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Mossy
@mossyrockbooks.bsky.social
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Geologist interested in Material Physics, Sustainability, Ethics, Physical & digital media/data preservation, Bookbinding & repair, TTRPG, Citizen Archivists efforts, De-enshittification, Fiber craft, Textiles, Video games, Cats.
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volts.wtf
In China & India, the growth in electricity demand has "decoupled" from the growth in fossil fuels. The next step is for fossil fuel demand to plateau & head down, even as economic growth continues. Should happen in the next few years. Believe me, when it happens you'll hear some cheering.
April 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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archive.org
From “Preserving the Library System,” by Brewster Kahle, part of the Vanishing Culture report.

Read the full report 🔗 archive.org/details/vani...

🕳️ #VanishingCulture
The image shows the cover of the Internet Archive's Vanishing Culture report. On the left, the words "Vanishing Culture" are prominently displayed in bold, dark font against a neutral background. To the right, a set of cultural artifacts including a VHS tape, an open book, a film reel, a vinyl record, and a web link icon appear to disintegrate into pixels, symbolizing the disappearance of analog and digital media. Below these icons is a pixelated computer hand cursor pointing to the word "SAVE," emphasizing the need for preservation. The Internet Archive's logo is placed in the bottom-right corner.
April 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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zacklabe.com
I swear it's not a graph of the stock market... 📉

+ High resolution version: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
+ Figure reproduced from doi.org/10.1038/natu...
+ Overview: climate.gov/news-feature...
Line graph time series of reconstruction Arctic sea ice extent over the last 1,450 years. There is some multi-decadal variability, but a sharp decreasing trend in the last part of the time series due to human-caused climate change. This reconstruction is from Kinnard et al. 2011.
April 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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wiswell.bsky.social
I--
The handshake meme with one arm reading "GEOLOGISTS," and the other arm reading "STEVEN UNIVERSE." What do they agree on? The hand says, "We can date those rocks."
April 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
mossyrockbooks.bsky.social
Orange Monday
April 7, 2025 at 6:01 AM
mossyrockbooks.bsky.social
A friendly reminder to take some time sitting outside in nature. Next to a body of water, in a forest, or a grassy field. If you can't be there for yourself in your time of need, it will be harder to help others. Best to not let the world burn you up too quickly.
Life is a marathon not a sprint. 💚
March 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
mossyrockbooks.bsky.social
What do you do when you go to bed with a full battery and wake up without an alarm only to find that the YouTube app decided to kill your phone at 4am by inexplicably running in the background despite it not playing or being connected to anything?
a man is sitting at a desk in an office holding a hammer .
Alt: The character Ron Swanson from the show Parks and Recreation is sitting at a desk in an office holding a hammer and is using it to smash a cellphone sitting on the desk with a serious facial expression.
media.tenor.com
February 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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hdkgeo.bsky.social
I used to regularly access this NOAA page on atmospheric GHG concentrations, so glad to know it’s still available from UCSD ⚒️🌏🧪
richardabetts.bsky.social Prof Richard Betts @richardabetts.bsky.social · Feb 5
Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share

Don't let science be hidden
A graph of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at the Mauna Loa observatory, Hawaii, from 1958 to 4th February 2025. It shows carbon dioxide levels rising at an accelerating rate over the decades. This is known to be due to emissions of carbon dioxide from human activity, mainly fossil fuel burning but also deforestation. The first CO2 concentration value in March 1958 was 315 parts per million (ppm). The latest daily value is 426 ppm. The graph also shows a seasonal cycle of a few ppm within each year, which is known to be linked to the growing season in the northern hemisphere causing a temporary uptake of carbon in spring and summer and release in autumn. The graph is produced routinely by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
February 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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vaccinium-sultan.bsky.social
Cumulate #ultramafic #xenoliths ( #dunites & #spinel ± #plagioclase #peridotites) of the #Hualālai Volcanics with @volcanoesinthesea.bsky.social

#Geoscience #volcanology #geology
January 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
mossyrockbooks.bsky.social
When plans for xml metadata schema usage start to look like they're calling for a "Terducken approach" I'm reminded of how much I love my job.
Which one to use? Yes.
January 23, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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aoc.bsky.social
WE ARE STILL IN THIS.
Wipe your tears.
This is the difficult business of hope and defying expectation.
We do not give up.
We run through the tape.

