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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 5h

it probably gets annoying how much I like to point at things nowhere near each other in california and go "see that? the other half is a few hundred miles south" but it's just very cool

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 5h

Those peaks are half of the ancient Pinnacles volcano, which erupted near Lancaster millions of years ago then got torn in half and carried up here by the San Andreas Fault.

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 5h

The twin Chalone peaks in Pinnacles National Park, seen from across Monterey Bay, about sixty miles away.

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 4h

love a strike-slip fault, the slapstick comic of geology

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 6h

this is a banger in that genre, I usually add a chopped bell pepper and sauté it along with the shallot/garlic instead of just marinating those: orangette.net/2005/02/the-... A+ with a fried egg on top and some sourdough to mop up the remnants.

The simple and the unsexy | Orangette

After a weekend of cream puffs, a girl’s got to take a breather.Moderation is horribly unglamorous, I know. But, dear reader, I also know that you’re the sort who values truth—ugly, unwashed, morning ...

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 7h

ooh then I've never had this one but I am all for more savory semolina dishes (having grown up only eating sweet porridges)

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 7h

upma with yogurt & pickle is such a perfect comfort food

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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 10h

Almost the entire population of southern resident killer whales gathered in central Puget Sound on Sunday, but the newest member of J Pod, a newborn known as J64, was not among them.

Endangered orcas return to Puget Sound without newborn J64, presumed dead

Almost the entire population of southern resident killer whales gathered in central Puget Sound on Sunday, but the newest member of J Pod, a newborn known as J64, was not among them.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 18h

A lot of people think this. It's a big part of a reason I wrote this piece that explains the realities of our recovery system.

www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/o...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Powerful Afghanistan earthquake leaves 20 dead and reportedly damages famous Blue Mosque

Northern provinces of Balkh and Samangan worst hit by magnitude 6.3 quake with hundreds injured, while Mazar-i-Sharif’s Blue Mosque reportedly affected A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Afghanistan overnight has killed more than 20 people and injured about 320, the health ministry said on Monday. The preliminary tolls of deaths and injuries were recorded in the Balkh and Samangan provinces, which have suffered most of the damage, a ministry spokesperson, Sharafat Zaman, said in a video message shared with journalists. Continue reading...

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 18h

ok I had no idea that Kürk Mantolu Madonna had become a BookTok phenomenon? The Freely/Dawe translation sold nearly 30K copies in the UK this year! If the youth are pining for midcentury Turkish literature can we turn them on to Tanpınar next?

Rufus Hickok @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 18h

Readers seeking out Turkish books from 1943 and Dostoyevsky novellas that speak to the anxiety and angst they're experiencing; meanwhile, the publishing industry is trying to decide whether to push cozy horror romantasy or holiday romantasy more this year.

‘It’s not just a book, it’s a window to my soul’: why we’re in love with literary angst

Why did an obscure Dostoevsky novella sell 100,000 copies in the UK last year? And why are TikTokers raving about a 1943 Turkish novel? The way young people are discovering books is changing – and the...

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 1d

apparently he did the Middlebury summer language program (for Arabic) which is almost hilariously hashtag relatable for a certain stripe of (ex-)academic

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 1d

Brooklyn meri jaan ❤️

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Aunties on the move from Midwood to Brighton Beach today

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: NOAA cancel contract for seismic data crucial used by NWS tsunami warning program. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

Alaska Public Media reports that NOAA canceled contract with state of Alaska for seismology data critical for tsunami warnings

Supercells produce very large hail in south Texas; a western Pacific tropical cyclone looks to have significant impacts this week.

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 2d

geçmiş olsun

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 2d

it was incredible. some highlights: watching a couple group stage matches with a Palestinian-Syrian family in Yarmouk (bittersweet to think of now); being back in İstanbul for the quarterfinal victory and hearing the city explode; Ümit Davala's hair.

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 2d

I love that this was your path to baseball (I was converted to soccer by spending most of the 2002 World Cup in TR/Syria)

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Liam @othemts.bsky.social · 2d

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 2d

Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 2d

I still think from time to time about the piece Brian Phillips wrote in the immediate aftermath. anyway I am glad the baseball friends are getting that good juice tonight.

screenshot of the opening text of Brian Phillips's "We Are All Witnesses," reading "OK, I’m going to do my best here. But I need you to know exactly what you are getting, as Joan Didion once wrote, and what you are getting is a man who cannot feel his face. My hands are still shaking. There are tears in my eyes. I’m writing this less than 10 minutes after the end of the greatest World Cup final ever, which Lionel Messi’s Argentina won on penalties over Kylian Mbappé’s France, and I do not believe it is recency bias that makes me think that this match was the single most thrilling sporting event I have ever witnessed."

Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 2d

same, this must be what the 2022 World Cup final tl was like for those of you not scream-posting your way through it

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

God I love not watching this game and just reading my TL, I love you all so much

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 2d

He just like me fr fr

Mamdani patting a cat in a store and asking in Arabic “How are you chief?”

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 2d

he's sweet-talking a bodega cat (in Arabic) and eating künefe; is this what it feels like to be effectively pandered to by a politician?

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 3d

jump scare: the ongoing vandalism of every public scientific institution, which also (not coincidentally) underpin our disaster preparedness infrastructure

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Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 3d

the scariest thing I've seen this halloween

Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 3d

NOAA’s National Weather Service holds the federal responsibility for tsunami warnings, and has historically been a primary supporter of seismic data collection in Alaska

NOAA cancels longstanding funding for seismic data collection crucial to tsunami warning systems

The Alaska Earthquake Center has long provided NOAA with seismic data for tsunami monitoring and warning purposes. That work will wind down in November, after the federal agency said it can no longer fund the contract.

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Kenan Behzat Sharpe @kenansharpe.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote about a chilling criminal case against one of Turkey’s most important musicians: Mabel Matiz. He and the girl group Manifest both face prison time over lyrics and dance moves. It’s all part of a new wave of repression in the name of “family values” www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas/Tu...

Mabel Matiz: Music and Censorship in Turkey

Mabel Matiz, one of Turkey's most famous pop singers, risks prison for his latest song, which has been labeled "obscenity" because it sings of homosexual love: a further crackdown on the LGBT communit...

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wesinjapan🦃🦃🦃 @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 7d

I saw on CNN that the State Department is pre-positioning resources- but there are so many questions: What are 'resources'? Who is in charge? What is the scope of the mission? In so many ways we are back to the 1970s....at least.

schnufflerowner.bsky.social @schnufflerowner.bsky.social · 7d

Well, that USAR capability did move to State, and they have been refining it. There have been issues for getting funding and training. It will still be an ad box nightmare, however, because I don’t believe anyone from the State Department who manages disasters was allowed to pre-deploy.

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 13d

“The Monday filing outlines where 2,050 positions would be eliminated; the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Land Management, and the main Interior office would be especially hard hit. Regional offices with the National Park Service are also targeted for significant cuts.”

Inside Trump's plan to eviscerate USGS and beyond - Center for Western Priorities

Forced by a federal judge to partially reveal plans for firing federal employees, the Trump administration on Monday said it plans to “imminently” terminate more than 2,000 employees at the Interior d...

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