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Ray Salinas

@sunflowerstupid.bsky.social

Former GIS analyst, current water resources nerd. Water/wastewater engineer (EIT). Doing PFAS research currently. I'm from the square states in the middle.

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God these videos are so fucking creepy

01.10.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember when I moved to El Paso both my grandparents were convinced I was moving to a warzone. It had the double whammy of being a scary city AND right next to Mexico. Instead it was a safer and nicer (people wise) city than Colorado Springs at times.

29.09.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I emailed my congressman about a specific policy issue, PFAS remediation funding by the DoD & got back a form letter about how he's a outdoorsman, not answering my question at all.
Jeff Crank is lucky I'm not charismatic enough to be a politician, otherwise I'd run against him in 2026 out of spite.

26.09.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I saw Assassins last night at a great little theater in Golden, it was a really fun production!

08.09.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyways this is the most "old man yells at cloud" thing I have said but it isn't even a "kids these days" thing, one of the couples was old as hell

07.09.2025 04:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I went to the movies today and there were two different couples talking, chatting, and scrolling through their phones the entire way through.
Have these people somehow made it through their entire lives without ever being in public before?

07.09.2025 04:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I hate this so much because I love the concept of earth ships but the more I learned about engineering, air quality, etc etc etc, the worse of an idea it seemed all around

05.09.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As long as I live, I’ll never understand how β€œit should be easier for multi-billion dollar corporations to poison the water my family drinks and the air we breathe” became a politically popular position with half of my country.

03.09.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 254    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 2

I've climbed in temps from 30-110 and shorts are so not an option. I've worn them at the gym, but outdoors? Ouch

14.08.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Green for beer will also give you green pee depending on the dye, I'm already seeing how this could work

03.08.2025 02:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Off topic but does your WWTP have a "weird shit found in screens" collection? I have to go to a lot of wwtps for for work and two of the six I've been to had collections of weird stuff (post rinse)

30.07.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, I ate a lot of microwave meals as a kid because my parents both worked long hours, and the options nowadays are so much better.

25.07.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love that "burrito taxi vs just buying and cooking food" discourse is back around, only six months later!
Learning to cook has never been easier than it is today.

25.07.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If it's by a door maybe you have a cat neighbors let outdoors in the summer that stresses yours out? My cat always pees by the door when she gets stressed at something happening outside.

14.07.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This post heavily influenced by the fact I have to drive five hours for work this evening, and if this country was sane it could just be a train ride.

11.07.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I spent the last two weeks in Japan on vacation and now that I'm back home I keep noticing how much of my city is just parking lots.
Anyways I want trains everywhere & to never need to drive again.

11.07.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

When I lived in Texas I would regularly get amber alerts for missing kids on the other side of the state, 10 hours away. Not only useless, but annoying due to the frequency. Moving there was the first time I turned those off.

06.07.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My first house was built in the 1960s, we were the second owners, and the previous owners did a lot of weird diy that was technically up to code in 1960. All the kitchen appliances weren't plugged in, they were wired into the house's electric system.

02.06.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reading Moby Dick for the first time... These bitches gay!

27.05.2025 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This plane is going to have so many microphones in it.

11.05.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've been learning how to use ink for a side project and this text based game design stuff is so fun and simple!

25.04.2025 03:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Carrie Bradshaw at her computer

Carrie Bradshaw at her computer

Once again, I was left to wonder: was Pete Hegseth signal chatting military attack plans to everyone but me??

Am I the one that’s insecure, or is it his communication practices that are insecure?

20.04.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 13238    πŸ” 1932    πŸ’¬ 165    πŸ“Œ 65

Sometimes when civil3d is acting up I open task manager as a threat

16.04.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly the current administration just doesn't understand how power projection works. You want international aid, research stations, and strong science funding! It's a big part of buying goodwill and maintaining a presence in places that will eventually matter even if they don't now.

11.04.2025 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is so fucking insane.

24.03.2025 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A closeup of the face of a white cat with black ears and a black nose. Her tongue is sticking out  of her mouth, her eyes are closed.

A closeup of the face of a white cat with black ears and a black nose. Her tongue is sticking out of her mouth, her eyes are closed.

Tfw the gabapentin kicks in

23.03.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm pretty sure this picture was in my highschool and college history textbooks. It's definitely familiar

22.03.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I saw an ad for grad schools in Denmark the other day, crazy how much & how fast other countries are capitalizing on the mess

13.03.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes but the government didn't buy HIS EVs

26.02.2025 05:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's a cool idea, especially to expand beyond a personal project. I worked with a group that did air quality and asthma studies a few years back, but never heard of a connection between pressure and migraines. Seriously cool idea.

24.02.2025 07:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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