Daniel Gray

What the Air You Breathe May Be Doing to Your Brain

Air pollution is a potent neurotoxin. It harms the brains of children & adults. It even harms the brains of babies before birth. Burning fossil fuels is the leading preventable cause of death and ill health in the world today. Clean energy now!
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Jamming avoidance response - Wikipedia

Wow this is wild 🤯

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Volunteers Step In to Help Understaffed NOAA Track Hurricane Melissa

NOAA retirees “volunteering” including one who is working as an “unpaid intern” in order to help. I would like to never again hear anyone bitch about civil servants’ work ethic tyvm.

Up to 40mm of rain expected on Victoria on Friday, October 31st.

If you are planning your Halloween costume to be tissue paper or paper machee based you may want to reconsider. Heavy rain expected for Friday night. #BCWeather, #yyj, #victoriabc

Hurricane Melissa Tropical Cyclone Update NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL132025 100 PM EDT Tue Oct 28 2025 ...CATEGORY 5 MELISSA MAKES LANDFALL IN JAMAICA... ...ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE LANDFALLS ON RECORD IN THE ATLANTIC BASIN... Melissa has made landfall in southwestern Jamaica near New Hope with estimated maximum sustained winds of 185 mph (295 km/h) and an estimated minimum central pressure of 892 mb (26.34 inches). THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION! Do not leave your shelter as the eye passes over, as winds will quickly, and rapidly increase on the other side of the eye. Residents should remain in place through the passage of these life-threatening conditions. To protect yourself from wind, the best thing you can do is put as many walls as possible between you and the outside. An interior room without windows, ideally one where you can also avoid falling trees, is the safest place you can be in a building. You can cover yourself with a mattress and wear a helmet for added protection. The next position update will be provided with the intermediate advisory at 200 PM EDT (1800 UTC). SUMMARY OF 100 PM EDT...1700 UTC...INFORMATION ----------------------------------------------- LOCATION...18.1N 78.0W ABOUT 25 MI...40 KM SE OF NEGRIL JAMAICA ABOUT 145 MI...235 KM S OF GUANTANAMO CUBA MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...185 MPH...295 KM/H PRESENT MOVEMENT...NNE OR 25 DEGREES AT 9 MPH...15 KM/H MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...892 MB...26.34 INCHES

Update: Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in southwestern Jamaica — and has tied the all-time record for strongest Atlantic basin hurricane landfall.

Hurricane Melissa will be a generational-scale climate disaster and will require an international response to help Jamaicans recover.

Table showing VicPD’s proposed 2026 budget increase. VicPD has labeled $7.8 million as a “core increase” and $3.1 million as “optional resources,” totalling $10.8 million, a 13.73% increase, or $89,845,665. Next to text indicating VicPD is asking for 17 new officers as “optional resources,” red text is added that says “Doesn't mention they're actually asking for 25 new officers; they just decided to brand eight of them "non-optional." The entire budget is optional.” Red text added below the “Total budget” says “+ $925,425 still under appeal, rejected by Esquimalt last year $90,771,090 (if appeal succeeds).”

The #yyj police board is presenting its draft 2026 budget at 5:00 pm. They want $90 million+, including 25 new officers. It would be an $11 million increase, or 14% (a 52%, $31 million increase from 2021). Budget: vicpd.ca/wp-content/u... 🧵 with highlights before the meeting starts. #vicpdboard

You're the real thin blue line Stephen. Thank you for your eyes on this.

a man with a beard is wearing a red shirt and laughing . ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a red shirt and laughing .

$8billion, for a 100km suboceanic tunnel through geologically active permafrost? LMAO. ROTFLMAO even.

Today, tomorrow, everyday. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

To survive the Holocaust and nearly immediately set about conducting a new one is the ultimate tragedy of the human condition. Apparently no lived experience can impart the wisdom of "do unto others as they would do onto you", and I think that means we are doomed as a species.

