Marc Schwager

Stranger Than Fiction

The "No Smoking" sign on the front of the bridge! 🙄

Guess it didn’t see the aircraft warning strobes.

Well solar and batteries. It’s actually plugged in whenever I am not driving it. I can get down the hill to the hardware store and most of the way back only on batteries. Great for trips in to town. Every once in a while I have to put 6 gallons of gas in it.

But the mineral riches! 🙄

Mine is plugged in *every night* and recharged with Solar.

🚧 A portion of state Highway 128 is closed in Anderson Valley due to flooding. Please use alternative routes. There is no estimated time of reopening. Drive safely.

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I don’t remember. It was back in the early 1990s. 🙄

Launching a windsurfer from that concrete rubble was tricky. 😬

I’m actually feeling sorry for the poor AI engine that has to learn cobal. 🤭

“Scrape ‘em off Claire”. ( from the movie Scrooged) Where is the ghost of Christmas future when you need it.

CW3E AR Update: Confidence has increased in a long duration #AtmosphericRiver event associated with a slow-moving low-pressure system, forecast to bring heavy precip to the U.S. West Coast between Sat 21 and Wed 25 Feb.

See our latest outlook for more information: cw3e.ucsd.edu/cw3e-ar-upda...

Gosh Ron, you’re Getting cynical 🤣

The storm is coming, now is the time to prepare. Conditions will deteriorate through the day Sunday. https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/2022835634235162633

☔️A pattern change occurs this weekend! From Sunday onward, wet conditions are forecast. The forecast is for nearly daily, but intermittent periods of rainfall. Rainfall totals could average 2” to 4” with isolated spots up to 6.” https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/2022114456457949580

Can science build a better working dog? New approaches could put talented canines into the hands of more people with disabilities

More than half of dogs trained to help people with blindness, PTSD, autism, and other conditions fail to graduate. New scientific approaches could help, getting more--and better--working dogs into the hands of people who need them most. My new feature for @science.org!

A yellow Labrador asleep in front of a fireplace

Ours are staying put :-) (no ring doorbells here)

I would guess you could get more than one insurance company to sign on to any lawsuits.

For those familiar w/ "ARkStorm/ARk2.0" flood scenarios for California, a comparable event has been unfolding on the Iberian Peninsula. These ridiculous rainfall accumulations, caused by a long series of extremely moist atmospheric rivers, have brought widespread severe flooding to Spain & Portugal.

‘Know Your Rights’ webinar offers guidance for tribal communities as ICE fears grow - Local News Matters AS CONCERNS ABOUT federal immigration enforcement ripple through Indian Country, the National Congress of American Indians and the Native American Rights Native advocacy groups hosted a “Know Your Rig...

I wrote something that Native American friends and allies may find this helpful, interesting, or not. Please share.

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Do they have any idea how effing hot it gets there in the summer? I’ll let @weatherwest.bsky.social and @christinatoms.bsky.social comment on whether the whole area will be occasionally under water from Arkstorms or turn into permanent wetlands from climate change.

A second improvement might be to modify Delaware (and others) state corporate law so that they have to factor in societal impact in addition to shareholder returns.

“I picked a bad month to stop sniffing glue” 😬 (from the movie Airplane)

Or having to move the channel knob to the middle between 11 and 12 to get station 12 to come in.

Nice of them to ask. We hadn’t thought of that. /sarcasm

“Warm West/Cool East” dipole to develop over North America in late January; mostly dry/warm conditions lead to record-low Western U.S. snowpack - Weather West Yes, it's still record warm out West and the snowpack really is that bad (outside of central/southern Sierra) I'll keep this part pretty short: it has been an absurdly warm winter thus far across nearly the entire American West, including most of California. One of the only exceptions has been CA's Central Valley, where episodes

New Weather West post out now: “Warm West/Cool East” dipole to develop over North America in late January; mostly dry/warm conditions lead to record-low Western U.S. snowpack. I'll be discussing the content therein during Wednesday's livestream. #CAwx

Exhibit 1254 on why I canceled my WaPo subscription

So I will just throw this out there. If ICE employees are basically exempt from being sued, or any legal recourse for their actions, If a bunch of us joined ICE, could we beat the crap out of other ICE employees with no risk of discipline? @joycewhitevance.bsky.social