Jason "Jay" R. Patton

Graphic showing that only 48% of Republicans believe that vaccines are safe and effective, while 80% of Democrats do; that only 35% of republicans think vaccines are tested for safety, while 74% of Democrats do; and that only 32% of Republicans think the childhood vaccine schedule is safe, while 71% of democrats do.

A horrifying graphic from Pew showing the fruits of the right wing war on public health.

Only 48% of Republicans believe that vaccines prevent serious illness, while 80% of Democrats do.

This is not a difference of opinion in science. This is the result of a ruthless disinformation campaign.

www.alternet.org 'They should be held accountable': Leavitt defends Trump's endorsement of hanging top Dems

'They should be held accountable': Leavitt defends Trump's endorsement of hanging top Dems

This video from survivors of Epstein (and his assorted ring of abusers) is gut-wrenching! RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!! No more protecting of these degenerates, depraved deplorables, pedophiles, sexual exploiters of children, & their enablers!!!

So proud of my friend and fellow Welsh Pembroke Corgi owner @andrewfeinberg.com for asking this question:

“What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"

#EarthquakeReport for M 6.8 #Earthquake offshore of #Japan

Thrust (Compressional) earthquake mechanism
Megathrust subduction zone earthquake along the Interface
Possible local tsunami
Aftershock ? from 2011 M9.1

Read 2011 report earthjay.com?p=9773

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Nadler Statement on New York’s Approval of NESE Pipeline

“i am profoundly disappointed by NYS decision to approve the proposed NESE fracked-gas pipeline. This project was rejected three times in the past for failing to meet the state’s own water-quality standards, and nothing about the project has changed.”

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California Rises: Vote YES on Prop 50! With one day left, voters can outsmart Trump’s election-rigging plan and lead the next blue wave.

The first push of the counter-offensive starts NOW!

Vote YES on Prop 50! 🗳️

Take your ballot to a polling place or a drop box in your county.

Ask your friends, family and neighbors if they’ve voted.

Find info and tools to help spread the word👇

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Hurricane Melissa Breaks Records Hurricane Melissa made landfall in southwestern Jamaica on October 28. It set records along the way.

Hurricane Melissa recently battered Jamaica and the Caribbean. Learn how hot seas led to a record-breaking storm in this new map from #MapsDotCom

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#gischat 🌊🧪 #geogchat #geogsky

If we let this slide, 2026 and 2028 are already fixed.
Not hypothetical. Not dramatic.
Rigged. On paper. Right now.
Vote like this is the last fair vote you get.

#CAVoteYesProp50

the economics of climate change denialism

it is not skepticism

other denialism is similar

spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

:-)

Happy halloween!

great! :-)

thx, i was not doing that :-)

Is ishimura san on Bluesky? Please encourage him to be here. :-)

title page of the preprint titled “Earthquake faults recorded in the near-shore bathymetry of Japan's back-arc” by Luca Claude Malatesta , Shigeru Sueoka, Nina-Marie Weiss, Boris Gailleton, Sumiko Tsukamoto, Daisuke Ishimura, Naoya Ono Takahashi , Takuya Nishimura, Kyoko Kataoka, Tetsuya Komatsu, Yoshiya Iwasa

a map of the Noto Peninsula and Sado Island in the sea of Japan.

Pictures of coseismic uplift and an illustration of the marine terrace record of Noto. It shows a change in deformation pattern between 326 and 238 ka that marks the onset of slip on the faults of the Noto EQ

bathymetric maps of the nearshore domain of Noto and Sado revealing a nearshore scarp at -60m. This scarp matches the earthquake faults on Noto and could indicate the location of a large offshore fault off Sado

Our preprint casting the ‘24 Noto EQ in the context of marine terrace record and nearshore bathymetry.
- EQ faults started slipping ~250ka
- They follow the -60m average coastline position
- On Sado Isl, a scarp at -60m reveals a dominant active fault
doi.org/10.31223/X53...
peer-reviewed soon… 🤞🏻

clinched just meant (to me) that it came later in the story

geodesy was important, eventually (maybe after it was accepted, whatever)

holding tech bro to these standards seems a high bar that they possibly could not attain (but i missed the entire interaction) :-)

i am not and have never argued that what your tech bro wrote was accurate in any way
if you treat him like a non geologist undergrad, he was pretty good

and especially never suggested that geodesy put nail in the pin for plate tectonics

not sure why you are singling this out: time of acceptance

"What clinched it was Satellite Laser Ranging, a product of the space race."

this states that langbein's work was not in the beginning, but later

a friend steve bacon talked about helping out in the late 90s, early 2000s on the east side of the sierra. this work preceded gps

well, as your post mentioned, this tech guy got it right. langbein's work was later (not in the development). his geodetic work was revolutionary using lasers of different wavelength to make geodetic measurements in, e.g., long valley caldera/eastern sierra.

i am sure you told them that in large part, the laser and related measurement technologies that John Langbein used in his early geodetic work were indeed products or offshoots of technologies developed during the space race era

unless he got that from you already (probably)

gotcha

i am only seeing a part of the conversation

looks like they are reading the answers from their neighbor :-(

it seemed like they were simply getting the details wrong. plagiarism is the one thing that i was VERY serious about in classes i taught

i appreciate your feedback. thanks

this is what keeps me going (seriously)

yes, the house is finished. now working on transforming my outbuilding to livable space so i can rent it out and build a new house on some land i just purchased in the redwood forest. photos pending :-)

John Langbein's work was revolutionary

to his credit, he did not state this was the advent of plate tectonics, but much later in the process. he nailed it

if this fellow were in an intro class, he would have gotten an A+

magnetic anomalies mapped by magnetometers in post-WW2 vessels was a key part of this. so, pretty close. like, spot on perfect.

#EarthquakeReport for M 6.4 #Gempa #Earthquake in the #BandaSea #Indonesia

Left-lateral (?) Strike-slip earthquake mechanism
Within subducted Australia plate

Tectonic background in '23 report
earthjay.com?p=11546

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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Points taken!

He did get the basic concepts correct and the methods used to learn abt those concepts

Granted it was possibly embedded within some "mansplaining" context, he at least could have passed a multiple choice exam (where the correct terms are used) in an intro course :-)

"Magnetometers helped detect expansion zones, seismography helped with subduction zones. What clinched it was Satellite Laser Ranging, a product of the space race.
This allowed for near real time precise measurement of plate movements."

My dude, you can't even get the basic terms right.

The Dresden Codex.

The design and reconstructible history of the Mayan eclipse table of the Dresden Codex, www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 #Astronomy #GlobalMiddleAges