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Missy Leone
@missyleone.bsky.social
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Geologist and educator. Currently working as a hydrogeologist. I love to knit and crochet. I am a musician and singer.

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No idea if any of you are following along, but we successfully trapped 4 kittens and their mom. Had mom spayed Monday and just trapped the kittens today.
Black kittens in a crate with their mom. Black kittens in a crate with their mom.
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Also, kitten update. These are 3 of the 4 I need to trap. Mom is living in our garage after her spay surgery Monday.
Kitten #1 Kitten #2 Kitten #3
November 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Haven’t really been on here for awhile but hi. I’m trapping kittens this weekend and it is so stressful. 😩
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Organizing my grocery bag closet!
Grocery bags in various stages of disarray at the bottom of a closet.
September 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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About to do some safety training for a large transportation company and they require a photo upload for the badge they give you at the end. Do they not have any women working on their sites?
Example photos for photo ID that show a bunch of men in different states of wearing hair, hat, glasses. On top of the photos it says “good” or qualifiers explaining why it is not good such as “NO No hat no safety glasses”.
September 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.l
Radiohead’s album cover for OK Computer. I’ll not even sure what the picture represents so struggle to describe it other than saying it’s abstract white and blue grey, maybe a road and body that’s blurry?
September 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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This is probably my favorite project in a long time. The Halibut sweater by Caitlin Hunter. Yarn by Malabrigo (blue) and Explorer Knits and Fibers (yellow). #showmeyourknits
A knit sweater in progress on circular knitting needles. Sweater is blue with yellow contrasting color.
September 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September
Clarkia flower in bloom. White petals with pink accents and white “parts” inside.
September 2, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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This tells you everything you need to know about climate in the United States.
Weather app view showing the weather for several American cities: Seattle, St. Louis, Houston, Tampa, Knoxville, and Kansas City (Eastmont is in the Seattle area, Ballwin is in the St Louis area). All of the cities have temperatures higher than Seattle but it’s the only one with a heat advisory.
August 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Scary still life.
Black and white photo of a living room with sunlight causing highlighting of a magazine cover. The cover in question features RFK Jr on the cover of Wired. Scary.
August 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Beautiful sunset from both sides. Everett, you’re looking gorgeous tonight.
Sunset scene. Mostly just the very bright sun at a low angle but you can faintly make out some buildings and the water. Looking east. Sunset looking this way is mainly alpenglow on the Cascade mountains off in the distance. In the foreground is houses and trees and a road running left to right, and another perpendicular road running into the distance. Looking east. Sunset looking this way is mainly alpenglow on the Cascade mountains off in the distance, and at the far right, the volcano Glacier Peak. In the foreground are businesses and a stoplight and trees and a road with a few cars.
August 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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It’s pretty wild watching the public hearing on the proposal to revoke the EPA’s endangerment finding. All kinds of people are stepping up.
Zoom screen of participants in EPA public hearing.
August 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Today’s vaguely naughty sounding geology term: Big Bosom Buttes.
Text of screen shot: “…canic rocks of Pioneer Ridge overlie granodio-rite of Mount Despair (30-35 Ma)(see unit Digd) and are intruded by tonalite of the Perry Creek phase of the Chilliwack composite batholith (23- 25 Ma) (see unit MOit) (Tabor and others, 1993). Tuff (includes the Lake Keechelus tuff member of the Ohanapecosh Formation, the tuff of Boundary Creek, part of the volcanic rocks of Big Bosom Buttes, part of the volcanic rocks of Chikamin Creek, and part of the volcanic rocks of Mount Daniel). Tabor and others (1993) tentatively assigned an Oligocene age to the volcanic rocks of Big Bosom Buttes, which unconformably overlie the 30 Ma Pocket Peak phase of the Chilliwack composite batholith (see unit Dig) but appear to be intruded by tonalite of the Baker River phase of the Chilliwack composite batholith (see unit Digd). which is probably older than 31 Ma (Tabor and others, 1993). For the volcanic rocks of Chikamin Creek, see unit Ovr. For the volcanic rocks of Mount Daniel, see unit Ovd. For the Ohanapecosh Formation, see unit Ovc. A zircon fission-track age for an unnamed part of unit Ovt near Swauk Pass of about 33 Ma was reported by Tabor and others (1982b). Volcaniclastic rocks (includes Ohanapecosh Formation undivided and the volcanic rocks of Rattlesnake Mountain). The Ohanapecosh Formation has produced plant fossils assigned to the Kummerian Stage (Wolfe, 1968, 1981; Vine 1969) and K-Ar and zircon fission-track ages ranging from 25 to 36 Ma (Tabor and others, 1984, 2000; Vance and others, 1987; Turner and others, 1983). Volcanic breccia (includes the breccia of Round Lake, the volcanic rocks of Mount Rahm, part of…”
August 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Just learned a previous Washington State governor was named Dixy Lee Ray. (1980)
Screenshot of paper titled “Principal Aquifers and Well Yields in Washington”. State of Washington, Dixy Lee Ray, Governor. Department of Ecology, Wilbur J Hallauer, Director. Geohydrologic Monograph 5.
August 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Related to my last post, there’s nothing like the old school hand drawn geologic maps.
Old school geology map. Whetten, 1980. Geology of the Chiwaukum 4 NW Quadrangle, Chiwaukum Graben, Washington.
August 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Most frustrating part about being a scientist who relies on government data in this day and age.
Screen shot of USGS map website with an error that reads: “Science Base, the catalog system supporting the National Map Downloader, is unavailable at this time due to an intermittent outage.”
August 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Today in “drawings at the office” courtesy of the folks at WSDOT.

