What sort of a bamboozingly story is this you are telling me?

NASA worldview imagery of the Sierra Nevada
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Please make a terrible ruckus about this, if you live in Oregon

Emus once faced down the Australian army—and won Armed with machine guns and 10,000 bullets, soldiers still couldn’t stop the giant birds.

*Shelby Foote Southern Drawl Voice*

"It whuz.... a necessaruh war."

www.popsci.com/environment/...

Opinion | Winter Is One of the Last Threads Holding Everything in Place

"Without Snow and Ice, Humanity Would Be Cooked"
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

"DyingToServe" Doug Has Died Doug Ruch of "DyingToServe" has died in New Zealand, after his history of serial GoFundMe accounts raising money was revealed on David Farrier's Webworm.

doug ruch - AKA "dyingtoserve" - the guy behind a series of dicey gofundme campaigns for alleged cancer treatment - has died in new zealand: www.webworm.co/dougruch/

No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public.In the ad, disguised as a

Ring has announced a new “Search Party” feature that could eventually bring mass biometric surveillance to our streets. It’s on by default. Shut it off.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Kansas Legislature Passes Trans Bathroom Bounty, Drivers License Revocations “They're using very overtly anti-democratic measures to pass all this stuff because they know that it's unpopular.”

Kansas has passed a bill that would revoke trans people's drivers licenses, forcing them to surrender them for replacements.

It also creates trans bounty hunters that can sue trans people for money.

It goes to the gov, who will veto, but R's can override.

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Carbon Monoxide From Generators Poisons Thousands of People a Year. The U.S. Has Failed to Force Safety Changes. Portable generators are among the deadliest consumer products. Two decades after the government identified the danger, and as climate change leads to more power outages, people are left vulnerable by ...

🚨 If you lose power this weekend and use a portable generator to power your home: Be careful.

Preventable carbon monoxide deaths follow every major power outage.

(Published 2023 w/ @texastribune.org @nbcnews.com)

Why are the anti-vaxxers all anti-trans now? The anti-vax coalition was adrift for a moment after Covid measures were dropped but now it’s galvanised around genitals.

"Riley’s Law states that once someone posts transphobia, they will never post normally again. It’s ironclad."

www.webworm.co/screaminghys...

Time series chart from NOAA Climate at a Glance showing California statewide Nov-Dec temperatures. The 2025 value is the highest on record by a wide margin, and the long-term warming trend is evident.

In California, both Dec & Nov-Dec periods were warmest on record--and by a considerable margin, too. The Central Valley, however, was *not* record warm due to the damp chill associated with weeks-long tule fog episodes (making statewide record all the more remarkable!). #CAwx

This is probably fine

Highlights from PBS News Weekend as show goes off the air This Sunday is the final broadcast of PBS News Weekend, at least for the foreseeable future. PBS cancelled the show due to the loss of federal funding for public media. As our team signs off the air, anchor John Yang looks back at some of our top storie...

Tonight marked the last broadcast of PBS News Weekend for the foreseeable future. As the show signs off the air, anchor John Yang looks back at some of our top stories and highlights over the years. https://to.pbs.org/4pxYe7W

Map showing 5-day average temperature anomalies for North America for a period centered on about ~7 days from now, as depicted by the ECMWF ensemble. A broad region of warmer than average temperatures are indicated throughout the western U.S. and Canada.

Following a very wet (but also record-warm) December, anomalously warm but (this time) quite dry weather will intensify over the coming days across most of the American West. A strong ridge will shift toward PacNW and strengthen/persist for at least next ~10 days. [Thread] #CAwx

"Don't be a hall monitor"

Next day: homophobic joke

It's not an airport, etc etc, and I want those people to fail too, but I am so tired when it comes to casual homophobia, racism, ableism, sexism from within

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said.

That is called murder when they do that.

Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

Please do not erase her WIFE and the fact that she is queer

All the extreme weather we've had lately isn't anything new, right? YouTube video by Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe

Hotter heatwaves, heavier rains, stronger storms and bigger wildfires - these are just some of the ways climate change is loading the weather dice against us, putting us all at risk.

"[OpenAI] is encouraging users to connect their personal medical records and wellness apps, such as Apple Health, Peloton, MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers, and Function"

Don't do this.

Don't do this.

Don't do this.

Don't do this.

Don't do this.

Don't do this.

Don't do this.

Don't do this.

Pluribus is an incredible show! I didn't know anything about the set for the street, thanks for sharing

What a bleak day

Still time to get vaccinated

these marvels (like all marvels) are mere repetitions of the ages

Merry Cryptmas!

in the pit

This entire weekend

Collection of small polar stereographic maps showing the average November Arctic sea-ice thickness for each year from 1979 to 2025. There is large spatial variability, but a long-term decreasing trend. The thickness of ice ranges from 0 meters to more than 5 meters.

47 years of #Arctic sea ice thickness during the month of November... (updated through 2025)

Graphic available at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.

13 years ago today.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Map showing the change in average winter temperature in degrees Fahrenheit by county for the contiguous United States from 1970 to 2025. Nearly all areas are warming.

Temperatures have warmed across the contiguous United States over the last five decades or so during the months of December through February (a rapidly warming season)...

Check out @climatecentral.org's winter package for more information and graphics: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... ❄️🥵