[hykedike]

love posting all my location based pics out of order. sometimes months later. you'll never know where i am <3. home? abandoned 11th century village? mountain? home? the mantle?

[dame-nostalgique]

Close-ups of crystal textures at the Geology Museum in Warsaw 💎

10 IX 2025

[riverlarking]

from “the worst journey in the world” (1922) by apsley cherry-garrard

[archiveofcanvas]

Courbet; Crumbling Rocks, 1864

[todays-xkcd]

Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are.

Nostalgia Content [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball is standing, with his arms out, in front of a Prototaxite towering over a mossy landscape. To his right, a Tamagotchi (bottom-left) and milk-caps (referred to in this comic as "pogs", top-left) appear. The 3 milk-caps that can be seen show a skull with a snake through its eyeball, a figure 8 & a star (3 more milk-caps are also shown, but have obscured pictures).] Cueball: Who else remembers pogs? Tamagotchis? Vast forests of Prototaxites towering over the mossy landscape as armored fish stir in the deep?

[Caption below the panel:] Due to a database error, millennial nostalgia now includes a portion of the early Devonian.

[neat-deadandlive-things]

Good time to bring this back.

[animate-mush]

Y'all wanna see what roughly 400 miles of California looks like?

Up 101 from Santa Rosa to Crescent City. There's something magical about watching the vegetation change mile by mile, from oak woodland to pine forest to the redwoods

Eight and a half hours door to door. But I had a good time

[sellos]

[e-n-d-a-s-h]

Liz Toohey-Wiese, 2024.

"A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn I’ve ever seen, along the BC/YK border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequences of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previously built logging and mining roads.

“Forced into a great and difficult transformation” was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up north. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place that’s been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through."

More here.

[cleavagearbiter]

saw 38 of these little guys the other day. cavefish are so so so cool to me for so many reasons, some of my favorites

Hoosier Cavefish

Amblyopsis hoosieri

[lichenaday]

Me: Why do I have so much neck and back and knee pain?

Also me:

Lichenology is neither for the faint of heart nor the weak of joint.

[exploding-skarks]

sometimes i see geology professors from my old uni on the bus. and i cant prove it, but i know they are there because of DUI related situations.

[expressions-of-nature]

Kalsoy, Faroe Islands by Tim&Elisa

[lightningbuster]

It’s funny how sacabambaspis is like the funniest looking animal in every hypothetical except for that one picture that makes me feel like I’m about to be killed

[lakesbian]

[mysteriouslyseeing]

[ask-thevictim]

these are the og images

now, both are inaccurate representations of the animal as these are outdated pictures, if you want to see an accurate version see image below

now I don't wanna ruin your vision of the fish but this is for science

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[camblorite]

Diopside with green core from Trindade Island. I've studied them and olivines from Trindade Island vulcanic rocks as part of my undergraduate research.

[hykedike]

SICKASS structure alert!!!

L'Argenteria, Catalan pre-Pyrenees! Travertine spring mound (?) emerging from folded Cretaceous limestone, direct inspiration for some of Gaudí’s Sagrada Família.

[hykedike]

plane shots flying into longyearbyen, svalbard