Nicholas Montiel
@thepaleomancer.bsky.social
Planetary geologist and TTRPG/History/Science Fiction enthusiast.
I didn’t think it was possible to be this bad at Dispatch.
January 18, 2026 at 1:43 PM
I didn’t think it was possible to be this bad at Dispatch.
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Thucydides did not write the Melian Dialogue for people to forget Athens lost the Peloponnesian War.
January 6, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Thucydides did not write the Melian Dialogue for people to forget Athens lost the Peloponnesian War.
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Today in 1989, the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched the Galileo spacecraft, the first orbiter and entry probe at a giant planet. When I watch it recede from the shuttle, I can't help but want to scream to open the antenna first (it never opened). They were still able to salvage an amazing mission.
December 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Today in 1989, the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched the Galileo spacecraft, the first orbiter and entry probe at a giant planet. When I watch it recede from the shuttle, I can't help but want to scream to open the antenna first (it never opened). They were still able to salvage an amazing mission.
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Hey so I'm out of my pain management(weed) and really hurting today
We're also out of snap and don't have the money to cover costs beyond rent. Juggling minimum payments to keep power
If anyone can spare a few bucks, I'd be eternally grateful for the help
V: Ripley_
CA: $ripleyride
We're also out of snap and don't have the money to cover costs beyond rent. Juggling minimum payments to keep power
If anyone can spare a few bucks, I'd be eternally grateful for the help
V: Ripley_
CA: $ripleyride
October 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Hey so I'm out of my pain management(weed) and really hurting today
We're also out of snap and don't have the money to cover costs beyond rent. Juggling minimum payments to keep power
If anyone can spare a few bucks, I'd be eternally grateful for the help
V: Ripley_
CA: $ripleyride
We're also out of snap and don't have the money to cover costs beyond rent. Juggling minimum payments to keep power
If anyone can spare a few bucks, I'd be eternally grateful for the help
V: Ripley_
CA: $ripleyride
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no kings includes draft kings
October 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
no kings includes draft kings
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Most of the deposits that seem to be discussed are from the Noachian and Hesperian (~4.1 to 3.0 billion years ago). A bunch or magmatic deposits and maybe some evaporites.
4/9 🧵
Side note, evaporites on Mars is a PhD topic I was thinking about at some point. Still a bit sorry I didn't take that.
4/9 🧵
Side note, evaporites on Mars is a PhD topic I was thinking about at some point. Still a bit sorry I didn't take that.
October 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Most of the deposits that seem to be discussed are from the Noachian and Hesperian (~4.1 to 3.0 billion years ago). A bunch or magmatic deposits and maybe some evaporites.
4/9 🧵
Side note, evaporites on Mars is a PhD topic I was thinking about at some point. Still a bit sorry I didn't take that.
4/9 🧵
Side note, evaporites on Mars is a PhD topic I was thinking about at some point. Still a bit sorry I didn't take that.
I can only do so much from Italy, but please support these folks! It's only the future of U.S.A. science at stake.
Today is our Save NASA Science Day of Action! You can take actions online to support the nearly 300 registered participants on the ground with me here in the D.C.
planetary.org/dayofaction
planetary.org/dayofaction
The Day of Action to Save NASA Science
Take action with us to help reject cuts that threaten NASA's science and exploration programs.
planetary.org
October 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I can only do so much from Italy, but please support these folks! It's only the future of U.S.A. science at stake.
I somehow completely forget announce that I have a new paper that came out last month! Behold: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
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October 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I somehow completely forget announce that I have a new paper that came out last month! Behold: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
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If this isn't your response to doomerism I don't want to know you
September 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
If this isn't your response to doomerism I don't want to know you
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These crazy deep sea fishes are now giving us new insights into how immune systems function, hopefully helping us develop better treatments for immune system disorders. This is why it's important to study our world simply for the sake of studying it. You never know what you're gonna learn
7/7
7/7
September 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
These crazy deep sea fishes are now giving us new insights into how immune systems function, hopefully helping us develop better treatments for immune system disorders. This is why it's important to study our world simply for the sake of studying it. You never know what you're gonna learn
7/7
7/7
Really? Unclear? @npr.org , you’re smarter than this. Why would a political movement that has consistently denied global warming seek to eliminate missions that measure the gas behind global warming? It’s not irresponsible speculation to call this out.
