Mika McKinnon

Audio of Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson arguments from Marriage Story used to scare off wolves in the US ‘Wolves need to know humans are bad,’ says US department of agriculture representative, explaining unusual strategy to save cattle

Via @mikamckinnon.bsky.social

Deploying drones in Oregon to "haze" wolves away from livestock. The drones play the sounds of gunfire. fireworks. AC/DC, and...the argument from Marriage Story.

“I need the wolves to respond and know that, hey, humans are bad,” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

Graphic that says, protect yourself during earthquakes drop cover and hold on. It shows a cartoon person kneeling down, crawling under a table and holding onto the table.

This is a good time to remind people that anywhere can experience earthquake shaking!

If you feel shaking, drop down to the ground, take cover underneath a sturdy object like a table, and hold on until all the skating has stopped. www.shakeout.org/dropcoverhol...

Want to learn more about earthquakes like today's M8.7? Get your info straight from the experts with this spectacular list of seismologists!

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In November of 2016, nearly 60 years after the paper was published internally, I had discovered the joke.

A few years later, I filed to have the paper declassified, and the NSA eventually agreed, and even put it up on their webpage:

media.defense.gov/2021/Jul/14/...

My children made a rock museum of beach stones to show me.

Their categories:
1. Basalt
2. White granite
3. Pink granite
4. Tiny granite
5. Tiny rocks
6. ???? (greenstone)

Everything about this delights me

“To date, no fossil organism is known, nor its current equivalent, that corresponds to these characteristics.”

Oh I love a good mystery. Especially if it involves the possibility of giant crabs. 🦀

A jagged ridgeline with grassy slopes initially and high pointy rocky peaks behind. Some white cloud swirls around the peaks and blue sky is above.

Another view of the sublime Seceda Ridgeline a couple of weeks ago in the #Dolomites.

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Based on conversations with wives and girlfriends of magicians, magic tricks should be a HIGHLY favourable hobby.

Dexterous fingers have many applications beyond sleight of hand.

🎶 It’s never too late to make things less bad. 🎶

Nihilists irritate the fuck out of me.

You have to re-post all columnar basalt photos. I don't make the rules, that's just the way it is.

Directly labeling so much of this as wasteful and “tomfoolery“ is amazing and I adore her. Everyone deserves a representative who represents THEM. PP doesn’t even represent his party.

That’s a fireworks factory exploding.

It’s neither good nor bad. It’s just a record of the explosion.

Seismic feed with a sudden burst s characteristic of an explosion

Seismic feed with a sudden burst s characteristic of an explosion. The feed has significant background noise pick up a few minutes later

California has a much denser seismic network.

I’m seeing it pop on a few Raspberry Shake stations near Sacramento, so I expect the USGS could put together a special notice on it (if they still have staff & authorization)

Doukhobors Protest - British Columbia - An Untold History A religious immigrant group finds itself at odds with the government

Radical pacifists from Russia. Vaguely similar to Hutterites?

I grew up in stories of their nude protests of tax money being used for wars. Later, a splinter group did political bombings, leading to government retaliation: bcanuntoldhistory.knowledge.ca/1920/doukhob...

We have a big Mennonite community just outside Vancouver.

We also have Doukhobors in the Prairies.

We also have Bountiful, BC, but that’s more fundamentalist polygamist cult so different genre than I think you’re getting at.

some people’s desire to believe they possess secret knowledge is such a selfish act of limiting your appreciation for the world

enjoying a thing while being aware that millions have shared in this weird local tradition is more enriching than “i found the hidden gems because i am smart”

Feeling big Feels about FEMA today. I was proud of carrying a FEMA badge for the years I consulted, and deeply believe the work we did meant fewer people died.

Take care of each other as much as you can. Community resilience is so powerful.

We’re not there yet. I’m not looking forward to the heartbreak

While I strongly subscribe to “Any toy that requires specific genitalia to play isn’t a toy for children,” it’s very clear most major companies don’t subscribe to similar philosophies.

Shopping for kids gets decidedly more grim when exiting the toddler era.

1971 Saint-Jean-Vianney is probably it. It sank/collapsed THEN got buried in a landslide, and it’s a decade later than you’re remembering, but it was quickclay so same geological mechanisms.

You might be conflating a few stories?

- deliberate flooding of towns to create St Lawrence reservoir

- catastrophic collapse of a salt dome destroying a mine under Lake Peigneur

- Saint-Jean-Vianney quick clay collapse of a town into a crater that was then buried in a river of mud

I’m not finding my fav debris flow mitigation video

Basic technique is separate liquids from solids, usually with a strainer-dam & an armoured chute. The engineering firm product vids are 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 but I can’t find the right keyword combo to surface them 😭

Very different.

California has patches of quick clay (pretty much anywhere that used to be sea floor can have quick clays), but the Palisades had a bunch of debris flows and avalanches after the fires.

Things that make me happy (and weren’t me; wrong hemisphere):

For something more modern and far more fluffy, I think “I Got Lucky” is on Apple TV. I’m in something like 8 of the 14 episodes, maybe? It blurs together. Total popcorn series of terrible, terrible ideas

I, uh.

I may be a bit opinionated about “rocks fall and kill people” as a genre.

I’m not confident it’s available outside Canada & it would require their app, but NFB has a riveting docu on 1963 Vaiont Dam collapse that’s mandatory viewing for junior geoeng to internalize their professional duty: collection.nfb.ca/film/the-vaj...