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matt wilkie
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long time techie, perpetual newbie dev, career geo-spatial, attending curiosity
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Yukon engineer and entrepreneur Roy Keith Byram recognized with Order of Canada
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#yukon #canada
(never know what you might find in the alt-text)
The DC3 weather vane CF-CPY always points into the wind, just as she would have while lined up on the runway for takeoff. Due to the fine balance point, it only takes a 5 knot wind to turn her. Shown here with green-yellow aurora lighting the night sky above. Photo courtesy of Explore North blog, https://www.explorenorth.com/library/aviation/cf-cpy.html "Antarctica Runway" book cover Yukon’s Pelly Construction Builds for the British Antarctic Survey. By Keith Byram and Patricia Cunning. 330 pages (12" x12", 30cm x 30cm) "...Thirty-four years ago Pelly Construction built a runway and airstrip for the British Antarctic Survey at Rothera Research Station in Antarctica. It was quite a feat for the relatively young company whose first large project had been the creation of the Dawson Flood Dike in 1987. The BBC reported in 2024 that work had begun to upgrade and resurface the runway, but between..." Read more at https://www.whatsupyukon.com/yukon/yukon-business/antarctica-runway/
December 19, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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how many of you knew that Alaska was hit with a typhoon? 😳
#Alaska #TyphoonHalong
I didn't, until a cranky old bear made some noise mastodon.social/@crankyoldbe...
1 killed, 51 rescued, 49 communities impacted, 1400 survivors in community shelters. From the "remnants" of Typhoon Halong.
Screenshot of Alaska Public Media we page about halfway through article. In middle of page is small blue house, seemingly intact but completely upside down
October 14, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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heart goes out to those living with California wildfire
#readalttext
Los Angeles wildfire photos show widespread devastation, destruction - National | Globalnews.ca
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This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the Eaton Fire on Wed., Jan. 8, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. Maxar Technologies via AP About 80% of photo frame is urban developed area, with mountainous terrain to the tip and right, in muted greys and blues. The urban area is dark to black with grid pattern of streets clearly visible. By far the most prominent visible element however are the red orange yellow glowing embers of burning structures across 80 or 90 percent of the developed area. Visually beautiful, stunning, turning to stomach dropping horror as the implications sink in. These were people's homes. Next to the ocean, a vast source of water. The solid black bite out of bottom left of image is ocean. Look at the image longer, it becomes an open maw, with the three black splotches above as eyes and nose. Is it monstrous roaring, devouring? or wailing, crying? Either and both.
January 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM