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This summer is going to be brutal for the southwest.

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100 years of popular mass-market science fiction -

Episode 43 of the Kilauea eruption is a BEAST. They just zoomed out and uhhh this may be on its way to setting a record for tallest lava fountains. What on Earth. 😍🌋

Cam 2 live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

[V1cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater) YouTube video by USGS

USGS Kilauea volcano Hawaii live cams:
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[V1cam] Kīlauea volcano, (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
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[V2cam] Kīlauea volcano, (east Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
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[V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
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a night sky with a lot of stars and mountains in the background Alt: a night sky with a lot of stars and mountains in the background, the Milky Way is faintly visible.

"The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home."
- Carl Sagan.

Official map from NOAA depicting the relative rank of winter 2025-2026 temperatures at a county level across the contiguous U.S. Many counties in the western and central U.S. are depicted in dark red color, signifying record-warmest winter. All other counties in the west and central U.S. are depicted in dark orange colors, signifying a "near record warm" rank.

The official NOAA stats out this week confirm that winter 2025-26 was the warmest on record across a huge portion of the western and central U.S., which has contributed to extremely low mountain snowpack & worsened the CO River crisis. Meanwhile, record March heat is in forecast.

Class 3 Companion Post: The Artemis Restructuring: What It Reveals, What It Solves, and What It Does Not Stress testing the Framework introduced in Class 3 in the Space Policy learning series

This is a really good analysis of the recent restructuing of the Artemis Program and how big of a change it was from the preexisting plan put in place by Congress 16 years ago bhavyalal.substack.com/p/class-3-co...

That helps me with what I thought was an impossible Bingo card, thanks! Lol

Thank you for grinding thru the muck!

A large cutoff low churns near Baja California.

This upper-level system will aid in the development of severe weather tomorrow across the central US.

Could not have gotten this far without women in computer science -

Need to wash Elon's ick off those numbers.

Simpsons Bar meme - Ayatollah Khamenei in the top frame of three, Epic Fury in the second, and Ayatollah Khamenei in the third & final frame.

It's deja vu all over again.

It's deja vu all...

I really, really would strongly prefer to switch to Standard Time year-round.

Daylight Saving Time is a public health hazard - the fiasco in the 70s proved year-round DST to be miserable.

All it takes is political will to make it happen.

Democrats could run on ending DST to great success.

Our next door neighbor is literally a Zen Monastery - their land is spread across square miles of otherwise uninhabited tops of mountains along the Pacific Crest Trail.

The tranquility helps us stay sane in this insane time.

We downsized our house significantly after our kids grew up & left home. We got out of a too-expensive rental that had the bedrooms & space for kids.

They prefer suburb & city living these days as they are young post-college adults.

We much prefer the peace & quiet.

Survived cancer for this.

$1,000,000,000 per day to accomplish only destruction without aim.

Well done everybody, high-fives all around.

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This is the best way to Touch Grass, IMHO.

My wife & I live in a "miles-from-pavement" quiet canyon in a rural area surrounded by BLM lands.

We are under Bortle 3.5 skies every cloudless night on our front porch stargazing & watching meteor showers or lunar eclipses.

It's a special king of magic.

Lois McMaster Bujold
Elizabeth Bear
Patricia C. Wrede
Ann Leckie
Marie Brennan
Theodora Goss
Seanan McGuire
Tamora Pierce
Martha Wells
Genevieve Cogman
Katherine Addison
Susanna Clarke
Megan Whalen Turner
Kristin Cashore
Kate Beaton
Cornelia Funke
R. M. Meluch
Arkady Martine
Faith Erin Hicks

The first movie I saw in the theater and it blew me away.

That sucks, very painful.

Hope you get better soon!

The far right has never been a fan of DEI, particularly in popular entertainment.

Less than 14 years later, the German far right would be rampaging across Europe.

Same!

This is rad!

Cartoon drawing featuring a woman in bright red bloomers and a men's-style blazer and bow tie riding a bicycle in the foreground, and an old man with a pitchfork losing hat and pitchfork in surprise. Over his head are the words, "What it will come to". At the bottom it says, "Then they WILL be satisfied".

Anti-Suffragette postcard
ca. 1910s

Happy International Women's Day, bicycle friends!

@alt-text.bsky.social

Very cool explainer video & vignette of a brilliant person behind beautiful images of our universe we all enjoy -

No one wins a water war in the desert.

Cooper’s Hawk jumping into action

Cooper’s Hawk springs into action 🪶