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Since 1953-54, at Anchorage airport there have been 32 storms that produced 12 inches (30cm) or more of snow in two days or less. That's an average of less than one every two years. But…there have now been 4 such storms in the past 20 months:
March 5, 2022: 12.2" (31cm)
Dec 5-6, 2022: 12.2" (31cm)
Dec 11-12, 2023: 16.2" (41cm)
Nov 8-9, 2023: 17.2" (44cm)

No, it's not global cooling: 3 out of 4 of these storms occurred with daily average temp above the 1991-2020 normal. #akwx
@Climatologist49

I didn't know that the cool plastic ruler like thing I was playing with was a slide rule. It was just a fascinating thing to bumble around with. I was in early elementary school at the time.

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Google Reader is dying. Long live RSS

I read the news yesterday that Google will sunset Google Reader in July, among other services. I am not a user of that particular service, but I'm a user of syndication. I find it useful, therefore I care for it. Among the several pieces I read on the topic, and judging by the reactions from peeps I follow on Twitter, it appears people care for syndication, and I take comfort in it.

koalie.blog/2013/03/15/long-li

Trump is wrong, the world respects Biden, and laughed at you, orange clown.

"I have always argued that we can't live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, & that every group & nation has, possibly unacknowledged to themselves, some myths by which they live. It remains important to revisit them, understand them & possibly retell them [...]. If it's obscure or invisible to you, you can't budge those understandings."

Listening online to Marina Warner at #YorkshireFestivalOfStory, 22 years on from attending her Clarendon Lectures at Oxford!

#YFOS #storytelling

Data broker’s “staggering” sale of sensitive info exposed in unsealed US FTC filing: Major value in users’ data

A blue coloured map display of the Eastern half of the USA, with each State outlined in a neon red colour line. One of the world’s largest mobile data brokers, Kochava, has lost its battle to stop the Federal Trade Commission from revealing what the FTC has alleged is a disturbing, widespread pattern of unfair use and […]

gadgeteer.co.za/data-brokers-s squeet.me/display/962c3e10-d32

Eyewitnesses reported shaking in #Turkey 4 min ago (local time 22:20:51)⚠
At present, we have no seismic data confirming this crowdsourced detection.❗
More info soon!

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tests are showing piracy levels at 13%

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#LateNightASong
#HashtagGames

𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘥𝘢𝘺…

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