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Rescuers race to save 6 skiers found alive after avalanche, 10 still missing in Northern California Authorities say six backcountry skiers have been found alive and 10 others are missing after an avalanche in Northern California that occurred during a powerful winter storm moving through the state.

Sucks. 10 missing in avalanche ~5 miles from where I am.

It is still dumping snow.

apnews.com/article/skie...

Shitty @heroku.com really dropping the ball today. Widespread outages for ~30 minutes. Nothing on status.heroku.com

heroku issues anyone?

Nice forecast!

Funny to think about how classic rock era was ~15-5 years before I was born.

That time period would be equivalent the ~2000s for my kids.

Looks like a good chance I get to experience a good old-fashioned Tahoe snow storm next week

Asbestos: “It was better to die of a lung disease you didn’t even know about than to die in a house fire you definitely were cognizant of”

Never imagined it would happen so soon, but my kids are already showing me iOS features I didn’t know about

My first iPhone preceded kids by 8 years!

Another report says the victim was dragged for over three miles.

Horror.

A little bit in love with with this Maurice Sendak anecdote:

Satellite view of gravity wave clouds over Southern New England

Gravity wave day.

svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14445

Feb 7 2025
US Hiring Slowed in January
Employers added 143K jobs last month, signaling a more subdued labor market even as the unemployment rate edged down to 4%.

Feb 11 2026
US Hiring Starts the Year at a Strong Pace
The unemployment rate fell to 4.3% and the economy added 130K jobs in January.

Every bike lane cleared by a volunteer crew is an act of heroism and a policy failure.

You can see how massive this chunk of ice was that had to be chopped out and then removed!

Had the city just cleared the bike lane when the snow was still soft, none of this would be necessary

Classic: city declares snow emergency and the doesn’t plow or even treat

*scumbag steve*

I recently learned that Gilette Stadium is excluded from MA Equalized Valuation calculations, so Foxborough gets Chapter 70 (school) funding as if it's a much poorer town.

Peacock Premium Plus is only $11 if you have Apple One.

Makes Olympics 👌 👌 👌

"January by the numbers

369,260 grams of CO₂ emissions avoided by choosing bikes over cars"

When you're measuring your CO₂ emissions by grams... lol.

I think the Winter Olympics needs more 2700K light

By the definition:
"A person who uses clothing, makeup, costuming, prosthetics or other physical markers to present an exaggerated and stylized gender expression that differs from the person's biological sex or normal gender presentation"

The Nutcracker would qualify. Girls often play boy roles.

We're providing this Safe Routes to School Sidewalk Public Hearing bingo card as a public service.

It is nuts that people lose their minds when forced to shovel snow for a parking spot a public street because that's where they've decided keep their car.

Some dude just went biking by with a speaker blasting some sorta banjo-ey music and I'm all for it.

9:55p, 20º, Let's make it easy to remind folks there are still people biking.

Not enough time or resources to make sure the bike lanes are cleared, but somehow there's enough time and resources to remove snow from a downtown-abutting dead-end street

Love when you go ask someone idling in a truck right next to your home for 15 minutes and and you ask them to turn off the engine and they respond as if you asked them to cut off their own arm

ACTUAL RESEARCH: Comparison #2
(This is a new one.)
Please help contribute to this real dataset.

Look at these two slides. Just take a wild guess as to the average home value on each street. Reply with two dollar amounts, Street 1 and Street 2.

Your input matters. Thank you!

NYTimes.com headline screenshot: Federal Courts Undercut Trump's Mass Deportation Campaign A policy intended to keep immigrants detained indefinitely has led to a deluge of lawsuits, overwhelming some federal courts and resulting in many releases.

WTF NYTimes:

Courts Find Trump Deportation Policy Unlawful

A strategy to detain immigrants indefinitely violated federal law, triggering widespread lawsuits and forcing courts to order releases

Something a few thousand of us learned yesterday is that regular or electric bikes, with fat, skinny, stud-less, ribbed or even slick tires work pretty much fine in a MN winter. Just exercise a little care. Take it easy. Layer up. Ride straight. Fear not the occasional dismount.

Cold but pretty.

I wish someone would explain what authority ICE has to disperse legally abiding protestors not near or on federal property with pepper and tear gas.

Isn’t that illegal?