Rebecca

Prepping for the apocalypse? You may want to pack a little treat. It’s not just canned sardines and dried beans anymore.

Here's your guide to next-level disaster prep—and why you may want to include a treat

HOUSTON HOBBY AIRPORT: “.. passengers should arrive 4-5 hours before their flight ..”

$JETS $XAL

Choices were made designing this graphic series. “Make it scarier.” “Give it Spirt Halloween vibes.” Clearly calm, trustworthy wasn’t part of the conversation. “More purple.”

Happy international women’s day to all who celebrate

I know I’m “too online” but I’m always shocked by what people haven’t heard about.

One of these people asked me last week “Who is Kristi Noem?” and yet they know about the Michigan tornado. How does THAT happen?

Which is what makes it more funny to me, it’s making rounds with normal people ie people who normally aren’t into random tornadoes in the Midwest 😂

It’s interesting to me how people want it to get rid of uncertainty and eliminate problems we know are highly complex. So we’re like “let the gpt do it”. It ends up magnifying the issue, but we don’t know that, which is scary. I think a lot about this. Wondering what people think they’re using.

I’ve been sent the Michigan tornado video like 10 times. Yes, it’s a tornado. In March. In Michigan. So interesting to me what gets people’s attention from the other 291 examples. Do you think we’ve been talking about climate change, catastrophic unprecedented weird weather for the giggles?

Like anything, it’s a tool and a resource. The issue is people get so caught up they start to believe the tool is the solution, process and replaces all the problems and questions. Then we think it’s the answer to everything, and we lose being grounded in reality. See: well, everything.

Kristi Noem all but killed FEMA. Will her departure save it? Embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem froze FEMA spending and slashed staff. It may well have been illegal.

“There’s still good people at FEMA, but I just don’t know if there are enough of them” (Craig Fugate)

Yes *and* we need to get back to work. 🌀🌪️🌧️

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“Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in.” — Carl Sagan

Sea Otter floating on his back bobbing around at the aquarium. Living its best life. Full belly, fuzzy, and full of love, not microplastics.

Skyline cleanse.

Oh NOW we’ve read the plans 🤦‍♀️ (or been briefed by someone who has.) Welcome to our world, if I may foot stomp that polar vortex cyclone bomb Winter Storm Fern as an alibi circling back to a saved round.

Every time.

ernie from sesame street is wearing a striped shirt and orange gloves ALT: ernie from sesame street is wearing a striped shirt and orange gloves

In summary

What are we doing here. I mean. When you’re out of drinking water what’s the plan. This is insanity.

We use AI for “solutions” where you actually we should want expertise, and humanity. Especially when the outcomes could be catastrophic if wrong, we should want humans involved. The entire paradigm centers technology as the prime directive. It’s just a tool, not the problem or solution, that’s us.

The interesting thing about AI is how committed executives are to using it after it measurably fails catastrophically at its goals. Like there seems to be no limit to how badly it can fuck up and still be heralded as the future of technology

To: All Staff
Subject: Marketing

We've rebranded the Murder Hornets as the Buzz Kills™️
Please note updated signage in the apiaries.

The irony is, no one can read this email due to the shutdown.

analysis: vibes aren't great

A bill was proposed a month ago, to fund the other agencies, ie the 80% of DHS that isn’t ICE or CBP. They won’t bring it to the floor for a vote. Anyone know why? 🤷‍♀️ Instead we’re coming up on 3 weeks of furlough w/ no pay and a 10 day recess. I can’t emphasize enough how bad this is.

The #Senate stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. on Thursday March 5th 2026.

At 1:45 p.m. the Senate will proceed to vote on reconsideration of cloture on the motion to proceed to the DHS appropriations bill.

It’s hard not to. There are some situations where what’s not in the news (yet) is worse than we think. And others where partial truth is filled in with outrage as we leap to conclusions. I think 90% of this can be attributed to no one reading past headlines.

I have a great Lou Holtz story from meeting him on a plane, he took the time to hand write a letter for my father in law, on Notre Dame letterhead. My extended family and friends are huge fans and alum of ND. Rest in peace, Coach.

Noem’s spending limits have frozen millions in disaster aid, Democratic report charges The report says more than 1,000 FEMA contracts, grants or disaster aid awards have been delayed or remain pending, including for victims of July’s deadly flooding in Texas and Hurricane Helene in 2024...

A whistleblower report proves Noem and DHS lied and continues to lie about her ridiculous requirement to sign off on funding greater than 100k.
This harms the people experiencing one of the hardest periods of their life. It needs to end.

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This healed me. I need weather, not this gray spring wedge.