Daniel Siegel
@dcgull.bsky.social
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Data scientist and water policy nerd.
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dcgull.bsky.social
So funny how the Republican Party pretends to be anti-establishment when all their takes are lifted from Mr. Burns.
Mr. Burns and Mr. Smithers from The Simpsons look at a nuclear inspection officers, saying "The watchdog of public safety. Is there any lower form of life?"
dcgull.bsky.social
Modern China reminds me of Victorian England - an aristocratic hierarchy trying to manage a capitalist economy while keeping democracy at bay. Was wondering if anyone else sees it that way and found this gem.

www.ft.com/content/f160...
Why modern China needs a House of Lords for its aristocrats
A peerage system would formalise the current reality
www.ft.com
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annewhilborn.bsky.social
Wildlife science is a big one for this too. Paying for work experience and working for free or for a small weekly stipend is distressingly common. Many entry level paid jobs are barely living wage
thaddeus.zone
this "passion tax" appears all over the place & should be talked about more. you see it in book stores and game stores all the time

excitement for particular work is constantly weaponized to depress wages & pit workers against each other
screenshot of a paragraph from op's linked article

Claudy pointed to what he calls the “passion tax.” Game workers, he said, often get paid less than their tech industry counterparts because they’re passionate about what they do, and passion can be taken advantage of. Microsoft is a tech company, making discrepancies all the more arbitrary.
dcgull.bsky.social
Very excited that California's Department of Water Resources is using out product (GRAT) for watershed planning.
earthgenome.org
💧California’s Merced River Watershed is turning flood risk into water resilience. Using tools like GRAT + strategies like Flood-MAR, a new study shows how smart planning can boost groundwater, reduce flood risk & support farms + ecosystems.
@susconca.bsky.social

🔗http://bit.ly/41HPz9U
dcgull.bsky.social
Explains why everybody thought we live on a turtle
skwinnicki.bsky.social
Ever take a step back from scientific theories you know well and understand and go "oh actually this is mind-boggling and ridiculous sounding"?

Last night it was plate tectonics.

Oh so big slabs of stone are constantly slowly moving, with everything we know and love atop them? C'mon.
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davidho.bsky.social
Motherfucking wind farms…
dcgull.bsky.social
Usually I prefer Star Trek, but there is one thing Star Wars does better. Aliens aren’t just humans with eyebrow ridges. Aliens are puppets. Or at least humans in cloaks/fur suits. And you gotta have strange little robots running around everywhere. Star Wars has better aliens and better robots.
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samlmontano.bsky.social
You can spend time arguing over the difference between shutting down FEMA & rebranding it but the reality is that the Trump admin has already dismantled FEMA to the point that it could not efficiently respond to a relatively small disaster in a state with a relatively large capacity EM system.
dcgull.bsky.social
I spoke with three high school classmates of Zohran Mamdani who told me on the record that they witnessed him jumping the turnstiles to get on the subway.
gilbertjasono.bsky.social
Zohran mamdani you have 48 hours to release how fast you ran the mile in 7th grade or the New York Times will publish without comment
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bachynski.bsky.social
“The group estimated that reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service… we would be witnessing the dismantling of a century-old system”
Opinion | Is This the Beginning of the End of America’s National Parks?
www.nytimes.com
dcgull.bsky.social
You're too late, internet stranger! I’ve already depicted you as saying "this sucks actually" and the thing you're talking about as the coolest thing ever.
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weatherwest.bsky.social
I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx
Map of local National Weather Service office "areas of responsibility" modified (using polygons with black outlines and red fill) to indicate where recent/expanding cuts to NOAA/NWS have resulting in understaffing so extreme that some offices can not longer operate on a 24/7 basis.