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Missy Leone
@missyleone.bsky.social
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Geologist and educator. Currently working as a hydrogeologist. I love to knit and crochet. I am a musician and singer.

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I’m shocked that this much air traffic doesn’t go through a huge swath of eastern Europe because of an old, megalomaniac dictator.
Flightradar24 air traffic showing a huge hole in air traffic around Ukraine.
December 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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I don’t use Spotify anymore because reasons. But I do use Youtube music (which I probably also wouldn’t use anymore due to similar reasons). If you like weird combos of music, I’m your gal.
December 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Brownie says hi right before knocking this pen off of the table. 😂
December 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Cat status. 😂
Kitten on a couch with its belly up with a case of the zoomies. 😂
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Today in kittens. Also #showmeyourknits with a sock In working on.
Kitten playing with yarn while human knits. Kitten sleeping on human’s lap after playing with yarn. Different kitten falling asleep on human after playing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Currently trying to finish this Sophie scarf I started last year. It's not a huge piece but it feels like a slog for some reason. At least I have passed the halfway mark. #showmeyourknits
A woman (me) wearing a partially finished scarf around my head. A partially finished green variegated scarf on knitting needles on a foot rest.
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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We have finally discovered the window sill and washer/dryer.
Black kittens (4) and cat in a room. Two kittens are perched on a washer/dryer, one on a window sill, one on the floor. Cat is on top of a crate with a towel on it. Three black kittens on a washer and dryer.
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Welcome to the crazy house #kittens

(Yes, mom cat has a face injury where her nose looks awful but she’s healing well.)
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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No idea if any of you are following along, but we successfully trapped 4 kittens and their mom. Had mom spayed Monday and just trapped the kittens today.
Black kittens in a crate with their mom. Black kittens in a crate with their mom.
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Also, kitten update. These are 3 of the 4 I need to trap. Mom is living in our garage after her spay surgery Monday.
Kitten #1 Kitten #2 Kitten #3
November 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Haven’t really been on here for awhile but hi. I’m trapping kittens this weekend and it is so stressful. 😩
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Organizing my grocery bag closet!
Grocery bags in various stages of disarray at the bottom of a closet.
September 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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About to do some safety training for a large transportation company and they require a photo upload for the badge they give you at the end. Do they not have any women working on their sites?
Example photos for photo ID that show a bunch of men in different states of wearing hair, hat, glasses. On top of the photos it says “good” or qualifiers explaining why it is not good such as “NO No hat no safety glasses”.
September 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.l
Radiohead’s album cover for OK Computer. I’ll not even sure what the picture represents so struggle to describe it other than saying it’s abstract white and blue grey, maybe a road and body that’s blurry?
September 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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This is probably my favorite project in a long time. The Halibut sweater by Caitlin Hunter. Yarn by Malabrigo (blue) and Explorer Knits and Fibers (yellow). #showmeyourknits
A knit sweater in progress on circular knitting needles. Sweater is blue with yellow contrasting color.
September 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September
Clarkia flower in bloom. White petals with pink accents and white “parts” inside.
September 2, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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This tells you everything you need to know about climate in the United States.
Weather app view showing the weather for several American cities: Seattle, St. Louis, Houston, Tampa, Knoxville, and Kansas City (Eastmont is in the Seattle area, Ballwin is in the St Louis area). All of the cities have temperatures higher than Seattle but it’s the only one with a heat advisory.
August 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Scary still life.
Black and white photo of a living room with sunlight causing highlighting of a magazine cover. The cover in question features RFK Jr on the cover of Wired. Scary.
August 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Beautiful sunset from both sides. Everett, you’re looking gorgeous tonight.
Sunset scene. Mostly just the very bright sun at a low angle but you can faintly make out some buildings and the water. Looking east. Sunset looking this way is mainly alpenglow on the Cascade mountains off in the distance. In the foreground is houses and trees and a road running left to right, and another perpendicular road running into the distance. Looking east. Sunset looking this way is mainly alpenglow on the Cascade mountains off in the distance, and at the far right, the volcano Glacier Peak. In the foreground are businesses and a stoplight and trees and a road with a few cars.
August 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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It’s pretty wild watching the public hearing on the proposal to revoke the EPA’s endangerment finding. All kinds of people are stepping up.
Zoom screen of participants in EPA public hearing.
August 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Today’s vaguely naughty sounding geology term: Big Bosom Buttes.
Text of screen shot: “…canic rocks of Pioneer Ridge overlie granodio-rite of Mount Despair (30-35 Ma)(see unit Digd) and are intruded by tonalite of the Perry Creek phase of the Chilliwack composite batholith (23- 25 Ma) (see unit MOit) (Tabor and others, 1993). Tuff (includes the Lake Keechelus tuff member of the Ohanapecosh Formation, the tuff of Boundary Creek, part of the volcanic rocks of Big Bosom Buttes, part of the volcanic rocks of Chikamin Creek, and part of the volcanic rocks of Mount Daniel). Tabor and others (1993) tentatively assigned an Oligocene age to the volcanic rocks of Big Bosom Buttes, which unconformably overlie the 30 Ma Pocket Peak phase of the Chilliwack composite batholith (see unit Dig) but appear to be intruded by tonalite of the Baker River phase of the Chilliwack composite batholith (see unit Digd). which is probably older than 31 Ma (Tabor and others, 1993). For the volcanic rocks of Chikamin Creek, see unit Ovr. For the volcanic rocks of Mount Daniel, see unit Ovd. For the Ohanapecosh Formation, see unit Ovc. A zircon fission-track age for an unnamed part of unit Ovt near Swauk Pass of about 33 Ma was reported by Tabor and others (1982b). Volcaniclastic rocks (includes Ohanapecosh Formation undivided and the volcanic rocks of Rattlesnake Mountain). The Ohanapecosh Formation has produced plant fossils assigned to the Kummerian Stage (Wolfe, 1968, 1981; Vine 1969) and K-Ar and zircon fission-track ages ranging from 25 to 36 Ma (Tabor and others, 1984, 2000; Vance and others, 1987; Turner and others, 1983). Volcanic breccia (includes the breccia of Round Lake, the volcanic rocks of Mount Rahm, part of…”
August 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Just learned a previous Washington State governor was named Dixy Lee Ray. (1980)
Screenshot of paper titled “Principal Aquifers and Well Yields in Washington”. State of Washington, Dixy Lee Ray, Governor. Department of Ecology, Wilbur J Hallauer, Director. Geohydrologic Monograph 5.
August 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Related to my last post, there’s nothing like the old school hand drawn geologic maps.
Old school geology map. Whetten, 1980. Geology of the Chiwaukum 4 NW Quadrangle, Chiwaukum Graben, Washington.
August 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Most frustrating part about being a scientist who relies on government data in this day and age.
Screen shot of USGS map website with an error that reads: “Science Base, the catalog system supporting the National Map Downloader, is unavailable at this time due to an intermittent outage.”
August 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Today in “drawings at the office” courtesy of the folks at WSDOT.

@wsdot.wa.gov
A dry erase board with the following question and accompanying drawings: Who would you rather fight? (no weapons): One elephant sized duck? or Fifty duck sized elephants? Drawings of said duck and elephant (s) with the caveat of (sorry I’m not drawing 49 more). Tick marks with votes. Currently tied.
August 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM