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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 29/08/2025

“If New Orleans goes, we won’t lose mere possessions but one of the world’s greatest cities and many of its greater citizens.” - me on August 28, 2005 20 years ago, we had just reached Houston after 16 long hours on the road, and I stayed for what turned out to be six months. vatul.net/640

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Day 0/1: Katrina Update #5: Evacuated To Houston

This is my first chance to update everyone since D and I evacuated New Orleans for Houston 16 hours ago. First off, thank you to EVERYONE for keeping us in your thoughts . If I could only express to y...

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 23/08/2025

Hi #geosky, it’s been a minute. Where can I find the latest trends and techniques in geologic map making? How are undergraduates learning to map - on paper or using digital techniques? If digital, what tools are prevalent and who are the leading experts/researchers in this area? TY! #geology #maps

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 25/05/2025

Book 19 of 2025: Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, political scientist & Tulane prof. Second 5 stars given. 📚💙 “Don’t let it get you down. They don’t understand it either, they live in fear of the lights going out, as if every day wasn’t already made of lightning and blackouts.”

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 02/05/2025

Even when the political winds shift, science must keep moving forward. That’s why @AGU and @ametsoc are stepping up with a first-of-its-kind special collection on climate change in the U.S.—across 29+ peer-reviewed journals. 🌍📚 Read all about it: buff.ly/6G05hQD

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 18/04/2025

If you're interested in downloading available data quickly, I found the DownThemAll website scraper extension for Firefox pretty useful. ⚒️🧪

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 18/04/2025

So is there any point to downloading the databases listed here that NOAA has asked fellow scientists to download? And the new ones are easier to access from where and how?

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California Geological Survey @cageosurvey.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The Sierra Nevada Earth Atlas showcases California’s longest and tallest mountain range and its iconic geologic features. It represents the most current, complete, and largest-scale, range-wide syntheses of geoscience data. Learn more - www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/document...

Geologic map of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The different colors on the map are different types of rocks.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 02/04/2025

On, Wisconsin! On! 🦡 🧀 💚

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 30/03/2025

Where can someone who lives in Yakima, WA (in the ash fall path of a Mt Adams eruption) get accurate scientific information as they are hearing only inflammatory local news? They are far away enough that they would not have to evacuate, but would like to be better informed/prepared. 🧪⚒️

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 17/03/2025

“‘There are no ghosts, but up here’-she gestured toward her head-‘it’s a haunted house.’” Just finished Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and it’s going to be a favorite. This is the book I wanted Ready Player One to be. #gamer #BookSky💙📚

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 13/03/2025

Book 5 of 2025: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. Read this bit of dialogue set in the 1980s and now staring at Oregon 2025. #youdiedofdysentery #BookSky💙📚

"You're not supposed to make me laugh.
Do people truly die of dysentery?" Sam asked.
"In the olden days, I guess they did."

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 08/03/2025

Broccoli and zucchini bhaji are part of the repertoire in my family now. But nothing beats good old potato and green chili. I want to try sauteed okra and eggplant/aubergine bhaji next.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 08/03/2025

Hahahaha. You did not just sayYorkshire paneer! Stop! What’s next - the Jedburgh Jalfrezi?

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 08/03/2025

Breaking news: Area Indian-American woman married to a Scots-American learns that there is such a thing as a haggis pakora. Film at 11.

media.tenor.com

a woman with her eyes closed and her hands on her forehead says what

Alt: a woman with her eyes closed and her hands on her forehead says what

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 06/03/2025

Mardi Gras Day | March 4, 2025 | New Orleans, LA “The system of patriarchy can function only with the cooperation of women.”

Dressed as Medusa for Mardi Gras Day; planning to make and collect stones for the foreseeable future.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 24/02/2025

Yeah yeah D wants to know if you’re going to be out there tomorrow night to get your doubloons.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 24/02/2025

They don’t women and people of color to make any gains because in their unimaginative zero-sum world, if one gets ahead the other has to lose. However, they are anti-science, too, so leave us scientists to practice as we want?

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 23/02/2025

The year King Arthur paraded during BAD rains (2012?), they rolled super fast, there were maybe two people per block, and riders were forced to chuck out $$$ worth of throws to puddles and the streets bc can’t leave anything on the float at the end. A lot of angry riders after that year.

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life."

Real techies don’t worry about forced eugenics. I learned this from a real
techie in the cafeteria of a software company.

The project team is having lunch and discussing how long it would take
to wipe out a disease inherited recessively on the X chromosome. First
come calculations of inheritance probabilities. Given a population of a
given size, one of the engineers arrives at a wipe-out date. Immediately
another suggests that the date could be moved forward by various
manipulations of the inheritance patterns. For example, he says, there could be an education campaign.

The six team members then fall over one another with further
suggestions. They start with rewards to discourage carriers from breeding.
Immediately they move to fines for those who reproduce the disease. Then they go for what they call “more effective” measures: Jail for breeding. Induced abortion. Forced sterilization.

Now they’re hot. The calculations are flying. Years and years fall from
the final doom-date of the disease.

Finally, they get to the ultimate solution. “It’s straightforward,” someone
says. “Just kill every carrier.” Everyone responds to this last suggestion
with great enthusiasm. One generation and—bang—the disease is gone.

Quietly, I say, “You know, that’s what the Nazis did.”

They all look at me in disgust. It’s the look boys give a girl who has
interrupted a burping contest. One says, “This is something my wife would say.

When he says “wife,” there is no love, warmth, or goodness in it. In this
engineer’s mouth, “wife” means wet diapers and dirty dishes. It means
someone angry with you for losing track of time and missing dinner.
Someone sentimental. In his mind (for the moment), “wife” signifies all
programming-party-pooping, illogical things in the universe.

Still, I persist. “It started as just an idea for the Nazis, too, you know.”

The engineer makes a reply that sounds like a retch. “This is how I know
you’re not a real techie,” he says.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 22/02/2025

⚜️ KREWE OF KING ARTHUR PARADE RAIN DELAY!⚜️ Due to 100% chance of downpour tomorrow, King Arthur is now a night parade and will roll on Tuesday at 5:30pm. See y’all on the route! #NOLAsky #mardigras

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 22/02/2025

Don’t know if it’s the writing that telegraphs the killer from the start or the result of having watched 5000+ British murder mysteries, but I knew whodunnit within the first 10 minutes of all three Ellis episodes. Same for other newer shows. Love Sharon D. Clarke in the role, though. Fierce queen.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 21/02/2025

Listen to me about deep and indiscriminate layoffs in science, tech, and engineering (private and public sector). Once the talent is gone, it is gone. For a whole generation or more. A company/research institution cannot simply recoup its former power by hiring back staff/contractors here and there.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 21/02/2025

I thought I was reading the latest @theonion.com American Voices.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 17/02/2025

Back up. Is Musk a scientist? Why is the RS making him one?

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 16/02/2025

Krewe du Vieux rolls! We march and dance and claim these streets tonight with even more of our sociopolitical satire because this is what we are fighting for. Let’s remember the krewe’s philosophy following Katrina: Preserve our culture and heritage first, and the recovery will follow. #NOLASky

Krewe du Vieux is Revolting! Title float.

SOUL brass band with the dancing Muffalottas!

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 14/02/2025

So embarrassed they keep placing the label in Mexican waters.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 14/02/2025

We took progressive states like my beautiful Wisconsin for granted and look at what happened. A lot of work ahead in Blue America.

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

“But it is up to scientists to do the reading — and to follow our consciences. More than universities are on the line: the lives of our students and colleagues are on the line.”

physicsworld.com

US science in chaos as impact of Trump's executive orders sinks in – Physics World

US science hit by staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 13/02/2025

We have so many things to do!

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 11/02/2025

Reported a Google Maps content error: This portion of the Gulf of Mexico is erroneously labeled. The Gulf of America does not extend beyond the southern maritime boundary between the US and Mexico. If you’re going to do it, do it correctly. Higher accuracy generates greater use.

Screenshot of Gulf of Mexico with “Gulf of” in American waters and “America” in Mexican waters, where it is actually the Gulf of Mexico.

Official Mexico-US maritime boundary agreements for Gulf of Mexico drawn in 1970 and 1978.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 11/02/2025

Now serving eraserhead enchiladas with a side of shai hulud salsa. 🤢

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 10/02/2025

America ❤️ litigation. DEI was put in place to avoid discrimination lawsuits and is now being dismantled for the same reason.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 07/02/2025

Bill Laswell and Material! They made one of my favorite albums - Seven Souls - a collab with William S. Burroughs. Listen to it on a redeye flight for full effect.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 06/02/2025

“human drivers who sometimes demonstrate a unique interpretation of the standard rules of the road” - So much to unpack just in this clause of the whole sentence.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 06/02/2025

All of this to lower the earning power of qualified people they consider less than. Newsflash: This is a time of mergers and layoffs. If you can’t do the remaining jobs, it doesn’t matter that you belong to the oberklasse.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 06/02/2025

Oh good. a. So can an AI. So what? b. Git … hub … anyone?

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 05/02/2025

DEI is not the inclusion of unqualified people. We are extremely (over) qualified, do not want to be segregated and excluded because we look different, and just want to do the damned work. Support us or get out of the way.

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 04/02/2025

engineering, finance, government, etc., deep knowledge of the subject matter is required along with a desire to improve/modernize that system. This is non-negotiable. I ❤️ young people in computing because they are not afraid of the firehose of new tech and many of them are interesting (2/x)

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 04/02/2025

Timely. Humans are the barely self-aware descendants of jacked-up prokaryotes on a somewhat rare floating rock, on our way to becoming something else. Can we take a collective step back and chill?

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 03/02/2025

Today was arms and back weights day. Come on, upper body strength! 💪🏽

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Maitri @maitri.vatul.net · 02/02/2025

One thing a day that makes YOU happy. I read a lot more science fiction now. And a Got Your Back check-in/accountability group for exercise, reading, looking at rocks, touching grass, what have you. I don’t have one. 🫤

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