mau 🏳️‍🌈

Animal.
Venezuelan migrant.
Solar energy engineer.
Climate evangelist.

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2024-08-03 17:13:19

#Hugin #Panorama #Houston #Cycling #Photography
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2024-05-26 01:48:05

If I sound bitter about the USA it's mostly because I used to believe this system COULD serve its people.
I heard of Roe v Wade as a young teen in the third world and thought: progress is possible.
The religious barbarism that condemns young pregnant women to either poverty or risk of death could be held in check with voting and laws.
But then I moved here, and two weeks later Roe v Wade got repealed. And now the Supreme Court is anointing Trump.
It's become hard to stay positive.

2024-05-24 02:05:42

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@npub19fc…ay3c From Venezuela :blobcatlaugh: Picked up the term from an Arkansan, and heard it again in Texas.

2024-05-24 01:56:57

Wrasslings hilarious.

2024-05-22 03:08:19

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@npub1wje…kd27 I grew up eating food deep fried in palm oil, so I guess I'm fucked.

2024-05-18 22:17:12

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@npub19fc…ay3c Yeah, same. Somehow one side can shit on the rules, force their way and then manage the fallout, while the other does nothing out of alleged respect for those same rules.

2024-05-18 01:53:02

Imagine being a pre-Inuit wandering into the north-american wilderness, the first human to ever do so.
Behind you are the blood feuds of the tribes of the old country, and before you virgin forests, lakes and prairies, teeming with game, fish, water, flint, food plants and medicinal herbs - anything you could need, with no other human around for hundreds of thousands of miles.
Paradise must have been real for some brief moments in time.

2024-05-17 14:29:32

Holy shit, the damage in Houston from last nights storm is far worse than I imagined.
"4 dead as destructive thunderstorm blasts Houston
Meteorologists compared the wind damage to a hurricane."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/05/16/houston-texas-tornado-storm-power-outage/
#Houston #WX
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2024-05-17 03:20:41

Why isn't @npub1fqp…rx3u more popular? This seems like the kind of thing that should go viral in the fedi.

2024-05-15 19:39:02

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 Could it just be confusion about the sudden light change making them think its daytime?
Like how animals will behave strangely during eclipses because of the sudden darkness making them think it's nighttime.

2024-05-10 05:10:45

North Carolina State Capitol
#Panorama #Photography #Drone
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2024-05-02 11:36:18

Is it still a "gunman" when it's a 14 year old child?
Jesus.

2024-04-27 23:38:16

Kicking myself for having cropped her helmet in the second shot, but I was shooting freehand from afar.
#Skateboarding #Photography #Houston
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2024-04-26 20:54:17

Since I realized how huge the college basketball industry is I've been a bit disgusted by it.
How can there be so much money for this, but not for actual education.

2024-04-25 04:21:27

Plaque of a woman looking out of a window, carved out of ivory.
Northeast palace, Nimrud, Iraq
900-700 BCE
#archaeology #photography #Iraq #darktable
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2024-04-24 05:06:06

Barrio Logan
#SanDiego #Photography #StreetArt #Latin
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2024-04-24 04:09:06

Some art deco (I think?) in San Diego, outside a library IIRC.
#Photography #Art #Architecture #SanDiego
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2024-04-23 22:54:36

I know it's not a great shot, but I like the composition.
#Madrid #Metro #Photography
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2024-04-21 22:55:05

#Houston #Photography #Panorama #Hugin
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2024-04-21 04:05:09

#Houston
#StreetArt
#Photography #Bats
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2024-04-16 21:12:18

One of the challenges of microphotography is that things move around a lot.
Even this spider very much trying to stand still on its net was getting shaken around violently by the wind.
#Arachnids #Spider #Microphotography
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2024-04-14 18:42:57

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@npub19fc…ay3c Maybe humidity has increased as well?
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2024-04-03 00:35:00

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@npub19fc…ay3c Maybe you can do some veiled discrimination like they love to do here, "management reserves the right to deny service", don't tell them why, and prioritize the marg'd.

