Elizabeth Bollen

Holiday flyer for fat squirrel peppers with glowing peppers, holly, and a Christmas tree, giving the date and time.

We're back December 13th, for our annual Fat Squirrel Peppers Holiday Booth at Tuscaloosa River Market. We'll have lots of our custom spice blends and salsas available for purchase, and maybe a holiday sale or two. So come on by, we've missed you!

Comic: Typical Geologic core sample. [Cylindrical core sample with labels for difference sections from top to bottom] Topsoil, till, granite bedrock, bottomsoil, roof of subway car, floor of subway car, more granite, municipal water main [gouge in core sample], slightly different granite, piece of screaming spelunker’s forearm, cool crystals with no resale value, mangled fragments of drillbit from previous attempt, some boring intrusive rock that’s basically granite but has a name like “diorite” or “Andalite” that you always have to look up, netherrack, Balrog wing. [break between next chunk of core sample] Granite, topsoil, cement, floorboards, carpet, possessions of a confused and angry homeowner in the other hemisphere.

Geologic Core Sample

xkcd.com/3171/

Vanity insanity.

Are you referring to Garrett Wang? He is hilarious and loves conventions. He would probably jump at the chance to be a speaker/panelist at GSA.

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UGH! When will it end. 😭

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Irony is officially, terminally, dead

@afroherper.bsky.social !

Trump administration uses taxpayer dollars to blame Democrats for government shutdown Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.

Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.

Trump is asking us to start choosing groups we're willing to abandon, and the only way to make him stop is to be clear we're not fucking abandoning ANYONE.

Call your reps. Call your fucking reps. Especially in red states. Use the @5calls.org app, it's easy and free.

White murupi peppers looking good, pic is from a few weeks ago. Still about a month left in the season 💪🌶️

Whoooaaaaa

I like Elizabeth Warren a lot but the musician’s union is out-posting her, and no, posting is not policy but it is a method of communicating and it could! be! better!

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Clam fossils in matrix on a gray background next to a roll of electrical tape as a poor scale.

View of the umbo of the clam and matrix

Close up of the shell

Opposite end from the umbo

Mystery clam! One of my Oregon fossil sites is full of these clams… I know nothing about clams… trying to at least get a family(?) level ID? @dantheclamman.blog

"Positive Depictions" Of Trans People Banned In Alabama State Libraries Proposal The code change that has been proposed does not ban negative depictions of transgender people, however. Public comment is open until October 14.

1. You may have heard of book bans before, but the new one in Alabama takes the cake.

The Alabama Public Library Service has a new proposal that would ban—get this—only "positive depictions" of trans people.

The hearing is next month. Public comment is open.

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Woah 😨🤯

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

this is the first time a major Democratic elected has actually told his supporters what they can do in the face of this as far as I can tell

To think this was a joke a couple years ago 😮‍💨

Fujianvenator

One of the coolest photos I’ve ever seen

US constitution

This is the US Constitution page @ the Library of Congress

Sections 9 and 10 have been removed

9 includes habeas corpus, the courts' review of unlawful detention & imprisonment

This gov't can't change the Constitution w/ sneaky editing, but it's a new low: constitution.congress.gov/constitution/

If I remember correctly, once they drive up the tsunami, they then are able to stop the boat and look back at the coastline. And the boat just stayed put while they did that. 😂

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In areas hit by Texas floods, officials were sent over $5 million in federal ARPA funds in 2021.

They didn't want to spend it on flood warning systems due to their disdain for Biden - and didn't send it BACK because it might go to a blue state, and "values that we in Kerr county don't agree with."

You have to re-post all columnar basalt photos. I don't make the rules, that's just the way it is.

No apologies

As Congress cuts clean energy tax credits, Georgia solar jobs could be at risk In Georgia, clean energy investments were expected to create more than any other state. But this week, Congress is debating a budget bill that would slash tax incentives for clean energy that advocates worry could put new solar and electric vehicle industries at risk.

Cedartown, Georgia, has been counting on job growth with an investment in a plant that supports the solar industry. Now a roll back of clean energy credits could stifle the expansion. (via ‪@wabe.org‬)

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

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Annual cicada emerges from its shell on a wooden fence. Ready to climb into a tree and scream, just like we all are.

Happy solstice!