Tonight, I was looking at water.noaa.gov to see where the US is flooding. My 11-year old pointed to the ongoing major flooding in North Dakota, and I said "Oh, that's Devils Lake. It's always flooding there." They asked "Why?" and a rabbit hole yawned before me.
150,000 acre feet per year is 50% of Nevada’s annual allotment from the Colorado River.
We don’t take the full 300,000 AFY every year to support Las Vegas and environs. The extra is banked in other states for future use in Southern Nevada.
A lot of water….
A photo of an envelope from the Library of Congress, US Copyright Office, with a black business card lying on top showing a Jolly Roger-styled illustration of a “skull and crossbones”. The skull wears a fedora hat, stylishly tilted, and the “bones” are a crossed rock hammer and shovel.
This is a tiny victory amid all the horrors [waves hands around] …but sharing because this is my first official copyright EVER, and I fuckin LOVE that @rckhnd.com‘s nerdy Jolly Rockhound is now in the Library of Congress. 😍
The bravest thing that Brian Kilmeade has ever done in his life was having to apologize for saying something incredible racist and vile.
He’s done it several times, so he has experience, but still…
Early Neanderthals walked into this cave, went three football fields into the earth, created 15-foot-wide bubbles of rock, lit and tended small fires upon them. Then they left.
This unique find has implications for how we underestimate many past peoples.
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-look-at-...
The world feels very sharp right now. We're all bouncing around off sharp people, sharp news, & sharp emotions.
Your kindness can light up a sharp world. By simply being kind, you can stop people from impaling on the sharp in their world.
Be kind. Soften the world.
#Kindness #EverydayKindness
Everyone, please take the usual precautions for oarfish sightings.
I just read and closed this tab:
🔗 The Lear and the Huntridge: The importance of historic pres… — https://knpr.org/show/knprs-state-of-nevada/2026-03-06/the-lear-and-the-huntridge-the-importance-of-historic-preservation?utm_source=npr.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local_headlines&utm_content…
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🔗 Spring is arriving earlier due to climate change — https://knpr.org/2026-03-06/spring-is-arriving-earlier-due-to-climate-change?utm_source=npr.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local_headlines&utm_content=homepage
Windows open: 37 • Tabs open: 3,511
Current project: burn…
One more tab off the pile:
🔗 Oil soars past $100 a barrel as conflict continues in Iran : NPR — https://www.npr.org/2026/03/08/nx-s1-5741818/iran-israel-trump-oil-100
Windows open: 37 • Tabs open: 3,512
I keep a huge backlog of tabs because ‘I’ll read it later’ is how my brain saves ideas. Lately I…
I am seriously, seriously wondering how many GOP politicians are doing a very careful calculus on their political future right now. They're facing a no-win scenario, and have to choose the path of least damage. If they don't, things will be far worse for them, and for all of us.
Holy moly. Totally unhinged.
Can’t even imagine living in that much fear you need a goddam arsenal in Long Island.
Or anywhere, for that matter.
Much different than Dire Straits but beautiful. Needed this for our Sunday morning...
youtu.be/w-OfUq5HXX8?...
The difference between the spike in global oil prices now versus 2022 is that this time the US president single-handedly caused it to happen overnight with a policy while accepting no responsibility, while the US president in 2022 was blamed for it even though he didn’t cause it.
This is just horrifying. It'll negatively impact everyone for generations.
HOT DANG!
A hand-drawn map of the April 1974 "super outbreak" by Dr. Ted Fujita.
Looking through old files and had to stop and admire Fujita's map of the 1974 tornado outbreak.
I would give anything to have a full-size physical copy of it one day.
It’s too easy to go to war
the thing is that it won't matter because Americans react minor inconveniences the way people in other countries react to a sinkhole opening up and swallowing the national capital during a presidential address
And he certainly isn’t going to know how to fix it.
Bonkers. Never knew about this.
This raises the obvious question of what kind of thing the Trump admin might need the National Transportation Safety Board to do that a conscientious Board member would reject.
It's not a Pixar movie UNLESS you come out of it in desperate need of a week-long session with both your psychologist AND core friend group.
Today’s reading log:
🔗 Emeryville, CA (EMY) | Amtrak — https://www.amtrak.com/stations/emy.html
Windows open: 37 • Tabs open: 3,507
I have thousands of Firefox tabs open. Not as a cry for help — it’s my reading queue. I read one, close one, repeat until retirement.
Another one down from the reading queue:
🔗 Latest Earthquakes — https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=us7000s27e&extent=30.58118,-95.49866&extent=34.56538,-90.5658&autoUpdate=false&range=search&sort=largest&settings=true&search=%7B%22name%22:%22Search%20Results%22,%22params%…
I just read and closed this tab:
🔗 M 4.9 - 2026 Red River Parish, Louisiana Earthquake — https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000s27e/executive
Windows open: 37 • Tabs open: 3,510
I keep a huge backlog of tabs because ‘I’ll read it later’ is how my brain saves ideas. Lately I’m prac…
Just finished reading:
🔗 Leather Mag Wallet with Find My Tracking - Rustic Brown | Horween | NOMAD® — https://nomadgoods.com/products/slim-wallet-horween-rustic-brown
Windows open: 37 • Tabs open: 3,506
I have thousands of Firefox tabs open. Not as a cry for help — it’s my reading queue. I read one…
One more tab off the pile:
🔗 Tracking Card Pro - Find My | Black — https://www.getkeysmart.com/products/keysmart-ipro-black?variant=58469022826577
Windows open: 37 • Tabs open: 3,507
Current project: burn down my Firefox tab debt. Strategy: 20/day. If I keep it up, I’ll be done sometime this decade.
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🔗 KeySmart iPro Smart Key Organizer — https://www.getkeysmart.com/products/keysmart-ipro-black?variant=58469022826577
Windows open: 37 • Tabs open: 3,509
I keep a huge backlog of tabs because ‘I’ll read it later’ is how my brain saves ideas. Lately I’m practicing: open → read →…
Another one down from the reading queue:
🔗 iOS 26.3.1, 18.7.6 and macOS 26.3.1 - TidBITS Talk - TidBITS Talk — https://talk.tidbits.com/t/ios-26-3-1-18-7-6-and-macos-26-3-1/33009
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I have thousands of Firefox tabs open. Not as a cry for help — it’s my reading queue…
