"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

RIP Queen

Democrats have leverage — and they need to use it to fight back against this regime. Any Democratic senator who votes for a continuing resolution offered by Republicans will effectively be green-lighting the cruel policies passed in Trump's big, ugly bill. Do not cave in.

Yikes, well this is a huge bummer! I used to use the Facility for Weather and Climate Assessments (FACTS) repository quite a lot for large ensemble and AMIP data download and processing. More about this: "A Community Resource for Assessing Weather and Climate Variability" (doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...)

Just some birds, and birds diving for food, and the sunset at Clearwater Beach tonight

"Employees have been instructed by senior staff to prepare to operate like FEMA did in the early 1990s, when work was handled manually or by using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with complicated formulas for calculating assistance."

Some dusk imagery. A more complete slideshow is located here: Late #September2025 #dusk youtu.be/EWhgpobqXL4

Imelda & Humberto. Without Imelda, Humberto would be more of a threat to the Southeast. Without Humberto, Imelda wouldn’t be expected to turn sharply out to sea and would be a greater rain threat to the Southeast. It might be more of a hybrid cyclone, too.

Coincidentally, the current political climate is about 1933-1935, too.

My Bluesky feed since morning: Hurricane! OMFG this dystopian nightmare. Hurricane!! Glorious fucking hells what in the Cat5 wow! Hur dur war torn Portland indeed... First time in 90 years that Atlantic basin hurricanes have... ICE goons!🤬 Gravity waves! 🤩

It's my #kittens' 9th birthday today (two were born before midnight, the other three after on the 26th but they were piles of squirming grey and black so I've no idea who). Here they were at nearly two months old:

Fun rainbow over the subtropical North Pacific this morning approximately 1200km/650kn from the BIg Island of Hawaii #ShareYourWeather #ShareYourTravels

Newly-designated invest 94L has 3 general scenarios in today's ensembles: 1) 94L fails to develop beyond a disturbance or weak tropical cyclone 2) 94L develops but recurves offshore near/east of the Bahamas 3) 94L continues NW and indirectly or directly affects the Bahamas & the southeast US

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

We’re just murdering people on the open seas now.

The FDA statement ends with a paragraph undermining its own warning. They signal parents to avoid acetaminophen. Except sometimes. And then: No “causal relationship… established” with ADHD or autism AND Alternatives to acetaminophen have “well-documented adverse impacts.”

The end of @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social is a disaster for WA news. It's also a perfect encapsulation of the two threats to journalism: 1. MAGA Republicans & their tech allies defunding local news 2. CEOs & bosses union-busting their hard-working journalists while taking home huge pay packages.

For the first time in over 50 years, the J Pod of the Southern Resident Orcas went south of the Tacoma Narrows! I was so happy to see them depart the Narrows and head north up Colvos Passage on Saturday. An absolutely historic moment for our endangered whales! #PNW #orcas #SRKW

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

Kroger will lay off ~1,000 employees. In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks – which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay. Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024. Textbook corporate greed.

Dusk, reflected

This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad. Or wasn't, until now.

According to @whaleresearch.bsky.social, J36, Alki, was seen carrying her deceased calf yesterday. Our wondrous critically endangered Southern Resident Orcas aren't surviving beyond infancy. #PNW #orcas

It was a horrific time.

Americans have short memories—keep reminding them. PLEASE SHARE!

The markings that supposedly expressed “transgender ideology” were………..a series of arrows.

My brain right now: "As 4+5 = 9, then 2+2+5 must equal something else. Let's ponder this for a few embarrassing seconds." Oh so it's that kind of day. Perhaps later I'll go dump pasta into cold water.

also on the subject of political violence

California’s soup kitchens, homeless shelters and preschools can continue to serve those without legal status, at least temporarily, according to a decision today by a U.S. district court judge in Rhode Island. https://cal.news/3I5IjOK

Gun violence is all too common. It's also preventable. It is too easy to access guns in America.

"We must reject political violence in EVERY form" Anyway, back to using State violence to clear homeless camps out of the park, because rich people were complaining they had to look at them.

And for too many of us, that person’s the one we see when we look in the mirror

U.S. Responds To Rising Sea Levels By Patting East Coast With Towels https://theonion.com/u-s-responds-to-rising-sea-levels-by-patting-east-coas-1847614367/

Bottom trawling is horrendous. Here's one more reason to ban it.

Tried to get a good shot of her with Bastet. Close enough. #BlackCat #Cat

@wyden.senate.gov says RFK Jr. needs to step down as HHS secretary — and “if he doesn’t, Donald Trump should fire him before more people are hurt by his reckless disregard for science and the truth.” @senatefinance.bsky.social

All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.

Lately missing Joycelyn Elders as Surgeon General, and her reasonable views which were considered scandalous. She increased birth control availability and education, vaccines, various vital testing. But, as Black women can't be in charge and teens can't make decisions about themselves...

In the aftermath of Emmett Till's lynching, white supremacists called for federal troops to invade and occupy Chicago. "If the federal government intervenes in the interests of law enforcement anywhere, it should start in Chicago, crime capital extraordinary." h/t @larryglickman.bsky.social

6-year anniversary of Hurricane Dorian stalling over the Bahamas. The result was category 1+ winds for over a day and a half, and category 3+ winds for 12 hours straight! The product attached here was derived from recon observations, and one of the first collaborations with @burgwx.bsky.social

We have the near final results: —Democrats won in Florida's SD15 by 45% (72.5/27.5). Harris had won this district by 23%. —Democrats won Florida's HD40 by 50% (75/25). (Harris had won this district by 35%.) (Presidential results courtesy of the always indispensable @the-downballot.com.)

Very sad news.

Just stood there watching this in a rare moment of peace. I fear silence, but there, it soothed me

If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.

We interrupt your dull Saturday for another #Caturday break.

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