Zeb Palmer
@zebpalmer.com
Director of Technical Operations / Site Reliability Engineer / Developer
#Idaho #IdahoFire #Progressive #EXvangelical
Links: https://zeb.dev
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(he/him)
#Idaho #IdahoFire #Progressive #EXvangelical
Links: https://zeb.dev
Idaho folks check this out: https://blueskyidaho.com
Signal: zebpalmer.77
(he/him)
"Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal." - Dr. Ryland Grace
December 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM
"Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal." - Dr. Ryland Grace
Shooting in Wallace, #Idaho
Shooter confirmed dead, at least two injured.
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
Shooter confirmed dead, at least two injured.
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
Oh boy. This is all so weird. My next door neighbor was parked in front of the sheriff's office, two girls asked him if he'd drive them home. Just then, the shooter starts shooting, hits the girls and neighbor's truck. Girls jump into neighbor's truck and he hauls ass to the ER.
December 27, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Shooting in Wallace, #Idaho
Shooter confirmed dead, at least two injured.
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
Shooter confirmed dead, at least two injured.
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
Discovery is a bitch...
A smart business person wouldn't expose themselves to it like this.
A smart business person wouldn't expose themselves to it like this.
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
December 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Discovery is a bitch...
A smart business person wouldn't expose themselves to it like this.
A smart business person wouldn't expose themselves to it like this.
The National Weather Service Riverton, Wyoming forecaster is in a mood...
December 26, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The National Weather Service Riverton, Wyoming forecaster is in a mood...
Reposted by Zeb Palmer
When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
Reposted by Zeb Palmer
Crazy to have my outdoor window box looking like this at the end of December.
December 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Crazy to have my outdoor window box looking like this at the end of December.
The crazy thing is, this was pre ubiquitous wifi & cell service. The furby spy theory was that furbies would listen and steal state secrets then tell other furbies what they heard and it'd eventually telephone-game its way back to China.
All bullshit.
All bullshit.
Late 90s people panicked thinking Furby was a spy. Most federal agencies banned them from premises and those of us with access to sensitive information about federal infrastructure were instructed not to have them at home where we might accidentally leak info to the Chinese via the talking dolls.
December 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The crazy thing is, this was pre ubiquitous wifi & cell service. The furby spy theory was that furbies would listen and steal state secrets then tell other furbies what they heard and it'd eventually telephone-game its way back to China.
All bullshit.
All bullshit.
Part of my villain origin story thread
There were a couple articles written about me in tech/fed/fire related magazines when I was about 16 and the fact that I was doing what I was doing was more widely know. I'd already been working for a year or two before then.
For a long time in the USFS & BLM I was "that kid"
For a long time in the USFS & BLM I was "that kid"
December 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Part of my villain origin story thread
Apparently furbies are a thing again.
So I got to tell a whole new generation how dumb it was that I was forbidden from having one by the federal government when they were popular in highschool
Because I was a federal employee and Republican politicians were dumb as shit.
So I got to tell a whole new generation how dumb it was that I was forbidden from having one by the federal government when they were popular in highschool
Because I was a federal employee and Republican politicians were dumb as shit.
December 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Apparently furbies are a thing again.
So I got to tell a whole new generation how dumb it was that I was forbidden from having one by the federal government when they were popular in highschool
Because I was a federal employee and Republican politicians were dumb as shit.
So I got to tell a whole new generation how dumb it was that I was forbidden from having one by the federal government when they were popular in highschool
Because I was a federal employee and Republican politicians were dumb as shit.
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it. And a big warm hug to those who just try to survive it.
December 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it. And a big warm hug to those who just try to survive it.
Reposted by Zeb Palmer
The summit of Fred's Mountain (Targhee) is nearly 10,000 feet in elevation. Its above freezing on Christmas Eve. Expecting rain tomorrow. #idpol
December 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The summit of Fred's Mountain (Targhee) is nearly 10,000 feet in elevation. Its above freezing on Christmas Eve. Expecting rain tomorrow. #idpol
Sent the two managers in my dept a note to check on them (one is dealing with LA flooding) and wish them Merry Christmas.
I mentioned being at the in-laws' Christmas party and the other offered to create a production incident for me.
Ahhhh, I have the best team.
