Sentinel-1 before/after (in 3D) of that last one... Which I pulled off Copernicus a second ago. Wow! #mountkinggeorge #mtkinggeorge #geology #landslide #earthquake #remoteimaging

UPenn's student newspaper this week. Amazing. https://www.thedp.com/article/2025/12/penn-alumni-news-controversies-2025-trump-mangione-luigi-musk-charlie-javice

@kajord unforgettable Robert X Cringley moment https://youtu.be/AxFMV6tAg64

RE: https://dice.camp/@strangequark/115691561340578788 "It was common to begin the work day at an IBM office with a group song"!?

Uh oh, saw a very plausible N+1 bike for sale used in town. Much cheaper than new options I was looking at for steel frame, flat bars, rigid front fork, big tires. It hits my niche for a little more than gravel, a little less than an XC mountain bike, adventure bike. Very tempted! #BikeTooter

RE: https://mstdn.social/@bjn/115674812398634924 The live stream of the lateral lava fountain at Kilauea right now really is quite something!

Kilauea is putting on a spectacular show right now. Huge gouts of lava spewing high into the air. The USGS has several live cameras watching it and camera 3 was taken out by the lava fall. If you scrub back in time you can watch as the rain of molten rock creeps forward and “Pompeiis” the camera […]

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut […]

They are still coming for our public lands. https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/utah-secret-meeting-national-parks-21226077.php

I was starting to think my temperature sensor was offline, but no, the temperature really has been nearly constant over the past 3 days, hovering right around freezing.

Current sunspot cluster is nearly as large as the one that led to the Carrington event in 1859. "Any explosions today will be geoeffective", meaning that if there is a solar flare today related to this giant sunspot cluster, it would likely impact Earth […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

"Even Carrington would be impressed" 😬 https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2025 Hopefully we just get "someone should check on our satellites" levels of auroras and not "A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered"

FFS. For the first time, non-citizens will be charged a hefty surcharge to enter US national parks (an extra $100/person, and annual passes for noncitizens will cost $250 instead of $80). Our national parks are absolute jewels, and a significant contributor […] [Original post on federate.social]

My favorite non-fiction book, Kenneth Brower’s The Starship And The Canoe (1978), is a memoir of time spent with both Dysons, juxtaposing Freeman's dreams of manned rockets to the edge of our galaxy with George's ambitious voyages in fragile, traditional […] [Original post on merveilles.town]

I find it incredibly sad and lame that Google's latest AI product release has stolen the name of an XKCD comic about restoring joy to programming (without attribution, as far as I can tell) for something that destroys joy, and creativity.

my husband made it so the home assistant voice assistant can use full-on ollama to interpret instructions. then he told it to turn the lights on. it's been explaining its thought process for over five minutes now and the lights are still off.

I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal. If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.

HOLY SHIT THE SKY IS FUCKING INCREDIBLE AAAAHHHHHH WOWWWWWWW

Near catastrophe at LAX yesterday over Dockweiler beach. CBS Los Angeles: 2 passenger planes nearly collide shortly after taking off from LAX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n54w51y2BEo

also GET YOUR NUCLEAR WEAPONS GEOGRAPHY RIGHT: only a very small number of tests were ever performed in New Mexico, the "middle of the desert" we're talking about here is NEVADA. I get a little twitch every time someone gets this wrong.

North Cascades under a layer of clouds

Listening in to a meeting of radio astronomers: direct-to-cell satellites are SO BRIGHT that even though they're following the rules and broadcasting in their allocated bands, they destroy astronomical observations across a huge swath of frequencies. Radio telescopes were designed to operate in […]

Impressive, if not necessarily practical, selection of languages on this web form!

Because nuclear testing is in the news: This is the luckiest photo I've ever taken & it's of a missile defense test. We were camping on the west side of Kaua'i, at Polihale, a long beach shared with the Pacific Missile Range Facility (aka Barking Sands). MPs told us […] [Original post on mas.to]

Yeah, glad to not be flying today to LGA. It's quite a day with many a delay. DCA, EWR, and even JFK. Flying today, no way. https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/ #aviation #delays

Satellite view (GOES-19) of a monster storm as it makes landfall yesterday. (source: https://satlib.cira.colostate.edu/loop_of_the_day/hurricane-melissas-historic-day-in-the-caribbean/) #Hurricane #melissa #xp

for fuck's sake I shouldn't need to say "do not use a browser written by OpenAI" but here we are I guess. do not use a browser written by OpenAI https://mstdn.social/@Hackread/115448122449051028

Semi-personal commentary: The NSF's terms were quite perverse – even ignoring the clear ethical fuckery they demanded. "Promoting a diverse and international Python community" is written into our IRS-registered mission. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

I hate that these Earth-destroying bros name all of their shit after the cooleset things. Oklo is the natural fission reactor found in Gabon...one of the most amazing geologic discoveries of all time. The site needed a high concentration of natural uranium + very pure water to start a natural […]

Wait, baseball has a halftime show now? #worldseries

Ugh, I just had Spotify start playing me genAI music after an album I chose had ended. Time to finally leave, I guess.

It’s rare for me to say this about a NYTimes article, but I love everything about this story. And that photo. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/s...

ABC News: White House East Wing demolished, new images appear to show https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/new-images-show-entire-white-house-east-wing/story?id=126800684 #remoteimaging #gis #satellites #politics

Oh no I just realized that Wayland is the IPv6 of display servers IPv6 is the Wayland of networking. 1. works OK if you don't look *too* hard 2. a necessary, even critical upgrade for deep infrastructure reasons that most users don't know 3. exciting new features you can't use because it's only […]

How many runways can you see for Felts Field airport in Spokane area (USA) ? : The answer is on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/ksff/en #spokane #usa #feltsfieldairport #ksff #sff #airport #aviation #avgeek vl

The Vantor company (formerly Maxar) used one of their Worldview satellites to capture a picture of the NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) satellite in orbit. The large radar reflector (12 meters or 38 feet wide) has a mesh surface that appears gold and the solar panels on […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I cannot visit @esoastronomy HQ without photographing and posting about this video game box. It is not just a bit of astronomy themed retro box art, there is an actual retro game to go with it too. It was written for the Atari 2600 but can also be played online […] [Original post on aus.social]

I'm really excited to eventually see this film, "Shifting Baselines", that I'm in! It looks SO COOL from the trailer, and there's a big picture of me on IMDB for it, haha weird. (But honestly, it's pretty hard to tell it's me because it was -25C or so when […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Looking up why screen rotation is buggy and unusable on my old ASUS chromebook running Ubuntu, and the culprit is... Wayland. Surprise, surprise. I get that X11 was aging and needed to be replaced, but Wayland has just failed us over and over in so many ways.

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

Just spending the morning catching up on the politics of various open source projects.

If the news is important enough, you'll get it eventually. (gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/health/nobel-prize-medicine-fred-ramsdell.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rk8.5qh6.3kDyEswdJ1nn&smid=url-share

I spent last week interviewing folks for a disaster recovery manager job. Most of our candidates were from #usaid. Hearing the about the impactful work they did up until July of this year made our challenges seem miniscule. Stabilizing Tanzania during an ebola outbreak, delivery aid to the […]

Do I know anyone who has used an online machine shop service like SendCutSend? I need a couple custom speaker brackets, and I could get some steel stock from a big box store and try to drill it myself, or I could order custom parts online for what seems like a very reasonable price.

I enjoyed this animation from the manufacturer (https://micacycles.com) of things you can strap to their bike rack cargo cage. #BikeTooter

Mmm, chicken sashimi!

I guess we are at a point where we need to parse the underlying meaning of every word in "Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated" Linux. #omarchy #dhh #opensource

It sure got smoky in the past hour or two in Spokane. PM 2.5 spiked on my sensor, Purple Air shows the same. I think it's from the central Washington fires, but I don't know why it's suddenly so bad here at ground level. #wildfire #AirQuality #spokane #wa

The first NISAR (NASA-ISRO SAR) L-band radar images have now been released! These are early images acquired before NISAR reached the final science orbit with radar test modes so only a few locations were imaged. The mountains of Mount Desert Island in Maine, USA, are beautiful. I first visited […]

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