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New Neville Chamberlain.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

This, right here, is the crux of why the NOAA and NWS firings are just cartoonishly ill-conceived.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

The U.S. government has put up a submission form for reporting schools who teach kids about “DEI.” It accepts file uploads. Internet, you know what to do enddei.ed.gov

submitted 19 hours ago • 444 comments

Hey @beehiiv.com, how do I add a Bluesky button to my posts?

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

110 of 363 Taxpayer Assistance Centers and 5 of 10 call centers are going to be shut down, per a meeting that just happened at the IRS. During tax season.

submitted 22 hours ago • 133 comments

BTW, if you work in the weather/climate/disaster/emergency management space and are/were a federal employee who has been fired in recent hours/days, there are multiple journalists interested in speaking to you (and will be watching replies on this thread).

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

I am now hearing from multiple folks in the past two hours (including some who have personally been fired) that mass firings have now commenced within NOAA--including, yes, at the National Weather Service.

submitted 23 hours ago • 133 comments

If you think this flu season is bad, just wait until next year: open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

As universities ready themselves for rough times ahead, I've heard some professors say that the case can be made for their departments and not others, bloat, DEI, etc. These professors are delusional. They're aiming for the whole thing. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

Today's @usatoday.com front page First US death from measles in 10 years First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US All of this fully preventable

submitted 1 day ago • 469 comments

Having an anti-vax person in charge of public health is pretty terrible. On the pod, I asked former senior HHS official Stephanie Psaki what she fears could hit us in the next few years, and the answer was very harrowing. Read these four screen caps and tremble:

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

reading Ian Toll's series on the Pacific war and was struck by the portrait of Admiral Spruance. dude delegated as much work as possible, read paperbacks during long voyages, was fanatical about lots of exercise & 8-9 hours of sleep a night, and prob the best naval commander of the war

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Every time I book a ride, I first compare prices between Uber and Lyft, and then I think about the value of competition and shudder to think what a monopolist would do (charge 35% more).

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉 With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

New, from me @theatlantic.com: No, the federal government is not too big It has real human capital needs Firings are indiscriminate, weakening state capacity Creating a toxic and politicized workplace is driving away dedicated employees www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 6 days ago • 62 comments

This is entirely preventable. Science solved this problem more than 60 years ago.

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

Federal career workers: We appreciate you and your work. You don't deserve this mistreatment. Here's a file with lots of resources if you are facing illegal termination. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

Spent much of the day making this bivariate map of gas/ electricity and capacity / consumption from 2010-2023. Colors show where the annual peak is growing faster than annual consumption, i.e. where peak growth > energy growth, but map doesn't show negative numbers well. Too complicated.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Here's a quick grab-bag thread of articles on energy prices, especially here in New England. Colder weather everywhere leading to higher prices. 1/ www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 11 days ago • 2399 comments

Latest from YouGov (n=6,129 US adults, fielded today). People hate this.

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

Ice chipping is a full body workout but do not recommend.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

sounds Efficient

submitted 13 days ago • 23 comments

An enjoyable ramble.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The gas industry often argues that variable renewables need firm gas backup. Turn it around, and tell me: how does the gas system NEED renewables? #EnergySky

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Gambling degrades the dignity and beauty of sports. www.nytimes.com/athletic/607...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Enjoyed this article by @tedgioia.bsky.social because I loved Waterstone's in the last millennium and now again enjoy going to Barnes & Nobles: "This is James Daunt’s super power: He loves books." www.honest-broker.com/p/what-can-w...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

[Walt Whitman tries to tell a joke] A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b

submitted 16 days ago • 26 comments

Takeaways: 1. fuel costs (3.2% of total expend) compared to transport (12.9%) & housing (25.0%). But stock & vehicles obv dictate how you use fuels. 2. Expend increasing in rural areas as fast or higher than income! 3. Expend is what people spend, not what they want to spend (more or less).

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Researching energy affordability, a surprisingly poorly defined concept. In BLS CES data, energy expenditure as a % of income has not changed much as both incomes and costs have risen. But it is interesting when you look at growth in different subgroups and regions: www.bls.gov/cex/tables/c...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting set of names on the ballot but mostly I like Chubby Checker's stance in this photo. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/a...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Hard to overstate how quickly consumers are turning against Tesla and Musk. Lat month, Tesla sales collapsed all over the world: 🇪🇸 75% ⬇️ YOY 🇫🇷 63% ⬇️ 🇩🇪 59% ⬇️ 🇳🇴 40% ⬇️ 🇬🇧 18% ⬇️ 🇨🇳 11.5% ⬇️ (first decline) North American sales aren't out yet, but signs suggest they've tumbled, too.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments