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Kathryn Tewson

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Good in a crisis and at no other time First initial last name at gmail dot com

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Yes, it is! I have a whole bunch of them -- you can see exemplars at my Society6 PoD shop here. society6.com/kathryntewson Feel free to take as much inspiration as you want!

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If you think "working class" is white male auto workers who live in the suburbs, and not multiracial Starbucks baristas, Amazon warehouse workers, and Wal-Mart greeters of all genders, you are perpetuating a revanchist racist myth, the reality of which died with Reagan.

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IMPORTANT: The website for Jonathan Mitchell's sock puppet org suing Northwestern for "bias against white men" is an open submission form asking for "evidence of race or sex preferences at any university you've been associated with." Just FYI! fasorp.org

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consequences of having all your staffers and think tank guys under the age of 35 be anime pedophile nazis

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Nat Geo and Pop Sci always read more to me as “late elementary through high school” fodder than specifically male-coded but this could also be just a demonstration of what kind of child I was

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the three options: 1. Field & Stream 2. Guns & Ammo 3. Something with a roided-out Hugh Jackman screaming on the cover

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Oh, for sure. I was just thinking about this because i too have noticed all the magazines are gone, one of my favorite sociological exercises used to be “what does this establishment think men are into”

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Project 2025 will ban sunday sportsball and beer is a message with really serious legs, there is a whole genre of Americans who will put up with basically anything except no football sunday

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white people stop trying to make indigenous history “natural history” instead of “history-history” challenge 2024

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well, one cubic centimeter of water weighs one gram one meter = 100 cm 100cm ^3 = 1,000,000 cubic centimeters = 1,000,000 grams 1,000,000 grams = 1,000 kg 1,000 kg = 1 metric ton

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I mean either that or my entire existence is a series of waxing and waning hyperfoci like an endless string of mardi gras beads being dangled in front of inebriated tourists

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this is, like — ok have you ever read a medieval bestiary

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I never met the man but that line makes me think he and I could have been friends.

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!! Tell him that 13 and I spent the evening eating tacos and watching this and pausing to go look stuff up

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Although I guess now it’s mostly in Astoria

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well presumably there was a lot of that too

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now I am just picturing a sad man whose life’s work requires him to actively lean in to being an idiot, sitting in front of a boat

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Holy shit are you in the right place for that research lmao

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I mean, I know you know that. I am just saying it out loud, for the room.

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because that’s what happens when you curate the facts to fit your desired understanding rather than the other way around

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some of them motherfuckers are big, too. Like bigger than cars, like small houses even

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The thing is, the Grand Canyon very clearly WASN’T made like that, because it has a V-shaped cross section, very consistent with slow erosion. The Scablands canyons though have a *square* cross-section just like when a river overflow cuts through the beach and runs down to the ocean

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That’s so fucking cool! Science: it’s a way you can know things even if you didn’t see them!

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Okay but seriously, can you imagine? The rate of flow was higher than all rivers on earth. Combined! BY A FACTOR OF TEN!! This was happening during the same period when humans first showed up in the Americas. There were people here! People saw this happen! People like we are people!

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thank you for coming to my ted talk. birbmom out.

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I love this story as an intersection and union of geology and sociology, of ancient inexorable forces and hasty human squabbles, and as a reminder that the truth is always the truth, whether it’s convenient or not. Plus the landscape is just hella cool.

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When they finally accepted that they were wrong and awarded him what I think of as the “I TOLD You So” medal (actually the Penrose Medal) in 1979 when he was 94, he said “All my enemies are dead, so I have no one left to gloat over.”

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And they LITERALLY laughed at him at the Academy! The Geological Society sneered at him for promoting ideas they saw as connected to young-earth creationism and all but threw him out on his ear. The next fifty years of research then proved him to be pretty much spot on.

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The geologist J Harlan Bretz realized in the 1920s that the parallel bands of low hills — you can see them at 19:40 in the video — looked like the ripples on the sandy bottoms of rivers, except HUGE. He proposed the idea that they were caused by cataclysmic floods instead of slow erosion.

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But the thing about ice is that it melts, and even more so when it has that much water pressing on it, particularly because ice floats. And so eventually that ice dam would catastrophically fail, and that five hundred cubic miles of water would drain to the Pacific in a matter of days.

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There were a ton of them, these floods. We don’t know how many. Basically part of a glacier would form an ice dam across the Clark Fork River, which would then back up and form Glacial Lake Missoula, which covered hundreds of square miles and was hundreds of feet deep. Like 500 cubic miles of water.

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Please enjoy these 24 minutes of drone footage of the Channeled Scablands, a landscape formed by cataclysmic floods that is like nothing else on Earth. youtu.be/oWzFH7x6nLs?...

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Please enjoy these 24 minutes of drone footage of the Channeled Scablands, a landscape formed by cataclysmic floods that is like nothing else on Earth. youtu.be/oWzFH7x6nLs?...

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look, they must be good words, I paid ten dollars each for them

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I tell you, the frisson of horripilation that ran over me when I saw that deployed

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In all sincerity, the flood of supportive messages is lovely. I tell you what, donate what you would have sent to me to your local bail fund instead; the same system that exonerates powerful men without ever examining their conduct does exactly the opposite to those who lack that power.

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