wow

When this is over, no forgiveness for those involved. There will be trials. There will be consequences. 😡😡😡

snobs

Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.

They are breaking Social Security, because they do not like Social Security.

SOMEBODY has to be getting to work. Thank god Pete is leading the way.

space scientist deported to europe because his texts do not laud praise 😳

A 5 alarm fire for US governance and democracy and for you. 🚨

If Trump and Musk can do this criminal shredding of USAID w/ no consequence they will come for you next.

Democratic Senators and House members shld stop their days and head down to USAID w/ the Capitol Police and cameras and stop this.

😲

Do they not have a meteorologist on staff in the fire departments?

x.com/edgarrmcgreg...

more fun is nice

the gazebo finally met its match ...

btw, is this an analysis of white ash or black soot? Or a mixture? 30 feet from a burned structure?

you betcha

Airborne Lead and Chlorine Levels Soared as L.A. Wildfires Raged The findings give new insight into the dangers of urban wildfires that burn plastics and other chemicals in homes and property.

@caltech.edu’s Haroula Baliaka on the composition of smoke from the Eaton Fires www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/c...

i just posted this exact thing.

If he had large crowds, they'd be able to keep each other warm...

it was 17° when President Obama was inaugurated in 2009. Is 23° too cold for the big orange baby to have his #inauguration outside? Or is it that there won't be nearly as many people there to keep each other warm?

thanks, Edgar!

This is a post about animal excrement and the English language.

bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy

Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).

I'd love to be in the snow

it's also beyond my comprehension that despite hundreds and hundreds of complete strangers inexplicably following me on bluesky, not a single one of them liked (or were even shown) my post.

it's beyond comprehension that outside #Altadena the world is still going on like everything is normal

multiple recommendations for the Watch Duty app, including from friends who volunteer with the Red Cross and the friend who first alerted us of the #eatonfire 4 minutes after it was first reported

it's crazy out there #eatonfire

classy

"This is a stupid conversation and I'm not going to continue it" 👏🏻

A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

important read

great puzzle!

I too have found this to be very true

🥔

I continue to be deeply moved by this statement to the heavens by President Carter.