Urgent bulletin: The International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators have an absolutely incredible logo game
This is really terrible news. Helen was one of the best. Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69 www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/h... via @statnews.com
Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69
Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.
statnews.com
At the core of Calabasas’s plan is a simple assumption: Everyday communication will fail during an earthquake or wildfire. The city spent four years building a network of residents who are trained, equipped, and organized to help each other when emergencies strike.
In Calabasas, the emergency plan enlists local neighbors - Western City Magazine
At the core of Calabasas’s plan is a simple assumption: Everyday communication will fail during an earthquake or wildfire. ...
westerncity.com
1964 - Dionne Warwick - Walk On By A Bacharach/David composition, filmed live at The 27 Club in Knokke, Belgium, on New Year's Eve 1964, so in a sense we're not moving far from 1963.
Finally a theme week I care about
Science Friday@scifri.bsky.social · 4w agoIt’s Cephalopod Week! All week long we’ll be celebrating our favorite cephalopods with stories, games, educational activities, virtual events, and lots more! Dive in on our website at sciencefriday.com/cephalopodweek. We’re kicking it off with a nautilus as our #PictureOfTheWeek.
Add Anh to the long list of notable Sacramentans erroneously claimed by the Bay Area. C‘mon folks she literally sponsors the Kings!!!!
San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 2mo agoThe Bay Area lawyer is enlisting fans to help create a new jingle for her company, Phoong Law.
CGS recently released Map Sheet 48, a statewide shaking-intensity map based on USGS's 2023 National Seismic Hazard Model. Here's what it shows. #earthquake 1/3
1/11 🐟 2nd new preprint today from @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social We investigated how losing the swim bladder, the organ that most fishes use to control their buoyancy, has shaped the diversity of ray-finned fishes over 90 million years of Earth history. The results surprised us. 🧵
Marketing genius, wish I thought of it myself
Ian Carrillo@iansociologo.bsky.social · 2mo agoRefreshing
Are the musical tastes of my peers now Obscure and Vintage. Surely not. What would that make me
*today in class A Student: I hear you have a lot of followers online Me: ya, some Another student: on what site? Me: Bluesky reader, not a single student in the class had heard of it
I spoke to some college history majors a few months ago from my alma mater and the # 1 thing I WISH I told them was that I should have taken some California-centric coursework as an undergrad. This looks like an amazing series!!!
Alexander Luckmann@aluckmann.bsky.social · 3mo agoOK since people seem interested in the Southern California Modernism class I'm finishing up teaching: I'll post four images from each lecture, one lecture per day (there are 18 lectures). Lecture 1
A recent story in the Atlantic declared, “The end of reading is here,” citing a sharp decline in the share of Americans who regularly read for pleasure. But in San Francisco, commonly ranked among the most literate American cities, readers are easy to find. www.californiasun.co/newsletter/d...
The name of this playlist is hilarious 😂😂😂 the songs are 🔥🔥🔥🔥
In the original Starbuck just mutters this to Stubb behind Ahab’s back
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 3mo agoCaptain Ahab, woman, cries out, “From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale.” First mate Starbuck replies, “You’re being super emotional about this whale. Maybe wait before making any decisions?"
When I got this warning I unplugged my microwave and put out my California Republic flag
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 4mo agoCalifornia Office of Emergency Services: “Guys the grid is under a lot of stress right now. Can we conserve energy amidst this heat wave to lower demand?” Californians: “SIR YES SIR, ETERNAL GLORY TO THE GOLDEN STATE” www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
May US transit data is in today, & all of the 10 largest US rail networks are growing! SF is seeing a real boom, with ridership up 16% on Muni & 13% on BART SEPTA (Philly, 8.7%) and PATH (NY/NJ, +6%) are also seeing strong growth, while MTS (San Diego, +0.6%) is the slowest🧵
NK Jemisin William Gibson Suzanne Collins Neal Stephenson Lois Lowry Anyway if you like these authors (horrifying dystopias from top to bottom) I also recommend RF Kuang's Poppy War series but I've only read 3 books of hers so far
Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 4mo agofive living writers that you've read five books by each Rita Dove Tasha Suri Courtney Milan Grant Morrison Tom Perrotta
As a lifelong Sacramento Kings fan I have never related to anything as much as the suffering sports fan portion of this speech
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoMamdani's speech at the Knicks parade was easily the best I've ever heard at an event of that sort. I posted the whole thing on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Highly recommended.
Not going to lie, I thought the 3rd panel was going to say "This is LA"
👻 Retro Commercial Screams 🎃@retrocommercials.bsky.social · 5mo ago
Sometimes I feel like @watchduty.org was made specifically with Sacramento in mind
Watch Duty@watchduty.org · 5mo ago➡️ What's new: The same Watch Duty map you trust for fire now shows clear flood information like National Weather Service warnings, precipitation rates, live river gauge data, and, in the case of catastrophic flooding, real-time human reporting and alerts.