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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

A thread 🧵 on the importance of the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program, from the point of view of Washington State (unofficially, of course; this is just my opinion). Don't just take my word for it, though - read the NTHMP 2024 annual report here: www.weather.gov/media/nthmp/... 🌊

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Sheer. fucking. spite.

A meme

In the top panel, an exhausted Frodo asks “What are we holding onto, Sam?”

In the bottom panel, Sam, looking angry and determined, replies “Sheer fucking spite, Mr. Frodo.”

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Excellent take on the two typically-used temperature systems, but it doesn't take into account that neither scale can compare to the simplicity of the scale developed by Hilton, early 2000s, which is a binary operator where things are either "hot" or "not."

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.

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Lyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

A screenshot of a post previously from Greenpeace. It’s a photo of a blue fence with black writing on top. The writing says:
‘If you ever feel heavy because you care deeply about injustice, suffering and ecological destruction. Remember that’s trillion dollar propaganda machine was built to make you numb and it didn’t work on you. ‘

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Murder puddle. ...that's a pretty good band name.

About 5 black crows together in a puddle.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

A good way to avoid a "costly, unnecessary, and avoidable conflict" is to… not start one. It's infuriating so many Democrats can't make this very obvious logical jump in their reactions.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

You need an eraser this big when you play "The Search for Planet X" the way I do 🤣😭 (Great, fun, nearly infinitely replayable puzzle/strategy/logic rule board game if you're looking for one, with a lot of different difficulty levels available!)

A game board is laid out for "the search for planet X board game, which includes an 18-dector map showing all the possibilities, spaces to write down information as you solve puzzles, a number of pieces for different planets/celestial objects, and a rotating game board that shows the "visible sky."

On top of it all, is a huge green pencil Eraser with the words "For Big Mistakes" written on it.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The Onion has sent the following letter to all 535 members of Congress. This special edition will be in their physical mailboxes as they return from recess tomorrow. We hope it inspires them to continue to cower as our essential liberties are systematically dismantled. theonion.com/letter-to-co...

Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice
Published:

June 20, 2025
Who will stand up for our democracy? This question, fraught in even the most peaceful times, has only grown more pressing as our country approaches its 250th anniversary. Each passing day brings growing assaults on essential liberties like freedom of speech and due process. Meanwhile, our delicately assembled legal system faces a constant barrage of threats. Even as this issue reaches publication, the U.S. military has been deployed against peaceful protestors. We teeter on the brink of collapse into an authoritarian state. That is why, today, The Onion calls upon our lawmakers to sit back and do absolutely nothing.

Members of Congress—now, more than ever, our nation desperately needs your cowardice.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state. That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress: Sit back and do absolutely nothing.

An Onion front page with the headline: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice

Who will stand up for our democracy? This
question, fraught in even the most peaceful
times, has only grown more pressing as our
country approaches its 250th anniversary.
Each passing day brings growing assaults on
essential liberties like freedom of speech and due process.
Meanwhile, our delicately assembled legal system faces
a constant barrage of threats. Even as this issue reaches
publication, the U.S. military has been deployed against
peaceful protesters. We teeter on the brink of collapse into
an authoritarian state. That is why, today, The Onion calls
upon our lawmakers to sit back and do absolutely nothing.
Members of Congress, now more than ever, our nation
desperately needs your cowardice.
Our republic is a birthright, an exceedingly rare treasure
passed down from generation to generation of Americans. It
was gained through hard years of bloody resistance and can
too easily be lost. Our Founding Fathers, in their abundant
wisdom, understood that all it would take was men and
women of little courage sitting in the corridors of power
and taking zero action as this precious inheritance was
stripped away—and that is where we have finally arrived.
Now is not the time for bravery or valor! This is the time
for protecting your own hide and lining your pocket. Now is
not the time for listening to your idiotic constituents drone
on about what’s happening to their precious democracy.
This is the time for getting down on all fours and grov-
eling. Now is not the time to say, “Enough is enough,” and
have the tough conversations about resisting the ongoing
assaults on American liberty. This is the time to let the wave
of apathy and indifference roll over you as you think about
getting a really nice renovation to your house in Kalorama.
But what can I, one coward, do alone? you might ask.

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Good article talking about the story and some of the lasting legacy of the May 18th, 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens. The consequences of one eruption weren't just the day of, but have persisted for decades - something we will all need to keep in mind for future eruptions. katu.com/news/local/m...

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How Mount St. Helens eruption still impacts local waterways decades later

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, the blast released 3.3 billion cubic yards of earth from the mountain.

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Happy #Caturday! When you have a long-haired cat, and you haven't furminated in a while, then get paid out in huge layers of thick hair, is that de-furred compensation?

A trash can full of long hair. There is a lot of it.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Earthquake data analysts beware! Just like social media video filters, what you’re looking at may not be real. #nofilter Also, I just discovered Bluesky now allows videos (like this one) that are longer than 60 seconds 🎉 New video length limit is 3 minutes.

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Reviews: "Solo Leveling" so far was just a show about whether "LEEEEEROOOOY JENKINS!" was in fact a good idea. ...and also a power fantasy. ...and also somehow enjoyable to watch and makes the viewer curious about what happens next?

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

ASMR is for people who want to enjoy eating popcorn but want to forego enjoying the best parts of it ...like tasting popcorn.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

It feels weird to me that we're supposed to call our representatives to be like: "Hey can we not initiate another forever war?" You'd think they'd be able to handle that one without a ton of input.

