On-call luck finally ended, it was very cold in that turbine.

It was cold at work this morning (I work near Summit)

nvm we in the core. RIP lower 48 Aurora that isn't just a vague muddy glow.

Ok I meant +80Bz lmao. Good chance we're not in the flux rope yet so this can flip right back into our favor after sunset. Crazy numbers coming out of this CME.

Going to be extremely funny when the CME hits tonight and it's +40Bz all night.

Look at my opposition party, dawg. We're cooked.

An Eastern Screech Owl trilling at sunset this evening. #birds #raptors

An Eastern Screech Owl seems to be re-using an old cavity I saw an owl in about 2 years ago. Based on the color morph it could potentially be the same owl, but from my personal experience brown morphs are the most common coloration I've seen locally so there's also a chance it's not. #birds #raptors

TRUMP 2026: SHUT UP OR WE’LL KILL YOU

Found 3 Northern Saw-whet Owls today near Fargo, the cutest little rodent murderers. #birds #raptors

ICE reportedly shot someone at Portland and 33/34. Mspt saying bullets, could be less lethal 20+ agents on site, MPD and ambulances responding. Helicopters overhead

Someone who claims to have witnessed the incident says - car was blocking ice - they told them to move - "something happened' - ICE shot into the car as it was driving away - passenger got out of the car covered away and said friend was dead There is video and I have seen it

Throwback to my first birthday tornado last year on 5/18/25. A rainbow even showed up, downplaying the serious EF3 damage that was down to the town of Grinnell KS by this tornado.

Gen Z gets to have their own Iraq war now, but dumber.

I went back to see if I could get clearer shots of the Long-eared Owl that found yesterday and ended up with some of my favorite shots of the species I've ever taken. #birds #raptors

Thanks to a friend of mine that found them by accident, I was able to get some shots of these two Long-eared Owls just before sunset today making them my first owls of 2026! #birds #raptors

One last owl for 2025, this Eastern Screech Owl that I found this morning. #birds #raptors

RAM is unaffordable because of this stupid thing

Found some more Short-eared Owls tonight, only a few miles from my apartment even. Hopefully they stick around so I can actually get some daylight shots. #birds #raptors

My flight is at gate B64 but I think I'm going to gate B60 instead

Western Bluebird and Bewick's Wren from my short hike this morning. #birds

First time photographing Bushtits, and wow they jumped up my list of of one my favorite birds to shoot. #birds

I'm in California for the week visiting family and spent a bit of time today taking pictures of birds I don't get to see back in South Dakota. Hoping to get some California Quail shots at some point while I'm here. #birds

While stopping for lunch during the local CBC, we found this Cooper's Hawk had also stopped for lunch lol. #birds #raptors

Found this Townsend's Solitaire during the CBC for my city this afternoon. Pretty rare to find these guys this far east, only the second report of one for the county. Lifer! #birds

these documents are more blacked out than Pete Hegseth on New Years Eve

They missed one

I've been daily driving Linux for about 2 weeks now and if it wasn't for needing Lightroom(darktable and rawtherapee suck so bad) I'd just delete my Windows partition lol.

On top of the already free Cheesy Gordita Crunch from app points that I ordered with my Quesarito from Taco Bell today, they accidentally gave me a second free Cheesy Gordita Crunch for free. Just thought it was important to announce.

while not anywhere as dramatic as the dance that the Gary tornado did, the Henry tornado from 7-27-2025 also did a bit of a dance for a bit - SDS running hot right now

LIVE PREMIERE STARTING SOON: Monster EF5 Tornado - North Dakota 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFdU...

Weirdest snowflakes I've ever seen lol.

Honestly embarrasing to Windows how much snappier and faster Linux is. If I wasn't a gamer I'd just jump ship to Mac at this point.

I have now set up Linux dual boot(opted for CachyOS) on both my gaming PC and my media PC that exists solely for replacing smart TV functions because Windows is significantly too insufferable now.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

I've walked past this tree probably hundreds of times while out birding and everytime I see it I always think to myself "Man that would be a great spot for a screech owl", and while out this morning I finally caught one in it with its meal from last night. My first red morph! #birds #raptors

Just after sunset isn't exactly my preferred shooting environment, but Short-eared Owls don't care. First one of the season, and pretty damn close to home too so hopefully I'll get plenty more shots of it. #birds #raptors

First day of winter definitely feels like it up here today.

7 years ago today I chased one of the most unique tornado outbreaks that I've ever chased in Central Illinois, having seen nearly 10 tornadoes on one chase while snow was still on the ground in places. It is the only day I've seen tornadoes in December and will probably remain so. #weather

Thankful for all the tornadoes and owls I got to see this year.

I do believe we have a @brendonme.bsky.social alert in progress

Good to see that the full-time chasers still think red traffic lights don't apply to them.

If you want to see just how baddly the dials are cranked to the right on the twitter algorithm though, just make a fresh account. Nothing but right-wing blue check grifting.

Forgot to log back into my twitter account after disabling before the permanent deletion kicked in after 30 days lol. Remade to hold onto the handle since NWS ABR actually takes my reports from Twitter and that's their preferred method of reporting.

This is unironically how I view chatgpt users(warning: loud lol) www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNo5...

Got out of the Navy and had no idea what I wanted to do, and a VA rep gave me a flyer for a tech school for Wind Turbine Technician certifications that would be paid for by a government grant, and here I am busting my knuckles 365ft off the ground for 13+ years.

Twitter sucks but it is extremely funny right now so it's hard not to watch.