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Zane Roskoph

@scholarerrant.bsky.social

Birder. Photographer. Traveller. Population ecologist. Compulsive collector of information. Sewage & wastewater treatment specialist. BAs in evolutionary biology and psychology (CWRU), MS in biology (Rutgers). Be warned, there will be puns. He/him.

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The third sign idea may not technically be true, but it would be very on brand.

10.10.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A blonde mixed breed dog sits on a dark brown leather couch with a green pillow behind her. Three of her legs more or less together are in front of her, while her right front paw holds a human’s arm in place, making sure the belly rubs keep coming.

A blonde mixed breed dog sits on a dark brown leather couch with a green pillow behind her. Three of her legs more or less together are in front of her, while her right front paw holds a human’s arm in place, making sure the belly rubs keep coming.

Our dog Ursa sits in almost exactly the same way, though she usually trades some of the poise and balance for comfort.

03.10.2025 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A blonde mixed breed dog sits on a dark brown leather couch with a green pillow behind her. Three of her legs more or less together are in front of her, while her right front paw holds a human’s arm in place, making sure the belly rubs keep coming.

A blonde mixed breed dog sits on a dark brown leather couch with a green pillow behind her. Three of her legs more or less together are in front of her, while her right front paw holds a human’s arm in place, making sure the belly rubs keep coming.

Our dog Ursa sits in almost exactly the same way, though she usually trades some of the poise and balance for comfort.

03.10.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How about a compromise? Two meals per day, but one has to be either a moose leg or waffle mountain.

20.09.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But who’s the Mastermind?

05.09.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A photo out of a window showing a skyline with multiple planes towing banners. An airliner landing is visible on the left.

A photo out of a window showing a skyline with multiple planes towing banners. An airliner landing is visible on the left.

A screenshot of the ADS-B feed showing six banner planes and three news helicopters circling over South Philadelphia, immediately adjacent to the approach lane for Philadelphia International Airport.

A screenshot of the ADS-B feed showing six banner planes and three news helicopters circling over South Philadelphia, immediately adjacent to the approach lane for Philadelphia International Airport.

I’ll be honest, I feel kinda bad for the people at PHL ATC tonight.

04.09.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Should I be concerned that I found that price tag for…that even more disturbing than the creepy dolls?

30.08.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Okay, so I have a culinary discovery to share with the world: just say β€œno” to wolffish for ceviche.

10.08.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good to hear they’re staying relatively stable!
-Signed, the guy whose masters’ thesis was on age-structured modeling of northern gannet populations.

04.08.2025 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a New Jerseyan, I can guarantee that no one seen wearing this is actually from or affiliated with New Jersey.

18.07.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What would be your opinion on specific, narrow exceptions similar to those found in attorney/client privilege? I’m thinking the crime/fraud exception as an example.

18.07.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I honestly think he’d be one of the last β€œblue dog” Democrat holdouts based on economic and environmental policy and the combination of a mix of political calculus re. how entrenched the two parties are with sheer stubbornness on not wanting to give anyone the satisfaction of making him move.

14.07.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not just that stage.

For that twenty minutes, he was the single most powerful person on Earth.

13.07.2025 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve said on numerous occasions that, for the duration of Queen’s set at Wimbley that day, Freddie Mercury, not Reagan or Gorbachev or Thatcher, was the single most powerful person on Earth, period.

13.07.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I read part of this as trying to distance as many people as they can before it comes out that whatever the specifics are were common knowledge in GOP circles and hushed up.

10.07.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Never before has a dog swimming more warranted Yakky Sax.

09.07.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it weird that even though I can’t read French, I can tell the species of all three?
(L-R, bowhead, humpback, and fin).

30.06.2025 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Additionally, is there realistically enough room for improvement that they should consider taking them again?

27.06.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Question for #lawsky. Say someone took the LSAT on short notice at their family’s urging, no prep, etc., and got a 159 (79th percentile). In practical terms (applications, scholarships, etc.), where does that score approximately come in?

27.06.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

As an aside, as someone born post decimalization (and in the US) what is the point of the guinea as a unit of currency? The others at least have some semblance of logic, but that just seems like an extra layer of needless complexity.

24.06.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

So he lost his pillow case.

Again.

17.06.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Are…are those pigeon spikes?

15.06.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Know of anything similar that works on ammonia and can easily scale to 120 Mgal/day? Asking for a WWTP in New Jersey.

11.06.2025 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Just to throw another out there: Georges Frederic Roskopf, the guy who implemented the pin-pallet escarpment in his eponymous pocket watches, enabling them to be produced en masse? The change that allowed the everyday person to afford one, rather than as handcrafted luxuries? Guess what he was.

11.06.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In addition, that area is still closed off (even more so than the rest of MDL, that is). The launch and storage buildings are still visible on satellite imagery.

Just another piece of development the pine barrens have eaten over the years.

07.06.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So a normal summer morning near Grand Manan then?

07.06.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m reminded of when Jason Kelce wrecked a heckler’s phone. On the field, with people who move similarly, he doesn’t seem that fast. Versus a normal yahoo, he had the phone out of the guy’s hand, wound up over his head, and halfway to the ground, in one motion, before the heckler started to react.

07.06.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maxim 62 might also be applicable in this context.

05.06.2025 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Failing that, there’s a King George quote from Hamilton that also works.

05.06.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To once again quote from Hamilton: β€œThey will tear each other into pieces, Jesus Christ this will be fun.”

(It’s amazing the mileage I get out of that quote with regard to the individuals involved.)

05.06.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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