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Hydrothermal geologist/geochemist, postdoctoral researcher. Sciences hard, loves the work. Also makes costumes. Views expressed are mine.
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Just so we're all clear: It's not a coincidence that the first senator they've used physical force against is Sen. Alex Padilla, a Latino man representing California.

submitted 4 hours ago • 251 comments

I'm not a political operative or strategist. But it seems to me after a clearly out-of-control president has his goons put hands on a US Senator, the least that Senators party could do is occupy the legislature and demand the president come down and address them.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

A great way for Senate Democrats to protest what’s going on is to not have almost 40% of the caucus keep voting to advance a money laundering bill.

submitted 4 hours ago • 24 comments

From @agu.org @aguscipolicy.bsky.social x.com/AGUSciPolicy...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Move to hold the agents who assaulted a sitting senator in contempt of Congress. Call for articles of impeachment against Noem. Stop working on crypto legislation. Demonstrate the stakes of what is happening in LA with your actions.

submitted 5 hours ago • 94 comments

Yeah it's really something to see a U.S. senator being hit with the same impossible compliance demands that the cops scream at people before shooting them during a stop

submitted 5 hours ago • 30 comments

Kīlauea's doing its thing again and it is GORGEOUS www.youtube.com/live/oG5zz9S...

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

This is why I don't trust that Michael's is doing anything remotely useful with their fabric/sewing sections. 🤦‍♀️💀

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Note to self: flat-felling seams on batik will make you go cross-eyed 😵 (curtain panels for a friend's business...featuring my portable sewing machine)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

💯 every panel I’ve ever reviewed for had more competitive projects than 💵 to fund them. It’s not enough to fight for the way it was, Congress, triple NSF #3XNSF

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @usrepjimmypanetta.bsky.social It would be really cool if y'all could do something *substantive* to STOP THIS ADMINISTRATION FROM RUINING LITERALLY EVERYTHING. Sitting on your hands and waiting for 2026 ain't it here.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Now one of my online bead sources is closing (beadaholique) 😬😬 I JUST WANT TO MAKE STUFF 😭💀

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

part of the problem is that even if dems win in 2028, a program of reconstruction 2.0 basically ends up running into the problem reconstruction 1.0 did: the fact that no one has the will to make the structural reforms required

submitted 2 days ago • 66 comments

This is why I do very little on FB these days...it's all shit I don't want to see/ads (mostly I use the mobile site for groups I'm in...so I don't look at my feed)

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Geology Word of the Day! Ophiolite - A slice of ancient ocean lithosphere (upper mantle/crust) obducted onto the continental margin at a subduction zone, typically consisting of refractory residue ultramafic rock, overlying shallow crustal cumulates, and capped by fractionated basalt magmas. ⚒️🌋🌎🪨🌊

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

The Wall Street Journal is reporting on a conspiracy by the White House and ICE to violate the Constitution and conduct warrantless, suspicionless "sweeps" of Hispanic areas of the country. This is criminal behavior, and state police need to start investigating these crimes.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

OK, well, this is horrifying

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Astonishing: a New Zealand oceanographic survey ship ran ashore b/c the crew inadvertently left the autopilot engaged. Failure of training, but it's also an interaction design failure. The control system lets the crew make inputs with autopilot on, but silently ignores them, providing no feedback.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Huge news, and a confirmation of what NSF staff have suspected/feared for a while.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

NSF budget director in email: "we are immediately focused on pulling the funds back to ensure there are no further commitments or obligations" Targets NSF programs using funding leftover from 2024.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments