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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The look on the Finance Manager Bro’s face when he went down the list of Premium Add On Maintenance Packages that my Ioniq5 absolutely positively will never need 🔥 Sorry pal!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/08/2026

You see a lot of glib analysts repeating the line that "Americans just don't want EVs" without taking into consideration that the US auto buying experience is dominated by a network of extremely ignorant, Republican car dealers dependent on the kind of maintenance that EVs don't need.

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Pour one out for what may be the final instance of "getting NAM'd" whereby the NAM model gives false hope of a robust coastal low w/strong frontogenesis banding over a major metro area. It is admittedly more fun when multiple ptypes are involved. The NAM is being pushed into retirement this fall :(

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Passing a pleasant morning at the McCook NE public library

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

late may / early june tornado climo: the bar to produce tornadoes is now set on the floor 2026: hold my beer while i grab a shovel

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I’m curious if you went to a No Kings event today (as I did!) what did you think of the speakers? Good? Inspiring? Interesting? Boring? Cringe?

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

My Ioniq 5 is awesome, I’d never go back to gas if you paid me

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

this makes me viscerally angry. what a cool tool lit on fire for no reason

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Some of Mamdani’s policies are good, some are bad, a few are terrible, but the way he does politics is so refreshing I would totally vote for him if I lived in NYC

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Knowing that RFK cries a little each time I get a vaccine makes it hurt a lot less

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Isaac Schluesche @slushywx.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

You versus the TC she tells you not to worry about

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I’d take the other side of that bet

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Monday. 5pm. 7th Ave from clarkson st. We looooveeeeeee congestion pricing!

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I like cold and snow and mountains. I do not like heat, humidity, and insane politics

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Following up after a weekend of observing #Erin. The real track fell on the left side of the ECMWF Ensemble guidance envelope, but near a solid cluster of members. Only one deepmind member showed a scenario remotely similar to what actually happened.

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

This morning's ECMWF Ensemble forecast scenarios for #Erin (left) vs Google DeepMind (right). Which do you think provides more useful information about tropical cyclone forecast uncertainty?

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

"Americans already understood Trump to be corrupt, and proved themselves willing to tolerate that. But now they are coming to believe that he is inept. In American politics, that is an unforgivable sin." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Trump’s Unforgivable Sin

Voters have proved willing to tolerate corruption, but there’s one thing they won’t ignore.

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Sean Sublette @subletteweather.com · 06/08/2025

This is an unprecedented time in our nation's history. Conspiracies, lies, and gaslighting are running amok. We need more scientists in Congress. I was born and raised here, and I am running to represent all Virginians from Chesterfield County to the Chesapeake Bay.

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Sean Sublette - Meteorologist for Congress: Welcome to Virginia

YouTube video by Sean Sublette

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

It is only a matter of time before this kills a lot of people

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

In 2028 my primary vote will go to whichever candidate promises the worst public humiliation for everyone involved in DOGE

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Hey Sean Duffy the nyc subway works way better than this

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Bowen ratio in disarray today @ KTPA

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 13/07/2025

Florida is committing "enforced disappearance," a very serious violation of international human rights law. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i... www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

The DeSantis administration has not made public a list of names of the immigrants held at the facility in heavy duty tents at an airstrip in the Florida Everglades.
Individuals sent to the makeshift detention center do not show up in an
online government database that allows the public to search for immigrant detainees' whereabouts. Lawyers say they
have had difficulty locating clients sent to the site, often learning that they are there when detainees call family members.

An enforced disappearance is considered to be the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups of persons acting with the authorization, support or acquiescence of the State, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or by concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person, which place such a person outside the protection of the law (Article 2 of the ICPED and Preamble of the Declaration on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance)
It is characterized by three cumulative elements (defined in A/HRC/16/48/Add.3):
1. Deprivation of liberty against the will of the person;
2. Involvement of government officials, at least by acquiescence;
3. Refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared
person.

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

This isn’t really a partisan thing and it probably makes me more mad than any of the other TX flooding stuff. We are just far too accommodating of people in denial about reality.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

This is such a critical point that can be tough to make without seeming to minimize the current disaster. This event had a very high death toll for a U.S. disaster and the impacts are severe but in terms of total number of people directly affected and the geographic scope, it’s on the smaller size.

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 07/07/2025

people are making fun of this guy, but the challenge is legit. getting people to take weather alerts seriously is a real problem, and if you send out too many warnings, people will ignore them. of course, it looks awful here but I am sympathetic to the conundrum.

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Trying to figure out how to get (excellent quality) forecasts/warnings the last mile is tough, complicated, nuanced work without any easy scapegoat or fix. But once you burn enough tools to prevent the high-quality forecast, this kind of tragedy is going to happen way more often

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Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

They are simply not up to the task of defending the constitution and the people of this country. I haven’t gone this far yet on this, but I’m done. They have taken an oath and a responsibility and they’re willfully, even joyfully abdicating it.

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Who will put up big signs in front of shuttered rural hospitals saying [GOP rep/senator’s name did this] and how can I donate to that effort

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

It is so hard to describe how sad I am to watch so much get blown up for the sake of the grievances harbored by so few. To all my Republican friends and family, if you want a forecast for a hurricane from now on, you’re on your own. You burned the tools I needed www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

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Hurricane Science Was Great While It Lasted

The U.S. is hacking away at support for state-of-the-art forecasting.

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

This is maybe the first weather data loss that I can say will, without any doubt at all, kill people. This is some of the core data we use to diagnose rapid intensification when visible satellite and/or hurricane hunter data isn’t available. Anyone on/near the coast just got a lot less safe

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I for one am pro letting more supercells into our great nation. Thank you President Biden! Make rotating updrafts great again!

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Genuine question do these guys go through like a dozen drones a week or do little drones actually survive flying through violent tornadoes

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Happy “Portland is insufferable for locals season” to all who celebrate! Good luck to the businesses I will see you in October

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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

FINALLY Democrats are putting out HARD-HITTING ads. WATCH AND SHARE: #MAGAKidnappers

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 15/06/2025

Can we please decide once and for all whether longitude goes from -180 to +180 or 0 to 360???

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The crowd in Portland Maine earlier today, shortly after we all sang the star spangled banner. Keep it up team 🇺🇸

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2025

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

in nam3k and the stationary front we trust

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

This trend of “[x entity] performing better than the NWS after doge cuts” is really bothering me. The cuts are wrong and people will die from them. But none of the [x] entities have the long/detailed record to make verifiable claims on accuracy. All the examples are cherry picked n=1 or 2

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Leaving aside what you think of the protests* this is a great case study in how dataviz can shape the narrative. The same data could be used to tell very different stories based on what the author set for marker_width *I am in favor and plan to attend

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The worst person alive is not Trump or Elon though I’m no fan of either. It’s this guy, by a lot

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III, and I count at least 15 of them that Donald Trump has also committed in whole or in part. Particularly notable right now: "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."

Screenshot of a list of the 27 specific grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump has committed at least 15 of them in whole or in part, highlighted in yellow and listed below:
"1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
3. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither (partial offense)
4. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
5. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
6. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
7. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
8. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
9. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
10. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
11. For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
12. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
13. (Partial offense), abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
14. (Partial offense), and destroyed the lives of our people.
15. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and (partial offense)"

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Publish more negative results in science and politics and everything. Signed, a guy who devoted a ton of hours to writing votefwd letters in 2020 and 2024 (and bugged several of his friends to as well)

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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Reminder: Please call your House Representative and ask them to cosponsor and vote for HR 3816, the Weather Workforce Improvement Act. www.govtrack.us/congress/bil... If you've been in an area impacted by severe weather recently, tell them what a difference NWS warnings make.

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Details for H.R. 3816: To improve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s weather research, support improvements in weather … - GovTrack.us

Details for H.R. 3816: To improve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s weather research, support improvements in weather forecasting and prediction, expand commercial opportunities fo...

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Jack Sillin @sillin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Wow someone’s been looking at my list of most visited websites

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