Jessica Pearson

Happy Thanksgiving

Bummed to learn you cut all of your politics reporters @teenvogue.com

Extreme Events, Insurance, and Resilience: Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate 2025 Fall Meeting Register for this event from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

National Academies Board on AtmosSciences & Climate’s virtual meeting (Today!, 1-4pm ET) will bring together scientific & industry reps to explore pathways toward sustainable, equitable solutions of emerging “extreme events, Insurance & Resilience” crisis.

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Without this app, I would be knowledgeless.

“The Jasper County Sheriff's Office originally said the monkeys carried hepatitis C, herpes and COVID. Tulane officials stressed that the animals were not diseased or infectious.”

Federal Data Are Disappearing as Statistical Agencies Face Budget Cuts and Political Pressure | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Federal statistical agencies face increasingly overt politicization by the Trump Administration on top of chronic underinvestment, uncertainty, and recent and proposed budget cuts, all of which threat...

The Trump Administration is defunding important surveys and undermining federal statistical agencies, suppressing data that would reveal the harmful effects of the Republican megabill’s deep cuts and leaving families’ struggles harder to track. www.cbpp.org/research/pov...

*reluctantly turns on jimmy kimmel as an act of resistance*

The Pointer Sisters

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts /AP

Your government is breaking: EPA edition Scientists purged, imaginary gold bars for the rubes

New, from me: The EPA is breaking.
*About 1 in 4 employees out
*Core research unit closed down
*Employees suspended and fired for writing letter for dissent
*Trump judicial appointees OK'd cancelling of $20 billion climate change program
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Shein Used Luigi Mangione’s AI-Generated Face to Sell a Shirt United Healthcare CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione is not, in fact, modeling floral button-downs for Shein.

Putting aside who it was in this instance (lol), the fact that companies are using the faces of random REAL people to sell their stuff is a nightmare.

GenAI doesn't just steal our work, it steals our fucking faces. Kleptotech.

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

My bad, the flights were scheduled to begin last month but were delayed. So excited we could help make this happen!

Yay! And my understanding is the Delta proper was already flown?

Trump’s Budget Would Clip Bird Banding. Hunters Are Not Happy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/s...

A little something to take the edge off (ibuprofen)

SpongeBob ecstatic looking as he makes a rainbow meme, on the rainbow between his spreading hands it reads "hyper awareness of global current events"

An Immigrant Was Accused of Threatening Trump. Prosecutors Say He Was Framed.

“This extreme anti-immigrant rhetoric that we’re hearing in the news constantly just emboldens hate in this way, and emboldens people to act in this way.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

Empty cardboard tray on a market shelf labeled “evaporated milk.”

you gotta be faster

Of all the bad things about the internet and post-cable rip-offs, I am grateful for being able to show my 10 yr old pitcher daughter NCAA softball games on YT. If only I had this lady sports inspo as a kid!

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Map of local National Weather Service office "areas of responsibility" modified (using polygons with black outlines and red fill) to indicate where recent/expanding cuts to NOAA/NWS have resulting in understaffing so extreme that some offices can not longer operate on a 24/7 basis.

I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx

JP and JP with the classic yearbook poses

That dessert photo looks like a Thiebaud

Need more “I’m reluctant to share” posts

Would love to see the retrofit cost estimates and operating expenses.

My thoughts on critical importance of NOAA National Weather Service & other partners in CA weather, water, & wildfire worlds--& why we simply cannot afford to lose even a portion of lifesaving & economy-boosting services it provides. #CAwater #CAfire #CAwx
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The real surprise would’ve been if it was open 🕳️