shademar

@shademar

Scientist watching the world burn from Tahoe. PhD in neuro stuff from Cal. NIH alum. Retired I guess. Have MS and at war with my brain in general. Weather obsessed. A goblin. Creators show me your creations! Alt text if possible plz #WxSky #FireWx

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shademar@shademar· 24d

Snow flower growing in damp pine needles- similar and different. Anything green is something else. No chlorophyll. But, as above, what is it? Pops up after snowmelts in damp detritus and then disappears for the rest of the year.

A single stalk of a snow flower growing in dead pine needles and near a green plant.

shademar@shademar· 26d

Well, that's not a great look for the country. The PNW looks to be contending with lightning strike fire starts as well; note that it was a lightning storm that set off the complex of fires plaguing the NE and Canada, which is causing the AQI to go to hell,

Screenshot from the website for Watch Duty showing a growing number of fires in the west, flood warnings in AZ and TX, and intense air pollution in the Northeast.

shademar@shademar· 29d

Shiny wonderful things (a pyritized ammonite pendent with well-defined chambers, a white opal inlay silver ring, & this badass silver necklace that I need to wear to do justice -when less goblinish) from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social !!!

An ammonite that has been pyritized and sliced in half to reveal the inside. There is pyrite druzy (the thin layer of sparkle from a coating of tiny pyrite crystals) in the hollow chambers of the shell.

A silver ring with colorful white opal inlayed in delicate zig-zagging lines.

A thick silver chain with interesting linkages wrapped around a hand. It appears to be three interlocked and stacked thick geometric chains.

shademar@shademar· Jul 10

❤️ We're out here, scribbling with watercolor pencils to fill in your art zines in a desperate and appreciated boost to staying sane in a world that refuses to let us.

An inked picture of a white crow sitting on a branch (artist - Amanda Makepeace) that's been colored in with watercolor pencils by someone else.

shademar@shademar· Jul 7

oh oh oh I just received the most amazing package from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social Briefest snap of one thing as I rearrange jewelry and deal with life but holy SHIT, look at the bracelets - the furthest up one in this case. Where was this my entire frikken life? Other amazing things as well...

wrist; wearing two bracelets from The Peculiarity Shop, with an Apple Watch between them. Bracelet in question is furthest up on the wrist, resembling a brutalist reinterpretation of the cartier love bracelet with screws, metal cut-outs, and a stainless steel looking finish.

shademar@shademar· Jul 6

Oh, awesomeness! Thx for letting me know! Because I definitely could not stab anyone with this 🫠

A dull letter opener with a skull of some type that has multiple rings through its nose. And crazy eyes.

shademar@shademar· Jul 6

not for me to enter anything. just want to help, pass it along and hoping for the best.

shademar@shademar· Jul 5

Silver is my first and always love. My literal engagement ring:

A slim silver ring being displayed in an open palm.

shademar@shademar· Jul 4

Quick, let's all go screenshot our local AQI's so we can compare back tomorrow for funsies (environmental despair.) Shots below: Left - Wunderground (can be found under Air Quality). Right - WatchDuty with AQI layer turned on. Other sources out there too - suggestions?

Air quality reading map of South Lake Tahoe, July4 7:45am west coast time

Air quality map of the East Coast, July 4, 10:45 local.

shademar@shademar· Jul 2

Not such a great shot, but magpie sitting on a concrete eagle with a broken off beak so it looks more like a falcon. A few geese watch from below.

A magpie sitting on a concrete eagle with a beak broken so it looks more like a falcon. A few geese watch from below. The statue is on a fence and water is visible beyond it.

shademar@shademar· Jul 1

Trogdor the Wipenator is holding up great!

A 3d printed toilet paper dispenser in the form of a dragon, presenting the roll of paper almost as if it is a curled scroll.

shademar@shademar· Jun 29

Good thing this won't runoff into delicate wildlands and waters. But even it it did, it's ✨Natural✨! Like raw milk! And no vaccines! And having zero scientific knowledge! And ✨Cyanide!✨! I bet it has zero chemicals because MAHA Kelley wouldn't tolerate such abominations.

FireHawk® Bioherbicide is designed for people who want effective weed control with a more deliberate approach — whether they’re caring for a backyard garden or managing acres of productive land. Powered by nonanoic acid, a fatty acid, it works on contact to break down actively growing weeds, including annuals, perennials, grasses, broadleaf species, and most mosses and other cryptogams. You’ll see visible change on most weeds within hours. Because FireHawk works only where it’s applied, it affects just the plant tissue coated with the spray and leaves no residual control in the soil — so growers and homeowners get effective weed control without lingering presence.

shademar@shademar· Jun 29

Great, MAHA's trying to fuck the lake. Oh, and what is FireHawk "natural" pesticide? It's super selective in that it only kills literally everything you put it on (see next post). Not cheering for glycophosphate, but this MAHA shzt thinks she knows better than decades of research because ✨Nature✨

Text: Kelly Ryerson, also known as Glyphosate Girl, is one of the major voices pushing against the use of glyphosate. She, along with a coalition of Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) advocates, has been staunchly opposed to the synthetic herbicide. At the TRPA governing board, Ryerson expressed her interest in FireHawk, a bioherbicide alternative to glyphosate.

shademar@shademar· Jun 29

Fuckit, goth goblin mode activated- hey, it’s a bit chilly here and sure

Random middle age white chick dressed in black, mirror pic

shademar@shademar· Jun 28

Since we're only a bit more than a week out from the 'blow shit up and traumatize everyone's pets' holiday, I'd like to take a moment to share a word or two with the Western US about fireworks: Don't.

Screenshot from the service WatchDuty showing current fires as of today, jun28, as well as extensive Red Flag Warnings.

shademar@shademar· Jun 24

Categories on the main landing page of my pharmacy now include GLP-1 support. Which, awesome no issues with the drug or those it is helping at all. But, its own category? Next to 'Manage Prescriptions' for all drugs? We're weird creatures. 'Hormones' oddly missing. Weird and terrible.

CVS default menue page. It shows a list of services (most very broad categories like prescription management, but also has an entire category for GLP-1 support.

shademar@shademar· Jun 20

@peculiarityshop.bsky.social Some of the amazing things I've picked up here. More details in alts. I am so freaking obsessed with the seraphinite ring! And the craftsmanship on all of these pieces is mind-blowing. 😳

bracelets: top - thin silver brace with a belt-like clasp
middle: blue moonstone- 2 smaller stones framing a larger one. Brilliant blue.
third: an incredibly well-made and heavy silver bracelet that has intricate coil works framed by smooth silver bands. This is an incredible thing.

Onyx (I believe) and a light opal inlay ring being worn on a thumb. Flipped symmetrical pattern and amazing craftsmanship.

Seraphinite ring. Deep green with silver inclusion patterns that shift with changes in viewing angles.

shademar@shademar· Jun 19

So here's what that looks like. (Also, MODIS and VIIRs and a lot more for fellow wx nerds. Scooper flights, wind, etc.) Anyways, it's non-profit and I'm just a person who lives in fire territory and is glad for and impressed by the service! My continual thanks to the many dedicated volunteers.

Screenshot of fires and fire watches, plus floods and warnings from the alert system WatchDuty . Map of the US with every fire and flood marked by an icon, with a .ist to choose one and learn more to the right.

shademar@shademar· Jun 18

@peculiarityshop.bsky.social I was not very familiar with seraphinite and thought a video would show its depth and dynamism better than stills. It still doesn't do it justice! (my videography skills leave much to be desired 😅)

shademar@shademar· Jun 17

Sweet. I jerry-rigged a belt-clip outer phone case that didn't fit my phone using the kit I bought to make my glasses stay on. Sucked for glasses (silicon will rip out hair - I have some bangs now lol) but turned out to be perfect for this.

Woman holding up an iPhone in multiple layers of cases.

shademar@shademar· Jun 15

The pollen situation in Tahoe right now. It's the pines responsible for painting the town yellow. They all seem to release at once, and prodigiously at that. (note that the pollen on the ground is so thick that there are visible tire tracks in it.)

A grey car in a parking lot. Most of the picture is of the asphalt, which is tinted yellow by pine pollen. Tire tracks are visible in the pollen.

A black SUV in a parking lot. Both the SUV and the concrete of the lot are tinted yellow by an abundance of pine pollen.

shademar@shademar· Jun 5

Thank you @peculiarityshop.bsky.social Cat pin! There's no way to show all of the sparkle on this without a video, but I hope this captures some of the sleek feline charisma of its subject 😻 Oh and that shadow? It's coming to knock all your stuff off the table and chat with the ghosts at midnight.

A highly stylized silver and marcasite cat pin, held in a hand in sunlight. It is gleaming with black and silver reflections and casting a mischeivios shadow through its punched through eyes.

shademar@shademar· Jun 5

@peculiarityshop.bsky.social Thank you for the whistle!! Also, in a weird coincidence, where I live the dominant tree is the sugarcane pine which has cones that look like pic shown on the right (image credit NPS, *sobs*) I'm going to pretend that this was deliberate 🤭

A 3D printed whistle (loud!) in a rainbow gradient of dragon scales that also look like pine cone scales on a very long pine cone.

A Sugarpine evergreen pine cone, which is very long and has prominent scales,

shademar@shademar· Jun 2

The girls (cats) are beginning to tolerate each other! Territory is slowly merging, they can hang out in the same room indefinitely...progress! (the upside down goofball on the right is Stormy, the sprawled tortie on the left is Lightning)

Two cats in a living room, separated by 6 or 7 feet. One is lying on her back like a goofball on a heating pad on the ground and the other is sprawled on a piece of sheepskin on a low dining room table. There are scratching pads and cat furniture all around.

shademar@shademar· Jun 2

Porcupine and not hedgehog quill but we have the latter where I live and seeing a dog with a face bristling in quills does happen. The fact the spikey bois can almost launch their otherwise well-anchored quills in defense amazes me.

A long quill being held up for photographing inside a house...it is at least or close to a foot long and has alternating color stripes of ivory tinged white and medium brown

shademar@shademar· Jun 1

Tahoe CA, today.

Gas station sign in Tahoe CA. The cheapest grade is 6.39, diesel is 7.59. Station is Sinclair.

shademar@shademar· Jun 1

The forest didn't used to look quite like this, full of bleached skeletal dead trees. There are a lot of factors at play (borer beetles for instance) but the dry dead trees contribute to the flammability of the mountain forests.

Photo of an evergreen forest on the slope of the mountain. Half the trees are dead, trunk and branches bleached white. Location: central CA Sierra mountains.

shademar@shademar· May 30

Hey guys, turns out datacenter can make water! (item #2) In the high desert even! Would Microsoft lie? www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/microso...

In a statement made by Microsoft’s vice chair and president, Brad Smith, the topic was centered around “Building community-first AI infrastructure” and discusses a 5-point plan initiative:
1. “We’ll pay our way to ensure our datacenters don’t increase your electricity prices.”
2. “We’ll minimize our water use and replenish more of your water than we use.”
3. “We’ll create jobs for your residents.”
4. “We’ll add to the tax base that funds hospitals, schools, parks and libraries.”
5. “We’ll strengthen your community by investing in local AI training and non-profits.”

shademar@shademar· May 25

Red flag warning (high risk of fires due to land/fuel dryness and low relative humidity, plus strong gusting winds) around the junction of CA, OR, and NV. May be some starts in NV already. Be safe all, and keep an eye on those barbecues! Or maybe don't light things at all. Only gonna get worse.

Screenshot from Watch Duty (fire monitoring app and website) of a chunk of the west coast containing parts of north CA, southern OR, and northwestern NV. There is an area of pink (Red Flag Warning for high fire risk) spanning the junction of states and a flame icon indicating a fire in the NV region.

shademar@shademar· May 22

So just got back from seeing this & it was a great time! First, it's hilarious and the performers are amazing. Also, it had some of the most interesting and innovative stagecraft I've seen, especially on a touring show. 'How TF did they do that with the DeLorean?' was a topic discussed driving home.