Jeva Lange 🫎

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Scoop: FEMA Cancels All Emergency Manager Trainings Except for those related to the FIFA World Cup.

@jeva.bsky.social reports that, amid the DHS shutdown, "the Federal Emergency Management Agency has suspended all of its training and education programs for emergency managers across the country — except for those 'directly supporting the 2026 FIFA World Cup.'"

Not great!

nothing can be done, it's the spider's museum now

This reminds me of when I was going to visit the Helsinki Museum of Natural History until I saw the "spider infestation" subhed on its Wikipedia page bsky.app/profile/jeva...

I once illegally entered Mexico on accident and then had to illegally reenter the U.S.

Eighty-seven dead means there are hundreds of people who are now mourning sons, husbands, brothers, best friends, and fathers and … why

What would we do without such essential tools

Yesterday my friend sent me a two-sentence message on Instagram and Meta asked me if I wanted AI to summarize it

Coming out of my office at my parents’ house like, “Ah, good, the child has gotten her Throwing Stuff on the Ground practice in for the day”

Tell me where my five-month-old has been playing without telling me where my five-month-old has been playing

Judge to Trump on Congestion Pricing: Get Outta Here “It is difficult to imagine more arbitrary and capricious decisionmaking than that at issue here.”

"It is difficult to imagine more arbitrary and capricious decisionmaking than that at issue here"

Congratulations!!! What a great gig

Laughing at the o rly owl in the year of our lord 2026

Hanging out with my brother and talking about old internet memes and my husband is on his phone just quietly laughing to himself and I looked at his phone at it’s just a picture of the o rly owl

Interviewer: You might be able to catch some. It's all completely virtual. It's very simple, but it's also an overlay of physically based information that now exists on top of the real world. Herzog: When two persons in search of a pokémon clash at the corner of Sunset and San Vicente is there violence? Is there murder? Interviewer: They do fight, virtually. Herzog: Physically, do they fight? Interviewer: No- Herzog: Do they bite each other's hands? Do they punch each other?

Happy 30th birthday to Pokémon. Without it, the greatest Werner Herzog quote of all time would not exist.

The thing that always haunts me in moments like this is all the stories we will now never, ever hear about.

i'm a big fan of magazines, investigative reporting, and longform, all of which requires staff and institutions, but the really really dire thing that indie media can't replace? the fucking wire services

I was in a tea shop the other day where I overheard people trying to guess what Audubon means (bird in French?) and I deeply regret not going over to their table and saying “no, actually it’s ‘good bird’ in French”

Honestly still is

(You should watch this! Could be the oldest moving image you've ever seen!)

I love how for like, most of human history, the funniest thing in the world was someone getting bopped on the head

Trump: Mamdani 🫶

“Zero illegal aliens have been admitted.” Okay yeah, definitionally …

The Future Will Be Blizzardy The Northeast is in the middle of its first true blizzard in years. That long gap wasn’t because of climate change, though.

It’s been nine years since New York had a proper blizzard. Is that because of climate change?

Nope, Penn State’s Colin Zarzycki told @jeva.bsky.social. If anything, blizzards are set to get worse as the world warms.

Read their full conversation:

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This chart says it all

Someone's got to send those calendar invites out......

I am having the worst NYC weather fomo!!! It’s 44 degrees here, there is no glory in 44 degrees!!! Never leave New York!!!

Whoa, cool! Thanks for flagging this (and sharing my story!)

This is such a New England headline. But it very might well work, as @jeva.bsky.social indirectly explains:

(TL;DR: if you make a giant pile of snow, melting reduces the air between individual snowflakes and the surface area, so you now have a dense and stable insulation layer)