“Achatina, a genus of giant African land snail, was the life's study of Albert R. Mead.” And so the headline for Mead’s obituary in 2009 included the phrase “Death of a snailsman.” tucson.com/news/article...
It was such a joy to watch!
The priest Sabrina Carpenter's people paid to shoot a music video in a Catholic church is under investigation for Eric Adams stuff.
Update: According to NOAA, which runs NCEI, the building in Asheville currently has electricity but no running water. Also, the center's network connection is down, an outage expected to last days.
Weimar ass headline
Donald Trump mused on Sunday about “one really violent day” as an answer to what he has described as a plague of unchecked property crime in U.S. cities. The FBI last week reported a decline in property crime in 2023.
The remarks were the latest example of his praise for executive power and force in imposing order, this time over crimes the F.B.I. said last week were falling.
Reporter: Many are pointing out that Trump’s Project 2025 calls for dismantling NOAA and the National Weather Service, which tracks storms like Hurricane Helene
I find it striking how in the aftermath of Helene, libraries are providing crucial community services like free wifi while cops are guarding stores with rotting food from potential "looters" instead of serving and protecting people. Worth considering how we spend local funding.
The real way he should be remembered: dying from the poor interface designs he loves.
Touchscreen airlock controls requiring skin contact!
clowns to the left of me. jokers to the right. jesters as far as the eye can see ahead; tricksters lined up behind. taking a little relief in the fact that underneath me is simply the fresh soil of the sweet earth that birthed us all, but then i look up, and oh no: buffoons