Raz Rasmussen
@lulabeast.bsky.social
I 💙 high places. Olympic Peninsula, Upper Left, USA. Ocean/climate scientist, SIO (ret). MIT/Woods Hole Joint Program. EMT, WFR 🚑 ridiculously #ADHD
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The best of barndom.
October 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The best of barndom.
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Before you fall asleep poorly tonight, slow down to enjoy one of my cutest videos of Baby Bird Season 2025. It doesn't get much better than this 🥰 🪶
In this moment of anxiety, please enjoy a baby goose falling out of an adult gooses wing.
Yes I wrote that sentence.
Yes this happened.
Yes it's ADORABLE.
No I don't think I'll capture a cuter goose moment this year. 🐣 🪶
Yes I wrote that sentence.
Yes this happened.
Yes it's ADORABLE.
No I don't think I'll capture a cuter goose moment this year. 🐣 🪶
October 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Before you fall asleep poorly tonight, slow down to enjoy one of my cutest videos of Baby Bird Season 2025. It doesn't get much better than this 🥰 🪶
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“Ooh, can you put it on speaker? I want to hear 911 laugh at you.”
A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.
September 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“Ooh, can you put it on speaker? I want to hear 911 laugh at you.”
I'm not a Bernie-or-bust partisan but this year he's provided such a tireless voice in defense of democracy. IMO the strongest counter to the volatility of the moment would be to replace 99% of responses with this simple, matter of fact message distilled from years of experience.
In Wake of Charlie Kirk Murder, Sen. Bernie Sanders Addresses Rising Political Violence in America
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
youtu.be
September 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I'm not a Bernie-or-bust partisan but this year he's provided such a tireless voice in defense of democracy. IMO the strongest counter to the volatility of the moment would be to replace 99% of responses with this simple, matter of fact message distilled from years of experience.
Today's pickings.
September 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Today's pickings.
A community consumed by joylessness within can't sustain life, even its own. We will win.
Jaw dropping murmuration of thousands of sanderlings tonight.
Our enemies are cowards who even at the peak of their power are bitter and joyless.
We are going to defeat them.
Together 💜
Uncompressed: youtu.be/LSpTgH2PcDc
#birds
Our enemies are cowards who even at the peak of their power are bitter and joyless.
We are going to defeat them.
Together 💜
Uncompressed: youtu.be/LSpTgH2PcDc
#birds
September 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
A community consumed by joylessness within can't sustain life, even its own. We will win.
Doggo in the Dungeness.
September 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Doggo in the Dungeness.
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If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
August 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
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AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
iconic photo
the shoes in hands
the shoes in hands
this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...
By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following
By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following
August 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
iconic photo
the shoes in hands
the shoes in hands
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🚨 Wolves Need Your Voice! Congress is considering harmful riders in the upcoming Interior appropriations bill that would strip protections for gray wolves in 44 states and weaken the ESA.
📢 Take action to protect wolves and endangered species: engage.nywolf.org/site/Advocac...
📢 Take action to protect wolves and endangered species: engage.nywolf.org/site/Advocac...
Urgent - Wild Wolves and Other Animals Need Your Help!
engage.nywolf.org
August 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
🚨 Wolves Need Your Voice! Congress is considering harmful riders in the upcoming Interior appropriations bill that would strip protections for gray wolves in 44 states and weaken the ESA.
📢 Take action to protect wolves and endangered species: engage.nywolf.org/site/Advocac...
📢 Take action to protect wolves and endangered species: engage.nywolf.org/site/Advocac...
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New comment in @TheEconomist from @Scripps_Ocean's Ralph Keeling on Trump and climate science: www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
Donald Trump’s war on climate science has staggering implications
Even a policy of “drill, baby, drill” would imply more climate research, not its evisceration, says Ralph Keeling
www.economist.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
New comment in @TheEconomist from @Scripps_Ocean's Ralph Keeling on Trump and climate science: www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
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This was recorded in a parallel universe where Fox Business exists but batteries do not.
Burgum: "When the sun goes down, you have a catastrophic failure called sunset and there's no solar energy produced, and yet we're subsidizing these things that are intermittent, unreliable, and expensive. We've gotta get back to base load."
July 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This was recorded in a parallel universe where Fox Business exists but batteries do not.
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If you'd like to let the Secretary of the Interior know about this new invention called "the battery," you can contact him here:
July 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
If you'd like to let the Secretary of the Interior know about this new invention called "the battery," you can contact him here:
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Good night. 🗺️
July 31, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Good night. 🗺️
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This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.
