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I honestly hadn't had this realization, despite saying in virtually every public talk, interview, and class lecture about how moving around outside a car will "radicalize" you, and how electeds and upper management need to do it. But we are going the opposite way in transportation data and analysis.

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Titanic kids are an eternal phenomenon. The ship calls us from across time and space. You don't choose to be obsessed with the Titanic - the Titanic chooses you.

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The four main characters from my book, THE PITS, a weird western. They're a fun bunch. #OriginalArt

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My book, THE PITS, has an illustration in every chapter. This is the one from the first chapter, and it is one of my favorites. I used the Rusty Nib brush set in Procreate and it is the brush set of my DREAMS. The sort of inking set I'd been looking for FOREVER. #DigitalArt

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Another illustration from my book, THE PITS. I had a lot of fun coming up with Little Mountain's signs for the story she's telling. Their group uses a very weird mix of different types of sign language, so I had a lot of freedom with the signs. #OriginalArt

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The Preachers are a group of characters from my novel, THE PITS. They are made up (according to the myths) of scorned women who now guard the mysterious, magical portions of the world. #DigitalArt

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A mysterious little coyote from my book, THE PITS. He eats light. #OriginalArt

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I did this illustration, hated it, started over, loved it, accidentally deleted the file, and had to do it all from scratch again. Worth it, though. Another one from my book, THE PITS. #OriginalArt

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Another illustration from my book, THE PITS. This one is from one of my favorite scenes, and the location is inspired by the giant crystal cave in Mexico that is so hot it will kill you if you go in without special gear. #OriginalArt

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I now have an easy order form on my website if you would like to license use of/order my disaster posters! Been getting a few inquiries lately, so I wanted to make it simple. They're great for community events, community displays, fire/police/emergency, etc.! www.katy-l-wood.com/posters

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The ENTER HERE kickstarter has hit the 75% mark! We're just ahead of schedule! Now is a great time to support an anthology of marginalized authors. 💙📚 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ent...

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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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Please read and share. Most people have never heard of NIOSH (the National Institute for Occuptional Safety and Health), but the work they do is critically important for our essential workers and frontline safety professionals. www.firerescue1.com/niosh/soundi...

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Everytime someone brings this up and says "but isn't this how it should be/wouldn't this be better" I go into a rage state of which my Italian ancestors would be proud.

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I was doing research for a different project the other day, and I realized that wildland firefighters never get fun children's museum exhibits like structure firefighters do. Since I've got a background in wildland fire AND museum work, I figured I'd design one! #Wildfire #MuseumExhibit

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I was doing research for a different project the other day, and I realized that wildland firefighters never get fun children's museum exhibits like structure firefighters do. Since I've got a background in wildland fire AND museum work, I figured I'd design one! #Wildfire #MuseumExhibit

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www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/a...

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This should be THE story for US coverage of the earthquake.

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This piece has better details on the nature of the conversations…effectively, dramatically shrink FEMAs role re: mitigation and recovery. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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It's the time of year when I see articles telling folks to put pet fur out for bird nesting. The Cornell ornithology lab does not recommend this! Flea/tick treatments & shampoos can be toxic, long fur can entangle chicks, etc. There are much better alternatives: www.allaboutbirds.org/news/providi...

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This post brought to you by realizing the doors of my favorite tiny local bar/restaurant open inwards. (Anyone who knows anything about disasters just cringed.) I'm going to email them about it. It is a shitty old building. Odds of fire are not small.

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"Doesn't studying real disasters ruin your enjoyment of disaster fiction?" No. I love disaster fiction, flaws and all! Studying real disasters ruins my ability to walk into a building and not immediately see a dozen ways I could die in it.

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If you are formatting a non-fiction book, think about making the margins a little wider for annotations. Sincerely a little annotation lover who is STRUGGLING with a tiny margined book right now.

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Sometimes when doing writing research you find a little factoid that isn’t right for tormenting YOUR blorbos, but it is PERFECT for tormenting a friend’s blorbos so you just drop the fact on their doorstep like a demented little present.

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Correct.

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This is why we fund the National Weather Service and emergency management.

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Writing accurate survival books, I frequently get the feedback of "I learned things from reading this!" Which elicits two reactions: One: neat! Two: WAIT. WHAT DID YOU LEARN?! SOME OF MY CHARACTERS ARE IDIOTS.

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Mount Spurr, east of Anchorage, is getting testier. volcanoes.usgs.gov/hans-public/...

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Alt text: good. Alt text as a moral purity battering ram: bad. Stop taking accessibility measures and using them to cause more harm just so you can feel superior.

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Something I’ve been thinking about is this assumption that states will just dramatically expand their emergency management agencies if FEMA is eliminated. Many have pointed out the obvious resource issue there but I’ve also been thinking about the historical context.

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Reappropriated - "I emailed my representative and senators in DC and told them to list 5 things they did last week to benefit the people in (Fill in your state). Failure to comply could lead to termination."

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We are just a week or so past the one year anniversary of the Panhandle fires, which burned over 1 mil (yes, million) acres in a WEEK. The fire weather right now or imminent is similar or worse in parts of Texas.

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You had different dreams for yourself than having to meet this shit historical moment. I did too. I did too.

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