The Evening Blues - 12-18-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 12/18/2025 - 3:44pm
Open Thread - Thurs - 18 Dec 2025 - Weather Comes, Weather Goes - Hopefully
Submitted by Sima on Thu, 12/18/2025 - 5:00am
Weather Comes, Weather Goes - Hopefully
It's been kinda insane where I live, recently. The Wind! The Rain! The Floods! We lost access to the internet a few times, and lost power as well. Monday afternoon/night, after we lost power, our weather station (which has battery backup and can store data without mains power for about 24 hours or more) recorded wind gusts of 42 mph. And that is basically a record at the farm. Even the neighbor's cows don't make wind gusts that strong! 
So, I'm posting this quickly, because the forecasters say we are going to get another round of wind and rain tonight. It's not supposed to be 'as bad', so there's that, but we are hunkering down expecting to have no power or internet regardless.
The Essex and the Whale, as drawn by Thomas Nickerson, one of the surviving sailors - Public Domain, Link
The Evening Blues - 12-17-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 12/17/2025 - 4:37pm
OT WE 17 DEC ~ Colorful Nature
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Photographers Around the World Capture Astonishing Auroras During the Solar Maximum
The Evening Blues - 12-16-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 12/16/2025 - 3:01pm
A river runs through it
Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 12/16/2025 - 10:05am
Good morning everyone.
Wringing everything out from the last atmospheric river flowing through the Pacific Northwest. It was a doozy.
Otter Creek through the Farm was up 4 ft. and washed a lot of debris down and out into the Cowlitz River, itself at flood stage.
The faces of war.
Submitted by burnt out on Mon, 12/15/2025 - 11:57pmI read a few days ago that the official death toll in Gaza had passed 70,000. I have no idea how accurate that is but I think it’s safe to say that number is low, and probably very low.
The Evening Blues - 12-15-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 12/15/2025 - 3:58pm
12/15 Open Thread - Bill of Rights Day
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 12/15/2025 - 5:00am
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The Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 12/14/2025 - 6:10am
Pirates, Thieves, and Murderers
Onward with the degradation of the West. Taking tankers full of oil...how do they connect that with a so called drug war? Then in the EU the bureaucrats dictated new laws with no vote to allow Ursula fond of Lying to steal Russia's money deposited in the EU. Murder in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen continue unabated using US weapons that we tax payers purchased. Meanwhile Russia continues to advance in Ukraine. End of empire is in the air...
