Just responded to a troll who insulted me on Instagram with “Kick rocks, buckaroo” and I’m feeling pretty good about that.
BlondeAlex
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My career in #CAWater is almost old enough to drink legally. My work in #CALeg and #CAAg is still in elementary school. https://linktr.ee/blondealex
The earworm transition from “First time in San Juan, mi hijo” to “Hey there Mister Jambo” was swift, indeed.
Wild to have travelled in one day from a city in the middle of a coastal lagoon to the alpine areas/the Dolomites and back. The parallels between Italy and California don’t end with their climates.
I am still very bummed that Elon Musk bought Twitter and turned it into X because that website was super fun during the few years when the moderators did not tolerate Nazis.
California lawmakers are poised to kill legislation that would have forced them to immediately release lobbying letters from business and advocacy groups and given the public a new window into the secretive world of Capitol lobbying. cal.news/3PPSM4E 📸 Fred Greaves
Here’s the southeast view from High Camp at Palisades yesterday. There had been about 2 feet of new snow over the previous 48 hrs, and you can see a lot of that in the foreground. But look beyond that, toward the lake 😞
Folks should pay close attention to two recent appellate court decisions from the Las Posas Valley Groundwater Basin. The March 2026 rulings mark the first contested comprehensive groundwater adjudication affirmed under the framework enacted alongside SGMA. #cawater www.omm.com/insights/ale...
Earlier today, I was asked to comment on the current state of American disaster preparedness. That was already a fraught question, even prior to present chaos, but then I saw today's headlines. 🫠 "Top Disaster Response Official Claims He Teleported to a Waffle House"
If he does the entire show in the persona of Jackie Daytona, I might actually watch the Oscars.
Liz Shannon Miller@lizshannonmiller.com · 5mo agoI think there were tech issues during the #Oscars press conference that just wrapped, in which I somehow ended up with the last question, but they got the gist of my question which was "talk about hiring Matt Berry." Here is the lightly edited transcript of their answer.
The US already makes 96% of the N fertilizer we use. The fertilizer we import the most is POTASSIUM. Which we get from CANADA. When we import phosphorus, we get 98% of it from PERU. Not Iran. So the reason we've had trouble getting those is TARIFFS. farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2025/07/us-f...
Punk icon Jello Biafra, co-founder of The Dead Kennedys, suffered a stroke Saturday and remains hospitalized. He ran for mayor of San Francisco in 1979, and for president of the US in 2000 alternativetentacles.com/blogs/news/j...
Jello Biafra suffers hemorrhagic stroke all appearances canceled
On Saturday, March 7th Jello Biafra suffered a hemorrhagic stroke caused by high blood pressure. Jello Biafra had this to say:”I hopped out of my bed because I needed to pee, and my left leg just coll...
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Why do like 10 people follow me every day here and why are you all actually bots
Incredible water management and infrastructure map from @ucanrwater.bsky.social and affiliates! This one is going straight into my “CA Water Management 101” files I use when I brief folks who are new to the water space. 👏 watermanagement.ucdavis.edu/application/...
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Things I need to remind myself of every time I make the mistake of commenting in an ag-centric Facebook group.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 6mo agoGood things to remember about being Online: - Some people will dislike you for no reason at all. You don't need to make yourself available to be screamed at by them. - Trying to explain yourself to people who do not engage in good faith and are uninterested in understanding you is a waste of time.
Explainer for anyone who feels scandalized by the cost of ag water versus municipal water👇 Thanks for laying it out so clearly, @ppicwater.bsky.social & @ppicnotes.bsky.social! www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...
Why does water cost more in some parts of California than others? | Opinion
“Water for homes in coastal cities must travel long distances through an elaborate network of infrastructure.”
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I stumbled on an @sfestuaryinstitute.bsky.social “State of the Estuary” report from 1992 and this is easily my favorite graphic. Birbs here. More birbs over there.
ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers https://theonion.com/ice-opens-new-supermax-detention-center-for-most-harden-1827838332/
Record warmth across much of the West this winter has left the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains with very little snow. “That is the classic global warming mountain snowpack signature.” @weatherwest.bsky.social Graphics by @sean-greene.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/... @latimes.com
get in loser, we’re saving the sewers.
Andy@alleysofmpls.bsky.social · 7mo agoAnyways, my ride is here
MTV ends tomorrow. We both turned 44 this year. MTV had an indelible impact on me: from watching Madonna’s blasphemous “Like A Prayer” video to watching Kurt Loder report Kurt Cobain’s death, seeing Pedro die of AIDS on the Real World, and then watching the resurgence of pop via the TRL era…
Our second was so much harder as a baby than our first but I don’t know what I’d do without this dork now, omg 😂😍
Scientists @ucanr.edu are trying to prevent New World screwworm from entering California. It lays eggs in open wounds on warm-blooded animals, including humans. “They actually eat the living tissue of those animals,” Alec Gerry @ucrentomology.bsky.social told @newsnation.bsky.social
NewsNation@newsnation.bsky.social · 8mo ago“By 1966, California was one of the last places the fly was eradicated from,” said Alec Gerry, a professor of veterinary entomology at the University of California Riverside. #Health