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jaypdub

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Field geologist mapping in the southern Appalachians. Student of history.

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jaypdub, to Bloomscrolling
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#SilentSunday
#Bloomscrolling

ai6yr, to random
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Grocery shopping tip: wild mustard flowers (which are an invasive weed) taste IDENTICAL to fancy, expensive broccollini when cooked, and are free. #broccolini

jaypdub,
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@ai6yr
Are you referring to garlic mustard or a different one?

jaypdub, to nature
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Anyone have an idea what laid these eggs on my native Mountain Mint? I've never seen anything like them.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/215786918

different angle

ai6yr, to random
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Seeing secondhand reports of aurora being visible in South Florida (Miami). Anyone out there able to confirm?

jaypdub,
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@ai6yr
Haven't seen that, but I could see it clearly from underneath a street lamp in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

jaypdub,
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@ai6yr
May have even captured the ISS flying through it. A very bright satellite at the very least.

jaypdub, to random
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HOLY COW! #aurora in central Alabama!!!!

stux, to random
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Yesterday I heard a line that is still with me today and feels like it's applied waat to much these days

Something like:

"You can't make someone understand a problem if that persons job is depending on don't understaningd that problem, it's not about creating solution but rather creating a narrative that fits their solution"

jaypdub,
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@stux

The quote seems to have an interesting history

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/?amp=1

jaypdub, to Geology
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I'm looking for books/papers on the history and development of petrography and physical analog modeling of geologic structures. Anyone have recommendations? #geology

jaypdub, to Geology
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Has anyone heard if the Secret Santa Rock Exchange is happening this year? #RockExhange2023 #geology

jaypdub, to Geology
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Found a cave while mapping in the Knox Group.
#fieldworkfriday #FridayFieldPhoto #geology #caves #Alabama

jaypdub, to ethelcain
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What an absolute unit of a tree. Pictures just can not convey its size. I'd love to know what species it is.

#ThickTrunkThurday #Alabama

looking up the gnarled trunk at its massive limbs. there are several large burls, one of which seems to host a wasp hive.

jaypdub,
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@archeaids
Thank you. There were a lot of hickory nuts nearby, but I couldn't tell what kind of hickory.

jaypdub, to Geology
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Welp, these rocks shouldn't be here, or dipping the way they are... I'll need to rethink what's going on along this section of fault.

#geology #fieldphotos #fieldworkfriday

jaypdub, to Astronomy
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In about 16 hours or so, Halley's comet will reach its aphelion and then start heading back toward the inner solar system. So mark your calendars for summer 2061.

#Astronomy

jaypdub, to Geology
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My view while taking a strike and dip of heavily crenulated graphitic schists in a recently scraped dirt road. #fieldworkfriday #geology

jaypdub, to nature
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Turns out Alabama has sugar maples. I had no idea, neat. Observed near Fort Payne, AL. #nature #fieldworkfriday #fieldphotos #thicktrunkthursday #tree

Bottom of the leaf
Bark of the sugar maple tree. rough strips of bark are covered in lichen and bryophytes.
View looking up at the canopy of the sugar maple.

ai6yr, (edited ) to GPS
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Shamelessly copied this from XKCD. #GIS #mapping #GPS #maps (updated: this is the source here! https://xkcd.com/2170/)

jaypdub,
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@ai6yr
Sauce https://xkcd.com/2170/

A very funny and informative comic from Randall.

donmoyn, to random
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New, from me: I wrote about how the emerging debacle at New College (one-third of faculty gone, students can't find classes, housed in airport hotels) reflects the incompetence of populists like DeSantis.
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/new-college-is-a-warning-about-the

jaypdub,
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@donmoyn
The sports angle jumped out at me. Reminds me of how private Christian universities like Liberty and GCU have bought their way into being competitive in various sports.

jaypdub, to gardening
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Found a sleepy firefly while checking on my Aji Guyana plants earlier.

#Gardening #peppers #bugstodon #Insects

ai6yr, to random
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'Help me, Jesus!': Hawk appears to drop snake on woman before attacking to get it back #TeamOrca #hawk #snake https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hawk-appears-drop-snake-texas-woman-attacking-get-back-rcna98946?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=64d3a2f5c01d0e0001ac8d61&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

jaypdub,
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@ai6yr
That is some Homeric portentous signs from the gods stuff right there.

archeaids, to random
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Left valve of a large Exogyra costata oyster from the Cretaceous period, Ripley formation, Marengo Co., Alabama. #fossils #FossilFriday

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@archeaids
I have some Exogyra from the Ripley but further to the east. I collected them from a pasture that was littered with them and looked like the leavings from a big Cretaceous clambake.

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You probably noticed Thunderbird Sync is missing from version 115. Here's an update on that feature's development:

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/07/an-update-on-thunderbird-sync/

jaypdub,
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@thunderbird
Will RSS feeds sync across devices as well? I really want to stop using Feedly.

ai6yr, to random
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#fat #squirrel season. Planted extra tomatoes, but they are voracious. If you're going to steal 'em, eat em, don't just spit them out!!

jaypdub,
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@ai6yr
Fat squirrel season indeed.

I would have probably picked a different mascot if squirrels were eating my tomatoes.

Photo looking down on 12 boxes of various hot peppers.

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[Camera cuts to a shot of Oppenheimer at the Trinity site, surrounded by colleagues. Enrico Fermi is beatboxing.]

My name’s Oppenheimer and I’m here to say
“Now I am become death” in a major way

jaypdub,
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@mcnees
Bobby Oppenheimer is that you?

https://twitter.com/therealbradbabs/status/1682141254858031104?t=zv3YGg7XvjebB_8utBK79A&s=19

annaleen, (edited ) to random
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Threads is to Bluesky as ...

jaypdub,
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@annaleen
Palm Pilot was to Handspring, shortly before the PDA market collapsed.

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