Tasha Dunn (she/her)

Don't be fooled but this innocent-seeming heart.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Mars is a cold hell hole
And will absolutely fucking kill you

Vote in Quarterfinal 2 — Mineral Cup Click here to vote in Perovskite vs Tugtupite Photo credit: Domenico Preite and Géry Parent

Folks, please go vote for perovskite! It's one of the oldest minerals in the solar system!! www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3...

So thrilled to have another geologist astronaut!

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

Yeah, I heard that on facebook.

It has to be. What other space conference was happening that week? What a backwards world we live in. If I lived elsewhere, I would travel to this country for the next four years.

Paul, we watched this online, and Chrissy said, "you should tell Paul Byrne to punch that guy who said "take a deep breath." Lol

Hey Democratic Party,

You ain’t raising money until you start raising hell.

Sincerely,

A Huge Portion of Your Supporters

yes, key car access to the building after hours and on weekends. I have a master key to all the department offfices, classrooms, and labs. Small liberal arts college in rural Maine.

I would consider that too. Maine to Texas is a bit too long of a drive though.

"Listen, if a Bad President can come in and take away our rights and we're dependent on a Good President replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, then we do not have any rights. "If politicians can take or distribute them, then they're not 'inalienable' and they're not 'rights.' "We don't have inalienable rights we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins. "And if we want to have actual rights, then we must build a system in which no one has the power to take them away to begin with."

I've been screaming this for years.

The Real Cost Of NASA Missions What is the price of awe and amazement?

They’ve indiscriminately fired 10% of NASA employees.

I don’t need to remind you that NASA’s budget is less than 1% of the entire federal budget but I will. Here’s what that looks like, it’s pennies. www.popsci.com/real-cost-na...

I've been looking forward to attending #lpsc2025 for the first time in several years. But, I swear, if there is one more plane crash in the next three weeks, I'm changing my registration to virtual.

Dear World,

We’re sorry.

Sincerely,

Sane, Decent Americans

Exactly

Former President Jimmy Carter has died at age 100.

What a life.

What a legacy.

Thank you, Mr. President.

From @saneman.bsky.social

It’s been 35 days and my heart is still broken. I will never understand how so many could be so easily duped. I miss the joy. I miss the laughter. I miss the music. I miss the hope. I miss Tim Walz’ dad-isms.

a riddle in the style of elf on a shelf. The image shows a large white land animal that lives in cold regions and there's a star visible.

You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for...
🔭🧪

A light blue post with drawn images of a heart and a kite on the bottom corners. The top text reads “https://tiny.cc/HelpBakr” and the centre text reads “help an evacuated child with a brain tumour get life saving surgery by Dec 8”

A light blue post with a photo of a child in a hospital bed. The text below reads, “Bakr evacuated to Egypt earlier this year. He is suffering from brain cancer and his condition is increasingly difficult. This brain tumor has started to affect his movement and vision. Bakr has the opportunity now to get surgery to help his condition.”

A light blue post with text that reads, “Bakr's family needs to have the cost of the surgery upfront in order to get to the operation room for this lifesaving procedure. We need $4,000 USD to get Bakr his brain surgery, and we need to get there by December 8th. This is totally possible. We have the opportunity to help save Bakr's life.” On the bottom left is text that reads “Give & share: tiny.cc/HelpBakr”

Hi folks - please help my friends circulate and share this fundraiser, and give if you can! They are just over halfway to getting Bakr the help he needs to get life-saving surgery for brain cancer. The surgery needs to be booked ASAP so all help is appreciated!

tiny.cc/HelpBakr

no one’s thinking about that weird thing you said at that party. they’re too busy thinking about how much of Earth’s geologic record has been lost to subduction of the Hadean crust into the mantle.

I can’t stand election post mortems. She was a brilliant candidate. She engaged a lost generation of voters and she almost won. I’m still with her.

Size is about 18 x 16 cm. The origin and forming of these layers is still debated.

The origin and forming of these layers is still debated.

Piece of spectacular anorthosite-chromitite layering, coming from a depth of about 2500 m below surface of the Impala Platinum mine, Bushveld Complex, South Africa.

I wish mutiple choice questions weren't so hard to write. Coming up with good wrong answers is so difficult!

Photograph of a rock thin section with a very regular repetitative pattern of crystal growth caused by the intergrowth of two crystals, quartz and feldspar. It resembles ancient cuneiform writing!

#thinsectionthursday #geology Graphic Granite from Brucklay Aberdeenshire @britgeosurvey.bsky.social Britrocks S29063 webapps.bgs.ac.uk/data/britroc...

Thin section microscope image showing a background of black, white, and very pale yellow plagioclase covered in a series of long worm-shaped olivine crystals, all showing bright second order birefringence colours like yellow, purple, and blue. They are all aligned down towards the right.

Probably the best individual thin section ever produced. John Faithfull's slice of the olivine cumulate from Unit 5 of the Rùm layered intrusion. #ThinSectionThursday

If we're not calling the 4B movement "Batten Down the Snatches", what are we even doing

We really need to teach our kids how to spot intellectual garbage. This is a hug hole in our educational system.