“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something... but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
Pseudonymous geologist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Signed up for too many starter packs.
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🚨Per @kyledcheney.bsky.social, earlier today the DOJ and Texas colluded with Reed O’Connor to erase a Biden-era regulation permitting immigration judges to administratively close removal cases.
Texas filed this morning, DOJ filed a consent decree hours later, and O’Connor entered final judgment.
Protest frogs remain undefeated
When the President exempts himself and his family from IRS audits.
In June 2017 I captured an ISS Lunar transit. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour #Moon
Roman Space Telescope Arrival at Kennedy
Credits: NASA/Amber Jean Notvest
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#Roman 🧪🔭
I still remember the memos in 2009-2010 telling adjunct faculty to cut back on our use of photocopiers and office supplies to save money.
A friend laughingly told me that I didn't work at a university, but at a hedge fund with a small college attached for tax purposes.
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"Fast following is the practice of letting others prove a concept, then copying & improving it faster than they can exploit it. In war, the imitation cycle is measured in weeks or days, and the cost of slowness is measured in lives." mickryan.substack.com/p/fast-follo...
States sue California over plastic recycling mandate www.courthousenews.com/states-sue-c...
20/6/26 #Lancashire - It was lovely to meet with friends at Gait Barrows for the peaking Dark Red Helleborines (Epipactis atrorubens), a very local #orchid that grows on the Limestone pavements of Morecambe Bay #wildflowerhour @jnnyharris.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Aethionema grandiflorum Boiss. & Hohen.
Brassicaceae
Alborz, Mazandaran , Iran
June 2026
Elevation 2200m
The native range of this species is Türkiye to Iran.
#Aethionema #brassicaceae
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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Corey Rayburn Yung
David Blanchflower BSc
The Ukraine-Russia fast following dynamic, and recommendations for Western military institutions to enhance their capacity to exploit the imitation cycle.
Trump: “Here is another example of a crazy pro-algae (likely paid) protestor.
The sign says, ‘First they came for the algae…’ which is in reference to a famous post-WW2 statement about Germans not speaking out against Nazis
‘…Then they came for the Jews, & I did not speak out—bc I was not a Jew “
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN
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Trump vs. Harvard has faded to the background. This summer, it’s Harvard vs. Harvard — still a point for Trump’s score card, said Phillip Levine, an economics professor at Wellesley College.
