How accurate is the weather forecast in your city?
Niko Kommenda and I learned that NWS just began doing gridded assessments of forecast accuracy. We got the data and mapped of how many days into the future they get within 3°F of the observed high temp.
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You ever think about how 90% of the people you used to talk to on Twitter looked at Elon's pro-Nazi, pro-CSAM policies and thought, eh, seems bad but I can't be bothered to give up my followers
I'm currently playing in a 5e Curse of Strahd campaign, and part of the fun for me as An Old is the confusing deja vu bits as I run into bits of lore and comparing them to the 1990s version of the setting
Lots of people call themselves antifa in NY and yet the Times building remains free of graffiti, folks can walk in and out without getting egged, employees' cars don't get flat tires, nobody is projecting a giant picture of AG Sulzberger fellating Trump on the side of the building, etc
June 30 is Asteroid Day to raise awareness of opportunities & risks posed by asteroids, their role in the formation of our solar system, their impact in space resources & importance of protecting Earth from impact. 🧪🐡🎢🔭 June 30, 1908 an approximately 12-megaton explosion that occurred near the 🧵1/n
Macron: I see it all the time - these leaders, down in the polls, right after a big local or European election loss, they think they'll turn it around by calling a snap election.
Lindsay: Well, did it work for those people?
Macron: No, it never does. But... it might work for us
Me when my mutuals are on bsky: You know the best part of my day? It's the 10 seconds from when I pull up to the curb to when I get to your door. Because I think maybe I'll get up there and I'll knock on the door and you won't be there.
Me when they leave: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
The Biden thing is a classic example of ageism in that he's basically Trump's age, but he *looks* older - Trump is obviously vain and makes a lot of effort to look younger - and what people care about is the appearance of age
Sometimes I wonder about is whether there’s ever any backlash to the extraordinary upsurge of ageism around Biden. Not people saying “he seems really old” - obviously he does - but the people who think this is a free pass to call him a “drooling senile retard” or make hospice care jokes and the like
Y'all make fun, but remember the shock when Rhode Island kept its second House rep despite of all but certain forecasts?
Well, you know who's in charge of the Census Bureau? That's right, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo. She rigged that one for RI and she can rig the election for herself
The great hypocrisy here is that they say it's Biden's duty to quit to save the country from Trump; but for the next four months the same people *are going to continue publishing op-eds by Trump supporters!*
The danger is so great that Biden must quit, but not so much that the Times needs to change
It's been as long since Paul left the site as Paul leaving the site was from his last "it's been as long since this movie as it was from that movie to an older movie" tweet
I think it's an interesting journalism dilemma for covering court decisions. With politicians you clearly shouldn't run what they say as factual, but for the courts the usual reporting is to equate what they say with what is or isn't true or constitutional
The NY Times thinks the most important story of the day is the Jan 6 rioters sentencing (?) followed by Biden's debate performance getting about the same amount of space, with the restructuring of how all federal agencies work a distant third
For comparison the Post has its priorities right
Personally I think if you decided to run for governor of a state you don't live in and announced it before checking the basic eligibility conditions you should be disqualified from offering advice to political campaigns
The Temptation of Moopsy. An acrylic painting depicting the time Moopsy didn't want me to clean her cage, so I lured her out with a teaspoonful of rum. Did you know that hamsters are attracted to alcohol but don't generally get drunk? They are, all right. #FindFolkFriday
