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Worked at the intersection of Geology and GIS MS Earth Science, BS Geology Born in the Anthropocene #Geosciences | #EarthScience | #Geology | #GIS | #ScienceFiction and #Fantasy | #Rocks #TwitterMigration : @morganssong #GooglePlus

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Anthro, to random

#Today

I was asked to make a presentation and when I saw the agenda, the title had nothing to do with my talk, the one they asked me to present.

Pointed it out, and today was told that the title was “generic enough to cover my talk”.

So you are telling me you are just trying to fill a time slot.

#HowToTellMeYou DontCareWithoutTellingMeYouDontCare

vickyveritas,
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@Anthro Ugh! You’ll smash it anyway!

cobalt, to random
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Is there a club or association called And Then This Happened? There should be. #AndThenThisHappened
Son Drew still in hospital on EEG monitoring and web cam. It appears he may now have seizures AND tremors that are so dramatic they look like seizures or maybe cause seizures. And sudden migraines definitely cause seizures. That’s all we know so far. Then there are the #Alzheimer and #Dementia behaviors that get worse with medical emergencies and events. Stahppit already! And Then!

vickyveritas,
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@cobalt Thinking of you and Drew, and sending so much love your way, beej!

FaithfullJohn, to Geology
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Some excellent salt-related stuff on this blog: 🤓 https://saltworkconsultants.com/blog-salty-matters/ #Geology #Evaporites #Salt #Dolomite

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@FaithfullJohn Includes an excellent article on the influence of salt in diatremes. Thanks, John.

RebelGeo, to random
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@vickyveritas

vickyveritas,
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@RebelGeo This is beyond amazing, Peggy.

cobalt, to random
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Just thought it would be nice to meditate using a giant specimen of malachite I saw in Tucson. It was about 2’ by 30” and I think @vickyveritas May remember it too. #Malachite #Green #Mineral

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@cobalt Yes, it is fantastic, beej!

cobalt, to random
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Hey look at me now. Here I am not smoking at all on day 15. Here on a bench outside ER for a break. Son has been a few hours emergencies now with multiple seizures and severe tremors. No Neuro doc even peeked at him yet. Pretty intense. We know they ordered EEG to start but nothing yet. This ER is insanely busy. I think a migraine started this crisis for him.

vickyveritas,
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@cobalt Good on the no smoking. It does get easier. I am sorry Drew’s not doing well. Hope this resolves soon, and you and Drew go home!

richardrathe, to Geology

@vickyveritas and other #Geology folks…

I encountered this 4x3x3 foot boulder along a mostly #sandstone (?) cliff face at #ChacoCanyon. No others like it nearby. Am I seeing mostly fossil shells end on? Thanks!

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@richardrathe Super, Richard! Sure looks like it.

bhawthorne, (edited ) to mecfs

Rosie and Me and Long Covid
Or: How I Stopped Vacuuming and Learned to Love the Roomba

While most of us are too young to have been around for the original Rosie the Riveter posters from WWII, I bet many of you have seen them and are old enough to remember Rosie (or Rosey in season 1) the XB-500 Robot from The Jetsons in the 1960s. While she was a typical (and by today’s standards, offensive) cartoon caricature and stereotype of a 1950s era Brooklyn domestic “maid”, she also served as the first introduction to the idea of household robots for many of us born in the 1960s and watching reruns of The Jetsons.

So, when we bought our first household robot recently from iRobot, my spouse insisted we name it Rosie. But this story really is not about the Jetsons. It’s about our Roomba i4+ and how it has made my life significantly better.

I live with my spouse and our aging dog in a somewhat cluttered house that needs some serious renovations. We were lucky if one of us found the time and energy to vacuum once a week, and dog fur and dander has been an ongoing problem. When I was healthy, this wasn’t a huge issue. Since getting long covid however, vacuuming became one of those chores that wore me out. Weekly vacuuming became monthly. And indoor air quality declined as you can imagine.

So, I finally broke down and bought a vacuuming robot. Rosie has changed my life for the better. I started with just doing the floor in our bedroom. This forced us to declutter the bedroom. And suddenly, after a few days, there were no longer dust coodles under the bed. There was no longer an invisible rain of pet dander particles. Rather than declutter the rest of the house, I just pushed all the clutter into one big pile to be sorted through and let Rosie have at the house.

For the first time in my adult life, I live in a space with clean carpets and clean floors. The dog is not thrilled by Rosie, but he puts up with her, even when she pushes his toys around the living room.

I can breathe better without the dust. The house is clean enough now that I was able to get an air purifier for the living room to filter the air even more. And the pile of clutter is slowly getting smaller, so Rosie can vacuum more and more of the living room.

