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Ooh ooh I know - appropriate all AirBnB/VRBO properties, and all corporate-owned houses. Also bring back the first time homebuyer tax credit. But I'm guessing everything they do will benefit developers and real estate speculators only...
but also every millennial gay man (someone should tell them that)
Ruh roh. Wave buoy deployed in our furthest to get to site broke free. Ugh.
But then also sometimes says he is. But also that the people want a dictatorâŚ
Great Labor Day opinion piece by my @universityofri.bsky.social colleague (and fellow Union member), @erikloomis.bsky.social. Makes a case for strengthening and amplifying union voices. Happy Labor Day, friends! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Yeah - incredibly shallow. Varies a fair bit but our buoy in the middle of the lake for example, right at the causeway (10 mile marker) was anchored to 8' deep. Several local scours etc go down to 16-20' and the Rigolets pass is over 80' deep
It always amazes me, how often you hear of boating accidents (and fatalities - hopefully this isn't one of them) on the lake. It's a dangerous beast even if it is SO shallow. Most of the lake is only 6-8 feet deep.
Oh no. Was wondering why the coast guard chopper was flying so low over the causeway today when I drove across the lake to the kiln: www.wafb.com/2025/08/31/s...
Not nearly as much as I had hoped to split today! Splitter broke after lunch and I didn't have the part I needed to fix it.
Pay attention Canadians: Alberta premier Danielle Smith is copying the worst of the worst US fascist States (Florida!). Book banning is anti-democratic. Ban Danielle Smith instead!
All of that is banned in WY, MT, ID where I'd lived in the past. Although leg trapping is still legal which... also don't get me started on that.
I mean, every lunch sandwich can handle at least a fistful of basil leaves!
As someone from out west (where this is not legal) it always knocks me aback when folks out here talk about their grain feeder setups for deer. Like, "fair chase" doesn't *really* mean much when elk or deer don't have a .30-06 but it REALLY doesn't mean anything when you just set up a buffet line
Front stoke wood on the left, sidestoke on the right
Solo work âpartyâ at the wood kiln.
Also no maintenance
My next door neighbor has a cordless electric lawnmower and from 20 feet away I cannot even hear it operate. We can literally have a whisper conversation over it. good lord I hate gas-powered lawn equipment so much.
heat it to make it more friable, then crush it in a hammer mill to make a glaze material from it.
Oof. That dude needs to google fascismâŚ
âDonât trust the experts, trust the whackadoodle who posts nonsense on YouTube and TikTok instead.â
yup! I fire it to a relatively low temp (1850F) to loosen up all the crystal boundaries and make it more friable, then crush it to sand size in a hammer mill. If I want it all fine and uniform size (say, 100 mesh or finer) I then ball mill it.
Some examples. This is a lithium feldspar from a defunct lithium mine in North Carolina. Applied thick, and coarse grained (fine sand) and fired for 5 days to 2,350F
Shino type glazes. Lithium fluxed feldspars do ammmmazing things in long wood firings.
Glaze material prep day! Pic 1 - lithium bearing feldspar (mostly albite) in the bisque kiln to calcine for hammer milling Pic 2 - scoria from Owenâs Valley CA Pic 3 - washing wood ash from the anagama firebox
I love their work. Snagged a few pots a couple months ago. Theyâre by Nathan Bray: @braypottery.bsky.social
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Vance can't win national elections, but he wouldn't care.
I think I see a misplaced 2
Possibly - if and only if youâre a billion dollar corporation đ¤Ą
You want to see this new geologic map of the contiguous US that the USGS just released.
good god, if any other product *told you* to kill somebody/yourself it would be shut down so damn fast...
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My PhD flume had a weir at one end and the water would cascade into a tank, which drowned out the pump noise and it was like being at a waterfall. It was so calming being in that lab (not something most PhD students get to say).
In fairness we are in Louisiana so the odds are there is probably someone embezzling $400k somewhere. Might be the auditor though, you never know
We're about to spend $400k on an audit this year (as part of our being bought by the LSU system)... so, yuuuup.
the best part is we *spent* $400,000 on administrative costs each year to prevent $1,200 in accidental expenditures or {gasp} fraud. So, job well done.
(this frustration is about Travel, specifically, in my uni)
idk what if we created an office of [thing that should only take one button click] to ensure compliance with [button click] protocols. It should have at least 8 positions of which we only ever fill 4 of them. And each one must approve each action sequentially in our management software system.
Okay youtube algorithm, I really don't need *every single suggestion* on my feed this week to be everyone and their brother's 10 minute documentary on the lasting impacts of Hurricane Katrina please. I live here, I see it.
The major stroad by my house (Canal St) I've alway thought had too many traffic lanes (and no bike lanes). They are resurfacing and have closed it down from 6 to 3 lanes total and guess what... NO TRAFFIC PROBLEMS The stroad is too wide. Add a protected bike lane.
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I commemorate the start of every new semester by overfilling my flume and flooding my lab.
I'm guessing there's just a constant "Oh I need a place to put *this* sand. Oh and here's a bucket" The trouble is then we never *empty* the bucket
This bleet brought to you by "I just spent 15 minutes writing my lab name on my $4 buckets so I can identify who keeps disappearing them" Plot twist, it's always me.