I mentioned being at the in-laws' Christmas party and the other offered to create a production incident for me.
Ahhhh, I have the best team.
December 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Sent the two managers in my dept a note to check on them (one is dealing with LA flooding) and wish them Merry Christmas.
I mentioned being at the in-laws' Christmas party and the other offered to create a production incident for me.
Ahhhh, I have the best team.
I mentioned being at the in-laws' Christmas party and the other offered to create a production incident for me.
Ahhhh, I have the best team.
Reposted by Zeb Palmer
I have neighbors here in Lewiston who are still picking (green) tomatoes. I pulled my tomato plants in October but we still have blooming flowers.
December 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I have neighbors here in Lewiston who are still picking (green) tomatoes. I pulled my tomato plants in October but we still have blooming flowers.
I've been asked a few times here and elsewhere if I remember a winter off to this bad of a start.
A couple weeks ago, I said probably.
We are now in "no" territory.
#IDwx #IdahoFire
A couple weeks ago, I said probably.
We are now in "no" territory.
#IDwx #IdahoFire
December 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I've been asked a few times here and elsewhere if I remember a winter off to this bad of a start.
A couple weeks ago, I said probably.
We are now in "no" territory.
#IDwx #IdahoFire
A couple weeks ago, I said probably.
We are now in "no" territory.
#IDwx #IdahoFire
Reposted by Zeb Palmer
Christmas Eve at bogus basin. Don’t look up.
December 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Christmas Eve at bogus basin. Don’t look up.
Reposted by Zeb Palmer
Reposted by Zeb Palmer
This time of year can be difficult for many, and I am thinking of all of you. I hope that you have friends, found family, community, and your own traditions to light your home. Wishing everyone so much joy today and always.
December 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This time of year can be difficult for many, and I am thinking of all of you. I hope that you have friends, found family, community, and your own traditions to light your home. Wishing everyone so much joy today and always.
When lawyers and politicians get involved in censoring after-action reviews, future lives are put at risk.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Author of LAFD Palisades fire report declined to endorse final version, called it 'highly unprofessional'
Battalion Chief Kenneth Cook's email adds to the growing evidence that city and LAFD officials attempted to burnish the LAFD’s image in a report that was meant to be an honest assessment of the depart...
www.latimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
When lawyers and politicians get involved in censoring after-action reviews, future lives are put at risk.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
December 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Reposted by Zeb Palmer
If an editor in chief turns down multiple opportunities to review a piece, and then pulls it at the last minute after their newsroom has promoted it, she's a bad manager. That's not failing to avoid drama in her own newsroom, as Sally's piece puts it. It's awful for the entire institution.
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
If an editor in chief turns down multiple opportunities to review a piece, and then pulls it at the last minute after their newsroom has promoted it, she's a bad manager. That's not failing to avoid drama in her own newsroom, as Sally's piece puts it. It's awful for the entire institution.
(david attenborough voice)
The elusive Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, common in the elusive Rocky Mountains. #Idaho #Photo
Pretty damn rare I take a sheep photo, they're everywhere... But this one was posing in the snow on the banks of the Salmon and #IdahoEscape needs more photos... So here ya go.
The elusive Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, common in the elusive Rocky Mountains. #Idaho #Photo
Pretty damn rare I take a sheep photo, they're everywhere... But this one was posing in the snow on the banks of the Salmon and #IdahoEscape needs more photos... So here ya go.
December 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
(david attenborough voice)
The elusive Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, common in the elusive Rocky Mountains. #Idaho #Photo
Pretty damn rare I take a sheep photo, they're everywhere... But this one was posing in the snow on the banks of the Salmon and #IdahoEscape needs more photos... So here ya go.
The elusive Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, common in the elusive Rocky Mountains. #Idaho #Photo
Pretty damn rare I take a sheep photo, they're everywhere... But this one was posing in the snow on the banks of the Salmon and #IdahoEscape needs more photos... So here ya go.
I love the confidence of a tech vendor trying to schedule a meeting with me before the end of the year.
Actually, no... I don't.
Actually, no... I don't.
December 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I love the confidence of a tech vendor trying to schedule a meeting with me before the end of the year.
Actually, no... I don't.
Actually, no... I don't.
