Ryan J Hollister

Ryan J Hollister

@phaneritic.bsky.social

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Earth & EnviroSci Educator, Central Valley equity/sustainability advocate, Hiker, Photographer, 2015 NAGT FW Outstanding Educator. 🌋 Tissue Box Maker.
❤️🏕⛰🏜 w/ @Xenolith & Z.

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Fucking hell. The trauma some of the folks at the rally just experienced is dreadful and no human should have to experience that. But somehow humanity always gets lost in modern society due to politics.

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The fourth largest city in America is still in crisis under a deadly heatwave & the power company can't get hundreds of thousands of households back online, but you'd barely know it from our national news.

850K CenterPoint customers remain without power after Hurricane Berylwww.houstonchronicle.com More than 850,000 CenterPoint customers were without power four days after Hurricane Beryl hit the Texas coast.

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The extreme, very long duration,& record-breaking heatwave across interior CA & broader Southwest will finally recede this wknd, w/substantial relief in most places (though temps will still remain above avg). But another major heatwave is already on horizon... #CAwx #CAfire [1/3]

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Strawberry workers at this Salinas area crew have been at it for almost 8 hours on this sunny day. They earn piece rate so they work as fast as they can so they can earn as much as possible. Their body hurts at the end of the day but this work feeds their family. #WeFeedYou

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Breaking: hackers stole call and text records for "nearly all" AT&T customers. Shows which phone numbers a customer called or texted. A staggering and unprecedented data breach. Data usually only available to authorities; now hackers got it www.404media.co/hackers-stea...

Hackers Steal Text and Call Records of ‘Nearly All’ AT&T Customerswww.404media.co In one of the most significant data breaches in recent history, hackers stole AT&T customers’ call and text metadata spanning several months.

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Reupping this resource that Kelly Michals created in Google Maps — incredibly useful in visualizing where people and events took place related to the May 18, 1980 eruption. Take a deep dive.

Mount St Helens Eruption Fatalities - Google My Mapswww.google.com (Work in progress) Locations and routes of those who lived and died around Mount St Helens on May 18, 1980. Most information from interviews recorded in "In the Path of Destruction" by Richard Waitt, ...

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Husband ••• •••Me

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"I’m reminded of the work-safety adage that, for every death, there are multiple near misses; if you fail to correct the problem after near misses, there will be deaths." SpaceX is far too cavalier about safety. Congress needs to have a little chat with them.

"As an astronomer, I already had good reasons to worry about SpaceX." Worries like: light pollution from mega-constellations, atmospheric pollution from launches and disintegrations, and now silo-sized space junk dropping on people's farms. www.scientificamerican.com/article/spac...

SpaceX Dropped Space Junk on My Neighbor’s Farm. Here’s What Happened Nextwww.scientificamerican.com A Saskatchewan farmer’s near miss with potentially lethal debris falling from orbit highlights the skyrocketing risks and murky politics of space junk

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Today #Stromboli volcano exploded and released a 4-km high ash cloud into the sky. Some impressive images were released by coast guard ship Diciotti. 🌋⚒️ #Geology 🧪

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#BlueskyBlueSky

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As I discussed before this well-predicted event began, overnight temps have been especially anomalous. Much of the sustained record warmth has been driven by remarkable overnight warmth, though daytime temps have also been very hot & record-breaking in many spots. #CAwx [2/2]

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The prolonged & intense Western U.S. heatwave continues. Last 2 weeks are now warmest late June through early July period on record across most of California (including some coastal areas), much of Arizona, parts of Nevada, and western Oregon. #CAwx #AZwx #NVwx #ORwx [1/2]

We braved the 111F heat at the Stanislaus County fair for 30 minutes this evening to see how my photos did. Turns out I did OK considering only the aurora had a researched game plan. Everything else was lucky exploration. 4 x 🥇 2 x 🥈 1 x 🥉 (Held my breath to unmask in these pics)

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Hey Bluesky friends... The FBI and its pals say they have taken down an almost 1,000-strong bot farm at-the-other-place set up by Russian state-run RT News that used generative AI to spread disinformation to Americans and others www.theregister.com/2024/07/09/r...

FBI, cyber-cops zap 968 'Russian AI disinfo' Twitter botswww.theregister.com RT News snarks back after it's accused of building social nyet-work for Kremlin

Boston is giving us a going away gift! Hopefully this storm clips us a bit.

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"Given how little we see and hear of astronomers—and scientists in general—from Latin America, it's a miracle we keep generating them," says astrophysicist Juan Diego Soler Pulido, reflecting on the state of the space science produced in the region.

Two Last Names: Reflections From A Colombian Astronomerwww.sciencefriday.com Countries across Latin America have very different struggles, and successes, in producing and retaining astronomy talent.

We’ve reached the point in our marriage that we BOTH forgot yesterday was our 18th anniversary as we walked the Freedom Trail despite the withering Boston heat for our history-buff kiddo. Happy anniversary @xenolith.bsky.social !

On Boston’s Freedom Trail today I overheard someone in a group of California teenage girls say “Like, I’m totally disappointed that California, like, doesn’t have an accent” in a very California accent, LOL.

5 years?? WTF, man.

Five years ago, I left @jenniferahenke.bsky.social burgerless and ran off with Christos Kyriakopoulos and @baoningwu.bsky.social in a borrowed vehicle to Ridgecrest, to put out some GPS and hopefully find a surface rupture. Job done reasonably well! (Was it really that long ago? Bloody hell!)

I’m really enjoying Acadia thus far, but boy, it’s a completely different experience than Yosemite. Reminds me more of European parks. Cadillac Mtn was awesome & Jordan Pond loop was perfect for kiddos. Sooo many people. Pics to come eventually. Bar Harbor fireworks after dinner!

Happy 4th. Heres my favorite anthem for the day. “ ‘Merican” by the Descendants youtu.be/Ykcsn-A1-mI?...

'Mericanyoutu.be Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises 'Merican · Descendents 'Merican ℗ 2004 Fat Wreck Chords Released on: 2004-02-10 Music Publisher: Unknown Auto-generated by YouTube.

It’s weird that the sun doesn’t set into the ocean here, but this is a hell of a view from our room.

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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear. In a nutshell, NO. We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb! #canadaday

Canada’s Changing Climate Reportchangingclimate.ca

Well, let’s go see how Acadia National Park fares against my California bias, shall we? I’ll let you know in about 6 hrs.

Beryl made its way to Boston Museum of Science.

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Chief Justice Roberts decrees the end of DOJ independence in an offhanded sentence on page 20.

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An unfairly maligned formulation of the true meaning of the separation of powers, according to today’s Supreme Court majority.

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"While there’s a strong historical precedent for a lavish excursion to Bali, the plaintiff has instead taken a more unorthodox approach and presented an all-expenses-paid diving trip off the shores of Aruba."

Clarence Thomas Torn Over Case Where Both Sides Offer Compelling Scuba Tripswww.theonion.com WASHINGTON—Admitting that he had never been more conflicted about a ruling in his life, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was reportedly torn Monday over a case in which both sides offered compell...

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The president is himself forever immune from prosecution for crimes committed using his official power, and he can pardon anyone for helping him to commit federal crimes, explicitly including an actions in furtherance of a coup to illegally hold onto the office of the presidency. That’s the upshot.

Boston welcomes us with some great clouds last night! Now, off to the Science Center for some great fun!