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HerTinkness
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Geologist. Sometimes a writer. I pretend to be a hobbit on Wednesdays. Opinions solely my own.
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Hello, Susan
December 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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erikahall.bsky.social
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
hertinkness.bsky.social
Introduced my coworker to Colombian food. Now we’ve got a standing Friday order of arepas starting. This is not a complaint.
December 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
Born this day in 1884, on Neskuchnoye estate in Ukraine, the marvelous painter Zinaida Serebriakova. After my time, but worth making an exception! Here by herself at the mirror in 1909.
December 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
hertinkness.bsky.social
Pittsburgh salad: don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.
laynemorgan.bsky.social Layne Morgan @laynemorgan.bsky.social · 3d
Local restaurant listing this menu item as "girl dinner" speaks to me in the craziest way
December 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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geology.bsky.social
Here's a long shot: a big orphan pebble collection from the USGS, yours if you can take and treasure it. See alt text
California Conglomerate Clast Collection Seeks New Home Conglomerate clasts were collected from 279 sites by Vic Seiders and Brett Cox for their report, "Place of Origin of the Salinian Block, California, as Based on Clast Compositions of Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary Conglomerates," USGS Professional Paper 1526 (https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1526/report.pdf). This is an extremely important comprehensive collection. Localities are principally in or near the Salinian Block in western California, but cover from Anchor Bay (Stewarts Point quad, 4,281,400N, 462.390E) to Cabo Vizcaino in Baja California, including a bit of western Arizona. At least one locality, on Highway 92 near Pilarcitos Creek (site WO-268, Woodside quad, 4,149,080N, 555.710E), is now inaccessible, having been encased in Caltrans concrete. In the mid 1990s, when the USGS closed their rock storage depository in Menlo Park, throwing irreplaceable collections in the trash, the Seiders and Cox collection was given by Brett Cox to Kathleen Burnham for safe keeping. However, she used only one of these clasts in her own work, has no further need of them, and has run out of room to store them. The collection is entirely pebbles, size range 0.4-6.0 cm, mainly 0.4-3.0 cm, and samples were etched overnight in 5% hydrofluoric acid solution, to aid in identification. The rocks are neatly stored in boxes measuring 12" x 9.5" x 5". At present the stack is 6 by 3 by 6 boxes, which comes to 108 boxes, and the stack measures 69" x 39" x 30", roughly 47 cubic feet. The boxes are marked and numbered. One box was partially damaged, however, no clasts or markings on the box were lost. Kathleen used the Seiders and Cox locations for some of her own collection, and reports that despite their work pre-dating GPS, their sample locations are extremely accurately specified in their publication. If this collection would be useful to you, and/or you can give these rocks a home, DM me and I’ll pass on your name. clean etched pebbles from the collection Boxes of the collection, each one clearly marked and annotated
December 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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cathey.bsky.social
A winding road leads into Slippery Rock Gorge in #McConnellsMillSP. #RockinTuesday #Rocks #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin
Walls of layered gray rock with random spots of moss along the entrance to Slippery Rock Gorge. A variety of trees grow above the rock walls. Moss covers the rocks to the left and rusty fallen leaves rim the edges of the road that winds through the gorge (McConnell's Mill State Park).
December 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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questauthority.bsky.social
Boss, during meting: "ok, wait, I gotta ask, Mike, what's going on with those socks?"
Me: "they've got the London Underground map. They're tube socks."
Photo of a right leg crossed over the left, brown shoe, grey pants. The sock show colored lines and circles, in the style of the London Underground map.
December 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
hertinkness.bsky.social
Watch with the sound on.
c0nc0rdance.bsky.social c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 7d
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.

Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.

A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
hertinkness.bsky.social
Going on the record now to say ugh please not Gavin Newsom.
December 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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blueheronfarm.bsky.social
And if you have 10 minutes to spare, you should absolutely go watch the last 10 minutes in the life of live cam 3. Riveting.
[V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
YouTube video by USGS
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December 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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gyro.bsky.social
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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bextraordinary.bsky.social
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To my friends from LiveJournal I still think about you Wonder if you finally quit, Do you still speak to your mom? I remember when you went to Japan How you swore you'd never forgive him. I can't remember to take my meds but I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat. It's a strange intimacy, all of us unspooling across decades of internet space Like balls of yarn leaving a trail behind us of everywhere and everyone we've ever been I hope you got your houseboat. I hope you got everything. -Hayley DeRoche
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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ninawils.bsky.social
Relatable Corvid
December 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Another AI bubble sign.
December 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Brighton Heights side of the McKees Rocks Bridge. Caller says none of these jagoffs know how to drive in the snow and they want PD to direct traffic.
December 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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chiitan.love
Chiitan Knight will continue to spread his message until there are no more transgender people who are subjected to unjustified criticism and slander♡
Let's create a world where we can all love freely🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
December 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
Frog knocked at Toad’s door. “Toad, wake up,” he cried. “Come out and see how wonderful the winter is!”

“I will not,” said Toad. “I am in my warm bed.”
December 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
hertinkness.bsky.social
Hey @machsabre.bsky.social , look! The greater of two weevils!
cellpress.bsky.social Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 16d
"Rediscovery of the greater chestnut #weevil highlights the power of digital platforms in biodiversity research and conservation" spkl.io/63326Ad07u

@Michael A. Charles & colleagues
@currentbiology.bsky.social
Charles et al. rediscover the presumed - extinct greater chestnut weevil (Curculio caryatrypes) in the eastern US via iNaturalist, and genomic data and field surveys confirm identity and active reproduction, revealing persistence despite American chestnut collapse and underscoring the power of digital platforms for biodiversity research and conservation
December 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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geologyjohnson.bsky.social
Got bored of doing lots of fiddly details that no one will notice. So I gave Shrapnel some colour. Actually pleased with how this one turned out for once. Left space so I can go back and add the other insecticons later. #Transformers #Decepticons #Insecticons #Mecha
Digital painting of the transformer insecticon Shrapnel who is snarling flying through the air and reaching out to the viewer with a clawed hand. The robot is dark grey with red eyes and claw tips, purple arms, a yellow chest, grey thighs, stag beetle horns and gun. There is an abstract dark green background.
December 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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hidingintheburg.bsky.social
Driving home tonight, the Union Trust Bldg in all its fancy glory at dusk. #Pittsburgh 🖤💛
A Flemish-Gothic, early 1900s, 15 story downtown building with intricate stone carvings backlit dramatically all around on the upper floors, the lower windows also trimmed with lights. The bldg glows a warm gold under a deep blue early evening sky.
December 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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mlobelart.bsky.social
Hugh Steers, "Man and IV," 1994. Steers, a committed figurative painter, died of AIDS the year after he painted this picture, age 32. #WorldAIDSDay
Painting of an apparently male figure in short hospital gown and white heels, hooked up to an IV
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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ionodom.bsky.social
Happy birthday to everybody's pal: Gamera!
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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worldbollardassoc.bsky.social
We ❤️ Debbie.
#WorldBollardAssociation
November 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
hertinkness.bsky.social
Today I learned that my combo washer dryer has a second secret lint filter at the drain. If it’s clogged, the tub won’t drain all the way and the clothes will not dry. Especially if it’s clogged with dog hair.
November 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM