felinecannonball
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“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something... but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
Pseudonymous geologist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Signed up for too many starter packs.
Pseudonymous geologist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Signed up for too many starter packs.
Pinned
he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed
Once got asked by a construction worker whether I'd ever seen evidence of aliens in the rock record. He figured surveying a 4 billion year record would be better than looking at the sky.
Same might apply to the tracks of primordial black holes. Better to look at old rocks than survey ER nurses.
Same might apply to the tracks of primordial black holes. Better to look at old rocks than survey ER nurses.
Looking for good news, I found this:
If you were struck by a microscopic black hole, the mass of a small asteroid, it'd be no worse than a gunshot. And such black holes are definitely too rare to have "any observable effects on the human population." 🔭🧪
www.sciencealert.com/what-if-a-ti...
If you were struck by a microscopic black hole, the mass of a small asteroid, it'd be no worse than a gunshot. And such black holes are definitely too rare to have "any observable effects on the human population." 🔭🧪
www.sciencealert.com/what-if-a-ti...
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Once got asked by a construction worker whether I'd ever seen evidence of aliens in the rock record. He figured surveying a 4 billion year record would be better than looking at the sky.
Same might apply to the tracks of primordial black holes. Better to look at old rocks than survey ER nurses.
Same might apply to the tracks of primordial black holes. Better to look at old rocks than survey ER nurses.
T-50 minutes
Astrophysics PhD Chris Williams is going to the ISS for eight months on November 27!! 🔭 physics.mit.edu/news/bound-f...
Bound for the Stars: Chris Williams PhD ’12 Set for ISS Launch on November 27, 2025
On November 27, 2025, Christopher L. Williams PhD ’12 will begin an approximately eight-month stay aboard the International Space Station. He joined NASA’s Astronaut Candidate Class in December 2021 a...
physics.mit.edu
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
T-50 minutes
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'In anticipation of the proposed cuts – 25% overall and, crucially, a 47% cut to NASA’s science spending – NASA has flagged 40 major projects, including 23 active missions, for closure.'
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Who will take the lead in space research as NASA cuts bite?
Proposed cuts to the NASA budget, which threaten US university-based space research programmes as well as joint space missions, have left internationa...
www.universityworldnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
'In anticipation of the proposed cuts – 25% overall and, crucially, a 47% cut to NASA’s science spending – NASA has flagged 40 major projects, including 23 active missions, for closure.'
🧪 🔭
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I love this! @jessicashortall.bsky.social
Peace Corps, USAID, State, FCS, military, whatever. Anyone who served abroad has stories like this one. It’s one of the reasons we do (or, like me, did) what we do as public servants.
Happy Thanksgiving to all who serve-wherever you find your turkey.
Peace Corps, USAID, State, FCS, military, whatever. Anyone who served abroad has stories like this one. It’s one of the reasons we do (or, like me, did) what we do as public servants.
Happy Thanksgiving to all who serve-wherever you find your turkey.
Maybe I’ll tell y’all about Thanksgiving in Uzbekistan, where I was in the peace corps 2000-2001.
I lived in a town; nearest American lived in a qishloq - a true village. A few of us somehow figured out to meet there. (How? No internet, no phones. No recollection of how we planned anything.) 1/
I lived in a town; nearest American lived in a qishloq - a true village. A few of us somehow figured out to meet there. (How? No internet, no phones. No recollection of how we planned anything.) 1/
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I love this! @jessicashortall.bsky.social
Peace Corps, USAID, State, FCS, military, whatever. Anyone who served abroad has stories like this one. It’s one of the reasons we do (or, like me, did) what we do as public servants.
Happy Thanksgiving to all who serve-wherever you find your turkey.
Peace Corps, USAID, State, FCS, military, whatever. Anyone who served abroad has stories like this one. It’s one of the reasons we do (or, like me, did) what we do as public servants.
Happy Thanksgiving to all who serve-wherever you find your turkey.
Once made "chocolate chip
cookies" in a frying pan over a camel dung flame using sheep lard instead of butter and chocolate chips from instant oatmeal packets.
Sometimes it's more about sharing a dream than the inevitable sad outcome.
cookies" in a frying pan over a camel dung flame using sheep lard instead of butter and chocolate chips from instant oatmeal packets.
Sometimes it's more about sharing a dream than the inevitable sad outcome.
Maybe I’ll tell y’all about Thanksgiving in Uzbekistan, where I was in the peace corps 2000-2001.
I lived in a town; nearest American lived in a qishloq - a true village. A few of us somehow figured out to meet there. (How? No internet, no phones. No recollection of how we planned anything.) 1/
I lived in a town; nearest American lived in a qishloq - a true village. A few of us somehow figured out to meet there. (How? No internet, no phones. No recollection of how we planned anything.) 1/
November 27, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Once made "chocolate chip
cookies" in a frying pan over a camel dung flame using sheep lard instead of butter and chocolate chips from instant oatmeal packets.
Sometimes it's more about sharing a dream than the inevitable sad outcome.
cookies" in a frying pan over a camel dung flame using sheep lard instead of butter and chocolate chips from instant oatmeal packets.
Sometimes it's more about sharing a dream than the inevitable sad outcome.
Everything was baffling about this cricket game until the announcer said 6 overs and 7 of 132 (or something) and the kids went crazy and did the 6 7 dance. [Announcer thought they were big fans of the batter.]
November 27, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Everything was baffling about this cricket game until the announcer said 6 overs and 7 of 132 (or something) and the kids went crazy and did the 6 7 dance. [Announcer thought they were big fans of the batter.]
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Terrible.
Lakanwal is a name suggesting a family origin in Khost Province, where thousands of Afghans worked with the US government over the years in many capacities that made them SIV- or P1-eligible—civil society, provincial government, interpreters, the CIA’s Khost Protection Force, and so on.
Lakanwal is a name suggesting a family origin in Khost Province, where thousands of Afghans worked with the US government over the years in many capacities that made them SIV- or P1-eligible—civil society, provincial government, interpreters, the CIA’s Khost Protection Force, and so on.
2 National Guard members shot in Washington, D.C.; suspect in custody, identified as 29-year-old Afghan national, sources say
Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot a few blocks from the White House in Washington, D.C., and a suspect is in custody, identified as a 29-year-old Afghan national, sources say.
www.cbsnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Terrible.
Lakanwal is a name suggesting a family origin in Khost Province, where thousands of Afghans worked with the US government over the years in many capacities that made them SIV- or P1-eligible—civil society, provincial government, interpreters, the CIA’s Khost Protection Force, and so on.
Lakanwal is a name suggesting a family origin in Khost Province, where thousands of Afghans worked with the US government over the years in many capacities that made them SIV- or P1-eligible—civil society, provincial government, interpreters, the CIA’s Khost Protection Force, and so on.
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"We can take it for granted that Trump and his advisors would greet a terrorist attack as an obvious chance to blame their chosen enemies, advance their project of authoritarian regime change, and distract from their own perilous follies. (1/2)
Some common sense to remember in a trying time.
Originally written in April 2025
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
Originally written in April 2025
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
The Next Terrorist Attack
And What Comes After (Updated)
snyder.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"We can take it for granted that Trump and his advisors would greet a terrorist attack as an obvious chance to blame their chosen enemies, advance their project of authoritarian regime change, and distract from their own perilous follies. (1/2)
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Threadlet.
With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Threadlet.
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simply grotesque. unsurprising, playing to discrimination and ignorance as this wretched admin always does.
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
simply grotesque. unsurprising, playing to discrimination and ignorance as this wretched admin always does.
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Very "Blue Steel" :)
One of the fun southern #CostaRica specialties, the Speckled Tanager. In San Vito, Puntarenas.
#birds #green #nature
#birds #green #nature
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Very "Blue Steel" :)
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Is it just me, or does Antarctica look pissed off?
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Is it just me, or does Antarctica look pissed off?
This is bait ... for your geologist aunt and uncle to get out their handlenses.
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
This is bait ... for your geologist aunt and uncle to get out their handlenses.
