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Dennis Geist

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Professor for life. Preserve the Galapagos. I heart volcanoes.

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Hegseth invites controversial Idaho pastor and self-described Christian nationalist to lead Pentagon’s monthly prayer meeting Originally published Feb. 18 by The Spokesman-Review.U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth invited controversial Idaho pastor Doug Wilson, a self-described Christian nationalist whose church doesn’t ...

The manic behavior, bro personality, incompetence, and alcoholism are one thing. This is genuinely scary: www.idahopress.com/news/local/h...

22.02.2026 14:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Charles Darwin on Volcanoes | Volcanica

In the old days, I'd have to leave reprints in telephone booths and bus stations to get people to take them. Here is the virtual version of that: www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.ph...

10.02.2026 14:19 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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January 18, 2026 You hear sometimes, now that we know the sordid details of the lives of some of our leading figures, that America has no heroes left.

HCR @hcrichardson.bsky.social with a beautiful reflection on the day: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

19.01.2026 13:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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2025: The Year in Volcanic Activity Scenes from the wide variety of volcanic activity on Earth over the past year

It's not the @iavcei.bsky.social calendar, but some great photography for volcanophiles at www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

04.01.2026 13:55 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

My @nytimes.com subscription just expired. Haven't really read anything but the arts for months, because of their normalization of the tyranny of the federal government, extra charge for sports, and the jokers on the opinion page. Is there a decent source of news and opinion out there?

04.01.2026 13:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I'm looking for the perfect illustration of a mantle plume for a book I'm working on. Started with a web search and couldn't find exactly what I wanted. So I gave Chatgpt a go. Wow.

21.12.2025 00:15 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 7 📌 1

Hey look over there and my latest crazy shit! I'd hate to distract you from the fact that I hung out with another rich dude who raped young girls.

03.12.2025 14:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So where is your book about the disfunctionality of this administration, Jake? The mental acuity of the Commander in Chief? The covering up by the world-class sycophant tribe that surrounds this deranged soul?

03.12.2025 14:51 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Hawaii's Kilauea volcano producing streams of molten lava, eruption imminent Experts say another eruption from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is imminent, as livestream footage shows lava beginning to flow from its summit this weekend.

Is this incredibly stupid headline written by artificial stupidity or a real-life stupid person?
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

24.11.2025 16:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

As an alternative, these snowflakes could display a modicum of courage.

24.11.2025 16:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Had to read it twice...

17.11.2025 18:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

09.10.2025 20:23 👍 55914 🔁 22627 💬 1875 📌 2154
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Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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The key is setting oneself apart from the crowd. At a liberal arts school with every opportunity, perhaps this is a pub. As would simply doing well earning a BS if one had to work their way through college at a public university.

29.09.2025 14:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I believe but do not know that the PhD direct is overrepresented by students from the wealthiest liberal arts schools. Good for us. But every good PhD student I had (and I could not be prouder) and many of my role models did an M.S. first, because they were unsure on how they wanted to focus.

29.09.2025 14:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think more important: it excludes folks who are completing an M.S. and contemplating a Ph.D. In my generation (the mentors of many millenials), that was the majority, especially for people who did not initially have a strong academic bent.

29.09.2025 14:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Great quote by @pkrugman.bsky.social today:
"there is no reward for appeasing MAGA with performative displays of cowardice."

24.09.2025 12:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Little known fact: Epstein provided his clients with Tylenol. As Deep Throat said: follow the over-the-counter medications.

23.09.2025 13:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm confused: Tylenol causes fascism, or is it that acetaminophen results from abuse of fake spray tans? It's hard to follow facts when they just make this stuff up.

23.09.2025 13:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Now I'm going to have to decrease my watching of abc and cbs from zero to negative but not sure how to do that.

18.09.2025 19:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Funny what cowards these jerks are when confronted. We all had classmates like them in grade school.

08.09.2025 12:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It took me 40 years to realize that sarcasm is not an effective pedagogy.

20.08.2025 22:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

At what point will the resilience of the U.S. economy be overcome by these incompetent charlatans?

19.08.2025 22:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ignore that I hung out with a dude who raped girls and look over there.

19.08.2025 22:19 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cordierite?

17.08.2025 16:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A shout out to Anchorage! You showed up strong a beautiful reminder that support for Ukraine spans every corner of the world. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

17.08.2025 15:13 👍 3424 🔁 498 💬 29 📌 20

That press conference reminded me of when I was in the sixth grade and gave a book report on a book I hadn't read.

15.08.2025 23:23 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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15.08.2025 15:57 👍 965 🔁 182 💬 23 📌 11

It is time, people, to protect our forces with sandwich-proof body armor.

14.08.2025 00:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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