@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social @defendpublichealth.bsky.social This affects everyone in the US and includes #fema disaster grants. Write your elected officials and submit a comment against the revisions

If the idea of political appointees from the Trump administration deciding what science we are allowed to do and whether your town really needs its roads fixed, you can read more about the rancid proposed OMB rule and drop a letter to your representatives below. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

Next, late Jun troughing will bring cooler temps (mitigating factor), but also widespread and locally strong winds & little precip (aggravating factors). In fact, ensembles are currently suggesting notable summer wind event (a known fire outbreak trigger if following heatwave).

Looks like mstdn.jp may be compromised or unmaintained, seeing tons of phishing posts. #Fediverse #defederate #spam #phishing

“ By Amanda Greenwood Published June 14, 2026 Millions of people across parts of #california, #oregon, and #washington are under urgent heat alerts as the National Weather Service (NWS) warns of "lethal temperatures" and elevated overnight heat that could pose serious health risks […]

Empire Cycle, from Canada. Does anybody know anything about this company? #toronto #bicycle #biketooter

the Arch User Repository package `alvr` has been orphaned, then adopted by a threat actor who immediately updated it with an infostealer. If you have this package on your system and updated it recently, you've been compromised. This is not a result of any […] [Original post on gaysex.cloud]

I would expect fire season across the interior West to kick into high gear quite soon, with at least 6 consecutive upcoming days or critical or near-critical fire weather (a mix of hot, dry, windy, plus some dry lightning) aligning with widespread severe to extreme drought.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116720515217743001 Look, I was a career INTELLIGENCE OFFICER. With an NSA background. Ordinarily, I'm ALL FOR mass surveillance. But if you're going to have a democracy, you've GOT TO have a powerful legal framework that balances the access we need against the […]

I'm thrilled to see my Rep (Maxine Dexter) is NOT on this list. https://influence.citationneeded.news/2026/states/oregon Sen. Wyden is on this list and I wish he was not. $39K is a relatively small sum for a US Senator. Why can't he just forsake big tech money? This explorer is a cool new […]

Screwworm confirmed in Texas in the midst of having the worst imaginable people in charge. I guess we’re gonna have to keep getting hammered by infectious disease until we realize public health has a point.

The geologist James Hutton was born in Edinburgh 300 years ago tomorrow. Two slices of Scottish geology I (an ecologist) have enjoyed studying. The Moine Thrust Mylonites at Faraid Head, Balnakeil Bay and lichens on a basalt dyke in Lewisian gneiss, Raasay.

Working on writing a justification for a budget request for a state disaster recovery program, which was signed into law in March, but did not come with funding. Can I just write: "we need this because we cannot continue to rely on the feds for their waning support"? #disasterrecovery […]

“You opened this page. It already knows the following.” https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

@camless It's one of those very low probability, very bad outcomes kind of thing. But the probability gets higher every time they launch more stuff into orbit! (And yeah, I can't stop thinking about what would have happened if the Ituna reentry had been over say, New York City. A dozen or more […]

#Hermiston #weather#hermiston20260527 Partly cloudy and warmer today with highs around 28ºC. The spice comes tomorrow as a low pressure system spins warm, moist air into the region from the south. Look for Thursday highs around 32ºC with possible t-storms in the afternoon. The SPC has a marginal (level […]

Recent strong NWly winds have enhanced upwelling of cold ocean water along immediate CA coast from Monterey northward, temporarily alleviating near-shore marine heatwave there. But SoCal coastal waters remain very warm, & NorCal ocean warming will likely resume sooner vs later.

If you run a peertube instance and have not patched in the past 4 hours, you are way behind and likely have been compromised. The latest patch will help clean up the mess.

A pyramid of ceramic test tiles showing the various tones I get from some of the different #WildClay samples I've collected. The pots I decorate with these clays are called my Earth Tone series. I began working this way in 2024. The iron red tiles along the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Received a public service award today. Got to shake hands with the Governor, given a fancy certificate and a water bottle. Almost like an 'employee of the year' award. I guess I am doing some things right. :) #publicservice #bureaucracy

Gee, ya don’t say … #bluesky Says #kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread #propaganda The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real #users’ accounts to post fake #content, an apparently novel tactic. #medialiteracy #disinformation #misinformation #russia […]

Yesterday I replied to a toot someone posted. Their toot was boggling at how trans women were excluded from the challenging physical sport that is darts. My reply pointed out that chess is also gender segregated, at least at lower levels. Lots of people replied to me asking why. And the reply […]

Wow, the #sevencabinsfire is taking off today in #newmexico. IR imaging shows ~12,500 ac and chugging into the Capitan Mountains Wilderness within the #lincolnnationalforest. Extreme fire danger, current red flag warning with 20-30mph winds and fists to 50mph. The fire is burning through heavy […]

How this infographic from #Oregon State's Marine Mammal Institute depicts the size of a blue whale lol #BlueWhale #oregon#bluewhale#pnw #whales #sealife https://www.opb.org/article/2026/05/16/newport-blue-whale-skeleton-display/

The Onion is just on a roll lately.

