I post about maps, GIS, and environmental chemistry, and now there’s also a lot of energy and Portland posts, some microblogging. Coauthor on a paper on bird population modeling. Reviews everywhere: "She's too direct."
Portland, OR
Courtney Shannon
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Here is a public service announcement filmed by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1980s, and I promise that you would not correctly guess who pops up at the end if I gave you 10,000 tries
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Wait, so Bill Watterson was 37 when he retired from Calvin & Hobbes? Just incredible. I really thought with the internet he would start another strip, without having to deal with newspaper rules and all that. But no, never came back except a couple of guest panels since 1995.
What's the point of these dumb videos with annoying sounds and a woman making dumb condescending faces while showing nothing of informational value? Is this from TikTok? TikTok needs to be wiped away from existence.
Yes, stop with the emails, the surveys for everything, the pop up boxes, the touch screen menus in cars!
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I might have the year wrong? Maybe it was 2009 or 2012 or something. But that was it. I’m trying to recreate that here on Bluesky, now that this is pretty much only place without an algorithm.
Twitter circa 2010. I learned so much from following scientific researchers back then. People posted original posts, not dunk tweets.
