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What are we doing here. I mean. When you’re out of drinking water what’s the plan. This is insanity.

We use AI for “solutions” where you actually we should want expertise, and humanity. Especially when the outcomes could be catastrophic if wrong, we should want humans involved. The entire paradigm centers technology as the prime directive. It’s just a tool, not the problem or solution, that’s us.

The interesting thing about AI is how committed executives are to using it after it measurably fails catastrophically at its goals. Like there seems to be no limit to how badly it can fuck up and still be heralded as the future of technology

To: All Staff Subject: Marketing We've rebranded the Murder Hornets as the Buzz Kills™️ Please note updated signage in the apiaries.

The irony is, no one can read this email due to the shutdown.

analysis: vibes aren't great

A bill was proposed a month ago, to fund the other agencies, ie the 80% of DHS that isn’t ICE or CBP. They won’t bring it to the floor for a vote. Anyone know why? 🤷‍♀️ Instead we’re coming up on 3 weeks of furlough w/ no pay and a 10 day recess. I can’t emphasize enough how bad this is.

The #Senate stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. on Thursday March 5th 2026. At 1:45 p.m. the Senate will proceed to vote on reconsideration of cloture on the motion to proceed to the DHS appropriations bill.

A whistleblower report proves Noem and DHS lied and continues to lie about her ridiculous requirement to sign off on funding greater than 100k. This harms the people experiencing one of the hardest periods of their life. It needs to end. wapo.st/4snNPxA

One of the most influential groups in hip-hop honors its legacy and the late Trugoy the Dove with a set of classics and new material. n.pr/4cj2DZE

If you’re just joining us, hopefully you started taking allergy medicine about a month ago in the South, otherwise you’re behind. Welcome to spring.

2 mass public shootings last night, one in Cincinnati and one in Austin. The people who said we were “over reacting” about exactly this descent to chaos happening, is very quiet now. 😞 www.cincinnati.com/story/news/c...

Pipe and draping does not make it a SCIF. And DEFINITELY not a SCIF if you can just peek your head in from outside.

Everyone at FEMA raised the alarm that this was coming since last year. No one is listening www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

I don’t know, Carl. At some point the ignorance ship has sailed and it’s intentional.

Hurricane season is 3 months away. It’s a good time to put me back at work because evacuations, training, planning, readiness activities, etc. (Vultures circle, tumbleweed rolls by) I feel like that Natalie Portman and Anakin meme. We do still care about hurricanes, right? Right?! (We do not.)

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Happy #Paradise Day! 🙌🏽

Everyone on BlueSky “shutdown DHS”. Sec. threatens to close down pre-check “no, no, no, not that. That affects *me*” “Pre-check is more efficient” “Stop politicizing this” Folks: THEY AREN’T BEING PAID. TSA agents are basically paying out of pocket, to show up to work right now.

"But many Floridians — particularly those who have moved here since 1998 and have no prior experience with wildfires on a massive scale — don’t see these signs and don’t comprehend the omens. They arrived ready to worry about hurricanes, but might not think of fire in the same hazardous terms."

I could host a panel discussion about attire, emergency management and the meaning (actual, implied or just perceived) of who wears what, historically speaking. It’s a pet topic of mine, and I’m not wrong.

How serious an emergency? Both governor and #Boston mayor are in fleeces today.

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Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

I have this on my wall, with thanks to the artist

One of the best Dr Bailey speeches of all time. Heartbreaking loss of Eric Dane. Hey, at least we already named a hospital after him. 💔❤️‍🩹 www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xR4q3D/

FEMA is shutdown with no paycheck, limited capacity, and heavy restrictions. Make it make sense. Please, make this make any kind of sense. I’ve lost the plot here.

That would work if ICE and CBP were shut down. But they’re not. Right now, they’re operating at full capacity with zero restrictions.

White House says Trump has had no direct talks with Democratic lawmakers recently on shutdown reut.rs/3Mxqjiw

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

Phil Collins & Philip Bailey... the unexpected collab that we absolutely needed 🔥🔥🔥🔥

This is Hugo. He just wanted to make sure you didn't miss the sunset. 12/10 thank you Hugo (IG: maui_thegoldenpup)

Are shutdowns secretly orchestrated by Penny to get me to be home more often? All I’m saying is she’s VERY happy.

Ok everything is very bad. Time to get off the internet and back to my furlough projects.

My wife, Kathleen: “In the future, we will just be data. We will be just ones and zeroes. But I will be a one. Not a zero.”

Not Love is Blind. Dude “My mom just got a promotion *AT 50*. It’s (pause). So inspirational” Girl “oh my goaaaaaahhhd. I love that” Shockingly, this dude also turned down the 38 yr old woman bc of “age” because she is older. Hatewatching this but I don’t know how much longer I can tolerate 😂

Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone except the losers and haters, which is pretty much everyone. This only leaves dogs and cats, they’re the real ones, anyway. Also please admire my new, definitely not work-related, or romance related hardware. It really does help with the rage void screams.

New: Trump admin moves to pull supercomputing center out of top weather and climate research center (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. Part of its effort to "break up" the lab. www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/w...

Shouldn’t Senate Dems introduce legislation providing full funding TSA, Coast Guard, FEMA, etc.—and no new funding for ICE and CBP? Seems like pretty good ground to fight on. Offer to come back and pass it Tuesday.

11:32am CST #SPC Day2 Outlook Slight Risk: from east TX into LA and southwest MS: www.spc.noaa.gov/products/out...

#NCA5 #ArtXClimate #sciart #YouthVoices #ClimateArt nca5.climate.us/art-climate

Art x Climate is an integral part of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), restored by Climate.us. One of the featured artworks is “Sunday in the Park with Climate Change” by Mikaela R. Year and Medium: 2023, watercolor. Link to the full Art X Climate gallery in comments.

I realize the “shut it down” sentiment means well, but we’re stopping work in alllllll the other agencies, and still not closer to the desired outcome. Piling on cheers while 56,000 people in FEMA, TSA, etc. are furloughed is misdirected. Are *you* also putting your paycheck, career on the line?

And honestly, there’s so much more. “Blue Sky” training, prep work, planning, exercises, state coordination that won’t happen. During severe weather season and this is busy time for Hurricane readiness activities. Not to mention morale of staff and a very green team in some places. It’s bad.

I spoke with Smart Cities Dive about the potential impacts of the DHS shutdown on FEMA and emergency management: www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/fema-sh...