A financially challenged old man, Blue Dot in Florida. Oregonian wannabe. Biosphere and democracy. Lifelong lover of nature. College dropout. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Vector_Ze ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/vwedge INTJ born at 312.4 ppm R E S I S T
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The first time I made money was in the 3rd grade, when I used a wire brush to scrape creosote off railroad ties to be used as fence posts. I was paid 25¢ (silver) / tie and earned every cent. My first 'real' job was at a cable car tourist attraction, where I worked all positions except management.
Can't fight plate tectonics and the splitting of a continent. It will happen. It is happening. Seems slow on a human timescale, though. We'll probably be gone before there's a new sea there. www.science.org/content/arti...
I'm not aware of the connection between cell phones and palm oil. But if palm oil is among their faults, it's just one more reason for me to proudly say I don't use them.
Orangutan habitat under siege as palm oil company clears forest in Borneo Up to 10,000 hectares (nearly 25,000 acres) of forest could be lost Nearly 150,000 individuals lost between 1999 and 2015 They will not stop until every last Orangutan is gone news.mongabay.com/2025/04/oran...
Israeli forces have killed a pregnant Palestinian and her unborn baby near Shati refugee camp amid their ongoing large-scale attacks on Gaza City aje.io/3ndkh8
Bernie Sanders was born in 1941 Elizabeth Warren is a youngster, born in 1949 I'd put either of them up against DJT in a battle of wits. (or Clinton, or even Dufus). Age isn't really the question.
I realize this will sound like an old grandpa tale, but it's true. When I didn't feel like riding the bus to school (or to home), I would walk 3 miles (5 km) instead. Dang, I wish I were that fit now!
Your climate-changed future is here. mainichi.jp/english/arti...
Adolf Hitler awarded the War Merit Cross to Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust. Just saying, awards don't mean sh** if the person awarding them is a fascist. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...
Local TV coverage to today's Workers Over Billionaires protest in Panama City, Florida.
Democrats should focus on health care. BUT, it is only one of a multitude of subjects where MAGA has failed us, and they all deserve attention. Their wars on culture, science, free speech, art, clean energy, civility, National Parks, expertise, families, the biosphere, knowledge, FREEDOM itself!
:-) Melissa, let me get back to you around the end of next month, when summer is over.
In Cape Town, South Africa, an ongoing conflict between people and baboons has escalated to the point that local authorities are considering culling 117 animals from four troops, roughly a quarter of the local population. Local conservationists argue killing them isn’t the answer.
BlueSky desperately needs an edit function. They've heard it said many times by many people.
Labor Day Protest Workers Over Billionaires September 1, 2025 Panama City, Florida
Climate triples heat deaths in Europe theecologist.org/2025/sep/01/...
I doubt even he understands most of what he does, much less the EOs he signs. He just does as he's told.
Houston police say an 11-year-old boy was fatally shot after a prank in which he rang the doorbell of a home and ran away.
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
This is not normal. Japan is continuing its run of astonishing temperature records. The country has just had its hottest summer for the third year in a row, and by a substantial margin. Data: JMA
HISTORIC 2025 SUMMER IN CHINA & JAPAN HOTTEST SUMMER IN HISTORY Last 4 summers are the 4 hottest ! Japan summer a whopping +2.36C vs 1991/2020 China +1.08C Both Koreas also had their hottest summer on record. Kudos:JMA,Jim Jiang and KMA
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
I don't think I'm a hater or loser, but I am looking forward to fall, which is still a couple of months away.
.@velshi.com “Head in the sand”? Please. Part of the problem is limp news coverage that turns every Dem wobble into a five-alarm fire while treating GOP extremism as background noise. That’s what depresses our base.
I’m so tired. I’m so very very tired I put in so much work and yet you still say this shit
At a bare minimum, government subsidies to the fossil fuel industry should end, a few generations ago. I've been preaching that since the Reagan administration. Nobody seems to see a problem with it, though.
Invasive species thrive as Mediterranean Sea temperature hits record high Rising sea temperatures are fuelling the rapid “tropicalisation” of the Mediterranean www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Trump isn’t just axing the Constitution. He’s axing something we all love. Watch. https://youtu.be/HS7IJaB5NDc?feature=shared
Honestly, I was impressed with that video's reception. Then I hear of A.I. crap reaching the same milestone in days, and the perpetrator bringing in $9,000 per month.
It took six years for my most-viewed (real) video to reach 2 million views. This seems so wrong, but only the viewers are to blame.
Critics say that "slop" videos made with generative AI are often repetitive or useless. But they get millions of views — and platforms are grappling with what to do about them.
It's not going to happen. Could've implemented far less radical mitigation fifty years ago, but everyone thought it was so far off that they could ignore it. Now, people are saying it's inevitable and there's nothing we can do but adapt to the changes.
For $3 @standupforscience.bsky.social will HAND DELIVER (by a man in a duck costume) a rubber duck, with a message to “Impeach the Quack”, to your House Representative. LINK: www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams
A monument to the Union Soldier has stood in Lynn Haven, Florida (near Panama City), for over a century. civilwartraveler.blog/2025/04/02/a...
Leave it in the ground!
The war will end the minute Putin stops his attacks on Ukraine. As everyone except DJT knows, Russia is the aggressor, and DJT is a Putin puppet. Somehow, I just can't visualize DJT calling Putin on the carpet, unless it's a red carpet to welcome his Russian idol.
That's good for people in the market for a pre-owned EV. I'm still driving a micro ICE vehicle, a 2009, sold new in late 2008. 17 years later, it has 85,500 miles on it (5k/yr). So, I could buy an EV with 100k on the clock, and the battery would outlive me? Or is there deterioration with time?
U.S. guided-missile cruiser spotted crossing the Panama Canal after warships deployed to #Venezuela www.cbsnews.com/news/us-guid...
I'm not familiar with the power ratings on conventional electrics, but the single burner Duxtop I bought can eat 1800 watts at full power. I've never seen such rapid heating on any conventional cooktop. Unless I'm trying to rapidly boil something, I never go to full power on it.
I'd make the comparison between incandescent and LED light bulbs. I went aboard the induction train last January, and am very happy with the choice.
The Trump administration has already cut 1 in 4 National Park Service jobs—and more could follow. What does that mean for wildlife, for history, for the places we all share? 🎧 This week on Reveal:
Conservation advocates said that there is no national security justification for building a wall through the national wildlife refuge. They warn that the wall will threaten wildlife and cut off communities from the Rio Grande.
Gavin Newsom is exactly right, Trump is doing everything we told you he would do and more. It's time to wake the hell up, America. Authoritarianism is here.
Noncooperation is a powerful tool. It’s time we used it. Extend your Labor Day weekend with a one-day sick out on Sept. 2nd. We will build this into a movement, we will get justice. Art by Chi Nwosu
RFK is a threat to everyone’s health. #FireRFKjr
It’s long past time you all stopped using “Congress” when you mean “Republicans”. Not a single Democrat voted for this hot mess of an appointment. This endless grind to maintain a non-partisan tone, despite the partisanship of our fascist reality, is willfully blind, & a betrayal of your country.
There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt. This is simply false. - UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh - panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
"I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the president of the United States," he declared. trib.al/bfSFP2W
CVS has paused broad COVID-19 vaccine access in 16 states, citing CDC delays, with some areas now requiring prescriptions or halting shots entirely.
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
Day 30 of 31 Stand Up for Science Here is today’s action: Mindful Microflyering! Print a few microflyers from the website and take them along with you as you go about your Saturday. Leave at the grocery store, in a public bathroom, on a bus seat. www.standupforscience.net/microflyering
Send your US House Representative a message via @standupforscience.bsky.social - have a Rubber Ducky hand-delivered by someone dressed as a duck, calling on them to #ImpeachRFKJr Only $3 to hand deliver 1 duck! Follow @cdelawalla.bsky.social for more brilliant ideas bsky.app/profile/cdel...
75-year September temperature trend for Europe. It's as if something has changed. 🔥
💚💚 We stand with & support our brave EPA colleagues who took the courageous step to sign a public Declaration of Dissent to their administrator. They do this BECAUSE of their commitment to protecting the environment and American people. Tonight, the EPA illegally fired many of the public signers.
Mars’s interior more like Rocky Road brownie than Millionaire’s Shortbread www.imperial.ac.uk/news/267873/... #Mars #InSight 🧪 #PlanetSci
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Director of European Transport Safety Council: "Europe now risks being flooded with oversized, under-regulated US pick-up trucks and SUVs – heavier, more dangerous to other car drivers, pedestrians and cyclists, and completely out of step with Europe’s vision for safer, more sustainable mobility.”
The UN should not meet in the US under the Trump regime anymore.
I'm used to sweating into October. But hey! In January this year, we had our first measurable snow in 35 years. Encore!
There is no party platform anymore. Just the whims of a madman and the agenda of his handlers.
From that graph, it appears that China may give nuclear a more critical look.
Citation would be in order.
Could've written the first part myself. Not as well, though. That's an incredible range of conditions covered under the Threatened umbrella.
The real crisis isn’t fewer babies — it’s mass species loss. Humanity is thriving; our planet’s biodiversity isn’t. At Population Connection, we argue that lower fertility is a very positive development because it is driven by choice. ⬇️ populationconnection.org/blog/no-huma...
Folks, “We the People” have had THREE major federal court wins today. Rule of law matters. Due process matters. Keep resisting. It’s working!
I wish the pace of national protests would pick up a bit.
California energy regulators Friday put the brakes on plans requiring oil companies to pay a penalty if their profits climb too high, a temporary win for the fossil fuel industry two years after the governor declared the state had “finally beat big oil.” https://to.pbs.org/46bG2KW
September isn't much different than August, where I live. I'm waiting for November!!! The four best months of the year: Nov. through Feb.