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"These proposals would fundamentally change how America handles catastrophe by effectively offload the burden of disaster management onto the states. While acknowledging issues at FEMA, which has indeed been stretched to its limits for years, experts warn that state and local governments are […]

Mastodon experts, we need your help! openDemocracy is now publishing on Ghost which brings a suite of lovely fediverse features with it. Buuuut it also brings a new handle, @[email protected], what's the best way to handle a situation like this? Repost the posts from the Ghost page […]

I'm trying to rage-write an article about all the completely awful, useless, polluting, dangerous shit that companies are proposing to launch into orbit and I can't even tell what's fake and what's real on these fucking techbro websites anymore. It's all so fucking ludicrous.

Mt Shasta looking regal and beautiful, even when partially obscured by clouds.

On my web site I post almost exclusively local issues for humans. My "audience" is almost exclusively AI scrapers from APNIC. This makes me sad.

*Sigh* I just don't even know what to say these days. This is how tired I am. Absolutely zero energy to reply. > Hey Robert, have you considered syndicating to Substack? They have this amazing app, and since your website doesn't have an app, but Boomer technology like RSS, that means I have to […]

"Democrats say #epa head’s budget cut proposal ‘reads like climate change deniers’ manifesto’." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/30/epa-budget-cut-proposal Dems "slamm[ed] agency leadership over a proposal to cut its budget in half…The…proposed $4.2bn EPA budget would sharply […]

My talk slides about environmental consequences of AI data centres are here https://uregina.ca/~slb861/AIdatacentre_2026apr30_lawler.pdf, with lots of references. This is probably the ugliest set of slides I've ever made. But there are lots of references! (Note that some of the links within the […]

Talking with my firefighter friend in #florida who is working on several #wildfires currently burning. He mentioned that there is a water deficit due to drought where they are fighting fire 20 feet below the normal waterline. 😬 #drought #Wildfire #flwx

Hey #broomfield and #Westminster folks, and colorado running folks in general. I'm looking for a local running group to meet with regularly (prefer early mornings). Any suggestions? I know of several groups in Boulder and Superior, but I'd rather not drive 45 minutes round trip for my 30 […]

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Spicy day for Colorado's Front Range. Red flag warnings and critical fire weather. #cowx #fireseason2026 started very early this year. I think this decade has heralded year-round fire suppression across more of the West. #Wildfire #yearwithoutwinter #climateemergency

🇲🇦 Very pleasant greetings to you all from Casablanca where today started off pleasantly drizzly with a temperature around 20°. My layover was long enough to go into town and find a geocache.

The makerspace wiki is getting scrapped to hell and back by AI bots. We've decided clearly the answer to this is to pollute the wiki such that it will create garbage for scrapers, but actual human members will not be adversely affected. So aside from our new left handed screw drivers page. I'm […]

“The logic is circular, but effective. Use drives demand. Demand justifies infrastructure. Infrastructure expands under the cover of inevitability. By the time the physical footprint becomes visible, the narrative has already done its work" www.peaceandriot.org/ai-fossil-fu...

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116455692998038180 Reversing the vaccine mandates is a disaster for military readiness

The venn diagram of the "spare the rod and spoil the child" people and the "threatening to bomb a country into the stone age is good and moral foreign policy" people is a circle. It's the same error in the nature of power, in the exercise of control. The same confusion between might and […]

RFK Jr. just said in a hearing that vaccination rates in the U.S. went down “because the government lied to them about COVID”. He blithely ignores that under his “leadership”, the government is lying to us NOW. Vaccination rates and trust in the government have plummeted since he was installed.

Iinished up attending a state preparedness conference this last week. The keynote speaker who has a PhD in '#ai in #emergencymanagement'. What that entailed was a nearly two hour-long ad for ai and robots. The what now feels old shtick of 'if you don't hop onto the planet-burning bandwagon […]

So I convinced someone to join the #fediverse @Mohamedoumbia we met recently in Dakar. He is from Mali, speaks mostly French, so it's been interesting having conversations. He got interested after I made a presentation about what works for me as an African artist, having left corporate social […]

@samlmontano.bsky.social FEMA is such a mess right now, top to bottom... My state just received a disaster declaration, but FEMA is shut down and does not have the staff to begin writing recovery projects. This admin has done so much damage to the system that kept America from getting poorer and […]