Joe Kington
@joferkington.bsky.social
Geology to Software to Remote sensing. Opinions and poor taste my own. He/Him. SLC-based. PhD if you care about that. This account is all dog pictures and mindless prattle.
We have reached peak... Something... I don't know what, but this is a peak!
November 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
We have reached peak... Something... I don't know what, but this is a peak!
It's not every day you get to see a rock glacier flow!!
Rock glaciers (creeping bodies made of a mixture of scree and interstitial ice), flow at lower speed than glaciers, typically few dm/yr 🧊
Here are 8 yrs of RG surface change on the Dos Lenguas RG (Dry Argentinean Andes), at 11 cm resolution!! 💪
Data: Melanie Stammler 🙏
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Here are 8 yrs of RG surface change on the Dos Lenguas RG (Dry Argentinean Andes), at 11 cm resolution!! 💪
Data: Melanie Stammler 🙏
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November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It's not every day you get to see a rock glacier flow!!
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Oregon is the only state that has a two sided flag
November 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Oregon is the only state that has a two sided flag
"Play a train song, pour me one more round. Make em leave my boots on when they lay me in the ground"
We'll sure as hell miss you Todd...
We'll sure as hell miss you Todd...
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"Play a train song, pour me one more round. Make em leave my boots on when they lay me in the ground"
We'll sure as hell miss you Todd...
We'll sure as hell miss you Todd...
Apparently my punishment for complaining about how STAC does not apply to datasets that aren't fairly "tame" geotiffs is now to shoehorn STAC to describe a large and complex set of HDFs/tiffs/geojsons/etc... Thanks, I hate it. Also, the STAC catalog will be mostly wrong, so why do this?
November 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Apparently my punishment for complaining about how STAC does not apply to datasets that aren't fairly "tame" geotiffs is now to shoehorn STAC to describe a large and complex set of HDFs/tiffs/geojsons/etc... Thanks, I hate it. Also, the STAC catalog will be mostly wrong, so why do this?
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Tonight’s aurora in Michigan.
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Tonight’s aurora in Michigan.
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Breaking: Judge Gibson rejects the Legislature’s congressional boundaries. Chooses the plaintiffs Map 1. A solid northern SLCO district that strongly favors a Democrat.
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Breaking: Judge Gibson rejects the Legislature’s congressional boundaries. Chooses the plaintiffs Map 1. A solid northern SLCO district that strongly favors a Democrat.
Today I learned something very cool I did not know about my backyard!!
⚒️ Seems a good excuse to note that this whole part of the world seems to have been a mega-landslide (and probably relatedly, large explosive volcano) wonderland in the Cenozoic. In addition to Heart Mountain, Markagunt in Utah and now this one near Salt Lake City have been identified.
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Today I learned something very cool I did not know about my backyard!!
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Wow. Just wow. This whole series, y'all. It's a thing!
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Wow. Just wow. This whole series, y'all. It's a thing!
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ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
Holy crap! Free baseball. Damn....
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Holy crap! Free baseball. Damn....
Whatever happens, this has been an insane world series to watch! And with that said, as an Astros fan (yeah, I know), let's go blue jays!
November 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Whatever happens, this has been an insane world series to watch! And with that said, as an Astros fan (yeah, I know), let's go blue jays!
This is obvious to anyone who's been in academia or even industry R&D, but this explicit link to consumer goods gets made often, but still not often enough. Basically, this. This exactly.
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government
go.nature.com/47hn0n5
go.nature.com/47hn0n5
7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
go.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
This is obvious to anyone who's been in academia or even industry R&D, but this explicit link to consumer goods gets made often, but still not often enough. Basically, this. This exactly.
“ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate"
- House HSec. Comm. Bennie Thompson
www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...
- House HSec. Comm. Bennie Thompson
www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
www.404media.co
November 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate"
- House HSec. Comm. Bennie Thompson
www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...
- House HSec. Comm. Bennie Thompson
www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...
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It's v hard to tell but it might be Didal Glacier, which is surge-type and actually was surging in the months prior to this video. I don't know if something switched allowing the runaway mode seen in the video. Curious for thoughts of other glaciologists 🧪⚒️❄️ www.planet.com/stories/dida...
October 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It's v hard to tell but it might be Didal Glacier, which is surge-type and actually was surging in the months prior to this video. I don't know if something switched allowing the runaway mode seen in the video. Curious for thoughts of other glaciologists 🧪⚒️❄️ www.planet.com/stories/dida...
The editorial board at the NYTimes:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The editorial board at the NYTimes:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
What the fuck? Again, there is no way this is constitutional... And it's clearly horrifying regardless....
(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald ..
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime
The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...
www.miamiherald.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
What the fuck? Again, there is no way this is constitutional... And it's clearly horrifying regardless....
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Halloween costumes to scare scientists (by @twisteddoodles.bsky.social) 🧪
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Halloween costumes to scare scientists (by @twisteddoodles.bsky.social) 🧪
The cruelty is here in SLC too...
When contacted by The Tribune ICE initially denied involvement in the arrest, but after SLC police and an airport spokesperson identified the personnel as ICE agents, the agency admitted it was them.
Salt Lake City mayor, council leaders broadly condemn ICE airport arrest in ‘gateway to our state’
“There is so much about ICE operations that create a sense of fear,” Mayor Erin Mendenhall said in a statement after video of a woman being arrested by ICE agents at the Salt Lake City airport Wednesday circulated on social media.
www.sltrib.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The cruelty is here in SLC too...
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Featured story, @francescadnunz.bsky.social: It was two days before his 50th birthday and he already had plans to celebrate with his wife, a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE placed him in a detention center he once protested against.
Trump's ICE Arrested a Whistleblower Who Exposed Sexual Assault in Detention. Now, He’s Left the Country.
Douglas Menjivar is a survivor and activist. He’s also married to a U.S. citizen, but he was caught up in the president’s mass deportation agenda anyway.
www.texasobserver.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Featured story, @francescadnunz.bsky.social: It was two days before his 50th birthday and he already had plans to celebrate with his wife, a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE placed him in a detention center he once protested against.
Overheard: "I mean, 4 T-Rex is a lot more than 4 of me...."
October 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Overheard: "I mean, 4 T-Rex is a lot more than 4 of me...."
That was quite the 6th inning! Also, I think the last time I watched a blue jays game this closely was in 1996, and I was 14 and a die hard braves fan...
October 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
That was quite the 6th inning! Also, I think the last time I watched a blue jays game this closely was in 1996, and I was 14 and a die hard braves fan...