For all the but how can we afford space exploration folks…this means we’ve already spent more on this war that started last week than Cassini cost in the 26 years it took to build, launch, and operate it.

The findings show “the impacts of sea-level rise under climate change have been systematically underestimated,” said Matt Palmer, an associate professor at the University of Bristol.

Buds begin to bloom, snow slowly melts; it’s the beginning of meteorological spring! March marks the shift from meteorological winter into spring, covering March, April & May. Meteorological seasons follow temperature trends & weather patterns instead of astronomical movements. 📊: @noaa.gov !

"that was a misspoke." 🤦‍♂️

Breaking News: Scientists have been using methods that underestimated how high sea levels already are, a new study found. One result is that hundreds of millions more people are already living dangerously close to the rising ocean than Western scientists had previously estimated.

Saturday may have severe weather in OK and KS. All modes of severe weather are possible. #okwx

Data

This is Aly. She just learned about capitalism. Certainly not a perfect system, but if that is what it takes to put chippies on the table, she understands. 13/10 (IG: alythebichon)

I have knee-jerked about LLMs in the past. I still don't like them, but not simply because they exist. This thread is a good read.

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

Anyway, what's happening in state legislative primaries in North Carolina rn should have everyone thinking differently about elections this fall -- yes, November is v far away but y'all people are maaaaaaaaaaad at what these MAGA creeps keep getting up to and also at everyone who aids and abets

Little Red Dots xkcd.com/3212/

wtf is wrong with these people

Is NBC using graphics from the 1990s for their @nba.com game tonight?

Time for some popularism!

Early in my copyright career I had a complex, nuanced take on the ethics of piracy. Now I'm like, fuck it, pirate copies are perhaps the main way any copies of corporate-owned media (esp tv/movies) are gonna persist through unrestrained corporate looting, have at it.

Oh, no. Anyway...

The more things change...

"Irreparable harm." On AMS Headlines, learn how the AMS community is responding to plans to "dismantle" a linchpin of atmospheric and related sciences, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR): https://bit.ly/4u2mYJ2

WOOOOAAAAHHHH!!!! 😮

Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

“This crisis-management system in the United States is itself in crisis." What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever, by @cgaribay.bsky.social

NEW: Disasters are a matter of "when," not "if." Are you an emergency manager or researcher? Help us build a national picture of the country’s preparedness, from funding to alert systems. Tell us what we should be covering.

We really need that to spread westward! The 7-day forecast looks even better, but let's not get too wild just yet. Severe storm chances also go up throughout the week, so stay weather aware and have those safety plans in place. ticker.mesonet.org #okwx #okmesonet

Sorry but I love it every time that the fraud betting apps go health insurance mode and find the smallest discrepancy to justify not paying out to the inside traders who are its core customer base. Eat shit.

One of my colleagues wrote about this over 30 years ago, noting that Congress was all about "blame avoidance" in foreign policy, which basically made the president a king

Just amazing the number of people who can’t seem to simultaneously keep two thoughts in their head at the same time: (1) the Iranian theocratic regime is bad and would not be missed (2) there is a real problem in a world where the President of the US can attack random countries on a whim.

It was nice working with smart humans. Now if I could just keep them all alive.

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’” GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

“So long, screwy! See you in St. Louie!” G’night everybody! #Svengoolie

Now is the time in #Svengoolie when we dance!

Sirens! Where’s the tornado? #Svengoolie

In case you were wondering, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28. Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were created 24 hours earlier. The Pentagon Pizza Index has been replaced.

The XB-48! #Svengoolie

Hello Gwen! 💚 #Svengoolie

Surprise! #Svengoolie

Red, green, blue. Looks like an old television phosphor! #Svengoolie

Here come the F-86 Sabres! #Svengoolie

Clay Jones, Claytoonz

Bing bang boom #Svengoolie

Of course there’s a square dance. #Svengoolie

CLEAR THE AIRLANES for tonight’s #Svengoolie special feature! It’s the story that caused chaos when it aired on radio: “War of the Worlds,” but with cool looking ships!

The company is like an evil vending machine, you put money in and it does what you want, unless somebody else puts more money in and tells it to stop.

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo “History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”

Decades of observations collected from all corners of the continent show that many of North America’s birds are in a state of accelerating decline. Of 122 species with declining populations, more than half were dying out at an ever-faster rate. https://wapo.st/4tY6T76

I'm doomed.

The NWS Storm Prediction Center's severe weather outlooks will be changing slightly next week. Meteorologists Evan Bentley and Liz Leitman, our experts at SPC, provide an update about the new conditional intensity outlook.