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seismologist β€’ antifascist β€’ dog dad β€’ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ“ˆ born at 339 ppm COβ‚‚ (co2.earth) πŸ¦‹ #76,835 (skyzoo.blue) πŸ“ america’s dairyland 🎬 then i woke up

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Fleet Foxes - Mykonos [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
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πŸ’š

01.02.2026 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DMV meteorologists this week

21.01.2026 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 7

ITMFA!!!

21.01.2026 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

20.01.2026 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 14456    πŸ” 8320    πŸ’¬ 90    πŸ“Œ 765
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Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip

US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone.

And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.

15.01.2026 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1920    πŸ” 719    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 60

Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.

12.01.2026 03:08 β€” πŸ‘ 6185    πŸ” 1522    πŸ’¬ 122    πŸ“Œ 56

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

31.12.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 11723    πŸ” 3335    πŸ’¬ 187    πŸ“Œ 123
jeb is a mess
YouTube video by ianeure jeb is a mess

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWhi...

17.12.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NASA telescope will hunt down β€˜city killer’ asteroids With an infrared eye, NEO Surveyor will target dangerous space rocks glowing in the dark

NASA telescope will hunt down β€˜city killer’ asteroids | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

15.12.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

15.12.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 17371    πŸ” 3966    πŸ’¬ 117    πŸ“Œ 112
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a man in a star wars uniform is looking up at the sky ALT: a man in a star wars uniform is looking up at the sky
24.11.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku.
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...

10.11.2025 06:56 β€” πŸ‘ 166    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 10
Star Wars: The Story of Cassian Andor
YouTube video by SWFT Star Wars: The Story of Cassian Andor

A hero for our times

07.11.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait, frozen burrito magnate is a thing that exists ?

05.11.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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doc brown from back to the future is standing in front of a sign that says back to the future ALT: doc brown from back to the future is standing in front of a sign that says back to the future
25.10.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Corrupt Supreme Court Must Be Reformed: Dems Must Champion It Going into 2026 and 2028 it’s time for β€” essential for β€”...

Every word of this

29.09.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Olivia Belli - Penelopeia (Live Performance)
YouTube video by OliviaBelliVEVO Olivia Belli - Penelopeia (Live Performance)

Moment of zen

28.09.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mother

πŸ’š

28.08.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought those days were over?

21.08.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yup, they’re called buoy gnomes

20.08.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The latest from Gavin Newsom. πŸ”₯

18.08.2025 06:09 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Missing a verb between "she" and "the". Just out of curiosity, is there a reason these aren't addressed in the first printing? (Tried to message you but your profile was greyed out.)

12.08.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@rickperlstein.bsky.social Dude, my husband loves your books but he wanted me to pass along that the typographical errors are extremely distracting. If you want someone to proofread your next book please be in touch.

12.08.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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From the dataisbeautiful community on Reddit: [OC] Historical revision to BLS's preliminary employment report Explore this post and more from the dataisbeautiful community

Apparently these are the last decade or two of revisions to the jobs report. If these are correct, it looks like the period I'm recalling was early in Biden's tenure (2021).

01.08.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Star Wars Intro Scroll

Episode IV
It Was All So Stupid

Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.

Star Wars Intro Scroll Episode IV It Was All So Stupid Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.

04.05.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 38602    πŸ” 8053    πŸ’¬ 482    πŸ“Œ 316

It's even worse than that...my recollection is the during the Biden years the jobs report numbers were routinely adjusted upward (by a lot). So he got little credit when the reports came out, and hardly anyone noticed when the reports were revised months later.

01.08.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Recent tide gauge data from Petropavlvsk shows a clear tsunami signal from today’s earthquake

30.07.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Donald Trump gives people permission to be their worst selves. His politics are not just representative, they are generative. His words seep into people’s souls and slowly corrode whatever potential for human decency ever resided there.

05.07.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5170    πŸ” 1474    πŸ’¬ 236    πŸ“Œ 78
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Japan’s new seafloor monitors could reveal how β€˜slow slip’ earthquakes turn into big ones Network could add 20 minutes of tsunami warning at dangerous Nankai Trough

Japan has managed a huge accomplishment: fully covering the offshore parts of their subduction zones, which generate massive earthquakes and tsunamis, with more than 200 fiber-connected geophysical stations -- at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Nothing else in the world can compare.

30.06.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

Dane and Door please πŸ™‚

21.06.2025 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0