@Polymathically

Writer/photographer/traveler/gamer/banker. Studying Environmental Science and Geography. Encouraging you to learn about the world. They/them. Photos via 500px.

 Somewhere in NorCal 🇵🇭 🇺🇸
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Joined July 2009
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Sooo, I'll probably make the switch over to that Bsky/Azure Air/Cerulean Cloud/whatever place soon. Just for reference:
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they’ll never make me hate you belmont’s curse platforming
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So dope
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I deliberately saved that for one of the last puzzles I did. There are other ones that are more complex, but the timer makes it so much harder.
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One of the all-time best video game songs.
WAV Archive
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Stickerbush Symphony — David Wise (1995)
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Huh, I didn't know there were coatis in the States. Now I've got another reason to visit.
U.S. Department of the Interior
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The rocks aren’t the only stars here. There are coatis, too!

White-nosed Coatis at Chiricahua National Monument

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Best weapon in Belmont's Curse by far.
쫑떡@jjongdduck17h
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Pop Base
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Chiricahua National Park has become the newest national park. It’s the US’s 64th national park and Arizona’s 4th.
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NWS Bay Area 🌉
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🌧️Widespread beneficial rain is expected tonight through Thursday with a low potential for thunderstorms over the Big Sur coast. Slick roadways and minor nuisance flooding are possible, and high rain rates over the burn scars may lead to debris flows. #CAwx
Widespread beneficial rainfall is expected tonight through Thursday across the Bay Area and Central Coast. There is an image showing the total rainfall amounts. The Central Coast is expected to receive the highest amount of rainfall up to an inch to two inches. These rain amounts gradually decrease towards the North and East Bay where rain up to a tenth of an inch is expected. There is a low (less than 30%) chance for thunderstorm development over the Big Sur coast. The expected rain amounts may result in slick roadways, minor roadway flooding in poor drainage areas, as well as potential debris flows over wildfire burn scars. Stay tuned for the latest forecast updates!

ALT Widespread beneficial rainfall is expected tonight through Thursday across the Bay Area and Central Coast. There is an image showing the total rainfall amounts. The Central Coast is expected to receive the highest amount of rainfall up to an inch to two inches. These rain amounts gradually decrease towards the North and East Bay where rain up to a tenth of an inch is expected. There is a low (less than 30%) chance for thunderstorm development over the Big Sur coast. The expected rain amounts may result in slick roadways, minor roadway flooding in poor drainage areas, as well as potential debris flows over wildfire burn scars. Stay tuned for the latest forecast updates!

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Spudgun Official@SpudgunO20h
Historians widely consider him the first modder
Islamic Scientific Heritage@IslamicSH_Oct 19
Amir Timur found ordinary chess too easy, so he invented his own variant, “Great Chess” (شطرنج الكبير). It was played on a massive 10×11 board with 28 pieces per side, including camels, giraffes, elephants, and war engines, each with unique moves.
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We don’t need AI, what we need is the ability to turn a PDF back into a word doc without the formatting looking like it survived a plane crash.
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“With only six novels, Jane Austen is one of the most prolific authors of all time” Once again I am begging people to learn what words mean
CBR@CBROct 19
All Of Jane Austen's Heroines, Ranked With only 6 novels, Jane Austen is one of the most prolific authors of all time, and she has a litany of wonderful heroines for fans to engage with. Read More: bit.ly/4yyWIH7
All Of Jane Austen's Heroines, Ranked

