Dr Grace Peng
@gspeng.bsky.social
Same interdisciplinary scientist as on the other sites with the same handle. Chemistry, math, physics, meteorology, GIS, data whisperer.
Natural resources director, League of Women Voters of Los Angeles Co. She/Her
https://badmomgoodmom.blogspot.com/
Natural resources director, League of Women Voters of Los Angeles Co. She/Her
https://badmomgoodmom.blogspot.com/
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Two wind-driven wildfires in February in Colorado!
Airliner Traffic at Denver Airport delayed
Airliner Traffic at Denver Airport delayed
Wind-driven wildfires prompt evacuations on Colorado’s Eastern Plains
Wind-driven wildfires prompt evacuations on Colorado’s Eastern Plains
Firefighters worked to control the flames as strong winds pushed across dry land in eastern Colorado
coloradosun.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Two wind-driven wildfires in February in Colorado!
Airliner Traffic at Denver Airport delayed
Airliner Traffic at Denver Airport delayed
Swept the entrance and put out our new Year of the Fire Horse door mat that I bought in Taipei.
Shopkeepers were so efficient. They segued from Christmas to Western New Year to Lunar New Year merch and decorations so fast.
Shopkeepers were so efficient. They segued from Christmas to Western New Year to Lunar New Year merch and decorations so fast.
February 18, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Swept the entrance and put out our new Year of the Fire Horse door mat that I bought in Taipei.
Shopkeepers were so efficient. They segued from Christmas to Western New Year to Lunar New Year merch and decorations so fast.
Shopkeepers were so efficient. They segued from Christmas to Western New Year to Lunar New Year merch and decorations so fast.
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People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
www.heise.de
February 17, 2026 at 9:12 PM
People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
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Hahaha sure bring your marriage certificate, normal country
Sen. Mike Rounds on concerns that women will be disenfranchised by the SAVE America Act: "If you get married, you show them your marriage certificate and you're on your way once again"
February 17, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Hahaha sure bring your marriage certificate, normal country
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this is kind of spectacular -- you can't escape your hydrological destiny
Melrose is in an alluvial plain and crosses multiple seasonal waterways. Water Always Wins (and Uplift Melrose depaving could have alleviated the severity of this event)
bsky.app/profile/awal...
bsky.app/profile/awal...
February 17, 2026 at 7:30 PM
this is kind of spectacular -- you can't escape your hydrological destiny
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Daylight your buried streams or they will periodically do it for you.
You can see the buried waterways of Los Angeles-Orange County in www.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...
@awalkerinla.bsky.social
@awalkerinla.bsky.social
February 17, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Daylight your buried streams or they will periodically do it for you.
Pumping Hydrogen into methane gas pipelines is dangerous, too.
We should not allow it
We should not allow it
@californiapuc.bsky.social should never have let gas utilities propose pumping hydrogen into gas pipelines in the first place. Its a costly ineffectual boondoggle that distracts focus from helping communities realize the health and safety benefits of electrification.
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Blending hydrogen into gas pipelines would enrich utilities and harm Californians
Experiments with natural gas pipelines are only a stalling tactic and profit grab that will prolong pollution. The real solution is to go electric.
www.latimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Pumping Hydrogen into methane gas pipelines is dangerous, too.
We should not allow it
We should not allow it
You can see the buried waterways of Los Angeles-Orange County in www.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...
@awalkerinla.bsky.social
@awalkerinla.bsky.social
February 17, 2026 at 6:16 PM
You can see the buried waterways of Los Angeles-Orange County in www.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...
@awalkerinla.bsky.social
@awalkerinla.bsky.social
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Heart breaking and horrifying. Someone killed in a crosswalk in the densest neighborhood in the state by a driver taking a right turn not paying attention
Fatal crash: Woman killed crossing street Monday night on Capitol Hill www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/02/vict...
February 17, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Heart breaking and horrifying. Someone killed in a crosswalk in the densest neighborhood in the state by a driver taking a right turn not paying attention
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Jane Ganahl's granddaughter doesn't eat animals and is fine with gay marriage. To some, this looks like indoctrination -- and Ganahl is fine with that.
