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Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · 45m

The National Hurricane Center now forecasts Melissa to reach Category 5 strength before striking Jamaica head on late Monday or early Tuesday. An exceedingly dire, catastrophic forecast unfolding as Melissa crawls and rapidly intensifies on the doorstep of Jamaica.

National Hurricane Center - Atlantic Alerts (UNOFFICIAL) @nhc-atlc.nws-bot.us · 48m

Atlantic Hurricane Melissa Advisory Number 18
...MELISSA LIKELY STARTING TO RAPIDLY INTENSIFY AND EXPECTED TO BECOME A MAJOR HURRICANE TOMORROW... ...LIFE-THREATENING AND CATASTROPHIC FLASH FLOODING AND LANDSLIDES EXPECTED IN PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN HISPANIOLA AND JAM...
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104 WTNT33 KNHC 252055TCPAT3 BULLETINHurricane Melissa Advisory Number 18NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL132025500 PM EDT Sat Oct 25 2025 ...MELISSA LIKELY STARTING TO RAPIDLY INTENSIFY AND EXPECTED TOBECOME A MAJOR HURRICANE TOMORROW......LIFE-THREATENING AND CATASTROPHIC FLASH FLOODING AND LANDSLIDESEXPECTED IN PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN HISPANIOLA AND JAMAICA INTO EARLYNEXT WEEK... SUMMARY OF 500 PM EDT...2100 UTC...INFORMATION----------------------------------------------LOCATION...16.6N 75.5WABOUT 130 MI...210 KM SE OF KINGSTON JAMAICAABOUT 250 MI...405 KM WSW OF PORT AU PRINCE HAITIMAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...90 MPH...150 KM/HPRESENT MOVEMENT...W OR 275 DEGREES AT 3 MPH...6 KM/HMINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...974 MB...28.77 INCHES WATCHES AND WARNINGS--------------------CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY: The government of Cuba has issued a Hurricane Watch for the Cuban provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Guantanamo, and Holguin. SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT: A Hurricane Warning is in effect for...* Jamaica A Hurricane Watch is in effect for...* Southwestern peninsula of Haiti from the border with theDominican Republic to Port-Au-Prince* Cuban provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Guantanamo, and Holguin. A Tropical Storm Warning in effect for...* Southwestern peninsula of Haiti from the border with theDominican Republic to Port-Au-Prince A Hurricane Warning means that hurricane conditions are expectedsomewhere within the warning area. A warning is typically issued36 hours before the anticipated first occurrence oftropical-storm-force winds, conditions that make outsidepreparations difficult or dangerous. Preparations to protect lifeand property should be rushed to completion. A Hurricane Watch means that hurricane conditions are possiblewithin the watch area. A Tropical Storm Warning means that tropical storm conditions areexpected somewhere within the warning area within 36 hours. Interests elsewhere in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, eastern Cuba,the southeastern and central Bahamas, and the Turks and CaicosIslands should monitor the progress of Melissa. Watches could berequired for portions of eastern Cuba later today. For storm information specific to your area, please monitorproducts issued by your national meteorological service. DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK----------------------At 500 PM EDT (2100 UTC), the center of Hurricane Melissa was located near latitude 16.6 North, longitude 75.5 West. Melissa is moving toward slowly the west near 3 mph (6 km/h). A slow westward motion is expected tonight through the end of the weekend. A turn to the north and northeast is forecast on Monday and Tuesday. On the forecast track, the center of Melissa is expected to move near or over Jamaica during the weekend and early next week, and it could be near or over eastern Cuba by the middle of next week. Maximum sustained winds have increased to near 90 mph (150 km/h) with higher gusts. Rapid intensification is forecast to continue over the next day or so and Melissa is forecast to become a major hurricane tomorrow and is expected to still be a major hurricane when making landfall in Jamaica early next week. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 15 miles (30 km) from thecenter and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 160 miles(260 km). The estimated minimum central pressure is 974 mb (28.77 inches). HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND----------------------Key messages for Melissa can be found in the Tropical CycloneDiscussion under AWIPS header MIATCDAT3 and WMO header WTNT43 KNHC. WIND: Tropical storm conditions are expected to begin in Jamaica bytonight, with hurricane conditions expected by Sunday or Monday.Tropical storm conditions are expected and hurricane conditions arepossible within the watch and warning area in Haiti later today. Hurricane conditions are possible in the watch area in eastern Cuba on Tuesday into Wednesday. RAINFALL: Melissa is expected to bring total rainfall of 15 to 30 inches to portions of southern Hispaniola and Jamaica into Wednesday, with local maxima of 40 inches possible. Additional heavy rainfall is likely beyond Wednesday, but exact storm totals are still uncertain. Catastrophic flash flooding and landslides are probable across portions of southern Hispaniola and Jamaica.For eastern Cuba, total rainfall of 6 to 12 inches, with local amounts to 18 inches, are expected into Wednesday resulting in life-threatening flash flooding and landslides. Additional heavy rainfall is likely beyond Wednesday, but exact storm totals are still uncertain. For a complete depiction of forecast rainfall associated withMelissa, please see the National Weather Service Storm TotalRainfall Graphic, available athurricanes.gov/graphics_at3.shtml?rainqpf STORM SURGE: Life-threatening storm surge is becoming more likelyalong the south coast of Jamaica later in the weekend or early nextweek. Peak storm surge heights could reach 9 to 13 feet aboveground level, near and to the east of where the center of Melissamakes landfall. This storm surge will be accompanied by large anddestructive waves. There is a potential for significant storm surge along thesoutheast coast of Cuba early next week. SURF: Swells generated by Melissa are expected to affect portionsof Hispaniola, Jamaica, and eastern Cuba during the next severaldays. Please consult products from your local weather office. NEXT ADVISORY-------------Next intermediate advisory at 800 PM EDT.Next complete advisory at 1100 PM EDT. $$Forecaster Papin

Hurricane Melissa 5-Day Uncertainty Track Image

Hurricane Melissa 34-Knot Wind Speed Probabilities

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THE CODEX NOIRMATIC @thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social · 42m

Nu Dromalhaut Grand Echtromedon
2022

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Ana Ley @la-ley.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday, I went to an ICE check-in with 16-year-old Joel Camas and his lawyer, who expected him to be out in time for school by 8am because he has special immigrant juvenile (SIJ) status. Instead, he was detained.

Here is what happened (free link):

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/n...

A Woman Self-Deported, Hoping to Shield Her Son. He Was Detained Anyway.

www.nytimes.com

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 17h

Immature White-bellied Sea Eagle that flew past me at Pitt Town Nature Reserve.
#birds

Photograph of a immature White-bellied Sea Eagle in flight against a blue sky. The bird fills the frame, and its wings are spread and raised. It has long wings, a stout body, and relatively short tail feathers with heavy feet. It has many shades of orange and brown mixed in with the white of its wings and body, indicating its immaturity.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 37m

A dispatch from the Upper East Side.

Across the five boroughs, tens of thousands of volunteers are meeting their neighbors, building community, and winning this election, one door at a time.

GOTV continues tomorrow: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 41m

In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, a TN sheriff had a 61-yr-old man arrested for posting a meme on Facebook, which the sheriff absurdly construed as a threat. It was pretty clearly bullshit but I dug into the case using FB & public records and now it looks even worse. My latest @theintercept.com:

The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme

Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.

theintercept.com

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cometsncats.bsky.social @cometsncats.bsky.social · 30m

Human Labradors For President

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 1d

🧵
In a 2024 study, a research team reports an exciting discovery.

It is about LID-568, a low-mass supermassive black hole (SMBH) that appears to be consuming matter at a rate of over 40 times its Eddington limit.

➡️ noirlab.edu/public/news/...

🔭 🧪 #science #cosmology

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This artist’s illustration shows a red, early-Universe dwarf galaxy that hosts a rapidly feeding black hole at its center.

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cometsncats.bsky.social @cometsncats.bsky.social · 34m

I'm hoping to avoid shitting my pants or fighting my dad but I definitely want to (lightly) experience it

cometsncats.bsky.social @cometsncats.bsky.social · 38m

Menswear Guy only cooks racist ignorant aholes so you're good

And for others who come to him with might be considered dubious fashion hot-takes, which I have no idea if includes MO jackets, he very kindly and informatively offers advice and better alternatives

My personal favorite takedown

Twitter screenshot of Derek Guy (Menswear Guy)
D: I think this is he official tartan of the smurfs clan
[Image, split]
Left: seen from the mid-waist up, Gavin Miles McInnes, Canadian far-right ahole and founder of the Proud Boys, white dude with white/grey greased-back hair and stupid looking goatee wearing ugly blue tartan print suit jacket, pink shirt matching blue tie, sitting at a desk speaking into a microphone
Right: 6 blue smurfs, including Poppa, in front of a mushroom house

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_McInnes

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 4h

hello from 26th street in the heart of chicago’s little village neighborhood.

a crowd of a couple hundred community members has gathered under the iconic archway after a week of terror in which federal agents abducted dozens of people and tear-gassed the neighborhood.

chants of “chinga la migra!”

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cometsncats.bsky.social @cometsncats.bsky.social · 2h

Living in AZ (form Philly, NYC) all the gorgeous Lake Michigan recreation, nightlife, etc images had me drooling

Obviously everything ICE is horrible but a tiny silver lining is protest imagery introduced/reinforced how awesome these cities (and their people) are

And, I'm curious about malort lol

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2h

"Chinga La Migra" shark

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cometsncats.bsky.social @cometsncats.bsky.social · 2h

Steroid abuse induced lopsided shrunken junk

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 2h

THREAD: This was an all-white jury in rural Louisiana and a judge appointed by Trump. But when ordinary people hear about the everyday brutality pervasive inside our jails, they are outraged. But something deeper is going on here:

Jury awards $42 million in Louisiana jail death case

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 2h

Vampire moths might sound more horror film than natural world, but they’re 100% real! 😱

See why some moths pick human blood over fruit juice in this week’s Surprising Science. 🩸🦇

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cometsncats.bsky.social @cometsncats.bsky.social · 2h

Portland only becomes more and more endearing to my loving little weirdo dark-humor heart!

Seriously, Portland and Chicago are both now on the top of my (domestic) travel bucket list

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 5h

Small bright moments to remind you that not everyone sucks: a Dallas, TX United Methodist Church responds to TX's law preventing rainbow crosswalks by painting their steps and church doors instead www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/24/t...

Texas church's perfect, beautiful response to state's removal of rainbow crosswalks

In response to governor Greg Abbott’s order that cities remove rainbow crosswalks, Oak Lawn United Methodist Church (OLUMC is defiantly fighting back.

www.thepinknews.com

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 5h

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.

Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public

Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.

www.kuow.org

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the art of hieu @kelogsloops.bsky.social · 8h

'Passing Hours'
& the watercolour painting process for how I made this piece 😴
#brbchasingdreams

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cometsncats.bsky.social @cometsncats.bsky.social · 3h

"The legal term for my people were slaves"

Yes! Time to retire racist colonialist terminology.

Speaking of, North America wasn't empty when the Mayflower landed.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you, Chicago.

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cometsncats.bsky.social @cometsncats.bsky.social · 3h

Or, you know

two men are standing next to each other with the caption these are people of the land

ALT: two men are standing next to each other with the caption these are people of the land

media.tenor.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 5h

Fantastic report covering what I would say is the single most important idea in the world of renewable development processes: avoiding failure, delays, conflict and friction by just sharing the benefits of resources like sun and wind

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 6h

Building Community Power - our new report looks at community benefits agreements, intended to increase social acceptance. Read about California and New York’s programs to approve renewables and energy storage projects at the state level with community support. climateandcommunity.org/wp-content/u...

Building
Community
Power
Community Benefits
Agreements Across the Global Energy Supply Chain
James J. A. Blair, Emmett Hopkins, Tai Kondo Koester, Kate Berry, Alida Cantor, Dustin Mulvaney, Thea Riofrancos, Toni Symonds, Noel Vineyard, Bryce Sprauer, Bethani Turley, Thien-Kim Bui, Reva Butensky, and Lorena De F La Puente Burlando
Climate & Community
INSTITUTE

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 21h

I am once again asking you to post raptors 🪶🌿

Pele, a peregrine falcon at Alaska Raptor Center in Sitka!

A closeup of a peregrine falcon’s face, photographed from the left side. A little glimmer can be seen in its eye.

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