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Emergency management does have an image problem, yes - but more than that, honestly, I think we just have an odds problem. The folks with the money know (generally) what we do. They just prefer to roll the dice on disasters not happening, or not being that bad, and save the money for other stuff.

A victory in Denver and a warning in Miami as Palantir relocates HQ Colorado organizers celebrated the surveillance giant’s move after more than a year of protests, while Miami immigrant communities organized their own pushback

A researcher with the American Friends Service Committee and the national “Purge Palantir” campaign said the next phase is about scaling, helping communities identify where Palantir is embedded through political relationships, and sharing tactics that can be adapted locally.

ME: pack a bag, we’re flying to kansas

MY WAYWARD SON: what kind of bag

Same here! Love that episode to bits.

Aleksandr Yakovlevich Golovin (1863-1930) was a Russian and Soviet decorator, painter, and stage designer.

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Experts discuss 25th anniversary of WA's Nisqually quake We're three days away from the 25th anniversary of the Nisqually Earthquake.

25 years ago this weekend, western Washington was shaken up by the Nisqually earthquake. Experts from PNSN and UW explain what we’ve learned since—and what we need to do to get ready for the next one:
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I was in a room with zero coverage and an entire wall that was just glass, so mom ordered us outside. Afterward I could see the goofy dining room chandelier swaying so mightily, it was nearly touching the ceiling.
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I learnt a new word of Hookland dialect today – wodwak. It's used to describe the sensation that a wood or even a specific tree is watching you. That moment when your psychic skin won't let you deny that bark-browed eyes are upon you. – #MattAdams

25 years after Nisqually quake, expert warns 'it will happen again' The City of Seattle marked the anniversary of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake on Thursday by discussing ongoing contingency plans for another powerful quake.

Today is Nisqually Earthquake Awareness Day! “Prepare, don’t despair”—that’s our message on the 25th anniversary of the 2001 M6.8 earthquake. Learn more in this clip: www.king5.com/article/news...

We're turning people away (fire code) from this anti-ICE training today. New Yorkers are fired up

Before the next earthquake hits WA, we need to fix our bricks | Op-Ed An earthquake like the 2001 Nisqually quake will strike again, and it could be more damaging. What is certain is that we can make structures safer.

“If Washington has the will, we certainly have the means to make our state safer and better before the next time an earthquake strikes.” Read this op-ed from PNSN director @haroldtobin@bsky.social in today’s Seattle Times about how we can #FixtheBricks: www.seattletimes.com/opinion/befo...

I think that chimney photo is the most well-known of home damage afterward. I remember seeing it in the paper.

Chunks of lawn displaced due to ground shaking.

A small yellow house with a chimney that is split in half, with the top half shifted to the left.

The roof of a brick building has caved in on itself, and the walls have fallen causing large piles of bricks on the street.

A person stands in a hole in the ground at the Boeing field airport with their arms out wide.

Happy throwback #FieldworkFriday! Fieldwork isn't just maintaining our stations - sometimes we must record the effects that earthquakes have on landscapes and built environments.

Here are some images collected by PNSN and fellow researchers after the Nisqually EQ 25 years ago.

I was 50 miles away, braced in our backyard and watching the ground ripple like foot-high swells. Impossible to forget.

Our mailman was across the street and saw our neighbor's windows pulsing wildly. He quickly locked himself in his truck, rode out the shaking, then continued delivering the mail.

It's so ironic how often bigots talked about being "unpersoned" because people did not want to socialize with them. You know what's really an "unpersoning"? Having no driver's license in a rural area. Losing the one ID you need to vote or pay taxes or open a bank account.

Hannah Spencer, newly elected MP for Gorton and Denton, said: "Because working hard used to get you something.

"But now, what does that get you?

"Instead of working for a nice life, we're working to line the pockets of billionaires."

Vote Green to reduce government expenditure.

If we can get enough tradespeople elected, the repair and maintenance bill for the House of Commons will be significantly reduced.

So the candidate who left school at 16 with no A-Levels and who's spent her whole adult life vocational, manual jobs beat the ivory tower academic turned cushy media pundit, but you can be sure we'll still get plenty more casual description of the latter as "white working class".

“No, I’m not joking, I really am having the whole system condemned.”

A flat, colorful poster that reads "Avert Catastrophe! Home is where your cat should be" (Originally from 2021!)

I keep reminding people that admins hate English departments because they are popular (read: inefficient), not because they aren’t. AI is in a long line of technologies that promise to solve that problem for them.

My review of QUEER APPROACHES TO TOLKIEN (ed. Robin Anne Reid, Christopher Vaccaro, & Stephen Yandell) is out in the open-access Journal of Tolkien Research.

I had a lot of thoughts on this book, mostly very positive! Thankful to Douglas A. Anderson for commissioning this. tinyurl.com/ezbhcxn7

Considering that Larry Ellison's fortune comes from Oracle, I wonder how badly the AI bubble popping is going to wreak havoc with this.

Come for the *CLONK*, stay for the seagulls laughing their ruddy heads off.

Why The New Surgeon General Pick Might Be The Most Dangerous One Yet Wellness "Influencer" Casey Means has been selected as the next US Surgeon General, despite having an inactive medical license. Her viewpoints range from nonsensical to absurdly dangerous.

Casey Means dropped out of her residency program.

She’s not a practicing physician.

She’s a “wellness influencer”.

She wants you to vibe your way to better health.

She’s skeptical of birth control, Advil and vaccines.

She’s not just unqualified, she’s dangerous.

entirely unimprovable execution by the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social social team

ON SITE PUBLIC MEDIA Illinois- No charges for Lake Zurich High School student who punched student holding a pro-ICE sign,2-day suspension "You can go peacefully f-kyourself!" the student announced after he punched his classmate (a photo of the student is featured with article)

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"My rep is a Republican, so what's the point of contacting them!" Here's my perspective on this. Thing about how miserable they are making you. OK? Give them some misery back. Yeah, they're probably going to vote the wrong way, but at least you can really annoy them about it. Plus...