The craziest thing about running a flume lab is how possessive I have become about buckets. Literally 5gal home depot buckets. I buy 100 of them and *poof* gone!
Someone locally was trying to sell 2 pallets of antique (suuuuper common) firebrick for $10 each đ Like, $1 maybe... someone with cash to burn might spend $4
My fav category of FB marketplace posts right now has gotta be the people trying to sell "Antique" firebricks for like $35 a brick... they alllllll cite "similar ones on Ebay/Etsy for $40-60" Lol ain't nobody paying that, I hope.
Calling all Subaru Baja fans
Bet that Baja is *infinitely* more capable as both a truck and an off road vehicle than that ugly ass dumpstermobile.
âStruck by motoristâ has always been my preferred language, as it is consistent with the âcyclistâ terminology.
Agree. And it does matter because we have research on how language choices affect perceptions of crashes.
Yes.
Important to note they spent hours questioning firefighters and ultimately detaining two while we're facing a RED FLAG WARNING. Just completely unhinged.
Yup. It felt like all of that.
I feel like "We stole so much from so many people that if you force us to stop we would cease to exist" isn't the threat they think it is
Ugh hope it's mild for you. I caught the "razor blades in your throat" variety in April... and it was no fun. Hadn't had it since OG covid in 2020 and this new one was way way way less bad overall
I have been binge-watching it for a few months hahaha. There are over 300 episodes!
Iron Chef really was one of the greatest TV series of all time
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There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Hereâs how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Good. I hope so
I probably report these every week. And the identical pics show up all over the place.
(by the way just about every pottery wheel listed on FB marketplace anywhere is a scam - they're all like $300-400 and then they ask you for a $50 hold by venmo then give you a fake address. A friend got scammed by one that I had reported days earlier)
Hot take - if someone reports a fb marketplace listing as a scam and they don't immediately remove it, then someone gets scammed, Meta should be held liable for the scam.
It say pretty much everything you need to know about America that yâall are up in arms for a week about a fucking corporate logo change.
Each year, air pollution from US oil and gas kills an estimated 91,000 Americans, making it the 8th most common cause of US death, and afflicts ~210,000 US kids with asthma. Pollution-related illnesses disproportionately affect Black and Asian communities.
The US Supreme Court agreed to take a case asking whether conversion therapy bans are unconstitutional We filed our amicus brief today, explaining that these laws are evidence-based & should be upheld We also correct the extensive misinformation we found in the petitionerâs brief
like if you put a product on the market where thereâs a non-zero chance that itâs going to âproactively instigate the death by suicide of a childâ and lots of people tell you thatâs obviously gonna happen and you do it anyway and then it happens,,, how is that not a crime ?
ngl I kind of think Sam Altman should be tried criminally? is that ⌠feasible?
This dude is literally just stringing words together incoherently. Radar undersea? Iâm sure he doesnât know this (nor does anyone in this regime of ignorant morons) but thatâs not a thing...
Imagine how jiggly this sand must have been when newly deposited, as water escaped to form these dish structures. (A boulder from Cretaceous turbiditic strata, Southern California)
Social Security official says DOGE compromised Americansâ data. Surprise, surprise. (And wasnât that likely the point? Our data is invaluable).
Likely *totally* not relevant but in the more modern (~5 Ma) clay environments we look at down here, the tighter clays are typically the Ca-bentonites as opposed to the kaolinites (i.e. the kaolinites tend to be more permeable) so the org matter gets oxidized and removed by pore fluid flow.
Love how they are reporting on this as brilliant business strategy when... just using the goddamn planes would have actually been. I mean they're doing what makes sense given the dumbfuckery from the Regime but also they all probably donated millions to put this regime in power
Really sticking it to those foreign companies here... Lol an American Company (Delta) already bought and paid for the planes. They've already been built. But we can't use them so lets just strip em for parts, and bring the US made parts back, leave the planes to sit idle.
The 2nd most important holiday (behind National Rescue Dog Day in May)
Truly the stupidest timeline Buy a new airplane (or dozens). Can't import it without massive tariffs. Take the engines out to keep the fleet flying. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSZm...
And who could forget the negotiated evacuation from Saigon. Or the negotiated trial and execution of Saddam Hussein. In fairness, DJT negotiated the Taliban's victory in Afghanistan...
How are people THIS FUCKING STUPID allowed to be in charge of anything. I hate it here
I suppose we also negotiated a bunch of their genocidal leaders to the gallows too.
Ah yes the famous treaty of âHitler shot himself in his bunker and then his replacement did the same and then the western and eastern allies negotiated their way to literally meeting as the two fronts mergedâ that ended the European conflict in WWII
The United States is unraveling. From the Federal Reserve to SCUTUS to our research institutions, the kakistocracy is undoing decades of progress.
But also no factual data to show it
Probably also shouldn't be using one to bludgeon Capitol Police during an attempted insurrection to overthrow the results of an election. Probably shouldn't get a presidential pardon for doing so
you know, things that are ACTUALLY codified in law under 4 U.S. Code § 8 - "Respect for flag"
