Jay Parrish
@kotranc.bsky.social
Geophysics, remote sensing, geobotany, art, humor. Buy “Jokes from the Backseat 1 &2” Guaranteed to make you laugh or it’s not funny. Do not obey in advance. Kotranc.com. King of the rocks and nobody cares
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I like this. A giant blob headed for the Colonial Theater in about 15 million years.
I like this. A giant blob headed for the Colonial Theater in about 15 million years.
Giant hidden heat blob slowly travels beneath the U.S.
An immense pocket of hot rock deep beneath the Appalachians may be a wandering relic of the breakup between Greenland and North America 80 million years ago. Researchers suggest this slow-moving “mant...
www.sciencedaily.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
I like this. A giant blob headed for the Colonial Theater in about 15 million years.
I like this. A giant blob headed for the Colonial Theater in about 15 million years.
Not the view from my yard
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Not the view from my yard
Thanksgiving draws near
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Thanksgiving draws near
I want the Taylor Swift of Brie, Wegmans
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I want the Taylor Swift of Brie, Wegmans
My books just went out of print. Barnes and noble reduced the price 20%. Amazon increased the price 80%. Two different approaches to life.
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
My books just went out of print. Barnes and noble reduced the price 20%. Amazon increased the price 80%. Two different approaches to life.
Columnar jointing. Person for scale. Renisfjara
November 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Columnar jointing. Person for scale. Renisfjara
Morning in America
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Morning in America
Every conversation I have with my family ends with me predicting some disaster happening soon and then admitting I’m talking about it happening in geologic time.
November 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Every conversation I have with my family ends with me predicting some disaster happening soon and then admitting I’m talking about it happening in geologic time.
Rough looking rye bread.
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Rough looking rye bread.
I missed the greeting cards in the stores this year
November 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I missed the greeting cards in the stores this year
Reposted by Jay Parrish
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
This is worth reading
It's important to understand what this ad does and why it is so threatening to the Trump admin. It gets to social identity theory, which posits that we have many identities, and the one which is salient in a given context will dictate how we think/behave in a particular situation. 1/
WATCH: After six Democratic lawmakers posted a video urging members of the military not to follow illegal orders, Trump erupted online, accusing them of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” Sen. Elissa Slotkin, one of the senators in that video, joins Chris Hayes to respond.
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is worth reading
Reposted by Jay Parrish
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
Watching Ken Burns Revolution and it seems like we are in need of Committees of Correspondence today. And like we could just change the date on the Declaration.
November 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Watching Ken Burns Revolution and it seems like we are in need of Committees of Correspondence today. And like we could just change the date on the Declaration.
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
www.scientificamerican.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
So Spock plagiarized...
1620: seeking predictions from an angel, Richard Napier asks whether one of his clients will 'live long & prosp[er]' #earlymodern 🖖
![Manuscript image showing part of a paragraph that reads: 'wheather Mr John Monson hayre to Sir Th shall live long & prosp[er] & attayne to honour & good & a happy mariage', then, added later in a darker ink (but not shown in the image): 'he shall'. (NOTE6839 in the online edition.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k254wppy2ojyxlyxgi2odu5z/bafkreid5dg4nfnubkseed4f762m3mngvzupzzf4kqfcmdudv7yahs7hoq4@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
So Spock plagiarized...