Visiting NYC 2022 - 2024: “I fucking hate this place, cars so loud, why honking, oh god, everything dirty and terrible, please stop honking cars!!!” Visiting NYC 2025: “This is kinda nice? I feel at ease and am kinda delighted by things? I’m not so overstimulated?” Realization: congestion pricing

"I asked chat gpt" So? I asked the liver of a sacrificial sheep and it said by your actions you have lost the favor of the gods.

I keep seeing Instagram “cyber security” tech people saying to not bring your phone to a protest because cops can identify you in x/y/z ways. Then they say that a faraday bag isn’t enough to block said x/y/z things (stingrays etc). That seems… wrong??? Faraday bags block, like, everything?

This picture is concerning. The planet is much closer to us than I thought.

You know the *only* reason he got out so fast was a reporter live posted about this for hours. And, a large amount of public pressure. Every time someone gets grabbed, there has to be a robust public response immediately.

On Mon 4/14 @ 4pm PT, I will have a special live session to discuss the rapidly unfolding, chaotic, & apparently intensifying actual & proposed cuts to NOAA & NASA that threaten to decimate weather & climate science & prediction in the U.S. See you then. youtube.com/live/mbt...

NWS Bay Area Bot doing a lot of heavy lifting for my mental state

new saddest six word story just dropped

Late-breaking livestream this PM (4:30pm PT) to discuss the sudden mass firing today of #NOAA and National Weather Service (#NWS) staff, including those in mission-critical and life-saving roles. youtube.com/live/W2V...

men who dressed like this from 2008 - 2012 had preppy menswear blogs

So like, what're the vibes re: multiple sightings of deep sea fish close to the ocean's surface over the last few months? I've seen two posts about oarfish (one dead/one alive), and one anglerfish. Like seriously, what's up. Plz tell me, science Bluesky!! 🧪

I didn’t like the NYT coverage speculating on the potential for cats to spread bird flu to humans and it turns out I was justified! The reports did not show evidence of cat to human transmission. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

another day at the uncrustables factory decrusting these crustables

I love @laurelbristow.bsky.social so much. Unfollowed a few accounts today and am feeling much less panic-y.

Damn, okay 👀🍳

I want to be clear: the private sector, as it presently exists, *cannot* quickly spin up to fill any void left by substantial dismantling of #NOAA. Full stop. If that were to happen, people would die in extreme weather events who would not have otherwise, & economy would suffer.

This event has an 18-35 age range and I'm feeling so sad for all the OG NUMTOTs

The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.

I’m not one to idolize AOC, but I did find this helpful

In the environmental world, it's very weird to be having conversations about the impact of these executive orders. We can no longer use the words "disproportionate impact" and everything even remotely related to Environmental Justice must be scrapped. Heartbreaking and infuriating.

as someone who got interested in Meshtastic because of a panic freakout spiral re: worst case scenario solar storms & can now for the life of me not figure out how to set up the most basic of nodes: agreed

After nearly seven years of working at TAL, I just won the weekly competition to come up with the quote-joke that plays after the credits. I'm going to buy myself so many Berkeley Bowl treats tonight.

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