Scott Lowe
@tropicostation.bsky.social
Mostly aviation photography here. Socal private pilot into all aspects of aviation, animation, and YIMBY/urbanism. I volunteer with a transitional housing shelter, the Civil Air Patrol and World Central Kitchen.
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rain in the valley 🌧️🎻 new jazz/folk song out on bandcamp/streaming now
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November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
rain in the valley 🌧️🎻 new jazz/folk song out on bandcamp/streaming now
louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/rain-i...
louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/rain-i...
Glendale needs this
Greetings from the **checks notes** Traffic Safety Prayer Pagoda here in Busan, South Korea.
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Glendale needs this
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Super interesting summary of recent Rapa Nui/Easter Island research:
1. Statues were carved and excavated all around the source volcano without hierarchy
2. The “walking” hypothesis of transporting statues using ropes/rocking was how they moved to final spots
3. Deforestation wasn’t done by […]
1. Statues were carved and excavated all around the source volcano without hierarchy
2. The “walking” hypothesis of transporting statues using ropes/rocking was how they moved to final spots
3. Deforestation wasn’t done by […]
Original post on xoxo.zone
xoxo.zone
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Super interesting summary of recent Rapa Nui/Easter Island research:
1. Statues were carved and excavated all around the source volcano without hierarchy
2. The “walking” hypothesis of transporting statues using ropes/rocking was how they moved to final spots
3. Deforestation wasn’t done by […]
1. Statues were carved and excavated all around the source volcano without hierarchy
2. The “walking” hypothesis of transporting statues using ropes/rocking was how they moved to final spots
3. Deforestation wasn’t done by […]
gotta be rooting for these two in the NWSL Final
November 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
gotta be rooting for these two in the NWSL Final
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Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
November 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
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There Are At Least Seven Blimps Floating Around The USA Right Now, So Keep Your Eyes Peeled www.theautopian.com/there-are-at...
There Are At Least Seven Blimps Floating Around The USA Right Now, So Keep Your Eyes Peeled - The Autopian
Blimps are usually a rare sight in America, but not today. You can see at least seven awesome blimps that can be found flying around the USA
www.theautopian.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
There Are At Least Seven Blimps Floating Around The USA Right Now, So Keep Your Eyes Peeled www.theautopian.com/there-are-at...
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It's so funny watching local California candidates take credit for housing made possible by state housing laws that they opposed. Not the first time this has happened!
This is rich. Connie Chan says she “built real affordable housing, not the Sacramento version that destroys our neighborhoods.”
She points to new affordable housing on Geary: housing that she didn’t build but that *was* built using “Sacramento version” housing laws & $52M in state funds. 🧵
She points to new affordable housing on Geary: housing that she didn’t build but that *was* built using “Sacramento version” housing laws & $52M in state funds. 🧵
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It's so funny watching local California candidates take credit for housing made possible by state housing laws that they opposed. Not the first time this has happened!
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DHS/ICE, which just got the largest budget increase in its history, claims it doesn't have enough money for hard drives to preserve video evidence in a detainee abuse case at Broadview. Suggests to a judge that maybe the detainees could provide them
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
DHS/ICE, which just got the largest budget increase in its history, claims it doesn't have enough money for hard drives to preserve video evidence in a detainee abuse case at Broadview. Suggests to a judge that maybe the detainees could provide them
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...
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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
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I’m looking for someone with imagery and a good use case for geospatial semantic search.
If you want to try your own queries in PIMINTO, my geospatial AI search tool, now you can: piminto.obliscence.com. There are some pretty neat features that I didn't include in the demo video, including a third way to query besides text and images. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjH0...
PIMINTO Demo 01
YouTube video by John Wiseman
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I’m looking for someone with imagery and a good use case for geospatial semantic search.
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The City of Los Angeles has 43,700 homeless people. Seven of them die on the streets every day.
Mobilizing the planning department to slow-walk new mixed income housing near the train stations that taxpayers spent billions of dollars building reflects perverse priorities at best.
Mobilizing the planning department to slow-walk new mixed income housing near the train stations that taxpayers spent billions of dollars building reflects perverse priorities at best.
After failing to stop a major state housing bill from becoming law, Los Angeles leaders are turning to plan B: Delaying Senate Bill 79's implementation and pushing for unspecified legislative changes next year. My dispatch for @politico.com Pro subscribers subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
POLITICO Pro: Los Angeles failed to defeat a major housing law, so it's turning to Plan B: Delay, delay, delay
A report from the city planning department outlines strategies for pushing off many of the effects of SB 79 through 2030.
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November 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The City of Los Angeles has 43,700 homeless people. Seven of them die on the streets every day.
Mobilizing the planning department to slow-walk new mixed income housing near the train stations that taxpayers spent billions of dollars building reflects perverse priorities at best.
Mobilizing the planning department to slow-walk new mixed income housing near the train stations that taxpayers spent billions of dollars building reflects perverse priorities at best.
I’ve never seen a Tesla without horrible curb rash. Once you notice it it’s inescapable.
People think "politics" is what you say, but politics is in fact how you wield power. In that sense, driving a car is one of the most profound ways to reveal what your actual politics are.
How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.
How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.
It just needs to be way easier to lose your license and your car for reckless driving, because a few months of major societal disruption 5 years ago taught people that driving in such a way that kills others or themselves is nbd
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I’ve never seen a Tesla without horrible curb rash. Once you notice it it’s inescapable.
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The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
Album of the Year for me. Wow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zaqr...
November 12, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Album of the Year for me. Wow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zaqr...
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this guy started the video with his qualifications as if there was any chance i wouldn’t trust this man about clocks
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
this guy started the video with his qualifications as if there was any chance i wouldn’t trust this man about clocks
Finding this song completely stunning today youtu.be/U58wU0GO9ls
Aging Young Women
YouTube video by Anna von Hausswolff - Topic
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November 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Finding this song completely stunning today youtu.be/U58wU0GO9ls
Heard something in the attic last week so I threw one of my security cams up there. Pretty quickly saw a rat so I set a trap which got the rat that night. Repaired a hole in an attic screen, set two more traps and no action since. Modern security cam is amazing for monitoring the traps.
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Heard something in the attic last week so I threw one of my security cams up there. Pretty quickly saw a rat so I set a trap which got the rat that night. Repaired a hole in an attic screen, set two more traps and no action since. Modern security cam is amazing for monitoring the traps.
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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When your wife sends you a vanity plate pic, you know it has to be good
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
When your wife sends you a vanity plate pic, you know it has to be good
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If reversing the fertility decline were my thing, I would have this tattooed on my forehead.
November 6, 2025 at 3:46 AM
If reversing the fertility decline were my thing, I would have this tattooed on my forehead.
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Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.