@jmccartygeo.bsky.social
🔥🛰️🌱 Science, mainly. 🔵Nicer online than in-person. ⚪️Actual real-life Kentucky hillbilly, currently California resident. 🔴Personal account. I do not speak for my employer, all posts mine alone.
There is some kind of societal weirding going on…
Hell is other parents.
Flying a kite 🪁 on the beach 🏖️ and running from the Pacific’s waves 🌊 with one of my favorite little people 👧🏼.
Amongst the redwoods this weekend.
Thank you so much!
I’ll email you for a NASA seminar too. 🦫🛰️
Around your busy schedule of course. 💃🦫🎥
As a personal ask, if I happened to know a Girl Scout troop that wanted to watch this movie and then the Scouts talk to you over Zoom/FaceTime, would you be up for that?
So cool! Can’t wait to watch it. I 💕 beavers 🦫!!
My mother used to say that if old men had to go fight wars, fewer young people would be killed in them.
Because in her estimation old men don’t actually want to/won’t do the fighting themselves, they want the power and glory of starting wars.
I thought of her wisdom today.
The Lemonades, Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Patties, and Caramel Chocolate Chip are vegan. The Caramel Chocolate Chip are allergy friendly.
www.getyourgirlpower.org/content/dam/...
Still need some Girl Scout cookies 🍪? Wanna support a troop that welcomes all girls and some Brownies raising money for a tiny home community for the homeless/unhoused?
click.email.girlscouts.org?qs=eyJkZWtJZ...
No pressure & thanks for supporting Girl Scouts. Every girl in the world is valuable.
Really important work on emissions from burning of buildings. Need to know this to understand what kind of air pollution everyone (humans, animals, plants/crops) are being exposed to during fires that burn in the wildland-urban interface & urban fires.
“Antler Afterbirth” is the next big Finnish death metal band, with the song “Mama Reindeer Snack.”
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Indonesia, Argentina, Chile, Spain, Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Portugal, Brazil, Côte D’Ivoire, Ukraine, Ireland, Scotland, Bangladesh, Ecuador. You name a country and there are brilliant scientists there.
I’m lucky to read their work, and glad that some of them still talk to me.
If we had Science Olympics, I’d list colleagues & researchers from Canada, Finland, UK, Norway, France, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Kenya, Ghana, Algeria, Iran, India, Nepal, Japan, Malaysia, China, & so many others as Gold Medal 🥇winners.
Too many dudes watched ‘The Matrix’ and ‘Fight Club’ and thought “Yeah, let’s do that” and not what the creators intended, which was “Oh Lord, who art in Heaven, how do we prevent such a terrible alternate reality from happening?”
Things like this always remind me of when I learned that:
1. Betty White was born before mass-marketed sliced bread.
2. A particularly nationalist former Yooper neighbor would drone on about his ancestors in the UP of Michigan, to hear they had immigrated there after my grandparents were born.
Toad was lying in bed.
He had pulled all the covers over his head.
“How To Get To Heaven From Belfast” is great. Watch it.
#Dust in in the southwest triggered a deadly car accident.
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It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️
The 3 digits interstates and freeways were originally designed to tell you that it was a loop or connector around an established interstate/freeway (i.e., I-495 beltway or I-505, which go around I-95 and I-5/“the 5”, respectively). But they don’t stick to the cardinal directions necessarily.
There is no I-50 or I-60.
There are two-lane U.S. Routes 50 & 60, that existed before interstates were built. And an I-64. The real numbering system is even numbers go east to west, odd numbers go north to south. State, local, and federal roads.
Like the parents who dressed as ‘6’ and ‘7’ for Halloween.
You’re buying for Valentine’s today.
While I bought the recycle gift wrapping paper & Easter basket I need for Spring and Summer celebrations.
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
I’ll be doing science today, and I hope you will be, too. Don’t forget to encourage and support the littles - all children are born scientists.
Everyone says dating in LA is hard so good luck girl.
Finnish news Yle has a video. It translates as “large wildfire”, but in North American terms it would be considered small. Fires only need dry fuels and an ignition in any season.
yle.fi/a/74-20208965