Absolutely shocking that this would only be implemented now. This is basic life-saving equipment. See also "Theatre rolls out fire exists in wake of tragically unforeseeable fire deaths."

I hope you're ready for Adam Stirling's 12-hour daily program.

No tsunami threat to B.C. coast after magnitude-7.8 quake off Russia Emergency info B.C. says there is no threat of tsunami after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake shook the Pacific Basin near Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

“Emergency info B.C. says there is no threat of tsunami after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake shook the Pacific Basin near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.” vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/09/18/b... - @citynewsvancouver.bsky.social

#HaidaGwaii #PortHardy #PrinceRupert #Tofino #Ucluelet #VancouverIsland #YYJ

BULLETIN
Public Tsunami Message Number 3
NWS National Tsunami Warning Center Palmer AK
206 PM PDT Thu Sep 18 2025

...THE TSUNAMI ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...

* The Tsunami Advisory is canceled for the coastal areas of
Aleutian Islands

An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 just occurred off the coast of Kamchatsky, Russia, very close to the origin of the tsunami-triggering earthquake that occurred there last month. Expect a possible tsunami advisory to follow. #emergencymanagement, #earthquake, #tsunami

An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 just occurred off the coast of Kamchatsky, Russia, very close to the origin of the tsunami-triggering earthquake that occurred there last month. Expect a possible tsunami advisory to follow.

It would be interesting to see the breakdown of cruise ship volume plotted against daily AQI readings. I wonder how much of those emissions are directly translated into worse local AQ, vs what gets distributed to the broader region. aqmap.ca/aqmap/en/#13...

Many sources of wildfire smoke out there, both on the mainland and from Washington State. AQ in Victoria is currently okay, but is forecasted to decrease over the next few days. Dust off your air filtration units and change the filters. #VictoriaBC, #yyj, #airquality, firesmoke.ca/forecasts/cu...

Rare Garry Oak ecosystem for a data center? Seriously, is there not a hardware store parking lot or an off-season Spirit of Halloween available somewhere?

Israel bombed Gaza hospital a second time, killing rescuers, say health officials At least 20 people, including five journalists, died as they rushed to help those wounded in the first strike

Do you condemn the IDF?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

So, the path to fascism is a tragic psychological arc:
A national lie
1. Unbearable dissonance
2. Violent projection
3. A destructive "escape"

It's a flight from truth that ends in self-annihilation, born from the perverse impulse to destroy rather than reflect.

6/6

The pressure needs a release. Unable to face its own shadow, the society projects it onto a scapegoat (René Girard).
The "other"—a minority, an immigrant—becomes the target for all the repressed national guilt & rage. Attacking them provides a perverse, cathartic sense of purification. 4/6

To cope, the nation enters a state of denial (Stanley Cohen). It represses its ugly history, creating what Carl Jung would call a collective “shadow.”
But this shadow doesn't disappear; it festers in the dark, building psychological pressure. 3/6

It begins with the stories nations tell about themselves. As historian Ernest Renan said, nations are built on “forgetting” past wrongs.
When grim historical facts clash with this noble myth, it creates massive cognitive dissonance (Festinger)—a deep, unspoken national stress. 2/6

Fascism is not merely a political ideology, but a psychological breakdown—a collective "imp of the perverse."
It's a society's self-destructive reaction to an unbearable national lie. 🧵 1/6
#PoliticalPsychology #History

YouTube video by BadHasbara 133 Rat GPT, with Jeremy Kaplowitz

"What do I need to know so I can ignore this?". #BadHasbara youtu.be/JKX8dozBy9s?...

The Mount Underwood wildfire has advanced 4km towards Port Alberni since yesterday. Thankfully, we are expecting rain later today that should slow it down 🤞. #wildfire, #emergencymanagement, #vancouverisland, #britishcolumbia

A new out-of-control wildfire south of Port Alberni is now at 680 hectares in size in under 24 hours. #emergencymanagement, #vancouverisland, #britishcolumbia, #wildfire