easily one of the funniest guys america has had in decades

Interested in hurricanes? I want to introduce TC-ATLAS: the Tropical Cyclone Analysis Tool for Live and Archived Structure. Explore live or past storms without writing a line of code or downloading a data file, building on the capabilities of TC-RADAR: michaelfischerwx.github.io/TC-ATLAS/ind...

Transphobia is such a skeleton key for understanding the abject rot pervading American institutions.

Entanglements Lost: My Day at a Geography Conference in San Francisco On making friends with maps and Marxists.

For COYOTE, I wrote about hanging out with a bunch of nice geographers during a decidedly terrible time for academia.

A PATCH THAT'S STILL IN THE BETA BRANCH FOR AN EARLY ACCESS GAME!!!

cyanide's cheaper than fake tooth. huge cost saver. you'd actually be surprised how many fake teeth are also cyanide teeth.

i think a lot about an interview Henson gave with Kermit on his arm - they ask him why he doesn't do ventriloquism and he says he never saw the point bc if he's nailing it the audience is looking at KERMIT, not Henson at all.

"mentor"

???

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

So almost exactly how Renee Good was executed

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

to be fair, The economist is more like Evil Asshole Fancy™, the real Evil Asshole Magazine is the FT.

BREAKING
Evil Asshole Magazine™ claims it is unethical to go after Evil Assholes

it's pretty low stakes compared to, well, everything else going on right now, but student debt jubilee has to be part of the next dem candidate's platform. hearing how my mom is having to use the social security payments she just started getting for parent plus interest payments is mind numbing

Over 1,800 people are reported to have died of #COVID-19 in the past 28 days, the overwhelming majority of those (1,573) in the US. The next biggest country was Sweden with 102 deaths. The cumulative number of deaths from #COVID that were reported to the WHO is now well over seven million.

But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.

A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.

ICYMI: our new paper on climate risk to US drinking water utilities. Climate impacts threaten water utilities across multiple hazards: fire, drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, & other hazards. But many long-term utility bonds don’t mention the risks: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

May 1936: Heinrich Himmler inspects "Dachau", intended as a model concentration camp to "restore calm" in the nation and "rehabilitate" political prisoners. These camps were made known on purpose to instill fear. By 1942 much larger extermination camps were conceived. These were a state secret.

Help us preserve at-risk data at our next hybrid datathon! February 11, 2-5pm ET.

Register here to attend online or in-person: libcal.library.harvard.edu/event/161867...

We hope to see you there!

Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.

Beyond Preservation: Stewarding America’s Critical HIFLD Infrastructure Data — Data + Screening Tools In late 2025, HIFLD Open (Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data) , a national collection of datasets tracking the location, risk, and vulnerability of critical infrastructure across the Unite...

PEDP and Fulton Ring are excited to announce a new initiative to restore and steward the HIFLD Open data portal. By prioritizing continuous improvement of the data, this foundational resource will remain living, legible, and useful to the public.

Read more: screening-tools.com/blog/beyond-...

just had the idea "richard scarry tarot deck" and im utterly sick that it doesn't appear to already be a thing

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

legacy media would adore a trump third term

posting politics: political
not posting politics: somehow more political

Sorry to anyone who thought Wokeness was annoying but as we now know it's the price we pay for a civilized society

very cool!! is this based off or inspired by the "real stories" of a park ranger on reddit? or could that possibly have been you??

Donate here to help the Palmetto State Abortion Fund keep funding abortions for people across the South in 2026:

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