Satanley (the first 'a' is silent)
@satanley.bsky.social
Canadian born Floriduh boy living in the PNW. Interested in science, politics, music, nature, books...plus some gaming and bad movies too.
Reader of Balloon Juice, TPM, LGM, Eschaton etc
Original posts under #MusicalOffering and #BackyardBirding
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Reader of Balloon Juice, TPM, LGM, Eschaton etc
Original posts under #MusicalOffering and #BackyardBirding
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Stars and Stripes of Corruption
YouTube video by Dead Kennedys - Topic
www.youtube.com
Been a minute since I've done a #MusicalOffering
and this seems pretty damn appropriate. Had just discovered these guys when the Tipper Gore led PMRC Senate hearings were going on. Talk about a political awakening!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZFf...
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and this seems pretty damn appropriate. Had just discovered these guys when the Tipper Gore led PMRC Senate hearings were going on. Talk about a political awakening!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZFf...
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Here's a quartet hollering in my swamp this chilly morning. Along with Limpkins, they make the best alarm clocks ever! #birds #SandhillCranes
December 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Here's a quartet hollering in my swamp this chilly morning. Along with Limpkins, they make the best alarm clocks ever! #birds #SandhillCranes
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LIVE: Louvre staff continue strike over working conditions
Staff at the Louvre museum in Paris continue their strike demanding better working conditions and urgent renovations.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTf_...
Staff at the Louvre museum in Paris continue their strike demanding better working conditions and urgent renovations.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTf_...
LIVE: Louvre staff continue strike over working conditions | REUTERS
YouTube video by Reuters
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
LIVE: Louvre staff continue strike over working conditions
Staff at the Louvre museum in Paris continue their strike demanding better working conditions and urgent renovations.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTf_...
Staff at the Louvre museum in Paris continue their strike demanding better working conditions and urgent renovations.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTf_...
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Your quarterly reminder that journalism costs money.
Specifically, making court documents available as part of my reporting — which I consider essential for all journalists to do — costs money.
Subscribe to Law Dork to help out! www.lawdork.com
Specifically, making court documents available as part of my reporting — which I consider essential for all journalists to do — costs money.
Subscribe to Law Dork to help out! www.lawdork.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Your quarterly reminder that journalism costs money.
Specifically, making court documents available as part of my reporting — which I consider essential for all journalists to do — costs money.
Subscribe to Law Dork to help out! www.lawdork.com
Specifically, making court documents available as part of my reporting — which I consider essential for all journalists to do — costs money.
Subscribe to Law Dork to help out! www.lawdork.com
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This evening, as communities across Washington state are reeling from historic flooding, DOE issued an emergency order directing continued operation of a Washington coal plant that would have closed by the end of the year due to a new state law banning coal-powered electricity generation.
DOE orders WA coal plant to continue operating despite state ban
A state law requires Washington utilities to stop using coal-fired electricity beginning next year.
www.seattletimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:21 AM
This evening, as communities across Washington state are reeling from historic flooding, DOE issued an emergency order directing continued operation of a Washington coal plant that would have closed by the end of the year due to a new state law banning coal-powered electricity generation.
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Hell ya. Looks rad
First trailer for Steven Spielberg’s new alien film ‘Disclosure Day’ 🛸
In theaters June 12, 2026
In theaters June 12, 2026
December 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Hell ya. Looks rad
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I invite you to ask yourself why the language of protestors has been a terrifying daily concern, but e.g. successive governments giving the US unlimited use of our airbases to fly a gajillion dollars of weapons of destruction into Israel for use on huge numbers of civilians is not concerning at all.
December 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I invite you to ask yourself why the language of protestors has been a terrifying daily concern, but e.g. successive governments giving the US unlimited use of our airbases to fly a gajillion dollars of weapons of destruction into Israel for use on huge numbers of civilians is not concerning at all.
It's easy. Going into an indoor public place? Put on the mask!
A lot of people are sick right now.
Flu and Covid are raging, but the good news is a well fitted respirator can prevent both!
A good mask like an N95 is very effective at stopping flu and Covid.
My article looks at how to choose one, how to fit test, where to buy & more.
Mask up & save lives!
Flu and Covid are raging, but the good news is a well fitted respirator can prevent both!
A good mask like an N95 is very effective at stopping flu and Covid.
My article looks at how to choose one, how to fit test, where to buy & more.
Mask up & save lives!
We’re Witnessing the Fall of Public Health… and Your Best Tool is a Mask
Measles in Texas, bird flu in Louisiana, tuberculosis in Kansas and Covid everywhere. Public health has been dying a slow death for years, we can’t count on it anymore. What can we count on? A mask!
www.disabledginger.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:05 AM
It's easy. Going into an indoor public place? Put on the mask!
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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were the whale then to run the line out to the end almost in a single, smoking minute as he sometimes does, he would not stop there
December 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
were the whale then to run the line out to the end almost in a single, smoking minute as he sometimes does, he would not stop there
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Trump: "If you go back 10, 12, 15 years ago at the most, the strongest lobby in Washington was the Jewish lobby. It was Israel. That's no longer true. You have to be very careful. You have a Congress in particular which is becoming antisemitic. You have AOC plus three, you have those people."
