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@jimmy-yunge.bsky.social

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PhD student at Hokkaido University (北大), Sapporo, Japan
Hurricane inner-core dynamics & observations, BS/MS UMiami
Aspiring novelist/singer, beach/wildlife lover, concertgoer, aracial, nonbinary🌀📡🎸⛈️☀️🌴🦈🌊🐶📚🎤
“It’s a made-up world with real-life consequences”

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francis

@dilfkink.kindboys.online

my "I ❤️ GATEKEEPING" shirt has people asking questions that they frankly would never even understand the answers to

November 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM

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roland

@roooooland.bsky.social

Solo Jazz lookin ass chart

November 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM

Yūnny, sheared hurricane (they/them)

@jimmy-yunge.bsky.social

Nov 15, 2005: Tropical Storm Gamma forms in the Caribbean. Gamma weakened back into an open wave as it moved west and stalled over northern Honduras. The disturbance dumped up to 10" of rain along the coast, causing destructive flooding & landslides, and eventually reintensified into a sheared TS.

Aqua MODIS RGB composite image of Gamma as a disorganized 40-kt tropical storm just off the northern coast of Honduras on Nov 19, 2005 around 18:58 UTC. The center of the storm is exposed and all of the deep thunderstorms are pushed off to the north over the western Caribbean Sea.

Track map of Gamma (2005) showing a tropical depression developing just west of the Lesser Antilles, moving nearly due westward, becoming a tropical storm between Puerto Rico and Venezuela, weakening back into a disturbance less than a day later, reaching Honduras and stalling over the northeastern part of the country, reintensifying into a tropical storm as it meanders, and dissipating along the northeastern Honduras coast. Plot credit: Sarah Ditchek (Ditchek, S.D, 2020: TC Diurnal Pulse Archive, http://www.atmos.albany.edu/student/sditchek/Research_PulseArchive.html)

GOES-12 enhanced infrared satellite image of Tropical Storm Gamma at 14:15 UTC on Nov 19. The storm center is just offshore, north of Honduras. Although the storm is at its peak intensity, all of the deep central convection is to the north of the center over the ocean, and highly disorganized.

NASA TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) satellite-measured precipitation between Nov 14-21, 2005. About 4-10" (100-250mm) of rain is plotted along the northern coastline of Honduras, with a large region of rainfall over 12" (300mm) over the ocean to the north of Honduras and east of Belize and the Yucatan. Some high values of ~4-10" can also be seen along the east coast of Nicaragua. From https://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/6043/tropical-storm-gamma-floods-central-america

November 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM

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Mollie Mol

@mollie.blacksky.app

*Wherever Afro descendants are located, they are most vulnerable to climate & environmental impact…suffering fr historical environmental injustice…cannot be separated fr reparatory justice. The same systems that enriched the north created today’s vulnerabilities.”
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

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November 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM

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Brian McNoldy

@bmcnoldy.bsky.social

The 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season officially ends on November 30, but the outlook is very quiet out there, so it very likely ended on October 31 this year. Overall, it was a slightly above-average season with some strange characteristics.

Summary of the Unusual 2025 Hurricane Season

Updates and summaries on tropical Atlantic activity... including easterly waves, tropical storms, subtropical storms, and hurricanes.

bmcnoldy.blogspot.com

November 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM

Yūnny, sheared hurricane (they/them)

@jimmy-yunge.bsky.social

I think the word “insane” is an ableist slur and people should really stop using it.

I am not going to correct anyone who says it. Just know that there’s a stigma attached to that word.

Same goes for “crazy,” “deranged,” “unhinged,” and (more) obvious pejoratives.

Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 1d

"my least woke opinion is---"

That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.

Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.

November 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿 @ available for work!

@nooskadraws.bsky.social

holidays are coming up too, pls consider buying from queer artists instead of big corpos! 💖🙏

November 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM

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GLAAD

@glaad.bsky.social

Each year between November 13 – 19, people and organizations around the country participate in Transgender Awareness Week to help increase understanding about transgender people and the issues members of the community face. 🏳️‍⚧️

November 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿 @ available for work!

@nooskadraws.bsky.social

🏳️‍⚧️happy transgender awareness week!🏳️‍⚧️
hire trans people! buy from trans artists! support the trans community! 🙏

November 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM

Yūnny, sheared hurricane (they/them)

@jimmy-yunge.bsky.social

Another round of immense rainfall seems likely across central #Vietnam in the coming week, with the GFS showing a wide region to receive total precipitation of over 25" (630mm) over the next 7 days. A similar distribution with weaker amplitude is seen in the ECMWF.

11/13 00z init GFS map of 168h total precipitation showing a large swath of over 8" draped across central Vietnam with a maximum over 25" in the swath interior.

11/13 00z init ECMWF map of 168h total precipitation showing a large swath of over 8" draped across central Vietnam with a maximum around 10-15" in the swath interior.

November 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM

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Luke Steuber

@lukesteuber.com

Still rocks me that Looney Tunes did a better job of handling this history than 99% of politicians, textbooks, and media

The image shows a text disclaimer from a Looney Tunes cartoon. The full transcription of the text is as follows:

"THE CARTOONS YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE ARE PRODUCTS OF THEIR TIME. THEY MAY DEPICT SOME OF THE ETHNIC AND RACIAL PREJUDICES THAT WERE COMMONPLACE IN AMERICAN SOCIETY. THESE DEPICTIONS WERE WRONG THEN AND ARE WRONG TODAY. WHILE THESE CARTOONS DO NOT REPRESENT TODAY'S SOCIETY, THEY ARE BEING PRESENTED AS THEY WERE ORIGINALLY CREATED, BECAUSE TO DO OTHERWISE WOULD BE THAT SAME AS CLAIMING THESE PREJUDICES NEVER EXISTED."

February 28, 2024 at 5:05 AM

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Molly Shah

@mommunism.bsky.social

FOR FUCKS SAKE HIRE A GODDAMN PR TEAM

November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM

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Molly Shah

@mommunism.bsky.social

Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner

I was suspended from BlueSky for defending the honor of Johnny Cash.
I wish I were joking.
In early October, I referenced the "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die" lyric of
"Folsom Prison Blues" in response to a terrible Wall Street Journal article saying that Johnny Cash was uncool. I quote-tweeted the article and everyone understood the reference. There was no outcry.
I stand by my assessment that Johnny Cash is cool.
I do not like being the subject of so much attention, especially when I cannot see the discussion. But the BlueSky admins are now claiming that I wrote a post saying, out of nowhere, "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die". They are not posting a screenshot of the actual tweet, which shows that I am quote-tweeting an article about Johnny Cash, and that my post is obviously not a threat but a play on
"Folsom Prison Blues."
BlueSky is lying and saying I posted this line on November 10. I did not. I posted it in early October, when the WS) article came out. You can see that they are lying about the date from this page showing my last BlueSky tweets:
I was not given any explanation for my suspension the first two times l inquired. Later I was told it was for the "Folsom Prison Blues" reference, and I asked for clarification but did not receive it. I thought it might be a prank until a reporter reached out this morning and confirmed it.
BlueSky's behavior is bizarre and unwarranted. I have lost access to friends and all my posts and photos. I am incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support here on Substack and also on BlueSky - though I cannot see it, because I am suspended.
To quote another Johnny Cash song: "I ain't never done nothin' to nobody/ I ain't never got nothin from nobody, no time/ And until I get somethin' from somebody, sometime, I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time."
As for BlueSky...

November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM

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Hell week

November 13, 2025 at 4:17 AM

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Chris Vagasky

@coweatherman.bsky.social

Aurora time lapse

November 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM

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Dr. Jeff Masters

@drjeffmasters.bsky.social

In my latest post, yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/the-..., I discuss how the number of major Atlantic hurricanes has been increasing in recent decades, but landfalling mainland U.S. major hurricanes have no long-term trend — though landfalling major hurricanes outside the U.S. do.