Bob Gooday

Once had 'desecration cracks' which sounds metal as hell.

Love the thought of everyone yelling at some excited kid because they didn't get the ball to third base for the last out.

Can't believe this is the effective antifascist praxis we've stumbled upon. What a stupid, stupid world. 💪🐸

mad how english folk can get four syllables out of embra

Was once told my late-submission request for a paper on dinosaur anatomy had been missed, and I could either write to the exam board pleading my case, or hand in by 4pm that day and eat the 5% late penalty. I spent that five hours knowing more about dinosaur anatomy than anyone on earth.

I mean the answer is ‘The Meat Lobby’, isn’t it?

This is great, BUT the year we burned the most coal was 2024 and it's still going up.

xkcd comic number 2827. Speech bubble: Did you know the mighty redwood is actually the same species as broccoli and kale? It's just a different cultivar. Wow! Caption: Every year or two, botanists add another plant to Brassica oleracea and see if anyone calls them on it.

nice try...

a computer-generated lifelike animation is not an "actor" and having to say that makes me feel like i'm the insane one

As someone who knows nothing about palaeontology, I'm utterly convinced we've got helicoprion totally wrong. No way that's a coiled tooth-magazine. Like when we thought anomalocaris jaws were headless prawns.

A hardcover book called Volcanoes 10 things you should know – unearth the fascinating fundamentals of volcanoes, by Dr Rebecca Williams. It has a deep red cover with an image of an erupting volcano in embossed gold.

Chapter four. How not to die in a volcanic eruption.

Got @volcanologist.bsky.social’s new book in the post. Can’t wait to read the whole thing, but will be starting with chapter 4 as a matter of urgency.

Large clinopyroxene (titanaugite) crystal takes up much of field of view. Tin plane cuts from top left to bottom right separating twins showing different interference colours. Multiple concentric zones apparent in finer oscillation of interference colours. Plagioclase and olivine groundmass surrounds the phenocryst.

Spectacular concentric zoning and twinning of large titanaugite in essexite (nepheline monzogabbro) from Lennoxtown, Scotland. Plagioclase inclusions within the phenocryst align with zoning just as proximal groundmass plagioclase align with its edge. #ThinSectionThursday 🧪⚒️

One of my favourite bits of Moby Dick is this chapter where Melville basically says "a bunch of weird dorks keep telling everyone whales aren't actually fish but look at them... swimming around in the sea... of course they're fish".

Colour: Emerald-green, grass-green, leek green, siskin green, apple green. Lustre: Sub-adamantine, Vitreous, Waxy, Pearly Hardness: 2 - 2.5

New series: guess the slightly silly mindat entry. @mindat.bsky.social

Seconded. It’s basically this post in book format. I recommend the illustrated edition.

Scotland games on free-to-air TV a ‘Great result for fans’ Scotland games on free-to-air TV a ‘Great result for fans’ - Football is for everyone.

Scottish Greens have been (successfully) campaigning for Scotland games to be free to watch for ages. greens.scot/news/scotlan...

Ian Holm's delivery of this line was very fun and silly, and really showed you're dealing with an ACTOR actor.

A hill I will die on is that she isn't wrong. Robbed of five points.

A. I could live off apples and cod.

Happy Pythagorean Day.
4^2 + 3^2 = 5^2
16 + 9 = 25

this is just an alestorm song

Thought I already knew most of the very silly minerals, then along comes paddlewheelite. Ridiculous.

You know these systems were written by Americans because "Someone near Reading, England" accessing my account is me in Edinburgh.

Is that Streitishvarf? Eastern Iceland is incredible for shallow magma dynamics. Enjoy!

The custom I don’t understand - but still do - leaving tea bags out in a little pot by the sink before putting them in the food recycling bin.
Like an official period of lying in state before the funeral.

We're not going to waste the most delicious tap water in the world just for the sake of an undetectable layer of clean.

Greer and Mackay: No place in Greens for people who don’t accept trans women as women Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay say anyone who rejects trans rights has no place in the Scottish Greens.

“There are four key principles to Green politics. One of them is equality… if someone cannot accept that, fundamentally disagrees with us on that, then they do not have to stay in the Green Party. They can pursue the other things they care about elsewhere.”

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2545297...

well that scared the shit out of me.

A grassy and rocky landscape with a geologist walking towards the camera. In the background is a white sandy beach and blue bay.

A white sandy beach with turquoise water surrounded by orange and grey rocks.

I find it pretty annoying and cringe when people post photos of the beautiful places they’re working captioned “office for the week”.
with that said: office for the week.

A passage about the Stac Fada member. The sentence about the sequence possibly being repeated is repeated.

This is definitely an intentional gag in the North-West Highlands field guide, right?