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Brad, not actually a cat @bradpholden.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Me, getting out of meeting about extremely large NSF proposal: Maybe I should pop onto bluesky just to see what is up.....

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Mike Brown @plutokiller.com · 17/01/2025

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

$A computer screen with a display showing output from an xray diffraction spectrometer.$ $Close up view showing fraction of metals. Fun stuff.$

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 15/01/2025

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Also here is a spreadsheet of displaced Black families from Altadena docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The National Weather Service has *once again* issued an elevated "Particularly Dangerous Situation" (PDS) Red Flag Warning for large portions of Los Angeles & Ventura Counties early Tue though Wed due to return of very strong offshore winds and extremely dry air. #CAwx #CAfire

Graphic reposted from NWS Los Angeles regarding upcoming PDS Red Flag Warning. The text from the original post reads: "Heads up! Strong, locally damaging, NE/E winds will affect West LA Co. & much of Ventura Co thru Wednesday. Critical fire weather is expected, so PLEASE have multiple ways of getting notifications in case of new fires & prepare ahead of time."

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Merrill Markoe @merrillmarkoe.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I wrote a review of A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: the brand new Bob Dylan bio pic. And I guarantee you it is totally unlike any other critique of the film that you are ever going to run in to. merrillmarkoe.substack.com/p/a-complete...

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'A Complete Unknown': The Ballad of TOSHI

And INTRODUCING 'THE TOSHI AWARDS!'

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 28/12/2024

This piece about Toshi Seeger in the new Bob Dylan movie is a hilarious explainer of the very Hollywood problem: “there’s a woman in this story that we can’t get rid of because she kind of ran everything so what can we possibly do?” merrillmarkoe.substack.com/p/a-complete...

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'A Complete Unknown': The Ballad of TOSHI

And INTRODUCING 'THE TOSHI AWARDS!'

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 07/10/2024

If you have a disaster prep kit somewhere, this is a great time to check on it! Flip food that is nearing its expiration, figure out if you have what you need for your current household. Not sure where to start? www.ready.gov/kit

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Build A Kit | Ready.govLock

These resources teach you to build an emergency kit filled with the items you need to survive on your own for several days after a disaster. After an emergency, you may need to survive on your own for...

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Lindley is open for tech editing gigs @lindley.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

This is thread 6 of updates and resources for Hurricane #Helene, primarily covering western NC. Image source in next post. Please share these threads with people outside this platform as needed; they're public and don't require a Bluesky login. Previous thread: bsky.app/profile/lind...

A large indoor space with wooden floors and high ceilings is filled with tables laden with a huge variety of supplies, including fans, crockpots, plastic bins, large bottles of water. A few people are walking around organizing or surveying the supplies.

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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

Update from the city today... The water line that supplies 80% of Asheville's water was buried under 25 feet of soil before flooding from Helene fully exposed and catastrophically damaged it. It's going to be a while.

The broken water line in Asheville NC, which was exposed and damaged after 25 feet of soil was washed away above it.

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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

~13,000 missing persons / welfare check requests were completed by local volunteers, who were organized in an emergency by some folks who, IMO should be put in charge of absolutely everything from now on. www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...

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More than 12,000 requests for help: Volunteers search for missing people after Helene

In downtown Asheville, dozens of volunteers mobilized to answer calls from friends and family of missing people: Can you help me find them?

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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

The scale of this disaster is so great that both mutual aid and federal resources have been needed in equal measure. While the military & FEMA are pros, local organizers on the ground are mobilizing distributions of similar scale from scratch, while also managing their own personal losses. Amazing

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 02/10/2024

If you solder a ~10cm long "antenna" wire to a laptop's DRAM data bus, it makes it extra sensitive to electromagnetic interference. So much so that clicking a piezo-electric arc lighter nearby can induce bit-flips. I wrote an exploit to turn those bitflips into a shell:

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

I realize folks in the Southwest are tired of the heat, but...there's now a strong signal for a prolonged autumn heatwave over next wk that may culminate in October monthly record heat by next wknd. & additional warmer-than-avg weather after that, just less anomalous. #CAwx #AZwx

Snapshot from ECMWF ensemble depicting surface temperature anomalies over the Western U.S. next weekend. They are almost uniformly far above average, and may be record-breaking in some places.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Latest storm surge forecast for Helene has raised the high end from 15 to *TWENTY* feet above ground level for a big chunk of the Florida gulf coast.

National Hurricane Center map of Florida showing peak storm surge forecast, including 15-20 feet around Big Bend and other high numbers nearby

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/08/2024

Please do share this book review column widely. Fewer and fewer newspapers have a commitment to review science fiction and fantasy regularly, and it's really good for the genre to have this kind of visibility. Please share this gift link far and wide! <3

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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

Brendan Loper in the New Yorker

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19/06/2024

It's also we need improved transit so that there's a need for fewer and better designed (read smaller vehicles that can still account for mobility devices) cars. The goal isn't zero cars. The goal is most ppl being able to do the activities of daily life easily without driving /2

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19/06/2024

this kind of pollution - pm2.5- also comes from car tires so switching to EVs especially in cities doesn't fully fix this. In fact the pm2.5 from car tires is higher with EVs because they're heavier than comparable internal combustion vehicles. It's not just "stop burning stuff" /1

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

My analysis of Robert O'Brien's argument for MOAR NUKES! And explosive testing!

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