Empathy is sin. Trusting experts is totalitarianism. When the satire is actually real life, does satire even have any power anymore?
Trump’s EPA is continuing its illegal retaliation against employees for telling the truth in defense of our planet and the nation. We stand with these brave employees in their fight against this retaliation. #zeldin #epa #declarationofdissent
I forgot the citation. It's an excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on 'expert'.
I was once told by a coworker, "Experts don't know anything." And she was serious as a heart attack. I was dumbstruck and walked away. That was before either 45 or 47, but it is the kind of brain malfunction that led to them.
apple.news/As0aTF8p3SXW...
The National Park Service just celebrated its 109th birthday. How is Donald Trump marking the occasion? By taking an axe to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS7IJaB5NDc
On behalf of the livestock industry, the USDA recently shot and killed a 3-month-old wolf pup in New Mexico. Another wolf is poised to be killed soon too — unless Interior Secretary Doug Burgum grants him a reprieve. Tell Sec. Burgum to immediately cancel the kill order ➡️ biodiv.us/4n9IKGx
More sad news for the polar community... Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (@arcus-arctic.bsky.social) is shutting down. We all lose here. The past 8 months have been unthinkable, and their consequences for the future even more so.
A sample of the hundreds of butterflies that were nectaring on Devil's bit scabious in extensive local meadows, these places are invaluable for wildlife.
Nodules on the seafloor have growth rings like trees which can be tied to the paleoclimate and ocean chemistry over tens of millions of years is such a wild, cool thing.
I challenge you to point out a DJT appointee who is NOT antithetical to their position. They ALL are, and that's deliberate.
The meltwater stored beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet is surprisingly powerful.
When they say, "God has a plan", realize that in their cult, the words God and Trump are synonymous. Never mind that the 'plan' was written by the Heritage Foundation and other anti-USA groups. They can overlook that, so long as the plan includes hating the 'others' that they also hate.
Why did the FBI under the Bush administration in 2008 allow #Epstein to keep trafficking girls while the feds were protecting him like a prized snitch? How deep is this rabbit hole? release the Epstein files.
I see very little of it. I don't follow people who enjoy posting/reposting it, and make liberal use of the nuclear block.
Blindly reposting that crap is reason enough to not follow, or to unfollow if the mistake had already been made.
Considering that two historic storms capable of overtopping the levee system have already hit the city, and climate change makes the strongest hurricanes stronger and raises sea levels, it’s a matter of time before New Orleans sees the “Big One” that will overtop the city’s levees. What then?
And which administration is all gung-ho for deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining while the rest of the world urges caution? Oblivious to the certain long-term environmental damage and how far-reaching it may be. RFKJ doesn't give a flying fig about whales, or any other living thing, not even humans.
Whales are killed and injured by many human activities. Offshore wind turbines are not on the list.
Temperatures have warmed across the entire contiguous United States over the last five decades or so during the months of September through November. Check out @climatecentral.org's fall package for more information and graphics: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... 🍁🍂
The Trump administration has proposed rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule in national forests. This would put Alaska’s Tongass National Forest — where these bears live — at risk of old-growth logging. Take action today by adding your voice against this proposal ➡️ biodiv.us/45E0Zhv
My puzzlement was over your DDG browser and DDG video player. From my perspective, I see no need for separate apps to browse and watch videos, as Firefox already does both, and has an integral ad blocker. To be perfectly clear, I use DDG multiple times per hour; it's my go-to search engine.
Ads aren't my #1 beef with YT. You must be talking about smartphone apps, and I don't own one... I wouldn't watch videos on a palm-sized screen if I did. DDG's video player?? DDG browser?? Eh?? I use DDG and watch videos every day, but I don't have a DDG 'video player' or browser; I use Firefox.
This week's column. The details will make you gasp and rage. This massive desecration of nature is almost unbelievable, but it is happening in the UK right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I'm a channel owner, so I'm almost always logged in, and I don't see what you've described. My biggest gripe about them (aside from their Google ownership) is their relentless push for vertical videos, which I loathe. I see Vimeo as an alternative, but it doesn't have as many viewers as YouTube.
Wishing for all of us a future in which the timeline can be checked without leaving one apoplectic before bed.
No question, this sucks. But I'm glad the problem is recognized and a search for a solution is underway.
Their problem with NOAA/NWS is obvious. It's the same problem they have with our health institutions and have RFKJ in place. They are anti-science and anti-factual. I know, that sounds insane. But here we are.
The screwworm was successfully eradicated in the USA 60 years ago by the introduction of sterile male flies. Currently, the biggest threat is to food security (infected cattle). The sterile male strategy is being employed again on a large scale as they spread northward through Mexico. No panic yet.
It may not be much, but for one, you can immediately stop using their search engine. There are multiple, BETTER, options available. I recommend making your final Google search, [alternatives to google]. My choice from the responses back in the early 2010s was duckduckgo, alternatively Ecosia.
More than a decade ago, I abandoned Google's search engine. Unfortunately, they own YouTube and several other properties that, to date, lack a decent alternative.