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@thorbites.bsky.social
Geologist; museum person working in paleo. n+1 bikes and bear suits. Weekend sign maker. [^^unfortunately, not my license plate^^]
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Met this Bear while protesting to save the wildlands of Chaney Trail last autumn. The trail was incinerated last month. But its chaparral will grow again. And the Bear, like its native wildland, is standing strong. Thank you, dear friend Bear. #DenaStrong
It's been wonderful - & heartbreaking - to meet so many lovely Altadena and N. Pasadena folks who've been affected by the Eaton fire. Thank you for sharing with a bear...
Also, thanks to folks who were out to help - LA Co. Public Health, Red Cross, Army Corps of Eng., CA Nat'l Guard, and more.
Also, thanks to folks who were out to help - LA Co. Public Health, Red Cross, Army Corps of Eng., CA Nat'l Guard, and more.
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my library's policy.
Librarians like to say that book bans interfere with parents' direction of their children's reading. But also, by letting minors be patrons, librarians do not collude with parents' control over their children's reading.
The freedom to read is radically democratic. 📚
Librarians like to say that book bans interfere with parents' direction of their children's reading. But also, by letting minors be patrons, librarians do not collude with parents' control over their children's reading.
The freedom to read is radically democratic. 📚
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
my library's policy.
Librarians like to say that book bans interfere with parents' direction of their children's reading. But also, by letting minors be patrons, librarians do not collude with parents' control over their children's reading.
The freedom to read is radically democratic. 📚
Librarians like to say that book bans interfere with parents' direction of their children's reading. But also, by letting minors be patrons, librarians do not collude with parents' control over their children's reading.
The freedom to read is radically democratic. 📚
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If folks haven't read it, I recommend @annaleen.bsky.social's Stories are Weapons, which is unfortunately more and more relevant during this administration. When I started it, I thought, "yeah yeah, I know this." But each chapter was 🤯; well researched analysis of these tactics, recent & historical.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 AM
If folks haven't read it, I recommend @annaleen.bsky.social's Stories are Weapons, which is unfortunately more and more relevant during this administration. When I started it, I thought, "yeah yeah, I know this." But each chapter was 🤯; well researched analysis of these tactics, recent & historical.
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"Instead of making forecasts, the USGS could help to improve building codes and to plan the government's response to the next large earthquake. Bay Area residents should take reasonable precautions [...] they should largely ignore the USGS probability forecast."
Statisticians don't like seismology.
Statisticians don't like seismology.
Time-dependent hazard estimates and forecasts, and their uncertainties
In section 4.2 we discussed current USGS efforts to estimate both long-term and short-term earthquake probabilities. Here we discuss a number of research topics that may help to improve these probabil...
link.springer.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
"Instead of making forecasts, the USGS could help to improve building codes and to plan the government's response to the next large earthquake. Bay Area residents should take reasonable precautions [...] they should largely ignore the USGS probability forecast."
Statisticians don't like seismology.
Statisticians don't like seismology.
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The mythology of pure merit and academia finally in tatters.
I hope this is the end of the “I know him and he is always been anything but nice to me” cliché.
I hope this is the end of the “I know him and he is always been anything but nice to me” cliché.
Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...
So I’m in the Epstein Files
Transcript: Look. I know that on this channel, I often criticize prominent people for actions that I find detestable: accepting dark money and failing to disclose it, producing propaganda for Big O…
skepchick.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The mythology of pure merit and academia finally in tatters.
I hope this is the end of the “I know him and he is always been anything but nice to me” cliché.
I hope this is the end of the “I know him and he is always been anything but nice to me” cliché.
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As others have pointed out, he has written the tagline for the inevitable worldwide celebration tho.
If I was in the White House press pool they'd kick me out for saying "Quiet, piggy" to the president
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
As others have pointed out, he has written the tagline for the inevitable worldwide celebration tho.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Happy #FossilFriday! This tooth plate is from a giant fossil lungfish called Ceratodus. This specimen is thought to be from the Mesozoic Era and is estimated to be up to 13 feet long! Lungfish have been around for nearly 400 million years, and are one of the closest living relatives to tetrapods!🦎
November 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Happy #FossilFriday! This tooth plate is from a giant fossil lungfish called Ceratodus. This specimen is thought to be from the Mesozoic Era and is estimated to be up to 13 feet long! Lungfish have been around for nearly 400 million years, and are one of the closest living relatives to tetrapods!🦎
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🐻Happy #FossilFriday! This canine tooth was found at the bottom of Lake Bronson Reservoir in northern MN after draw down for dam replacement. Flagged in a pedestrian survey, likely from an American black bear (Ursus americanus). The site is pre-contact Native American, submerged nearly 90 years.
November 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🐻Happy #FossilFriday! This canine tooth was found at the bottom of Lake Bronson Reservoir in northern MN after draw down for dam replacement. Flagged in a pedestrian survey, likely from an American black bear (Ursus americanus). The site is pre-contact Native American, submerged nearly 90 years.
