Two Canada geese stand watch on top of the pickup truck that Carrie’s a lidar instrument

New lidar crew! They seem eager to get on the road, but I don’t think they have licenses to drive.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

It begins!

You should be preparing now for a significant winter storm to impact you with a good chance of 6-12 inches of snow or significant ice, at times near white-out conditions, impassable roads, and life-threatening cold. ticker.mesonet.org #okwx #okmesonet

A pedestrian/bicycle bridge with a layer of ice because sprinklers were run in subfreezing weather

Bridge freezes before road surface. Or, please turn off your darn sprinklers when it’s freezing out

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.

The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

You can set the aspect ratio on the command line with the -box i j k option (e.g., -box 2 2 1)

What isn’t there to still love about Vis5D? 😀 Running on Windows? Nice!

Let it dew, let it dew, let it dew!

Public service message: the “Almondnog” at Aldi is lousy, but probably much better than this (but, still, don’t buy it)

Well that’s a bad deal!

What a liar. This is clearly lava

Who needs decencies, anyway. I say be more indecent!

Do you have milkweed vine? I’ve had caterpillars show up on it. It does need something to climb onto?

What does driftwood even smell like?

Hey there, Ron!

Nice! Seems like a jellyfish sprite, doesn’t it?

And they hiked the “standard” smart hours rate by 72% (11 to 19¢ per kWh). Doubled the low rate from 6 to 12¢

Maybe it was a “dictionary” but definitely not Webster’s

Maybe the ones that get crush tested? 😅

🤣

These were collected west of Sterling, CO where a rain disdrometer had been deployed

A small cooler full of hailstones ranging in diameter from 1-3+ inches

Yes, I’ll have the hail variety pack, thanks

Updated this article yet again to note that a federal judge issued a 2-week temporary restraining order halting any reorganization or reductions-in-force in a number of agencies, including NSF and NOAA.

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.

By @abrahm.bsky.social

Normal policy is that they could go on their own but not as representatives of the govt. and could not present their work. So not really worth it.

So sorry. This is the worst admin

So you’re saying that smoking and autism rates are anticorrelated? Must be causal!

Supposedly a house owned by Stitt (near Luther?) was destroyed