If you are in the US and you would like to send a message to your elected representative about the proposed dissolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, @agu.org makes it easy with a template here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151... #AGU25
They continue to kill everything that actually makes America great. F'n asshats.
2024 GOP platform document, Ch. 9 🙄
2. Republicans Will Dismantle Censorship & Protect Free Speech We will ban the Federal Government from colluding with anyone to censor Lawful Speech, defund institutions engaged in censorship, and hold accountable all bureaucrats involved with illegal censoring.
I liked when we controlled the internet. Now it controls us.
You'd probably never guess the first person to predict climate change and when.
So that means vaccines are safe and Tylenol is the culprit. Can't wait to see how this plays out.
Remember back in the 80s or 90s when they banned lawn darts because one child was killed. Just something to think about.
Trump’s militarization of D.C. is escalating without any practical objective and no end point, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily. “That raises the scary prospect that it could just go on forever—or slide into martial law around the country.”
"Under discussion are plans to hold a public debate about climate science, write a line-by-line rebuttal of the National Climate Assessment and ready a counterattack against climate scientists critical of last month’s Energy Department report." 🤪
Sitting on my porch, enjoying a beer on a cool summer night in Delaware. What strikes me is that these kinds of nights were the norm growing up. How quickly the collective "anti-warming" folks have forgotten what summer used to be like. How do you forget comfort and enjoyable times like this?
That's not a binary star, I'm just drunk. Stop, look at the scene around you. How it is lit. Then be in awe of the photon, the illuminati of the universe.
This is insanely fucking stupid. Trump is going to destroy a major scientific satellite because he’s a traitor trying to destroy America. futurism.com/white-house-...
This is for real. 🙄
There are days, like today, where I long to have a conversation with my mom. It's been 11 years since she passed, and no matter how old you are, how confident or experienced in life, sometimes you need a trusted mom conversation.
Nothing says entitlement and ignorance as much as watching boomers treat service staff and their general behavior in public.
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We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.
If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)
Walked into the hotel gym this morning, older dude putzing around on the machines (alpha complex vibes). Fox news was on the TV. I saw that, said 'fuck this shit' and turned it off. He promptly left. I feel good about that decision.
And f*ck this sh*tbag of a homosapien!!
I remember as a kid, the go to response for tragedy was I'll keep you in my prayers. Very seldom were there offers of help or intentional proactive action. It's always been a cop-out. Religion enables self-righteousness, ignorance and historically a lot of violence.
This aged well.
Right?!? And the fact that most folks seem to just not be bothered that much anymore. The normalization is the scariest part.
WTF?
"America, you in danger girl!"
So many people are going to suffer. So many heartless heathens cheering this on. History does repeat itself.
What are the chances if this happens that citizens can begin to sue their representatives for unlawful death? I mean, if they won't listen to their constituents, then the people have to find some way to hold them accountable. 🤷♂️
Termination of OAR’s Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (-$102,292, -204 FTE/ -216 Positions) –NOAA will continue to support high priority ocean and weather research programs in NOS and NWS. In coordination with the requested terminations for Weather Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-10) and Ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-19), NOAA will close the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, FL; the Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) in College Park, MD, Idaho Falls, ID, and Oak Ridge, TN, as well as a nation-wide network of soil moisture sensors; the Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL) in Boulder, CO; the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, NJ; the Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) in Boulder, CO, Utqiaġvik, AK, Mauna Loa, HI, Hilo, HI, Big Island, HI, American Samoa, and the South Pole; the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, WA; and the Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) in Boulder, CO.
What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔
NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...
Well, some good news to distract me from the shit show that is America right now, I passed my PhD qualification exam!!! No more classes and onto research!!