71st birthday dinner. Yum.

I think this turn, which is a likely-liberal person shooting a member of the opposition, is extremely ominous. And, it has been clear to me for months that we are heading into a more violent period than we’ve seen in my lifetime. I’m afraid this is the start, not the end.

Yes! www.staradvertiser.com/2025/09/04/b...

Would like Hawaii to join this initiative. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/03/c...

Still several days away… but worth keeping an eye on. #Kiko

Followed a couple of starter packs this weekend, and got a large increase in followers. Thanks to all of you…do I have to say something insightful now? 🤪😎

Unvaccinated citizens in the 50s

🇺🇦 Re-upping this one in the name of decency and democracy. Slava Ukraini!

I’m watching a live stream

Marta was just 17 years old in her first Copa América. 22 years later, at 39 she scores twice in the final, including a 96th-minute equalizer and wins the Best Player Award 🇧🇷 What a performance from one of the greatest players to ever step foot on the pitch. Legends never die 👏

Incredible COPA America final between Colombia & Brazil. Going to penalty kicks after several lead changes #COPA #Marta

Arghh…I hate it when there are so many comparable choices. Wordle 1,496 X/6 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟨

I talked to a NOAA colleague yesterday who told me that 75% of the federal employees of his division have left and he’s worried about their ability to get work done even if Congress funds NOAA at some level. The devastation to science will be felt for generations.

Argh…correct answer was my first choice…but no…second guessed myself to a zero streak. Wordle 1,487 X/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩

Head’s up Leeward Oahu friends…

Okay…🕺🏻 Wordle 1,474 2/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Madam Pele is at it again. Started at ~9:30 HST, 1930 UST. How long will it last? 2 hrs? 8 hrs? 24 hrs? www.youtube.com/live/oG5zz9S...

Good luck with hurricane season! ospo.noaa.gov/data/message...

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

I hate when there are so many options for a single letter. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Wordle 1,460 X/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩

Booya Wordle 1,459 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Did not help that I used a letter in the wrong place twice… Wordle 1,457 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Ay! ⛵️ Wordle 1,455 3/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Kilauea doing its thing again… www.youtube.com/live/oG5zz9S...

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One point in time… Wordle 1,447 3/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

How’d you do? Wordle 1,441 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wow! www.youtube.com/live/oG5zz9S...

Zero to hero… Wordle 1,434 3/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

University of Hawai’i. Pregame hula. Only in Hawai’i. #Hawaii #hula #aloha #UHawaii #baseball

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

Better than my average… Wordle 1,425 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Happening now. 808nami.com/weather.php

2.5 hrs from now. Warriors win in game 7 away court upset!

"Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin' We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drummin' Four dead in Ohio." Neil Young Remembering: Allison Krause, 19 Jeffrey Miller, 20 Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20 William Schroeder, 19 4 May 1970

Sharing an open letter from all of the former National Weather Service Directors (Louis Uccellini, Jack Hayes, Brigadier General D.L. Johnson, Brigadier General John J. Kelly Jr., E.W. (Joe) Friday, Ph.D.) on the importance of NOAA/NWS and the implications of budget/staff cuts on the NOAA mission:

Stephen Miller Dead Behind Eyes At 39

NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.

Nice article on friend & CR Foundation co-founder Jim Rosenthal. I am so proud of Jim for his altruism and kindness, and for efforts of the CR Foundation Board of Directors to provide healthier indoor air for schools in underserved communities. 💙 thepeak.coloradocollege.edu/2025/04/22/j...

Do not confuse the political appointees making crazy decisions at NOAA with the excellent and dedicated scientists who work at NOAA, some of them for decades.

Sustained cross-species transmission of gammacoronavirus in wild birds reveled by viral characterization in China https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.17.648926v1

Beisbol…baseball Hawai’i, people. www.khon2.com/local-news/i...

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

How many of Trump’s inner circle bought low and will sell high on insider information? Whipsawing the market, to enable shorting prior to announcing tariffs, then buying the upswing when they’re postponed. The corruption is astounding.