Mike MacFerrin

@icesheetmike.bsky.social

11679 Followers 2196 Following

Dr in glaciology and expert mapper of coastal topography at a Cooperative Research Institute. An organizer for disability rights in science, which mostly involves yelling at agencies. Science is the easier part of my work. #T1D

Zoomed Screenshot of an icon that reads “Defendant Summary”. The icon is a cartoon white head with a black Zorro mask and a pointy brown Robin Hood hat with glorious little tassles at the end.
"Bottom line is if [El-Sayed] wins, the DSA brand beyond major urban areas is not popular," a national Democratic operative granted anonymity to speak candidly said early Wednesday morning. "Certainly puts a dent in the movement especially with Cori Bush’s loss.”
wint @dril • • and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad. 4:42 AM • Dec 29, 2014
A photo of 3 separate pairs of jeans sitting on a bed, with the legs of the jeans spread apart to show three threadbare holes near the seam where they’ve all worn through completely.
Last week, Alabama's two U.S. Senators, Republicans Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville, penned an op-ed thanking President Donald Trump for the project. They heaped praise upon him and talked so breathlessly about his contributions to the project that you'd have thought Trump was hanging from a crane helping to erect the bridge with his bare hands. You'd never know, for example, that it wasn't his project. It was President Joe Biden's. The funding for it - almost all of the $550 million it will cost - came as part of Biden's infrastructure plan that was passed in 2021. The actual awarding of the $550 million grant was announced in 2024, while Biden was still president. Every one of Alabama's Republican congressional delegation, including Tuberville, voted against the infrastructure bill. Britt, who was elected a year later, said she also would have voted against it. Rep. Terri Sewell, Alabama's only Democrat at the time, was the only one from the state to vote for it. (Which makes a pretty solid argument for electing more Democrats, it seems.)
@schizanon.bsky_social has added you to the "Wrong about VR, Al, Crypto, SmartGlasses, GLP1, NFTs, or Bitcoin" moderation list Today at 1:04 AM @schizanon.bsky.social has added you to the "spies on moderation lists" moderation list
Subset of the maplike-digital-artifact above, zoomed in on imaginary Ohio, with an entire fjorded embankment of islands over what is apparently now-drowned Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
A photo of a very cute stuffed crocheted capybara. With a small orange crocheted yuzu fruit with a green leaf sitting next to it.
My version of Pierre the Penguin, from the popular Woobles “learn to crochet” kits. He’s a little blue egg-shaped stuffy with two black plastic safety eyes, a little white circular belly, a yellow yarn beak between his eyes, and a little blue flipper on each side of his body. He doesn’t sit up very well but that’s okay, he’s perfect and none of y’all rat bastards can me otherwise. My little contribution to hand-made cuteness in a screwed up world.
Black and white historical image of a Nazi book ban, with a soldier facing away from the camera tossing a half-dozen more books onto a large bonfire of burning books. Several dozen onlookers appear in the background.
A big fuzzy bumblebee in flight in front of a pink flower. Images glommed from Googleapis.com.
Al Bundy, shoe salesman from the 80s TV show Married With Children, in a cheap shirt and tie, grimacing at the camera.
Picture of a slightly-crooked but very happy snowman, with a scarf, stick arms, a carrot nose, a small mulch smile and two rock eyes, smiling in the middle of a park field with homes behind.
He is very good at this. The Fox audience that fell for him for ten years was the easy mark. The harder mark is the audience that just spent ten years watching what he did to the easy mark, and is now being told he has changed. He has not. He has just found people who have not been watching as carefully.
Image of a small backyard covered in fresh snow. The tree branches are weighed down heavily.
Opinion Here's Why It Would Be A Mistake To Do Anything That Inconveniences Rich Assholes by Some Rich Asshole
Screenshot of an "AI-Detector" results on 2 paragraphs of hand-written text. It says "HIGH - High probability of being flagged as AI-generated. Consider refining or verifying your text."
