Yep! I think most of us are sick of it! youtube.com/shorts/s1Q_s...

If you're against ai, you should set DuckDuckGo as your default web browser. It has a built-in option to block ai search results, and ai assistants. It's so helpful!

Wow. It’s the 120th anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake and the Chronicle has a pretty good write-up on Northern San Andreas earthquake mean recurrence intervals. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/e...

Glad to see Appalachian dialect being added to the official English language! I’m so proud of my accent & phrases I use, passed down for generations! Although I’m a Nash native, my extended family is in East TN My dad’s people are all from Charleston WV. I love our words, phrasing, and accents!

Do y’all ever watch Story Television? It’s a free antenna channel 44.7 in Middle TN. Watching ‘Vanishings!’ The story of the Andrea Gail (The Perfect Storm). allthatsinteresting.com/andrea-gail

Good morning sunshine! 🌞 A nice rainstorm is about to blow through middle Tennessee. Nightmares were bad again last night. Four o’clock’s are sprouting in the flower bed, so I’ve moved a few to fill in empty patches. Songbirds are sounding beautiful. It’s a dirt & decaf coffee kinda morning. ✌🏼🌎

Dollar store marigold seedlings. 🌱

The USGS announces a shift in hazard priorities. Flooding is downgraded. The instability of the northern flank — cracking ice, subsiding rock, accelerating melt — is now the top concern. Sleep-deprived and under pressure, scientists clash over risk, data gaps, and what the mountain is likely to do.

April 15, 1980 On Nightline last night, Stephen Geer calls Mount St. Helens "a television star—seldom seen in public." Seattle campers spent Easter nearby. Wet sleeping bags, no view. Reporters ask scientists annoying queries. A Portland shop has already sold $30K in MSH T-shirts ($119K in '26).

So many Ash trees are dead in my neighborhood. The Emerald Ash borer has decimated Nashville's Ash trees. A neighbor hired an arborist to inject his tree with a pesticide, hoping to save it. Cost him over $1,000!