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 18/06/2025

Are you ready to get your shake on? #ShakeOut is the world’s largest yearly earthquake and tsunami drill, and this year it’s on October 16th at 10:16 AM. Join millions of people across the globe as we practice protective actions to increase preparedness for the next big one!

Stylized image of a seismometer needle and earthquake shaking wiggles. Text reads, “Are you ready to shake out? October 16th at 10:16 AM.”

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Personally I think that hurting people is bad and helping people is good and it just feels like that should not be all that radical a stance. And yet

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I was very confused by these results until I thought foe a little while 🤣🧲🧠

A search bar and result images, for emoji to use in a chat. The user searched for "horse" and got 5 results.

The first is an entire brown horse that appears to be running.
The second is just the head of a brown horse with a darker brown mane, looking to the left.
The third is a whole brown horse up on its hind legs, with a jockey in green clothes riding on it's back.
The 4th is a light brown carousel horse.
The 5th is a red magnet in the shape of a horseshoe.

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Does anyone know of any research going on about how people use AI to look for information about Emergency Alerts/about disasters? I think it would be fascinating to learn more aabout how we can fill gaps in messaging based on the current situation and make sure people get accurate actionable info.

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

"I asked ChatGPT for information about this Ferry Outage, and it didn't know anything." -an apparently serious actual human being during a Ferry Closure that had just been announced by another real human being in an official capacity about the closure, and a closure was posted online. 🤦‍♂️

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Not sure if they're going to get the kind of clicks/engagement they're hoping for with the slogan "Shag where your friends live."

The side of a white transport van for a senior housing facility says "Shag where your friends live."

Shag seems to be the name of the company, and "where your friends live" the slogan.

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

How do I get to the beach down there? Time to WAFO - walk around and find out.

A path that appears inaccessible goes to a public beach by the water.

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Fun day to be a walk-on passenger for this one 😅 Best of luck to all the passengers stuck on either side, and with the investigation. Yikes. Ferry Staff have been helpful sharing information!

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Fill this out and contribute information! It’s especially important for the smaller protests happening outside big metros.

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Can supportive honks on #NoKings day demonstrate a classic Physics principle? #DopplerEffect = #RedWhiteAndBlueShift

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Happy #Caturday! Just thought you should all know that Ozzie smells grate.

A long-haired cat with black and gray stripes outside in a harness on a leash, sniffing a storm grate.

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Elyssa Tappero | Waves and Witchery @disasterqueer.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Just a reminder that we STILL don't know if NOAA's National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program has funding for FY25... the grant year starting in September. This grant funds EVERY state- and territory-level tsunami program in the nation.

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

👇 ...and we don't know whether the National Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Program (NEHRP) Funding for states will arrive this year either. That funding allows.statws to conduct earthquake mitigation and education activities - something else that really doesn't get any other funding! Good times.

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

*Fun (*yeah, definitely not fun) fact: only entering the country illegally is a "crime." Just being here once a visa expires is a "civil offense." So many of the people in the U.S. illegally are not "criminals" when compared to rapists, scammers, campaign finance law violators, etc.

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I'm sketching today. Here's a #FridayFold for you - buckled Tonoloway Formation at Paterson Creek Mountain Anticlinorium, on the Grant/Hardy county line in West Virginia. A GigaPan of the outcrop I drew: viewer.gigamacro.com/view/p8oK6H2... ⚒️

Annotated sketch of a big highway roadcut with two berms. Grass and trees cover the hill above, but on the roadcut numerous sedimentary layers can be seen bent into a boxy syncline and adjacent anticline. The folds are labeled along dotted lines that project them out into the air above the outcrop. The fold hinge planes are labeled too.

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Current mood.

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Methinks thou (everyone in the U.S.A.) doth not protest enough!

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Really sick of our country being led by that annoying member of your DnD group who dumped all their stats into deception so they somehow never roll lower than 20 and took the Lucky feat to always be able to re-roll crit fails.

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CRESCENT @cascadiaeqs.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

2 days left! Looking to attend a professional conference? AGU? GSA? We're still accepting applications for the Geoscience Fellowship - a travel stipend open to U.S. graduate students & postdocs interested in earthquake science & broadening participation. Learn more & apply: cascadiaquakes.org/g...

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 12/06/2025

Earthquakes are everyone's business here in Washington. We're holding a Webinar on June 26th, from 12-1 p.m. for WA businesses, to provide tips on how to get the most out of the annual Great #ShakeOut earthquake and tsunami drill. To Register: gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Image with a QR code for the ShakeOut For Businesses Free Webinar event, which will happen on June 26th, from 12-1 p.m. It says: Great Washington ShakeOut (TM) within the outline of the state of Washington.

Learn about Earthquake and tsunami hazards, how to hold a successful drill, benefits of a drill, how to test your plans, questions and considerations, and more!

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

ICE raids and tactics are indifferentiable from terrorism. Plain and simple.

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Catrice @hivibebadbitch.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Every time I see a clip I ask myself that very question. We still legitimized hate. We still gave it a platform, let it speak freely and openly. We can’t do that anymore. It doesn’t belong where we need to go!

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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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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Holy shit. It just dawned on me that the President is treating the people of this country like England Treated them up until about 1775. They see us as a colony to be exploited for their gain. Fuck.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 12/06/2025

This angle of the current Kīlauea eruption is even wilder! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...

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Brian Terbush @theterbush.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Who ever said you can't get shredded from just hanging out on the curb?

A trash bin that says "Lemay mobile shredding" with a slot in the top, is sitting on the curb of the street.

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Amazing how hard it is to write: “Police shoot at journalists.”

L.A. Protests Prompt
Calls for Police Restraint After Journalist Injuries

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