I’m gonna puke

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

“Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous.”

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

me when i am answering a media call at the end of a 10 hour midnight shift

Wow.

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

❄️ 75-year annual snowfall trend. Snowfall is decreasing almost everywhere during this period. It's as if something has changed. 😐😢😭

Mt. Rainier in a coating of fresh snow during tonight’s sunset. Lenticulars making an appearance as well!

Fresh snow in the Cascades.

We’re here for the inversions.

when you see all the federal employees getting paid but nothing has hit your bank account yet

Just another Wednesday morning in the Pacific Northwest.

Views of the Aurora Borealis from NWS Seattle!

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Working rotational shift work without pay has been exhausting. Federal employees should not be pawns. However, exiting the longest shutdown in history for nothing is even more unacceptable. Shame on the elected leaders who don’t believe healthcare is worth taking a stand for.

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

October moments in the Pacific Northwest.

Motherfucking wind farms…

broke the news to her that there is no more new toys until the government reopens

Jamaica is responsible for less than 0.03% of global CO₂ emissions but faces almost unimaginable loss and damage in coming days at the hands of wealthy nations. It's heartbreaking and utterly damning.

what a fun evening shift

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown. Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

October baseball is the best baseball.

The vibes? FUCKIN IMMACULATE

October brought to you by government shutdowns, early season snowfalls, larch trees, and of course the Seattle Mariners.

Winter scenes in Autumn after the first snow of the season for the Pacific Northwest!

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

October at Mt. Rainier.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

the worst season

View from Paradise on Mt. Rainier of the Wildcat Fire in the Washington Cascades with likely significant growth this afternoon.

Out of the office.

I need people to stop acting like a Cascadia earthquake and tsunami is an event on par with Yellowstone or Chicxulub in frequency. I fear the concept of annualized losses has twisted our understanding of what hazards are major threats and therefore ones that deserve our resources and attention.

A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️

Little FIFA Club World Cup action.

The growing gap between historic heat and historic cold over the past 50 years is an indicator of climate change. This includes the Pacific Northwest, where weekend record warmth has continued into the start of the week. See your city's trend: climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Our NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership for the Northwest region was terminated this week. I'm so proud of the work we did to support the climate resilience efforts of frontline communities and Tribal Nations. And I'm deeply concerned for what the loss of this support means for NW communities.

thank goodness i am at a brewery while reading this and can order another beer