The US NWS is soliciting comments on the possible use / trial of Bluesky. I plan to encourage them to also look at the fediverse and, at a minimum, use Bridgy Fed to bridge to Mastodon (hat tip to NWS Boston, which is already doing this). #NWS#NOAA#SKYWARN#USWx#MAWx
https://www.weather.gov/media/notification/pdf_2025/pns25-50_comment_Bluesky_at_NWS_HQ.pdf
We're losing #OpenAccess to #weather #data on the #NOAA web site. But #HamRadio operators can still access it directly from the #satellites. They can even decrypt most of it with a new #OpenSource decoder. Here's how.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder
PS: Very grateful to geeks.
#Censorship#DefendResearch#OpenData#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics
"Who needs checks and balances and the separation of powers when you can expand the power of the President and have your own authoritarian?"
#Trump#Texas#SupremeCourt#EconomicElites #corruption #authoritarianism
/12
"In a repulsive show of cowardice and buck-passing, Texas Governor Greg Abbott went on a bizarre tangent about how asking who’s to blame for the historic flood disaster that has killed at least 111 people was for 'losers' and compared the tragedy to…a football game."
~ Daily Dose of Democracy
#ClimateChange #NWS#NOAA#FEMA#Trump#Texas#GregAbbott
/13
https://doseofdemocracy.com/greg-abbott-denigrates-flood-victims-in-vile-exchange/
"Scott Calvert, John West, Jim Carlton, and Joe Barrett of the Wall Street Journal reported that after a deadly flood in 1987, officials in Kerr County applied for a grant to install a flood warning system, but their application was denied. They considered installing one paid for by the county but decided against it."
"[Greg] Abbott’s defensive answer [when asked who's to blame for the Texas tragedy] reveals the dilemma MAGA Republicans find themselves in after the cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service that came before the Texas disaster."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"Fatalities in billion-dollar storms last year alone were nearly equal to the number of such deaths counted by the federal government in the 20 years between 1980 and 2000.
What is extraordinary is that at such a volatile moment, President Donald Trump’s administration would choose not just to minimize the climate danger —"
The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.
"Watch the numbers of people killed in the Texas flooding increase over the next few days. It is hurricane season, so watch for the coverage of those storms and their body counts.
Everybody will forget the numbers in Kentucky and Texas except the families and friends of the dead."
"Reporter: Why was the NWS not pinging their phones before 7? Was it a fundamental failure of the federal government’s responsibility to keep us safe? [Kristi] Noem: 'Trump is currently upgrading the technology in the NWS. We needed to renew this ancient system that has been left in place with the federal government.'”
~ Ron Filipkowski
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-a79
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