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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 5h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26m

A new poll of France has Macron’s approval rating at 19% and Prime Minister Lecornu’s approval rating at 27%, and that’s considered an improvement for both.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 21m

Not as bad as I expected, though.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 46m

I'm about to find out if it's a bad idea to get a covid booster and a high-dose flu shot and then spend the afternoon doing interior painting that involves a lot of awkward reaching while standing on a ladder.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 4h

It may be hard to appreciate if you haven't spent time, and especially haven't gone to K-12 school, in a conservative place like that.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 4h

The county just settled with this librarian for $700,000. Every time I read this kind of story (and there are some from Wisconsin, too), I'm impressed by people like her and the local residents who came out to support her in Gillette, Wyoming. www.gillettenewsrecord.com/news/local/a...

Library director fired after refusing to resign

The newest chapter in the saga of the Campbell County Public Library was written Friday afternoon, as the Campbell County Public Library board voted 4-1 in a special meeting to

www.gillettenewsrecord.com

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bse @doktrock.bsky.social · 5h

Anticline in the Paleoproterozoic Thomson Formation, near Jay Cooke State Park, Northeast #Minnesota. Deformation due to the Penokean Orogeny, ca 1850–1900 Ma. This is a favorite fieldtrip stop; included in the GSA Centennial Guidebook. An October picture from the archives. #geology #FridayFold 🧪⚒️

Outcrop along a riverbank showing a gray fine grained rock. Bedding planes dip in opposite directions on either side. Part of a bridge can be seen crossing the river.

Satellite image with the location of the outcrop shown. The St. Louis River has continuous exposure of the Thomson Fm towards the ESE. Town of Carlton to the west.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 5h

Another New England/New York family scattered all over the settler colonial history of the United States. Should have checked on Thornton. I have to give the Wilder Foundation credit for this: search.issuelab.org/resource/tow....

Part of the table of contents of the linked report.
Part II: Wilder, government contractor
Trade, slavery, and forced assimilation
Rising conflict
Mass execution and continued genocide
Post-war contracting
Part III: Railroading and pre-emption
Wilder joins the trade
The "Grasshopper Syndicate"
Land speculation and government vouchers
Part IV: Timber sales and treaty righs
"Mr. Wilder's agreement"
Resistance at Leech Lake

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 5h

Sat down to get some grading done, and immediately got diverted into an unrelated search to confirm that Amherst Wilder, supplier to frontier army posts and namesake of the Wilder Foundation in the Twin Cities was in fact related to Delos Wilder of the ranch and state park on the California.

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Tom Gill @tomgillpredicts.bsky.social · 6h

Nield et al., JGR-Earth Surface: Quantifying the form‐flow‐saltation dynamics of aeolian sand ripples.
doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Quantifying the Form‐Flow‐Saltation Dynamics of Aeolian Sand Ripples

Ripple celerity exhibits a non-linear relationship to shear velocity under strong wind speeds Ripple celerity and height respond more quickly to changes in wind speed than ripple wavelength and r...

doi.org

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 6h

No. Runoff from a rainstorm

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 6h

More than 100X increase in discharge from 5:30 to 6:45 AM this morning. Salt River basin, northeast of Phoenix.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 7h

USGS stream gages are showing a very rapid rise in discharge (100X in some cases) early this morning.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 9h

Continued:

"We each got $1 to spend at the Lukeville hardware store"

"It's not there anymore, just Border Patrol stuff"

"The border wall goes out to Quitobaquito now"

Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 19h

Texting with my sisters, jumping back and forth over almost 60 years:

"We should go back to Organ Pipe Cactus this winter"

"Did we go there with the VW microbus?

"Yes, and we went to San Felipe in Baja California with it too."

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 19h

Texting with my sisters, jumping back and forth over almost 60 years:

"We should go back to Organ Pipe Cactus this winter"

"Did we go there with the VW microbus?

"Yes, and we went to San Felipe in Baja California with it too."

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 20h

Doctor pronounces Trump "nephrologically prepubescent"

Reuters @reuters.com · 20h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 20h

Apropos of nothing, I was eating breakfast once with my 80+ yr old father, and he said, "You know when people see me they think I'm a lot younger than I am. They think I'm 65."

Then he looked at me like, yes I know this is bs, and you know too, but I'm having fun.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 20h

That was this flight. Seattle to Denver, October 2017.

View from a plane of the Grand Tetons and Jackson Hole

View from a plane of the northern Wind River Range, Wyoming

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 21h

George Orwell in his Burmese Days

Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 21h

I have run into guys who were getting hammered and wanted to fight in Wisconsin. Depends on the bar.

Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 21h

Some rob you with a sixgun, some with a fountain pen
Some kidnap your neighbors, friends and family
Some destroy the vital government services you depend on

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: It looks like the number of federal layoffs -- so far -- is over 4,000, we've learned from court documents

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

White House Signals Federal Layoffs Have Begun During Government Shutdown

www.nytimes.com

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 21h

Or just hummocky glaciated terrain.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 21h

the general impact on C emissions, the issues could be farming land with more runoff, carrying more eroded soil and nutrients, and probably loss of wildlife habitat. Not impacts on an aquifer. I do see expansion of irrigated High Plains cropland, but often much more scattered. Or expansion on dunes.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 21h

One more thought: You've probably seen this atlas, www.ag-atlas.org. Less specific land use (cropland/noncropland) but more spatially explicit. When I look around with this I see hotspots of cropland expansion, mostly east of the High Plains, often on hillier, more erodible land. So there, besides

Agriculture Atlas | GLUE

www.ag-atlas.org

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 23h

I guess my point is, it's essential to look at where the change is taking place to understand its impact on groundwater, and that means a more careful look at specific areas with a better understanding of the geologic setting.

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