available for purchase, and maybe a holiday sale or two. So come on by, we've missed you!
December 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
We're back December 13th, for our annual Fat Squirrel Peppers Holiday Booth at Tuscaloosa River Market. We'll have lots of our custom spice blends and salsas available for purchase, and maybe a holiday sale or two. So come on by, we've missed you!
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![Comic: Typical Geologic core sample. [Cylindrical core sample with labels for difference sections from top to bottom] Topsoil, till, granite bedrock, bottomsoil, roof of subway car, floor of subway car, more granite, municipal water main [gouge in core sample], slightly different granite, piece of screaming spelunker’s forearm, cool crystals with no resale value, mangled fragments of drillbit from previous attempt, some boring intrusive rock that’s basically granite but has a name like “diorite” or “Andalite” that you always have to look up, netherrack, Balrog wing. [break between next chunk of core sample] Granite, topsoil, cement, floorboards, carpet, possessions of a confused and angry homeowner in the other hemisphere.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicffnydtpbb2x24cfbblv2qtcwbr37zyw44vtqx47ocj2a26b2j2u@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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UGH! When will it end. 😭
"Effective October 15, 2025, due to non-renewed funding, NSIDC has suspended or reduced several Sea Ice Today tools and services."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
"Effective October 15, 2025, due to non-renewed funding, NSIDC has suspended or reduced several Sea Ice Today tools and services."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
October 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
UGH! When will it end. 😭
"Effective October 15, 2025, due to non-renewed funding, NSIDC has suspended or reduced several Sea Ice Today tools and services."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
"Effective October 15, 2025, due to non-renewed funding, NSIDC has suspended or reduced several Sea Ice Today tools and services."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
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Irony is officially, terminally, dead
Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."
October 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Irony is officially, terminally, dead
It's finally time for Skinktober!
What's that? No, I'm pretty sure it was never called anything else.
#art 🦢
What's that? No, I'm pretty sure it was never called anything else.
#art 🦢
October 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.
Trump administration uses taxpayer dollars to blame Democrats for government shutdown
Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.
n.pr
September 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.
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Trump is asking us to start choosing groups we're willing to abandon, and the only way to make him stop is to be clear we're not fucking abandoning ANYONE.
Call your reps. Call your fucking reps. Especially in red states. Use the @5calls.org app, it's easy and free.
Call your reps. Call your fucking reps. Especially in red states. Use the @5calls.org app, it's easy and free.
Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned
The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.
www.thepinknews.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Trump is asking us to start choosing groups we're willing to abandon, and the only way to make him stop is to be clear we're not fucking abandoning ANYONE.
Call your reps. Call your fucking reps. Especially in red states. Use the @5calls.org app, it's easy and free.
Call your reps. Call your fucking reps. Especially in red states. Use the @5calls.org app, it's easy and free.
White murupi peppers looking good, pic is from a few weeks ago. Still about a month left in the season 💪🌶️
September 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
White murupi peppers looking good, pic is from a few weeks ago. Still about a month left in the season 💪🌶️
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Whoooaaaaa
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Whoooaaaaa
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I like Elizabeth Warren a lot but the musician’s union is out-posting her, and no, posting is not policy but it is a method of communicating and it could! be! better!
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The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”
September 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I like Elizabeth Warren a lot but the musician’s union is out-posting her, and no, posting is not policy but it is a method of communicating and it could! be! better!
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Mystery clam! One of my Oregon fossil sites is full of these clams… I know nothing about clams… trying to at least get a family(?) level ID? @dantheclamman.blog
September 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Mystery clam! One of my Oregon fossil sites is full of these clams… I know nothing about clams… trying to at least get a family(?) level ID? @dantheclamman.blog
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1. You may have heard of book bans before, but the new one in Alabama takes the cake.
The Alabama Public Library Service has a new proposal that would ban—get this—only "positive depictions" of trans people.
The hearing is next month. Public comment is open.
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The Alabama Public Library Service has a new proposal that would ban—get this—only "positive depictions" of trans people.
The hearing is next month. Public comment is open.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
"Positive Depictions" Of Trans People Banned In Alabama State Libraries Proposal
The code change that has been proposed does not ban negative depictions of transgender people, however. Public comment is open until October 14.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
1. You may have heard of book bans before, but the new one in Alabama takes the cake.
The Alabama Public Library Service has a new proposal that would ban—get this—only "positive depictions" of trans people.
The hearing is next month. Public comment is open.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
The Alabama Public Library Service has a new proposal that would ban—get this—only "positive depictions" of trans people.
The hearing is next month. Public comment is open.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Woah 😨🤯
The 6-5 Fire has burned over a large chunk or serpentine rocks and soil that make up the Red Hills ACEC. It is home to many amazing endemic species of flowers and even extremophile fish. Recent studies show hot fires on serpentine soils creates hexavalent chromium. 😬😬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Woah 😨🤯
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He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago.
Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
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this is the first time a major Democratic elected has actually told his supporters what they can do in the face of this as far as I can tell
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment:
"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
September 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
this is the first time a major Democratic elected has actually told his supporters what they can do in the face of this as far as I can tell
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To think this was a joke a couple years ago 😮💨
August 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
To think this was a joke a couple years ago 😮💨
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Fujianvenator
August 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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One of the coolest photos I’ve ever seen
Calm on the left, hurricane winds on the right!
📸August 16: Images from the NOAA Hurricane Hunter and our NOAA Satellites Ocean Winds team show an intense eyewall in Hurricane #Erin This photo shows the ocean surface calm in the eye and roaring in the eyewall. For the latest forecast visit hurricanes.gov
August 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
One of the coolest photos I’ve ever seen