Andrew D Thaler

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Deep-sea ecologist investigating how humans shape and reshape the sea floor. Conservation technologist developing open-source tools to understand our changing oceans. Ocean educator creating novel programs to help students interact with marine ecosystems.

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Just going to put this out there: Biden has been the most legislatively effective president since LBJ. The most pro-labor president WW2. He's done more re climate change than any POTUS. He's built an international coalition for Ukraine despite Russia-fueld GOP opposition. And yeah: he's hella old.

‘Trust needs to be rebuilt’: Interview with candidate to head U.N. seabed-mining authority news.mongabay.com/2024/07/trus...

‘Trust needs to be rebuilt’: Interview with candidate to head U.N. seabed-mining authoritynews.mongabay.com

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With the International Seabed Authority meeting again in a little more then 2 weeks, a reminder that I maintain the Deep-Sea Mining custom feed, which tracks the #deepseamining conversation on Bluesky. bsky.app/profile/dran...

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Election of ISA Secretary-General mired by accusations of bribery and corruption. www.southernfriedscience.com/election-of-... #deepseamining

Election of ISA Secretary-General mired by accusations of bribery and corruption – Southern Fried Sciencewww.southernfriedscience.com

Library funding is almost always justified through patron numbers. The more people a library serves, the more funding it gets. So even if you don't regularly use a public library, get a library card. It costs you nothing and helps everyone in your community.

today is my NINETEEN YEAR anniversary working at my local library In honor of that, I ask you to get a card to your local public library today! If you ALREADY have a card to your local public library, check out their digital resources! Their summer programs! And yeah, they have books too.

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These are extremely concerning allegations about the current ISA Secretary-General. The future of Deep-Sea Mining is far to important for these petty shenanigans. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/u...

Fight Over Seabed Agency Leadership Turns Nastywww.nytimes.com An election over the future of a United Nations-affiliated organization could determine whether the Pacific Ocean floor will soon be mined for metals used in electric vehicles.

Thanks to the Internet archive and some extensive search engine magic, I finally tracked down the original 1970s manual for my sailing canoe. Google was, of course, absolutely useless. Now to rig this bad boy up and get it in the water.

These are extremely concerning allegations about the current ISA Secretary-General. The future of Deep-Sea Mining is far to important for these petty shenanigans. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/u...

Not for nothing but the big 4th of July carnival was tonight, and in the reddest rural district in Maryland, two days after their guy was given unconditional immunity by his hand-picked judges, after a week of coordinated effort by NYT to undermine his opposition, there was not a MAGA hat in sight.

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On behalf of all my friends at NHC, NOAA, and the whole weather enterprise, I would like to point out the accuracy of this 5 day forecast. @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social

Sometimes if the post is harmless but vaguely annoying I roll a D20 and critical fail them into the block bin. Don't take Fate personally.

Don't ever ask me why I have someone blocked I have almost 2,000 people blocked I have no idea why that person is blocked.

In spite of everything, Donald Trump is still facing the worst electoral map of his political career. He is weak. The RNC is weak. He's is facing an incumbent who beat him once already. America is furious about Roe. He could win, but it is so, so far from a forgone conclusion.

i'm getting so, so tired of the doomerism on here, and the press loves covering shit like a horse race instead of explaining fundamentals and what's at play, a job that seems to fall to @golikehellmachine.com on here. so here's a thread about why i'd rather be biden — yes, biden — right now

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In which I note that presidential sole authority to launch nuclear missiles is pretty much like a monarchy already. The question is in whose hands you want that authority. #nukesky

This Won’t Change Under A Monarchy

This Won’t Change Under A Monarchy - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com The US President has sole authority to launch nuclear missiles. “Sole authority” is the official phrase, and it means what it says. Only the President can give the order to launch nuclear missiles, and he is not restricted in any way. He does not have to consult with anyone else. A military aide follows him […]

I, a very serious scientist, also think that I would fare pretty well in a fight against a grizzly bear.

When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.

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In other Heritage Foundation news:

I sure hope all the Dems calling for Biden to step aside have gamed out the fuckery that the Heritage Foundation is planning www.notus.org/2024-electio...

Grass will not make you less grim about the mouth nor dry the damp, drizzly November in your soul. Quietly take to the ship.

