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CWilbur

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Nope. This isn’t science fiction; no dystopian future. This is here… now. I’m past opining, but willing to converse on any subject that improves lives. #Volcanology, #Petrology, #SW #Engineer, #System Architect, and #SciFi #writer; I really dig #butterflies. Especially the tiny ones. Walker in the Rain. #CowboyBebop

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ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Wake

Horrifying bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/energy-2

CWilbur,
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@ZachWeinersmith Is this a first draft?

Draft - get it? 😸

Auxonic, to random French
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Have you considered that all you’re going to tell them with these podcasts is how you’ve presided over rent, food, education, and their very existence becoming so expensive they can’t live while also watching the world burn with endless war and climate change? Like what’s the pitch for more of the same? Fuck off Liberals.

CWilbur,
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@Auxonic Too much sarcasm, dude. How about becoming the solution? What do you really want?

I recall a time when my generation rose up to fight against the Vietnam War. We had a real opportunity then to make huge progress on things like climate change. And we effed it completely, largely because we gave up battling the halls of power. Now my generation runs these halls, and some of us seem to have become the very things we fought. But some of us still carry the fight forward.

Pick your battles, and help those who care. Don’t walk away. Just sayin’.

CWilbur, to Geology
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Super find on eBay: This Boleite specimen from the copper deposits near Mulege, Baja Sur.

CWilbur,
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@k_kuhlman Does look a little doughy, huh. 🙂

CWilbur,
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@k_kuhlman Nevertheless those little blue cubes are quite rare. Literally found in only two places in the world - it's a copper/silver/lead mineral. I've seen cubes twice this size sell for $1000 or more apiece.

skinnylatte, to random
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When we first moved here, 45 made it impossible for foreign spouses to work. So my wife went back to school and today, she’s graduating with her Bachelors in Psychology. Next stop: grad school! (Thankful for California’s excellent public universities system, and resident tuition!)

Sabrena felt she got an excellent education at SF State, and is looking forward to start the clinical psychology masters program to be your friendly multilingual culturally relevant therapist in a few years

CWilbur,
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@skinnylatte That’s awesome!! SFState is a great school if you can tolerate the fog! 😁

MLE_online, to random
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Our Lady of 5G Coverage

CWilbur,
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@MLE_online OMG!! It’s like aphids!

philipncohen, to random
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Are you better off now than you were four years ago today?

CWilbur,
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@philipncohen In other words, Absolutely Yes!

CWilbur, to random
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Remember Akbar and Jeff from Life in Hell? There’s a certain prescience about 1992, AIR?

CWilbur,
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Come to think, it may have been the Metro. I think the Barb was way out of business by then.

CWilbur, to random
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Another day, another trail, another… yup, you guessed it.

18+ VeroniqueB99, to random
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They do not grow up.

CWilbur,
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@VeroniqueB99 “‘scuse me while whip this out.”

ProPublica, to random
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A New Mexico judge has lifted a temporary order that had stopped the city of Albuquerque from throwing away the possessions of homeless people without providing notice and an offer to store their belongings.

https://www.propublica.org/article/judge-lifts-order-albuquerque-homeless-encampments

CWilbur,
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@chargrille @ProPublica Capitalism is a weapon, and protecting citizens from this assault IS the job of the government - not helping these bandits.
That’s why once we’ve defeated the GOP we need to assess what further protections should be in place.

QasimRashid, to random
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Spot The Difference—NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on
•Butker in 2024: "We have 3,000+ players. They have a diversity of opinions & thoughts just like America does. That's something we treasure & that's part of ultimately what makes us as a society better."

•Kaepernick in 2017: "We believe everyone should stand for the National Anthem. We want to honor our flag & our country & our fans expect that of us. The Anthem controversy is a barrier to having honest conversations & making real progress."

CWilbur,
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@QasimRashid I dunno. Maybe if you had pictures of the two players that would help. 🙄

CStamp, to random
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LOL. Headlines around the world: unsealed documents revealed Spanky had boxes of classified documents in his bedroom.

MAGA world, to distract from Spanky having yet more unsecured piles of classified documents: FBI had orders to shoot and kill Spanky when they were excising their warrant to look for classified documents.

OMG. All the writers who have ever been told to dial it down are eating popcorn and pointing, "see? Coulda happened just like I wrote it."

CWilbur,
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@CStamp Well, he’s apparently offering them up for sale anyway. 🙄

CWilbur,
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@CStamp They’re probably coffee beans, maybe.

Jgbird, to random

One of my favorites. It took about a year before I could make sense of what the hummingbirds were doing. And I suppose it took them a year to be completely fearless when I was around. It finally happened. If there’s something you think you can do, you probably can.

CWilbur,
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@Jgbird Honor trying. 😸

CStamp, to random
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People need to keep reminding friends & families with less flexible minds that while there are asshole Israelis destroying aid intended for Gaza, there are also heroic Israelis trying to protect aid intended for Gaza. Jews are not any more homogenous than Christins, Muslims, name your religion. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7Q-8cPIvNy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Do you want everyone to associate you with the worst people in your religion? No? Then stop with anti Jew crap & figure out how to help those folk trying to help people in need.

CWilbur,
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@CStamp What a strange strange place the world is in. So much love, and so much hate.

CWilbur, to random
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Back to Denk and Copper Creek for . The numbers were definitely up today, if not the species. Nice Mourning Cloak serving as guardian to the trail entrance.

Same Mourning Cloak, wings closed.

CWilbur,
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Saw some kind of Blue right off, but could not get it to land. So I have some doubts over which Blue it is. Fair level of confidence it’s a Reakirt’s .

Blue in flight showing fuzzy but fairly diagnostic outer wing pattern.
Inner wing pattern definitely ids this butterfly as a Blue, and probably male. But which kind???

CWilbur,
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Lots of other familiar butterbirds

Slomo video on a Lorquin’s Admiral.

CWilbur, to Geology
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So, long #geology story long, I was driving the Modesto-Oakland leg of my weekend journey on Friday, and I accidentally went up Corral Hollow Rd instead of Patterson Pass. It was an interesting explore, although ultimately it dead-ended and I had to turn around. There’s a state park in there called Carnegie (really a rec vehicle place), so I checked out the butterfly situation. I crossed a wash several times, and I saw a lot of this material. At first I assumed it was old road tar, but it was weathering funny. I picked up a piece and discovered it was quite heavy, so I snagged a chunk and brought it home to clean. Seems to have a lot of feldspar - probably calcic. And mostly fine-grained mafics.
My guess is that I stumbled upon some un-serpentinized ultra-basic material from the Franciscan. I’ve heard it’s around, but in all my years of living in Northern #california I’ve never seen any in the field.
Anybody else know?

CWilbur,
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Now that the specimen is clean and dry, my loupe shows growth or reaction rings on the edges of the feldspars, and apparently some small garnets. So I'm going with Gabbro or possibly Eclogite.

miekeroth, to random
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Johns Hopkins is doing a long-COVID survey and apparently is having trouble finding controls -- people who haven't had COVID. If this is you, consider giving them some clicks.

https://covid-long.com/

CWilbur, (edited )
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@miekeroth I did their questionnaire. It’s a pain actually. They wanted you to tell them when you had all your covid shots and which ones they were. Took nearly an hour!

CWilbur,
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@miekeroth but… for science, it wasn’t a waste. 😬

sundogplanets, to random
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I am talking o a reporter about this in a couple hours: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-space-sask-farmers-baffled-after-discovering-strange-wreckage-in-field-1.6880353

This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)

CWilbur,
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@sundogplanets It wasn’t too long ago that a giant chunk of ice hit my roof from a descending jet aircraft. I mean, it may be a little easier to pin blame, but shit’s been falling out of the sky for a long time.

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