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I’ve used historic air photos to characterize post-logging and fire suppression conifer encroachment into meadows in the Sierra Nevada. They can be wonderful tools. Doesn’t hurt that the WW2 military reconnaissance imagery is fairly high resolution.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 16h

Looks like he got his account back out of BS purgatory.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Holy hell, Bluesky suspended Robert Evans (@iwriteok.bsky.social)!? WTF?

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That is the coolest looking commercial plane I’ve ever seen!

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is he allowed to keep the remaining $26,111 in illegal contributions? If so, it doesn’t sound like much of a disincentive to violate the state’s campaign finance laws.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Conservative groups seem to be dropping a lot of money on ballot initiatives in Colorado, too, which seems like a wild use of resources.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A lot of the ballot measures are deceptively named and worded, and I’m afraid they’ll pass because of it. They have a couple anti-tax, a pro-fossil fuel, and an anti-protected species act that they dressed up in pseudo-progressive language. And then an anti-trans one disguised as anti-trafficking.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m deeply confused what Republicans think they have to gain putting these kinds of resources into Colorado. The one state to vote more democratic in the last election while other blue states shifted right. Also a state where the DSA just won a primary in a dark blue district.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I keep getting mass text messages from Republican groups asking me to vote on the slate of regressive measures they managed to get onto the ballot. Like fuck for voter id referendum. Fuck your three anti-trans measures. Fuck your mass incarceration measure. Fuck your anti-environmental one too!

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dead. I used to drill my students on reading the axis before the plot area for this exact reason.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s a combination of the special formulation and the quality of oil they’re set up to refine. CA refineries are built to refine Bakersfield crude, which is pretty low quality. Big part of why CA historically imported oil of similar grade from South America.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oregon doesn’t have sales tax, and California taxes gas fairly heavily. Additionally, oil companies have always jacked up California’s prices because they figure people could afford to pay more. CA produces oil, but it’s low quality that is more expensive to refine, OR doesn’t produce any.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was distracted by the AGU logo!

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Surprisingly, for it being a Catholic hospital everyone there was super respectful despite me being very visibly a trans woman. It’s not every day I get asked if I know if I’m pregnant, lol

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I passed out last night and fell over the the bannister above the stairs at my house, and ended up getting to spend the rest of the night in the ER. I got extremely lucky, not only did I not die but I didn’t even break any bones. But it still hurts like heck. 0/10, do not recommend.

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Eos @eos.org · 03/09/2026

Today, the USGS released a new version of the Cooperative National Geologic Map, expanding coverage to include Alaska, Hawaii, and most U.S. territories. www.usgs.gov/news/nationa...

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USGS Cooperative National Geologic Map Now Covers 50 States, U.S. Territories

RESTON, Va. — The U.S. Geological Survey today released Version 2.0 of the Cooperative National Geologic Map, expanding coverage to include Alaska, Hawaii, and most U.S. territories.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Would it be tacky to have both a St Helens AND a Mammoth Mountain one is my office? Asking for a friend…

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The one here closed a couple years ago, which sucks.

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cool girls have cool jobs 😎

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And then you have the perennial dumpster fire that is Reddit.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My grandfather’s 1946 CJ2A (missing parts in the garage) that Allison and I are going to fix up as soon as I figure out how to get it from CA to CO!

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Full disclosure - they were sitting in my lap with me controlling the pedals in 2-lo doing about 5 mph on an old mining road.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I let Allison take the wheel in the Jeep for the first time today! This makes her a 4th generation Jeeper!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m assuming they’re salt/evaporite features but am not certain.

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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Trans rights cost us nothing, just stop being shitty and acknowledge that people are different and that is okay.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I ❤️ lidar! Having fun with a 0.5m lidar dataset of Death Valley, California. Both images are of the playa near Willow Canyon.

Meanders and ox-bow channels in the lake bed. Total elevation contrast across the image is ~1m. Red colors indicate higher elevations, dark green lower elevations.

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Mineralogical Society of America @mineralsocamerica.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

American Mineralogist: Evaluation of the Mg-in-magnetite geothermometer and development of new magnetite geothermometers using machine learning Xing-Hao Gao, Hao Hu, Guo-Xiong Chen, David Lentz, Heng Luo, Xiao-Ming Li, Zhe Ren doi.org/10.2138/am-2...

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This image is from 1949. The road that diagonals out toward the top right corner is Abbot Street.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I wasn’t able to locate them, but there should be WW2 military intelligence aerial photos of that area. The Army collected them incase Japan invaded California. They tend to be high quality and are usually online. That should make it easier to ID the location.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m assuming that a major produce packing house of that era would have been on the rail line for logistics. The USGS has 1931 and a 1947 topo maps of that area that show the locations of buildings. Not sure which it is, but there are only a few options. ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/vie...

ngmdb.usgs.gov

Get Maps

Explore, interact, and download USGS topographic maps free of charge from topoView.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I wish! It was super busy when I went by. Hopefully next time I’ll be able to stop!

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Are you sure she wasn’t referring to converting captured CO2 in carbonate minerals? Because that would make sense.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Actually from the Colorado Rockies. It also predates Cascadia by around 0.5 billion years!

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh! That isn’t something that I’m familiar with, but I imagine weathering carbonates (xCO3) would be counter productive?

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is illegal to collect from National Parks, but you are allowed to collect small volumes from National Forest and BLM lands unless marked otherwise.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don’t understand your question, could you possibly rephrase it?

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A gorgeous breccia intruded by a quartz vein! Look at that gorgeous crystal form on the quartz! If you look closely you can see how the qtz grains nucleated on the breccia clasts and grew radiating outward! 🧪⚒️

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A souvenir I picked up while camping in the San Juan mountains outside of Ouray, Colorado last weekend. Whats wrapped up in the yoga mat? ⚒️🧪

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I made it out to the Iron Hill carbonatite stock last weekend!!! Not the prettiest rock on the planet, but I did find some nice igneous calcite crystals amid the mess! ⚒️🧪

Long handled crack hammer on an outcrop of carbonatite in Gunnison County, Colorado.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I didn’t realize until looking it up after seeing your post that Parton’s cover of Deportee predates the Highwaymen version by five years. I had assumed they were contemporary releases.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Checkerboards in general impede management and public access, but usually counties oppose consolidation as it can result in a loss of tax revenue, if the new private parcels end up in another co and they get left with increased Fed lands.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

But in Brian’s world it involves kinematically impossible brittle detachment faults.

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Bridget Platt @bptt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

To be honest, I might have an issue with coming up with GOOD ideas, but not ideas in general. The rest still stands.

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