December 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Trump: "If you go back 10, 12, 15 years ago at the most, the strongest lobby in Washington was the Jewish lobby. It was Israel. That's no longer true. You have to be very careful. You have a Congress in particular which is becoming antisemitic. You have AOC plus three, you have those people."
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These are the "good and decent people" who didn't survive the Reagan presidency.
December 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
These are the "good and decent people" who didn't survive the Reagan presidency.
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I embedded with Stephen Schneider at NCAR for Ice Time (1989). I met Walt Roberts, NCAR’s 1st director.
This is a fucking travesty & so stupid that the perpetrators achieve the full Ivins: they need to be watered twice a day.
The GOP/Trump are destroying what it used to mean to be a civilization.
This is a fucking travesty & so stupid that the perpetrators achieve the full Ivins: they need to be watered twice a day.
The GOP/Trump are destroying what it used to mean to be a civilization.
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I embedded with Stephen Schneider at NCAR for Ice Time (1989). I met Walt Roberts, NCAR’s 1st director.
This is a fucking travesty & so stupid that the perpetrators achieve the full Ivins: they need to be watered twice a day.
The GOP/Trump are destroying what it used to mean to be a civilization.
This is a fucking travesty & so stupid that the perpetrators achieve the full Ivins: they need to be watered twice a day.
The GOP/Trump are destroying what it used to mean to be a civilization.
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If “dicking around” means “Moby-Dick jokes” then yes that is why I primarily post on text-based social media
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 16, 2025 at 3:15 AM
If “dicking around” means “Moby-Dick jokes” then yes that is why I primarily post on text-based social media
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If, as according to New York Times,…
…a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) (like what CIA lost trying to monitor Chinese missiles) is a “nuclear device”…
…then so is every clock & instrument dial using radioluminescent (radium, tritium, promethium) paint (use decay energy to do work).
…a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) (like what CIA lost trying to monitor Chinese missiles) is a “nuclear device”…
…then so is every clock & instrument dial using radioluminescent (radium, tritium, promethium) paint (use decay energy to do work).
a cartoon of a man holding a piece of paper that says you are technically correct
Alt: a cartoon of an old balding white man with a back fringe of white hair sotting in a large official looking chair at a desk wearing glasses & reading from a piece of paper whilst futuristically dressed people watch. The man is saying “you are technically correct. The best kind of correct.”
media.tenor.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:06 AM
If, as according to New York Times,…
…a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) (like what CIA lost trying to monitor Chinese missiles) is a “nuclear device”…
…then so is every clock & instrument dial using radioluminescent (radium, tritium, promethium) paint (use decay energy to do work).
…a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) (like what CIA lost trying to monitor Chinese missiles) is a “nuclear device”…
…then so is every clock & instrument dial using radioluminescent (radium, tritium, promethium) paint (use decay energy to do work).
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The Trump National Security Strategy says that the US must be at the forefront of scientific research, but then we have this
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The Trump National Security Strategy says that the US must be at the forefront of scientific research, but then we have this
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And this
December 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
And this
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7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds.
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
December 17, 2025 at 4:26 AM
7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds.
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
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So I have five kids. One goes to middle school and rides the bus. Three go to elementary school and occasionally do. One isn’t in school yet. That combo, plus before-school activities and a quarter mile walk to the bus stop from our house, means morning bus often makes no sense.
Why the fuck is everybody dropping off their kid at school personally like a little chauffeur? Put them on the fucking bus, you're not a fuckin driver. You're not a fucking slave.
December 17, 2025 at 4:28 AM
So I have five kids. One goes to middle school and rides the bus. Three go to elementary school and occasionally do. One isn’t in school yet. That combo, plus before-school activities and a quarter mile walk to the bus stop from our house, means morning bus often makes no sense.
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Or rather, all too believable. If you want to suppress all knowledge of how a relatively small number are enriching themselves by destroying our shared home then this destruction, following on the heels of the funding freeze for the national Climate Adaptation Science Centers, is completely logical.
Trump officials shut off funding for climate adaptation centers
A third of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Climate Adaptation Science Centers are expected to drastically wind down and possibly close after Sept. 30.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Or rather, all too believable. If you want to suppress all knowledge of how a relatively small number are enriching themselves by destroying our shared home then this destruction, following on the heels of the funding freeze for the national Climate Adaptation Science Centers, is completely logical.
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NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
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Rosie is happy to report that Fall has arrived in the East Bay. Spring begins about 10 days.
#corgi #corgicrew #dogsofbluesky #RichmondCA
#corgi #corgicrew #dogsofbluesky #RichmondCA
December 17, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Rosie is happy to report that Fall has arrived in the East Bay. Spring begins about 10 days.
#corgi #corgicrew #dogsofbluesky #RichmondCA
#corgi #corgicrew #dogsofbluesky #RichmondCA
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Amazon is talking about investing $10bn in OpenAI so that OpenAI can then hand some of that back as part of its $38bn cloud compute deal using trainium chips. This should get OpenAI to what, March? Utterly stupid and investors should actively punish Amazon
www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...
www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Amazon is talking about investing $10bn in OpenAI so that OpenAI can then hand some of that back as part of its $38bn cloud compute deal using trainium chips. This should get OpenAI to what, March? Utterly stupid and investors should actively punish Amazon
www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...
www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...
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Become ungovernable
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Become ungovernable