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*!!! Voice*: People are shitting on the dance floor // but the sound was still amazing
Tiffany thought a lot about words, in the long hours of churning butte. Onomatopoetic , she'd discovered in the dictionary, meant words that sounded like the thing they were describing, like cuckoo. But she thought there should be a word that sounds like the noise a thing would make if that thing made a noise even though, actually, it doesn't, but would if it did. Glint, for example. If light made a noise as it reflected off a distant window, it'd go glint! And the light of tinsel, all those little glints chiming together, would make a noise like glitterglitter. Gleam was a clean, smooth noise from a surface that intended to shine all day. And glisten was the soft, almost greasy sound of something rich and oily.
It is giving Terry Pratchett (from Wee Free Men)
"Mayor Scott, I beg to present you, as a Valentines Day gift, the Capital One Arena"
A scene of clone troopers from the star wars prequels landing but all their heads are the Maryland flag
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Post a banger not in English.
youtu.be/3g1uDuA-nBw?...
When do the pop tarts come out?
The book cover shows, in the foreground, a line of utility trucks with orange safety cones is parked along a snow-dusted road. Tall electrical transmission towers and power lines recede into the distance, filling the background. The title, “Disabled Power,” appears in large, bold orange letters centered across the upper-middle of the cover. Above it, in smaller black text, is the subtitle: “A Storm, a Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster.” At the bottom, the author’s name, Angela Frederick, appears in black capital letters.
Join Feb 6, 1 PM ET for Disabled Infrastructure, Disability Resilience, a conversation with Angela Frederick on her book Disabled Power and lessons from Winter Storm Uri and the 2021 Texas power crisis.
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Hearing from staff - text went out this AM
Staff confirmed - ran out of money. Last night was the last night.
We're months out from hurricane and fire season, if the DRF gets that low they can introduce an emergency supplemental spending bill that funds FEMA alone (and housing recovery money for LA). We shouldn't be giving Ds that off ramp. Keep it shut imho
Sen. Tillis calls for Kristi Noem to be fired: “Another part of the Secretary of Homeland Security job is disaster response, and I cannot tell you enough how incompetent…she is on that score as well.”
City of Baltimore's on there? LFG!
A vision of a happier time
Seeing some reactions to the Minneapolis Emergency Management Director's comments from the other day and I swear, EMs are 2nd only to lawyers in finding one little finicky aspect of something to write 5 paragraphs of outraged jargon about when they actually just mean they don't want to help people.
Appropo of nothing at all:
This bill removing FEMA from DHS (and other disaster reforms) has 29R and 18D cosponsors, passed the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and is getting pushback from Homeland Security Dems 👀
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
Everyone: ...
Dudes Rocking:
The best of emergency management right here: telling it like it is
The vibes on this FEMA VAL winter storm call are... interesting (AA of ORR rushed out after opening to say he needed to "assist the secretary on some things")
It ain't going to hurt - that's for sure
I'd trade one of the new shows for a carpeted bridge I swear
Pike is so worried about not following orders and making paella. When was the last time he scanned a planet just because the composition of its atmosphere was interesting?
Discovery and now Strange New Worlds did alot to remove the fundamental "joy of exploration" from it all - so I'm hoping they can walk that back.
Star Fleet Acadamy is adequately goofy - its a good concept and Holly Hunter is great. But I just hate the Star Trek Discovery timeline so, so much. I'll take what I can get though.
PS: Not to mention how it has and continues to weaken how the country responds to disasters www.hsaj.org/articles/687
