Now that you can return home after the fires, how do you clean up safely? A pulmonary doctor is warning survivors to wait, if they can, to visit their fire-damaged homes. If they do go into a burn zone, they should take precautions.

A pulmonary doctor is warning survivors to wait, if they can, to visit their fire-damaged homes. If they do go into a burn zone, they should take precautions.

POLITICO is just trolling us at this point because this is utterly beyond shameless bootlicking (in the name of reporting).

A black and white, with red head, Red-bellied Woodpecker is on the side of a branch that is angled back on it. It is getting ready to start the pecking. The background is gray snowy clouds.

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Catching the angle...

California firefighters should've 'sucked the water out of the Pacific Ocean': GOP senator Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) thinks he knows how California firefighters should have contained the devastating fires that destroyed neighborhoods on the outskirts of Los Angeles: just suck up the Pacific Oce...

"If they just had a generator and a hose, you start sucking the water out of the Pacific Ocean."

I'm not paying 100 dollars for a video game. Infact nobody should pay more than 40 dollars for a video game.

A drop of xylem sap falls from the cut end of a sugar maple branch, with smaller branches and buds behind. Copyright Tom Kimmerer

A drop of xylem sap drips from a freshly cut sugar maple branch with red-brown xylem. Copyright Tom Kimmerer

As spring days warm up, sap drips from cut branches. Enzymes convert stored starch to sugar, which is needed for early spring growth. Dissolved sugar in xylem sap draws water into the stem osmotically, creating positive pressure, filling damaged xylem vessels, and allowing sap collection for syrup.

a colourful blue, orange, red and purple chart showing a light and dar kblue history for temperatures, recent shifts upwards through orange and light red, and two futures: one of light and dark red (1.5c), and one of deep purple (3c and more)

I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once:

- Things are going to get worse, no matter what

- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today

theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org

Suppose you could buy a laundry folding bot for $1k. It's the size of a typical dryer. You dump in fresh laundry, it pops it out sorted and folded in a hamper.

How fast would it have to go per item to be worth it for you?

A woodpecker with black and white patterns on their back and tail feathers has buff face and red cap on the back of their head. It is in a lichen covered maple tree.

A Red-bellied Woodpecker with only a small red cap has been around this week. Today it spent a lot of time going up and down from the seed feeder. 🪶🌿

An adult female oak treehopper rests on branch facing many small brown treehopper nymphs.

An adult female oak treehopper rests on branch facing a single small treehopper nymph.

An adult female oak treehopper rests on branch facing a single black, white, and red treehopper nymph about half her size.

An adult female oak treehopper rests on branch face-to-face with a large black, white, and red nymph nearly her length.

Oak treehoppers have my whole heart. These photos show the difference in size between mamas and their offspring at varying instars. I love them so much. 💛 Mamas stay with their babies throughout their development, protecting them from predators like wasps. Unusual behavior for a bug.

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

NYC Mayor Adams heads to Mar-a-Lago on Friday. Adams is open to receiving a pardon and the trip is being billed to the city. JFC

As Cervical Cancer Deaths Plummet, Experts Credit HPV Vaccine HPV can cause a variety of cancers, including cervical. New mortality data for women under 25 show the success of the HPV vaccine.

A new study found a 62% reduction in cervical cancer deaths among women under 25 in the U.S.

Dr. Ashish Deshmukh joins us to discuss the study and why the HPV vaccine, introduced nearly 20 years ago, is likely behind this decline.

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: "k" means one thousand and twenty-four
STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand
DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty

Local LA theaters bring puppets and movies to families for respite from fires Vidiots and the Bob Baker Marionette Theater teamed up to provide an escape from reality for families facing trauma and loss from the Los Angeles wildfires.

💕

Data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture which showed that over 20 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S. were killed by H5N1 bird flu in the last quarter of 2024.

How a TikTok ban would work and why users can't easily bypass it Social media app TikTok, which is owned by China's ByteDance, will be banned in the United States on Sunday unless a deal comes together to sell it to a U.S. investor or the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes.

TikTok users could try to access a web-based browser version on a VPN, but that would lack some of the app’s features and personalization, EFF’s @thejasonkelley.com told @reuters.com. "It won't be a good service for you, and it won't be a profitable service for them.”

Something about audio being out of sync in OBS for years because of "priming" samples in the AAC and Opus audio codecs.

oh my god. OH my god.

obsproject.com/blog/obs-stu...

Red-bellied Woodpecker, with black and white feathers and a red head, is facing away from the camera. There is a large branch and snowy blurred gray in the background.

Simply lovely...

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Climate Change A Factor In Unprecedented LA Fires

UCLA study reveals that climate change was a major factor in the LA wildfires.

Two unusually wet winters primed the landscape by creating more vegetation, which then dried out due to an unusually hot summer, creating a tinderbox ripe for fire.

sustainablela.ucla.edu/2025lawildfi...

Some residents allowed to return to devastated Pacific Palisades, Altadena neighborhoods With fire containment improving and winds dying down, some residents are being allowed back into neighborhoods devastated by the Eaton and Palisades fires.

www.latimes.com/california/s...