Zane Bruce
@iarnulfr.bsky.social
Disgruntled anarcho-geologist.
Depressing that Spinrad hammered home the point with the plot device of the academic review of the plot contained as a wrapper for the satire, and people still didn't get the satire:
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Depressing that Spinrad hammered home the point with the plot device of the academic review of the plot contained as a wrapper for the satire, and people still didn't get the satire:
The previously unknown gold, well mapped by prospectors who knew about it in the late 19th century:
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The previously unknown gold, well mapped by prospectors who knew about it in the late 19th century:
This is amusing. We've known basically where the gold is coming from in these rocks for a century or so, there's not much of it, prior attempts went bust. I've found it before, and its most likely its either under Zealandia, or a major road on it so they can't mine that now.
archive.ph/OiZwa
archive.ph/OiZwa
November 26, 2025 at 6:29 AM
This is amusing. We've known basically where the gold is coming from in these rocks for a century or so, there's not much of it, prior attempts went bust. I've found it before, and its most likely its either under Zealandia, or a major road on it so they can't mine that now.
archive.ph/OiZwa
archive.ph/OiZwa
So we're not getting the version done by Devo?
November 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
So we're not getting the version done by Devo?
Today's fixit: Carefully taking apart two ~120 year old WW1 soldiers cots, because although the canvas on them is damaged, it's beautiful Scots Linen that I can use for other things, before I replace the cot covers.
November 14, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Today's fixit: Carefully taking apart two ~120 year old WW1 soldiers cots, because although the canvas on them is damaged, it's beautiful Scots Linen that I can use for other things, before I replace the cot covers.
Back in '06, I got to see an Anomalocaris Limb up close, from the 520Ma Kangaroo Island find in South Australia. (It was in the Cannowindra Age of Fishes Museum, which is a stunning mass kill deposit of freshwater Devonian Armoured Fishies) www.agefishes.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Back in '06, I got to see an Anomalocaris Limb up close, from the 520Ma Kangaroo Island find in South Australia. (It was in the Cannowindra Age of Fishes Museum, which is a stunning mass kill deposit of freshwater Devonian Armoured Fishies) www.agefishes.com
Even though I can cast 'power word: 30 years experience', this resonates:
November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Even though I can cast 'power word: 30 years experience', this resonates:
I'm on the other side of the world, but this meme of one of the most awful characters in the Sharpe series would seem to fit Sliwa:
November 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I'm on the other side of the world, but this meme of one of the most awful characters in the Sharpe series would seem to fit Sliwa:
When an antique spirit stove that was neither a Primus or an Optimus, and thus a brand with a reputation for blowing up in your face, blows up in your face, the only sensible response is to turn it's corpse into a silly robot:
November 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
When an antique spirit stove that was neither a Primus or an Optimus, and thus a brand with a reputation for blowing up in your face, blows up in your face, the only sensible response is to turn it's corpse into a silly robot:
Bask in the unfeasible glory that is Aotearoa New Zealand's only locally designed and built Tank.
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Bask in the unfeasible glory that is Aotearoa New Zealand's only locally designed and built Tank.
Heh. they've started building them again, too. Saw one last weekend:
November 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Heh. they've started building them again, too. Saw one last weekend:
Uhoh. Well, I knew Collins was a fascist, but now she makes it obvious:
www.facebook.com/judithcollin...
www.facebook.com/judithcollin...
October 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Uhoh. Well, I knew Collins was a fascist, but now she makes it obvious:
www.facebook.com/judithcollin...
www.facebook.com/judithcollin...
Put boat in Lake Superior. Good and Safe lake, no winds come early
September 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Put boat in Lake Superior. Good and Safe lake, no winds come early
A litre of cream will give you just under a block of butter, give or take:
August 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM
A litre of cream will give you just under a block of butter, give or take:
Here, I made an explanatory type example of a Cultural Neo Marxist picture so we know what they look like.
August 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Here, I made an explanatory type example of a Cultural Neo Marxist picture so we know what they look like.
