FEMA BRIC U-turn: no focus on on Justice40 communities, Community Disaster Resilience Zones, or disadvantaged rural communities. Habitat restoration, carbon sequestration, or reduced social vulnerability will no longer receive the same support
hagertyconsulting.com/bric-2-0-a-n...
Love the the Artemis crew.
Four extraordinary humans: brilliant, disciplined, and deeply mission-driven.
What stands out even more than their intelligence is their character.
Kindness. Positivity. Humility. Empathy.
The future of space exploration shouldn’t just be bold, it should be human.
🚀✨👇
I was interviewed for a short piece by @dunsiger.bsky.social: What Freelancing Really Looks Like When You Have a Disability
open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...
#ADHD #AuDHD #disability #freelancing #neurodivergence #career
This 💯
It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.
If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.
Everyone give this a share after.
A crowd of hundreds of protesters in a green park on a sunny day, lining a stone bridge and thronging on grassy spaces.
A crowd of hundreds of protesters in a green park on a sunny day, lining a stone bridge and thronging on grassy spaces.
A crowd of hundreds of protesters on a sunny day in an urban downtown.
A crowd of hundreds of protesters on a sunny day in a plaza in an urban downtown.
#NoKings in Greenville, SC
Why do disasters still happen, despite early warnings? Because systems are built to wait for certainty
theconversation.com/why-do-disas...
"Forecast improvements do not happen automatically; they require sustained research, coordination, and testing. If NCAR’s research capabilities to develop and improve weather forecasting disappear, the United States will face a major public safety risk." #disasterpreparedness #emergencymanagement
If any disabled/chronically ill people in the South want to share any stories of how they've been impacted by the storms, please reach out at jmetraux@motherjones.com or signal juliametraux. 49
This is for a potential @motherjones.com story, thanks!
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
Hey Minnesotans? I love you.
You aren't actually overreacting other people are sleepwalking.
LOL. When my 1st son was born in 2003 the antivax movement was just getting started. Talked w his pediatrician (...an expert...) abt it. Ped had served on a mission in Ecuador & seen terrible outbreaks. Both sons got all their vaccines on schedule. Bad mother confirmed I guess, but what else is new!
This was me, both in 2016 after my 1st layoff & in 2019 after my 2nd. Self-employment after both devastating developments was a chance to rest & recover... so affordable health insurance was one less thing to worry about. But OK, let's make life that much more difficult 🙄
...even though the credit hour requirements are abt the same.
So, I'm sticking w my 1st choice bc I think it'll give me better skills & more depth, even though it'll take longer to earn. That just seems important in this moment.
... & thus the ability to stretch my tuition reimbursement farther (i.e. summer courses not just fall & spring).
So I went back to compare & contrast the 2 programs. Found my 2nd choice seems more generic than my 1st choice, whose concentrations go pretty deep...
I've been going back & forth w myself on whether to move forward w my 1st choice grad school / #emergencymanagement program, or start there & transfer to 2nd choice later, or just go w 2nd choice bc of the substantial public employee discount I would get...
I also recommend getting active bystander, CPR/first aid, and stop the bleed training -
righttobe.org/upcoming-fre...
www.redcross.org/take-a-class...
www.stopthebleed.org
Having this kind of information will help you feel a lot more prepared in crisis situations.
One significant thing you can do is basic prepping for a variety of disruptive situations.
I wrote a guide a few years ago that should only take you about five days to being pretty well prepared-
www.thebolditalic.com/be-prepared-...
Hand up if you're a woman who has been told not to stop for an unmarked vehicle with lights or even a marked police car until you're in a safe, well lit area. Drive to a police station instead. Walk down the middle of the aisle in a parking lot. Don't go anywhere alone at night. Yell "fire" so people will care. Head up. Throw your purse. Buddy system. Keys between your fingers. Sparkly mace keychains. I've spent my life training how not to be killed by men. I would have tried to pull away, too.
Every woman understands this, and almost no men do.
Like holy fuck, men of the world, do better.
We visited Renee Good's memorial.
There, we met a group of Somali Minnesotans — who too have been viciously attacked for weeks — warmly hosting everyone.
Flowers & stuffed animals galore.
Neighbors continually offering sambusas & hand-warmers & water.
Grief. And belief.
Scenes from Minneapolis:
But, I really wanted to write a post this week, yet at the same time, have no bandwidth for the full promotional thread I know I should do, so: please read, subscribe, share! disaster-minded.ghost.io/the-groups-w...
Fuck, I'm tired. I have 1 more week before I start grad school & 2 more weeks left in my job before I move up where I'm at & have to learn a whole new skillset. It'll be good! I'm just worn out.
I’ve been called this, by men furious they couldn’t control me or shut me up, more times than I can count. That simmering rage puts us all in danger, for simply existing.
"How do I prepare?"
You help people who are going thru it right now.
Because this forces you to build the community relationships, infrastructure, and operational rhythm that you need to protect yourself.
Sending aid to others builds resiliency at home. None of us are free until we're all free.
Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:
🧵 1/7 #AltComms
MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) this week on a Zika outbreak in Bangladesh in 2024
This is classic, boots-on-the-ground epidemiology—and exactly why it still matters. Let’s dig in.
My sibling in Christ, just bc you obey the sheepdog 364 days of the year doesn't mean it won't decide on day 365 that you're straying too far from the herd.
You: But the grass is so much tastier here!
Sheepdog: Back in your pasture. NOW.
You: But --
Dog: *bites your leg*
These are layers most ppl never witness bc of that "thin blue line" hiding the realities of police work. And bc so many ppl believe they're on the right side of "order," that police are & will continue to be on "their side."
I also think they end up right-wing bc their experience skews toward meeting ppl on the worst days of their lives, making endlessly poor choices, etc. They're not trained to be trauma informed, they're trained to "maintain order." So they judge instead.