I've got a great new job so now I'm downsizing the drone fleet I built up for consulting. Used Autel Evo 2 Pro V3 RTK enterprise kit for sale. 25 flight hours. I pay shipping: ebay.us/m/X4nZSJ

After that press conference, I'm having flashbacks to the good old days of the pandemic when drinking bleach, internal UV exposure, and dewormer were all bandied about from the lectern...

This past week or two, I exchanged my typical Basin and Range field views with tree-choked, boulder-strewn streams in the North Cascades.

Despite the downward spiral of all that is rational, it still feels good to read "Paper submitted." (To a community-driven diamond open access journal) #science

This is incredibly sad, but the comments are strangely uplifting. I grew up on Sesame Street! www.linkedin.com/posts/elmo-f...

@ologies.bsky.social 👇

Hot tubs, er, springs in western Nevada this morning.

www.bbc.com/news/article... I think protests in front of the Supreme Court are in order

If you care about clean energy (I do! I love wind farms!!!!!), you should absolutely care about what their power does. Does it help keep people alive in heatwaves, or help cut total energy and pollution to electrify road transport? Goooood Does it help Bitcoin and AI? INARGUABLY MOSTLY NOT GOOD

This sucks, but also means if you want coverage, contact your paper in advance of an action. Give them quotes. Send them to folks to interview. We did this for the NOAA protests and got wall to wall coverage for a week, with frontpages, opeds, and followups.

It's a good day to go protest: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

Still mad.

Yes!

This seems like hyperbole parading as fact. All of the faculty I've worked with in STEM have a deep appreciation for the role of humanities and arts.

I just read "Derp State" and I love it

I fear some of you are still not quite understanding that the purpose of DOGE is not actually to make the federal government more efficient, it's to privatize what they can make money off of and then dismantle the rest.

It's quieter out here, save the wind.

Where do I find protests? Which are the orgs to join? Who's knitting hats and marching this time?

I'm just so mad at all this stupid shit.

This has been a great reminder that governments are not businesses, and aren't supposed to be. They can stop messing with our shit now.

Maybe I'm too immersed in science, higher Ed, energy, contractors, and everything, but what will all this do to employment, economic growth, and inflation? Anyone have those numbers?

This is a small gesture, but it made me happier for a moment. I think the silver spoon has a couple meanings here. techcrunch.com/2025/02/06/g...

F elon

Some good news! And a whole thread of it!

Not to be hyperbolic, but the news is sure giving me strong "put more cash under the mattress" vibes, except inflation...

We coulda had the free lunches for kids guy

apnews.com/article/goog... Gulf of Boot Lickers. This is so stupid.

It's gone from weird to stupid.

That was a cold week of midnight to predawn thermal drone work. Maybe too cold.

I just finished a friends and family trip down the Black Canyon of the Colorado below Las Vegas. Great evidence for fluid flow in fractures in the canyon walls, hot springs, and seeps.

Vibes: kak·i·sto·cra·cy

Why, yes, I WAS the only one dressed up for the field trip today.

For makeshift analog models, deforming flour is actually pretty fun.

Warm ground on a cold Nevada night...

I "had" to spend the afternoon scouting potential field trip sites around Aptos/Capitola for Intro Geology today. It may have involved ice cream too.

Fissure ridges and warm pools at Travertine Hot Springs, Bridgeport, California.

Shockingly, I'm not convinced AI was really ready to be unleashed.

No tax on tips is kind of a dumb, pandering policy idea. www.npr.org/2024/08/11/n...

Small hydrothermal eruption in Yellowstone: www.facebook.com/1288518484/v...

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Nice fault surface in silicified tuff if folks are looking for a Mirrors alternative...

Run away!

Today was too hot in Dyer, NV. We clocked 104.8 at 4 pm, 102.3 in the shade.