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Lisa Kadonaga

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Lisa Kadonaga@tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 25m ago

From the Discworld books, there are multiple pieces to Sam Vimes' Boots Theory. One of them is that a relatively-wealthy family can own a home with storage space and live in it for generations, and put unused furniture, clothing, etc. in a spare room. If you don't have to keep moving because

briellastella@briellastella.bsky.social · 2h ago

Even if you don't believe in the cheap disposable crap comparison, there are so many other ways poverty is more expensive. Not being able to afford/store discount bulk purchases. Installment payment plans and buy now pay later schemes (to say nothing of payday loans!) Renting instead of owning, ffs

Lisa Kadonaga@tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 51m ago

How great is it to have an HHS Secretary who grew up in Virginia, has written a book about climate change policy, and ... oh right. [heavy sigh]

Isaac Bogoch@isaacbogoch.bsky.social · 1h ago

There was just a locally acquired case of dengue fever reported in Virginia, USA. The climate is becoming more suitable, the compatible mosquito species (Aedes) is already there, and we’ll likely see more cases across a wider area. Link: tinyurl.com/2pu4xrc5

Phil Plait@philplait.bsky.social · 3h ago

Oh wow: ESA announces it has a positive detection of the SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage booster impacting the moon! I still haven't seen any images of a flash, but that's not surprising. It was faint. Here, they saw evidence of gas (vaporized material) in the impact plume by taking spectra.

ESO@eso.org · 4h ago

Earlier today, the discarded upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket impacted on the Moon. As part of a coordinated observing campaign, our Very Large Telescope detected spectral lines of sodium and lithium gas in the impact plume lasting for 5-10 minutes after impact. 🔭 🧪 📷 ESO/C. Schmidt et al. 1/4

Lisa Kadonaga@tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 2h ago

That's a bit ungrateful! Also, a lot of those things that made craters on the moon would otherwise have hit us.

5 Reasons why the Moon is important to Earth - Little Astronomy

Have you ever wondered what would happen if there was no Moon in the sky at night? Besides the obvious fact, that night would be much darker, it turns out Earth would be a lot different without a…

littleastronomy.com

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."

APTN News@aptnnews.bsky.social · 4h ago

Since industrial logging began more than a century ago, most of Vancouver Island’s productive old-growth forests — those capable of growing the large trees characteristic of the island’s rainforests — have been cut. About 20 per cent of those forests remain.

B.C. is logging its last old growth and protesters are trying to stop it

Vancouver Island’s old growth rainforests are among the rarest ecosystems on Earth and protesters are trying to stop the logging there.

aptnnews.ca

Lisa Kadonaga@tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 3h ago

I remember back in 2020, I heard an historian commenting about why there aren't more novels/plays/films about the aftermath of the 1918 flu pandemic, given how many people died. And how even historians aren't as eager to study it as the Depression, or the wars.

David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social · 5h ago

I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...

Lisa Kadonaga@tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 3h ago

"You don't need me to tell you that it sucked, and that the damage it has done to our culture and politics is grievous and ongoing. It is in every way the sort of experience you would be anxious to see shrinking away in the rearview mirror, and then ideally not see at all."

David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social · 5h ago

I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...

Canadian History Ehx@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 18h ago

Lloyd Robertson has died. Born in 1934 in Stratford, he was one of Canada's most celebrated journalists. He was the anchor of CTV's national nightly news from 1984 to 2011. He was also one of the longest-serving news anchors on English-language North American television. 📸 CTV

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Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 18h ago

So now the next step is to find out what Capital One's months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience discovered about Trump's 300+ accounts...

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 24h ago

Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."

Lisa Kadonaga@tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 17h ago

Worth looking at this thread to see the hair, fashion, and optical professionals weighing in about various films.

Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 23h ago

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 18h ago

This is a wildly prescient story about Chicago's proto-RFK Jr., in charge of public health during the Spanish Flu. He thought beer killed malaria and that bathing could kill you. He had a feud with an actual TB doctor, who insisted bathing is good. He bullied the TB doctor until he killed himself.

Sachs believed that the new administration was undermining patient care by making hiring and contract decisions based on political connections. Thompson and Robertson in turn accused Sachs of being financially extravagant, incompetent, and dictatorial. As Sachs resigned from the sanitarium he had worked tirelessly to build, Frank Billings, one of the most respected physicians in the city, called Robertson “utterly unqualified.” On April 2, 1916, Sachs committed suicide. For reformers and the medical establishment, Sachs was a martyr to grotesque political corruption. Although The Republican, a propaganda sheet literally published in an office in City Hall, sneered that suicide “occasionally has been a haven of moral cowards who preferred the shelter of death to public exposure of their shortcomings,” Robertson took a less confrontational tone after Sachs’s death. Still, he refused to step down.