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Avi Rappoport
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Well the Post Office ones should be in prison

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TGgregdoucette.bsky.social

Hell, I'll go one better: Trump already had a chance to respond to a hurricane *that hit North Carolina* You'll be shocked to learn how it turned out! Link: www.wbtv.com/story/353984...

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JGjasongorman.bsky.social

In the future, we won't need programmers; just people who can describe to a computer precisely what they want it to do.

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Finally! Marvel and DC's joint trademark on the word "superheroes" has been canceled. We no longer have to be weird about how we use it in our own comics stories, and titles.

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ARavirr.bsky.social

Puerto Ricans are not immigrants.

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DFpartialobserver.bsky.social

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A STATEMENT ON THE FLOODING SITUATION IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA & SURROUNDING AREA: I finally had to log off and get some sleep last night, but I didn't stop thinking about the damage in western North Carolina, where I grew up. I believe that #Helene has created a unique logistics and infrastructure nightmare there which will last weeks and it will take months to recover. The Mountains have Turned into "Islands" Western North Carolina is effectively a series of tiny islands at this point, and I don't mean because of the flooding, but from a disaster perspective. After a major hurricane at the coast, relief and utility services can gradually work their way to the coast as roads open, but the barrier islands are cut off for days or weeks. The same will be true for parts of WNC. NCDOT says 400 roads are closed. Every road/bridge that got washed out also took out water, gas and communications lines with it. This will take weeks to fix and will likely come with great human suffering…
…the likes of which the area has never seen. Relief organizations won't be able to get into the areas where help is most needed due to so many roads being washed out. The best bet for the next week will be helicopters and satellite internet, if people have the hardware. Even flying people/supplies into small airports won't be effective because so many roads are closed. Communications Breakdown It took 24 hours for me to get back in contact with my Mom in Wilkes County. She lost power Thursday morning when Helene was more than 750 miles away. Reed also was unable to get in contact with his Mom as of last night. Here's why. Cell tower providers are only required federally to have 8 hours of backup. In hurricane-prone near-shore areas, they optionally have 24-72 hours backup in some cases. Diesel or Natural Gas generators can run indefinitely. I bet that Cell towers in WNC don't have that additional backup that they do in coastal areas. Diesel generators, the usual way of powering…
…cell phone towers, cannot be reached by road now, as more than 400 roads are closed and I would guess many last-mile roads to cell towers are in wooded areas where many trees have fallen or even dirt roads that may have washed out. I would guess the majority of cell phone towers are down now in WNC. At least 50%, maybe 75%. Natural gas generators, if they exist in WNC, may have had their lines cut by road washouts. Fiber lines have been cut. This could extend the communications outage for a week or longer, I would estimate. Maybe due to smaller population, it won't be the worst cell outage on record but by area, it could be. My mom also had a Landline, which not many people still do. A tree knocked that line down Friday morning and now she only has her cell phone, but no way to charge it. This is playing out for thousands of residents in WNC. Residents In the Dark Almost every county in western NC & SC is 60-100% dark, still this morning. Higher winds than people expected…
...through trees that were full with big leaves and already unstable in wet ground from a wet summer, took down 4.9 million customers concurrently, the most since Hurricane Irma in 2017 according to the guy at PowerOutage.US. 3.6m are still without power this morning. Western NC is mountainous and densely vegetated, making repairs tricky on a good day. Crews will not be able to get to many areas because roads have been washed out. Even as roads are repaired, many people have lines down on their property. At my Mom's house in Wilkes County, the damage is reminiscent of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, even though the winds were less than Hugo in that area (likely because of the wet summer). In 1989 during Hugo, we were without power for at least a week, phone for two weeks, and I think it will be that long for many residents once again. Flooding Beyond Extreme The gauge records broken in WNC are incredible. In some cases the equipment has been washed away but at those gauges that survived…
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This is wonderful news.

Cc0nc0rdance.bsky.social

"[Scotland] has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13." That's honestly so amazing.

HPV vaccine study finds zero cases of cervical cancer among women vaccinated before age 14
HPV vaccine study finds zero cases of cervical cancer among women vaccinated before age 14

In a large Scottish study, no cases of cervical cancer were found among women who received HPV vaccines before they turned 14.

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Since with the news about these newly (re-)discovered #Nasca#Archaeology🏺nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Exclusive: New Nasca Lines Discovered in Peru
Exclusive: New Nasca Lines Discovered in Peru

Armed with satellites and drones, archaeologists discover new Nasca lines and dozens of other enigmatic geoglyphs carved into the earth.

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JShtownjenny.bsky.social

Three people I know personally (of about 20 that I pestered to do it) who checked their registration were suspended. Check, and pass it on.

HManamariecox.bsky.social

Gov. Abbott and AG Paxton are bragging about having “scrubbed” the voter rolls—and the deadline to (re)register is Oct. 7. CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION TODAY. teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/MVP/mvp.do

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ARavirr.bsky.social

Regular cybertrucks are bad enough, but powder blue???

Partial view of a pastel blue cybertruck on a street
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