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Crossing my fingers for a political cartoon sometime tomorrow showing the metaphorical giant hand of God either... ...getting ready to ping-flick Bibi Netanyahu off the planet or ...mashing Netanyahu like a fly on a coffee table.

Brewers are having a big inning right now.

There’s a debate in the meteorology/ climate community about how to visualize the 2026 El Niño. One method subtracts recent tropical ocean warming mainly due to climate change (relative RONI index) and one that simply visualizes the event with no correction…

Lula’s win is the first good news for the planet in a while! I bet it shaves a tenth of a degree off how hot our earth eventually gets, which will save millions of lives Thank you Brazil!

Vote Early / Vote Blue 🟦 / Vote Pro-democracy ✅ Vucic loses Serbian election (today) ✅ Bolsonaro loses Brazilian election (today) 🔲 Netanyahu loses Israeli elections (Tues) 🔲 Repubs lose midterms (Nov 3)

Let’s zoom into the El Niño regions and see how they compare to 1997 (the event of record). This event is not only remarkably ahead, it’s also weighted further east! Big impacts coming to the US and Globe this winter! #elnino

Fraudsters proclaiming that they are "demolishing fraud" is itself a fraud. Vote blue 🟦 Hold these knuckleheads to account, and let's claw back reality so we can deal with injustice and climate change.

10 days until the election. Vote early. Get people to the polls to also vote early. Continue to pay attention. Continue to organize. Run through the tape. Stay in the fight. 🇺🇲

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! It takes 2 weeks to confirm ocean sea surface temperatures and the long wait is finally over. The first day in recorded history with Nino 3.4 SST at or above 30.0°C is now officially on the record. October 7, 2026: 30.000°C. climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_dai...

I'm not ready to turn the storm's quadrants into "sectionals" just yet, but all of this works on multiple levels.

The 2026 UNEP Emissions Gap Report is out: The Point of Return. 🌍🌡️🔥 It's sobering but actionable. Decades of inadequate climate action have closed off opportunities to limit warming, but ambitious action today can still prevent much greater harm. A thread of some of the highlights 🧵

I'm not a Texas resident, but this is a great political ad. 🇺🇲

Why are Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China pushing to delay the release of the IPCC’s seventh assessment report (AR7) on climate science? 🤔

New reporting: Your voting machine might get hacked...but the predatory trump federal government. Stay vigilant. www.propublica.org/article/cisa...

Still some of the most legendary Halloween costumes Original post

Residents of fast-warming Longyearbyen, in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, have been told they must no longer drink tap water due to heavy metal contamination that scientists have linked to the thawing permafrost. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Two things: 1) The future Senator from Michigan just shut this garbage down once and for all. 2) Imagine Abdul El-Sayed and Samuel L. Jackson on a presidential ticket ...or in a police interrogation room with any member of the current WH cabinet.

Evidence of Americans being Oligark'ed: Walmart's slave wages --> workers need federal help Musk/maga WH throttling Star Link/Starshield to punish Ukraine for targeting Russian datacenters Zuckerberg taking No Kings Instagram acct. down at the height of yesterday's GOTV rallies There are others

From Gardner, Massachusetts on October 3: This is the video of our first Signs of Corruption silent vigil to illuminate the unprecedented amount of corruption going on in the Trump Administration and allowed by his GOP enablers. #VoteFreedom #SaveDemocracy #FightFascism #VoteEarly

Early voting begins in your state soon... Vote early, and then help to get others to the polls. 🇺🇲 The Blue Wave starts with YOU. 🌊

Weights and measures: A sample of Ex U.S. Press Secretary Time Units from least to greatest. Zacharias Scaramucci Psaki Fleischer Myers Powell Fitzwater Hagerty Early

Good checklist for the next few weeks. #midterms #defendingdemocracy #UnitedStates "...in six weeks…come back and count how many boxes got checked. If the number is zero…I’ll happily eat my words in public. If the number is five or more…you’ll know exactly where we are..." - Hopkins

Even more evidence for adopting the metric system. #metric #whitehouse

Maybe there is something to Neil Diamond's hands-touching-hands line in "Sweet Caroline." "...bleached fragments put in contact with their healthy clones had recovered. The ones that were kept apart had died." www.euronews.com/2026/10/15/t... #coralbleaching #coral #coralreef

Dynamic pricing (especially at large Chicagoland grocery-store chains)... ... is a scourge. Hey, local politicians, this issue is absolutely fertile ground upon which you can take a stand. #dynamicpricing

Remember, kids, doing anything untoward to these terrible toxic, noisy, life-killing, job-killing facilities owned by the super wealthy is a crime.

Jesse Welles, dude of the moment who echoes a big part of the conscience of the United States. youtu.be/5vQDUi2azk8?...

Good on Dan Levy for calling out Shane Gillis. #SNL should never platform Gillis again.

Speaking truth to power. Punk is not dead.

Does #Russian_diesel work in your car? F-- this guy. "Trump says US to import Russian diesel, reversing pressure on Moscow" www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

"If you see a Norwegian number calling, please pick up."

Navanethem "Navi" Pillay became the first woman to start a law practice in South Africa's Natal Province back in 1967. A bus driver's daughter from a poor Indian section of Durban in South Africa, Pillay grew up and began her human rights work during the apartheid era. www.bbc.com/news/live/ck...

I'm guessing no one had "televised firing squad" on their bingo card.

Nerd alert: detrended (since 1979) July-Sept sea surface temperature anomalies for 2026 and the 1997. The the equatorial Pacific Ocean patterns are nearly identical but quite different over most of the rest of the north Pacific basin. H/T @climatologist49.bsky.social #SST #Climate #ElNino

Late-season tropical storm Isaias is intensifying in the Gulf of Mexico. Possible landfall this weekend. No one will blame you if you have a touch of deja vu right now. www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...

If you are able to vote in your state today, please do so. Lock that vote in. Then help others in your community to vote as well. 🇺🇲 🌊

In my backyard vegetable garden 🫑🌶️... ...hybrid serrano-cayennes and hybrid ghost-habaneros may be emerging. Stay tuned.

It accepts letters, packages, and one very specific kind of complaint.

The norms we miss aren’t gone, they’re waiting for us at the ballot box.

It's the 1980s You're in a car or next to your radio & "Spirits in the Material World" comes on You're trying to follow the beat, w/your whole attention--trying to tap the steering wheel, the side of the car, or just your knee to it And it never happens This is why youtu.be/f52AI5eWfUM?...

The 2026 "Brady Bunch" reboot doesn't look promising.

Also NOT in Atlanta for the Hawks game on Feb. 3, 2024. Asst. Coach Willis Beard.

Pretty scary map. The regime and their R servants in Congress and the Senate don't seem to care about this. Vote as many of them out as possible.

The evolution of this weekend's nor'easter.

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Abolishing ICE/CPB is now the normie position.

New y-axis needed.

ATTN: #Scientists and members of the #sci-comm community. This guy IS the freaking answer key. --Focus on #jobs and relatable metaphors --Say the kind of things he says --Then talk about the math