Mark Ellinwood
@markellinwood.bsky.social
Forecasts, wx/dog/local wildlife vids+pics, opinions, memes, and other stuff I like. Mid-Atlantic/DC focus. AEM-Earth Networks meteorologist.
Best way to use purpleair.com map: click on the gear icon at upper left and choose "US EPA" in the "Apply Conversion" setting, or else readings will be too high. Also uncheck the box "show inside" to avoid seeing monitors located indoors, which have a black circle around the colored dot on the map.
Regular reminder to delete your Facebook and anything else related to Meta.
WIRED@wired.com · 3h agoMore than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week. www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
It me. I am Gamers Nexus (minus the actual technical knowledge). www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WP6...
It’s Time to Poison AI | GN Mega Charts Update & LLM Countermeasures
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
youtube.com
The SpaceX IPO only put 5% of its shares on the market. Another 20% were scheduled to unlock after the Q2 earnings call. That call was yesterday. In the meantime, the stock has fallen over 40% from its initial days of trading. $SPCX 📉 9.25% in pre-market trading as shareholders offload this junk.
SpaceX shares sink after first earnings report reveals huge AI spending plans
Elon Musk told investors that people were "underestimating" his company.
bbc.com
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PENDLETON, OREGON has issued a SEVERE COW HAZARD until 4:25 PM... #WXsky
The snoozing Atlantic hurricane season is off to its slowest start (by ACE index) in 17 years. 2009 had its first storm, then a major hurricane in mid-August.
CO: "Everything is bad!" UT: "We're fine... nothing to see here!"
Chipotle Mexican Grill said that it had removed jalapeños from some of its restaurants, after determining the peppers could potentially be tied to a salmonella outbreak that public health officials are investigating. https://cnn.it/4bu5ptO
( #NWSFairbanks): From the FAA webcams earlier today, lenticular clouds form when strong winds hit terrain and are pushed upward and appear to stay relatively still due to continuous moisture condensing on the windward side of the mountain and evaporating on the leeward side #Alaska #AKwx #wx #wxsky
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
bloomberg.com
Busy w/🔥 but I'd though I'd share this pic from Lillooettt Lake this morning showing layers of stratification in smoke.
One way you can tell these people are the stupidest assholes is they are all incapable of learning that this is the end result of working for Trump
Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d agoOh shit she got the white "pack up your shit" box
The new @NSSL RAPTOR mobile radars will be their first since 2008
Two of my images are a part of the ongoing NightVisions: AMBER juried art exhibition at the Coconino Center for the Arts in Flagstaff, Arizona. Image details for the exhibition submissions are in AltText. #astrophotography #landscape📷 coconinoarts.org/exhibitions/...
this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
New Yorkers had to subsidize the $117 million that the NYPD paid out for misconduct lawsuits in 2025 alone, even though most of them were never personally abused by a cop. Where's your worried op-ed on that one?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
The cat is officially out of the bag. I promised a consequential first, here it is! On (or around) October 6th, for the first time in its 20+ year history, the SPC Mesoanalysis will be available to the field in real time via NCEP NOMADS. Oh, and it’s in NetCDF, not GRIB.
The precipitation anomaly chart is as brown as vast stretches of the landscape in Germany. The drought is clearly visible across wide areas and has long since become part of everyday life for many people.
Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)@dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social · 2d agoMit 44 l/m² (≙51%) war der Juli im Vergleich zu 1991-2020 mit 86 l/m² der fünfte zu trockene Monat in Folge. Historische Ausmaße nahm die Niederschlagsarmut im W, Teilen des SW und der westl. Mitte an. Lokale mit Starkregen einhergehende Gewitter konnten die Trockenheit in der Fläche nicht mindern.
My "We Needed The Rain" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
In happier news, it turns out that blueberries grown beneath solar panels turn out sweeter! 🫐 (via @billmckibben.bsky.social)
In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and tastes
In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above some blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and even how it tastes.
ecoportal.net
Awkward moment here as the Guardians and D-backs benches cleared but things had to be broken up because "Um please move we need to tarp the field"
Sometimes it's easy to forget there can also be nice, wholesome stories that involve the internet.
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 3d agothis owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...
