Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? Did you exchange A walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

Security Researchers Turn Fibre Optic Broadband Lines into Spying Microphones https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/04/security-researchers-turn-fibre-optic-broadband-lines-into-spying-microphones.html A team of security researchers from Hong Kong have demonstrated a covert way of turning […]

Tiny, but... this is near the old MNF campground. Some of the last unburned parts of Mendocino Nat'l Forest! https://app.watchduty.org/i/90986

Only a 3.7 and 31 miles away, but lots of people here around the lake felt it. One short, sharp, shake here in Lakeport!

A few minutes ago, some kids were walking by and I overhead one say loudly, "look at those pretty flowers up there!" (I have about 10 pots of geraniums and other flowers hanging from the 3rd floor deck railings). The other kid says, "Yeah, the lady up there throws full-sized candy bars at us on […]

Gas and diesel are up over 50 cents a gallon here in a week. I'm *really* grateful to the three Tribal governments that have opened public fuel stations here!

First mid-70s day of the year with low RH and winds in Lake County, CA = 🔥

After so many failed attempts at buying empty warehouses across the US to be retrofitted to hold thousands of humans each - do you think anyone in Fed Gov is noting how many of those failures are due to lacking/old infrastructure? Water, roads, housing, schools, hospitals, etc? (probably not […]

In the dim dark ages, before the internet, before the BBS'es, even before office computers, there were office bulletin boards and cubicle partition, graced by old school #memes images photo copied over and over to the point, original strokes were degrading […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub […]

The U.S. is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 —six years into the Third Reich and just before the start of World War II. "…nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give […]

#FireTwitter is how I was virtually intro'd to Ben (@ai6yr#FireTwitter and so many others that many of whom staff Watch Duty. Glad that app came about! Hear more from John Mills: https://www.ted.com/talks/john_mills_how_we_built_watch_duty_the_lifesaving_wildfire_alert_app

Busy day for CalFire and local fire depts here in #lakecountyca! New start outside of Lakeport; and CalFire copter just flew overhead, so could be closer than I like!

The Clear Lake basin in #lakecountyca is a #bowlofsmoke from #pickettfire Ugh.

When we say nearly 70% of #lakecountyca has burned in the past 10 years, this is what we mean. This photo is of fire perimiters over the past 124 years (not including 2025)

#EAS just went out for #ardenfire in Lucerne, in #lakecountyca.

If there is an ancient Valley Oak in NorCal that you love; get ready to be heartbroken. If it's on your property and it looks healthy now, give it a deep water at the drip line, because soon it will need every resource that tree can muster to fend off #mob, aka Mediterranean Oak Borer 1/x

Well fuck. Reflect Orbital just filed for their first satellite with the FCC. https://www.reflectorbital.com/ I hate them even more than AST SpaceMobile. At least AST does something mildly useful, unlike Reflect Orbital, which is 100% a scam and will collide with a lot of junk in orbit. Time […]

Busy afternoon here in #lakecountyca! Winds are gusting. 3 new fire starts in last hour. Largest just dispatched; #lakefire in City of Clearlake. 3-4 acres with Mod-ROS.

Fire up near Covelo in #mendocino County and growing fast; 30-40 acres now. Potential has jumped from 20 to 200-300 acres. Multiple structures threatened. Evac Orders have been requested for North of Hopper Ln and West of Mina Rd.

Here we go “Breaking News: Southern Baptists voted to call for the reversal of the #SCOTUS ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, spurred by the end of Roe v. Wade” #lgbtq https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/southern-baptist-obergefell-same-sex-marriage.html

Good news: Wildfire Cams back up. Bad news: They are needed right now for #clubfire Started 50x50 spot, now localized evacs underway and it is pretty windy with shifting winds in the area. ugh. https://share.watchduty.org/i/50270?ts=1748909792000

Who has a contact for ALERTCaliforia? @ai6yr? @barkflight? Several of our cameras have been down for days here in Lake County. We love and need our #firecams!

I just gotta say (as an oldster) every. single. wedding. I went to as a kid? This was THE SONG. (We all had this as an aspiration!) Cheers, Roberta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_fLu2yrP4