Screenshot of a blog post by Tyler Cowen My Favorite Actress Is Not Human Tilly Norwood doesn't need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That's because she's Al. •NOT EVERYONE IS HAPPY ABOUT THIS GORGEOUS INNOVATION. WRITES TYLER COWEN: (@TILLYNORWOOD VIA INSTAGRAM) By Tyler Cowen
They added that the character was being trained on the billionaire's mannerisms, tone and publicly available statements, as well as his own recent thinking on company strategies, so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it.
Zoom in on the image above of the exterior driver’s side of the truck. You can see tricked out rims, street tires, and the words “FARM TRUCK” in the back window.
"Fascism is not new to this group, the idea of being disposable, not being of value to this capitalist society, aggressive institutionalization, state-sanctioned violence, lack of resources — we have been screaming from our lungs that there was something severely wrong," Ramiro Alvarez, communications director at Detroit Disability Power (DDP), told Truthout. "It's not a 'We told you so' moment. It's a 'We are glad more people are waking up and there are more in this fight' moment."
A screenshot of the header on one of my posts (@icesheetmike.bsky.social) Just under my screen name and pic are three separate labels for “He”, “He/Him”, and “Him.” There should only be one (“He/Him”).
Betteridge's Law of Headlines noun Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no".
Betteridge's Law of Headlines noun Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no".
A small 4-panel, wordless cartoon. P1: A group of people stand facing a single person on the right with a whip. P2: The whip is cracked. Everyone on the left is cowed down to protect themselves. Except for one, who remains standing firm. P3: As the whip rears up for another snap, now half-a-dozen people are standing in defiance. P4: Now everyone on the left side is standing again, and the person holding the whip, seriously outnumbered, is now cowering.
Photo of a close-up on a message board. A handwritten post-it note says "Feel free to take and use if the neighborhood gets too ICE-Y" with a heart. Beside it is a ziplock bag with several dozen metal keychain whistles.
3-panel cartoon. An operator is at a call desk. “Nine one one what is your emergency?” “What do you mean you’re being murdered?” “That’s illegal people can’t do that.”
Screenshot from the article. Panel 1 sees the dude covering his ears by the back fence, which is chain-link. Second panel shows a plan going right overhead. Caption reads: “Harrison reacting to the plane, and the aircraft over his home. | TikTok @haztrology”
AP News headline that now reads “Minneapolis mayor says ICE officer’s killing of a motorist was ‘reckless’ and wasn’t self-defense”
An ABC 7 headline stating “Man accused of illegally towing ICE vehicle during raid found not guilty.”
When I click the "Setting" button, it pops up this "PP Timer" window with the prompt "Get full Timer functionality for only $5 a year! Buy a license." and 'PP Timer by Addinly' in the byline below. There is no setting to delete or disable this little window now.
A screenshot of a cover slide for a presentation, with a gigantic white window in the middle of that says "4:55", with a Pause and Restart button at the bottom. There's a "Settings" button but that's broken and doesn't do anything to get rid of this window.
BBC headlines reading “[former Brazilian president] Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years in jail - what you need to know” 11 September 2025
The “why would X do this?” Meme. First panel is a guy standing, shooting a gun at a man sitting in a chair, clearly killing him instantly. The man with the gun is labeled “University.” The man is the chair is also “University.” Second pan is the man with the gun asking “Why would faculty do this?”
A bearded man laying shoulder-deep in a pool of mud, his face and hair completely encrusted with it. His mouth is slightly agape, in a kind of creepy way to be honest, with a blue-stud tongue piercing showing, literally the only color in the photo.
"But I'll tell you this, there's a lot more crust than there is air or sea or surface of land. So vehicles that can maneuver through the crust of the earth the same way that submarines move through the water are going to be a huge deal, I think they're going to define at least the second half of the century."
"But I'll tell you this, there's a lot more crust than there is air or sea or surface of land. So vehicles that can maneuver through the crust of the earth the same way that submarines move through the water are going to be a huge deal, I think they're doing to define at least the second half of the century."
Screenshot of the book cover of Let This Radicalize You, Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care, written by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba. The book is a bright splash of orange and yellow, with a silhouette of a line of people at the bottom, hands joined and raised in solidarity with each other.
Screenshot of Clearsky.app page showing The Top 5 blocked accounts on BlueSky. Top is @jd-vance-1.bsky.social with over 163,000 blocks. Second is now whitehouse-47.bsky.social with 85,058, just edging out Jesse Singal with 84,611 blocks.
Screenshot of the Clearsky.app “Top 5 blocked” accounts, which include JD Vance, Jesse Singal, and the White House rounding out the top 3 most-blocked accounts.
Screenshot of an email title reading: "Introducing: AI tools that make therapy work overtime."
My grey & white tuxedo cat Neptune, in a small box, with a bewildering and somewhat terrified stare.
Plain white text on a red background: "10,704 days since Australia's last mass shooting. Prayers don't save lives. Laws do."
Picture of a bright orange sea star on the ocean floor. The edge of its body has two small lumps that look akin to a SpongeBob-style buttocks. It’s a sea star with an ass.
A standard white toilet, bowl. On top of the lid are two TP rolls on their side so you can see the tubes, they look like eyes. Sticking obliquely out of the closed lid is a partially squished TP tube, looking like a tongue sticking out of the curve of the bowl. The whole image looks like
Random white guy staring frustratingly into the camera. No caption but it’s the photo from the Onion article titled “Devastating: the worst person you know just made a really great point.”
A photo of me approaching the finish line of a race. I'm running down pavement, slightly downhill, in a light grey t-shirt and running shorts with the Flatiron mountains in the distance behind me, and a bunch of race flags on either side of me toward the final stretch. I'm exhausted but I picked up the pace the last 200 yards so it looks like I'm running a lot faster than I typically was during most of that race, lol. But I finished!
Scene from the Wizard of Oz, where Toto the dog is pulling back the green curtain next to the Great Wizard, revealing a grey haired guy in a suit at a machine, manipulating devices and pulling strings. Gawd I wish that scene were not so prescient to today. This is the stupidest timeline y’all.
A subset of the screenshot article above. In the byline above the title, it says “By Invitation | Die. DEI”
Picture of the corner of a backyard, with 2 inches of snow on the fresh green leaves of a lilac tree, as well as on the ground, fence, and utility box.
A chart of BlueSky user growth from October 2024 through March 2025. It was at 13.0 million users in October 2024, jumped to 25.0 M users in December 2024, is now at 33.0 M users in March 2025 and still growing.
Our grey tuxedo cat Neptune, sitting in a box on the floor, staring blankly at the camera.
Painting on black canvas, showing the silhouette of a child against a light background (as if they’re looking out of the entrance of a cave). Captions says: “Everything will be alright in the end. If it isn’t alright, it isn’t the end.” Below are subcaptions: John Lennon “OK” Deborah Maggach “Alright”
photo of three teens crouching around 2 lobsters in an apparent dogfight in someone's kitchen. Two of the teens are screaming at either side of the lobsters, one teen behind them is staring with an evil grin at the camera while holding a fistful of bills. Both lobsters have the label "Liberals" next to them, as do all three teens. Typical day on BlueSky.
The Greenlandic flag (red and white, depicting the sun rising over the ice). On it a transcription is written: Kalaallit Nunaat tapersersorpara Jeg stotter Gronland - I support Greenland Kalaallit Nunaat kalaallit pigaat Gronland tilhorer gronlænderne - Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders
Photo of me in the living room with pink bunny ears, about a dozen flower barrets in my hair and several butterflies too.
Screenshot in a carpeted indoor living room, of a large blue backpack loaded up full, with a pair of grey snowshoes and some trekking poles on the floor next to it.
A picture of a fruit bowl on my kitchen counter. A half-a-dozen lemons sit in the bowl. Which four nearly-rotten bananas hang from the hook.
Star Trek Voyager meme: Tuvok is telling the captain: “Captain, we’re detecting that the fascist government has opened another tipline.” Captain Janeway responds: “Bee Movie scripts, full spread.”
A 4-set series of screenshots from Back To The Future. Scene 1: A torso shot of George McFly trying to stand up to Biff. This is the science where he says “You get your dirty hands off her.”