Oooh. I am really excited by the new RP2040 Adalogger from @adafruit.com. A nice little upgrade and a $5 cost reduction on the OpenCTD: www.adafruit.com/product/5980

Adafruit Feather RP2040 Adalogger - 8MB Flash with microSD Cardwww.adafruit.com This is the Adafruit Feather RP2040 Adalogger - our take on an 'all-in-one' RP2040 data-logger (or data-reader) with built-in USB, battery charging, and a microSD holder ...

Sure would be embarrassing if Trump's Supreme Court had previously determined that the president's actions on Twitter weren't official acts of the president? www.scotusblog.com/2021/04/just...

NEW: Here is the Trump team's pre-motion letter on why, in their view, the Supreme Court's immunity decision means Judge Merchan should set aside the NY verdict (via Frank G. Runyeon, Law360) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

Justices throw out Trump Twitter case - SCOTUSblogwww.scotusblog.com Just under three months after former President Donald Trump was permanently banned from Twitter, the Supreme Court put an end to a legal battle over Trump’s personal Twitter account, throwing out a lo...

The thing about Tractor Supply is that it's recent growth is driven almost entirely by chicken sales, to the tune of 11 million chickens a quarter. Chickens, famously, are pretty good at making more chickens. Lowes, which has a pretty good DEI record, now sells chicken feed and supplies.

"Tractor Supply Company could have just affirmed that it supports everyone who tries to live “life out here,” while making sure that “out here” is still around as we try to pull back from this era of fire and flood." I threw away my hat. www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/o...

Opinion: My Tractor Supply hat was a symbol. Now it’s in the garbage | CNNwww.cnn.com Tractor Supply Co. cut DEI and climate change commitments following conservative criticism. David M. Perry says the company’s actions show short-sighted assumptions about their customers, including hi...

The next deep-sea mining meeting is happening in 2 weeks in Jamaica. So, just to pre-empt the almost certain dominant line we'll hear from the mining companies: There is absolutely no serious projection for deep-sea mining that contributes meaningfully to climate mitigation before 2050.

Hurricane Beryl: Caribbean leader calls out rich countries for climate failures as ‘horrendous’ storm makes landfalldlvr.it Ralph Gonsalves of St Vincent and the Grenadines calls Cop ‘largely a talk shop’ and beseeches west to honor commitments The prime minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has decried a lack of political will in western Europe and the US to tackle…

The Commissioned Corps of the US Public Health Service can pin you to the ground and staple a mask to your face if Emperor Biden, Caesar Americana so desires.

CDC is also part of the uniformed service, FYSA.

Make the Civilian Climate Corps the ninth uniformed service and direct them to enforce emissions standards. Chevron ruling is irrelevant to Caesar Americana.

Not for nothing, but NOAA Corps. is one of the eight uniformed services. Biden has unlimited power to direct NOAA to regulate fisheries through imperial fiat. Caesar Americana.

to put a sharper point on this, the President’s power to pass an executive order regulating emissions is severely hampered. his power to use the DOJ or the military to regulate emissions is nearly unlimited

One day I'll pull off my dream D&D campaign: an adventure where one player and the DM are secretly playing Cyberpunk while the party is unaware that they're really in a fantasy MMO. They're doing normal D&D things while the netrunner tries to break the program through increasingly broken metagaming.

Trump couldn't defeat Biden when he was an incumbent, with the full weight of the justice department, and a massive, SCOTUS sanctioned conspiracy to undermine the election. And now, at the pit of his popularity, the GOP thinks he can beat Imperial Biden, Caesar Americana?

And Beryl has now become the earliest Category 5 hurricane in history. My heart goes out to the people in its path. This is bad. Very very bad.

Hi, I'm 40 and I'm the guy in the background using R to get Angelo's projects done.

I'll be 46 later this year and I've never once had to use R in any single thing I've ever done in any class or job I just want all you all to know that

So @chuckwendig.bsky.social is a staggeringly good writer, but man do I regret deciding to read Wanderers *this* week.

"I can be trusted with this near unlimited power, Donald Trump cannot" isn't the message that will get much traction among the Bluesky political junkies, but I suspect it's a pretty effective statement to folks who aren't terminally online.

Easy to lose sight of the significance here, but the sitting president just gave a speech condemning the Supreme Court for a ruling that expands presidential power. It’s also a president who stands to benefit from this ruling, given that his opponent is vowing to imprison him and his family.