NEW: After today's magnitude 7.7 quake off the Pacific coast of Japan, the country has issued a 'megaquake advisory', suggesting there's a 10x greater risk of a magnitude 8.0+ quake in the coming days.
I break down what this means for @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/risk...
having lived through the “ground zero mosque” controversy era in NYC, all I can hope is that this means Texas is on track to have a bunch of hot socialist Muslim mayors a decade or two from now
really just rerunning all the greatest (stupidest) hits of our youth, apparently
the complicated mixture of white savior missionary stuff and early transracial feminist activism going on at that time is fascinating; what I have read about women like Tien Fuh Wu and Tye Leung Schulze makes me wish I knew more
I'm fuzzy on the details of great-grandmother's involvement but have vivid memories of my grandma talking about Cameron House (she was on the board, in addition to being a deacon & elder at her Presbyterian church in Outer Richmond) & pointing out the building when she'd take us for dim sum nearby.
!!!! ok wow, a) I had no idea that the boathouse area t n Lake Merrit was a post-earthquake camp; and b) the chances our ancestors were acquainted is quite high, because both my great-grandmother and grandmother knew Donaldina Cameron and worked at Cameron House
they were a good-looking pair! I didn't inherit his height, alas, but I did get her hair.
my other favorite image from 1906 is, of course, the famous shot of Louis Agassiz's statue on the Stanford campus meeting a well-deserved fate
the NA Black Butte and the Best Day Hazy IPA are the best I've had so far. Figueroa Mountain also does an NA version of Hoppy Poppy that's pretty good but have yet to see it outside of CA.
Cartoon image of a chef cutting Shawarma with the words“unknown pleasures” underneath
The Dynamite Disaster is one of the most nutso parts of the 1906 Quake. This article from the centennial describes it quite well.
www.sfgate.com/news/article...
(which is to say that the fact of my existence, as well as that of my mother and her mother, may also be classed under the label "Peculiar Effects of Earthquake," if you're inclined to think about historical contingencies that way)
Framed photo of a couple in Edwardian clothing (her a white dress with a dark belt, him a dark suit) gazing at each other.
Anyway, her family camped out in the Presidio for awhile and then she got sent to stay with an aunt in Bremerton and they met here while he was recovering at the naval hospital. They married at her parents’ home in San Francisco in 1911, not long after this engagement portrait was taken.
Another trip to Magdalena Bay for target practice, upon the completion of which I was detached from the Chicago and on 16 March 1906, reported for duty on board the U.S.S. Princeton. My tour of duty on the Princeton was short but interesting. It included a period of about three weeks patrol duty at San Francisco, immediately following the great earthquake and fire that wrought such terrible havoc to that wonderful city. Then we moved to Portland, Oregon for the Alaska-Yukon Exposition. While there I was placed on the sick list and soon found myself at the Naval Hospital, Navy Yard, Puget Sound, as a patient. After about a month in the hospital I was detached from the Princeton, ordered home and granted six months sick leave.
He didn’t actually experience the earthquake himself, although my great-grandmother—his future wife—did. The navy sent him in the aftermath. An excerpt from a typewritten “biographical sketch” he composed some years later:
(if you’ve ever wondered where my header image comes from, now you know)
A black and white photo of a row Victorian houses tilted at odd angles presumably due to liquefaction, labeled “Peculiar Effects of Earthquake”
A ghostly black and white photo of people and a cart walking down a street where the buildings are all damaged and some just have the facades standing, labeled “California Street”
A black and white photograph of the burned-out shell of San Francisco city hall with the dome still mostly intact, labeled “City Hall”
A black and white photo of people and makeshift shelters in the earthquake and fire-damaged city, labeled “Refugee Camp”
It’s April 18th, so time to repost some of my great-grandfather’s photos of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake
Wow. It’s the 120th anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake and the Chronicle has a pretty good write-up on Northern San Andreas earthquake mean recurrence intervals.
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/e...
I wish her health, happiness, and all success, and I will remain forever furious about what my fucking government put her through.
Silinenler ve geride kalanlar üzerine—Leylâ Erbil’e dair, @thepointmag.bsky.social için: thepointmag.com/criticism/a-...
too many choices so I’ll go with the best one I’ve taken this week
Please read @charmainechua.bsky.social on the warehouse as not so much a space of storage as it is a switch (turning off and on movement of capital and goods) and a trap (for low wage workers) and, now, a space of literal DHS incarceration. placesjournal.org/article/the-...
January 2027 can't come soon enough
navy dudes looking as giddy as kids on Christmas morning, smiley astronauts fist-bumping and breathing in the sea air....inject it into my veins, man
only good naval logistics rn: bsky.app/profile/poma...
In case you missed it: first-person video footage of the U.S. Navy Divers Medical Team opening the hatch and entering inside the Orion Integrity capsule to meet the Artemis II heros
U.S. Navy Courtesy Asset/ Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One
www.dvidshub.net/video/100269...
#Artemis 🧪🔭
Hey, sometimes you get your ass kicked. But also, Japan, they'll never make me hate you. Fantastic performance.
Enjoyed being there in person for this despite the rain and the result but I hope the next match I attend goes better
Washington’s request for disaster relief from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, has been approved after devastating floods wreaked havoc on parts of the state in December.
CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭
Avoiding the scenario Orban faced is why Erdoğan jailed İmamoğlu in advance. Question now: will it be enough to save him from the fate Orban faced? And what will Orban's defeat inspire in opposition in Turkey? Erdoğan & Orban had coordinated & inspired each other quite a bit.
