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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Dogs taking their toys for a walk is one of my favourite things.

A goonish Newfoundland walking with a tiny stuffed hedgehog in his maw

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The next level is to merge the two modes.

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Would I want to do this if no one else ever sees it? If the answer is yes or close to yes (maybe if 10 folks saw it that’d be nice), send ‘em. I’ve started focusing more on efforts that benefit my local community and do more in person outreach these days with kids.

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Important message: this fella turned 4 today!

A big Newfie dog licking his chops in anticipation for a trachea

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This fella is throwing a TANTRUM because I won’t walk him in the current hurricane band downpour. Big dogs have big feelings.

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Got the Covid and Flu vaccines yesterday. An undesirable side effect was a fever of 102F! I blame Lyme disease for my body’s inability to act right. Throughout this I have learned something irritating: I find hot flashes more unbearable than a 102 fever. That makes me angry for women’s healthcare.

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Getting two “500-year” precipitation events in ~month has been an unwelcome way to teach students about the fact that we use a weird system to describe event probability.

John candy working with his hand up and the text “sorry folks, UH Hilo is closed”

Rain forecast for NOLO showing isolated parts of the big island of Hawaii getting 35” of rain

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I got an email to be interviewed about it on TV and politely declined…

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As someone with the youngest geologic samples in the world sitting on my kitchen counter, I say yes.

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As someone at a PUI, I was especially disheartened to hear that we’re now in the mosh pit against R1 projects…

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am guessing you were on the same office hours call I was on this morning…

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My students know I’m making things from scratch for them based on all my typos!

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Look at this xenophobic bullshit from a research training I had to do. Unsure why they think this an international collaborator issue only, especially given that in my experience the biggest pains in the ass have been domestic… Super gross.

Potential risks of hosting international students and scholars.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 07/09/2026

It has been a while, but I have a summary of all the activity at Anak Krakatau over the last few days. Long and short: big explosive eruption, but not out of character for the volcano (or Indonesian volcanoes for that matter). It is a hot air travel mess, though: eruptions.site/2026/09/07/s...

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September 2026 Eruption at Anak Krakatau

Location: Anak Krakatau, Indonesia Situation: Anak Krakatau, literally “child of Krakatau” has had some large explosive eruptions over the past week including ash plumes that reached ~5…

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“Our fridge smells like a corpse, meet me at the store before I burn the house down” is not a text you want to get. This hurricane is the gift that keeps on giving.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Finally getting down to business working on Highway 11 power lines in Mountain View. Lots of off island folks in the mix, glad to see them here to help. #Lala

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We had a crack in one of the ice packs we had in the freezer that mingled with some other devilry. It looked like the subway in ghostbusters II and I now want to burn my house down.

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Ghost Busters: Holding On

Alt: Ghost Busters: using their proton packs

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I slathered tiger balm into my nostrils to combat the smell. My house burning down would be a net positive on the day.

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Finally got power, and it’s possible I’m the only person whose day got substantially worse because of it. I am currently sucking mystery slime out from my fridge's drip tray (it is stupidly fixed beneath the air compressor) with a used syringe I got from my neighbour who works with animals.

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Still no power/water/internet/cell service. Rain leaked through the windows last week when we got 3 feet of rain. Probably gonna happen again when we get another foot. Classes start back up on Monday. Send a meteorite.

A rain map for TS moke showing the big island of Hawaii getting fucked with rain again

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Yeah, it’s not ideal. Here is a section a bit further up.

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We got torn up this last Kona Low, too.

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Yeah I’m definitely not getting power back anytime soon. The whole drive between Mountain View and Volcano is rife with large sections like this.

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Shit no. That job looks terrible at all institutions

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Etienne Médard @etiennemedard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A little late to the party, but congratulations to my former postdoc K. Brückel (now at the University of Bonn) for her very nice paper on diffusion chronometry in olivine crystals from the 2018-2020 Fani Maoré submarine eruption 🌋⚒️🧪 – agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Integrating Olivine Diffusion Chronometry With Monitoring Data to Decipher the Magma Dynamics at the Submarine Fani Maoré Volcano

Diffusion modeling in olivine from the submarine volcano, Fani Maoré, shows continuous interaction of two magmas for ∼0.5–20 months By coupling geophysical data with timescales from diffusion chr...

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Having some intrusive thoughts related to not having power or water at home due to the hurricane…

An emergency shower station in a science lab

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Same. Still no power up here but at least good weather and a faint rainbow for a dog walk.

A big black dog on a walk with a faint, wispy rainbow in the background.

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We always seem to be part of the 15%…

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

That pink color last night was also pretty eerie.

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hawai‘i is feeling a bit too much like Florida this week.

A hurricane forecast showing the big island under a hurricane warning

Emergency alert notification indicating a hurricane warning for the big island of Hawai‘i

A shopping cart with beer, fancy meats, and potato chips

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Same, I have vivid memories in that airport!

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"We must show that reading gives access to an inexhaustible source of delight. But I worry, too, that we are limiting the meaning of the word pleasure. Learning is a strange and discomfiting experience; it’s a struggle and a frustration, and epiphanies are rare." www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

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‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Klaus is not smart enough to figure out engineering problems. A gomerel to the core with 2 brain cells fighting for 3rd place.

A big black dog with a vacant look and a side tongue

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

He couldn’t sniff well with it in his mouth and almost peed on it when he dropped it to figure out where to go…

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My 135lb dog insisted that his tiny stuffed hedgehog join us for our morning walk.

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Sitting out episode 52 but still enjoying the view from my bedroom window.

Red glowing sky with twilight and stars over a fern and tree rich area.

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I use several things you’ve written in my classes!

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Thanks! His coat was in rough shape when we got him and so this is a huge compliment.

A grumpy looking Newfoundland dog who’s a bit skinny and has a yeasty coat

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Klaus keeps me reluctantly socialized over the summer months.

A black Newfoundland dog in front of hilo bay in Hawaii with a big double rainbow

A big black Newfoundland dog in a Japanese garden

A black Newfoundland dog in front of an orange pagoda bridge.

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I unintentionally captured a photo in the same spot with Klaus (today, at almost 4) and Lothar 🖤 (back in 2022 at 8.5). Dogs are such a treasure, I wish we got more time with them.

A black Newfoundland dog walking through a forest that looks like Endor from Star Wars.

A different black Newfoundland dog walking through the same forest in roughly the same location.

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 18/07/2026

“I use it for data analysis” “I use it for literature reviews” “I use it to summarize articles” “I use to generate ideas” then you do no understand research or rigor or ethics and you are aligned with grifters, opportunists, billionaires, and millionaires who made their money through exploitation.

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I put on my petty glasses and pointed out all of the issues and inconsistencies in their damage report, requested the video footage I know LAX takes when you enter the rental center, and mentioned I spoke with a lawyer. They quickly dropped the claim. Don’t rent from budget/avis is the lesson here.

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Bipedal Meatbag @bipedalmeatbag.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It’s ridiculous. For once I am hoping they have the AI use case photos because I suspect they’ll show me driving right on into the lot with an unmarred vehicle.

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