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5: Acequias in New Mexico - Water Matters! Acequias are a traditional irrigation practice with roots across the world. The inhabitants of New Mexico have used ditch irrigation since time immemorial, though the acequias used today took their pr...

On the podcast, Enrique Romero talks with RIn and I about acequias and querencia: www.buzzsprout.com/2465964/epis...

Echoes of @nora.zone glass?

Fun with water policy, autocorrect version: “irrigable” != “irritable”.

Nora Reed Designs / nora.jewelry ad featuring bolo ties, sterling silver earrings, two kinds of pendants, cufflinks and game tokens

Hi all! I have a jewelry store at nora.jewelry and I'd love to sell you something nice!

The game tokens are a great way to liven up your TTRPG battles. What if that horde of zombies or pack of wolves were sparkly DICHROIC GLASS???

A swirling black blue and silver cushion shaped piece of fused glass encased in warped silver to make a pendant.

Worked with more of @nora.zone's beautiful glass this morning.

And a reminder of what a weird and wonderful cultural asset/business model is @dcrainmaker.com

The University of Arizona is hiring a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor in Physical Geography! Research specialities could include wildfire, climate and water resources, and/or natural hazards, amongst others. Please apply and join us! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Nora Reed Designs ad featuring a background of an aventurine sheet. In the foreground is a series of pendants, earrings, cufflinks and bolo ties; most of them have interesting swirling patterns.

Hey all! I have a jewelry shop at nora.jewelry. I focus on fused glass, handmade in my kiln. Sales have been slow lately, so I'd really appreciate having this shared around.

#bsnm

Driest on New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande since when? 1972? 1964? I spent some time this morning crunching numbers, trying to make numerical sense of how bad this year is on New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande. We keep saying it’s only the second time the …

How dry is this year on New Mexico's Rio Grande? In which I push the envelope of my modest data visualization skills. Maybe driest since 1964? www.inkstain.net/2025/08/drie... Maybe the couch tells the story best....

I’m OK, just sad. UNM is a place I love, it’s my community.

Return of the Deadpool Diaries: The Colorado River news keeps getting worse With the latest Bureau of Reclamation model runs highlighting the serious risks posed by the declining reservoir levels that Utah State’s Jack Schmidt has been warning about, there are signs …

On the #ColoradoRiver, stuff's not going well: www.inkstain.net/2025/07/retu...

Waffles with gooseberry compote. That’s what the wizard would suggest.

With the wizard’s help, I have returned to my breakfast waffle roots. The wizard arrived in my life at an important time.

It helps me imagine which jellies to put on my waffles every morning.

i think it's important to not let "ai" steal my joy so i kept doing it

Does this translation means chickens will now understand my book? Because the chicken market is huge. I mean, there are a *lot* of chickens.

Well actually, I do think bok, but also bok.

Dancing with Deadpool on New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande We are heading into a remarkable year on New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande. Here are some critical factors: The preliminary April 1 forecast from the NRCS is for 27 percent of median April &#821…

Sizing up a remarkable year as we head into runoff season - or lack thereof - on New Mexico's Middle Rio Grande: www.inkstain.net/2025/04/danc...

Wrecking ball report: blowing up 25 years of productive US-Mexico collaboration on the Colorado River Via Annie Snider at Politico: The Trump administration escalated a water fight with Mexico on Thursday, saying it will cut off Colorado River water deliveries to the city of Tijuana. In a post on X…

We’re inching toward perilous times in the U.S.-Mexico river management relationship as Mexico’s struggle to meet its treaty obligations on the Rio Grande collide with the wrecking ball approach of the new administration: www.inkstain.net/2025/03/wrec...

Colorado River Reservoir Storage in Mid-March: Where do we stand? By Jack Schmidt (1), John Fleck (2), Kathryn Sorensen (3), Eric Kuhn (4), Katherine Tara (2) | March 21, 2025 1 Center for Colorado River Studies, Utah State University 2 Utton Transboundary Resour…

One of my other collaborators, Jack Schmidt (with help from a bunch of us) updated the status of Colorado River reservoirs. That status is not good: www.inkstain.net/2025/03/colo...

My co-author Eric Kuhn, whose command of the minutiae of the Law of the River is unsurpassed, wrote this about the legal context should flows at Lee Ferry cross the “compact tripwire” - so low they trigger litigation: www.inkstain.net/2025/03/the-...

I’ve been managing my health by staying off social media, but jumped back to share some stuff my colleagues and I have been writing about the Colorado River that feels important. A thread….

Shithousery and California’s Success Reservoir There’s a tactic in football (what we Americans refer to as “soccer”) called “shithousery.” It’s a style of norm-breaking behavior – constant stoppages, niggling fouls, feigning injury &#8211…

Today I am learning about “shithousery” and California water policy! I love learning new things. www.inkstain.net/2025/02/shit...

Terrain vague Unincorporated margins, interior islands void of activity, oversights, these areas are simply un-inhabited, un-safe, un-productive. In short, they are foreign to the urban system, mentally exterior…

Terrain vague: www.inkstain.net/2025/02/terr...

rainbow pride flower pendant with petals that have red in the middle

rainbow blob pendant that looks like a cluster of rainbow tubes desperately escaping something

pendants with rainbow foregrounds and black and white backgrounds

trans pride stripe pendant

gonna do a short thread of stuff i have available in the shop right now. shares help!

to start: i have a pretty extensive pride collection of pendant necklaces with varying levels of strangeness.

nora.jewelry/collections/...

In our case, hard to disentangle nature from nurture.

Either way, sorry.

I’m in the same spot. I woke up early with my brain firing even though - maybe as a result of? - a socially exhilarating/exhausting day yesterday. I immediately packed the new day with things.

Will Colorado's electrical coops get their New ERA money? - Big Pivots Trump halts flow of money to electrical coops from Inflation Reduction Act. Why some cooperatives think it's a pause, not permanent.

Allen Best trying to dig past the noise to the substantive process - in this case funding for rural electrics. That’s what I need from my journalism right now - find me the substance: bigpivots.com/will-colorad...