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Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Jane Austen wrote only six novels. Collins Dictionary defines a prolific writer as producing a large number of works, unlike authors with hundreds or thousands of books on typical lists of the most prolific. collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/eng… britannica.com/question/What-… cbr.com/jane-austen-he… tckpublishing.com/prolific-autho…
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USGS Volcanoes🌋
@USGSVolcanoes13h
It's not as pointy as Shasta or as explosive as Long Valley, but Medicine Lake is one of the most geologically diverse volcanoes in California! While it keeps a (visually) low profile, Medicine Lake volcano covers around 2,200 square km (850 square miles) of northern California. Though shield-shaped, it's actually not a shield volcano like Hawai'i's Kilauea—eruptions there range in composition from massive basaltic flows to rhyolite domes and dacite tuffs. Its summit caldera formed not from a massive explosion, but from subsidence after repeated lava flow eruptions, which also built its rim higher! It's also a place of fire and ice: It's been covered by glaciers multiple times in its half-million-year history, but its lava flows have hundreds of lava tubes which carried molten rock as far as 30 kilometers (20+ miles) from erupting vents. Not to mention that some of those lava tubes now hold ice caves! 📷1: Looking out from Glass Mountain to the west, Medicine Lake and the Medicine Lake Highlands frame Mount Shasta in the distance. 📷2: The entrance to Skull Cave, a huge lava tube about 19 km (12 miles) north of the Medicine Lake caldera. 📷3: Glacier polish and scratches on andesite lavas of the north rim of the Medicine Lake caldera. Credit: J. Donnelly-Nolan, USGS California Volcano Observatory Weekly Update for October 19, 2026: All volcanoes in California were at normal background levels of activity for the last week. Earthquakes >M1 were observed at the Clear Lake Volcanic Field, Mono-Inyo Craters, Coso Volcanic Field, and Salton Buttes.
Snow-capped mountain in the distance above a dense forest and rocky volcanic terrain under a partly cloudy sky.

ALT Snow-capped mountain in the distance above a dense forest and rocky volcanic terrain under a partly cloudy sky.

Dark cave entrance surrounded by rugged volcanic rocks and dry desert shrubs under a partly cloudy sky.

ALT Dark cave entrance surrounded by rugged volcanic rocks and dry desert shrubs under a partly cloudy sky.

Two hikers stand on a rocky terrain surrounded by green shrubs and tall pine trees in a forested area. The rocks are smooth and shiny and striped with scratches that all run from the bottom left to the top right of the photo.

ALT Two hikers stand on a rocky terrain surrounded by green shrubs and tall pine trees in a forested area. The rocks are smooth and shiny and striped with scratches that all run from the bottom left to the top right of the photo.

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Really want to thank everyone for saying some nice things to me and reaching out to me. They're basically putting me in exile at work for shit that's really not anything. Moving my shift to start at 3 am. So if I'm not around much that will be will why.
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Gah, that sucks. Something like that happened to me years ago. I hope you can change that at some point. Just gotta take it one day at a time. Please remember to eat and get enough sleep.
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‏ً@justjargonsOct 19
I don’t think people understand that global warming doesn’t mean “no cold weather ever.” It means a warming planet destabilizes weather patterns, causing more extreme weather. This has been explained for decades and people still don’t get it.
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Merriam-Webster
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-though -nevertheless -nonetheless -still -yet -notwithstanding -at the same time -all the same -even so -regardless -howbeit -still and all -withal -anyhow -after all -per contra
Neil Renic@NC_RenicOct 19
Writing is: - 10% persistence - 90% googling a synonym for "however"
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Merriam-Webster
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In 1934, we added a gender-neutral pronoun for a single third person. ‘Thon’ was short for “that one.” It didn’t catch on.
Definition of 'thon' thon | pronoun | a proposed genderless noun of the third person

ALT Definition of 'thon' thon | pronoun | a proposed genderless noun of the third person

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Yup. I've been to 40 countries, and I took my DSLR to most of them. Photos are the best souvenirs. I post photos on here sometimes, but I've got a backlog of at least 150,000 more shots that need sorting and editing. Getting that done is one of my long-term projects.
Moksh@Kher_mujhe_kyaOct 19
For fuck’s sake, take photos and videos when you travel or any prestigious moments. You don’t have to upload them. Do it for yourself, you idiot. Stop acting nonchalant. Years later, those memories will hit. Capture the damn moments before they become memories you can’t relive.
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I've been once again reminded that I've lived long enough and survived so much that I've become the old mentor archtype. It feels so surreal, like I'm losing my relevancy. I don't want to be some secondary character that's doomed to die to advance someone else's story.
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laila feeling lemoncholy@easyluvvOct 19
Honestly it takes so much effort to be interested in your own life after you've been taught whatever matters to you means absolutely nothing and is irrelevant.
my book is better than my tweets@MichellCClarkOct 17
i think we underestimate how much courage and healing it takes to become genuinely interested in your own life again after spending years just trying to get through it.
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ZeroTrace
@empiremike_Oct 19
"my happiness is my responsibility but i appreciate the people who add to it."
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@_iamhabeebOct 19
my happiness is my responsibility but i appreciate the people who add to it.
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Every single time.
East Village Guy
@eastvillageguyOct 19
You ever leave a social situation like hmmm not my best work
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