Kayla "Iacovino with an i"

@kaylaiacovino.com

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Scientist, cat owner, python coder. Doesn't know how to quit vim and refuses to learn. Volcanologist trying to make the world a better place. “Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it.”

Photo of a wooden board with two pocket holes drilled, about 1” from each side of the board and about 1” apart. On the workbench below you can see a speed square, an. Lamp, and park or a power drill with a pocket hole drill bit in it. Reply if you remember your first Walkman.
Pile of black polo shirts; the left side says “ASU Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. Arizona State University Center of Excellence for Energy”; on the right it says “USAID from the American people”.
Cupcakes decorated to look like one large clover from the top, with frosting across the tops of several cupcakes pushed together. But it really really looks like a dick and bush.
Screenshot of an item from DoorDash that reads: French Fries 薯条 Thin cuts of potato typically deep-fried until golden brown. Description generated by DoorDash using Al
Hotel notepad with the word IDEAS printed on it in large print. Someone has written “Drive thru chowder” in shitty handwriting at the top of the note.
Photo of a portion of the Southwest Airlines in-flight menu showing packs of pistachios with the text: Wonderful Roasted & Salted PISTACHIOS Exclusively for our Extra Legroom seat Customers. Enjoy a complimentary premium drink and Wonderful® Pistachios No Shells Roasted & Salted or Honey Roasted. Extra Legroom seats. Extra refreshment.
Photo of one of those metal wall mounted toilet seat cover dispensers in a public restroom with a piece of paper glued to it that says: "What is needed most in architecture today is the very thing that is most needed in life-integrity." Frank Lloyd Wright Please flush toilet paper only. The integrity of our historically sensitive plumbing depends on it.
Screenshot showing a commonly searched term, “What is the best doorbell without a subscription?”
Photo of a hillside covered in large gray (granite) boulders, with grass on the flatter portion of the image closer to the observer. Jn the center there is a large round boulder. It is hard to know the diameter, as the surrounding shrubs are ambiguous in size, but maybe 2-3 meters. There is a point fracture in the dead center of the boulder with fractures radiating outward, giving it the appearance of a pizza with slices. The terminations of each slice are very pointy toward the center.
Silhouetted human figures in front of absolutely HUGE fountains of lava. The sky is red, and lava flows can be seen flowing to the right on the ground.
A lovely tropical garden with a small manmade stream in what looks like part office park part Star Trek set. It’s in the middle of the Honolulu airport.
A box in a store showing a decorative life size inflatable snowman with children playing around it. It’s called, “Joyful Snowman Sentry”. The text on the box reads: •Fast and Easy Assembly (instructions included) • Collapses Quickly for Easy Storage • Includes Heavy Duty Fan, Ground Stakes and Tethers • 3 - C7 Bulbs Included • Inflates in Minutes to Approximately 7'3" Tall AIR FILLED! Includes Heavy Duty fan 7’ 3"(220 cm) Light Up! It is marked $19.99 from Big Lots. Pretty decent price, actually. I found this on the floor at Goodwill in Scottsdale, Arizona. Do you think they know what “sentry” means? Like what’s the message here? Merry Christmas! Stay off my fucking property.
Video of the inside of a driverless car (a WayMo) navigating by itself, taken by a rider in the front passenger seat. The wheel turns as if a ghost is driving.
Photograph zoomed in on the back corner of a red pickup truck with its tailgate open. A gray textile couch is extending just beyond the cab. Along the front corner of the couch there are the telltale signs of cat ownership: little pieces of the fabric torn out due to a cat stretching and scratching it.
Me and my mom posing and smoking amongst the backdrop of a volcanic landscape.
Screen recording from a Ring Doorbell camera showing a [ Person Detected ] notification and a small lizard climbing across the brick wall and then just chilling.
hell is right-clicking to save an image and accidentally clicking 'email image' and having to wait forty years for some email program you didn't even know existed to rise from its slumber like some lovecraftian ancient god, meanwhile the fans on your laptop are preparing for takeoff and you stare dead-eyed as the rainbow spirals, spirals, spirals. you wait and suffer this cosmic karma. days pass. "just a few more seconds" you slur. your laptop freezes and the concept of time is no longer comprehensible. your family and friends forget your name and you fade from existence.
Photo of a hand holding a Pokémon card of a Pokémon named Zigzagoon. It’s some kind of black and white dog thing with jagged fur patterns with its tongue hanging out. Looks cute. I have no idea what this thing is. In my day, we only had 150(+1) Pokémon, and we didn’t complain! Comment if you get the joke in my post.
Panorama looking down onto a casino floor. In the center of the image there is a large stage area. Three huge screens hang from the ceiling above it showing Star Trek First Contact. A couple hundred chairs are set up. A bunch of people are in brightly colored Star Trek costumes. Some slot machines are on the left side.
A SKELTON MAD AND IT SAY,S "I DONT KNOW WHAT THE FUCK A WEBP IS JUST GIVE ME A JPG MOTHER FUCKER " FUCK AVIF, FUCK WEBP, FUCK WEBM, STOP INVENTING NEW FILE TYPES, THE MORE WE INVENT THE WORSE EVERY THING GET'S, THINK ABOUT IT!!!! - ADMIN
Me: a late 30s white lady with short hair and a killer dark teal blazer. Him: my former professor who looks exactly like what you would expect - a 60 something tall pale white dude with white hair and a large white beard. The scene: Downward looking angle showing us standing in a stepped very large hole in a construction area. We have just hoisted one of those food delivery robots (a cooler on six wheels with a lil flag) back onto the concrete at ground level.
Glass art in a museum. They look like giant shiny bee butts sticking out of the wall.
Image from the camera overlooking the floor of the United States House of Representatives. It shows the vote after the voting period ended but before the final outstanding votes were tallied on screen. Text on the screen reads: ON MOTION TO CONCUR IN THE SENATE AMENDMENT H R 1 With votes tallied below. A couple dozen congresspeople can be seen standing around congratulating each other. This budget bill is a death blow to the American economy and solidifies the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the few ultra wealthy. Millions will lose access to healthcare, food assistance, housing assistance, funding for medical and scientific research, subsidies for green energy and funds to bolster communities against the deadly and ever increasing effects of climate change, strong public schools that uphold the separation of church and state.
Still from The Simpsons. Homer in between two podiums where men in suits are standing (in the episode, Bob Dole and Bill Clinton during Clinton’s second run for President). Homer is pulling off their human masks to reveal that both are aliens.
Screenshot from a press release from the AMERICAN FEDERATION GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES Union, AFL-CIO, LOCAL 3403 AFGE National Science Foundation Surprise: Employees Being Relocated to Accommodate Secretary of HUD's Palatial New Office A Statement from the American Federation of Government Employees Local 3403 This afternoon, AFGE Local 3403 received notice that HUD Secretary Scott Turner and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin will announce HUD's takeover of the National Science Foundation headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia tomorrow. Currently more than 1,833 NSF employees work in the building. Many were forced to relocate to Northern Virginia with very short notice and at great personal expense when return to work orders were given. AFGE Local 3403 has not been briefed on the exact details of the plan. The Union was told plans include the following: • A dedicated executive suite for the HUD Secretary on the 19th floor. • The construction of an executive dining room. • Reserved parking spaces for the Secretary's 5 cars. • Exclusive use of one elevator for the Secretary. • A space dedicated to hosting the Secretary's executive assistants on the 18th floor. • A potential gym for the HUD Secretary and his family.
Bluesky keeps erasing this alt text. I’m so sorry but I don’t have it in me to write it again. It’s a bird eating seeds.
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is placed under arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and FBI agents outside federal immigration court on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)
Photograph of a close up on my inner arm just below the elbow ditch showing a fresh tattoo. It’s a skull in black outline with a yellow halo. Four short, thin vertical black lines are over the halo giving it the feeling of a little *pop*. The style is new American traditional. The tattoo is about 2” tall. The skull is looking to the right of the image, so it faces forward on the body when the arm is down. Fun fact: a tattoo with a face should always face forward on the body. Always. No exceptions. This is a universal and strict rule in tattooing. A face looking backwards doesn’t sit right on the body, and some feel it represents negative vibes that don’t belong in the tattoo. But, mostly it just looks wrong. Another fun fact: a tattoo doesn’t need to “mean” anything. It’s a piece of art. It can absolutely represent something if you want it to, but most tattoos have no meaning whatsoever. There is a sense of freedom that comes with this attitude. Lots of things that happen to you, whether physical, emotional, or spiritual, are permanent. A tattoo is one of the only permanent changes to your life that you have any control over. Most people with multiple tattoos will agree. Even if their first tattoos have meaning, it’s common to get additional tattoos “just because”. Look at it this way: if you want a tattoo but worry you’ll tire of the design, you can instead realize that it reflects a part of you at the point in your life when you got it. You can be proud, nostalgic, or ashamed of your past, but that past is a part of you and your story. That said, consider whether a tattoo has societal implications or represents a famous person. Public perception of that person or that ideal can change, as can your own. You can cover up a tattoo or remove it ($) if part of your journey requires removing that ideal from your life. Many shops will cover up Nazi or other hateful symbology for free. If you’ve done that, I’m so fucking proud of you for growing and celebrating it 🌈
Screenshot from usps.com: March 9th, 2025: The Free COVID-19 Test Program Has Been Suspended Ordering through the covidtests.gov program has been suspended. The program is no longer accepting orders. All orders placed before 8:00 pm Eastern on March 9th, 2025 will be delivered. This effort was part of a federal program to provide free at-home COVID-19 tests with free shipping to every residential address and residential PO Box™ in the United States.
Two thirty something’s at a picnic table in a suburban backyard. They are having dinner as the sun sets. String lights are up in the yard. They pose for the front facing camera. Then the woman holding the phone looks around for her cat, only to realize she can’t zoom in using the front facing camera.
Vibrant green grass blankets an impressively hummocky steep hillside. Center frame is a mama sheep lying down in the grass. She looks like a blob of wool rising from the soft messy grass shag. She nonchalantly chews. She is flanked on either side by two of her babies, enjoying their day in the bright sun.
Screenshot of an app showing the progress of a prescription being filled. It says: June 1, 2025 In progress Paxlovid Standard Dose 300/100mg T Price without insurance: $1798.19 Paxlovid is the main medication for treating COVID-19 and the only typically available.
A close up of a plant in a yard. There is a wooden fence in the background. The plant has waxy bright green leaves. There are three tall stalks rising from the plant with beautiful large white flowers. The flowers are unique. They are sort of boat shaped, or scoop shaped, with the long axis oriented vertically. Inside the scoop is the flower’s pistil which is like a small, long, white pine cone shape.
A rugged yet lush Icelandic landscape on Heimaey (Westman Island). Steep black volcanic cliffs puncture the sky in the background, and their tops are covered in soft deep green. A jagged and somewhat moss covered lava flow fills the mid ground. The rest of the image in the foreground is full of fields of purple lupine flowers with minor white and yellow wildflowers. A gentle breeze moves the flowers about.
The remains of a small wooden house that appears to be partly inside of a hill. It’s the ruins of someone’s home after it was destroyed by a lava flow.
A very fluffy, sassy orange cat with some patches of white on its chest. It’s walking toward the camera along a dark gray stone path. A vibrant green hill with grasses and bright purple lupine flowers sits beside the path. It’s a beautiful sunny day. Once the cat arrives, he is immediately pet by me and my partner. He’s super soft and sweet.
