At least 15 new large fires in the southern High Plains this evening. Some are burning together as multiple outflows surge through.

Power is out for the second time today, which is super on my first day off after working 14 straight.

wait where is Sewer Star

lol. lmao even.

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

Opinion | Arm the moderate NAMs.

The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion

“What’s frustrating to somebody like myself is this is all foreseeable,” said Udall. “Those of us who are kind of in the know, and that includes a lot of people in the Colorado River Basin, have seen something like this coming for a long, long time.” grist.org/drought/this...

Excellent use of "AI" (it's machine learning) to potentially extend the life of an EV battery by *years* in some cases. Cool stuff if it can be translated to the real world.

Chad Johnson is CEO of 'Grain Weevil'. His son did robotics competitions in high school, which inspired this little fella that breaks up hardened surfaces & levels grain to ensure it behaves like a liquid, avoids clumping. This probably saves 10-30 human lives a year. NO BOOTS IN THE GRAIN.

The left doesn't hate technology, we hate being exploited: aftermath.site/anthropic-clau...

1/ Hantavirus update as of 12pm PDT May 11: 18 passengers connected to the cruise outbreak safely arrived in the United States overnight after disembarking in Spain. Of those, 16 are now in Nebraska and 2 were transferred to Emory in Atlanta for specialized monitoring.

Looks like baseball teams cancelling late season games might be coming to a head.

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

Celebrating the WNBA season opener by once again sharing my favorite sports graphic of all time.

I can't stop thinking about this video since I saw it last night

i post this every year because men soaking in toxic masculinity are all “why can’t we get women” and Tom Holland dances in drag and lands one of the hottest women on the planet, maybe there’s a lesson here guys

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Nothing can prepare you for who's singing this National Anthem (via lpaulfranklin / TT)

One of those days where nothing works and everything breaks at work and your kid's teacher contacts you about some issues blah blah blah. I'm just gonna go lie down and watch some twitch and not think now.

This dropped around the same time as this interview - Neil Gorsuch on Megyn Kelly’s show. He was talking about how “young conservatives must have courage to stand by their beliefs.” Sounds apolitical to me!

HERE IT IS! In August 2025, a massive landslide brought a big chunk of mountainside into the Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska, causing the second-largest tsunami ever recorded. My latest for @eos.org is the story of the forensic investigation, and why the culprit is climate change: 🧪

We looked into Polymarket's presence in Panama, obtained its government paperwork and visited its headquarters in Panama City. There was no sign of Polymarket. Nobody had heard of Polymarket there. www.npr.org/2026/05/05/n...

Ever wanted to see a good example of a marine layer? Well, there you have it! Enjoy a cooler start to things today, with clouds burning off for lowland highs in the low to mid 70s! #wawx

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

Walk in to Costco to grab one thing, leave $150 poorer. Never fails.

Axios is reporting that Josh Shapiro secretly helped a Republican state treasurer's 2024 reelection bid after the official's Democratic opponent had criticized Shapiro as a potential VP pick, a close Shapiro ally said last week.

Pour one out for the Ferrari fans, rough.

Verstappen commits at least 3 separate penalties after that spin and not a single one being investigated, lol.

Well, the track will certainly be green for the Miami Grand Prix. Interesting decision to move the race forward to 1 pm...my guess is they are hoping for a window between this and storms forecast for later, though models certainly weren't showing quite this level of morning convection.

No Mercedes on the podium 👀

When they finally activate the weather control devices:

Russell might actually be cooked. We'll see tomorrow. Oh boy.

My F1TV subscription officially ran out over the extended break so I finally picked up AppleTV, which gives me access to the 4K F1 feed. Yeah, wish I had done this sooner. Damn it looks good.

We are now hiring early-career meteorologists at most offices across the country! Through an improved, streamlined hiring process, eligible candidates will be entered into pools to be continually considered for vacancies. Interested? Here’s what you need to know: (1/3)

If you or someone you know is looking to start a career in the NWS, we've sent out one of the biggest recruiting announcements in a decade. I -highly- encourage you to find someone in the NWS to talk to about applications. The process is significantly changed from years past. Come work with me!

it’s so beautiful

When you view having to parent your kids as an inconvenience to your personal time, these are the types of things you do. We have Yoto players that do audiobooks. We still read to our kids each night. I love reading to my son. I'll be sad when my youngest no longer wants me to (I've got a while).

This week in P-hacking

Trump take galf

Finally taking the time to play the pixel remasteres for Final Fantasy I-VI, starting with I. So well done, highly recommend. Finally at Chaos, and GOOD LORD did they buff that fight. Had to leave and rethink my spells and strategy and make another go at it.

The Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that three of the women suspected was because of their gender.

Any bazzite users in my timeline? My personal laptop is now mostly used for travel and gaming purposes now that I have a work provided one. Windows 11 runs like molasses on it. Trying to decide what flavor of Linux to put on it.

NEW: Now that the Supreme Court has rendered the last remaining pillar of the VRA toothless, Republicans in eight states are free to gerrymander more than a dozen congressional districts that had been designed to remedy discrimination against Black and Latino voters. We catalog them all here -->

Restaraunt. I mean Restaurant.

WOW: The UAE’s decision to quit OPEC looks like one of the biggest crude producers joining the “peak oil demand” camp. Here’s why: 🧵