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Oh man. Such a bummer. Here are several of my visits to Mendenhall from 2014, 2022 & 2023.
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Oh man. Such a bummer. Here are several of my visits to Mendenhall from 2014, 2022 & 2023.
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Water level since yesterday morning at Grand Marais, Minnesota (northwest shore of Lake Superior) and Point Iroquois, Michigan (southeast end of Lake Superior).
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Water level since yesterday morning at Grand Marais, Minnesota (northwest shore of Lake Superior) and Point Iroquois, Michigan (southeast end of Lake Superior).
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I’m getting a lot of baking stuff done over the next several days and thought “Hey, I haven’t made bagels in a hot minute!”. So I’m going to give you a tutorial of how to make bagels, slightly modified from the formula in the Bread Baker’s Apprentice book by Reinhardt. Yummy bagels tomorrow night!
November 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I’m getting a lot of baking stuff done over the next several days and thought “Hey, I haven’t made bagels in a hot minute!”. So I’m going to give you a tutorial of how to make bagels, slightly modified from the formula in the Bread Baker’s Apprentice book by Reinhardt. Yummy bagels tomorrow night!
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Social science takes time. Here, social scientists analyze a decade of evidence to show that a Supreme Court decision designed to suppress the black vote actually did. SCOTUS may soon obliterate the rest of the Voting Rights Act and we should not be shy about calling out what's going on here.
As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Social science takes time. Here, social scientists analyze a decade of evidence to show that a Supreme Court decision designed to suppress the black vote actually did. SCOTUS may soon obliterate the rest of the Voting Rights Act and we should not be shy about calling out what's going on here.
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Nice panoramic Mastcam mosaic incoming from Perseverance
marslife.org
#Mars Nov. 25, 2025 - Sol 1694 🧪🔭
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/ASU/MarsLife
marslife.org
#Mars Nov. 25, 2025 - Sol 1694 🧪🔭
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/ASU/MarsLife
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Nice panoramic Mastcam mosaic incoming from Perseverance
marslife.org
#Mars Nov. 25, 2025 - Sol 1694 🧪🔭
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/ASU/MarsLife
marslife.org
#Mars Nov. 25, 2025 - Sol 1694 🧪🔭
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/ASU/MarsLife
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My housekeeper, too. She'd been in process for years - married to a US citizen, two (adult) US citizen kids. . . All of sudden, she told me (with a huge smile) that she had been sworn in as a US citizen. A month later, they start seizing people at status meetings.
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My housekeeper, too. She'd been in process for years - married to a US citizen, two (adult) US citizen kids. . . All of sudden, she told me (with a huge smile) that she had been sworn in as a US citizen. A month later, they start seizing people at status meetings.
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Washington, joined by 20 other states and the District of Columbia, accuses the Trump administration’s U.S. Department of Agriculture of illegally rewriting the rules for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, called SNAP. www.courthousenews.com/states-sue-t...
States sue to block new limits on SNAP access for immigrants
In a lawsuit filed on the eve of Thanksgiving, the states are urging the court to block the Trump administration from narrowing food stamp eligibility.
www.courthousenews.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Washington, joined by 20 other states and the District of Columbia, accuses the Trump administration’s U.S. Department of Agriculture of illegally rewriting the rules for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, called SNAP. www.courthousenews.com/states-sue-t...
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Happy to see our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social, led by @canobarbacil.bsky.social, on long-term trends in coastal bird communities across 3 European seas. Bird abundance and diversity have increased over time, thanks to the role of protected areas. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Happy to see our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social, led by @canobarbacil.bsky.social, on long-term trends in coastal bird communities across 3 European seas. Bird abundance and diversity have increased over time, thanks to the role of protected areas. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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I both think this is impossible and also think that it is highly probable
According to his wife, Stephen Miller eats only mayonnaise.
I cannot decide if this disgusting fact is the most or least surprising thing I've read this week.
I cannot decide if this disgusting fact is the most or least surprising thing I've read this week.
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I both think this is impossible and also think that it is highly probable
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New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most controvers...
theins.press
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...