I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of
- new account fatigue
- new app fatigue
- useless upgrade fatigue
- terms of service fatigue

“We hear you humans are joining the Bird Fan Club. We approve.”
(Blue Jay) #birds 🌿

As we gear up for what may be an intense fire year, here's a thread of advice for PIOs and other crisis communicators out there, including ICs and agency administrators.

Be true to yourself. The easiest way to lose credibility is to pretend to be someone else. People will know it immediately. 1/

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

Unusually active April weather pattern to continue this week, and possibly beyond, as subtropical northeastern Pacific waters reach record warmth - Weather West April 19, 2026 - Daniel Swain - Milder temperatures in April than March, with much more precipitation; snowpack, however, remains extremely low What a strange Water Year it has been in 2025-2026! We started the WY with record rainfall during Oct-Dec across much of the central and south coast, including the wettest Oct-Dec period ever observed in Santa Barbara, Ventura, Kern, and #

New Weather West post out this evening: "Unusually active April weather pattern to continue this week, and possibly beyond, as subtropical northeastern Pacific waters reach record warmth."

Late #bunday entry

I am absolutely letting that duck in

A black and white photo of a row Victorian houses tilted at odd angles presumably due to liquefaction, labeled “Peculiar Effects of Earthquake”

A ghostly black and white photo of people and a cart walking down a street where the buildings are all damaged and some just have the facades standing, labeled “California Street”

A black and white photograph of the burned-out shell of San Francisco city hall with the dome still mostly intact, labeled “City Hall”

A black and white photo of people and makeshift shelters in the earthquake and fire-damaged city, labeled “Refugee Camp”

It’s April 18th, so time to repost some of my great-grandfather’s photos of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake

The Dynamite Disaster is one of the most nutso parts of the 1906 Quake. This article from the centennial describes it quite well.
www.sfgate.com/news/article...

Map showing the western United States mean temperature for January to March 2026 relative to a 1991-2020 departure.

Almost the entire Western United States is averaging more than 5°F warmer than the most recent 1991-2020 climate baseline so far in 2026, which is truly remarkable. Off the color scale here!

Graphic from wrcc.dri.edu/my/

Thinking of other low-cost ways to catch that anticipatory dopamine high that don't involve turning ourselves into the Overlord's Zombies or feeding addictions. Add your ideas!
-making art
-building anything
-cooking/baking
-gardening
-planning to meet friend/family
-planning a trip
-reading

Reporter: If you don’t have a deal by Wednesday, will you extend the ceasefire or restart attacks? Trump: Maybe I won’t extend it… and we’ll have to start dropping bombs again.

Peace when markets are open

War when markets are closed

Oil Prices Plummet In Big Fuck-You To Americans Who Got Gas Yesterday

Oil Prices Plummet In Big Fuck-You To Americans Who Got Gas Yesterday theonion.com/oil-prices-plummet-in-bi...

Oregon State University Press on Instagram: "New from OSU Press this June is "Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships" edited by Jared D. Aldern (@jareddahlalder... 0 likes, 0 comments - osupress on April 17, 2026: "New from OSU Press this June is "Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships" edited by Jared D. Aldern (@jareddah...

www.instagram.com/p/DXPqU1tEj_...

Pretty extraordinary that the U.S. is experiencing its worst March drought on record, worse even than the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. Drought is the most dangerous threat of climate change.

World temperature anomalies 17.04.2026

More of the same..endless

Deep 🥶🥶 over Canada + Alaska , West 🇺🇸,central Russia + Kazakhstan area

🔥🔥
East 🇺🇸
#Greenland
Europe + Scandinavia + west Russia
North #China + #Mongolia
SW Australia

#ClimateCrisis

What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

I have done a lot of work to fast-track much-needed housing, and through that work I have seen another area in desperate need of streamlining: transportation projects to increase bicycle and pedestrian safety.

this isn't a "real war" btw, it's normal life on a naval vessel not getting bougie resupply + an APO disruption that's pretty understandable and not that out of the norm

my point here is that the people losing their minds over this are not gonna react well to multiple DDGs on fire and sinking

Physical properties of a perfect pasta sauce Understanding how ingredients interact can help cooks consistently achieve delicious results.

Science of sauces! physicstoday.aip.org/quick-study/...

National average down to $4.055/gal, 10.3c/gal lower than a week ago, it may briefly dip below $4/gal this weekend before it likely bounces back up on Monday.

The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali | Substack A political, cultural, and intellectual playground for the rest of us with writer Wajahat Ali. Click to read The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscr...

How Was Epstein Allowed to Rape Girls in New Mexico For Years Without Accountability?

The journalist who is connecting all the dots and exposing the correction is Alisa-Valdez Rodriguez.

She's telling the story right now.

Thelefthook.substack.com

Join us LIVE.

A coastal Florida marshland of golden grasses and white sands under dramatic, layered, wavy clouds with varying shades of gray and saturated blue.

Your reminder that the atmosphere is a fluid. #Photography

Can’t wait for about ten, fifteen years from now when one of us says, “Boy I sure do miss those cool 87 degree April days.”

Ding-dong! The Dutch Fish Doorbell needs you to help migrating fish A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

I thought this shit sounded familiar!

Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.

CNN exposes a global “online rape academy” that teaches men how to drug and rape women without detection. Over 62 million men attended in February alone.

A measure of excess deaths from climate change: "For Texas, this comes out to roughly 900 additional deaths per year due to climate change that occurred since the 1950s, equal to 1.7% of summertime deaths." by @andrewdessler.com www.realclearscience.com/2026/04/14/h...

4/13/26 9:45am Update:
Plenty more #snow fell yesterday!
1-day ❄️: 21.1" (20 cm)
2-day ❄️: 34.6" (34.5 cm)
3-day ❄️: 42.5" (53.5 cm)

Despite still having a below average snowpack due to the record-warm temperatures that we've had all winter, this snow will help a lot.

#CAwater #weather

Emergency Prices: How Private Equity Captured the Ambulance Market Emergency service costs have been going up for years, frustrating city officials. One reason seems to be private equity, which bought up ambulance makers and raised prices.

There's an ambulance market (I could stop there), private equity has rolled it up, and it's now delaying deliveries, tripling the cost for cities & creating shortages across the country.
This is what happens as we shout about what podcasts politicians should go on