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Yes, yes, it would be too confusing and impractical. That's not the point.

It would go so hard if Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird held an emergency press conference to announce that Lincoln would not be participating in the time change.

34° and t-storm 👀

Ok

radar showing Lincoln, Omaha, and no storms

Never bought into the hype for there being "storms" today.

"It makes my skin crawl a little bit to have a bill come into committee that's literally written and created for one person," Hunt said. "Tom Osborne has received these laudations throughout his life and this is one more that we will be changing the law, and ignoring the constitution, to add to the pile."

Senators clash over bill to induct Tom Osborne into Hall of Fame

Senator Hunt is right.
What a monumental waste of #neleg time.
Better to spend time on this than a hate bill, but still.
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A digitally drawn homage to the George Herriman comic strip Krazy Kat. Starting left of frame we see yellow Ignatz Mouse having just thrown a brick which is sailing across the center of the frame and in another instant will bash the oblivious Krazy Kat (a blue bipedal cartoon cat wearing a red scarf) in the back of the head as he walks innocently to the right. Everything is drawn in rough black pen and colored in pale washes. A speech bubble from Ignatz reads ‘Maybe it will…’, the word ’Happen’ appears in the whooshing trail of the sailing brick, and a final speech bubble belonging to the Kat reads ‘…Today’.

Meanwhile in Lala Land ("finishes in less than a week")

Kristi Noem getting shit canned is a huge W for us. There’s no way Trump can spin his ICE raids now as anything over than a giant failure.

It’s important to celebrate these W’s. We can still force change even in the minority. Don’t give up the fight!

🏅 Senator DeKay has been nominated in the following categories:
-Most dull on the mic
-Reading with the least amount of expression
#NELeg
#NELegSuperlatives

Hurricane Mamantha will be a doozy

Something I ponder more than is worthy is how hurricane names for certain letters will have to become increasingly bizarre/unusual over time due to names being retired.

It was our sins

Warm with a south wind is the worst possible forecast this time of year. Rain every day is a-ok.

Rankings of meteorological winter (Dec-Feb) temperatures across the U.S.

Meteorological winter (Dec-Feb) was the warmest on record for many locations in the West. The rankings are shown with 1 through 10 in dark red, red and orange rectangles showing sites with the warmest temperatures, with 1 being the warmest ever recorded.
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March 1, 2026 About four years ago, Angeline Richard opened Apple Music, hoping to listen to the Weeknd’s cover of Drake’s “Trust Issues.” “This song is not currently available in your country or region,” a pop-up read. Ms. Richard, 25, continued discovering that other songs she loved or had added to her playlists were no longer available on the app. Upset with the disappearing songs and ever-increasing prices of streaming services, she set a goal for this year: “To get off as many streaming services as possible, just so I can own the things that I listen to, that I read, that I watch.” So in January, Ms. Richard bought a silver, third-generation iPod Nano from eBay for about $40. She immediately added Deftones’ 2000 album, “White Pony,” to her iPod and has downloaded 10 more CDs to the device since. The process of adding music to her iPod, she said, has been “so fun” and “like a little meditation.”

The iPod, introduced nearly 25 years ago and discontinued in 2022, is finding new fans among people who may not have even been born when it was first released. Like digital cameras and other technology that defined the early 2000s, it has benefited from young music listeners’ nostalgia for a time when they were infants or toddlers, and when lives were — by today’s standards — more analog.

Last year, searches for “ipod” on eBay grew more than 8 percent from 2024, and the number of listings for some versions of the device increased about 30 percent, according to data from eBay. In 2025, some generations of the iPod sold at an average price 60 percent higher than in 2023, with some sellers asking for nearly $600 for a refurbished iPod. Apple introduced the iPod, a digital music player that eventually upended consumer electronics and the music industry, in 2001. Its predecessors could store a few dozen songs; the first iPod, which had a steel frame, a white face and a tactile wheel, could store 1,000 songs. It cost $399.

Over the next two decades, Apple released more than 20 versions of the iPod, with some capable of storing tens of thousands of songs and others costing as little as $49. The company eventually pulled back on the device as it focused on the iPhone. As of 2022, the iPod’s final year, Apple had sold an estimated 450 million. Apple declined to comment. The resurgence of the iPod is a sign that “people want digital that’s not connected, but not necessarily analog,” said Tony Fadell, a former Apple executive who helped create the iPod. If the choice is “1,000 songs in my pocket, or unlimited songs in my pocket and 1,000 notifications every hour,” people don’t want the latter, he added. “Apple should just bring them back — not the same way,” Mr. Fadell said. “I would do it differently. I would make it modern for the modern age.”

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This seems both wholesome and bemusing, as someone who has been using his current iPod regularly since 2008.

Mandatory statement of noticing or not noticing the earthquake:

I did not notice the earthquake.

Steiner

“thanks for having me on kristen. this operation is about the safety and security of the american people and has nothing to do with queen brahne’s sudden and mysterious connection to the silver sorcerer kuja”

USDM Hot Topic February 26, 2026: Nebraska. Dryness or drought increased from 94.63% to 95.91% in Nebraska this week. Moderate drought or worse grew from 66.73% to 77.02%. Severe drought expanded from 21.41% to 26.37%. Extreme drought increased slightly from 4.61% to 4.79%. The Drought Severity and Coverage Index rose from 187 to 204 of 500. For more statistics, please refer to the US Drought Monitor website: droughtmonitor.unl.edu.

While parts of Nebraska got snow last week, that moisture provided only temporary relief from overall dryness in the state. This has affected winter wheat, which was rated just 24% in good to excellent condition.

#drought #drought2026 #US #Nebraska

Free day of history-filled activities recognize Nebraska’s 159 birthday • Nebraska Examiner The Nebraska Historical Society Foundation will offer a free day of history-filled activities Saturday recognizing the state's 159 birthday.

NEBRASKA'S BIRTHDAY: The Nebraska History Museum and other state historic sites will offer free admission Saturday in honor of Nebraska’s 159th birthday. Statehood Day officially is March 1.

From Cindy Gonzalez:

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Sunrise 7:06 A.M. Sunset 6:13 P.M.

Something good about this time of year is appropriate sunrise and sunset times.

A portion of Winter Olympics medals tracker. The six countries listed each won one medal apiece at the 2026 games. Brazil, Kazakhstan, Denmark, Estonia, Georgia, and Belgium are listed.

This is the part of the medals tracker that I find super interesting. Who won only one medal, and who won a medal for the first time? ( - Georgia and Brazil)

ALERT: Gas prices will soon rise 10-25c/gal in KS, OK, NE, SD, ND, MN, IA, MO, TN, KY, WI, IL (and already did in MI, IN, OH) as the tradeable specs start shifting toward summer gasoline- it'll be a few weeks before those blends are in your tank.

I want to plug Tears For Fears' 2022 album, The Tipping Point. The fact they are still making good music in the 2020s is a blessing, tbh.

A digital illustration of a fictional owl. In form similar to a barn owl with the same heart-shaped face but with the addition of feathery owl horns. It has a whitish face and belly and its wings, back, head, and tail are shared of deep red with gold spots and details including a gold tracing of its face shape and out to the end of the horns. It has deep, dark blue eyes and is perched on a branch. Next to the owl on the right is an hourglass the glass of which is housed in a slightly ornate gold structure with an organic viney motif. Most of the sand is in the bottom of the hourglass. Above that is some gold interconnected, art nouveau-esque lettering set inside a rectangle with a red background. The lettering reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southwest Iowa, west central Iowa, east central Nebraska, northeast Nebraska and southeast Nebraska. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather.

Love to see a vaguely threatening, long duration weather statement from NWS Omaha

Happy snow day, even to the haters and losers, sadly of which there are many.