Dr. Austin Hope
aphope90.bsky.social
Dr. Austin Hope
@aphope90.bsky.social
Contractor with STC for NOAA, working on IBTrACS product code; PhD in Atmospheric Science (climate and weather modeling); DC resident & STL native; soccer fan; PokeNerd; cat dad; dabbler in music/art/writing; he/him
2025 VA election results (pics from Wikipedia as of 11/5)
Right: governor by county/city
Left: house of delegates by district
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Me being a big nerd, example 5,371:
I always enjoy taking time about once a month to update my "local restaurants" map
October 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
All boosted for the year!
September 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
September 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I spent around 16min hobbling my way on what normally is a 4min walk to the high school next door to my condo campus just to vote in today's single-race special election that's expected to not be all that close. When I say that I believe every vote counts, I mean it! #VA11 #IVoted
September 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
In a capitalist hellscape, the best way to vote is with your $

Gonna miss a fair number of shows, but I go through them so slowly anyway, not a huge loss. I finished one of my faves today, so now that's that. Time to make the cut.

Honestly the TV App's UI was really slow and unresponsive anyway!
July 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Hey @wmata.com I just got off at my home station (Vienna) and want to report a near-constant and rather impressive 3-5Hz bounce/rattle in this car, 7294. Can you check its wheels soon?
June 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Here I am, riding yet another good team to a title apparently. Definitely weird keeping motivation up after seeing my draft ranking for my summer evening league but I showed up
June 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I'm by no means a good soccer player, but I've been lucky enough to be on good teams fairly often over the past 2-3 years ⚽🏳️‍🌈🥇
June 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I'd guess at least 4" in Vienna VA so far!
February 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
A reminder that, amazing as BlueSky is, we can't be passive about protecting AT Protocol. Support Free Our Feeds!
January 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
A bit sad that I'm in the top quarter of Metro riders with less than three rides per month on average... Long rides, though! @wmata.com #metrorewind
January 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
So glad to finally get a good snow! Sadly, having a non-academia remote job means I have no excuse available to take a snow day 😅 but man my place is pretty with all this white~
Pics from Vienna VA before my morning meetings
@capitalweather.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Reunion of the Salawich group at the STC holiday dinner!
December 13, 2024 at 11:46 PM
So Facebook is having a good time right now
December 9, 2024 at 12:30 AM
Got my sticker #IVoted
November 5, 2024 at 2:46 PM
November 2, 2024 at 4:44 AM
It's dry out there! (source - US Drought Monitor) Be careful with the fireworks out there...
July 4, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Alright @stlcitysc.bsky.social , matchday birthday and I'm actually in STL for once, gimme a good present tonight
April 6, 2024 at 12:44 PM
17 people rankings 29 teams? Well that sounds like a fun statistics exercise to me. No one seem to really know how the West will play out this year, apparently.... I'm bullish on a @stlcitysc.bsky.social playoff run this year though!
February 19, 2024 at 9:37 PM
I escaped the DC snowhole with family in STL
January 13, 2024 at 11:30 PM
"Nothing's wrong with me, therefore nothing is wrong in the world and everyone saying otherwise are sheeple!!1!!!"

About as few followers/following as you'd expect with a such a trollish account name/handle/profile
January 13, 2024 at 3:18 AM
NYE celebrations underway at First Night Alexandria!
January 1, 2024 at 1:16 AM
Doing my civic duty and looking good while doing it
November 7, 2023 at 4:21 PM
Ready for tonight! 🎃👻🐈
October 31, 2023 at 8:52 PM