Beth Allan
@beth.bsky.social
Storm chaser (🌪️), school counsellor (🎓), photographer (📷), and cross stitcher (🪡). Calgary, AB based, but I'm happiest road tripping.
@adolwyn in most other places.
@adolwyn in most other places.
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Beth Allan
@beth.bsky.social
· Oct 17
A re-introduction:
I’m Beth. I’m a full time high school counsellor and a part time storm chaser in the summer.
I think a lot about pretty storm photos, mental health, books, cross stitch, and side hustles.
I’ve been chasing since 2007 and peaked in May 2016.
Good to meet you all (again!) 👋🏻
I’m Beth. I’m a full time high school counsellor and a part time storm chaser in the summer.
I think a lot about pretty storm photos, mental health, books, cross stitch, and side hustles.
I’ve been chasing since 2007 and peaked in May 2016.
Good to meet you all (again!) 👋🏻
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Absolute insanity Dickens Nebraska tornado a bit ago at close range! Right off the iPhone lens spots and all!
June 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Absolute insanity Dickens Nebraska tornado a bit ago at close range! Right off the iPhone lens spots and all!
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#Timelapse of the mothership #abstorm SW of Carseland. Start of video is 9:29 pm Saturday. @beth.bsky.social @ratzlaff.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 4:03 AM
#Timelapse of the mothership #abstorm SW of Carseland. Start of video is 9:29 pm Saturday. @beth.bsky.social @ratzlaff.bsky.social
Bluesky storm friends - I really don’t want to have to use the bad place for Canadian weather photos/updates.
What are your favourite starter lists of Canadian chasers who actively chase/post current photos/footage (rather than reposting forecasts/warnings/etc).
What are your favourite starter lists of Canadian chasers who actively chase/post current photos/footage (rather than reposting forecasts/warnings/etc).
June 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Bluesky storm friends - I really don’t want to have to use the bad place for Canadian weather photos/updates.
What are your favourite starter lists of Canadian chasers who actively chase/post current photos/footage (rather than reposting forecasts/warnings/etc).
What are your favourite starter lists of Canadian chasers who actively chase/post current photos/footage (rather than reposting forecasts/warnings/etc).
This is VERY very exciting. Very with all capital letters kind of exciting.
The organization where I did my sabbatical, @comet-meted.bsky.social, launched their new MetEd learning platform today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfff... www.meted.ucar.edu
Quick Tour of the New MetEd Experience
YouTube video by The COMET Program/MetEd
www.youtube.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This is VERY very exciting. Very with all capital letters kind of exciting.
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Timeline Cleanse ✨
The BBC uses robo-cameras disguised as dung heaps to film wildlife up close.
The BBC uses robo-cameras disguised as dung heaps to film wildlife up close.
April 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Timeline Cleanse ✨
The BBC uses robo-cameras disguised as dung heaps to film wildlife up close.
The BBC uses robo-cameras disguised as dung heaps to film wildlife up close.
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The Pope died on Easter weekend and so you know the Conclave tea is gonna be piping hot.
a man wearing a red hat and a purple robe has a cross on his chest
Alt: Ralph Fiennes in his religious robes from the film "Conclave"
media.tenor.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The Pope died on Easter weekend and so you know the Conclave tea is gonna be piping hot.
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If anyone is looking to get the F out of this dumpster fire and has climate model experience, here's a great (and rare) Canadian insurance company opportunity. Don't have to be Canadian! aviva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
April 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If anyone is looking to get the F out of this dumpster fire and has climate model experience, here's a great (and rare) Canadian insurance company opportunity. Don't have to be Canadian! aviva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
That YYC to YVR view is one I never get tired of. See you soon Salt Spring! @davemason.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
That YYC to YVR view is one I never get tired of. See you soon Salt Spring! @davemason.bsky.social
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And then there's Dora. Had some fun this weekend retouching all my prints with my new Lightroom know-how. Don't ask me why it's been 6 years and I still don't have this on my wall
April 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
And then there's Dora. Had some fun this weekend retouching all my prints with my new Lightroom know-how. Don't ask me why it's been 6 years and I still don't have this on my wall
It’s snowing in Calgary. It’s landspouting two hours away. Alberta.
Another incredible photo of the landspout tornado half an hour ago near Tilley and Rolling Hills from Bantry Seed Farms #abstorm
April 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It’s snowing in Calgary. It’s landspouting two hours away. Alberta.
My doctor: I want you to try taking this drug to see if we can help you feel better.
Me: researches said drug, sees that side effects include nausea and other GI side effects.
My body, before even filling the prescription: HERE, HAVE SOME NAUSEA AND OTHER GI SIDE EFFECTS. We’re starting early!
Me: researches said drug, sees that side effects include nausea and other GI side effects.
My body, before even filling the prescription: HERE, HAVE SOME NAUSEA AND OTHER GI SIDE EFFECTS. We’re starting early!
April 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
My doctor: I want you to try taking this drug to see if we can help you feel better.
Me: researches said drug, sees that side effects include nausea and other GI side effects.
My body, before even filling the prescription: HERE, HAVE SOME NAUSEA AND OTHER GI SIDE EFFECTS. We’re starting early!
Me: researches said drug, sees that side effects include nausea and other GI side effects.
My body, before even filling the prescription: HERE, HAVE SOME NAUSEA AND OTHER GI SIDE EFFECTS. We’re starting early!
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I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
April 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
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“They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
~The Great Gatsby
~The Great Gatsby
April 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
~The Great Gatsby
~The Great Gatsby
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"The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it."
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
The American Age Is Over
Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.
www.thebulwark.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it."
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
So what I’m gathering from checking in on BlueSky today is that I should definitely not look at my investments for at least the next year, right?
April 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
So what I’m gathering from checking in on BlueSky today is that I should definitely not look at my investments for at least the next year, right?
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I will pay a journalist $100 if they manage to get an answer from Trump on whether there's a danger in his levying further tariffs on Wakanda if they don't begin fairly trading vibranium with the US.
April 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I will pay a journalist $100 if they manage to get an answer from Trump on whether there's a danger in his levying further tariffs on Wakanda if they don't begin fairly trading vibranium with the US.
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No way to prevent burnout, lament workplaces with minimal staffing and constant illness during an ongoing pandemic.
April 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
No way to prevent burnout, lament workplaces with minimal staffing and constant illness during an ongoing pandemic.
I just heard thunder for the first time in 2025 and my mood increased at least by ten.
Bring on the booms, nature. #yyc #Calgary
Bring on the booms, nature. #yyc #Calgary
a woman is smiling while sitting at a desk with a book .
Alt: a woman is smiling while sitting at a desk with a book .
media.tenor.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Someone decided to show us what we were late on preparing this morning. When you’re 20, breakfast (and the three other meals of the day) are serious business. @davemason.bsky.social saved the day and our lives from what could have been an angry hungry cat.
March 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Someone decided to show us what we were late on preparing this morning. When you’re 20, breakfast (and the three other meals of the day) are serious business. @davemason.bsky.social saved the day and our lives from what could have been an angry hungry cat.
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The whole “millennials are killing xyz” genre was just a cover for the ravages of private equity.
March 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The whole “millennials are killing xyz” genre was just a cover for the ravages of private equity.