Robert Mahon
@bedform.org
Associate Prof, U. New Orleans EES/CEE. Sedimentologist, cyclist, runner, potter. Born at 348 ppm CO2. PhD UWyo, MS Idaho State, BS UMontana. PG (LA). he/him. Pro Choice. Pro DEIA. Pro Democracy. Anti-fascist. Views mine 🏳️🌈
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Meanwhile they STOLE the entirety of the history of the world’s humanities work to build their garbage-word-picture-generators. AI techbroism is the type example for why more people (yes, even/especially the STEM people) need to be better educated in history, ethics, art, philosophy, etc.
Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
December 27, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Meanwhile they STOLE the entirety of the history of the world’s humanities work to build their garbage-word-picture-generators. AI techbroism is the type example for why more people (yes, even/especially the STEM people) need to be better educated in history, ethics, art, philosophy, etc.
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I want to destroy the notion that STEM, humanities and arts, are seperate units of knowledge and skill. And if you do one, you can't do other. I am a geologist, professional artist and trained in international relations. They all compliment each other.
Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
December 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I want to destroy the notion that STEM, humanities and arts, are seperate units of knowledge and skill. And if you do one, you can't do other. I am a geologist, professional artist and trained in international relations. They all compliment each other.
“Who the FUCK decided Christmas was a fireworks holiday?!”
December 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
“Who the FUCK decided Christmas was a fireworks holiday?!”
I am being told that they prefer it when I am stuck at home sick. They’d like it if I did that forever, but without *being* sick preferably
December 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I am being told that they prefer it when I am stuck at home sick. They’d like it if I did that forever, but without *being* sick preferably
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Perhaps a late Xmas/Chanukah/Festivus/Kwanzaa present for some research hot shot currently not in Canada but who might like to move here - the new Impact+ Research Chairs. Note the strategic areas in Arctic, environment, climate resilience and water security. 🧪⚒️
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1717054...
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1717054...
Canada Impact+ Research Chairs, University of Calgary in
Calgary,
AB,
...
Canada Impact+ Research Chairs, University of Calgary in
Calgary,
AB,
...
careers.ucalgary.ca
December 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Perhaps a late Xmas/Chanukah/Festivus/Kwanzaa present for some research hot shot currently not in Canada but who might like to move here - the new Impact+ Research Chairs. Note the strategic areas in Arctic, environment, climate resilience and water security. 🧪⚒️
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1717054...
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1717054...
The MAGA war on Christmas:
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
New Orleans-area churches cancel Christmas services amid Border Patrol operation
“It’s too dangerous,” said Melquisedec Castillo, a leader of a local coalition of Hispanic pastors.
www.wwltv.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The MAGA war on Christmas:
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
Are they gonna 100% redact these ones too?
DOJ says "over a million more documents" found, potentially related to Epstein case.
DOJ says "over a million more documents" potentially related to Epstein case have been found
The Justice Department said the process of releasing the Epstein files may take "a few more weeks" due to the volume of materials.
cbsn.ws
December 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Are they gonna 100% redact these ones too?
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And here we go...
It begins.
The EU lawmaker who was in charge of digital affairs during 🇪🇺President von der Leyen's first term has been banned from entering the United States, because the 🇺🇸 tech giants and government don't like the EU's tech laws.
What will be the 🇪🇺President's response?
The EU lawmaker who was in charge of digital affairs during 🇪🇺President von der Leyen's first term has been banned from entering the United States, because the 🇺🇸 tech giants and government don't like the EU's tech laws.
What will be the 🇪🇺President's response?
Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators
State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
And here we go...
American media is falling at the foot of a dictator. And even the ones who think they aren't are.
The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery."
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
American media is falling at the foot of a dictator. And even the ones who think they aren't are.
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It would be impossible to overstate the reputational damage this person has done to DHS broadly and emergency management specifically. No one can take any DHS statement seriously anymore.
The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
DHS speechwriter linked to hateful social accounts
‘They are not migrants. They are not ‘undocumented.’ They are an invading army. The largest invasion in American history,’ DHS speechwriter writes on X
www.independent.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
It would be impossible to overstate the reputational damage this person has done to DHS broadly and emergency management specifically. No one can take any DHS statement seriously anymore.
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Setting aside personal interests for the public interest is literally the first requisite for the job.
Everything, everything, everything with that fucking incompetent moron is personal. Everything. And all of his henchmen and women allow him to screw up everything because they're ignorant cowards.
How Trump’s personal grudges are holding up a new government funding deal
Trump’s feud over money for a Colorado research facility was the final straw in failed December funding negotiations.
www.ms.now
December 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Setting aside personal interests for the public interest is literally the first requisite for the job.
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Holy crap…. Check out how their senior associate vp for hr talks about education. High tenure density is ok where there is a need to maintain business continuity.
![Departments that are not eligible for the VSIP include the physical therapy graduate program, mathematics, race and resistance studies, computer science, American Indian studies, philosophy, the School of Music, public health, special education, School of Social Work, School of Nursing and family, interiors, nutrition & apparel. Exclusions were determined primarily "because the university needs to maintain business continuity," and based on tenure density, according to [Vanessa] Williams, senior associate VP for HR](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lbrtyqph7gvgkypbyc3bcdce/bafkreiaid5dkfqytr6nzm7x5hoov6sqco43p7ocnr6qvt2fckkir2syvvi@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Holy crap…. Check out how their senior associate vp for hr talks about education. High tenure density is ok where there is a need to maintain business continuity.
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This is a list of people who are going to have to pay to repair the damage they have done to a historic structure.
I would run on that, I would impose that.
I would run on that, I would impose that.
SCOOP-1: The @nytimes.com has confirmed the following previously unreported donations/pledges to the WH ballroom:
▶️Miriam Adelson’s foundation: $25m
▶️Lockheed Martin: $10m
▶️Palantir: $10m
▶️Ripple: $5m
▶️Parsons: $2.5m
▶️Roblox CEO: $2.5
Here's a gift link.
There's more in the story 🧵…
▶️Miriam Adelson’s foundation: $25m
▶️Lockheed Martin: $10m
▶️Palantir: $10m
▶️Ripple: $5m
▶️Parsons: $2.5m
▶️Roblox CEO: $2.5
Here's a gift link.
There's more in the story 🧵…
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office (Gift Article)
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This is a list of people who are going to have to pay to repair the damage they have done to a historic structure.
I would run on that, I would impose that.
I would run on that, I would impose that.
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I went to the American embassy today to get a passport card that I could carry in my wallet to show my citizenship in case masked men try to kidnap me when I’m in the US. Seriously.
September 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I went to the American embassy today to get a passport card that I could carry in my wallet to show my citizenship in case masked men try to kidnap me when I’m in the US. Seriously.
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She didn’t do the reading, her terrible essay reflected that, and she deserves a 0.
But now OU fires instructors who accurately apply the rubric to fail students who earned that 0.
Higher Ed is ruined.
But now OU fires instructors who accurately apply the rubric to fail students who earned that 0.
Higher Ed is ruined.
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
She didn’t do the reading, her terrible essay reflected that, and she deserves a 0.
But now OU fires instructors who accurately apply the rubric to fail students who earned that 0.
Higher Ed is ruined.
But now OU fires instructors who accurately apply the rubric to fail students who earned that 0.
Higher Ed is ruined.
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An email in a new batch of Jeffrey Epstein files reveals Trump flew on the late sex offender's private jet "many more times" than previously known
Trump Flew On Epstein’s Private Jet ‘More Times Than Previously Reported,’ Flight Records Cited In DOJ Files Dump Show
www.huffpost.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
An email in a new batch of Jeffrey Epstein files reveals Trump flew on the late sex offender's private jet "many more times" than previously known
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
December 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
Y’all for real gotta stop trying to make “creative” or “sculptural” bike racks. You don’t make spiral parking spots. Why do we make this useless shit???
December 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Y’all for real gotta stop trying to make “creative” or “sculptural” bike racks. You don’t make spiral parking spots. Why do we make this useless shit???
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If you're looking for hydro academic positions & opportunities, definitely follow the @csdms.bsky.social acct, they post about a lot of openings
Funded PhD (45m + placement): Physics-Aware Foundation Model for Hydrology (HydroFM) — QUARTILES DLA at the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom. Apply before: 14 January. See also: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs
December 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
If you're looking for hydro academic positions & opportunities, definitely follow the @csdms.bsky.social acct, they post about a lot of openings