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Northern New Mexico, FPE, Fire Marshal. Enjoyer of ebikes, electric truck overlanding and home solar PV. she/her
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What I appreciate here is that the FT scored a video interview with Sam Altman (a high profile get!) for a conceit where he makes lunch and then another FT writer just ruthlessly savages his kitchen appliances and cooking techniques. www.ft.com/content/b180...

The Trump administration’s cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.

"Wildfire Wednesdays" is a great bi-weekly product put out by Fire Adapted NM and the Forest Stewards Guild. Check out this week's edition, which features ways to get ready for Wildfire Preparedness Day on May 3 (among other interesting items). facnm.org/news/2025/4/...

Join us on Saturday May 3, 10am-3pm for Wildfire Community Preparedness Day at the Southside Library in Santa Fe!

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

Here’s a great example of using comics to convey research from @trecpdx.bsky.social and @kellyjclifton.bsky.social trec.pdx.edu/news/moving-...

After Trump was elected the first time, there was also a lot of talk about making iPhones in the US. At the time, I co-edited the sci-fi outlet Terraform, and asked @timmaughan.bsky.social to imagine what such a future might really look like. With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:

This is high art

might just be an all moon channel now who can say

moon cat continues to delight. she wasn’t sure about “playing” but she caught on fast

This #caturday, I'm bringing you an important musical interlude. [sound on] #cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour #piano

Strasbourg boasts over 600 kilometres of cycling routes—the largest network in France—and is widely regarded as one of Europe’s best cycling cities. But what is less known is how a study visit to the Netherlands provided the spark needed to light a fire underneath its politicians and policy-makers.🧵

putting tariffs on guano islands is just batshit policy

one of the top characteristics of Sphynx is it doesn’t matter whats going on they want to be involved

New Mexico underrated here; the most important accomplishment of the long trifecta was the 2021 repeal of a pre-Roe ban on abortion, a move only possibme because the Democrats were able to primary and replace a critical mass of bluedogs that joined with republicans to lock in conservative dem leader

Newsletter: The tech media needs to move away from optimism and dreaming about what AI (and AGI) can do, and start focusing on the dangerous financial crises brewing. Failing to hold the powerful accountable is cowardice, and actively harmful to society. www.wheresyoured.at/optimistic-cowardice/

#severance is renewed for Season 3. #PraiseKier and Tim Cook. film still #67 Choreography & Merriment

At no point, watching the Severance season finale, did I have any idea what was going to happen next

Thanks to Steve Jobs and Gorilla Glass, factories in America are now ramping up to make affordable windows, made from panes thinner than a credit card, that can: * save Americans $25 billion / year * withstand a 2x4 shot out of a cannon (gift link) www.wsj.com/business/cor...

We have done a LOT of EV roadtrips over the last 7 years and I am hear to tell you: Electrify America 100% deserves their bad rap. lazy placement , shit reliability, nonexistent service.

While enjoying our national park system earlier today at the grand canyon, i was waiting in line to get passes to climb the desert watch tower. an amazingly entitled older (white) couple were mad at the system and started berating the volunteer with the conservation org and the lady snapped out (1/x

New video showing a cyclist cycling over a Tesla Cybertruck parked in a bus lane.

Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…

Please Like Me

yesterday after driving the Lightning around on some errands I parked at home and went about the day. 20 minutes later unloading something and thought we heard …. mewing? Made sure our own braincell-deficient boys were accounted for then tried to pinpoint it.

i was going to try and look at the eclipse but im in a hotel in abq, the winds are 55mph w sideways rain and my window is not a moon view. bed it is!

kate wager + housing/insurance policies + wildfire discourse. thats my trifecta!

flying out of SLC there are some weird alien landscapes

who are you? #severance

This week, director/DP Jessica Lee Gagné, and star of 207, Dichen Lachman. 💙 #severance podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

"Their job is to serve, and be served by, The Line. Our job is to slurp slop from the boot heel – to bury ourselves in meaningless nostalgia for boy wizards until we’ve forgotten that human beings are part of this process at all." No notes.

EV sales in Europe: up 38% Tesla sales in Europe: down 45.2% Breathe it in folks, breathe it innnnnnnnnnnnn www.reuters.com/business/aut...

as a person who frequently asks the question “but what do we want to accomplish in this decision?” these are tough times