John_atx
@johnmit.bsky.social
Cat guardian. Retired geologist. Model railroading.
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"It’s fine. You’re young, and we’re patient."
I'm always interested in different ways to communicate science, especially stories about deep time. This @highcountrynews.org conversation between Marcia Bjornerud and ten old rocks in Wyoming is fun and I learned a lot.
www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/...
I'm always interested in different ways to communicate science, especially stories about deep time. This @highcountrynews.org conversation between Marcia Bjornerud and ten old rocks in Wyoming is fun and I learned a lot.
www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/...
Meet the oldest rock in the West - High Country News
An urban geologist goes to downtown Seattle and finds a rangeof rocks rivaling any assembled by plate tectonics.
www.hcn.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:57 PM
"It’s fine. You’re young, and we’re patient."
I'm always interested in different ways to communicate science, especially stories about deep time. This @highcountrynews.org conversation between Marcia Bjornerud and ten old rocks in Wyoming is fun and I learned a lot.
www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/...
I'm always interested in different ways to communicate science, especially stories about deep time. This @highcountrynews.org conversation between Marcia Bjornerud and ten old rocks in Wyoming is fun and I learned a lot.
www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/...
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Maybe it's a sign everything is going to be okay.
Maybe it's a sign that everything is extra not okay.
I do not know but I am basking in this moment.
Maybe it's a sign that everything is extra not okay.
I do not know but I am basking in this moment.
We have a goalie fight!
Sergei Bobrovsky skates all the way down to challenge Alex Nedeljkovic (h/t @msmambo.bsky.social)
Sergei Bobrovsky skates all the way down to challenge Alex Nedeljkovic (h/t @msmambo.bsky.social)
January 20, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Maybe it's a sign everything is going to be okay.
Maybe it's a sign that everything is extra not okay.
I do not know but I am basking in this moment.
Maybe it's a sign that everything is extra not okay.
I do not know but I am basking in this moment.
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I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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I don’t think this is the own that Fox thinks it is. Quite the insurrection.
🎥 @acyn.bsky.social
🎥 @acyn.bsky.social
January 17, 2026 at 3:43 AM
I don’t think this is the own that Fox thinks it is. Quite the insurrection.
🎥 @acyn.bsky.social
🎥 @acyn.bsky.social
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You can't even have a squirrel visit you in the hospital now, smdh
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
You can't even have a squirrel visit you in the hospital now, smdh
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Merry Christmas! It's the Hater's Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog! defector.com/the-2025-hat...
The 2025 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog | Defector
[Opens front door while holding a toy corgi in one arm] Merry Christmas! Oh my God, you made it! I thought you might be stuck at the airport for weeks! Well, because it’s such madness out there. Piper...
defector.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Merry Christmas! It's the Hater's Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog! defector.com/the-2025-hat...
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Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
Intertapes — Main
Obscure tape finds and their stories
intertapes.net
December 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
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This kid is out here answering the important questions. 😂 #caturday @strayliotta.bsky.social
6th grader's science fair project answers age-old question: 'Do cat buttholes touch everything?'
You know you've been wondering.
www.upworthy.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This kid is out here answering the important questions. 😂 #caturday @strayliotta.bsky.social
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Here's PIRG researcher RJ Cross getting the Alilo Smart AI bunny to tell @savanahsellers.bsky.social about S&M, the FoloToy Sunflower Warmie telling me it is actually both a cactus and a teddy bear (???) and the Miiloo spouting the CCP line on Taiwan.
December 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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embrace prosocial klingon thought
December 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
embrace prosocial klingon thought
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Best gift you can buy for yourself. It's cheap and takes up no space in your bedroom
Here's the link to my upcoming workshop: keithknight.bigcartel.com/product/keef...
November 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Best gift you can buy for yourself. It's cheap and takes up no space in your bedroom
November 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Hey folks — I'll be appearing soon at the Dallas Jewish Bookfest to talk about "Neither Fish nor Fowl: A Mercantile Jewish Family on the Rio Grande."
The event is on Monday, December 8, at 7 pm at the Aaron Family JCC. See the link for details and registration.
www.jccdallas.org/events/bookf...
The event is on Monday, December 8, at 7 pm at the Aaron Family JCC. See the link for details and registration.
www.jccdallas.org/events/bookf...
BookFest: Neither Fish nor Fowl
Bookfest
www.jccdallas.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Hey folks — I'll be appearing soon at the Dallas Jewish Bookfest to talk about "Neither Fish nor Fowl: A Mercantile Jewish Family on the Rio Grande."
The event is on Monday, December 8, at 7 pm at the Aaron Family JCC. See the link for details and registration.
www.jccdallas.org/events/bookf...
The event is on Monday, December 8, at 7 pm at the Aaron Family JCC. See the link for details and registration.
www.jccdallas.org/events/bookf...
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THE GROUND HOG IS BACK
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
THE GROUND HOG IS BACK
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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Shop now, thank yourself later. mouthntrousers.etsy.com?coupon=SAVE2...
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Shop now, thank yourself later. mouthntrousers.etsy.com?coupon=SAVE2...
mouthntrousers.etsy.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Stock up now!
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Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
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Lots of people comparing Senate Democrats to Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, but that analogy only works in a version where Lucy has told Charlie Brown she's going to pull it away, and also that afterwards she's going to have Snoopy executed in a foreign prison
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Lots of people comparing Senate Democrats to Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, but that analogy only works in a version where Lucy has told Charlie Brown she's going to pull it away, and also that afterwards she's going to have Snoopy executed in a foreign prison
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I eat at this table. I’d rather Billy not sit on it. So we’ve reached a compromise: I’ll eat off a plate on my lap and he’ll sit wherever the fuck he wants. Cats always turn me into the Chuck Schumer of my own apartment.
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I eat at this table. I’d rather Billy not sit on it. So we’ve reached a compromise: I’ll eat off a plate on my lap and he’ll sit wherever the fuck he wants. Cats always turn me into the Chuck Schumer of my own apartment.
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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Henry Morgan and Elliott Gould in 2 of the first 3 shows, this is top quality shit here.
Everyone had the same living room setpieces. They perfected the stairs upstage with the Family Ties living room imo
Everyone had the same living room setpieces. They perfected the stairs upstage with the Family Ties living room imo
I want to draw everyone's attention to this amazing sitcom supercut by @futurehasbeen.bsky.social. It's a 2-hour celebration of sitcom openings that you don't remember and may not know exist. It's warm nostalgia that gets uncanny as you watch. Hard recommend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhNB...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhNB...
Sitcoms That Primetime Forgot
YouTube video by Michael Darling
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Henry Morgan and Elliott Gould in 2 of the first 3 shows, this is top quality shit here.
Everyone had the same living room setpieces. They perfected the stairs upstage with the Family Ties living room imo
Everyone had the same living room setpieces. They perfected the stairs upstage with the Family Ties living room imo