wishing everyone a safe and fun operational period

HUGE aurora from Lake Tahoe just now!

Congratulations Taylor Swift on all the sex.

the lovers as wifi imaging, silkscreen print with crushed pearl

Pausa de hidratación

The new Madonna/Sabrina may not be Song of the Summer but it may have the Defining Lyric of the Summer

I like how the graphic here answers its own rhetorical question

patriotic as hell

ngmi

I get canceled like once every 16 days on this site on account of my Elite Posting Status, and I'd say about 29% of the time people have a point. On the 71% of the time they don't, I don't reorient my entire personality around being a baby bitch about it, but I guess I'm just not British enough.

hey if you were thinking about going to the fireworks in DC tomorrow, read this and absolutely don’t do that www.chadtopaz.com/essays/firew...

even for me, this is a bit much

there appears to have been a pretty wild breach of @theintercept.com's tipline on signal if it's true that they've known about it and covered it up, that's a horrendous breach of trust, idk how you fix that

The Bear finale should be a one-hour episode that’s 59 minutes of Carmine cooking something in his home kitchen. Sydney enters and says “Hey.” Fade to black.

i am a fast mover enjoyer and even this is too much for me lol

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Sec McMahon's broken Dept of Education is sending coercive emails to debtors on SAVE saying "choose another plan by July 1 or else." That is a scare tactic. You have until September 29 at the *earliest* to switch. Where are we getting that date from? Well, the Ed Dept itself.

Our weather forecasts have been DOGEd. gizmodo.com/heres-why-we...

White people stop calling minorities Boy challenge impossible

data fully corrupted, rebuilding these VMs from scratch and working on a plan to transition away from Windows for this box moving forward

accidentally nuked a few VMs on one of my servers because I didn't catch that an update enabled onedrive at some point and then today that onedrive instance imploded for some reason so all my user folders are borked

I heard about this a while back but couldn’t post about it bc it wasn’t public information. They want to send the engineering model of the curiosity rover to the moon. Every single person I know at JPL is flabbergasted anyone would ever consider doing that.

It was 5-4 on the constitutional question and the fact you are unable to recognise this as a problem is why you are unfit for the purpose. You have to go.

if you are against protecting trans rights, know i am against you

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

pretty interesting (presumably) field mod jammer setup using commercial sector antennas (jammer not collection is assumed, it'd be real wacky to use sector antennas for sigint)

small thing, but it's sad we're in the plastic challenge coin era of fedgov

To little surprise, the national preparedness level was raised to PL4 today. As of this morning, there were 10 Complex IMTs committed. Tomorrow morning's report will show more.

sketch of the lovers as wifi imaging

When I started a simple and kinda silly Q&A on the weekend for @theverge.com I didn't expect it would become part of a story about broken AI and the death of capitalism, but here we are.

IMPORTANT: this new rule allows OPM to directly and summarily fire any federal employ who has "failed to comply with routine legal obligations", including but not limited to 'having failed to file any tax payment or return on time'. No de minimus and no time limit stated. 1/

just as much as i believe better things are possible, i believe establishment democrats are fundamentally incapable of getting us there

JetBlue pilots reported striking a drone earlier today as they approached New York - JFK Airport at ASALT, the waypoint in the center of the video, about 11:16:45 UTC. JetBlue #B6948 landed safely and post flight inspection revealed no damage. The FAA is investigating. fr24.com/data/flights...

The involved aircraft was N423AG (#A506CB), an AutoGyro MTO Sport gyrocopter. The crash was on departure from RHV, had climbed to approx 300ft msl then started descending rapidly while ground speed decayed. ADS-B track: globe.airplanes.live?icao=a506cb&...

not only is this move by CPJ appalling and shameful, their actions today in response to critics of this decision are doubly so

another way to phrase this is "world's most expensive dragging equipment detector able to power two gaming PCs running continuously for a year"

stuff needs to stop catching on fire

Today is another extremely critical fire weather day. The SPC upgraded its outlook to an extremely critical risk, and NWS offices have upgraded to Particularly Dangerous Situation RFWs. Yes, that is now three days in a row that an extremely critical risk was issued. Today will be another long day.

This went triple platinum in the You're the Man Now, Dog community in the early oughts

Well, I guess I should reintroduce myself since a lot has changed since I was last active here. Hi, my name is Michael, and I am: a full-time Coverage Reporter for the Watch Duty App, a degreed Physical and Environmental Geographer, and a professional storm chaser!

absolute height of comedy is when they cut to the goal and you see how many kid keepers they've got

two large explosions in downtown oakland just shook my apartment... i think just large fireworks? but didn't see em

The federal government really doesn't want anyone to see what's happening inside detention centers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Many new & fast-moving wildfires in UT, w/emergency evacuations ongoing in multiple communities tonight due to explosive growth on #CherryFire. Notably, this is occurring in bullseye of NOAA SPC "extremely critical" outlook & NWS Salt Lake "Particularly Dangerous Situation" RFW.

i hope claire finally fixes carmy this season

girl, LOSE HIM!