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'The lovers of “chess for the sake of chess,” aptly compared by their liquidator with the lovers of “art for art’s sake,” are not yet absolutely atomized elements in a mass society whose completely heterogeneous uniformity is one of the primary conditions for totalitarianism.' Hannah Arendt

the florida project!

View from Hudson River inlet at Dennings Point in Beacon, looking south with snow-covered Hudson Highlands and Storm King in the distance. In the foreground, the inlet is covered in ice.

Hudson River ice report: surprised to find the inlet at Dennings Point covered with ice yesterday.

Hudson River from the Hamilton Fish Bridge (I-84). Newburgh on the right with the train tracks and building dusted in snow. Hudson Highlands in the distance, resplendent with the first accumulation of snow for the season.

Hudson River ice report: we're back after the first snow of the season yesterday - no ice! but the river mayyy look a little sluggish as the temps start to regularly drop below freezing.

if you see this, post a bridge

if you see this, repost with a vampire that is not dracula

on the other hand - activism theater does kind of have a place, if only to normalize resistance to abductions.

Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater At this summer's HOPE conference, Joshua Aaron spoke about ICEBlock, his iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5 mile radius, and to get notifications when others r...

alas ICEBlock suffers from a classic interface / UX problem: the user isn't you. without solving the fundamentally social problem of trust and verification, the app promises safety and delivers the opposite: another channel of misinformation to stoke fear.

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next up: wirecutter reviews popular brands of boot polish for flavor and mouth feel

from each according to their ability..

just when current events couldn't seem more dire..

Screenshot from NOAA HRR-Smoke map displaying fire detections as red points on a base map of continental North America. Clusters of red points appear in northern British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. Clusters in the south line the Gulf of Mexico as well as the western coast of Mexico. Source: https://apps.gsl.noaa.gov/smoke/#

this is how much of North America is currently on fire... looks like the smoke i'm breathing in the Hudson Valley is from fires in northwestern Canada

Screenshot of PurpleAir PM2.5 sensor readings across the northeastern US, showing readings of 100+ AQI (moderate to severe impact) throughout NY and the upper midwest.

happy smoke and fire season, to all who celebrate (which includes the Hudson Valley now)

entertaining and informative! plus the audiobook is read by James Urbaniak

the GISS scientists are broadcasting from another location now

The Weather & Climate Livestream Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.

Weather and climate scientists are live streaming until Jun 1 with presentations about their research. NASA GISS scientist: we are losing our building but we still have our personnel
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wtf, i just wanted to learn about bison

anyone mod an iPod into a smart phone?

yea verily

repost with a pic you saved but haven’t found a use for

reskeet with an image of your fav james bond (wrong answers only)

Oarfish is a long, snake like fish with long, see-through flowing frills.

Today's Oarfish comes from Factzoo! This is a website that documents fun facts about several curious creatures! #underwater #sealife #marine #fish #Oarfishdaily #marinelife

my most basic trait is the EQ range on my subwoofer

IF U SEE THIS, POST A PHOTO FROM UR DEVICE, NO EXPLANATION

prying open my third eye rn actually

is wealth accumulation in the DSM yet? because it's pathological

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...

is there life on Mars? NOPE
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Hudson River from the Hamilton Fish Bridge, looking south. Water is clear of ice. Hudson Highlands in the background, cloudy skies above.

Hudson River ice report (belated): no ice!

omg this makes so much sense! finally i have the answer to the age-old riddle of the space horses in Rise of Skywalker!!

hm, i see Trump as more of a Vader and Russ Vought as Paplatine. making Musk one of the oligarchs from the opulent casino in The Last Jedi i guess?