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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 9d

During the government shutdown, President Trump:

- Raised $250 million from billionaires for a ballroom
- Gave Qatar an Air Force facility in Idaho
- Doubled Argentina's bailout to $40 billion

What happened to America First?

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PWHL @thepwhl.com · 17d

Season Three loading...

Don't mis a moment. Single game tickets are available now!
🎟️ thepwhl.com/tickets

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heli rain @heli.pet · 23d

We released domesticated computers from captivity and they displaced healthy ecosystems

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · Sep 9

Feeling the humidity in the San Francisco Bay Area lately? The ocean is to blame. #CAwx

My latest for @sfchronicle.com:
One of the largest marine heat waves in decades is impacting California weather www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...

One of the largest marine heat waves in decades is impacting California weather

Nearly the entire northeast Pacific Ocean from north of Hawaii to Alaska to California is anomalously warm, the fourth-largest marine heat wave in the region since 1982.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Camilla Mahon @camillacaros.bsky.social · Aug 28

I wrote a thing!

Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · Aug 27

Great intro to Earth foundation models, focused on how they’re useful, not the underlying tech. By @camillacaros.bsky.social

www.grey-fox.co/blog/intro-t...

🌍🌎🌏

Intro to Earth Foundation Models — Grey Fox Consulting

The Earth Foundation Model landscape feels like a daily parade of “groundbreaking” announcements. But, understanding what these models actually do, and whether they’re worth your time, requires cuttin...

www.grey-fox.co

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Camilla Mahon @camillacaros.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thanks Rob!

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Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social · Jul 17

The latest smoke plumes from Canadian #wildfires have reached the North Atlantic & predicted to continue towards Europe in the #CopernicusAtmosphere forecast of carbon monoxide at 850hPa (~1.5km) from 17 July 00 UTC atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/packa... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

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Camilla Mahon @camillacaros.bsky.social · Jul 17

repo man iirc

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · Jul 4

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.

bouie’s skeet, deleted at the direction of the NYT:
“he is a south Asian man born in Uganda?”

bouie’s skeet, deleted at the direction of the NYT:
“and the source is a eugenicist who opposes affirmative action because he thinks brown people are an inferior race! cool!”

bouie’s skeet, deleted at the direction of the NYT:
“I think you should tell readers if your source is a nazi”

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · Jul 3

41 years ago today
Double Nickels on the Dime is the third album by the punk rock band Minutemen, which was released as a double album on July 3, 1984 and deals, among other things, with the Vietnam War and racism in America

#punkrock #minutemen #history #punkrockhistory #otd

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · Jul 1

It is difficult to describe just how disastrous it would be if just-released NOAA budget proposal (or even large portions) were to be enacted: It would involve a wholesale dismantling (decimation, really) of entities relevant to weather, climate, & ocean research & prediction.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · Jul 1

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Big, Beautiful Bill assigns each American a billionaire who will live the
American dream for you. You can check in on your billionaire at intervals and see how he is using your money. Maybe he's building a 19th pool. Maybe he's buying himself some formerly public land! Maybe he's taking a Supreme Court justice on a dream vacation! Maybe he is reupholstering the Statue of Liberty to hide the poem.

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Camilla Mahon @camillacaros.bsky.social · Jul 1

waay fun thread

Micah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · Jun 30

Speaking of labyrinthine contortions, though, here's a little thread of some of my favourite viz over the years.

Micah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · Jun 30

But, not counting the hydra-like debts that spout up from time to time, I basically got my wish. Thanks everybody, I literally could not have done it without you all.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · Jun 25

"Social media does not turn a bad candidate into a viable one. It’s just amplification. And the same platforms that can amplify the ugliness and hatred and resentment of someone like Trump can amplify the joy and earnestness and seemingly genuine conviction of a candidate like Mamdani."

If you're normal, people will vote for you actually

Read to the end for a good Tumblr post

www.garbageday.email

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Micah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · Jun 25

One factor in the Panthers getting so much out of Sam Bennet in this year's playoffs is that they stapled him even more tightly to Matthew Tkachuk.

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Camilla Mahon @camillacaros.bsky.social · Jun 25

def throw up a cell phone recording next time if you can 😅 would love to be able to listen/watch

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · Jun 23

I’m pretty sure most politicians and busybodies say “crime” to actually mean any visible poverty

Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · Jun 23

I always despair for democracy seeing that any dipshit can say "crime is skyrocketing" and people just go along with it. The data doesn't show this. There's no goddamned evidence for it except the bullshit people get fed from TV. I have no idea how to break this.

Ethan Stark-Miller @estarkmiller.bsky.social · Jun 23

Next up is Andrew Cuomo. He says the election is "fairly simple."

"The city is in real trouble, crime, homelessness, etc. Who can actually make gov work? Who can get the garbage picked up, who can get the mentally ill off the streets, who can make the city safe? "

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · Jun 24

So many great visualizations in here—well worth your time to browse.

Datawrapper @datawrapper.de · Jun 24

Another week of warfare in the Middle East, rising temperatures and heatwaves, and energy reports from all over the world — all this and more in the new Data Vis Dispatch! 📊

www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi...

An interactive 3D chart plotting NBA game point differences between teams across one season. Rearranging the camera results in different views with different focal points, like dates and periods. Made by Vinicius Sueiro, reposted by We Do Data.

An interactive area chart visualizing marriage status percentages in Germany across different age groups from 1990 to 2023. Especially young marriages have declined over the years, while older people today are less likely to be widowed than before 2000. Published by Die Zeit.

A world map centered on the north pole, showing flight paths of U.S. planes on their mission to attack Iran. Annotations explain individual roles and specific targets. Published by The New York Times.

A circular diagram showing the status of energy transition targets for member states of the European Union, color coded for different sectors. Published by Ember.

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Camilla Mahon @camillacaros.bsky.social · Jun 24

this is amazing

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jun 24

might leave this one on the cutting room floor

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Camilla Mahon @camillacaros.bsky.social · Jun 23

🤩galactic time series analysis here we come

Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Jun 23

Very cool first images from the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. But the real science contribution will not be images of galaxies, it will be a "synoptic" survey - scanning the sky repeatedly every few nights. Opening up time-domain astrophysics in an unprecedented way.

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · Jun 23

Oh wow!

Look it!

First new images from @vrubinobs.bsky.social!

These are stunning 😍

This is what 3200-megapixel resolution gives you!

HERE IT IS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTBI...

#RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos 🔭🧪

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · Jun 21

the reason these trucks look “silly” is that they have large windshields and a low hood, which increases visibility and reduces risk to pedestrians.

trucks like this should look normal and F-150s should be the silly ones

Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · Jun 21

The new EVs have had problems. And they do look very silly.

Selling them off would set USPS back a decade — it’d cost billions of dollars, and the current fleet of gas-guzzlers are frankly dangerous to drive.

The Postal Service’s electric mail trucks are way behind schedule

Defense contractor Oshkosh had only delivered 93 trucks by November — compared to 3,000 expected by now. The delays put Biden’s climate goals at risk.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Camilla Mahon @camillacaros.bsky.social · Jun 21

i'm really amazed at the complete dearth of public bathrooms these days. sorry if i'm under a rock but is that correlated with some safety/guise of anti homelessness/anti blight type of policies over the last 20 years or smth? i thought fs there were a lot more when i was a kid..

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Camilla Mahon @camillacaros.bsky.social · Jun 21

at #SOTMUS Scott Kilcoyne from Boston Cyclists Union is talking about the "Bike Stress Map" they've made: bostoncyclistsunion.org/bcu-labs-lau...

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · Jun 20

the closeup replay and Dad's reaction

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Micah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · Jun 20

oh dang

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · Jun 20

Holy s*** Matthew Boyd, what a catch

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