Despite the deadly earthquakes of Feb 6, 2023, Turkey remains unprepared for future seismic disasters. There are several reasons for this: 1) a significant portion of the country's building stock remains vulnerable to collapse in the event of a strong earthquake + bianet.org/haber/three-...

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WaPo laying off entire Middle East team

3 February 1716 9:30 UT Mw7.0 earthquake hit Algiers, northern Algeria, destroying hundreds of buildings. Destructive aftershocks happened until June. Death toll estimates vary from 30 to 20,000. doi.org/10.1080/1558... doi.org/10.1016/j.so... gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/c... thegazette.co.uk

The largest earthquake in the sequence occurred a few minutes ago - a M4.2. In the last hour there have been 9 quakes greater than a M2.5, including 5 quakes of M3 or larger. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

My latest @theurbanist.org about how the officials of WA State and Seattle are responding to the threat of an ICE invasion. Includes: - relevant state legislative bills - the Ferguson/Brown press conference on Monday - the Seattle town hall on federal impacts on Monday - Seattle Mayor Wilson's plans

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Old school #DataViz? In a way. This WA Geological Survey plate map shows the time of first ashfall from Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980. Isochron lines show the ash cloud’s eastward push across the Pacific Northwest, stretching into the morning hours of Monday, May 19.

Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

this is the one I'll be rewatching tonight. may flights of very funny angels sing her to her rest.

I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...

Tom Frank has obtained a version of the #FEMAReviewCouncil’s unreleased report, which he says recommends “parametric triggers” for certain disasters. www.eenews.net/articles/int... #EM #FEMA

"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. blockclubchi.co/3ZAnDTZ

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Since Oct 7th 2023 only one Congressperson has been censured in Congress for their rhetoric and it was literally the only Palestinian in either chamber. Meanwhile dozens of Republicans trot out each day and say Hitler-level things about Muslims like Ilhan Omar and absolutely nothing is done.

recently learned about “dek bass”, a sound system culture in rural West Bengal, using cassette decks and homemade systems, and it’s remarkable because 1) the music and equipment are sick and 2) the DJ always looks like he’s being briefed on a national security issue

Today marks the anniversary of the 1700 Magnitude 9 Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake, reminding us to be prepared for strong shaking in the PNW. URMs are particularly vulnerable, but retrofitting can mitigate the risk. #FixTheBricks www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5wa...

my guy was back out there doin Good Work with a broken rib from his previous encounter. name a fucking high school after him.

#OnThisDay in 1700, an enormous quake struck the Pacific Northwest, creating a tsunami that slammed into Japan. historylink.org/File/5098

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

The history of the New York City Sanitation Department is fascinating. Read more about it! Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City by Robin Nagle is a great read. bookshop.org/p/books/pick...

Alright 12s, it's game time!! Follow the live seismogram at pnsn.org/seahawks, and keep the energy UP! We're predicting great plays and even greater seismograms as the Seahawks take on the Rams today at Lumen Field. #LetsGoSeahawks

i hate living in the second act of CABARET. i miss living in the first act of CABARET

i think about this picture of fred shuttlesworth looking at his bombed out house every day because it is in my classroom and so i see it five times a week. tired and defiant. a face that says well, on we go

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

I don’t know how this all ends. But the everyday courage of the free citizen in the free city is a place where the end can begin. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/how-is-thi...

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

I see folks outside MN lauding how organized we are & all I can say is: THIS IS IT. This is the whole organizing principle. You ask what you wish someone was doing & then you DO THAT THING. It doesn't matter if it's perfect or even enough. Just do it. Find other people doing it & do it with them.

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

The fact of the matter is: a severe #IceStorm is developing across much of the country at this very moment, with potentially devastating and far-reaching consequences extending far beyond the region of maximum #ice concentration. Watch out for the #ice, and help your neighbors weather the storm.

CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….

I feel like everyone who followed this story carefully knew that this was the role Canary Mission was playing but didn't have definitive proof yet. It's a weird feeling to just finally have something to point to.

(!) Newly-released State Department docs show the Trump-Vance-Rubio admin detained Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi for fake news *initially propelled by Columbia itself* — including that he was yelling at "Jewish bystanders," when what he was actually doing was confronting an antisemitic disruptor.

Looking at some old Forest Service photos. Here's the Visitors Information Center at Spirit Lake, circa 1970. It was here that Ranger Sharon Burchard felt the M4.1 earthquake on March 20, 1980, that indicated something was up at the mountain.

my elementary school PE teacher, my grandparents' next-door neighbor, the older generation of the family that lived across the street. Manzanar and Minidoka.

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry. "They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.

grim to think about all the things we would have known

I see many of us are having a moment of nostalgia for under-regulated intercity transport on the eastern seaboard in the early 2000s

Fung Wah was so good.. so awfully horribly good... a PORTAL between Boston Chinatown and NYC Chinatown, wrapped in a bus

this but for fung wah and other chinatown bus companies whose names I can no longer recall but who certainly live on in my memories

Zencefil, a vegetarian restaurant un Beyoğlu that this incredible slightly dense herby bread + butter and pretty decent ev yemekleri. Closed years ago but I will always remember it fondly.

When you listen to The Mountain Goats once

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.

Rashid Shaheed got things started right away with an opening kickoff return touchdown, the 12s rocked the house, and the Seahawks never looked back! SEAHAWKS WIN 41-6 and move onto the NFC Championship Game! @seahawks @nfl

Seahawks running into halftime with a comfy lead of 26-6 against the 49ers!! We are hard at work here at the PNSN, providing live annotations on the fan-generated seismograms coming in from Lumen Field. Let's go Hawks!! Watch the live feed and beat the delay at pnsn.org/experiment/2....