2024-03-31 01:00:42

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@npub1typ…c8hh Enough that someone made this - https://www.alternativeairlines.com/airlines-not-flying-boeing-737-max

2024-03-25 13:20:18

"U.N. Weather Agency Issues ‘Red Alert’ on Climate Change After Record Heat in 2023" - March 19, 2024
#News #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
https://time.com/6958370/un-wmo-climate-change-red-alert/

2024-03-24 17:23:29

Hong Kong is reporting its highest march temperature in 140 years.
And it's not just Hong Kong.
Rio, Portland, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Buffalo, Sydney, Toronto, Singapore, Kerala - those are only some of the cities that came up in the top results for "march heat record".
#ClimateCrisis #EndFossilFuels #ClimateChange #HongKong #Sydney #Toronto #Singapore #Kerala #Buffalo #Cleveland #Pittsburgh #Washington #Portland #Rio
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2024-03-22 17:18:58

Getting better at focus stacking... but not quite there yet.
I think this is a moth?
#Macrophotography #Hugin #Entomology #Mothstodon #Moth
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2024-03-21 19:00:24

Look at this absolute unit.
Even the cats are bigger in Texas?
#Cat #Photography #Houston
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2024-03-20 15:00:12

"Goon Squad Officer Is Sentenced to 20 Years in Mississippi Torture Cases
Six officers pleaded guilty last year to assaulting two Black men and shooting one of them in the mouth during a raid on their home."
#USA #Mississippi #News #FuckThePolice #ACAB #Racism
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/us/goon-squad-mississippi-sentencing.html

2024-03-19 22:59:24

Todays dinner tastes like americana and car tire microplastics.
I mean, it tastes good, but I know it's not good for me.
#Houston #urbanism #CarHell #Photography #Americana
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2024-03-19 16:27:11

This small figure is no more than a couple of cm tall.
#Houston #Photography #Museum #Archaeology #Egyptology
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2024-03-19 04:14:09

#Houston #Downtown #Photography
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2024-03-19 04:02:30

Whoever died must of been important cause they had the cops block intersections for the Hearse.
#Houston #photography
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2024-03-19 02:42:19

Mass transit for the rich, mass transit for the poor.
#Houston #Photography
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2024-03-17 18:36:22

Keeping all image parameters constant, but varying the aperture from f/5.6 to f/36
This shows how increasing the aperture decreases the light that reaches the sensor, but increases the depth of field, bringing more of the scene into focus.
#Photography
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2024-03-17 06:22:24

#Houston #Museum #Photography #Archaeology #Art #NativeAmerican
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2024-03-17 06:04:26

#Houston #Museum #Photography #Archaeology #Art #NativeAmerican
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2024-03-17 05:58:18

#Houston #Museum #Photography #Archaeology #Art #Maya
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2024-03-16 03:32:56

My time in Houston is soon coming up.
I'm glad to say I think I've gotten to see some of the best this city has to offer.
#Houston #Texas #USA #Bicycle #Photography #Family #Bike
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2024-03-15 19:21:24

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2024-03-12 13:39:36

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@npub1m3r…kelx @npub19fc…ay3c "Fiduciary duty" is toxic. A company should serve its customers and workers, not it's shareholders.

2024-03-02 22:58:03

Urban wildlife.
#Houston #Photography #Wildlife #Birds #Squirrel
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2024-02-29 19:42:29

#shitpost
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2024-02-06 15:01:07

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@npub19fc…ay3c Yep. There's a lot of examples of oil companies buying and killing off projects to do this and other methods of electrification.
Profit margins in fossil fuels are some of the largest in any industry, why would you exchange that for selling electricity with razor thin margins?

2024-01-29 06:43:26

Houston is not pretty, and the city government knows it, so in the past year they've been decorating downtown with murals. These are some of them.
#Houston
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2024-01-26 19:39:53

The USA seems obsessed with crime and punishment.
Everywhere signs warning against transgressions and rent-a-cops overly eager to harras homeless folks just trying to mind their business.

2024-01-09 17:25:54

Why are americans so fucking cowardly?
Its like they live in constant fear of their own shadows, scared of each other, clutching at guns to feel safe, driving around in oversized trucks because they're scared of other drivers.
Jesus, get a grip.

2023-12-04 14:56:07

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@npub1vz5…qdta You're right, a 40% capacity factor for wind is too high. But it doesn't matter. Energy storage will cover the night and low wind hours.
Is nuclear dispatchable? As I understand it, its so expensive that the only way to keep it profitable is to run it at full capacity continuously. Not exactly the poster boy of flexibility.

