Many RIFed yesterday are now being unfired(?!)

Unclear if it’s evil or incompetence — but either way, calculated move. Meant to flex power.

Ha. Just shows Republicans are scared.

Dems, @schumer.senate.gov — don’t back down.
They know they’re losing the Republican shutdown shitshow.
We’re winning.

That’s a double win!

🫠It’s day 11 of the government shutdown, and there have been reports of human impacts & resource damage across parks. You love the parks! We get it, we really do - but the best way to support parks is to leave them alone right now.

For a century, the BBC has broadcast the weather report for the seas around the UK. "The Shipping Forecast" has informed and lulled generations who tune in to hear it.

I got punched in the face by a woman at a Cake concert.

I’m happy to report I didn’t punch back nor did I go down like a sack of potatoes.

Frog suit is $55 plus $12 shipping plus probably whatever the tariffs are the day the package hits Customs. I just checked for fun, of course.

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Possibly the above link gets you some goons showing up your house. Who knows at this point?

Did a lot of fisheries work on the Virgin River near their “ranch.”

Fun part was ducking under their illegal electric fences stretched over the river.

Luckily, most of their ire was directed at BLM employees and not other agencies.

Picon Punch:

2 ounces of Torani Amer
1/2 ounce grenadine
1/2 ounce brandy
1 ounce club soda
Lemon twist, for garnish

Fill the glass with ice.
Add the grenadine and the Torani Amer.
Top with soda water and stir.
Float the brandy on top and garnish with a twist of lemon.

Nevada now has an official State Cocktail, the "spririt-forward" Picon Punch which is a 19th century drink invented by immigrant Basque sheepherders. I've made them at home, but it's a good excuse to go to Elko or even Reno.

I’ve heard nothing but good things about this podcast.

It’s on the short list to listen to it.

I’ve had Bundy’s point weapons at me. 😫

This is true. My dad is an example.

The black and white absolutist thinking engineers do colors everything they think and when applied to any nuanced situation gets spit out as nonsense.

Their goal is revenge against every scientist who told them something they didn't want to hear or made them feel inferior by knowing more than they do.

mariners fans are my favorite bunch of fans of any team in any sport. i watched the bottom half of the last seven innings standing up in my living room. thanks for letting me hitch a ride

My maternal grandfather was a carpenter and helped build this historic theater.

I’ve been in it exactly once, to see Lindsey Buckingham (the great guitarist from Fleetwood Mac) back in the early 1990s.

EPSTEIN FILES

I suggest to you, that most of you have it wrong.

It's not Trump being in the files that's so problematic. It's that it's largely his leverage against a lot of rich/powerful people.

A British working royal was there for fuck's sake. Bill Gates got divorced over this.

CONGRATS TO THE LAS VEGAS ACES FOR WINNING THE WNBA TITLE

BEVEL EM

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

And restore it to creosote shrubland and not a bunch of cheatgrass and tumbleweeds.

Yes it’s true. I’m not sure who used the word “streamers” first, either the biology staff or the Bechtel construction team, but the birds start smoking and then burst into flames when they fly through the mirror fields.

He knows that it’s gonna be itchy too.

The nomenclature is interesting:
P: periodic comet, usually comes back in less than 200 years.
C: comet that’s not periodic.
X: no orbit determined
D: periodic comet that’s disappeared, broke up, or been lost
A: was thought to be comet but is an asteroid
I: interstellar object (only 3, 1 here now!)

This project was a shitshow and horrible for wildlife. Randy knows.

geotripper.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-... We hear a great deal about what to do in the event of a major quake, but we don't hear much about what's going to happen in the weeks and months that follow. My new blog gives thought to what will happen around Modesto when the BIG ONE hits. #earthquakes