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per the asks, whts your favorite go to outfit?

My current go to is a T-shirt (preferably with a joke on it), jeans, flannel, boots, and a wide brimmed hat. I like the look of fancier clothes, but I think I have a bit too dirty of a lifestyle for that.

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Weeping at this. Frighteningly similar to how I sound

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weirdly specific and unrelated asks to know someone well:

chipotle order?

thoughts on veganism?

a specific color that gives you the ick?

mythical creature you think/believe is real?

favorite form of potato?

do you use a watch?

what animal do you look forward to seeing when you visit an aquarium?

do you change into specific clothes for the house when you get home?

do you have a skincare routine (and how many steps is it)?

on a plane, do you ask for apple or orange juice?

anything from your childhood you’ve held on to?

brand of haircare/bodycare/skincare that you trust 100%?

first thing you’re doing in the purge?

do you think you’re dehydrated?

rank the methods of death: freezing, burning, drowning

thoughts on mint chocolate chip?

an anxious compulsion you do everyday?

your boba/tea order?

the veggie you dislike the most?

favorite disney princess movie?

a number that weirds you out?

do you have an emotional support water bottle?

do you wear jewelry?

which do you find yourself using, american or british english?

would you say you have good taste in music?

how’s your spice tolerance?

what’s your favorite or go-to outfit?

last meal on earth?

preferred pasta noodle?

ask me anything !

leave an ask for the person you reblog it from!

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10/10 on the trail name for this one

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Fabio Viale, marble sculpture.

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"Genesis", Oil on canvas by Matthew Cornell

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Saw this and thought it was a good addition

had to clip this because jesus CHRIST

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Went to a geology presentation, during which the presenter in question tried really very hard to convince us that carbonates are not boring and are in fact very cool

Various samples were brought, and they were quite cool, so I have been won over to the side of the carbonates. This a carbonate fanblog now. I will only discuss limestone and other such rocks. You're welcome

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Happy Ordovician Weekend!

If you compressed all of Earth's history into a single year, From 9pm November 22 to 5:20 am November 26th would mark the Ordovician period.

Notable for continuing the diversification of life that kicked off in the Cambrian and having a ton of meteorite impacts (that may have been caused by Earth getting rings at the time) the Ordovician was a very interesting period in Earth's history.

I don't have a ton of time to get into though, so here is a reconstruction of the comically long genus Endoceras, a cephalopod with shells that have been found as long as 10 ft!

These were ambush predators by the way.

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Zoozve, my beloved

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What people think studying geology is like: Here, memorize these 100 cool rocks and where to find them and also here's how plate tectonics works.

What studying geology is actually like: All rocks are actually one of these 10 rocks except when they're not, but those are like super rare so don't worry about it. The Earth's mantle isn't really made of magma and its also green actually. Rotate this cube in your mind seven different ways. Remember not to lose your protractor. We combined a compass and a level into one horrible machine, now go chuck it at a hillside in the rain in seven different ways. Do you remember anything from high school trigonometry? Cause you'd better. Move this object into the theoretical construct where space isn't real and all angles are doubled for some reason. Time to play in the sandbox! You think you know how the concept of temperature works? Haha fuck you. Now rewrite how your brain thinks about 3D space.

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I submit to you that the most iconic feature of any animal is either unlikely or impossible to fossilize.

If all we had of wolves were their bones we would never guess that they howl.

If all we had of elephants were fossils with no living related species, we might infer some kind of proboscis but we’d never come up with those ears.

If all we had of chickens were bones, we wouldn’t know about their combs and wattles, or that roosters crow.

We wouldn’t know that lions have manes, or that zebras have stripes, or that peacocks have trains, that howler monkeys yell, that cats purr, that deer shed the velvet from their antlers, that caterpillars become butterflies, that spiders make webs, that chickadees say their name, that Canada geese are assholes, that orangutans are ginger, that dolphins echolocate, or that squid even existed.

My point here is that we don’t know anything about dinosaurs. If we saw one we would not recognize it. As my evidence I submit the above, along with the fact that it took us two centuries to realize they’d been all around us the whole time.

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Silly Game Time: What was the most recent internet search you're comfortable with sharing?

Slickensides! Slickensides are rock races that are polished smooth by rubbing against another rock at a fault line (source of earthquakes). We found one on our field trip (and I looked them up online to see what other look like).

This polished surface was so smooth and hard that it felt like porcelain. It's just crazy to think that this was caused by rocks rubbing against rocks.

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It has been a long, long time coming...

HAPPY CAMBRIAN WEEK!

If all of the Earth's history was a year, this week (2pm Nov. 18 to 9:30pm Nov. 22) marks the Cambrian period.

A remarkable leap forward in the evolution of life on earth, the animals that had just arrived on the scene during the Ediacaran period developed hard shells and bones during this time, and began to rapidly radiate into all sorts of new and unique organisms. So many new species came out of this transition that it is often known as the Cambrian Explosion.

Such charismatic critters as anomalocaris canadensis, hallucigenia, and countless early trilobites came about during this time, as well as the many other weird and wonderful residents of the Burgess Shale and beyond.

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The continents of Gondwana and Laurentia are still barren at this time. Life is still restricted to the seas, but that will soon begin to change.

Would love to hear y'all's favorite Cambrian critters for this geo anniversary. How will you celebrate?

Next stop: the Ordovician!

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i really want people to stop writing scientists as awkward, stilted conversationalists who don't understand idioms or emotions and start writing them as depressed alcoholics who swear like sailors unless they're in a specifically academic situation

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When thinking about how wide a net TTRPG games used to cast there's a few major examples. Like how there was a James Bond RPG in the 80s that was both extremely popular & mechanically unique (it could function with just one GM and one player as Bond or a Bond-like secret agent, and was designed to feel like a Bond movie), or the Dallas RPG that was a massive bomb that killed the company that made it but is conceptually funny (it was only the second licensed RPG ever! The first was Star Trek and the second was somehow the primetime soap opera Dallas)

But a while back I stumbled across the knowledge that there was a Tales from the Crypt RPG in the 90s. I was kind of fascinated with how that worked. It was for a system I'd never heard of called Masterbook

I did some reading on it and it seems like nobody liked Masterbook. At the time or now. One thread I read said it seemed ill-suited to Tales from the Crypt, but also it was "ill-suited for anything". I still don't know why. All I can see is that it somehow involved a deck of cards and the company soon ditched it for a new d6 system

So that thread says there's two ways to play it, one as a one-shot, and one as a campaign where your characters assume the bodies of different characters each setting. Which, they somehow managed to come up with the perfect mechanics for a Quantum Leap game for a Tales from the Crypt game. Except your physical stats change every time which makes them pointless (in a Quantum Leap game that wouldn't apply bc Sam actually wasn't leaping into someone's body, his body was made to look like the person he leapt into, who was transported to the future. This is shown in the episode where he can walk when he's leapt into someone without legs & the one where the guy he's leapt into escapes into the far-off cyberpunk future of four years after the episode was shot. Even though every part of that would make more sense if he was just mentally leaping into their body)

Anyway West End Games picked some weird ass titles to turn into RPGs under Masterbook. In addition to an original setting they did Indiana Jones (later converted to D6), Tank Girl, the horror novel series Necroscope, and? Species (1995)? Once upon a time a mediocre monster movie about a hot lady alien with a cool but poorly translated-to-screen HR Geiger design could get an RPG with a totally unique system nobody really liked, and now we can just get people hacking it into 5E, or possibly making an April Fool's Day joke game where advertising mascots date each other

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Quartzite cobble

~4 Ma Bullhead Alluvium, Lake Havasu area.