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The seabed rarely consists solely of bare sand: often other materials, such as shells are present. Kooistra et al., show shells have marked effects on bed roughness and sand transport 🐚 🌊
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The seabed rarely consists solely of bare sand: often other materials, such as shells are present. Kooistra et al., show shells have marked effects on bed roughness and sand transport 🐚 🌊
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Together, these two pieces of research provide immediate and long-term perspectives on California's coastal resilience. Learn more here.
scripps.ucsd.edu/news/califor...
scripps.ucsd.edu/news/califor...
California Beach Widths Show Resilience
Two new studies from researchers at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provide encouraging news about California's beaches at both local and statewide scales.
scripps.ucsd.edu
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Together, these two pieces of research provide immediate and long-term perspectives on California's coastal resilience. Learn more here.
scripps.ucsd.edu/news/califor...
scripps.ucsd.edu/news/califor...
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2️⃣ studies from Scripps Oceanography scientists find California’s beaches can bounce back from erosion caused by powerful winter waves. Here's what they uncovered. 🧵⬇️
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
2️⃣ studies from Scripps Oceanography scientists find California’s beaches can bounce back from erosion caused by powerful winter waves. Here's what they uncovered. 🧵⬇️
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We often discuss the threat of ocean acidification (and climate change) on shallow #reefs, but it does not spare deep reefs. As the ocean acidifies, the aragonite saturation horizon shallows, and with it the zone many reefs can inhabit. 🧪🌊
Link: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Link: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We often discuss the threat of ocean acidification (and climate change) on shallow #reefs, but it does not spare deep reefs. As the ocean acidifies, the aragonite saturation horizon shallows, and with it the zone many reefs can inhabit. 🧪🌊
Link: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Link: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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This meets the the most standard definition of tool use used in primatology (Beck 1980), and it surprises me how many don’t think it qualifies as tool use 🧪
A female wolf has been doing something unusual on the Central Coast of British Columbia. She's learned to pull crab traps up from the water, yanking on a rope to bring it to the surface. But is it tool use? Very fun story from @phiejacobs.bsky.social for @science.org
Have wild wolves learned to use tools?
Video captures a lone female pulling crab traps out of the water, but does it count as tool use?
www.science.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
This meets the the most standard definition of tool use used in primatology (Beck 1980), and it surprises me how many don’t think it qualifies as tool use 🧪
🙏🙏🙏 @lataco.bsky.social for working so hard to tell the horrific stories of daily ICE abductions around the LA basin. Go help out LA Taco if you can.
DAILY MEMO: More Than 30 People Taken in At Least 30 Raids During Saturday Through Monday Rains
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
🙏🙏🙏 @lataco.bsky.social for working so hard to tell the horrific stories of daily ICE abductions around the LA basin. Go help out LA Taco if you can.
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People have largely tried to act like ICE/CBP failed and retreated from LA and that is completely untrue. If it weren’t for the relentless coverage of places like @lataco.bsky.social these stories would be completely under the radar.
ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on?
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
People have largely tried to act like ICE/CBP failed and retreated from LA and that is completely untrue. If it weren’t for the relentless coverage of places like @lataco.bsky.social these stories would be completely under the radar.
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"Bovino is basically leading a rebel cavalry, a la Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who raided and terrorized communities in...the Civil War. That latter analogy holds up particularly well in one specific respect: Forrest became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war."
Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago
Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
November 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"Bovino is basically leading a rebel cavalry, a la Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who raided and terrorized communities in...the Civil War. That latter analogy holds up particularly well in one specific respect: Forrest became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war."
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I feel obligated to post my favorite glyptodon meme
November 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I feel obligated to post my favorite glyptodon meme
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Share this so widely that even Mike Johnson won't be able to claim he doesn't know. #Epstein #MeToo #1000girls
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Share this so widely that even Mike Johnson won't be able to claim he doesn't know. #Epstein #MeToo #1000girls
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If you could easily lose your life riding in a painted bike gutter, always and unapologetically ride your bike on the sidewalk.
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If you could easily lose your life riding in a painted bike gutter, always and unapologetically ride your bike on the sidewalk.
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This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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So nice to have an auxiliary battery for the way home. This bike is heavy. I’m going to weigh it today. I’ll let you know.
November 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
So nice to have an auxiliary battery for the way home. This bike is heavy. I’m going to weigh it today. I’ll let you know.
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“This is my favorite night of the month“
November 15, 2025 at 6:46 AM
“This is my favorite night of the month“
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I guess they have installed those Flock cameras downtown that report people to ICE.
Ride a bike, pay cash, shop local
Ride a bike, pay cash, shop local
November 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I guess they have installed those Flock cameras downtown that report people to ICE.
Ride a bike, pay cash, shop local
Ride a bike, pay cash, shop local
Oof, not prepared for the multiple photos of dead/"harvested" deer in the last few weeks.
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Oof, not prepared for the multiple photos of dead/"harvested" deer in the last few weeks.