Paul Hansen

I'm riding my mountain bike on the 850-mile Arizona Trail this fall to see and write about #climate impacts along the way. We're publishing weekly dispatches from the trail in The Arizona Republic | @azcentral.com as I go.

The first one just dropped:
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I didn't get a picture of the best sign I saw today, but I remember what it said:

Somewhere in America
A little Hispanic girl
Is hiding in an attic
And keeping a diary.

#NoKings

Comedy is illegal again I guess

Mary Beard on stage with cartoon of Berlusconi behind.

Mary Beard on stage with pic of three Roman Emperors behind her, plus Donald Trump.

Thoroughly enjoyed tonight’s “Evening with Mary Beard”.

It turns out that quite a lot of us in Edinburgh are fascinated by the Romans!

Thank you, @wmarybeard.bsky.social for all the fun and wisdom!

A line of people next to a two-highway road with a crowd beyond them. You can kinda see a couple buildings in the distance -- that's the whole town

I would also like to report that I just heard from my mother, who has voted Republican for most of her life. Can't stand Trump

Went to her first protest today. 150-200 people in our tiny rural two-stop-sign town

Proud to start the morning with THOUSANDS of fellow Coloradans in Fort Collins at the No Kings rally who are standing up for our constitution and the rule of law!

In August 2025 I witnessed this brave squirrel walk up to this juvenile great horned owl perching on a fence rail right before dusk in Longmont, Colorado.

#bird #birds #owl #owls #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #nature #great_horned_owl #great_horned_owls #owlet #owlets

Backlight prairie grasses growing along the St. Vrain Greenway in Longmont, Colorado. They are in front of an old wood shed.

#ClassicMono #Monochrome #BW
#BlackandWhite #EastCoastKin #closeup #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #nature #grass #grasses #prairiegrass #prairiegrasses

The number one reason that officer candidates failed Marine OCS from the 70s through the 2010s was stress fractures. Male or female candidates.

We selected generations of Marine Officers with the first question being "how well do you absorb calcium with 4 minutes to eat 3x per day?"

New Banksy mural of a judge beating a protester to be removed from outside London court A new Banksy mural showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from outside a London court.

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, authorities said Monday.

U.S. Responds To Rising Sea Levels By Patting East Coast With Towels

U.S. Responds To Rising Sea Levels By Patting East Coast With Towels https://theonion.com/u-s-responds-to-rising-sea-levels-by-patting-east-coas-1847614367/

A Roman helmet with cheek guards is displayed on a stand above a corroded piece of chainmail. In the background, there is an illustration of a Roman soldier in armor holding a spear.

A well preserved #Roman infantry helmet (Niederbieber type) and a lorica hamata (chainmail) found in Rainau-Buch, dating 3rd century AD.

On display at our branch museum Limesmuseum Aalen.

#Archaeology 🏺

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“At the Army Command and General Staff College, they use Root. I call it Furry Afghanistan. The cat faction is the NATO military occupation force, trying to win by submission. The raccoons are Pakistan, breaking all the rules."

- @sebastianbae.bsky.social, game designer and research analyst at CNA

It’s Past Time to Start Preparing for Drone Terrorism Drones can easily be used for terrorism. In fact, it is surprising that there have not been major attacks using them yet.

“But today, it has become easy to use drones for such an operation. Indeed, if there is a surprise, it is that there have not been major attacks using the technology yet.”

You deserve a break on Sundays that doesn’t break the bank.

I was at a DC house party and I showed a picture of my girlfriend at the time (who was Chinese American) to a group of people and a gop staffer straight up asked why I was dating a “yellow commie” if you don’t think this is a thing

Tom Hanks's work portraying U.S. troops is extensive: "Saving Private Ryan," "Forrest Gump" and "Greyhound" among them. He also co-produced "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific."

Hanks also has been a forceful advocate for The World War II Memorial and The National WWII Museum.

This is incorrect: (1) Department of War was just the Army, not the Navy and Marine Corps; and (2) the President does not have the authority, only Congress can make that change in the law. Be better, @npr.org.

Classroom with small tables, a group of six students sitting around the table, playing a board game.

The board of a game showing a map of La Coruña with counters depicting French and British pieces. A hand pointing with a finger is above the map hovering.

University wargaming in the new academic started! La Coruña scenario from Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars by @mropla.bsky.social The French struggles for most of the time, but managed to deal fatal blows just before the night descended.

The Department of War Makes America Look Weak The War Department was abolished for a reason. Bringing it back won't make America stronger.

The War Department was abolished for a reason. Bringing it back won’t make America stronger, writes Dr Walter Ladwig in the latest RUSI Commentary.

Text reads: Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of... naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference. Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false: Displayed is a screenshot of Firefox showing the config search bar with the listed search. The word "false" is circled in red. Text continues: If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false. Doing that turns off the Al chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:

People working in universities know a lot of the work that makes the organization function is outsourced to for-profit companies (catering, landscaping) or runs on platforms requiring payments to such companies: Workday, Canvas, Microsoft, Zoom.

This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/

Lessons from Ukraine’s ‘First World Drone War’ | Trudy Rubin As Vladimir Putin blocks peace talks, Kyiv wants to share with the U.S. and Europe how to counter the AI-driven weapons of the future.

"Ukrainian drone units near the front line tell me they often host European military or civilian manufacturers looking to test drones or components. Few Americans come, they said, and U.S. special forces no longer visit."

The devastating global boom in narcotics Demand for harmful drugs must be curbed in order to squeeze powerful cartels

The devastating global boom in narcotics on.ft.com/4oQVqUt | opinion

This is basically an American version of the Al Qaeda monkey bars videos.

Samuel Huntington’s Prussian Paradox Clausewitz, Military Professionalism, and the Myth of a “Apolitical” Military

Elegant and detailed refutation of Huntington’s use of Prussia as the historical example of “objective control” producing an apolitical military, from @sodrock.bsky.social

Happy Battle of Atlanta Day to all who celebrate!

41. Everyone should read "Say Nothing" by Patrick Radden Keefe. My favorite book of the last decade