Terre Logsdon

It isn't about what some "we" needs or wants. It's about whether capital can work out a way to put a rent on something that's currently free.

All you peacenik liberals wringing hands over what to do: Yes, of course, vote. It's your primary responsibility as a citizen.

But now more than ever, fulfill your second civic responsibility: Serve on juries. Never has it been more imperative to thwart rogue injustice.

Line graph time series of September Arctic sea ice extent for every year from 1850 through 2025. Two datasets are compared in this time series. The Walsh et al. 2019 reconstruction is shown with a solid blue line. The NSIDC Sea Ice Index v3 is shown with a dashed red line only for the satellite era. There is large interannual variability and a long-term decreasing trend over the last few decades.

September #Arctic sea ice extent since the year 1850 - comparison now updated through 2025

I have a couple of other sea ice reconstructions on my website too: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland.

Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...

Sooo many metal bikes ready to be restored!

I was recently in a meeting with reps from several organizations who all do wildfire mitigations, and we had to refer to the USFS/USDA website. We were all gobsmacked by this website banner.

I mean. C’mon. 💔

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

Old pulp mystery cover showing a woman staring dead-eyed at the viewer. My fake title: "I read the news for five seconds today" subtitle: Seriously WTAF

I haven't done a #FakeBookTitleFriday entry for ages so, even though it's Saturday, I thought I would get a timely entry out there!

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

Picture of an Inflatable frog costume that is now sold out after 800+ purchases in the past month...

All the inflatable frog costumes are sold out after 800+ purchases on amazon this past month...

This is what they've done.

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

one thing that’s definitely new over the past decade or so is the number of bumper stickers and signs threatening to kill you

This project was a shitshow and horrible for wildlife. Randy knows.

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Extremely bad news if true (and unlikely this reporter would run with it if not). The MMWR has been the earliest warning bell for outbreaks since it announced the first US cases, in 1981, of what was later identified as AIDS.

This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.

This website gives live cams of notable Portland locations AND live updates of all fires (complete with duration) reported to the Portland Fire & Rescue department. Spoiler: Portland isn’t burning.

isportlandburning.com

I think we need to go with Fresh Hell Friday. There are so many each week and Friday's Fresh Hell implies only one.

Fresh Hell Friday or Friday's Fresh Hell?

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Map of the location where the earthquake happened showing population density marked by darker colors on the land. Shaking intensity is marked by contours of different colors

Modified Micali intensity scale showing the number of people that were exposed to different levels of shaking. 31,000 people may have experienced severe shaking 2.3 million experience very strong shaking 5.2 million. Could’ve experienced strong shaking and 9.3 million may have experienced moderate

According to the USGS, more than 2.3 million people may have been exposed to very strong or severe shaking, and another 14 million may have experienced moderate to strong shaking. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Hormone replacement therapy helps restore immune function in menopausal women, reducing inflammaging and preserving monocyte function. open-access
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Extends what I previously summarized from immune system clocks
erictopol.substack.com/p/new-anti-a...

A park employee, who spoke with SFGATE on the condition of anonymity to protect their job, said they know of only one wilderness ranger working the entire park. And technically, that person is not even a ranger, the employee said, but a volunteer.

For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence.

I want to highlight this excellent piece by @noupside.bsky.social and @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social on the rapidly shifting information & media landscape. Domain experts and the institutions that support them must rapidly change tactics to meet the moment.

Bring Google Earth Engine’s Data Right into ArcGIS Pro Access Google Earth Engine's Data Catalog in ArcGIS Pro

Did you know that you can now bring Google Earth Engine data right into ArcGIS Pro?

Here’s a new storymap with details and a link to the tool on @github.com and thoughts on a possible interoperability of GEE and ArcGIS Pro.

storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/bf22...
#gischat #geogchat #geogsky ⚒️ 🌎 🌍 🌏

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

The MMR shot is safe and effective, and there is no credible evidence otherwise.

Breaking MMR into three shots means 3x more copays at the doctor’s office, 3x more hours of missed work, 3x more bummed out kiddos, and probably more than 3x as many kids who aren’t fully vaccinated.

"Republicans estimate that 32% of Democrats are LGBT when in reality it is 6%; Democrats estimate that 38% of Republicans earn over $250,000 per year when in reality it is 2%"

Reading an academic article on "political sectarianism.:"