Nentuaby🏳️‍🌈 @Nentuaby@wandering.shop

I asked a girl if she had a hair tie and she pulled one off her carabiner and now I truly understand what futch means

This is pretty cool: Blizzard is selling old World of Warcraft server blades in a nice little display case, and the money raised goes towards a charity organization that build schools and stuff.

https://gear.blizzard.com/us/world-of-warcraft-charity-server-blade

Seriously, you can just be like "I don't like this person" and block them and forget about it. Not everything is the Alamo.

You can just not like someone without having a giant principled reason for it.

Everyone else was finished, I was the last sweaty laborer,

I wanted to give it all the details of life, but my teacher said we had to go in

When we got up to our second floor, classroom I peered out the window

And the scale, my god the scale

My beautiful whale curved gracefully around the top of bus loop, absolutely reigning over all the others

I felt very small

and very

very

proud

I wanted to draw the whale in blue, but before I’d even drawn from nose to tail, a single line, I ran out of blue.

Soon I ran out of every color, and began to beg pieces from the other students.

It was hot, but I kept at it, soon an outline, then fins, then eyes and a mouth

My rainbow whale came together

I took up my yardstick and a piece of sidewalk chalk and gamely measured out, in three foot increments, the full 98 feet

I couldn’t even see my first mark from my last

When I was in elementary school our teacher told us to pick our favorite ocean mammal

I picked the blue whale, because I had recently learned it was the largest thing that ever lived, and that seemed cool

Then she told us we would be drawing our chosen animals

on the bus loop

TO SCALE

RT @JenApparently@twitter.com

Q: Why should you watch #DuckTales?

A. When one of the main antagonists/perpetual failures, Flintheart Glomgold, stages his big plan for revenge, he meta-textually takes over the show's opening credits to make it "GlomTales."

And then this happens. https://twitter.com/JenApparently/status/1171860280436875264

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JenApparently/status/1171863302663790594

@noelle 8008135 character limit to the rescue!

Dear Colleagues,

The fierce storm we know as Hurricane Dorian has concluded its ferocious path through the Bahamas and along the US East Coast. Many of you have contributed to the excellent science that has underpinned the forecasts and current understanding of storms such as this one, which accelerated quite rapidly in intensity. The storm also presented challenges in track which improved with enhanced observations. We know that our collective work, from the scientists in the aircraft penetrating the storm, to the scientists deploying the glider picket line, to the modelers and folks working the physics of the storms, across OAR and in our CI’s, and across all NOAA Lines, we are working the problem in order to give the NWS forecasters the best tools we possibly can to keep America and our neighbors safe. Thank you.

During the course of the storm, as I am sure you are aware, there were routine and exceptional expert forecasts, the best possible, issued by the NWS Forecasters. These are remarkable colleagues of ours, who receive our products, use them well, and provide the benefit of their own experience in announcing accurate forecasts accompanied by the distinction of all credible scientists — they sign their work. As I’m sure you also know, there was a complex issue involving the President commenting on the path of the hurricane. The NWS Forecaster(s) corrected any public misunderstanding in an expert and timely way, as they should. There followed, last Friday, an unsigned press release from “NOAA” that inappropriately and incorrectly contradicted the NWS forecaster. My understanding is that this intervention to contradict the forecaster was not based on science but on external factors including reputation and appearance, or simply put, political. Our NOAA Scientific Integrity Policy and Code of Scientific Conduct make clear that all NOAA employees shall approach all scientific activities with honesty, objectively, and completely, without allegiance to individuals, organizations, or ideology. The content of this press release is very concerning as it compromises the ability of NOAA to convey life-saving information necessary to avoid substantial and specific danger to public health and safety. If the public cannot trust our information, or we debase our forecaster’s warnings and products, that specific danger arises.

You know that the value of our science is in the complexity of our understanding, our ability to convey that understanding to a wide audience of users of this information, and to establish and sustain the public trust in the truth and legitimacy of that information. Unfortunately, the press release of last Friday violated this trust and violated NOAA’s policies of scientific integrity. In my role as Assistant Administrator for Research, and as I continue to administratively serve as Acting Chief Scientist, I am pursuing the potential violations of our NOAA Administrative Order on Scientific Integrity. Thankfully, we have such policies that are independently cited as among the best in the federal community, if not the best. Your NOAA and OAR management and leadership team believes in these policies and principles. I have a responsibility to pursue these truths. I will.

Thank you for your continued excellent work, and your trust. Carry on.

Craig

Last week, an unsigned press release from someone at NOAA contradicted the National Weather Service and backed up Trump's claim that Alabama was in the path of Hurricane Dorian.

This week, the Assistant Administrator of NOAA sent out an email, which has leaked, and which says basically "when I find out whoever did this I'm going to skin you alive, you fucking dumbass".

The text of the email is in the image; it's too long to reproduce.

Job listing sites should be able to filter on company type, by which I mean you oughta be able to say "yeah don't show me anything from a 'well-funded startup' because I actually need usable health insurance and a life."

A friend scored a date for fire play with a lady he's been courting for a while

Her calendar invite calls it "femme Brûlée" and I haven't stopped laughing

Turns out isolated NAZI silos are unsustainable. Who knew? #isolateGab