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Alerts from NWS Tucson AZ (UNOFFICIAL) @tus.nws-bot.us · 17h

🚨 Flood Watch issued October 10 at 3:15PM MST until October 13 at 5:00PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ 🚨
Additional Details Here.

* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be
possible.

* WHERE...A portion of Southeast Arizona, including the following
areas, Baboquivari Mountains, Catalina and Rincon Mountains,
Chiricahua Mountains, Dragoon and Mule and Huachuca and Santa Rita
Mountains, Eastern Cochise County below 5000 feet, Galiuro and
Pinaleno Mountains, South Central Pinal County, Southeast Pinal
County, Tohono O'odham Nation, Tucson Metro Area, Upper Gila River
Valley, Upper San Pedro River Valley, Upper Santa Cruz River
Valley/Altar Valley and Western Pima County.

* WHEN...From Saturday afternoon through Monday afternoon.

* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Abundant moisture associated with two tropical systems may
lead to a periods of moderate to heavy rainfall and isolated
thunderstorms Saturday afternoon through Monday. Rainfall
totals for the entire 3 day event will range from 1 to 3
inches with isolated higher totals.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 18h

If I wasn't afraid Simchat was going to get rained out by a tropical storm I'd just wait for Monday 🙃

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18h

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 21h

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 18h

Gahhh but I have to put on nice CLOTHES and DRIVE and TALK to PEOPLE (shabbat shalom to you too)

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 18h

Services tonight are firmly lodged in the "I will be glad I went once I get there, but getting myself there will be like pulling teeth" category

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Trey Ferguson @pastortrey05.com · 19h

Sometimes I wonder what this country might look like if we left “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in hotel nightstands instead of the KJV.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 19h

Because she hasn't been sworn in, Congresswoman-elect Grijalva can't hire a staff or set up an office. She can't *do* the "district work" that the Speaker thinks the House should be doing. Johnson is disenfranchising me and my neighbors, who have been without representation since March.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 19h

800,000 people in Arizona - including me - are being denied their elected representation in Congress.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 23h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 20h

"we are going to do a military coup, and also block our opponents attempt to make sure the military we are counting on loyalty from to do so get paid."

These are not the smartest fascists ever beaten by a frog.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 23h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 19h

So says the news, but I haven't gone digging for specifics.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 20h

I took the post to be about to today's RIFs, but absolutely

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El Pandito @pandasophist.bsky.social · 20h

The worst is that I am not even unemployed. I have to go to work, every day, because I am "essential". I am employed, working, just not getting paid.

Which means I don't even qualify for unemployment benefits. Or use the time looking for other work.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 20h

Also they are people with bills and families. Mass unemployment is generally bad for the economy.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.

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barbylon @barbylon.bsky.social · 20h

I know the LPSC community has been so close knit for so many years. If you take your cohort to a different meeting you can help create and continue that sense of community.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 20h

It's been very clear for *months* that Trump is trying to play up the idea of violent protests to prime federal cops for a weaponized response, despite all the actual evidence that protests have been peaceful UNTIL the cops arrive.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23h

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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barbylon @barbylon.bsky.social · 20h

Planetary scientists - we have a continual lament that goes like, waaah we have too many meetings how can we work and put in so many abstracts! Here's a solution! Choose a different meeting!

Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 1d

It's really disheartening to try to talk to colleagues about boycotting a conference that removed all its records of abstracts pertaining to DEI, only for the response to largely be "I don't want to go, but..." But what??? Each of us has agency! You can choose not to go!

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 20h

There is significant debate about that. Personally, they can go fuck themselves.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 20h

They also manage/host several of the field's major conferences.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 20h

They've also done a lot of other shit but that's one is easy to explain in one post and you can pretty much extrapolate from there.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 20h

LPI is a major planetary science institution that, among other things, was/is a major repository of publications, and when Trump got sworn in they decided to take down any publication that related to "DEI". Like, ever.

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Andy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social · 20h

It's the "Who Killed Hannibal?" meme, with LPI playing the role of the shooter and Planetary Science in the role of the body.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 20h

*waves*

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

I just saw a friend's post which was a commentary on her brother in law's post. He said "the government laid me off today" and my friend was like "No my dude, the WHITE HOUSE and the GOP Congress laid you off." The man is in her comments absolutely DYING on the hill that it's the "government."

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 20h

Say hi to your dad for us 😆

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