So *freaking* cool. Want understand the #geology of your home? Learn how old those rock formations are? Check out ➡️ The Cooperative National Geologic Map; developed by the USGS + the State Geological Surveys (AASG) #earth #science #OpenData #geoscience #stratigraphy ngmdb.usgs.gov/nationalgeol...

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Explore the Cooperative National Geologic Map, a unified view of our Nation's geology, with interactive layers and geologic data.

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A very happy #StarTrekDay to all who celebrate! 🖖 The fun may now commence. #StarTrek #physics #SciFi

Philosophy Talk@philtalkradio.bsky.social · 3d ago

More at philosophytalk.org/shows/could-... #PhilSky #philosophy #physics #StarTrek

If you don't understand long division & can't solve it longhand, you're not ready for a calculator. Once you fully understand & have significant experience doing it longhand, THEN you can use a calculator so you can spend your brainpower on more complicated math. This post is about AI. #learning

Oof. The sound of chainsaws at 11:30pm. Not as effective as the big hand-saws used to lull people to sleep in old Looney Toons cartoons. Glad they're on top of things though.

Rachel K. (Tala)@talaattanagra.bsky.social · last wk.

Firetrucks are blocking traffic all the way down to the 200 block of South Market St. There's not letting anyone drive north of the Frederick campus of the Maryland School for the Deaf.

Finally awitched to Organic Maps from Google Maps. The Great De-Googling continues — because why tf would I use products that sell my data and simp for the Orange Toddler? #data #privacy #maps #navigation #it #OpenSource

@organicmaps.bsky.social · 2w ago

No, we're not renaming it. All map data in Organic Maps comes from the @openstreetmap.bsky.social project.

Kaikeyi, by Vaishnavi Patel 📖 Reading some new (to me) fiction. I'm ⅓ through, so it's safe to say my attention is caught. Not an easy fear for someone who reads nonfiction almost exclusively these days. #Booksky #mythology #IndianMythology #FeministRetelling #Ramayana

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good...

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Happy #Caturday, y'all! 🐈‍⬛ #UrbanGarden #ContainerGarden #Gardening #DisabledGardener #cats #pets

🥗🐟 My Kingdom for a caeser salad that ACTUALLY has anchovies in it!! #food #nutrition #tradition #fish #GetOffMyLawn

“Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.” #BookSky #Books #Philosophy #PursuitOfHappiness #SpiritualGrowth

As always, nuance is key. Farming While Beige: Take it away... #politics #cattle #beef #tarrifs #economy youtube.com/shorts/YWBau...

Farmer squandered over 100 years of bipartisan, nearly universal goodwill… to own the libs 🤷🏽‍♂️

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So many "progressives" these days embarrassing themselves with conservative thought patterns: purity tests, black-and-white POVs, performative self-righteousness, etc. I never thought the day would come when progressives would piss me off just as much as MAGA. Pretty bleak.

If you're on #Twitch, go turn off their new opt-out #AI model that is training on your chats and streams. #data #privacy #ethics #business #gaming #streaming youtube.com/shorts/xry1e...

Twitch Just Opted You Into AI Training

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While Target has stayed silent on ICE’s ongoing operations in MN, its own hometown.,communities across the country are fighting back, shopping local not Target for back to school This is our ad in the NYT today.

It’s easy to criticize a drowning person’s technique when you’re safely standing on the shore.

#forestry #foraging #mushrooms When your partner finds chantarelles on his lunch break, they end up on the dinner table (after having been sunned for increased vitamin D, then cordially acquainted with garlic & butter).

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi! I'm the Riptide Off a Reef in St. Thomas that could easily drown a person while "Margaritaville" blasts joyfully from a speaker back on the beach. 🏝️

Rebecca Ruth Seidel@caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 4w ago

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I'm Cows!

Very disappointed that Pollan's discussion of DNA's discovery & investigation only mentions Crick, when Rosalind Franklin's data is how Watson & Crick figured out the double helix structure (then won Nobel based on her work). Even progressive, educated men erase women's history & contributions.

It's my 3-year Laurel-versary today! 🌿 Below: argent, an olive tree fructed & eradicated gules, within a bordure gules; for supporters, an elephant passant Or and an Arabian lamp lit Or; the shield surmounted by a baronial coronet and environed by a laurel wreath vert. #mySCA #A&S #AnS

There's no disease worse than severe/v. severe #MEcfs. Other conditions that cause poor QoL have respect, funding & care options. I've had moderate-severe MEcfs since 2020. I'm mostly bedbound, but it my life is LEAGUES easier than those w/ v. severe MEcfs. No sound. No light. No life.

Tom Kindlon@tomkindlon.bsky.social · last mo.

An image on severe ME to mark severe ME day #SevereME #SevereMEDay #SevereMECFS #SevereCFS #VerySevereME

This is disgusting (and on purpose). I bet a significant percentage of these were due to chronic illness after COVID. That's how they got me out of the workforce. #MEcfs #misogyny #patriarchy #fascism #employment

Bryce Covert@brycecovert.bsky.social · last mo.

Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org

Confession: I am mean to people online who harass #pwME. It's not my best self, but I'm also not sorry. Because I'm REALLY good at it, and only use it to defend my community members. If these folks would develop a modicum of emotional intelligence, they wouldn't be so easy to trigger. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I'm loving seeing the KC Current on #TedLasso S4e1!! I dislike most of what's on TV, but I'm thoroughly looking forward to the rest of this season ⚽ #soccer #football #nwsl

Congrats to Sophie Grant completing the 2650km Via Alpina in 29 days crushing the Women’s Fastest Known Time by 9 days and the Men’s record by 6 days. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Time to get this off my chest: #BirthOrder tropes — i.e. the responsible oldest 𝘃𝘀. the coddled & irresponsible youngest — 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦! Largest studies, Rohrer et al. (377k+ subjects), found 𝘯𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

August is #SevereMEAwarenessMonth. We will be amplifying the voices of those with #SevereME all month. Feel free to tag us @meactnet & use #'s included here. Our Severe ME Artists Project releases on Aug. 8- #SevereMEDay. We join #UnitedForME orgs on Aug 12. More info soon. #pwME

Happy #Caturday! Please enjoy Tendi's afternoon glamour-shot from my balcony ✨ #cat #cats #LittleThings #family

#FungiFriday I don't really drink alcohol anymore, so I'm making gummy candies with some wood ear mushrooms (𝘈𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢-𝘫𝘶𝘥𝘢𝘦). Can't think of a better way for a #forager to use a single-malt scotch 🥃🍄‍🟫 #DisabledForager #nature #mushroom #FungiFriends #cooking #vegan #mycology

Good reminder of how hard it is to access health insurance for people who are disabled by their conditions but in the waiting period for coverage for SSDI/Medicare. The mortality during the wait period for people with cancer (neoplasms) is nearly 40%. www.healthaffairs.org/doi/epdf/10....