Chasing Cirrus
@drymeadow.bsky.social
CA water/wastewater policy professional. Housing/finance/rural affairs. The ocean and sky call me (i.e. salt-water and weather nerd). Aspiring sci-fi writer. Sober. Personal Principles: Life, liberty, equity, dignity, good-faith, win-win, transparent.
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Chasing Cirrus
@drymeadow.bsky.social
· Sep 15
So since I have lots of new followers all of a sudden, a little about me: I run policy & advocacy for a non-profit that covers 13 western states and the pacific islands. I focus on water and wastewater, but I also work in housing, community finance, and a few other niche issue-areas.
This meme goes HARDing.
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
This meme goes HARDing.
Oof, that's a rough one.
If you were born after 1976 — which is two thirds of humanity — you've never experienced a colder-than-average year.
That is, a year when the global mean surface temperature was below the 20th-century average (1901-2000 baseline).
That is, a year when the global mean surface temperature was below the 20th-century average (1901-2000 baseline).
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Oof, that's a rough one.
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Colorado River talks hit crunch time as deadline from Trump administration looms calmatters.org/environment/...
Colorado River talks hit crunch time. What's at stake for California water?
Western states in the Colorado River basin are racing a federal deadline to hash out how to share the overtapped river. As the clock ticks down, two questions looms large: Just how real is this deadli...
calmatters.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Colorado River talks hit crunch time as deadline from Trump administration looms calmatters.org/environment/...
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Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
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The Blue Falcon Democrats:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The Blue Falcon Democrats:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
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Edmund Fitzgerald Dem Party
🤝
Both wrecked today
🤝
Both wrecked today
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Edmund Fitzgerald Dem Party
🤝
Both wrecked today
🤝
Both wrecked today
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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The agreement to hold a vote on ACA subsidies is not a concession. It's worth literally nothing. It should be ignored when evaluating the merits of the deal
Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The agreement to hold a vote on ACA subsidies is not a concession. It's worth literally nothing. It should be ignored when evaluating the merits of the deal
Dems need a plank that says that quislings get primaried.
Durbin, Kaine, and King call called as YESes.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Dems need a plank that says that quislings get primaried.
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Every single Democratic senator that votes to cave on this should be immediately ejected from the party, and the national party should immediately start running primary candidates in their districts.
There is no bipartisanship possible with traitors and fascists. You either fight, or die.
There is no bipartisanship possible with traitors and fascists. You either fight, or die.
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Every single Democratic senator that votes to cave on this should be immediately ejected from the party, and the national party should immediately start running primary candidates in their districts.
There is no bipartisanship possible with traitors and fascists. You either fight, or die.
There is no bipartisanship possible with traitors and fascists. You either fight, or die.
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I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not.
This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.
This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not.
This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.
This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.
Guess I'll stop donations to DSCC till Schumer is put out to pasture where he belongs.
What an incredible self-inflicted wound. Just pre-toddler levels of awareness.
What an incredible self-inflicted wound. Just pre-toddler levels of awareness.
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Guess I'll stop donations to DSCC till Schumer is put out to pasture where he belongs.
What an incredible self-inflicted wound. Just pre-toddler levels of awareness.
What an incredible self-inflicted wound. Just pre-toddler levels of awareness.
That Schumer can simultaneously be savvy enough to be a career senator and moronic enough to cave to fascists is just a stunning display of fecklessness. Primary Schumer, get that guy the fuck outta the kitchen.
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
That Schumer can simultaneously be savvy enough to be a career senator and moronic enough to cave to fascists is just a stunning display of fecklessness. Primary Schumer, get that guy the fuck outta the kitchen.
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“‘We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.’”
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
“‘We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.’”
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Simple rule: Stop setting carbon on fire to make energy. It ain't sustainable.
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Simple rule: Stop setting carbon on fire to make energy. It ain't sustainable.
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A high-amplitude flow pattern, characterized by near-record strength ridging and troughing (respectively) over the western and eastern U.S. and a very wavy jet stream, will bring a progression of notable weather to North America in the coming days.
November 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
A high-amplitude flow pattern, characterized by near-record strength ridging and troughing (respectively) over the western and eastern U.S. and a very wavy jet stream, will bring a progression of notable weather to North America in the coming days.
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SciSky and PoliSky, these posts by derek guy are amazing are they not?
Fall is here and many of you may be shopping for an overcoat.
Let me show what you can get as you move up the price ladder. 🧵
Let me show what you can get as you move up the price ladder. 🧵
Here are four overcoats.
— Which do you think is the most expensive?
— Which do you think is the least expensive?
— Which do you think provides the best value?
Answer below. Tomorrow, I will show what you get as you climb up the price ladder for overcoats.
— Which do you think is the most expensive?
— Which do you think is the least expensive?
— Which do you think provides the best value?
Answer below. Tomorrow, I will show what you get as you climb up the price ladder for overcoats.
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
SciSky and PoliSky, these posts by derek guy are amazing are they not?
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Do groundwater rights retirement programs work? There is certainly demand for them in Nevada. For KNPR and the Daily Yonder, I talked to irrigators about their experiences with a pilot program in areas where aquifers are being depleted faster than they are replenished. knpr.org/desert-compa...
Well Into the Future
A Nevada program addressed overallocation of groundwater by paying farmers to use less. Is it working?
knpr.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Do groundwater rights retirement programs work? There is certainly demand for them in Nevada. For KNPR and the Daily Yonder, I talked to irrigators about their experiences with a pilot program in areas where aquifers are being depleted faster than they are replenished. knpr.org/desert-compa...