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Brent Ward

@geobrentatlarge.bsky.social

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SFU Earth Sciences, Quaternary Geologist, Cordilleran Ice Sheet, purveyor of Natural Hazards, Climate Change of the past and the future, Long suffering Canucks fan, loves woolly mammoths (he, him, his)

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Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 6h

Why would the reporters actually believe this and write it!

Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 11h

That woolly mammoth looks like it has ringworm and lost a lot of hair. Maybe that's why it went extinct?

Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 12h

Waiting for availability to open up here in British Columbia. I think it starts next week, right after Thanksgiving!

Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 13h

Does she really love it?
I get the same response when I correct some event in some historical drama.

Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 14h

Since I would suspect that things like this are already illegal, will it make a difference?

Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 14h

I am old enough to remember all the times it was announced there would be "Peace in the Middle East". As this article states, this will be difficult. Let's hope the killing stops. I would like to be optimistic about peace, but with extremists in control on all sides....
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ANALYSIS | Trump has promised 'eternal peace' in Gaza. But current ceasefire ignores key issues | CBC News

The sense of relief sweeping across the Middle East and beyond over the news that a ceasefire in Gaza is finally within sight is palpable. But negotiators have repeatedly stressed that the deal is jus...

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Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 17h

Well statistically, the batter is more likely to hit at least one of those pitches, no?

Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 17h

Stephen Miller is going to lose his mind!

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: A federal judge in Illinois has blocked Trump administration authorities from using force against journalists in the Chicago area — including threats or arrest or riot control weapons. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been there!
Looks like gravity always gets you down!

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 4d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 2d

That's really too bad!

Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 2d

Well it is usually algae, especially Chara, that produce the calcium carbonate bits that form the marl. So the local carbonate probably gave the water a high alkali content. That's my story and I am sticking to it.

Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting that it is quite common to get marls or diatomites in closed basins on landslides. Saw this on landslides in Peru, and lots of diatomites in the Columbia River Flood Basalts in the channeled Scablands. Sad that I will likely never run that trip again! Was thinking about that yesterday.

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.msnbc.com · 3d

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker explains what he believes is Donald Trump's real goal in normalizing a military presence in U.S. cities by dressing ICE and Border Patrol agents in military gear.

Watch:

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 3d

Flowers cover Chile's Atacama Desert in spring.

The Atacama Desert, in northern Chile, is covered in colourful flowers. The phenomenon, known as the 'flowering desert,' occurs in certain years when rainfall and temperatures coincide, awakening the desert's dormant seeds

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 3d

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

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Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 3d

That is amazing. So I am assuming this is a sandstone?

Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 4d

Well there is less syphilis now.....

Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 4d

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! You are making people work for it? Crazy!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 5d

'Remembrance' screenprint by Susan Point, contemporary First Nations, Musqueam Coast Salish artist, who works in the Coast Salish tradition #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print with symmetrical circular design in colours of red, blue, black and white, including repeated eye motifs as well as other symbolic forms

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Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 5d

Agreed, he is the one pulling most of the dangerous strings.

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Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 5d

The curmudgeonliness is strong in him tonight.

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Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 5d

Ya it is interesting how it changed from "somebody stabbed him" to "ya well he broke into a car and assaulted someone"

Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social · 5d

We had our own “Sargent Pepper” at the APEC protests in Vancouver in 1997.

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Protest and pepper spray at APEC Conference in 1997

On just the second day of the APEC Conference in Vancouver, student protesters clash in a violent and bitter battle with the RCMP. Aired Nov. 25, 1997 on CBC's The National.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 6d

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