August 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Really? Unclear? @npr.org , you’re smarter than this. Why would a political movement that has consistently denied global warming seek to eliminate missions that measure the gas behind global warming? It’s not irresponsible speculation to call this out.
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Avi Loeb has gotten US Rep Luna to write NASA admin Duffy with a demand to repurpose Juno to rendezvous with 3I/Atlas. This is so far out of line I don't know where to start.
August 2, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Avi Loeb has gotten US Rep Luna to write NASA admin Duffy with a demand to repurpose Juno to rendezvous with 3I/Atlas. This is so far out of line I don't know where to start.
PBS and NPR are the networks that have had the most positive influence on my life, from Nova to Newshour to All Things Considered to Sesame Street. The regime is going after them because they’re a threat to its power. To everyone who let this happen, I offer a sincere “go fuck yourself.”
Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down after being defunded by Congress, targeted by Trump
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been a cornerstone of American culture for three generations.
apnews.com
August 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
PBS and NPR are the networks that have had the most positive influence on my life, from Nova to Newshour to All Things Considered to Sesame Street. The regime is going after them because they’re a threat to its power. To everyone who let this happen, I offer a sincere “go fuck yourself.”
Ozzy Osbourne AND Tom Lehrer? I’m having flashbacks to 2016.
July 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Ozzy Osbourne AND Tom Lehrer? I’m having flashbacks to 2016.
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Ok, this name is better than "rock juice"--also this should be a mixed absinthe drink.
It would even be appropriately mantle green.
It would even be appropriately mantle green.
Slabsinthe?
July 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Ok, this name is better than "rock juice"--also this should be a mixed absinthe drink.
It would even be appropriately mantle green.
It would even be appropriately mantle green.
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Holy crap. AJ and the UN aren’t messing around. aje.io/1hxnz0
UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they?
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has named several US giants among the companies aiding Israel.
aje.io
July 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Holy crap. AJ and the UN aren’t messing around. aje.io/1hxnz0
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NASA just won an Emmy for our live broadcast of the total solar eclipse last year. We produced a documentary film about the James Webb Space Telescope that's out in theaters and on Netflix. We have podcasts, we write feature stories. People wear the agency logo on t-shirts. We're still getting cut.
You hear this a lot on the left but it isn't true. USAID did not "fail to tell its story to Americans," the right targeted the agency with lies and misinformation.
Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
June 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
NASA just won an Emmy for our live broadcast of the total solar eclipse last year. We produced a documentary film about the James Webb Space Telescope that's out in theaters and on Netflix. We have podcasts, we write feature stories. People wear the agency logo on t-shirts. We're still getting cut.
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Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
June 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
So, did Flavio Briatore write the new F1 movie? Because “Let’s frame the Renault crashing scandal as a good thing” is a crazy premise, from what I hear. #formula1
July 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
So, did Flavio Briatore write the new F1 movie? Because “Let’s frame the Renault crashing scandal as a good thing” is a crazy premise, from what I hear. #formula1
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Government: This guy murdered a child he should be dismembered with a chainsaw and impaled on a pike on live television
Regular people: wait that's fucked up don't do that, what the fuck?
Government: oh so you support MURDERING CHILDREN?????
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Regular people: wait that's fucked up don't do that, what the fuck?
Government: oh so you support MURDERING CHILDREN?????
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
July 1, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Government: This guy murdered a child he should be dismembered with a chainsaw and impaled on a pike on live television
Regular people: wait that's fucked up don't do that, what the fuck?
Government: oh so you support MURDERING CHILDREN?????
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Regular people: wait that's fucked up don't do that, what the fuck?
Government: oh so you support MURDERING CHILDREN?????
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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The easy solution is to send a notice to every facility, every day. Then cancel the visits at the last moment, for those visits that will not be made.
July 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
The easy solution is to send a notice to every facility, every day. Then cancel the visits at the last moment, for those visits that will not be made.