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Tired of all this, but here. Baltimore.
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I don't really know how to shout this from the rooftops any louder: If this actually happens, it would spell the end of U.S. numerical weather prediction--the scientific models, run on supercomputers, used to create virtually all weather forecasts. www.axios.com/2025/0...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1346 comments

We do not know what tomorrow may bring, and it is natural to fear the unknown. But I do know this: tomorrow you will awaken to face the day with honor, as the true warrior you are, and it is the unknown that should fear you!

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

"the estimation of Dworkin as a polemicist or propagandist..is not a perception that withstands any engaged encounter with her work—especially not with Right-Wing Women (1983), her exacting & ambitious exegesis on women in the conservative movement.." www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

You know why hurricanes have gotten less deadly over the past century? Not because they're less dangerous. Because scientists at NOAA have gotten really good at predicting their tacks, enabling people to get out of harm's way. Gutting NOAA will kill people.

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submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

I ranted it in MAGEC, & I'll sound the horns here, too. Folks who are nearing the end of winter & who live in places where it's invasive: it's time to destroy an insidious evil in this land. Time to revel in righteous destruction. Of #EnglishIvy. chesapeakeclimate.org/learn-how-to...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

the cities really ARE full of crime

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

One for @rudbeckia.bsky.social

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

We alerted the city multiple times that these funds were in danger of being lost. Bikemore and our delegation were assured that the city was on top of this. No fathomable excuse.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Today the editors have lifted the paywall; anyone can read this piece gratis. It's my first overt political propaganda--the first of my series about the systems that undergird our daily lives, which are always one generation of inattention away from catastrophe. If this interests, please pass it on.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Draw a superb (or just ok) owl, get a cheap fancy drink at Southpaw #baltimore

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Hey Baltimore nerds! Want something to do while the sports fans are watching the Super Bowl? Come to the Book Thing and get FREE books from 9-5! Hey Baltimore sports fans! Need to clean out some space before the big game? Bring up to 7 boxes of books to the Book Thing from 9-2!

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

What are the best datasets on apartment rent over time in the Baltimore/DC area?

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

This is the program that helps people not get run over and killed by a car, which kills 40,000 Americans each year.

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

You had me at “In 1989, Pullman, Washington, was named the Lentil Capital of the World." HT @agronomistag.bsky.social news.wsu.edu/news/2025/01...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment