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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 11h

Isolated flash flood threat across the Bay Area, Sacramento Valley and Central Coast through this evening with rainfall rates up to 1 inch per hour.
www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/metwatch/met...

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Dr. bird (She/they/Dr.)🐦‍⬛ @bbiiirdbphd.bsky.social · 16h

Please help Alaska! They need our help!

Western Alaska
Disaster Relief
2025 Fund
Support Our Community Together
Partnership Organizations:
Kawerak, Inc.
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Bethel Community Services Foundation
Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation
First Alaskans Institute
Alaska Native Heritage Center
Western Alaska is in crisis
Typhoon Halong has devastated communities across the Y-K Delta-flooding homes, displacing families, and cutting off access to clean water, power, and medical care. Entire villages like Kipnuk, Kwigillingok, and Napakiak are in urgent need of rescue, shelter, and supplies.
Michelle DeWitt, BCSF
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(907)545-6052 (cell)
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Your donation to the Western Alaska Disaster
Relief 2025 Fund provides:
• Emergency food, water, and medical aid
• Shelter and supplies for displaced families
• Support for search and rescue operations
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Every dollar helps. Every moment counts.
(907)729-5651
Stand with Western Alaska. Help us protect lives and rebuild hope.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 1d

This graphic was leading NJ.com earlier today!!!

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Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather.bsky.social · 1d

The surf is up to the dunes in Bethany Beach (left) -- thanks to this developing Nor'easter offshore. Same deal in Rehoboth (right).
Coastal flood warnings and high wind warnings in effect for the Atlantic coast into Monday.
More at cwg.live

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Don Sutherland @donsutherland1.bsky.social · 1d

A quick photo from the Long Island Sound from late this afternoon near high tide. #noreaster

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 1d

No lack of storms this hurricane season, and certainly no shortage of major hurricanes -- but they've thankfully managed to avoid land for the most part.
The most impactful storm so far was Imelda's landfall on Bermuda.
But it's not over yet...

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REBUILD.US @werebuildus.bsky.social · 2d

A powerful Nor’easter is pushing up the East Coast.
REBUILD & United Survivors Disaster Relief urge everyone to prepare now. Secure your property, pack a go bag, and make a plan.
#REBUILDUS #UnitedSurvivors #Noreaster #StormPrep

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 3d

Might be time to pull out the plants that are growing in our gutters. #CAwx

Precip forecast showing 2 to 3 inches in Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz mountains

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 3d

There is a risk of significant flash flooding in parts of interior SW today as deep tropical moisture associated w/remnants of East Pacific #HurricanePriscilla interacts w/jet streak associated w/an incoming trough. Risk will be highest central/northern AZ and SW UT. #AZwx #UTwx

Excessive precipitation (i.e., flash flood risk) outlook from NOAA's WPC for today (10/6/2025) as visualized on pivotalweather.com. It shows a broad region of slight risk over the interior U.S. Southwest, and a two substantial lobes of moderate risk (i.e., second-highest tier) over northern Arizona and southern Utah, respecitvely.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 3d

Next week is looking quite active in CA as a high-amplitude flow pattern develops over North Pacific in downstream response to perturbation of jet stream by West Pacific #TyphoonHalong. NorCal looks quite wet & stormy (rain & iso. tstms/mtn snow); SoCal impacts TBD. #CAwx #CAfire

Snapshot from ECMWF ensemble of an unseasonably deep low pressure system centered just west of San Francisco by early next week. It will likely bring widespread rain, isolated thunderstorms, some mountain snowfall, and possibly some gusty winds though exact path and impacts remain TBD.

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Jonathan Erdman @wxjerdman.bsky.social · 3d

Here is our comprehensive, updated forecast on the coastal storm/nor'easter and all of its potential impacts, from significant coastal flooding to high winds and flooding rain.

weather.com/forecast/reg...

A Nor'easter Will Target The East Coast Beginning This Weekend | Weather.com

It may only be early October, but a nor'easter lies ahead for the East Coast. Here are the forecast details, including potential for wind, rain and coastal flooding for days.

weather.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3d

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 4d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 4d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 5d

When the Yankees get eliminated

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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 5d

BILLION BIRD NIGHT!!!
#birds #fall #migration

BirdCast map showing 1.24 billion birds headed south at 9:50pm EDT on October 8, 2025. Most of the migration is concentrated in the east, especially the southeast.

NEXRAD radar composite map showing birds and weather.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 5d

The entire city of Kotzebue, Alaska, is being evacuated for potential record coastal flooding. Kotzebue is the "hub" community for northwest Alaska. @alaskawx.bsky.social

CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 5d

kotzebue, alaska declared a mandatory evacuation order

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 5d

Ope, here it is: hudson.dl.stevens-tech.edu/sfas/d/index...

But of course other ideas are welcome!

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 5d

Anyone have a good source of tide/inundation forecasts beyond the 48 hours on NOAA Tides & Currents site? I seem to remember that Stony Brook University used to have something, but I can't find it.

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 5d

WPC has initiated Key Messages for an impending coastal storm that will look to generate strong wind gusts, heavy rainfall, and significant coastal impacts that include coastal flooding, rip currents, and beach erosion along portions of the East Coast over the upcoming weekend.

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Nick Bassill @nickpbassill.bsky.social · 5d

One important part of the possible coastal storm is that winds will be roughly from the NE. This is already a rare direction, and last winter featured basically zero nor'easters.

*If* ~45 mph NE gusts occur in Long Island, it could be 1000+ days since the last occurrence. Rare wind = more damage.

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 5d

This extratropical transition will perturb the jet stream and could cause a major early-season rain and snowstorm in California next week. Stay tuned! #CAwx

Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 7d

Energy from Typhoon Halong near Japan may amplify the jet steam (excite the storm track) across the Northern Pacific / western North America this weekend. Scientifically known as tropical cyclone recurvature & extratropical transition.
Maps: @aliciambentley.bsky.social

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 5d

We probably need to go back to ~350 ppm CO₂ equivalent for temperatures to stop rising.

We are now above 573 ppm (GHG forcing of +4.1 W/m²).

That's without aerosols cooling things down.

There's too much uncertainty to be sure, but going back to 350 ppm is already a Herculean task.

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 5d

A trio of cyclonic eddies in the Gulf of Mexico are creating record-high Ocean Heat Content values for the date. Absolutely something of importance during this part of hurricane season.
@miamirosenstiel.bsky.social

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