Is it indoctrination to teach my granddaughter to have empathy?
If so, I’m fine with it. As a lifelong Californian, I’m acutely aware that my common-sense and compassionate life lessons could be viewed as wacko left-wing brainwashing by many.
www.golden-state.org
February 17, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Jane Ganahl's granddaughter doesn't eat animals and is fine with gay marriage. To some, this looks like indoctrination -- and Ganahl is fine with that.
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Every time Jim Jordan releases a report, he leaves personal info exposed:
✔️my home address
✔️the names of undergraduate researchers
✔️and most recently members EU civil society
Tech companies get their employees' info shielded.
Does that remind you of another, bigger non-redaction scandal? 👀
✔️my home address
✔️the names of undergraduate researchers
✔️and most recently members EU civil society
Tech companies get their employees' info shielded.
Does that remind you of another, bigger non-redaction scandal? 👀
The Weaponization of Non‑Redaction
From the Epstein files to congressional “censorship” reports, MAGA is using "transparency" as a weapon—and calling it accountability.
www.thewayfinder.net
February 17, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Every time Jim Jordan releases a report, he leaves personal info exposed:
✔️my home address
✔️the names of undergraduate researchers
✔️and most recently members EU civil society
Tech companies get their employees' info shielded.
Does that remind you of another, bigger non-redaction scandal? 👀
✔️my home address
✔️the names of undergraduate researchers
✔️and most recently members EU civil society
Tech companies get their employees' info shielded.
Does that remind you of another, bigger non-redaction scandal? 👀
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I don't post on Substack because I already have my own site where I post stuff, and have done for 27 years, and because Substack makes a lot of money off Nazis and fascists and I'd really rather not, thanks. I do have an account there but it's to secure my name. It has a cat photo.
February 17, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I don't post on Substack because I already have my own site where I post stuff, and have done for 27 years, and because Substack makes a lot of money off Nazis and fascists and I'd really rather not, thanks. I do have an account there but it's to secure my name. It has a cat photo.
The power of Art. Watch and cry. Then act
February 17, 2026 at 3:56 PM
The power of Art. Watch and cry. Then act
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hard to communicate how shattered many basic functions in the City of LA are. we've stopped repaving streets, streetslights are dark, sanitation pickups take weeks. departments bleeding staff bc of budget cuts are also being raided to staff the mayor's pet projects. we can't even spend FREE money
The City of LA is about to give back millions of dollars of previously won money for active transportation projects because it can’t build things in any reasonable amount of time.
February 14, 2026 at 7:46 PM
hard to communicate how shattered many basic functions in the City of LA are. we've stopped repaving streets, streetslights are dark, sanitation pickups take weeks. departments bleeding staff bc of budget cuts are also being raided to staff the mayor's pet projects. we can't even spend FREE money
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When they say "millions" here, they mean over $100M!
Together these awards totaled to:
Wilmington Safe Streets: $32M
Skid Row Connectivity Project: $39M
Boyle Heights Connectivity Project: $32M
(it's notable that the motion omits the embarrassing total)
Together these awards totaled to:
Wilmington Safe Streets: $32M
Skid Row Connectivity Project: $39M
Boyle Heights Connectivity Project: $32M
(it's notable that the motion omits the embarrassing total)
The City of LA is about to give back millions of dollars of previously won money for active transportation projects because it can’t build things in any reasonable amount of time.
February 14, 2026 at 7:03 PM
When they say "millions" here, they mean over $100M!
Together these awards totaled to:
Wilmington Safe Streets: $32M
Skid Row Connectivity Project: $39M
Boyle Heights Connectivity Project: $32M
(it's notable that the motion omits the embarrassing total)
Together these awards totaled to:
Wilmington Safe Streets: $32M
Skid Row Connectivity Project: $39M
Boyle Heights Connectivity Project: $32M
(it's notable that the motion omits the embarrassing total)
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And yet, every day, our most prominent Democratic politicians, scholars, public intellectuals, universities & university leaders, & other civil society organizations continue to use his platform as their primary social media outlet. One cannot help but notice this & draw conclusions.
The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.
February 17, 2026 at 2:44 PM
And yet, every day, our most prominent Democratic politicians, scholars, public intellectuals, universities & university leaders, & other civil society organizations continue to use his platform as their primary social media outlet. One cannot help but notice this & draw conclusions.
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This society is so sick that we’ve collectively normalized the fact that any one of us can murder someone else (or ourselves) one day while simply driving to the grocery store or work or wherever. Literally end someone’s life. We are a fascist death cult & car supremacy is just another symptom.
The person hit by a driver at Bellevue and Pine earlier tonight has died, according to the Seattle Police Department.
Seattle Fire is currently responding to a driver hitting someone walking at Bellevue Ave and E Pine St.
February 17, 2026 at 6:40 AM
This society is so sick that we’ve collectively normalized the fact that any one of us can murder someone else (or ourselves) one day while simply driving to the grocery store or work or wherever. Literally end someone’s life. We are a fascist death cult & car supremacy is just another symptom.
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its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
March 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
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Also, read @karenhao.bsky.social 's terrific book, Empire of AI.
Also, read @karenhao.bsky.social 's terrific book, Empire of AI.
Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison.
Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.
Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.
February 17, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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Also, read @karenhao.bsky.social 's terrific book, Empire of AI.
Also, read @karenhao.bsky.social 's terrific book, Empire of AI.
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I still think the best way to think of the ending of US AID is as the single worst genocide committed by any one US presidential administration.
even given all the horrific things the US has done, it's not really that close. 750k dead already; expected 14 million.
even given all the horrific things the US has done, it's not really that close. 750k dead already; expected 14 million.
this is exactly why I am absolutely not willing to overlook anyone who was once “advocating for ending USAID” as merely committing a little oopsie-daisy-booboo, by the way
The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
February 17, 2026 at 2:54 AM
I still think the best way to think of the ending of US AID is as the single worst genocide committed by any one US presidential administration.
even given all the horrific things the US has done, it's not really that close. 750k dead already; expected 14 million.
even given all the horrific things the US has done, it's not really that close. 750k dead already; expected 14 million.
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In general, I wish people would get off Twitter but not Joyce. We need Joyce there to hold the line.
February 17, 2026 at 3:12 AM
In general, I wish people would get off Twitter but not Joyce. We need Joyce there to hold the line.
Good summary of LA Metro K line south shenanigans. Video by @nandert.bsky.social
youtu.be/7Q3zeOAMkcU
youtu.be/7Q3zeOAMkcU
The Metro Board Giveth, and the Metro Board Taketh
YouTube video by nandert
youtu.be
February 16, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Good summary of LA Metro K line south shenanigans. Video by @nandert.bsky.social
youtu.be/7Q3zeOAMkcU
youtu.be/7Q3zeOAMkcU
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Melrose was supposed to undergo a complete streets makeover from Highland to Fairfax that would have installed stormwater gardens to mitigate flooding, among other critical safety improvements. The previous councilmember killed the project
February 16, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Melrose was supposed to undergo a complete streets makeover from Highland to Fairfax that would have installed stormwater gardens to mitigate flooding, among other critical safety improvements. The previous councilmember killed the project
My favorite culvert story is that Boulder’s creekside paths and ped/bike underpasses are a byproduct of installing larger culverts for extreme high flows. During normal times, there’s enough room for a multi-use path. LA could learn a lesson @lintonjoe.bsky.social
Culverts might seem like a boring topic, but billions of dollars worth of fixes to stream-choking culverts -- thanks to a lawsuit by Washington state's tribes -- is helping salmon recover. Great reporting by @magiccanoe.bsky.social magiccanoe.org/salmon-rebou...
Salmon Rebound After Tribes Fight for Culvert Upgrades - Magic Canoe
An unprecedented project to reconnect fish migration routes in western Washington State is showing exciting signs of ecological and cultural benefits.
magiccanoe.org
February 16, 2026 at 9:08 PM
My favorite culvert story is that Boulder’s creekside paths and ped/bike underpasses are a byproduct of installing larger culverts for extreme high flows. During normal times, there’s enough room for a multi-use path. LA could learn a lesson @lintonjoe.bsky.social