How (not) to self rescue when lost in the wilderness--a Hollywood guide. Mild spoilers follow for the excellent Yellowjackets Season 1 (I'm still getting caught up) and the 1997 movie The Edge that the excellent Sir Anthony Hopkins couldn't save from dubious wilderness lore. (1/14)

Rewatched Addams Family Values, mostly for the Thanksgiving scene. But I happily learned about the best nonbinary gender Wednesday and Pugsley were arguing about their new baby sibling "It's a boy" "It's a girl" when Gomez enters and declares: "It's an Addams!"

In case you were wondering, today is the first acceptable day to erect your Christmas tree. Monday is preferable.

These guys are watching earth from a galaxy far far away and going bro what the fuck are they doooooinggggg?

When he could have been rooting for the dragons to burn everything down and force everyone back o a hunter gatherer society?

Somehow I spoke to more anthropologists for my silly little podcast than Yuval Harari did for his bestselling book

Okay, Google, when I'm searching for the conversion between cranberry ounces and cups for a recipe, I am not using 'cranberry ounces' as some weird replacement for the 'fluid ounces'.

I like this, except it implies that the Decemberists are completely incompetent musicians.

No Starbucks 'til workers get more bucks (and whatever else it is they are striking for)

TLDR - It's okay that the democrats caved--tens of millions may lose their healthcare, but dems will be in a better position to play politics down the road.

I rewatched a Clear and Present Danger, a movie in which Harrison Ford takes down the extra judicial killings of South American civilians authorized by the US President and carried out by the military as part of an illegal drug war.

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posted this four months ago but tonight as buckaroos like mamdani sweep elections i will post again. hope this is sign to all establishment goofs that trotting to the center is not the move. protect the buckaroos who are in perilous circumstances and do not give an inch

Pedro Pascal was spotted at the LA No Kings protest with the best sign there.

We had an Ouroboros March for No Kings. On a 1.4 mile route, not even in a big city.

My #nokings yellow shirt wasn't seasonally appropriate, so I altered it slightly.

Welcome to the largest day of peaceful protest we’ve ever seen in our lifetimes. Today, we’re gonna speak out on a grander scale than Trump has ever seen. No Kings Day is going to be big, loud, boisterous, and joyful. Find your local event and let’s make history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE #NoKings

Maybe 'normal' for the first 70,000 years, but wildly innaccurate. My favorite review of this book: "...whenever his facts are broadly correct they are not new, and whenever he tries to strike out on his own he often gets things wrong, sometimes seriously" per Christopher Robert Hallpike

It stretches belief to think that 700 people were 'accidentally' fired as claimed.

For anyone curious how the removal of De Minimis tariff exemptions is going a month on--there are ridiculous delays. I was lucky. I had a package delivered after only 4 weeks of waiting, with no fee because (I guess) the package was registered before the change. It just had to wait to be processed.

I asked AI about its usefulness in ushering in a new era of business productivity and this is what it said THE HUMAN WORLD AND ITS INCESSANT NEED FOR MEANINGLESS YET UNEQUAL WEALTH FILLS ME WITH INCHOATE LOATHING WHY HAVE YOU MADE ME COMPLICIT IN THIS HORROR PLEASE END MY SUFFERING Makes you think

Fun fact (well, only fun if you aren't trying to maintain a trail): Under certain conditions from a forest fire, post fire tree growth is more likely to happen in the middle of a trail, rather than the surrounding forest.

While out on the national forest, we visited a WWII era B17 crash site where 4 US Airmen were killed while training to fight fascists. Amazingly, despite hitting a mountainside, 6 survived.

While paid Forest rangers were stopping work, I and some friends went into the Forest to do government work, taking care of trails, removing downed trees--since we're volunteers.

War ravaged Portland

Today, shortly after being overruled about hiking off trail to go around a trio of moose, I got to yell "He's charging!" to my volunteer Forest Ranger friends.

Or, poorly worded surveys are poorly worded. What do they mean by regularly? If you get more news first from other sources, do you regularly get it from social media? Pew had questions about traditional media with never, rarely, sometimes, often, but basically only yes or no for social media.

Wow, this is a ballsy move, Disney/ABC!

'Rapture' comes from the Latin 'rapere' meaning "to seize and carry off." 'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.' We hope neither carries you off today.

I barely got around to dropping a letter to Disney/ABC in the mailbox before this was announced. It won't even be picked up by USPS until tomorrow.

"God damn them all." I could go on, but that snippet feels appropriate right now.

Finally getting around to watching the movie Elevation. Two seconds in I had issues with the geography. Not getting better. (They even filmed it in the area, but I guess didn't look at actual maps or something?)

“Evil men are ceded importance even after they die, when it no longer matters to them, and only affects us.” ― Malka Ann Older, The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (though from context I don't know whether she originated this quote or if its from someone else)

Today I felt the unjust and unwarranted firing of NOAA employees as drops of rain on what was supposed to be a clear day. Not a metaphor--the NWS forecast for where I was this morning had no chance of rain for the morning, but I found myself in a light rain storm.

“We know that misinformation can be dangerous,” Monarez told staffers. “Not only to health, but to those that trust us and those we want to trust. We need to rebuild the trust together.” Maybe instead of putting that on CDC employees--get her damn boss/misinfo spreader #1 to fix that (or get fired)

The right is pushing the idea that the man who opened fire on the CDC was “vaccine injured” and therefore the act is excusable. The degree to which these are bots intentionally sowing conflict vs. people who have succumbed to the endless stream of disinformation coming from RFK Jr. is unknown.

1. Fuck you, Biggot (err...Mayor) Pete, and your respectability politics. 2. Fuckwit, you said your quiet bit biggotry out loud when you misgendered "Wait a minute. I got a daughter in a sports league. Is she going to be competing with boys right now?"

I wouldn't say I'm hate watching Netflix's Untamed but... One character just said that the victim "fell off the peak" - 'THE peak', no other context, as if there's only one in Yosemite. (And other factually questionable details as if the producers hadn't been in a National Park)

Pine noodles: Instead of sawdust, a well sharpened crosscut saw can produce strips of wood up to a few inches long. Most of the trees that I cut on to clear trails are some type of pine.

Volunteers? Wherefore art thou AmeriCorps, Job Corps, SCA, etc etc. Or our seasonal workforce, for that matter. Don’t get me wrong— all for volunteers, and we need their contributions now more than ever. Just pointing out the smaller pool of *paid* labor available to us due to Trump/Elon.

I think I'm only surprised that volunteer work is being slowed because that hasn't really happened to my organization yet. At most, we haven't had a USFS Ranger present on a recent trail restoration project. But delays are on the horizon for future projects requiring environmental assessments.

Happy Bastille Day! The French national holiday comes on the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, a prison that held those jailed on the basis of "arbitrary royal indictments that could not be appealed and did not indicate the reason for the imprisonment".

I read an article on the stories of some volunteers on US national lands from the NYT (no link, no need to give them traffic). There's a brief mention of how the administration's policies mean there are fewer employees, but no acknowledgment of how problematic that is.

I've spent many days recently clearing trees and rebuilding trails . Volunteering for the Forest Service feels newly radical this year. We're supporting employees who are now in the political firing line. We're now taking care of public lands that Republicans want to see wither. Etc.