Looking at your facepalm track as a tiny image on my phone had me thinking you were trying to draw a horse and those were the hind legs. π€£
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Looking at your facepalm track as a tiny image on my phone had me thinking you were trying to draw a horse and those were the hind legs. π€£
Bowl featuring barren landscape with cracked surface and two astronauts on the horizon looking up at Earth, fracturing from a central point in Washington DC.
Bowl featuring barren landscape with cracked surface and two astronauts on the horizon looking up at Earth, fracturing from a central point in Washington DC. Side view.
Bowl featuring barren landscape with cracked surface and two astronauts on the horizon looking up at Earth, fracturing from a central point in Washington DC. Detail of astronauts and Earth.
Invasion: Earth. Very fun commission and a throwback to one of my first bowls.
Visiting friends in Salt Lake and got a bonus earthquake! Really wiggly, as compared to the short impulses of what I typically experienced in Berkeley.
Okay I admit we are referring to #StarfleetAcademy as "Space Riverdale" in our household, and I'm not sure how I feel overall about the series. But the last two episodes have been rock solid and Holly Hunter is superb. If you dropped it early, give the latest episodes a chance.
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oh hello X8 flare
Would you like to direct some happy energized particles this way? Thanks in advance.
[opens Bluesky]
Wow yeah another day to just simply Log Offβ’
From a former LBB seller, this is a correct opinion!
I had been so-so on the series so far but the latest episode, wow! Stunning indeed.
(total pot calling kettle black, this is the most I've posted in weeks)
Conflict does drive engagement, yeah.
I dunno, I guess I operate with an understanding that careless words have impact.
Maybe I should just go mute the word sand for a couple days until people get bored of the pile on. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
I can read and know what sand is, thanks. He didn't say that his audience wouldn't understand the concept of grain size; he did say he made an assumption about what *typically comes to mind* when somebody reads about sand dunes. Every post asserting the former seems like antagonistic hyperbole.
...man, I don't know if it's heightened sensitivity to everything given the mental load of current events, but this uproar over a small mistake is genuinely pissing me off. Probably time for me to stop scrolling for the night.
I've seen this a few places now, and I don't get this characterization of Phil's explanation. In what world does anybody think of *basalt* first when they see the term sand *dune*?
I guess I have the unpopular opinion that my earth science colleagues are being weird about piling on a (usually decent?) science communicator about bungling something related to our field.
Yeah, the doubling down on that person's part is baffling, but the pile on ain't going to help.
I don't disagree with you, I'm rather pointing out how easy it is to get twisted up thinking about how the average non-expert thinks about a concept or term. I see how Phil arrived at the wording he did.
Iβm watching this play out on my timeline and just thinking about how hard it is in science communication to thread the needle of simplifying something/making it more accessible without making it βincorrect.β
Screencap of a Cowboy State Daily headline reading: "Yellowstone Scientists Monitor Chicago-Sized Bulge Along Volcano's North Rim."
Hey there, couldn't help but notice your Chicago-sized bulge. π³
Yes, the Norris uplift anomaly is back (fun!), but uh, phrasing! For more on this I'd recommend a recent Caldera Chronicles article that discusses the history of uplift around the N Yellowstone caldera rim:
www.usgs.gov/observatorie...
Thank you so much for your reporting.
Anywho, things are messy. We are both complicit in terrible things while also being subjected to horrors. We perpetrate harm and also experience it.
Earlier in the evening I took a drive with a friend out toward Roosevelt. We watched the diffuse glow with some brief pillars while listening to coyotes yip nearby. It was 9 Β°F (-13 Β°C).
The fellowship is what makes a night magical, I think.
Green and pink aurora with pillars visible on the horizon.
Pink pillars rising above the green glow of aurora peaking above a gentle mountain slope.
Itβs been a modest show in Yellowstone this evening, but after living in the Bay Area for several years, Iβm having a heck of a good time. To the naked eye: a dash of color, some pillars, and shimmering/pulsing bands at times across the entire northern sky. To the camera:
I was outside watching the sky shimmer and apparently I missed Somethingβ’...
Struck out. Conditions never really got better after dark. Oh well.
Layered up, snacks packed, making coffee. Ready for whatever the sky brings tonight! π«‘
Get in babies, we are hope scrolling tonight
