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#ThinSectionThursday Here's an early thin section (date about 1870?) of troctolite from the Rum Layered Intrusion, from the collection of Matthew Forster Heddle, now in the Hunterian museum, Glasgow. I love the oval cover slip! The plagioclase feldspar shows brilliant colour stripes, rather than the expected black and white, due to being much thicker than the modern standard 30 microns. See image Alt-text for more info... #Geology Mineralogy #Microscopy




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Issue: Potential to be contaminated with Salmonella
Date: 09/06/2024
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The first thing to say about the hate and scorn currently directed at the mainstream US media is that they worked hard to earn it. Theyโ€™ve done so by failing, repeatedly, determinedly, spectacularly to do their job, which is to maintain their independence, inform the electorate, and speak truth to power.

They pursue the appearance of fairness and balance by treating the true and the false, the normal and the outrageous, as equally valid and by normalizing Republicans, especially Donald Trump, whose gibberish gets translated into English and whose past crimes and present-day lies and threats get glossed over. They neglect, again and again, important stories with real consequences.

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A Florida high school football player died after collapsing during a game


The fatal collapse of Chance Gainer, a senior at Port St. Joe High School, is the latest in a string of recent deaths of young football players. Seven school athletes died last month.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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The #microscopy gods smiled upon me today as I was showing my 6 year old her first real #microscope.

We collected some pollen, from a backyard tomatillo onto a glass slide, put a coverslip & hoped for the best.

Just as I was bringing it into focus to show her, I saw this.

"As above, so below."

#DadLife #ParentLife #Science #STEM #BloomScrolling



Here's my prediction

Liz Cheney just started a war (the Ted Cruz part). She did not do this accidentally. This was totally planned

The endorsements of Kamala Harris? Liz Cheney has SEVERAL more to come (arranged partly with her dad's influence)

There will be big name Republicans for Harris







๐Ÿ˜ณ The FBI created top-secret files investigating all of Russia's interference from 2016, all the way up to 2020.
Those files were part of the stolen documents that Trump walked out with from the White House ... and the Feds have not yet been able to recover them.

#StillMissing #russianInterference #russia #USPolitics #cdnpoli #poilievre

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Shooter in Laurel County, KY

Suspect is 32 year old Joseph A Couch. White male, 5'10'' 154 lbs. Veteran

Sister in law said suspect threatened to kill entire family

Has a criminal record

He bought AR weapon and 2,000 rounds of ammo this morning.

Near London, Kentucky. Exit 49, hwy 75

5 gunshot victims; stable condition

Opened fire from a hill, shot into cars traveling on 75

Shooter escaped into a hilly, wooded area

STILL AT LARGE

#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #breaking

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BACKGROUND CHECKS NOW PLEASE?

FUCK this shit. People do NOT have a right to an AR-15.

ENOUGH.

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Astonishing, isn't it?
Kentucky has some of the weakest gun laws in the US. Their legislature killed a red flag law this year, under pressure from the NRA.๐Ÿคฌ
#gunviolence
#guncontrolnow



Also I just found out someone created a weird port of #MK2 for the #NES! It's quite playable, but you have to get used to only having the A and B buttons hehe

#RetroGaming

in reply to GM7077

What are the controls like? I guess a+b to block would work.
in reply to nichecrush

@mrbee Nah you have to press Back to block. Basically B is kick and A is punch. A lot of the special moves work like on Genesis. No Finish Hims at all though
in reply to GM7077

Damn I finished the game!

After beating about 20 opponents, sometimes in doubles (no real boss at the end, a weaker Shao Kahn is fought at random times), what you get is this flashing screen hehe

#NES #retrogaming #MortalKombat

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I'm going to kick off the Halloween season with a horror movie classic I've actually never seen before: Hellraiser (1987)
in reply to Hank G โ˜‘๏ธ

Grading on a curve for 1987 and a total budget of just $1 million ($2.7 million in 2024 dollars) and I'd say it was pretty good. Very gory, graphic, and violent. That's what you kind of expect from a 1980s horror movie with occult themes.
in reply to Hank G โ˜‘๏ธ

Definitely a classic of the era. The budget is kind of surprising, I would not have guessed that it was so small.

On a related note, check out Nightbreed, also directed by Clive Barker, It came out three years later, is less gory, and is a much better story IMO.

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