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Mike Ross

@eruptionchaser.bsky.social

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Mike Ross (he/him) Red Shift Leader | PSA Delegate National Geohazards Monitoring Centre | Te Puna Mōrearea i te Rū Geologist, firefighter, hacker, dad. Tolerance for intolerance zero. Toitū Te Tiriti.

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Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 11h

If you're going to even think about 'The Number of the Beast', you *must* read Gharlane of Eddore's interpretation; a lot suddenly makes more sense when viewed through this lens:

heinleinsociety.org/the-number-o...

THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST - The Heinlein Society

Considered by some to be one of the more confusing of Heinlein's works, the novel THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST was written late in his career. It begins with the fastest falling in love sequence since ROME...

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Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 12h

You misspelled 'putsch'.

Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 12h

If you observed the officers in the audience, it's pretty clear that this was a case of what the Japanese have a special term for: 'mokusatsu' - "ignore with silent contempt".

Silence can be very powerful when used correctly.

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Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 2d

The best angle is one that's intact ;-)

Image of the inside of a CM-2 supercomputers, rack sections folded back to show backplanes and interconnects.

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Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 2d

Still have a do have ;-)

Image of two CM-2 supercomputers sitting on pallets in a warehouse.

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Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 2d

I was going to compliment you on the fidelity of that 'SyncMaster' app - then I realised it was an actual photo of an actual physical screen...

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Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 2d

As a geohazard analyst (earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami etc) I can off a unique Q&A & tour of my 'office' - and it's shift work so all time zones are possible. Holler if you can use me, I'm registered!

A wall of screens displaying earthquake, tsunami, and volcano data at the National Geohazard Monitoring Centre in Wellington, NZ

Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 2d

Is that the CM-2 that was in Wing Luke museum? An empty cabinet with LED boards blinking away?

And what IS that Symbolics box? I thought I'd seen most of them but that's new, it has a... like a stone-textured finished similar to those Pixar boxes!

Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 2d

My wife has travelled extensively, & not always to the better parts. Melbourne is the ONLY place she's ever felt unsafe in the evening in the CBD.

Naked misogyny, not racism - she's as white as a very white thing. But catcalls, comments, all that nasty stuff.

There's something very wrong there.

Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 3d

Oh you should; if only for two things; the gravadlax, and the gravadlax sauce! Bugger the furniture, give me the dead fish!

Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 3d

I don't follow you; my reply was predicated on "largest city to second largest" - a relatively high-traffic route. Coro is irrelevant, or at least I don't see the relevance?

Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 3d

Aye, they can; I've ridden them many times. In Japan.

Japan has the population to support the spending necessary for such infrastructure; NZ has only 5m people, spread out over some very rugged terrain. NZ trains aren't going to get any faster; they're winding hilly narrow-gauge lines.

Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 4d

And transport to/from train stations, and to/from train station to ferry, there are overheads both ways - last check-in for ferry is an hour before sailing time so it kinda all nets out. But the bottom-line message is unarguable; kiwis aren't going to stop flying, or pay "prohibitive" levies!

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Stephen Bannister @iceseismic.bsky.social · 4d

Using earthquake data we image seismic velocity 'anomalies' at 7-12 km depth beneath geothermal systems, north of Taupō, New Zealand. We interpret the anomalies as representing crystal-rich partial melt – the deep heat sources driving the geothermal systems.

doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...

#seismology

A schematic 'slice' of seismic velocity beneath the geothermal systems north of Taupō. Low velocity anomalies are apparent at 7-12 km depth - which we interpret as representing crystal-rich partial melt.

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Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 4d

It depends on the country. In NZ, from our largest city to our second largest:

Car + ferry: ~16 hours

Train + ferry: ~30 hours including overnight hotel, only possible in summer

Plane: ~80 minutes

Sometimes there really is no practical choice except aviation.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 5d

I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists."

The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

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Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 4d

Weird take. The mass shooter is dead; no pockets in a shroud.

I'm no Christian, but this is a good example of Christians doing an actually Christian thing; turning the other cheek and helping the innocent family of someone who harmed them.

Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 4d

Meh, I'm a Boomer and I work alongside mostly Gen Z and Millennials at exactly the same job.

Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · 4d

Finally got ALL my i5/OS toys up and running!

Screenshot showing IBM POWER server ASM console, VIOS PowerVM console, and various i5/OS windows open on a desktop

Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · Sep 9

In Iceland, where we appear to have run out of road!

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Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · Sep 6

In the UK, if a cop has sex while they're at work - 'on the clock' - even absolutely consensual sex - they will be charged with the catch-all offence of 'misconduct in a public office' and, if convicted, a prison sentence is inevitable. There have been several cases of this.

Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · Sep 4

That occurred to me too - some kind of phreatomagmatic event or explosion maybe.

Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · Sep 4

Standard at Where I Work.

Login with a passphrase, security displays a code you enter on an authenticator app on your phone, if code is correct it then physically IDs you via fingerprint.

Mike Ross @eruptionchaser.bsky.social · Sep 4

Doesn't look too bad on the webcam. Rain and humidity can definitely affect the visible volume of plume, but I'm not sure what could cause the flying projectiles other than an energetic event of some kind. There were quite a few of them and they looked pretty substantial:

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