Y’all aren’t allowed to throw in the towel until I do. 😉

Big breath. Locked in. Let’s do this.
December 17, 2024 at 3:58 AM
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criticalrole.bsky.social
Learn more about CCF's Wildfire Recovery Fund
www.calfund.org/funds/wildfi...

Donate to CRF
criticalrolefoundation.org

Updates and Resources in Los Angeles
www.fire.ca.gov/Incidents
www.calfund.org
January 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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hlee.bsky.social
Geothermal exploration using variable pressures to create the optimal fracture network in rock (fracking)- at Newberry volcano, Oregon, likely to generate some small tremors, per USGS 👇⚒️ reporting by KTVZ-TV
ktvz.com/news/earthqu...
'Increased seismicity' likely at Newberry volcano as geothermal exploration work resumes, USGS advises public
VANCOUVER, Wash. (KTVZ) -- "Increased rates of seismicity" are likely at the Newberry volcano south of Bend as a private exploration company conducts geothermal work in coming weeks, the U.S. Geologic...
ktvz.com
December 20, 2024 at 1:03 AM
mossyrockbooks.bsky.social
Now to answer the age-old question of:

How many Christmas gifts can I make in one weekend?
December 20, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social
Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.
December 18, 2024 at 11:37 AM
mossyrockbooks.bsky.social
Saw a bumper sticker tonight that said "Deny Negativity", and my immediate thought was "Damn you, Dipoles!!!"
This received what I consider a well-earned "sigh" from my beloved partner. I guess I can say it was my magnetism that attracted such a positive match.
December 19, 2024 at 5:57 AM
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wittywebhandle.bsky.social
Just make sure that they get this Top Trending list from 12/6/2024 into the history books.

It does a better job at showing the current situation than I can in any amount of words.
The suspect involved in killing of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, in Midtown Manhattan on Dec. 4, 2024. ‘This was preventable’: Corporate world shudders at new risks after slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Snoop Dogg’s savings tip for his daughter’s $1 million wedding gift is ‘solid advice,’ says CFP Isaac French and his family renovated a train car from the 1900s. Now it's a successful Airbnb in Idaho. Family bought an abandoned train car for $3,000, turned it into an Airbnb that brings in over $90,000/year Amy Henion, a graphic designer, said living at a mall is both unique and convenient More Americans are living in malls, as developers get creative to help ease the housing crisis
December 7, 2024 at 6:09 AM
mossyrockbooks.bsky.social
I have discovered that mtg cards have pretty art... Oh no...
December 5, 2024 at 6:40 AM
mossyrockbooks.bsky.social
The ability and willingness to cook is one of the hottest things. Yes, tonight my partner made me homemade sushi I could cry over. Absolutely divine human being.
December 4, 2024 at 7:40 AM
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retr0.id
inside me there are two wolves
sickos yes dot jpeg sickos no dot jpeg
December 4, 2024 at 2:20 AM
mossyrockbooks.bsky.social
If Biden can pardon a turkey, why not his son? It's only a problem for some Democrats because of their weakly held positions preventing them from tangibly helping people.
Without their dedication to maintaining the status-quo they're basically Centrist Republicans - both bow to corporate interests.
December 4, 2024 at 2:54 AM
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ingallswx.bsky.social
I have successfully made a "virtual sounding" in #Python showing temperature and dew point plotted against elevation for the Portland area. The inversion is clearly evident, and it's easy to infer the top of the cloud deck.

#weather #ORwx #pdxtst
A chart plotting temperature against elevation in the Portland area. The valley floor is warmer than around 500 m asl but colder than around 1100 m asl.
December 2, 2024 at 7:39 PM
mossyrockbooks.bsky.social
I find Bluesky has a really interesting dynamic. Like sure, there's so many twitter refugees... But others just wandered in out of curiosity
December 3, 2024 at 7:11 AM
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December 3, 2024 at 3:12 AM
mossyrockbooks.bsky.social
I find that I tend to just cry quietly and do my best. Catalogs upon catalogs...
jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy Jonathan Carroll @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · Dec 3
People who work in teams with lots of files, possibly experimental data etc... across many systems - how do you keep track of their location/metadata? I'm contemplating a Universal ID + database + short URL setup but surely this has been built properly somewhere before.

Or... everyone just has […]
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December 3, 2024 at 6:38 AM