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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 19/09/2026

bluesky needs a dislike button

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 19/09/2026

could’ve not taken an intentional delay of game too, that way you have more room to punt, or if you insist on running in circles, more room for that too

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 19/09/2026

I have no idea why they didn’t just punt

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 16/09/2026

literal lol

FLOCK camera's API key is indexed and searchable by google

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 15/09/2026

*all six cows and four people that live there, that is

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I thought this game ended hours ago, happily surprised

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The last line is dripping with AI slop tone

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shhh the score is misleading but it’s misleading in a way that’s beneficial to us so let’s just forget that happened 😀 (I’m scared)

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I hate this sport. My heart rate laying on the couch has been over 100. We’re winning by 4 touchdowns.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 12/09/2026

Marcel needs to chill he’s too nervous

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So what I'm seeing is Western Michigan > Oklahoma.

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Daniel S Helman, PhD @helmandaniel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NSF is consolidating its geoscience research grants into a new program, GEOcore and reducing annual grants to $110 million total in 200-350 awards. Typical was about $300 million in 1,200 awards. Not including institutional grants ($1.3 billion/yr) and those may be gone. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

nsf.gov

Geosciences Core Research: Atmospheric, Geospace, Earth and Ocean Sciences (GEO Core)

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Micah Warren @micah541.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

cloak and dagger navier stokes cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

cims.nyu.edu

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kevin @redsoxredshoes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I can't FanDuel imagine why Kalshi Michigan got a PolyMarket second opportunity there brought to you by DraftKings

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 06/09/2026

It wasn't even particularly close.

Time is expired and nobody has touched the ball.

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 03/09/2026

woah, today I learned just how old brainf*** is. I thought it was a new Gen Z thing. Nevermind I guess.

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 01/09/2026

I put “from eBay” because I have no idea how those novra boxes end up on the open market and want to be clear that “I didn’t steal one I promise please don’t send the FBI”

Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 01/09/2026

well I was warned about this, and my side project my have some life left in it yet. but I for one will be sad to see the end of NOAAPort/SBN. www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

My feedback on the end of NOAAPort/SBN survey:

I am an atmospheric science graduate student and I'm currently planning a side project involving trying to downlink NOAAPort data, and hopefully, eventually post process the data into products for a personal web site.

I've acquired a 12 foot diameter reflector and I am currently designing a solution for mounting it in the limited available outdoor space that I have. I've also acquired a novra downconverter box (from ebay) and a software defined radio capable of digitizing its output. I have learned a lot along the way so far, about communications, radio, mechanical engineering, etc.

I'm fully aware that I could use the internet to download NOAA data and post-process it and achieve the result of having a website, but I wanted to do it "the old fashioned way" for educational purposes and I'd say that's been success so far.

I'm aware NOAAPort/SBN's primary objective is to be an operational product dissemination, and not an educational tool, and that I'm probably one of maybe a dozen interested parties. I was even aware that NOAAPort/SBN might be cancelled before I could complete my project. But I'll be sad to see it go.

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 01/09/2026

I had this up on my side monitor today and at least on band 10, there was some signal to dry air getting wrapped in (Pensacola-new orleans-Franklin-center of then PTC 5) Wasn’t so obvious on the mid level or upper level channels, but there did seem to be some response in the convective bands

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uh I guess I'm supposed to hashtag this, I'm great at social media, #3dprint #3dprinter #fdm

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I'm hoping to get a snapmaker U1 (a bit much $ but maybe if 2ndhand or sale). I really only want multi-material for the ability to print supports out of e.g. TPU with, e.g. ASA for the actual item.

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...that don't do the plastic pooping, but still do make a prime tower? why? if it has multiple heads and I'm using fewer materials than the number of heads, why is there any waste at all? (2/2)

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

3D printer peeps: I'm interested in getting a printer that can do multi-material, preferably something with multiple tool heads to avoid waste. I'm a bit confused about what a "prime tower" is and how it differs from "poops" that fire out a waste chute. I've seen demos of multi-head printers..(1/2)

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Remember how power bricks used to be bigger, heavier, hotter, and less powerful than power modern power supplies? The SNES power supply can provide 8.5W and this much smaller GaN USB-PD can supply 65W, at greater efficiency. Well, the same thing is probably going to happen to grid transformers. 🧵

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 19/08/2026

this is a bit disappointing, but I’m glad they tried

Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 19/08/2026

unfortunately y’all’s work here is not “done”, you have three more years of my “comedy” while I finish a project relating to radio detection and ranging (RADAR)

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There has been a lot of finger-pointing in the weather community recently about NWS problems. The recent comms outage during severe wx spurred me to write about the issues the agency has - and the need to understand it's not just DOGE/OPM to "blame." balancedweather.substack.com/p/balancedwx...

balancedweather.substack.com

BalancedWx Special: Challenges for the NWS

The recent IT/comms outage during a severe weather outbreak helps reveal the difficulties the agency is facing

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 17/08/2026

Unfortunately, you can also just get a non-compliant LLM to do that, so this exists. I don’t see a way to prevent tools like this from existing, with open model weights (which is a good thing!) already being “out of Pandora’s box”

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 17/08/2026

Yes* *As I understand it, an LLM picks the next most likely token (phrase) repeatedly, and if two tokens are close to same likelihood, one is selected at random. The watermark changes that to select predictably rather than random. Humans don’t know the key, so rephrasing would remove it.

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 17/08/2026

Unsurprisingly, users on The Other Site are melting down over Anthropic’s new watermark on LLM (large language model) output

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Andy Snyder @wxandbiscuits.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Two new fires immediately emerged from dry lightning in the Everglades this afternoon. Water levels remain near historic lows in parts of South Florida.

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Josef Aschbacher @josefaschbacher.esa.int · 27/07/2026

Latest Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite imagery from 26 July shows some encouraging signs around the Cebreros ground station, where wildfire activity has subsided.

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National Lightning Safety Council @lightningsafety.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

There was a lightning mass casualty incident on Mt. Blue Sky in Colorado this afternoon. There were nearly 100 lightning events detected within 15 miles of the summit between noon and 1:30 pm MT today. Colorado ranks 5th in the country for lightning fatalities in the last 10 years.

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 27/07/2026

I like calling it “ex-ennial”, like you used to be I’m millennial before some tragic accident