@wsdot.wa.gov
A dry erase board with the following question and accompanying drawings: Who would you rather fight? (no weapons): One elephant sized duck? or Fifty duck sized elephants? Drawings of said duck and elephant (s) with the caveat of (sorry I’m not drawing 49 more). Tick marks with votes. Currently tied.
August 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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I’m reading this article and then I get to the name of a guy they quote and…what? What an awful name!
Text that reads “He gets fairly equal numbers from Republicans and Democrats,” said Michigan pollster Bernie Porn. Still, Porn said he thinks Duggan could ultimately “give the race to Republicans” because “it is likely that he will take more from Democrats than Republicans in the end.”
August 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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I subscribe to the New England Journal of Medicine’s weekly brief. It’s a newsletter with their headlines and links to articles.

This week’s has a fantastic history of why US medicine has a profit driven model. It’s because doctors wanted it that way at the early part of the last century.
Text snippet from article that reads: Even the middle-class patients, who were expected to benefit most from medicine’s new model, didn’t accept it readily, finding the costs hard to budget for and the world of medical specialization difficult to navigate. The American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Hospital Association insisted that prudent consumer–patients could afford innovative, technology-driven care by giving up “luxury” items and saving for medical crises. Among the prospective patients who disagreed were other professionals (economists, engineers, lawyers) and union leaders, who questioned a model empowering doctors and hospitals to set their own fees. In the aftermath of the Great Depression, critics decried the AMA as a “medical monopoly.”
August 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Lifestyle mag from my former realtor who catered to wealthy execs had this recipe that calls for a 60 pound wheel of cheese.
Cacio e pepe recipe that calls for 60 pound wheel of cheese
August 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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I am enjoying the placement of photos by news outlets that have resisted authoritarian control. Truly a show of a freedom. 😆🤮
Screen shot of AP News website story with title “US employers slash hiring as Trump advances a punishing trade agenda” and an unflattering photo of Trump.
August 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Post a random picture or everything will go bad in August
August 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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My only nerdy claim to fame today is that I have been to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on my way to Magadan in pursuit of earthquake info in grad school.

They have some nice volcanoes near the airport. Pretty sure that's Avachinsky, but could be wrong (it's been over 20 years...).
View of Petropavlovsky-Kamchatsky from the air. Avacha Bay represents the water in the foreground. The city is in the middle. Avachinsky Volcano (I think?) is in the background. View of Petropavlovsky-Kamchatsky from the air. Avacha Bay represents the water in the foreground. The city is in the middle. Avachinsky Volcano (I think?) is in the background. View of Petropavlovsky-Kamchatsky from the air. Avacha Bay represents the water in the foreground. The city is in the middle. Avachinsky Volcano (I think?) is in the background.
July 30, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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The Methow Valley is gorgeous, too.
Methow Valley grassland between mountains. Blue sky and wispy clouds visible. Shadow of person visible in bottom of corner due to high angle of sun.
July 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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It is gorgeous. There’s a fantastic overlook of a hair pin just west of the summit before you drive down into the valley. Enjoy!
SR-20 pass west of park, overlook of mountains and valley with trees in foreground. Road is visible off in the distance.
July 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM