Mastodawn

#Trump renames #SanAndreas Fault to #JoeBiden's #fault #
#satire

https://www.instagram.com/share/BAKTPoriYs

Billykaren Beaufort on Instagram: "#Trump renames #SanAndreas Fault to #JoeBiden’s #fault #🤣 #🤦‍♂️ #🥴 #satire"

2 likes, 1 comments - imbillykaren on May 3, 2025: "#Trump renames #SanAndreas Fault to #JoeBiden’s #fault #🤣 #🤦‍♂️ #🥴 #satire".

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💧🌏 Greg Cocks Apr 23

Population Vulnerability Of Residents, Employees, And Cruise-Ship Passengers To Tsunami Hazards Of Islands In Complex Seismic Regions - A Case Study Of The U.S. Virgin Islands
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105289 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Tsunami #Evacuation #Mitigation #Risk #Hazard #Modeling #Island #publicsafety #USVI #VirginIslands #damage #loss #infrastructure #cost #economics #humanimpacts #publicsafety #lossoflife #death #earthquake #fault #mitigation #monitoring #warning #response #tourists #locals #employees #cruiseships #population #community #vulnerability #USVirginIslands #ships #vessels #docks #inundation #flood #flooding #waves #maritime #port #scenario #riskassessment #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal

Jascha Polet Apr 23

Map of historical seismicity near today’s M6.2 #earthquake in western Turkey.
This event may have occurred on the Marmara fault segment of the North Anatolian Fault, thought to present a significant hazard to Istanbul.
#geoscience #geology #seismicity #turkey #istanbul #fault

WordofTheHour Apr 20

#fault : anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence

- French: tort

- German: der Fehler

- Italian: colpa

- Portuguese: culpa

- Spanish: falta

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WIST Quotations Apr 14

A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 2 (1963)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/76…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #badhabit #child #childhood #childrearing #fault #growingup #maturity #parenting #punishment #trait

Jascha Polet Apr 14

Map of today’s M5.2 #earthquake near Julian in the context of regional past seismicity. This event was located near the Elsinore #fault and relatively deep at 18 km.
#julian #california #geoscience #seismology #tectonics

thelastinuit Apr 14

Me? I'm the #champion of #failures I lost #everything that ever mattered to #me and it was all #my #fault. That's #why I can't #quit now.

WIST Quotations Mar 13

A quotation from Omar Khayyám

The Master did himself these vessels frame,
Why should he cast them out to scorn and shame?
If he has made them well, why should he break them?
Yea, though he marred them, they are not to blame.

Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات], Fitz. # 86 [tr. Whinfield (1883), # 126]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/omar-khayyam/75617/

#quote #quotes #quotation #creation #creator #divinejudgment #divineplan #divine will #fault #God #guilt #humanity #responsibility

WIST Quotations Feb 26

A quotation from Joubert

Perhaps we need, for worldly success, virtues which make us loved and vices which make us feared.

[Peut-être, pour les succès du monde, faut-il des vertus qui fassent aimer, et des défauts qui fassent craindre.]

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 9 “De la Sagesse, de la Vertu, etc. [On Wisdom and Virtue],” ¶ 26 (1850 ed.) [tr. Collins (1928), ch. 8]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/joubert-joseph/28523…

#quote #quotes #quotation #attraction #beloved #compromise #ethics #fault #fear #morality #success #vice #virtue