Adam Welz

Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack

Just a cold, right?

🍫🎃🍫 I don't know how candy makers get away with calling "disappointing size" chocolate bars "fun size."

The End of Eden, by me. The NYT Book Review & New Yorker loved it, FWIW.

There was a similar incident in South Africa, where they euthanized a whale with a much smaller amount of explosive. Still shattered a lot of windows in the nearby town.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Karpf: “The most basic (problem with this argument) is that it assumes, in breezy fantasy borrowed from simpler times, that voters’ sense of the Dem Party comes from the party’s policy platform and candidate speeches, rather than random tidbits absorbed from a propaganda-filled media environment.”

IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.

Sign on plum island MA

New sign at the nat’l wildlife refuge on Plum Island, MA

Fiddler crabs are cool but if they move north in big numbers into this giant marsh favored by shorebirds it won’t be positive

Their tunneling is a wetland threat, wonder if the info about #climatechange being a driver of migration will stay

A very, very expensive liability! Total insanity.

#Israel has #nuclear weapons - why does this article not mention that?

(BTW I'm forever grateful that South Africa gave up its nuclear weapons)

Robe River Blind Cave Eel illustration by @terngirl

Bringing the blind cave eel to light: eDNA transforms detection in subterranean ecosystem. Michael Curran. The Biodiversity Conference 2025

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.

Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

‘Scamming became the new farming’: inside India’s cybercrime villages The long read: How did an obscure district in a neglected state become India’s byword for digital deceit?

Interesting #longread abt #India's cyber-scammers

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It's a Northern Ground Woodpecker!

South African sharks threatened by fisheries, weak enforcement Gqeberha, SOUTH AFRICA — On June 17, marine biologist Enrico Gennari and a group of students set out into the water in South Africa’s Mossel Bay. They were planning to use baited remote underwater vid...

Important article abt South African #shark fishing

news.mongabay.com/2025/10/sout...

Wildfires have consumed vast chunks of Ukraine. Is Russia deliberately fuelling the flames? In 2024, nearly a million hectares of Ukraine’s land burned. Heat, mines and shelling contributed, but footage of drones targeting firefighters has raised the question of war crimes

Ukraine wildfires

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

A billionaire who thought we shouldn't give the poor free COVID vaccines, and hung out with Epstein, wrote some weird, vague stuff about how climate change "isn't that bad" and now the media is covering that rather than a record climate fueled hurricane.

The age of oligarchy sure is exhausting.

Simply incredible imagery of Hurricane Melissa this morning as it approaches Jamaica.

An Abundance Of Concrete | Defector Reliable sources tell me that you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover. Until you actually read the thing, though, it’s the only data you have to go on. So here’s what I first noticed about Ab...

@bengoldfarb.bsky.social's piece on Abundance is really good: defector.com/an-abundance...

What will the impact on wild species be? I visited Puerto Rico after Maria and it was extraordinary. Massive destruction of forest canopy, transformation of forest habitat & ecology, many species lost a lot of their populations; they're adapted to hurricanes, but not such extreme hurricanes.

Pro-junta sentiment grows in SA as frustration with democracy deepens – survey | News24 More South Africans favour military rule than oppose it, reflecting deep frustration with the country’s democratic system.

This is a deeply concerning result. It needs to be taken seriously & headed off by all of government, including Parliament, and civil society.

Military rule or even a greater role of the military in civil affairs would be a disaster and should not even be contemplated.

www.news24.com/politics/pro-

The U.S. Air Force Reserve’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron — the legendary “Hurricane Hunters” — flew straight into the eye of Hurricane Melissa on Monday, gathering critical data for the National Hurricane Center.

🎥 Video by Jeremy DeHart

📡 Track it with our app: airnavradar.go.link/2l2m0

Pick n Pay boss wants ban on online gambling ads as R70bn is ‘hoovered’ from SA | News24 Sean Summers, who heads up Pick n Pay, says online gambling is “out of control”, with just over R1 billion being taken out of the economy every week.

Online gambling is extracting billions from the South African economy and sending it offshore

www.news24.com/business/com...

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Latest frame shows a near perfect hurricane with a classic "pinhole" eye. Only 9 Atlantic hurricanes have had stronger peak sustained winds (5 of them being from the past two decades). Great concern for #Jamaica.

US books dozens of seats for Afrikaner ‘refugees’, but only three pitch up | News24 Far fewer ‘refugees’ arrived for their flights than were catered for. Despite this, the US government has targeted resettlement of 6 000 people by the end of November.

Even if the #Trump govt relocates 6,000 white #Afrikaners to the U.S. by end Nov (extremely unlikely), that wd only be fraction of 1% of the 2+ million white Afrikaners in South Africa

They aren't exactly scrambling to the States

#Afrikaners #voetsekkers #refugees

www.news24.com/citypress/ne...

US books dozens of seats for Afrikaner ‘refugees’, but only three pitch up | News24 Far fewer ‘refugees’ arrived for their flights than were catered for. Despite this, the US government has targeted resettlement of 6 000 people by the end of November.

Seems like white Afrikaners aren't being persecuted hard enough in South Africa

🤷‍♂️ #refugees #voetsekkers

www.news24.com/citypress/ne...

Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House One man's robot vacuum was constantly communicating with its manufacturer, sending a detailed 3D map of his house halfway across the world.

China has very detailed maps of our homes.

My home town public radio station in Sitka, Alaska, raised $162,000 in 6 days from the public. Raven Radio serves tiny towns with total population of 12,000 -- many of those people low income, a lot of them Republican scattered over islands in the North Pacific. Rural America loves public radio. 🤩

"What are you going to do, shoot me? I would die for this shit."

Until congress responds with the rage, fear, and courage of this man, they are letting me down and they are letting you down.