Monica V
@classyearlgrey.bsky.social
Former scientist, ret. public involvement professional, transforming a failed farm into wildlife habitat and a food forest. Every day is an adventure, bruises and a few scars. expected along the way.
Bay Area friends: would you consider opening your home to these two cuddly cats? A friend found them behind a gas station. Their sibling, a black cat, got adopted, but it appears no one likes orange cats. They are being kept in a bathroom for the time being and need a home.
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4w agoA friend of mine found these three kittens behind a Bay Area gas station. They are tame, vaccinated, and incredibly affectionate. Unfortunately, she's unable to keep them and I'm trying to find them a home. They are at risk of going to a shelter. Bay Area people, are you open to adopting?
I see we've reached the point in this particular summer of extremes where we are now having to BLOW UP rocks in drought-striken rivers to help send water towards gasping nuclear power plants www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
South-eastern Europe faces heatwave energy crunch as Romania detonates Danube rock to increase water flow – Europe live
Explosives used to move a large rock and let more water flow to cool nuclear power plant
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"The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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Is it weird that I spend my days in farm or outdooor wear and yet admire the delicacy and handwork of well-made clothes? 🤔
Anne Louise Avery@annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 4d agoA delicate Lammas dress from 1902 by Gustav Beer, richly decorated with silken wheat stalks, for drinking chouchen and telling fortunes in an old country garden, as a great golden moon rises in the dark Breton sky.
Hey Seattle don’t forget to vote by tomorrow evening, the low turnout for August elections means your vote is going to be extra potent, like you’ve been gooning for democracy
Lefty Cheat Sheet@electioncheatsheet.org · 2d agoYour boss and your landlord have voted.
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
This link is to video from a bird feeder cam as the Old Trail Fire started and came to the neighborhood. Worth watching until the end- it’s only a bird feeder cam, not a movie, but the #bird returning after the fire blew through makes me want to cry. www.instagram.com/reel/Dbjp8-J...
khq6 on Instagram: "The view from a bird feeder on North Warren Lane as smoke and flames from the Spokane Area Fires engulfed the region on Saturday. �…"
The view from a bird feeder on North Warren Lane as smoke and flames from the Spokane Area Fires engulfed the region on Saturday. 📸Video courtesy of Meredith Devey
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THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul
Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.
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I am still haunted by the new, young employee who went on medical leave shortly after she started at work and Covid started spreading. She filed repeated requests for sick time donations through the union, and then just… disappeared forever. 😔
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d agoI worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
TL;DR: The Seattle Times editorial board is showing its entire ass. They are desperate to have Katie Wilson fail, and they're willing to make up bizarre conspiracy theories to facilitate that outcome.
Here’s a zoomed-in shot of the summit and Columbia crest glacier. Note how carved the mountain is by erosion. It’s been about 2,000yrs since the mountain has seen a voluminous eruptive period, so erosion has outpaced the mountain’s building.
Geeezusss- we have a statewide burn ban, half the state is on fire, and some dumba$$ across the river is lighting up illegal fireworks. I could hear music so I’m thinking there is a big party or event. Called 911.
I got mine in last week and yes, I researched the judicial candidates. One was a doozy. Only held my nose for one vote in the end. Go vote, people!!!
Ned Pyle@nedpyle.com · 4d agoYesssssssssssss
This is just heartbreaking. This account is updating and you can watch the fire expand on the maps in successive posts. Terrifying. I saw someone calling it the “pyrocene“ and they nailed it.
Spokane Rising@spokanerising.com · 4d agoThis fire now has a new name, the Old Trails Fire. – Currently 150-200 acres and growing – Crowning along the tree canopy (BAD!) – Moving north into Riverside State Park – PSPS has begun in North Indian Trail
Another fire that can't be contained because we are in a drought and have no damn water, but they want to build another data center in Spokane
A large chunk of northwest Spokane, WA (pop. 289,000) is under Level 3 evacuation orders ("GO NOW") as a wildfire rages. It's being stoked by top-end "extremely critical" weather conditions: www.spc.noaa.gov/products/fir...
Aug 1, 2026 Day 1 Fire Weather Outlook
Severe weather, tornado, thunderstorm, fire weather, storm report, tornado watch, severe thunderstorm watch, mesoscale discussion, convective outlook products from the Storm Prediction Center...
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City of Spokane@spokanecity.org · 4d agoPlease do not drive into the Old Trails Fire evacuation zone. For those in the evacuation zone, please head eastbound. For all evacuation information, visit bit.ly/SRECOfficial...
Forgot to flag #Caturday. I rarely have cat posts because of my cat unfriendly dogs.
Monica V@classyearlgrey.bsky.social · 4d agoOkay, it’s a meta product (Insta), but it’s a post by a river restoration construction company that rescued kittens from one of their big machines and adopted little Sue. Equipment manufacturer Komatsu made Sue her own little hard hat and construction vest. 🥹
This here is a waste of taxpayer money big time.
Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 4d agoIt's a tough job, but literally no one has to do it
Okay, it’s a meta product (Insta), but it’s a post by a river restoration construction company that rescued kittens from one of their big machines and adopted little Sue. Equipment manufacturer Komatsu made Sue her own little hard hat and construction vest. 🥹
Great time lapse!
Pacific Northwest Seismic Network@pnsn1.bsky.social · 5d agoHappy #FieldworkFriday! We retrieved our trail cam from Emerald Ridge (RER) last week which took daily photos from September 2023 to January 2025. This insight shows that our extended solar panel plays a vital role, at times being the only thing above the deep snow.
So the administration now admits that this prosecution overseen by Todd Blanche was utter bullshit. Blanche must not be confirmed as Attorney General.
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d agoFLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
this thread is better than any I've done since the Western Grebe Taxi Service, tbh
Alex Plante 🐀👑@aplante.com · last wk.WE BEGIN #mural
huge mistake by Google and I hope they rethink it, or possibly think it for the first time
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 5d agoI used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
There is no meaningful use case for Google’s new “faking satellite imagery with AI” product.
Doremus Schafer@doremus-schafer.bsky.social · 5d agoGoogle put out a five-point bullet list of supposed use cases, it is, uh, not wildly convincing. My 'favorite' is 'have the stochastic parrot show your students what historical sites looked like in olden days'. blog.google/products-and...
Yeah sure, but Sam Altman says we’re in the singularity and poised for massive breakthroughs like nothing we’ve seen in human history because of AI. 🙃
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d agoThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
