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Justin Walsh

@jstpwalsh

Impossible archaeologist (space/Everest), space hab consultant, ancient Mediterranean, heritage | Prof at Chapman U | Fellow at USC | Explorers Club 50 | / | He/him | Settler on unceded Tongva land (LA)

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Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· 24d

Altadena forever

A street with a banner reading "ALTADENA FOREVER". The mountains of the Angeles National Forest rise in the background.

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· 24d

Current status: starting phase 3 of LA wildfire soil sampling in Altadena

A white man with gray hair and a beard and blue glasses standing in front of a property with a burnt tree in the background. Over his shoulder assign says "LA fire justice. No thanks, Edison. Talk to my lawyer."

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· 25d

This is the most loser behavior I have ever heard of.

As far as our sources know, the garden is not at this moment automatically banning social media posters. But for years, Dolan "would come in, and he and eversole would pour over all these social media comments from the Knicks and the rangers," one veteran of MSG security tells us. Sports fans who talked s*** would get " workups." In grassolino in his suit, says he was ordered to "perform full and intrusive background checks, surveillance, and assessments into individuals private backgrounds who were of no threat to MSG." That included "sports fans who articulated frustration with team losses, chanted for Mr Dolan to sell the Knicks, or simply used foul language."

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· 25d

This explains *everything.*

At the same time, basic security measures have been curtailed, former garden employees allege. For example, there was a rule that bombs sniffing canine units were not to be seen whenever Dolan or ever soul " walked near the venues, Munn noted in his filing. The directive came from "Mr Dolan's disdain for dogs," Munn added introducing the possibility that the security team might "miss identifying a weapon or explosive device." The words "Mr. Dolan's disdain for dogs" are highlighted.

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jul 14

Now that Soyuz MS-29 has arrived at the ISS, cosmonaut Anna Kikina is on board for her second mission. When MS-28 leaves in a couple of weeks, three of seven ISS crew (43%) will be women. I think this will be a record percentage!

The current crew of ISS gathered at the aft end of the Zvezda module. Three of the 10 people are women: Sophie Adenot (ESA), Jessica Meir (NASA), and Anna Kikina (Roscosmos).

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jul 12

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A statue of the Virgin of Luján, a miraculous image in Argentina. This one is at the entry to the security inspection area at Jorge Newbery airport in Buenos Aires. A plastic bin is visible in front of her.

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jul 10

Just another day here at Monarch Farms

A white kitchen cabinet door with two post-it notes. One says "live queen bees" and the other says "feed bees"

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jul 10

The post in question

Stephen C. Smith @wordsmithfl.bsky.social wrote: "space NASA ISS critics used to tell me it wasn't being used to "manufacture" anything. That's no longer true. A company called bioserv space technologies is using ISS to manufacture stem cells for use here on Earth."

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jul 6

Screenshot of Simpsons: Mrs Flick is watching her stories on TV and saying "Filthy...but genuinely arousing."

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jul 5

Current status (Kern County, CA)

A view of a pine forest landscape with a valley and mountains in the distance

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jul 4

Current status: 6200 ft asl, 73 degrees, total silence.

The view from a house in Pine Mountain Club, CA. A pine forest is visible outside. Metric conversions: 2000 masl, 22.5 C.

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jul 4

What's the over/under on them passing out from wearing these costumes?

It is 98f (37 c) in Washington right now, feels like 106f (41c).

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jul 2

Admittedly a lot of text, but worth it defector.com/dead-country...

There are basically no metrics by which Trump's second presidency could be called a success. Even in the areas in which it has excelled, virtually all of which involve the generation of needless human suffering, its predations and brutality have fallen short of the depraved fantasies of the aspiring genocidaires who conceived and oversee them. These were very ambitious goals for people with so limited an understanding of and so little respect for actual work. Their actions will, we can hope, be adjudicated at truth and reconciliation hearings sometime in the future, but for now we might as well take them at their word when it comes to how sincerely they want all this awful shit. It's just that these are not people who could really have other jobs, from the gnarled TV creatures and defective podcaster atop vital agencies to the weedy groyper freaks and chittering adult libertarians filling out the ranks below; they scream at underlings on speakerphone and suck up to their bosses in meetings that lack the substance to fulfill the "could have been an email" part of the remit, and then they fuck off on vacation, or just back onto their phones.

But the ways in which it sucks are

instructive. As with everything to

do with Late Trump, its existence

amounts to a devastating frontal

assault on the concept of

metaphor. Trump is not

figuratively trying to make D.C.

look like his own gilded, glowering

version of Pyongyang; he is literally

doing that. He is disfiguring and

bedazzling and remaking the

White House such that it

resembles his own oafish Florida

Xanadu, not with disgraceful

policymaking but in the most

wearyingly literal sense. The

conception and execution of

Freedom 250 reflects this soul-

deep dedication to crass literalism

as well. It is "a symbolic

embodiment of the presently

dominant vision of our nation as

Shit Disneyland," as Hamilton

Nolan wrote last week. "A fake

place that you have to stand in line

for a long time to get in, even

though you don't really want to be

there."

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jul 2

Screenshot of the linked article: "The Golden age is promised to Trump and to people like him. Whatever the cost of the bad food, worse entertainment and a triumphal arch that looks like it was made by the company that produces poured-concrete decorations for the home Depot garden center none of it adds up to the $68 million stolen from the department of the interior. Like everything else about this welcoming Golden age it costs a fortune and looks cheap, but don't worry: it also doesn't do what it's supposed to."

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jun 30

A small white terrier wearing a cardboard sign reading "#Dogs against fireworks". He is in a mountain forest setting because that's where we can take him where there are no fireworks.

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jun 30

Hooray 🎉

Old tweet saying "My unemployed neighbor with an unlimited firework budget would like to wish everyone a happy 9th of July."

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jun 30

This is what it has come to in yet another fireworks season

A small white terrier with a panicked look on his face. He is wearing noise protection held in place with a yellow wrap that makes him look like a Serbian water polo player

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jun 28

Fireworks are my most cop-coded position. Blame this guy.

A small white terrier poking his head between a cushion and a pillow

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jun 26

"Shall we play a game?"

The WOPR from WarGames

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jun 25

Some folks are just terrible 🤷🏻‍♂️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Screenshot from the linked story about an 86-year-old Australian great-grandmother who likes doing burnouts because of the noise it makes. "Nan's grandson, Guy Tuckett, is also part of the competitive burnout scene. He hit upon the idea of getting his grandmother involved after walking in on her knitting not long after her husband's death. I said 'no, Nan, you can't be doing that we need to go do some burnouts,' close Mr Tuckett said."

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jun 18

Who could forget

The logos of Matsumura Fishworks and Tamaribuchi Heavy Manufacturing Concern

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jun 17

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you

Publicity image for SLEDGE HAMMER!

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jun 15

They start them young in Uruguay

Screenshot from the Uruguay- Saudi Arabia World Cup match, showing Uruguayan fans celebrating after their team equalized. One Uruguayan man is holding what appears to be a 3-month-old baby wearing only a diaper.

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jun 15

Utopian garden city of the turn of the twentieth century

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jun 14

Simpsons screenshot of a referee firing a gun (?) to mark full time in a soccer match. The scoreboard behind him shows a 1-1 tie. The dialogue reads, "it's all here, fast kicking, low scoring. And ties? You bet!"

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jun 13

Famous Moon's haunted tweet by Dustin Couch modified to say "Mars has baseball"

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jun 6

Lol @evolvingwild.evolving-hockey.com

I clearly follow too many fellow New Yorkers. Screenshot of Bluesky feed celebrating the Knicks seizing victory from the jaws of defeat. In the middle, @EvolvingWild has forgotten to buy toothpaste, again

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jun 3

Post an album you've listened to 100 times

The cover of Songs: Ohia's "Magnolia Electric Co." LP. Art by Will Schaff, showing a woodblock print-style owl with human hands and tilted head with a collaged magnolia blossom and hand-drawn lightning bolt.

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jun 3

Dorothy Malone as a bookshop clerk being quizzed by Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep. She looks very buttoned down, with rimless pince-nez glasses and her hair pulled back.

The clerk and Marlowe are clinking paper cups full of rye whiskey. She has taken off her glasses and let down her hair, and she is grinning over the cup.

Justin Walsh@jstpwalsh· Jun 2

It's like photographing a cryptid

A grainy photo of the sky with a jet in the distance. The jet is white with ridiculous green vertical stripes.