TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Air Force Academy. Intelligence. Citizen Scientist. Glider instructor. Soaring over the Sacramento Mountains near Timberon, New Mexico. Black Lives Matter.

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2026-01-07 20:16:10 UTC

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When will the General Strike begin?
https://generalstrikeus.com/
#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis

2025-09-09 20:36:28 UTC

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I always have a full-size spare tire in my vehicle.
I always fly with a parachute.
I always have extra passports.
We dress like students, we dress like housewives
Or in a suit and a tie
I changed my hairstyle so many times now
I don't know what I look like
Heard of a van that is loaded with weapons
Packed up and ready to go
Heard of some grave sites out by the highway
A place where nobody knows
The sound of gunfire off in the distance
I'm getting used to it now
Lived in a brownstone, lived in a ghetto
I've lived all over this town
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco
This ain't no fooling around
No time for dancing, or lovey dovey
I ain't got time for that now
Transmit the message to the receiver
Hope for an answer someday
I got three passports, a couple of visas
You don't even know my real name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8al5cSQNmME
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2025-09-08 23:50:48 UTC

Governor: New Mexico to provide universal access to child care
New Mexico will provide universal access to child care starting Nov. 1, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Monday during a news conference in her Cabinet room in the state Capitol.
The expansion represents a historic step forward in New Mexico’s ongoing efforts to bring early childhood services to as many children as possible, thereby improving their outcomes later on in life, Lujan Grisham said.
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/governor-new-mexico-to-provide-universal-access-to-child-care/article_1a991c8e-70ed-45e9-bbdb-9b5e602d625a.html
#NewMexico #Childcare #UniversalChildcare
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2025-08-09 00:27:33 UTC

I have a question about mapping tools that can help with local activism/organizing/campaigns.
I am currently using Google Maps to plot individuals at various addresses. (Easy to import data to the map, I can share this with others, etc.)
But there is a problem. If there are multiple individuals with the same address, Google Maps only puts one pin at a given address...and no additional symbology/color to show you that more than one pin is plotted...even if you hover over it or click on it...only the top pin is shown.
What other mapping tools (that I can easily share with others) can properly display multiple pins at a given address?
(This question also opens the door to other features...can field operatives make updates in real time and share to a central data source/server?...and more and more.)
As always, for grass-roots stuff...free is best, lowest cost is next best.
Feel free to boost.
Thanks in advance!
#GIS #Mapping #Map #CommunityBuilding #Community #Activism
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2025-07-16 00:37:12 UTC

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@npub1san…jgxu
"The dedication of a permanent sign that recognizes the sacrifice and suffering of the Downwinders of New Mexico will take place at 11 a.m. on July 16 at the Stallion Gate Entrance off of Highway 380 east of San Antonio, followed by Mass, a dinner reception and a candlelight vigil in Tularosa."
https://www.dchieftain.com/community/downwinders-to-be-acknowledged-at-trinity-test-site-dedication/article_8ba677ec-a470-48b7-b359-769ec97bd8ec.html
"The people of New Mexico have now been added to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act."
https://www.trinitydownwinders.com/
https://www.grantcountybeat.com/news/non-local-news-releases/80-years-of-struggle-trinity-site-july-16-2025
"The second event is the 46th anniversary of the Church Rock Uranium Tailings Spill on July 16th, 1979 on the Navajo Nation. The Red Water Pond Road Community invites you to attend a historic commemoration on Saturday, July 19th from 6 am to 4 pm, 12 miles north of Red Rock State Park on State Highway 566. Breakfast and lunch will be provided under a shaded arbor."
https://nuclearactive.org/plans-to-commemorate-two-new-mexico-atomic-events-trinity-and-church-rock/
#NewMexico #Trinity #Radiation #RadiationExposureCompensationAct #RECA #Downwinders

2025-07-04 02:17:42 UTC

Want to photograph another nova? (Southern hemisphere only.)
V572 Velorum might be naked eye visible if you have good eyes, are in a dark sky...although the first quarter moon may thwart that.
It should be easy in binoculars or a camera on a fixed tripod. A newer cellphone camera might also capture it.
The attached graphic shows the location of the nova as seen from Wellington as evening twilight ends...fairly high in the southwest.
https://earthsky.org/tonight/nova-or-new-star-visible-in-vela/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V572_Velorum
#Nova #Photography #Astrophotography #Science #CitizenScience
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2025-05-04 01:57:36 UTC

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https://universeodon.com/@npub13vn…93j9/114447073276313735
#Earthquake #NewMexico
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2025-05-04 01:50:20 UTC

Did I just feel an earthquake for 5 - 10 seconds? (19:47 MDT)
In southern New Mexico about 8 miles south of the village of Cloudcroft, NM approx 32.8749463 North 105.7869629 West
#Earthquake

2025-05-03 01:03:58 UTC

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If you were near Shiprock, you'd know, lol!

2025-05-03 00:58:23 UTC

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Wow!
Duluth...that's in the Four Corners region, near Farmington, New Mexico and Shiprock?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiprock

2025-05-03 00:56:11 UTC

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Snow at 9,300 feet in the mountains of Sacramento mountains on May 2nd.
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2025-05-03 00:55:04 UTC

Ocotillo in bloom on the floor of the Tularosa Basin in southern New Mexico!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fouquieria_splendens
The sky background is dramatic...dark, threatening thunderstorm clouds.
Then I drove up into the mountains...snow!
But south of us, across the border in northern Sonora and Chihuahua under sunny, dry, breezy skies...forest fire smoke. (Weather satellite image.)
This place continues to have dynamic weather.
#NewMexico #Snow #Drought #Thunderstorms #Rain #Desert #Ocotillo
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2025-04-28 01:31:14 UTC

Yet another dust storm over the southeast half of New Mexico, far west Texas, the Texas panhandle, Oklahoma panhandle, extending into Colorado and Kansas.
The dust is coming from prehistoric lake beds in northern Chihuahua, Mexico:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Palomas
"Presently its basin is a major source of airborne dust in the region."
With the severe drought conditions in this region, it takes far weaker winds to create these dust storms compared to previous decades. Visibility at my house is less than 1/2 mile.
Note that the dust is tan, but that the gypsum dust from White Sands is paler. A fire is burning in northeast Sonora, Mexico...the smoke plume is bluish. A fire develops in central New Mexico (Rio Grande valley, town of Socorro) at the end of the animation loop. https://app.watchduty.org/i/47153
#NewMexico #NMwx #TXwx #COwx #MXwx #Chihuahua #OKwx #KSwx #DustStorm #Wind #Dust #Drought #Texas #ElPaso #WhiteSands
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2025-04-03 17:31:30 UTC

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That looks very much like the Unitarian church in Westport, Connecticut, USA that was designed by Victor Lundy in 1959.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Church_in_Westport
https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/buildings/higher-power-victor-lundys-first-unitarian-church_o
https://archidose.blogspot.com/2017/07/a-hidden-gem-in-westport-forest.html
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39089126-victor-lundy
#Architecture
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2024-12-12 03:52:38 UTC

Ice halos around the nearly full moon.
There are several features in these photos.
1st photo is fisheye all-sky.
2nd photo looks closer at the zenith. (see alt text for more discussion)
3rd photo looks below the moon, near the horizon.
Go back to the first photo to take it all in again.
The brightest 'star' in these photos is the planet Jupiter. You'll also see Orion rising, the Hyades, Cassiopeia, and other constellations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(optical_phenomenon)
#NewMexico #Moon #Halo #Photography #Astrophotography #Optics #IceCrystals #Night
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2024-11-18 15:14:13 UTC

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Heeeeelp! 🙂
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2024-11-18 15:04:30 UTC

Stubborn aspen leaves refuse to admit that winter is here.
#NewMexico #Snow #Storm #Winter #Autumn #Aspen #Photography
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2024-10-07 17:10:21 UTC

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@npub1ucv…5a8g
Hurricane Milton is now #1 in the WikiP list of hurricanes....for most rapid intensification:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atlantic_hurricane_records#Fastest_intensification
#Hurricane #Milton #HurricaneMilton