I've been asking reporters in Spokane how we can help and everyone says subscribe, subscribe, subscribe. The Spokesman-Review has been doing unreal coverage of the fires: www.spokesman.com

Alexandra (Alex) Duggan@alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 3d ago

The front page of this morning’s Spokesman-Review, Aug. 2, 2026, the day after one of the worst wildfires in Washington state history. More than 600 structures, mostly homes, have been lost in the #OldTrailsFire. Read local news.

me feeling the wind change on the eve of a week-long bike camping trip

Mary Poppins Flying with Umbrella

ALT: Mary Poppins Flying with Umbrella

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Just amazing to see it in writing even though we knew all along.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d ago

"The Trump administration admitted that it terminated nearly 300 federal research grants 'solely because' the projects were connected to states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024 and had two Democratic senators in office, according to court filings." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

unfortunately I am again getting away with "just throw a bunch of things together but also sesame oil and miso" sauce for dinner.

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d ago

People still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.

Why do I mask? Yes, it's because I have an immune system issue and need to avoid Covid. But the real reason is 6 years of empirical data. I don't get sick anymore! I used to be sick multiple times a year. Missed several once-in-a-lifetime events I still regret. Mask means not sick? Gimme mask.

Nome@nome.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I work at the airport. I'm one of a dozen people i see mask regularly, out of hundreds. Those hundreds? They're complaining constantly about being sick. About making their family and friends sick. And they just accept that as a thing that'll happen. Like there's nothing to be done.

Trust, I’d argue, is the most important thing we have as scinece communicators. People come to us because they trust that *we* have done the work to figure out what is true and what isn’t and we can explain it to them. Once that trust is broken, it’s really hard to get it back.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

am i allowed to talk about how weird it is that the main way liberals philantropize trans people is by donating money to liberal nonprofits for call centers that beg us not to kill ourselves, instead of directly funding our material needs which, when deprived, lead to suicidality? is that allowed?

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️@mady.cat · 6d ago

Sorry i meant to say we need more celebrities to donate $100 million to suicide hotlines so we can call someone who will beg us not to kill ourselves when the state takes away our medication and housing, and then send the cops to our home if we say the wrong series of words. My bad.

re-watched Spotlight while doing my mindless data tasks today / unfortunately the dream of good journalism that matters is still really compelling.

I really hope that the people who have been doing the mile of music festival in Appleton sue their asses.

KARE 11@kare11.bsky.social · 6d ago

WATCH: Minneapolis officials announce a series of music events taking place across the city for the remainder of the summer through fall.

haven't stopped working all summer / time to relax by riding my bike for a week straight and thinking constantly about how to reduce my gear/supply weight in the leadup.

"A Reuters analysis found the ​image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that ⁠signals it was made with OpenAI tools." AI? In my janky-ass, mismatched color-code, lines-pointing-to-nowhere, mislabeled chart?

Reuters@reuters.com · 6d ago

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference reut.rs/4x9eTCW

begging @npr.org to stop doing political coverage of science stories / treating lab leak like it's a matter of "agreement" as opposed to evidence.

Emily Mills is somebody I really trust to do good reporting on what's going on in Madison

E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉@millbot.bsky.social · last wk.

Some initial thoughts on the (seemingly endless) moment we're in, Corey Ruiz's murder my police in Madison, the importance of communal grief, and organizing for real change. Mostly just looking to & learning from others who've been at this a long time:

sometimes i find myself questioning whether or not the sirens could have possibly been as constant as i remember in brooklyn

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d ago

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

check it out, Mythbusters version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s29Q...

Does an Arrow Fly Straight? | MythBusters Jr.

YouTube video by Science Channel

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c t@whatulysses.bsky.social · 7d ago

I'm not pedantic enough to deeply critique the Odyssey film but I have a huge complaint: the arrow trick was way cooler (for a MOVIE TOO) if you go with the general interpretation that the arrow is being shot through small holes in 12 consecutive axes - not 6 pairs of axes leaning together.

I'm not pedantic enough to deeply critique the Odyssey film but I have a huge complaint: the arrow trick was way cooler (for a MOVIE TOO) if you go with the general interpretation that the arrow is being shot through small holes in 12 consecutive axes - not 6 pairs of axes leaning together.

We were talking to a Portuguese firefighter about this. I was saying how our cork oaks don't burn and apparently they call them the "firefighters' tree" because they slow the spread. She said since the forests started being managed for firewood there are lots more fires. www.cbc.ca/news/world/h...

A human-made forest is at the centre of France's raging wildfires | CBC News

Scientists say climate change is driving the extraordinary fire conditions gripping western Europe, but that the scale of those fires cannot be understood without looking at how humans drastically cha...

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dental hygienists remaining the gold standard in inflicting immeasurable pain and gore while also dispensing invaluable life advice.

Why is everything so transparently evil now?

Godfuckingdamnit

NY social media users face age authentication requirement starting in January

Apps are barred from sending notifications to minors between midnight and 6 a.m.

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Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

Some of us are old enough to remember when Tyson executives were betting on how many of their workers would get covid back in 2020 before we had vaccines or any good treatments.

Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · last wk.

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

agree here. everyone who left when Circe told Odysseus to go to Hades and find Tiresias was a sucker, stuff happened there that made the movie better.

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2w ago

oh by the way! if you're planning to go watch The Odyssey and would like a bathroom break, I'd recommend going at the point at which the gang encounters the big fellas in the forest, there's around two minutes there of not-very-plot-relevant fighting, bit early in the film but better than nothing

I want reporters to ask all the Republican politicians who complained about the smoke from Canadian wildfires, even threatening sanctions against the country, about the smoke from the devastating fires in Oregon, which have burned more than 1 million acres: www.klcc.org/disasters-ac...

Homes lost, thousands under evacuation orders as wildfires spread across Central Oregon

Fast-moving wildfires in Central Oregon, including the Bench Fire near Warm Springs, have forced Level 3 evacuations, highway closures, and home losses.

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you can give R-Pat the worst haircut and weirdest character and he will still shine through it, like a beautiful gremliny diamond.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

9. By far my favorite thing in the film is Robert Pattinson's hilarious and sexy Antinous. If anyone ever wants to make a spin off TV series with Antinous risen from the dead to mess with other mythical households, I would be so there for it.

finally, here to read anything anyone wants to write about Christopher Nolan's engagement with female characters, which I generally think is poor even when you can argue that the Odyssey itself engages poorly with female characters (variable opinions on this).

earnestly though,while I can see a $$ reason for movie theaters running 3 hour movies with no intermission, the need to strategically dehydrate (& still be uncomfortable at the end of the movie) before entertainment is one reason I've gone to a movie theater like four times in the last five years.

back from the Odyssey movie and my family hasn't disowned me despite me whispering "Anthony Skywalker" during a preview send twete