youtu.be/WgqaxMOKfnI?... Here we goooooo!!!! #BMFS

Health insurance costs jumped for workers & employers in 2025. This will get worse if the GOP refuses to extend ACA subsidies. Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024. Still not sure we need Medicare for All?

Shilshole Marina. Seattle, WA, USA

“We couldn’t tell if it was day or night.” On top of crowded cells, meager rations and other reported cruelties of ICE detention, immigrants face a more insidious hazard… My latest for @theguardian.com.

Rad!

Wow! Won my first photography competition. Thanks @greenbuildermedia.bsky.social for selecting the photo of seals in Netarts Bay, Oregon. 🙏

Sitting on the bus, in traffic, waiting to go to the office for a morning full of Zoom meetings. I can’t help but feel we had a missed opportunity to reshape society to be more equitable and flexible. Instead the powers with money are insisting on consolidating it, and backing fascists. 😭😡

USGS releases detailed topographic maps for recreation: www.usgs.gov/news/nationa...

The U.S. has led the world in science since the mid-20th century for two reasons: funding & welcoming students and researchers from around the world. The Trump administration is destroying both advantages (1/2)

Paddle Rave! Last Friday on Lake Union, Seattle.

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

🌬️🌊🏄🏻‍♂️New downwind board! College club on Lake Union and STS9 at the Crocodile. Funnnnn weekend! 💃🏽🪩🕺🏼

As Frieden says, RFK Jr. "mangled science" to justify pulling support from Gavi. This is the type of Fool's Gold Science from the Trump admin that we MUST call out. Support our Open Letter condemning the present assault on science here: zurl.co/U79wl zurl.co/FRbsH

Colorado time, was great to be back! Won’t wait 10 years again!

Robust clinical trials show that CBT, breathing exercises, social support, exercise and time spent in nature can fight bad stress by altering how a person thinks, how they act and how their body responds to stress. CBT has been shown to reduce how much people dwell on negative feelings after…

Hey book lovers! Support your local library, of course. Also! Cool news! @bookshop.org has free shipping July 8-11. They also now sell ebooks, which is an excellent development. AND if you sign up for their email, there are periodic boook/ebook deals & I've snapped up many fine books that way. 💚📖🔥📘

NEW: In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson listed 27 grievances to prove that King George III was a tyrant. We looked at how many of those now apply to Donald Trump. Have a good Fourth of July and pass this on. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Snapshots from summer

Tonight at Urban Surf at Gasworks, Seattle

Frogs in a slowly boiling pot

Shilshole dock party and sunset last night! 🔥🍗🍷🎉

Good times at the Urban Surf SUP race #2 on Lake Union last night. Pure chaos at the buoy turns! #standuppaddle

Fun weekend in Portland on the Columbia!

RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign. She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.

tired: people AI-generating rando images of themselves as anime WIRED: AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, new analysis has found

A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI. www.wired.com/story/new-re...

SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:

Our book "Teaching Mathematics using Interactive Mapping" contains 65 hands on activities on set theory, building expressions, measurements, geometry, and other concepts while students dig into issues such as health, wildfire, energy, water, and more: community.esri.com/t5/education...

This hype cycle needs to die off and get some guardails at least

Join me tomorrow morning at Lighthouse Roasters in Fremont at 8AM to drink coffee and talk about how we can #LegalizeCornerStores! Info on the meetup: members.thegsba.org/eventcalenda... Petition: actionnetwork.org/letters/lega...

Shilshole Sunsets 🔥☀️ (Last Monday, not today)

Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! Here are my top tips for web #a11y: 1. Use your keyboard. Can you reach & operate interactive controls? 2. Run the Axe extension. Fix what you find! 3. Zoom your browser. Does it reflow on small screens? There’s more, but that will get you started! #GAAD

Batshit Bobby

I’ve taken stats twice—once as a geographer, once in my MBA. I know data can mislead, but RFK Jr’s vaccine claims aren’t misleading. They’re dishonest. This LA Times piece breaks it down: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Ballard Elks paddle club had their first race of the summer season Monday. Come on down every Monday, registration starts 18h skipper meeting 1830, race 1900. Drinks and food on the lounge patio after!

NEW from me: Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is operating 35 gas turbines without any pollution permits, belching asthma-worsening emissions into an area that leads Tennessee in ER visits for asthma. www.eenews.net/articles/elo...

The California Surf Map and other delights from Malin and Mizen #MapoftheWeek mapoftheweek.substack.com/p/mapping-th...

Very cool!

Amazing downwind sail to Gig Harbor today for the paddler’s cup weekend.

Chill SUP nights on Lake Union are back! Chasing boat wakes, making friends, gasworks brewing. Let’s gooooo!

Almost daily sufski fun in this long run of April sunny weather. #surfski #kayak

NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. By @abrahm.bsky.social

"We are using Kickstarter because the traditional funding approach of coordinating academic and scientific support through grant proposals and applications has no path forward under the current administration’s lack of support for education, the arts and the sciences."

Phish was transformative. Having seen them for 32 years now, it’s an energetic ecstatic dance meditation and reflection on the passage of time. A time warp during the show, flying because it’s fun.

Freighter wake season has begun! Fun with friends on the sandbar in Ballard

Love these sunny days!

This Saturday is the first of seven (one for each council district) Seattle corner store meetups! Add you name in support of legalizing corner stores to stay in the loop actionnetwork.org/letters/lega...

Bull kelp forests are now the official marine forest of Washington, thanks in part to the hard work of Sebastian, a Bainbridge High School student. We can all make a difference, no matter our age.

File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence