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Scott Merms 🏞️
@shmermel.bsky.social
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Geologist in metropolis
Leftist, Indiana Alum he/him/they/them
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Ok what, are vaccinations spam? Where on the disinformation playbook is calling medicine spam and hiding the content?
Screenshot of a post by quantum sauce marked as spam by bluesky but the post is talking about learning about vaccinations and a Christmas catharsis thing and another thing about tree translation with an ecologist
December 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Peak excited #terriertuesday #btposse
A photo of Bowie in a red puffy vest, sitting on a tile floor with her ears flared high and wide
December 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Thank you @rebeccathorne.bsky.social's wife for describing and illustrating the problems with LEDs
Screenshot of an Instagram reel from Rebecca Thorn with her wife showing four graphs on wavelength distribution of different kinds of light. In the upper left is daylight, the spectrum is broad and a somewhat even distribution with the violet on the left the least and then the blue and green light is the most and it's trends back down a little for the reds. In the upper right is sunset, the wavelength distribution looks a bit like a y=x graph. In the lower right is the incandescent light which looks like the sunset wavelength distribution. In the lower left is LEDs which has a big peak in the deepest blue, lower wavelength than the daylight peak, and a hump in the green light spectrum and very little of anything else.
November 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Appropriate sunrise for thanksgiving
The view of the sunrise through some trees in a parking lot, the sky is mostly orange from the clouds with some light blue in the middle and some thicker clouds lower on the horizon and a bit far but the bottom of those clouds is a deep orange
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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This is the funniest fucking birthday cake from the bakery that's supposed to make the best cinnamon rolls in NYC
Screenshot of an Instagram post by losers bakery of a cake with a serious looking Leonardo DiCaprio on it and text that reads, "nooo, dont turn 25 your so sexy aha"
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Oh that's good @actualnames.bsky.social
Side of the truck for Apple Coring and Sawing
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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#terriertuesday #btposse
Bowie sitting on top of the couch cushions looking cute
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Oh hey www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/24/w...
A photo of the new Dorothy and border terrier Toto
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Looks like a border
A screenshot of the wicked for good trailer with the dog that looks like a border terrier
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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@sarahmackattack.bsky.social oh hey
Screenshot of an Instagram post from Kali Reis sharing a story from sleep token diaries that has the text, she listens to sleep token in the middle
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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This other spring in the middle of the footing that came up seems like a bigger deal
At the other side of the excavation near the wall failure, the water is slowly getting pumped out and has exposed a spring towards the middle of the wall where i am now standing, it looks like a small cone of sediment and water
November 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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How it started vs how it's going
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A small excavation with stone in the bottom and an area jn the corner that collapsed a little with water The excavation is completely flooded, nearly ten feet of the side of the trench has washed out, and the retaining wall is starting to come apart
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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The classic #terriertuesday #btposse
Bowie wearing a party hat in my lap and looking happy
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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"scientists" in the most generous, broadest, sense
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Did a practice run for thanksgiving and my gluten free mac and cheese came out great. Glad i did the practice run though because i can do better.
The mac and cheese right after it came out of the oven with the vegetables on top looking just barely cooked and everything else looking good A scoop of mac and cheese on my plate
November 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Test run came out REALLY well, thanksgiving is going to be great as usual
A baked macaroni and cheese with chopped potato, onion, and carrot on top that shrunk a bit so it doesn't cover the whole surface
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Two copies?
Dee and Dennis looking shocked on their podcast from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
November 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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So the site i was on the rest of the week has really clean sand (well graded for geologists) and i know "quicksand" isnt a thing but there was a couple times they tried to compact and the compactor just sunk 2-3 ft if they didnt move fast enough. Pic from a different area @drwendyrocks.bsky.social ⚒️
An excavation with a concrete drainage structure and cross bedding in the sands of the wall of the excavation
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Bowie hunting commercials #btposse
Bowie standing on the arm of a navy couch, staring at the tv with one front leg raised
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Or was it the other way around
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Pac man just missed
Screenshot of my radar from 11:35 in Bergen county showing a small storm resembling pac man with his mouth open heading a couple miles south of my blue dot
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Did you see this shit
Screenshot of a post by Aaron dot bsky dot team that reads, False attribution. If a person is suspended it is because of their identity? Could it not be because of their content? I wrote about it here aaron.leaflet.pub/3m52nqqmk322v
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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#terriertuesday #btposse
Bowie on a sidewalk in a yellow raincoat looking back and messing up the hood Bowie on a couch in a yellow raincoat with the hood on her head
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM