Steve Riner
@steveriner.bsky.social
Old Prairie Dog, living in the shadow of the Rockies on my little piece of High Plains prairie. Done with formal career pursuits, but talk to me about the history of highways, meteorology, geology and seismology, or prog rock.
Are they going to make me turn in my lifetime Golden Age card for one like this?
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Are they going to make me turn in my lifetime Golden Age card for one like this?
Estadounidenses. AKA pinche gabachos.
November 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Estadounidenses. AKA pinche gabachos.
Saudi Arabia is calling.
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Saudi Arabia is calling.
John Barron is back to leak tidbits from inside Trump Org?
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
John Barron is back to leak tidbits from inside Trump Org?
Thinking specifically about the notion that bread had physically become someone's flesh, even though it would surely have been shown through chemical analysis to be just bread.
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Thinking specifically about the notion that bread had physically become someone's flesh, even though it would surely have been shown through chemical analysis to be just bread.
This just reminds me of how weak my critical thinking skills were as a child.
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM
This just reminds me of how weak my critical thinking skills were as a child.
Deconsecrated hosts? Like, is there a liturgical reverse transubstantiation process? Or is it a twist on exorcism, but without offending the occupying spirit?
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Deconsecrated hosts? Like, is there a liturgical reverse transubstantiation process? Or is it a twist on exorcism, but without offending the occupying spirit?
2/2 The whole Walker Lane as a future plate boundary concept kind of blows my mind, because AFAIK the zone isn't currently active north of Reno. I'd love to read more on the current state of thinking on this, especially. how it would cut west through the Cascades.
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
2/2 The whole Walker Lane as a future plate boundary concept kind of blows my mind, because AFAIK the zone isn't currently active north of Reno. I'd love to read more on the current state of thinking on this, especially. how it would cut west through the Cascades.
1/2 And, to the original comment, the active Elsinore and San Jacinto systems carry some of the inter-plate movement, though other more active segments of the SAF have parallel faults that do the same. Then there's the stress that is transferred to the E. Cal. shear zone and the Walker Lane.
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
1/2 And, to the original comment, the active Elsinore and San Jacinto systems carry some of the inter-plate movement, though other more active segments of the SAF have parallel faults that do the same. Then there's the stress that is transferred to the E. Cal. shear zone and the Walker Lane.
Has it been definitively established that the 1812 event was on the SAF? I don't think that Sieh's work in the 1970s proved this, though the later work that examined tree rings near the fault around Wrightwood might have.
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Has it been definitively established that the 1812 event was on the SAF? I don't think that Sieh's work in the 1970s proved this, though the later work that examined tree rings near the fault around Wrightwood might have.
Trump presents MBS with a solid gold bonesaw.
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Trump presents MBS with a solid gold bonesaw.
We're living in the Primocene.
November 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
We're living in the Primocene.
It's difficult to get the cattle on top of the box cars that migrants ride to the border
November 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It's difficult to get the cattle on top of the box cars that migrants ride to the border
Country of manufacture?
November 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Country of manufacture?
Me negotiating health insurance:
Me: I need insurance
United Health: It's $3200 a month
Me: That's too high. Will you take $1500?
United Health: It's $3200. But we'll throw in a tote bag.
Me: Wow, I'm a great negotiator.
Me: I need insurance
United Health: It's $3200 a month
Me: That's too high. Will you take $1500?
United Health: It's $3200. But we'll throw in a tote bag.
Me: Wow, I'm a great negotiator.
November 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Me negotiating health insurance:
Me: I need insurance
United Health: It's $3200 a month
Me: That's too high. Will you take $1500?
United Health: It's $3200. But we'll throw in a tote bag.
Me: Wow, I'm a great negotiator.
Me: I need insurance
United Health: It's $3200 a month
Me: That's too high. Will you take $1500?
United Health: It's $3200. But we'll throw in a tote bag.
Me: Wow, I'm a great negotiator.
First chance I get, I'm planning to drive the SAF from Cajon Pass to the Carrizo Plain. This is the segment where Kerry Sieh did his paleoseismology work in the 1970s, which dated major events along that segment of the fault.
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
First chance I get, I'm planning to drive the SAF from Cajon Pass to the Carrizo Plain. This is the segment where Kerry Sieh did his paleoseismology work in the 1970s, which dated major events along that segment of the fault.
This meltdown at CBS has at least created a free hour for me on Sunday evening.
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This meltdown at CBS has at least created a free hour for me on Sunday evening.
Will there be a rapture of assault rifles?
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Will there be a rapture of assault rifles?
I'll be so happy to see the cost of my Uzbeki borscht go down thanks to this agreement.
November 7, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I'll be so happy to see the cost of my Uzbeki borscht go down thanks to this agreement.
Refusing to obey a judge's order would, in a land that actually followed its constitution, be Article of Impeachment number 34.
November 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Refusing to obey a judge's order would, in a land that actually followed its constitution, be Article of Impeachment number 34.
I can't use the thumbs up either, nor the "OK" gesture, because of how it's been appropriated as a "WP" (white power) symbol. We need a new simple hand gesture of approval.
November 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I can't use the thumbs up either, nor the "OK" gesture, because of how it's been appropriated as a "WP" (white power) symbol. We need a new simple hand gesture of approval.