July 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.
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Fuck ICE
Fuck Trump
Fuck war
Fuck everything about that.
All power to nature and the working class.
Since we exist in a lawless world, I'm breaking a personal rule and posting a snowy plover chick within 6 months of capturing.
Exclusively on bluesky. 🪶 🐣
Fuck Trump
Fuck war
Fuck everything about that.
All power to nature and the working class.
Since we exist in a lawless world, I'm breaking a personal rule and posting a snowy plover chick within 6 months of capturing.
Exclusively on bluesky. 🪶 🐣
June 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Fuck ICE
Fuck Trump
Fuck war
Fuck everything about that.
All power to nature and the working class.
Since we exist in a lawless world, I'm breaking a personal rule and posting a snowy plover chick within 6 months of capturing.
Exclusively on bluesky. 🪶 🐣
Fuck Trump
Fuck war
Fuck everything about that.
All power to nature and the working class.
Since we exist in a lawless world, I'm breaking a personal rule and posting a snowy plover chick within 6 months of capturing.
Exclusively on bluesky. 🪶 🐣
Regarding ongoing discussion of training students to evaluate sources of information -- it's heartening to see much serious attention by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and others. But I'm stumped why academics in particular are still so stumped by this!
I was teaching this to intro oceanography students 15 years ago with the part of my course that covered climate change. It could be incorporated into virtually any class, from primary school age through college. Very easy to do & probably the most valuable thing they will learn!
July 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Regarding ongoing discussion of training students to evaluate sources of information -- it's heartening to see much serious attention by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and others. But I'm stumped why academics in particular are still so stumped by this!
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We recently reported DOGE created AI tool. It didn’t go well
“I would never recommend someone do what my code says. It’s like that ‘Office’ episode where Steve Carell drives into the lake because Google Maps says drive into the lake. Do not drive into the lake”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“I would never recommend someone do what my code says. It’s like that ‘Office’ episode where Steve Carell drives into the lake because Google Maps says drive into the lake. Do not drive into the lake”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
July 28, 2025 at 2:43 AM
We recently reported DOGE created AI tool. It didn’t go well
“I would never recommend someone do what my code says. It’s like that ‘Office’ episode where Steve Carell drives into the lake because Google Maps says drive into the lake. Do not drive into the lake”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“I would never recommend someone do what my code says. It’s like that ‘Office’ episode where Steve Carell drives into the lake because Google Maps says drive into the lake. Do not drive into the lake”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Yo. Look at how cute this prairie dog pup is. Omg.
Taken outside the passenger side of my car window right after it rained, ergonomically painful, but absolutely worth it!
Video to be added later 🗺️
Taken outside the passenger side of my car window right after it rained, ergonomically painful, but absolutely worth it!
Video to be added later 🗺️
July 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Yo. Look at how cute this prairie dog pup is. Omg.
Taken outside the passenger side of my car window right after it rained, ergonomically painful, but absolutely worth it!
Video to be added later 🗺️
Taken outside the passenger side of my car window right after it rained, ergonomically painful, but absolutely worth it!
Video to be added later 🗺️
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THANKS, COLUMBIA!
Exclusive | White House Seeks Payments From Other Universities—Including Harvard—After Columbia Deal Sets Precedent - WSJ
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Exclusive | White House Seeks Payments From Other Universities—Including Harvard—After Columbia Deal Sets Precedent
The Trump administration is in talks with several schools about future funding following allegations of antisemitism.
www.wsj.com
July 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
THANKS, COLUMBIA!
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100 years ago, they came for UNC-Chapel Hill.
They accused it of teaching evolution, non-heroic US history, and anti-racism. They threatened its budget.
Pres. Harry Chase fought back and won. He told voters that if they wanted a “real university,” there could be no ideological control.
They accused it of teaching evolution, non-heroic US history, and anti-racism. They threatened its budget.
Pres. Harry Chase fought back and won. He told voters that if they wanted a “real university,” there could be no ideological control.
July 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
100 years ago, they came for UNC-Chapel Hill.
They accused it of teaching evolution, non-heroic US history, and anti-racism. They threatened its budget.
Pres. Harry Chase fought back and won. He told voters that if they wanted a “real university,” there could be no ideological control.
They accused it of teaching evolution, non-heroic US history, and anti-racism. They threatened its budget.
Pres. Harry Chase fought back and won. He told voters that if they wanted a “real university,” there could be no ideological control.