High zoom image of a small (few cm across) piece of fresh basaltic rock. The field of view is probably around 1 cm. The rock is mainly black and reflects a good amount of light on its rough surface. Large green translucent olivine crystals and large clear plagioclase crystals (maybe 1 mm in size) shine brightly. They have an almost glassy luster, glistening like gemstones.
A calm cloudy day in a lightly wooded geothermal area in Iceland. Center frame, a hydrothermal mud pot is churning away, sending a gentle yet persistent plume of steam and gas up into the air. It drifts in the wind to the right and out of frame.
A large square canvas, maybe 4’x4’, hanging on the wall of a home. It is all white. The details emerge only through the shadow of layers of white gesso applied to the canvas. It is a top down view of Erebus volcano with the crater in the center. Two large pieces of pack ice are rendered in the top left.
Screenshot of an email with a United Healthcare logo in royal blue at the top. A large blue banner with white text reads, "A new Explanation of Benefits is ready for you" Below, the email says "Hi, A new Explanation of Benefits is ready. It may include time-sensitive or other important information." Below that is a blue button that says "Go to Document". Below that it says "You can access these documents anytime online. Here's how: 1. Sign in to myuhc.com (trademark symbol). 2. Go to My Account. 3. Select Documents & forms. 4. Select your document type. No thank you. The fact that I have to see and delete this email has made my day incrementally worse. Not enough to even be worth getting that angry over. But, it reminds me that life can sometimes be a pile of little inconveniences that, on their own, shouldn't bother us. Get over it, right? Life is too short. But then the inconveniences become your whole live. You spend all of your time deleting emails from your inbox, or you give up and live like one of those crazy people that has like 10,000 unread messages. So, what can you do? Post about it on a social media platform and journal in the alt text. I hope you're having a good day. I think I am. We're going to be alright. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow of the universe.
A photograph showing a circular puzzle of Mars. The image of Mars is a mosaic from Viking data and is red, brown, black, and gray. The camera is looking down at an oblique angle. The puzzle is on a square wooden coffee table atop a rug with colorful geometric patterns. A man with medium brown hair and a black tee shirt is bent over pointing out a region on Mars. The region is a large darkish brown area north of the large canyon Valles Marinaris. The puzzle looks amazing. Just imagine a very impressive puzzle. Wow. You feel happiness. From a simple puzzle of Mars? Yes. This well lit and simple moment of relative stillness and joy. Passion for science, discovery, exploration, and art quietly existing amongst the chaotic background of daily life in the year 2025. You take a deep breath and feel the air inside your chest. Today is good. This is good. The world is as it should be. Relax and take care.
Screenshot from a live USGS camera pointed at the crater of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. The camera is just slightly pointed down. You can see some clouds in the sky and can see the horizon. In the mid ground you see layers of dark brown rocks: the inside of the volcano’s summit caldera. The bottom half of the screen is the lede, which I so expertly buried. A literal fountain of incandescent lava is shooting up on the right of the frame. It’s landing and flowing to the left, still red and glowing. Trails of flowing lava flow to meet the dark red and black swirl of colors in the lava lake.
A photograph looking down at a square light-colored wooden table. On it is a circular puzzle partly completed. It’s the planet Mars. The outline is complete as is Mars’ largest feature, Valles Marineris, a huge canyon that cuts across almost the entire portion of the planet pictured. The spaces above and below Valles are very incomplete. Other loose puzzle pieces take up the rest of the table and inside the unfinished areas. The whole puzzle is over two feet in diameter! Check out the profile of my partner @kalofxeno@bsky.social for more Mars!
A very floofy gray cat with copper eyes walking toward the camera through bright green grass. He is happy and alert and just strolling along being a beautiful fluffy baby. It’s his birthday. Did I mention how fluffy he is? Because he is very.
A woman with short hair sans a green tweed blazer sits at a vintage Macintosh computer on display in the corner of a room. On the screen is bright green text against a black background showing the title screen for a Star Trek video game.