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Moderately MOCO @moderatelymoco.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

DMV meteorologists this week

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone. And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.

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Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 31/12/2025

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin

Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.

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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku. Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The latest from Gavin Newsom. 🔥

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Justin Sweet @justinsweet.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

@rickperlstein.bsky.social Dude, my husband loves your books but he wanted me to pass along that the typographical errors are extremely distracting. If you want someone to proofread your next book please be in touch.

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Justin Sweet @justinsweet.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Recent tide gauge data from Petropavlvsk shows a clear tsunami signal from today’s earthquake

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Donald Trump gives people permission to be their worst selves. His politics are not just representative, they are generative. His words seep into people’s souls and slowly corrode whatever potential for human decency ever resided there.

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 30/06/2025

Japan has managed a huge accomplishment: fully covering the offshore parts of their subduction zones, which generate massive earthquakes and tsunamis, with more than 200 fiber-connected geophysical stations -- at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. Nothing else in the world can compare.

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Japan’s new seafloor monitors could reveal how ‘slow slip’ earthquakes turn into big ones

Network could add 20 minutes of tsunami warning at dangerous Nankai Trough

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Your reminder that Humboldt Fog cheese, Humboldt County, CA, the Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti),and the Humboldt Current that allows wine grapes to grow in Chile are all named for an 18th C gay scientist whose love letters were all burned and who left his entire estate to his “valet.” 🏳️‍🌈

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 01/06/2025

Today also marks the start of Pride month globally. So, the aurora show is perfect - paint the sky rainbow! Happy Pride from Sydney, folks! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 📸 Sydney Mardi Gras

The Sydney Opera house in Pride flag colours

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Every environmental policy decision in 2025 is like “is it good for the environment? No. But is it at least good for the economy? Also no”

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

You forgot to mention she resigned in protest in January after you killed her cartoon about your plutocrat owner.

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Justin Sweet @justinsweet.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Geo-peeps, check out this great new illustrated book for kids: How The Earth Works

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Huh, weird

DOJ directs prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione
1 hour ago
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CNN
Gunman who killed 23 in racist attack at Texas Walmart offered plea deal to avoid death penalty

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Columbia University used to be called King’s College. They renamed it after we had a revolution here because we didn’t want a king.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This is exactly what they're trying to achieve by destroying government services that benefit the public. A VC-backed startup intervenes to gather data that the National Weather Service was previously collecting, and before we know it, we will be paying them for what was once funded by our taxes.

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As Staffing Cuts at NWS Lead to Suspended Weather Balloon Launches in Western Alaska, WindBorne Systems Steps Up to Fill Atmospheric Data Gaps

Following the announcement from the National Weather Service (NWS) that it is suspending its weather balloon launches in Kotzebue, Alaska indefinitely

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

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Justin Sweet @justinsweet.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Released 41 years ago today, when totalitarianism was something we mocked in other countries 😞

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1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial (HD)

YouTube video by Mac History

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/12/2024

Seismologists xkcd.com/3021

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Rachel Storm @rachelsstorm.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

It's finally happened, the internet now looks exactly the way 90's movies thought the internet looked back then. firehose3d.theo.io

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Bluesky Firehose (live)

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Anthony Masiello @antmasiello.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

You are getting sleepy. 😴 #Fibonacci

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

election season so I got reminded of one of the best New Yorker cartoons

A New Yorker cartoon of Russian generals sitting around a table watching a presentation. In it, the presenter says something in russian followed by "Waukesha County"

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

the fact that multiple newspapers are altering their coverage of the election based on fear of reprisal from one candidate is, in fact, a Giant Fucking Story

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

Was reminded of this today. Only two years old!

a Truth social post from Donald Trump, showing a picture of him and Elon Musk. In the text, he says "When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether its electric cars that don't drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he'd be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said "drop to your knees and beg" and he would have done it"

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

Seattle was supposed to be a climate refuge, too - then we got walloped by smoke, then the heat dome. The sooner we let go of the illusion of escape the sooner we can get serious about the solidarity needed to lower emissions and prepare our communities.

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Seth Miller @wandrme.paxex.aero · 29/09/2024

OK...the NWS Bot collection is now fully populated and ready to go. I'm sure bugs will come up along the way, but I think it is 95%+ stable. There's an index page at nws-bot.us including a map (borrowed from NWS) to find the right bot for the area you want to follow.

Map of the USA carved out for National Weather Service offices

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Justin Sweet @justinsweet.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

The NYTimes has failed its readership and our country by choosing to inaccurately cover the threat posed by the modern GOP and Trump. Both sides don't!

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Justin Sweet @justinsweet.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #76,835!

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