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Chris ☈ozoff

@agitatedcu.bsky.social

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Cannot jump high, highly motivated by clouds, vector enthusiast, fan of wilderness. Erie, CO Current reading: "Gulag Archipelago" (Solzhenitsyn), "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics" (Griffiths and Schroeter), “Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” (McBride)

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 1d

A scene directly from Chapter 1 of "Archipelago Gulag" by Solzhenitsyn.

Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr garbling the phrase "baby in her placenta" makes the phrase no less creepy. Nightmare fuel from the crypt.

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a christmas elf costume is making a funny face and says nooooooo !!!

ALT: a man in a christmas elf costume is making a funny face and says nooooooo !!!

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 2d

All meteorologists can relate.

The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Passenger Glued To Airplane Window Like It Fucking 1956 https://theonion.com/passenger-glued-to-airplane-window-like-it-fucking-1956-1832728158/

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 3d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 3d

I'm pretty sure that's Bill Swerski and company, headed for Soldier Field.

a group of men are sitting around a table with the words that makes a baker 's dozen for me bob on the bottom

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 8d

Great post!

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 9d

"Some have chosen to deride the increasingly evident signs of climate change, to ridicule those who speak of global warming, and even to blame the poor for the very thing that affects them the most."

BBC News - Pope Leo condemns climate change critics
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming

In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.

www.bbc.com

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 9d

#catsofbluesky

Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 12d

The Hakeem Jeffries of football.

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 12d

Aspen season is the best season.

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 18d

Fantastic!

Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 20d

Would be awful to see that money go toward something woke like NSF or NOAA funding.

Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 20d

Just passed that area today as well on peak-to-peak hwy. Was a perfect day up there.

Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 20d

Thus, we lament the freely available and plentiful piles of climate denialist garbage for the average person, who is gated off from real and informative substance.

Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 21d

“I’m sorry, but that feed grade soy goes so well with my horse paste Covid prophylactic.”

Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 22d

I’m not a big fan of the damage they do to our yard, and therefore often cheer on owls to have good meals (for the sake of a healthy ecosystem of course), but they are cute. Here’s a baby one found just now.

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NSF NCAR & UCAR @ncar-ucar.bsky.social · 22d

The Advanced Study Program’s Graduate Visitor Program Fellowship is accepting applications! This fellowship allows graduate students to work on their thesis, dissertation, or final project equivalent, with guidance from NSF NCAR scientists and engineers.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 22d

More Americans are very worried about climate change than are about crime.

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climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

Top public worries in the U.S.

About three in ten Americans say they are “very worried” about global warming.

climatecommunication.yale.edu

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 23d

Fall weather has arrived and this rainbow fills my current field of view (when not typing this into my phone). As grim as national politics are, I take solace in the beauty offered each day by our surrounding universe.

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 23d

And despite public opinion, as an atmospheric scientist, I am here to remind everyone climate change is real and increasingly a major ecological and human crisis.

Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 24d

As seen in SE South Dakota 19 years ago today.

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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 25d

Join AMS during #PeerReviewWeek to thank AMS's Editor Award recipients and hear what they have to say about #PeerReview!

Learn more: https://bit.ly/48gR7vJ

A graphic with AMS and Peer Review Week logos.

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 27d

Precisely my reaction to that photo. It could be the case (or not) the troops are not MAGA (just being nice to passersby), but posing for photos with MAGA fans in a time when MAGA is pushing these military incursions on US soil is a bad look for the US armed forces, and does long-term damage.

Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 27d

Facebook isn't much better than X in terms of mainstreaming once fringe ideas.