2023-12-04 12:41:58

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@npub1vz5…qdta lol.
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2023-12-03 18:16:54

When oil and gas industrialists say that phasing out fossil fuels would lead to chaos, it's not a warning but a threat.

2023-12-02 11:03:53

Nuclear took 20 years to reach 200GW, at a huge cost, causing several terrible accidents and producing a toxic waste that needs to be guarded for thousands of years.
Wind and solar reached 200GW in half the time for a fraction of the cost and without significant incidents.
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2023-10-21 05:25:04

I just spent my friday night painting the most depressing picture I could.
The story of how obscenely powerful elites killed the planet for profit, knowingly.
Global Warming was a headline topic in the New York Times by 1988.
There were plenty of warnings and calls to stop increasing emissions. But they just kept increasing.
They kept increasing after the 1995 IPCC report concluded that the only way to meet the goal of the Kyoto Protocol was an IMMEDIATE reduction in emissions of 50-70%.
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2023-10-03 05:06:37

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 Right, I'm just wondering if it holds on touchscreen "keyboards".

2023-10-03 05:03:29

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 On what conditions? What kind of keyboard?

2023-09-06 22:21:59

This rendering of ancient Tenochtitlan is beautiful - https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/index.html
I had wondered what the city must have looked like back in the day. This has been extremely revealing.
It's mind blowing to me that the streets of Mexico city still align (in part) with the waterways of Tenochtitlan.
I felt that years of war, domination and destruction would've altered it - but I guess not.
#History #Mexico

2023-09-05 00:55:59

"California techies have doubts about moving to Texas"
Houston is the city from where most people have left in the past year.
After a year here, it's no surprise. I'm looking to leave too.
This city, like all cities, is full of great people just trying to make the best of things - but its not a good place to live.
#Houston
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/california-texas-tech-workers-18346616.php

2023-09-03 16:14:57

Selling carbon credits is the modern day equivalent of selling indulgences.
I'm sorry to break this to you rich people but you can't really pay your way out of climate change.
Physics doesn't work that way.

2023-09-03 15:45:07

I've been thinking of how to express what I think about the Burning Man situation, but this guy just did it perfectly.
Fuck Burning Man.
#BurningMan
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2023-09-02 17:29:30

Carbon capture does not appear to be a viable mitigation measure for climate change.
It's not an efficient use of energy or resources, as it's failed to meet it's targets every single time it's been tried. Yet, every plan for "NET zero by 2050" relies on this.
The "NET" part depends on there being SOMETHING that's taking CO2 out of the atmosphere - but there isn't and likely won't be. The only viable method of carbon capture is to keep it underground.

2023-08-24 05:19:20

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@npub1qk5…jlda Congrats on the great achievement! Looking forward to the science to come!

2023-08-17 14:13:59

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 A chicken were-person turning into a person and going on a fried-chicken binge, to wake up back as a chicken surrounded by discarded chicken bones and fast food wrappers, horrified.
Sounds like a comedy waiting to happen.

2023-08-05 15:30:28

People say "carbon capture is necessary" - it's not.
It's a pipe dream. A distraction cooked up by the fossil fuel lobby.
What we need is to stop burning fossil fuels.

2023-08-05 04:23:03

You don't know the joys of 3D printing until you have a 12 hour print fail on hour 11 because the USB with the gcode suddenly became corrupt.
#3DPrinting #Fail

2023-08-03 20:08:04

Man, if I had any kind of power or responsibility I'd be using whatever resources I've got to educate the public about the importance of reducing energy use.
Inviting people to show the ways in which they take action, getting them to compete and take pride in their efforts.
Give this problem the sense of urgency and presence it deserves.
But I guess that's too much too ask of... anywhere on this planet.
#ReduceYourUse

2023-08-02 23:12:55

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@npub1sat…8vnx Thanks! Will look into it. This was the itinerary I got from Amtrak, who I'm sure have no interest in making it easy or convenient.
EDIT: Actually, the original one I got was even worse.

2023-08-02 19:06:13

So I decided to figure out if it's possible to go from Houston to Las Vegas by train.
It's not, but you CAN go to LA and then take a bus from there.
The ticket costs around 300$ each way.
The trip takes around three days (36h HTX->LA, 6h LA->LV).
I'm considering doing it.
#USA #Transport #Rail
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