Trump’s Crusade Against ‘Woke’ Climate Research Threatens Solar Science gizmodo.com/trumps-crusa... via @Gizmodo

Trump's Crusade Against 'Woke'...

Holy shit - Adams, Hood, Rainier, & St. Helens!!!!

The #Chandrayaan-3 propulsion module has been discovered again, at first mistaken for an asteroid on an exotic orbit but swiftly ID'd: https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/116985030#msg41240

Trump’s gonna have to sue again #WompWomp “A veteran jazz ensemble & a NY dance company have canceled events at the J. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, intensifying fallout at one of the nation’s pre-eminent arts centers after it was renamed to incl Trump” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...

New Year’s Eve Concerts at Ken...

Stop. “The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country.” www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...

Exclusive: CIA carried out dro...

Investigative video about Tesla doors.

https://youtu.be/2lFzqBt3z0w

“ 2025 was one of three hottest years on record, scientists say #Climatechange worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the hottest years ever recorded. Also, the three-year warming average has crossed the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius (or 2.7 Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times set in the 2015 Paris Agreement for the first time. “

2025 was one of three hottest years on record, scientists say

https://apnews.com/article/climate-world-weather-attribution-year-end-extreme-1e9028da87e518382482e21fef3cfeee

Today's example of why buying a "smart" device is stupid: https://lifehacker.com/tech/will-your-smart-vacuum-work-after-being-discontinued

This may be a barred owl, spotted owl or the interspecies hybrid known as a”sparred owl”. Perched atop a part of the enclosure with apple trees in @czds and my backyard

:o

https://youtu.be/2j3iEf7X6B4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_West
"Before GPS became an everyday utility, it was a hard mathematical problem.
In 1950s–70s, Gladys West - mathematician @ U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, VA - worked on one of the most difficult challenges in satellite navigation: accurately modeling the Earth itself.
Modern GPS accuracy depends on:
• Precise satellite ephemerides
• Accurate gravitational field modeling
• Correct Earth reference frames
West’s work directly advanced all three
Her contributions weren’t widely recognized; it wasn’t until 2018 that she was inducted into the USAF Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame - decades after GPS reshaped global navigation, logistics, finance, defense & mobile computing...
Before GPS could tell us where we are, someone had to define what the Earth actually looks like mathematically…”
#Engineering #GPS #Geodesy #STEM #TechHistory #WomenInTech #DataScience #Infrastructure #WomenInGeoSpatial
H/T Evan Kirstel [despite their puerile AI-generated image of Ms. West]

LOVE playing cooperative storytelling games—just so much hilarious fun. Here's our magical maritime city SHELLTON!

We had Chief Petty Librarians, disappearing Taco Alleys w/ illicit food trucks & neighbor coalitions dismantling a tourist cruise liner & using the parts to shore up beach erosion.😍🐚

My family and I, and the entire Japanese American community on the West Coast, were denied due process during our internment in WWII. It is a cherished, critical right for all people within the U.S.’s borders.

Rey just got called out for stealing his mom's identity to do bad shit. Ouch. This is quite funny:

https://justpaste.it/reysmom

More Trump-Hegseth murders: “At least 107 people have now been killed in strikes on suspected drug boats as part of a campaign, dubbed Operation Southern Spear, ..” www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...

US strikes vessel in eastern P...

We can't have this ⬇️
· $20 billion - ending homelessness
· $25 billion - eradicating hunger
· $79 billion - free college for all

Because we bought this instead ⬇️
· $40 billion - make Argentina great again
· $70 billion - Trump's personal Nazi ICE army
· $318 billion - Israeli genocide
· $620 billion - Pentagon contract for Don Jr
· $2.21 trillion - US military
· $4.5 trillion - billionaire tax breaks

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/115770757564159420

People are curious about how they make money.

1. Family size: usually 4-6 people per order per meal
2. City density: they likely cover 5x more orders in a single building than in a single block in a N American city
3. Repeat orders: people order for at least 3 days out of a week, some times even for the entire week, and they have recurring monthly contracts that are flexible (you can switch or reduce or add things last minute). Even with a ‘feed me every meal’ order, you rarely get the same dish twice in a week because of the economies of scale of that style of cooking

This also ties to gender and labor. As more women started working, services like this got more popular. People still want home style food, they don’t have time to do it. There’s real work and kids caretaking AND often caretaking of parents or grandparents in the same home too.

RE: https://social.coop/@shauna/115805455831937948

This, and The Strange Case of Starship Iris, and Becky Chambers, and similar, have me reconsidering questions I asked long ago when I was deeply into story structure.

Questions about how we build a new vision of narrative arcs that celebrate healing, and visions of society that are more functional.

We have "growth hackers" but no "stability hackers." "Disruptors" but no "preservers." Our entire vocabulary is oriented toward the new. We have no language for the equally difficult work of keeping existing things from falling apart.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-rime-of-the-ancient-maintainer/

Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️ www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...