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cobalt, 13 days ago to random

Dodged a “big one” dropping phone face down in the driveway and drove off, not realizing. Drove back in a hurry 20 minutes later to find it exactly between where my car is parked next to son’s. If I hadn’t been looking I could have run it over. Shattered glass screen protector but phone glass is fine! The high temperature warning was on cuz Arizona afternoon already over 105°.

I recommend this brand protector. Has 3 pack cheap AND a great covers for the 3 lenses camera. https://a.co/d/9WAZzhv

RebelGeo, 13 days ago to random

#GIS Industry At An Existential Crossroads. #gis #gischat #geospatial

https://gogeomatics.ca/the-gis-industry-at-an-existential-crossroads/

Geotripper, 13 days ago to random

One of the coolest rock outcrops I've ever seen. I'm in Hawaii. Who wants to guess what happened here?

cobalt, 14 days ago to random

Can you help my friend? I’ve known Ant online maybe 15-16 years now. Thanks for years of great articles, podcasts and tech help. https://gofund.me/3262bca7

cobalt, 16 days ago to Phoenix

Oh I just had to share. We are at the last of May in Phoenix and I know in just 2-3 weeks the heat wave may come so hot we can’t go swimming. But for now, even seeing the water rippling in the sunlight is a joy. #Phoenix #Water #Pool #Ripples

Backyard swimming pool just showing the water moving in ripples and small waves towards the camera. It’s all aqua tones with the sun bright and highlights from the moving water.

silicatefondue, 18 days ago to Quebec

RT: Our group from Dalhousie University in Halifax recently lost contact with a buoy that was monitoring seismic activity in the St. Lawrence River. The last position report had it offshore Mont-Joli, being blown south-west towards Rimouski. We think it may have washed up on shore. We are offering a $5000 reward to anyone who finds this instrument and brings it back to UQAR or some other storage site from where we can retrieve it. Graeme.Cairns@dal.ca
#Quebec #Rimouski

The path of the floating seismometer before contact was lost.

cobalt, 18 days ago to random

Yay, still May and arbors finished in time for a light roof over to shade the cactus and succulent plants against the wall. The large pots are for the star jasmine vines that are supposed to grow up into the arbors. Shade cloth is clamped to the arbor roof and draped over racks so it doesn’t lay on the plants. Lots of clamps for the shade cloth because we get wild wind gusts in Phoenix. I’m hoping for one more bloom of the flowers before the vines are in survival mode for the heat wave coming.

RustyBertrand, 19 days ago to photography

The Three Sisters, Glencoe, Scotland.

Stewart McKay #photography

FaithfullJohn, 22 days ago to Climbing

From 2019, before the last year's hellish escalations, a short film by an American-Palestinian climber visiting local climbers in the West Bank. It could so easily be trite (ignore the blurb text below the video), but it's actually brilliant: powerful, joyful, enraging and sad. Watch all 37 minutes of it.
#Climbing #ResistanceClimbing #Palestine https://watch.reelrocktour.com/videos/rr17-resistanceclimbing

RebelGeo, 22 days ago to environment

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story

#environment #pollution #water #agriculture #oceans #ecosystems

cobalt, 22 days ago to random

Boosted and shared. One simply must know of My Lai, a horrific event of the US Vietnam War. Decades later it can’t be forgotten. Yet now in Gaza there have been so many similar horrors, also officially silenced. There will be no Lieutenant Thompson to bear witness. https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius/110033106139765776

RebelGeo, 22 days ago to geopolitics

The Egyptian pyramid chain was built along the now abandoned Ahramat Nile Branch

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01379-7

#geography

ANC_Historian, 23 days ago to Alaska

September 15, 1902, the interior of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Skagway, Alaska after a bank robber tried to rob it by brandishing dynamite in one hand and a revolver in the other. At one point, the bandit started firing . . . and there were ramifications. Read more about this robbery in my latest Anchorage Daily News article (https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2024/05/19/a-victim-of-his-own-depravity-the-explosive-tale-of-a-1902-skagway-bank-robbery/). #alaskahistory #alaska #skagway

FaithfullJohn, 23 days ago to Geology

The crystallization of large replenished magma bodies is amazingly complex. The photos of layered rocks from the Bushveld Complex in this new #OpenAccess paper are mind-bogglingly wonderful 🤩 🤯 🤓 . The wider applicability of their conclusions might be disputed by some, but good stuff though! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107621 #Geology #Igneous #LayeredIntrusions

Gaythia, 23 days ago to random

"Mt. Ibu erupted on Saturday evening, sending ash 4 kilometers high, as streaks of purple lightning flashed around its crater, according to information and images shared by Indonesia's volcanology agency.

https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2024/05/19/mt-ibu-eruption-forces-seven-villages-to-evacuate.html

ANC_Historian, 24 days ago to Alaska

1980 "Alaska Railroad Week" poster designed by Susan Ogle. It's printed on metallic, reflective paper. Via eBay, not my listing (https://ebay.com/itm/154352608374?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=aNbcGEoQT6e&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=laaBxFPgS0G&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY). #alaskahistory #alaska #alaskarailroad

FaithfullJohn, 24 days ago to random

Nice work 😊
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/archie-the-internets-first-search-engine-is-rescued-and-running/

cobalt, 25 days ago to chicago

My oldest son is in Chicago for a trade show and just got this from his cellphone up in his hotel at the Marriott. #Chicago #Night #City #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome

ANC_Historian, 24 days ago to Alaska

2013 "Gold Rush Alaska #006" by photographer Gentaro Ishizuka, part of his series focusing on the relics of the Klondike Gold Rush, to be published later this year in a book also called Gold Rush Alaska, a name that will not stand out among books on Alaska. #alaskahistory #alaska

RebelGeo, 25 days ago to drones

#Geospatial and #Drones in Canadian #wildfire Management

#forests

https://gogeomatics.ca/geospatial-technologies-and-drones-in-canadian-wildfire-management/

ANC_Historian, 26 days ago to Alaska

2022, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women nacaq by Kayla McDermott. A nacaq is a traditional Sugpiaq (Alutiiq) beaded headdress for women. Via Alutiiq Museum of Kodiak. #alaskahistory #alaska #MMIW

ANC_Historian, 26 days ago to Alaska

Whaling harpoon tip made of fossilized walrus ivory, from Shishmaref, via Katirvak Cultural Center of Nome. #alaskahistory #alaska #shishmaref

FaithfullJohn, 26 days ago to Geology

The British Geological Survey have lots of wonderful open data. A favourite is their Geoscenic photo library - so much amazing historical and geological record! 😊 Here's an 1893 plate camera image of the Cuillin gabbro mountains in Skye 🤩 http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=2997&index=34&total=758&view=viewSearchItem #BWPhoto #Geology #Archive

FaithfullJohn, 27 days ago to random

TIL that Bette Davis and Robert Wagner were in a film splendidly-titled "Madame Sin", made in Mull in 1972! #Mull The plot sounds 😶 (from IMDB)

CWilbur, 29 days ago to random

Interesting day in #butterfly land. Not a record day, but some nice early afternoon sightings.

Lorquin’s Admiral keeping steadfast watch over his section of trail, very close to the creek.
Buckeye rests on trail rock between patrols. He likes trail sections and is also water-adjacent. His territory seemed to overlap the Admiral’s, but they overlap in different planes, so the two interacted rarely.
Male Orangetip hustles by, near ground level mostly. There were several of these today.