Just told the Trader Joes checker to call his rep
'Cause the bill ain't passed the House yet.
We can still win this thing!

A liberal country song called Call Your Rep.

I helped my neighbor with some quickie yard work as it was raining and there was garbage can filling up with water. I was about to turn it upside down when I saw a little lizard in there. That was lucky for him. The was about 3 inches of water and I wondered how long he was in there. To save himself from drowning - he'd have to have been swimming the entire time.

I carefully tilted to drain out the water but he some how was clinging to the bottom of the can. He wasn't even a gecko. He was a stubborn little guy but I finally got him out.

From a Bluesky post by the writer.

It's hard to adequately summarize how destructive NOAA's 2026 proposed budget released on Monday is for hurricane forecasting, but I crammed all I could into today's newsletter

From a Bluesky post by the writer.

It's hard to adequately summarize how destructive NOAA's 2026 proposed budget released on Monday is for hurricane forecasting, but I crammed all I could into today's newsletter

She hasn't been here in a year. :(

I got a surprise. A few minutes ago small bird of prey flew by me when I was in my front yard. At its closest - it was about 15 feet away. I know very little about birds but my guess is it was a juvenile northern goshawk.

Keith Olbermann‬

No. ICE-IS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtIlG87_D28

(Ah-ah-ah-ah)

NPR

As Iran and Israel fought, people turned to AI for facts. They didn't find many.

It's unknown what percentage of people use AI for news but it could very roughly be ~7%.

Social media companies and makers of AI chatbots have not shared data about how often people use chatbots to seek out information on current events, but a Reuters Institute report published in June showed that about 7% of users in the dozens of countries the institute surveyed use AI to get news. When asked for comment, X, OpenAI, Google and Anthropic did not respond.