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</>🏕️🥏🎮💪 🏈🌱🗽🌍 Here for the humor, sports, tech, conversation, and zeitgeist. Joy as an act of resistance. Denver, CO. Also available on https://ohai.social/@blowndiodes. Old posts periodically deleted for timeline cleanliness.
In 2025 and Jan-Feb 2026, construction jobs declined in 9 out of 14 months. Volume has fallen in 10 out those 14 months. Jobs are down 0.6% since Dec 2024. Volume fell 5.1% in 2025 and is forecast to fall 2.3% in 2026. Currently there is no volume to support jobs growth.
Time series plot depicting predicted Nino 3.4 region ocean temperature anomalies from the latest (Mar 2026) ECMWF ensemble. It depicts an extremely rapid rise in such temperatures, from modest negative anomalies to strong positive anomalies, by mid-summer 2026--indicative of a transition from weak-moderate La Nina conditions to moderate-strong El Nino conditions over just a few months.
Whew.
All signs are increasingly pointing to a significant, if not strong to very strong, El Niño event. I'll have more to say in coming weeks & months, but for now I'll just say that this is increasingly likely to become a major regional-to-global climate driver in 2026-2027.
Donald Trump slowly turning every Evangelical into an idolator and every liberal into a believer in Satan is a pretty good bit.
Seems like we're in hard taco or nuclear detonation prediction market territory.
The IED of the sky.
Oh no, it's really gone 😭
Used to be here, but it's not ?!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...
Taking a deep breath the Jan/Feb swing in hiring looks like mostly noise, but we are in a very low hiring environment reflecting our immigration policy + elevated uncertainty. The UR has been stable at 4.4% for 6m so this is not a falling off the cliff report, more a labor market with no mojo
My brow is furrowed as I type and graph this.
This is not good.
The Brent oil price is about to hit $90 per barrel and this is why: on any normal day, there's 60 oil tankers going in and out of the Straits of Hormuz. That number is zero at the moment and will be really hard to get back up. This is a massive shock...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/oil-tanker...
YOU ASKED FOR THIS!
Downfall. Kristi Noem Edition:
This is grim reading.
Asia’s big economies brace for Iran war energy shock - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!
February CO2 data from Mauna Loa was just posted by NOAA, and the 3-year running average for the mean rate of atmospheric CO2 growth hit yet another new record high, now up to 8.15 ppm per 3 years.
And that dip in the early 1990's was Mt. Pinatubo.
Per the Risky Biz newsletter.
Sweden’s central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, has advised people to keep 1,000 kronor ($110) in cash at home, enough for a week of essentials like food and medicine in case of war, cyberattacks, or other crises. (Bloomberg)
He was criminally underutilized.
Love this little gem at the end: "With virtually no oil or fuel making its way out of the Persian Gulf since US and Israeli attacks began at the weekend..."
But he hasn't outright shut down the possibility, no? Seems like he's trying to dance around the subject and soften up Coloradoans, with the intent of pardoning her if the opportunity safely arises. If so, that alone is worth disgust. And on brand of late.
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I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.
@colorado.gov Absolutely pathetic. I cannot wait for your political career in CO to end. At least you've cemented your legacy as bootlicker.
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bsky.app/profile/ronf...
God fucking damnit.
Looking forward to someone creating ransomware agents on autopilot with no interest in collecting ransoms.
*puts crazy googles on*
Ah, I see now.
