Notices by Kim Possible (kimlockhartga@beige.party)

@ai6yr It's incredible. Billionaires need air traffic controllers, too. I know that they are breaking absolutely everything but to what end? Even MAGA folks are balking at some of this stuff.

@Alice @dannotdaniel we should do a group reveal of the horrible events associated with our birthdays. Tag yourself. Mine is synonymous with Hitler's invasion of Poland.

@Infoseepage @DoomsdaysCW holy crap. Metropolitan cities are chock full of squirrels and pigeons.

If they ban antidepressants, people will die. Full stop.

J was explaining to me yesterday that the average North American today knows a lot less about basic geography than we realize. Apparently, students are not being taught geography, and they are failing to learn it on their own. It's shocking.

As an example, every year a professor assigns students an easy exercise: to correctly label the continents on a blank world map. They can't do it. Each year's results are worse than the one before. In addition to incorrectly labeled continents, they confuse oceans, and as you might imagine, countries.

This article is old, but I cannot imagine that the results have improved.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/professor-says-students-can-t-identify-continents-on-map-1.1324022

Disease outbreak in anti-vaxxer area? You don't say.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/health/west-texas-measles-outbreak

February's planetary alignment that won't be seen again for 400 years - 7 aligned planets we can see from Earth. Mark your calendars for February 28th.

https://unionrayo.com/en/planets-alignment-february/

You never know what efficacy to expect, each year that you get your flu shot, but in one of the worst seasons I've seen (since I was a kid) your seasonal flu shot has shown to be rather helpful.

How Effective is the Flu Shot This Year (2024-2025) - Parade

https://parade.com/health/how-effective-flu-shot-this-year-2024-2025

@JamieGC It occurs to me that they do not care about precedent, process, or the law.

It was never about undocumented immigrants. Temporary Protected Status, whether for Venezuelans or Haitians, is not being honored by the ghoul regime.

Trump revokes deportation protections for 300,000 Venezuelans in US – report | Trump administration | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/trump-revokes-protections-venezuelans

Wily E. Coyote is not the biggest villain in The Roadrunner cartoon. A.C.M.E. is.

Earthquake in Texas.
Earthquake in Maine.
Black Hawk Helicopter
Collides with a plane.

Hurricane on the mountain.
Blizzard down on the beach.
Fires and Floods
No solution in reach.

@augieray It's like telling a fit person that they could easily get away with eating something unhealthy, but eating healthy is how they got fit.

Rep. Eric Swalwell landed at the airport minutes before the collision occurred.

@mattblaze who is responsible for clearing the flight path for the helicopter, which seems the more vulnerable?

Look, they're eventually coming for you, too, so you don't need to hold back at all in defending the first people they come for. Get prepared, get loud, get in the way.

You would want someone to stand up and speak up for you.

I don't want to start a run on anything, but with the increasing number of Climate Change disasters (and the ridiculous crackdown on undocumented migrant workers in my country) we may need to stock up on nonperishable food, at least two weeks worth. That sounds paranoid, and I'm not a pepper, but current events point toward at least some interruptions and reductions in the global food supply. You never know when your area might see a crisis event or a shortage. Folks in blizzard-prone areas already do this sort of thing.

Beyond sources of protein like canned/tinned tuna, those freeze-dried meals made for campers can be very convenient to store, since they are mostly flat and lightweight. Just don't rely on those low-nutition carb-heavy emergency kits. I prefer Mountain House brand, but Bighorn Mountain Food and Peak Refuel are highly rated. Meal replacement bars are okay, and may give you the calories and nutrition you need, but probably won't feel like a meal.

If you have room for it, some extra water might be wise to have on hand as well, for preparing those camping meals, as well as for drinking and sanitation.

I keep thinking about that unexpected snow/ice storm in Texas that froze the pipes and left residents with no water, no electricity or heat, and no way to get food.

It can be expensive to do this, so maybe add a little at a time until you have enough set aside for your own family.

@TheEddieShow wake up 100 years later?

Every one of his insults is a projection:

Nasty
Low I.Q.
Not very smart
Weak
Low energy
Lyin'
Lazy
Crazy
Fraud
Lowlife
Fake
Radical
Disaster
Crooked
Phony
Loser
Bought and paid for
The worst
Overrated
Dopey
Disgrace
Cheater
Incompetent
A joke
Biased
Clown
Clueless
Failing
Wrong

@ItsThatDeafGuy for the uninformed like me, what would be the best country in Europe in which to be born? I'm thinking Belgium. Am I way off?