Blowback: Zohran Mamdani's dad, on his intro to the works of Karl Marx: The FBI, shakedown in anticommunist paranoia after he, a new post independance Ugandan scholarship student in the US, went to a rally in Montgomery, Alabama:
full interview here: readingfanon.blogspot.com/2013/07/in-c...
full interview here: readingfanon.blogspot.com/2013/07/in-c...
![" because a friend of mine took me to a SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] meeting, six or seven months after I was here. At the end of the meeting they announced that buses were going to Montgomery, Alabaman, to demonstrate. I went there, got beaten up, thrown in jail…
BS: How was that? How long were you in jail?
MM: One night. They let you make one phone call, and I called the Ugandan Ambassador in Washington, DC, talked to him, and he said, “What are you doing interfering in the affairs of a foreign country?” I said, “What? We just got our independence! This is the same struggle. Have you forgotten?” Anyway, he got me out. Two or three weeks later, I was in my room. There was a knock at the door. Two gentlemen in trench coats and hats said, “FBI.” I thought, “Wow, just like on television.” They sat down. They were there to find out why I had gone – because this turned out to be big – it is after Montgomery that King organized his march on Selma. They wanted to know who had influenced me. After one hour of probing, the guy said, “Do you like Marx?”
I said, “I haven’t met him.”
Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.”
“Wow, what happened?”
“No, no, he died long ago.”
I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?”
“No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.”
I said, “Sounds amazing.”
I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.
BS: The FBI.
MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But, basically, it is the US – the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement – which gave me a new take on my own experience, and on the Asian experience in east Africa. It gave me a way of rethinking my own experience of growing up in east Africa and growing up in an Africa with a lens crafted by the civil rights movement."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ju3sa3io6otqugovb53f4why/bafkreiaxhu3bhtkv25db6bp2s7ernnd2t2jb7fm2xhmiijij35h6uvzizm@jpeg)
August 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Blowback: Zohran Mamdani's dad, on his intro to the works of Karl Marx: The FBI, shakedown in anticommunist paranoia after he, a new post independance Ugandan scholarship student in the US, went to a rally in Montgomery, Alabama:
full interview here: readingfanon.blogspot.com/2013/07/in-c...
full interview here: readingfanon.blogspot.com/2013/07/in-c...
If you've wondered how time works when you have ADHD, this sort of explains it:
August 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
If you've wondered how time works when you have ADHD, this sort of explains it:
Well, if you run a munitions factory without any of the sensible massive earth bunds between warehouses and just stick it in tin sheds beside each other, of course the eventual fire is going to get big. Seems to be almost no explosion protection installed here at all
July 2, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Well, if you run a munitions factory without any of the sensible massive earth bunds between warehouses and just stick it in tin sheds beside each other, of course the eventual fire is going to get big. Seems to be almost no explosion protection installed here at all
I've spent time in nations where I don't speak the language well, my visa may stop on a whim, and tho I can work, I can't access benefits, and a mistake in front of armed men or with a passport stamp can spell disaster, the world is making me feel this song hard again:
youtu.be/aKpgb2WrGo0?...
youtu.be/aKpgb2WrGo0?...
June 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I've spent time in nations where I don't speak the language well, my visa may stop on a whim, and tho I can work, I can't access benefits, and a mistake in front of armed men or with a passport stamp can spell disaster, the world is making me feel this song hard again:
youtu.be/aKpgb2WrGo0?...
youtu.be/aKpgb2WrGo0?...
Ok, that came out so nice it's a shame I'm selling it. Good thing I've got two more of those buckles in the various kit that fell off the back of a slow moving Taika Waititi/Netflix cancelled show props auction.
June 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Ok, that came out so nice it's a shame I'm selling it. Good thing I've got two more of those buckles in the various kit that fell off the back of a slow moving Taika Waititi/Netflix cancelled show props auction.
Here, not so much rocks, but minerals. A grain mount of ~800 zircon crystals from the Jack Hills Sandstone, back in the mid '00s when I was mining them for 4 billion year old zircons with a 10 kilovolt ion beam.
March 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Here, not so much rocks, but minerals. A grain mount of ~800 zircon crystals from the Jack Hills Sandstone, back in the mid '00s when I was mining them for 4 billion year old zircons with a 10 kilovolt ion beam.