I chose the i4+ because of a recommendation from WireCutter and it seems like a good compromise unit. It has enough of the mapping and cleaning features of the newest units to work really well (especially the auto-emptying feature!) but is much less expensive than the newest models. Don’t get me wrong, this is still an investment, but it cost less than my CPAP machine did, and has improved my health at least as much.

If you buy one, be sure to get extra bags for the base unit (I fill one in about a month as it packs the dirt and pet fur into that bag pretty tightly) and a replenishment kit (3 HE filters, 3 edge brushes, and a set of replacement rollers).

While I write this, Rosie is vacuuming around and under my chair, and Digby is perched on the stairs avoiding her. Thanks, Rosie.

#LC #LongCovid #LivingWithLongCovid #MECFS

vickyveritas,
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@bhawthorne Digby looks like a very good boy. Glad Rosie is helping to make your life a little better, Brian!

vickyveritas, to random
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This is all you! Congratulations! Champions! Good job !

Happy New Year Celebration GIF by Faith Holland

vickyveritas,
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@FrogFather1 Lol!

vickyveritas, to random
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shock twins in zircon with planar fractures in Chicxulub quartz-monzodiorite dike. Do not be complacent . Call your grandma and your Great Uncle Bob. Rally your colleagues and students. Pester your parents. Annoy your neighbors. This is it! We still need some zircon magic to keep the votes coming!

Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2023/campaigns/round-5-match-1

vickyveritas, to random
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Brilliant. You can assure this is the last time :) Come join the meme team, and vote for

vickyveritas, to random
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@geo_garver It’s time for your rainbow zircon, again:)

FaithfullJohn, to Geology

Here's a gorgeous big zircon crystal in a rock thin section of a Lewisian gneiss from Rodil in South Harris. Field of view about 2mm wide. 🥰 🤩

A view of a rock under of a polarized light microscope, using plane polarized light. Most of the crystals in the rock appear colourless, but in the centre of the view, a large rounded crystal stands out strongly, with. To the left of this crystal is a zone rich in smaller black, brown and green crystals.

vickyveritas,
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@FaithfullJohn An epic win! Hurray!

vickyveritas, to random
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Do you like sparkle? Gem-quality zircon has a higher refractive index than sapphires or rubies. Blue zircons are more expensive, and are usually are heat-treated. Do not confuse them with cubic zirconium. More here: https://marksingermandesigns.com/2016/12/14/five-essential-things-to-know-about-zircon-gemstones/

Anthro, to random

#Today

#Universeodon back down to a 500 character limit?

When did that happen?

That sucks bigly.

20 lines of text.

Are we really so data challenged?

Universeodon please, give us some breathing room!

vickyveritas,
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@Anthro Ouch! Bluesky is equally challenged, but when you change servers your content goes with you.

vickyveritas,
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@Anthro Only a few, because it is in beta, but it will have. All social networks should operate like the Fediverse that way.

vickyveritas,
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@Anthro Sigh. And instances do go down for various reasons. My instance has been pretty good. Knock on wood. Hope it improves, Anthro!

vickyveritas,
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@sarae @Anthro There are a few instances of activity pub; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub It’s still early stages since it hasn’t gone public, yet.

vickyveritas,
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@sarae @Anthro Exactly, and that’s a problem. However the geocommunity have seemed to embrace it. That and content retention are the only two strengths it has.

Vwb, to random Dutch

#mincup23
#myvote
#Perovskite

https://www.mindat.org/min-3166.html

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@Vwb Love these, Vincent!

FaithfullJohn, to Geology

Enjoy FUN WITH ZIRCON - award-winning short video by Glasgow student Mirren Green, to accompany her final year lab project in 2019 😊 Vote zircon!!! https://youtu.be/W_GuozXgpR8?si=VmkehYZVqE2h_bqW

vickyveritas,
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@FaithfullJohn The Lewisian zircons remember :)

vickyveritas, to random
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Deep Time is a concept that surpasses our ability to comprehend. It is time for continents to collide, rift apart, & collide again. Time for mountains to rise, erode away, & arise again. Seas come & go. Life evolves. There is one mineral that remembers.

vickyveritas,
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@louisffourie Yes, it is Louis. So nice to hear from you! Cheers!

vickyveritas,
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@cannabitch Absolutely amazing! Thank you!

vickyveritas, to random
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We think rhodochrosite is pretty in pink, but #Perovskite is powerful in purpose. #VoteTheFuture Vote perovskite. #MInCup23

vickyveritas,
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@nanoelquant @GoetzSchuck Ah ha! Gotcha and good point. Thank you!

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