Notices by Hippy Steve (exador23@m.ai6yr.org)

Egads. Just saw a #permaculture recommendation of brown mustard in burn scars to remediate lead and other heavy metals.

Please don’t plant any variety of mustard in burn scars. It’s a very invasive plant that will result in vast fields of an annual that dries out by late summer leaving flashy fuels tall enough to ladder a grass fire into a canopy fire.

Mustard seeds scattered by Spanish colonizers so they could retrace their steps is a significant reason why some SoCal landscapes have changed from chaparral that burns every decade or two to grasslands that can burn every year

Dave Blazek

@ai6yr you are correct sir. Look for the FDIC to be dismantled soon and the ultra rich to shift assets offshore.

@evan yes, provided they are affiliated with the organizers of the protest event. Or have been invited to speak or take on a leadership role. Otherwise polite participation while giving space and listening to the organizing group would be most appropriate.

The future is so easy...

Wow. this is quite the read.

a statement from a USAID worker in the Congo in the court case filed by The American Foreign Service Association against Trump, et al.

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/marcus-doe-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-declaration-usaid-evacs.pdf

Trump/Musk firing a buttload of nuclear weapons safety personnel on Thursday, realizing it was a mistake on Friday and trying to re-hire them, but being unable to reach them because they disabled their emails upon firing pretty much sums up this administration.

Orange radar blob about to pass over the #EatonFire scar. 0.52"/15 min capable. La Tuna Canyon is saw that much from it

A california state senator inviting me to "Tacos & Taxes" feels a little insensitive and focused on the wrong things at this juncture in in the political landscape.

GIANT UNCONTROLED ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENT: Since 2018, SpaceX has placed more than 7,000 Starlink satellites into Earth orbit, and now they are starting to come down. In January alone, more than 120 Starlinks deorbited.

"The sustained rate of daily reentries is unprecedented," says Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics who tracks satellites. "They are retiring and incinerating about 4 or 5 Starlinks every day"

The demise of just one Gen1 Starlink satellite produces about 30 kg (66lbs) of aluminum oxide, a compound that eats away at the ozone layer. A new study finds these oxides have increased 8-fold between 2016 & 2022

https://spaceweather.com/

ABC7 has been focusing on Eaton Fire. The footage is very sad. So many homes on fire. urban conflagration. And these aren't mansions. Altadena isn't a particularly posh neighborhood.

#Covid is nearly as prevalent in #LosAngeles #wastewater as it was during prior ~holiday~ surges... and is still rising fast.

Act accordingly.

UN Special Rapporteur nails the situation in Gaza. It's ethnic cleansing, genocide, domicide, and a "a very grave war crime under international law, particularly given Israel’s status as an occupying power."

He likens it to a 'turkey shoot':

"They are just doing target practice on the people of Gaza"

Reports that a #Belgium TV channel interrupted #Eurovision with a message about Israel’s genocide and repression of the free press.

“This is a union action. We condemn the human rights violations committed by Israel. Additionally, Israel is destroying press freedom. That is why we are pausing the broadcast for a moment. #CeaseFireNow #StopGenocide"

#Union action

DemocracyNow: Two accidents on Boeing 737 passenger jets took place Thursday. In Senegal, a 737-300 caught fire & skidded off the runway as it was preparing to take off, injuring at least 10 people. In Turkey, a tire on a Boeing 737-800 aircraft burst upon landing. The 190 people on board were safely evacuated. Just 1 day earlier, a Boeing 767 FedEx plane landed at Istanbul airport without its front landing gear deployed, its nose hitting the runway.

The trio of accidents come as another whistleblower formerly employed by Boeing’s largest supplier, came forward. Santiago Paredes told reporters he used to regularly find up to 200 defects on fuselages that were being delivered to Boeing.

Recap of the day's events in #Gaza from AlJazeera.

It's pretty clear that the invasion of #Rafah has begun. Biden's "red line" was scribed with invisible ink.

The savagery and violence of some Israeli citizens needs to be reigned in. Maybe if their police forces weren't busy assaulting families of the hostages protesting for a ceasefire to bring their relatives home, they could bring some rule of law to their citizenry.

Without strong action by the Israeli government, we should consider them a failed pariah state, not 'the only democracy in the mideast'

Philippe Lazzarini is the Commissioner-General of
#UNRWA

☝︎TLDR: Armed Israeli residents set fire TWICE to the #UNRWA headquarters in East #Jerusalem last night while staff were inside. The mob was chanting "Burn down the #UnitedNations."

Israeli police and fire were slow to respond, forcing the director and staff to try fighting the fire themselves while surrounded by an armed mob - very dangerous.

This is the second attack in a week, and protests by similar angry mobs have been ongoing for 2 months - called by member of the #Jerusalem govt. And staff have faced harassment and intimidation and guns pulled on them.

So the compound is being closed until #Israel can ensure it's protection as required by #InternationalLaw

A couple hours later, and "UNRWA Jerusalem" search reveals BBC, The Guardian, and AP have all added stories about the attack on their compound by an armed Israel mob that set fire to it.

Still no Reuters, NYTimes, Wapo, etc showing up via search yet. But at least AP picking it up means a number of local US papers that rely on their content will probably print the news.

What sort of world are we living in, where an attack on a UN facility isn't big and immediate news???

Once again, I can currently find no western news articles about the attack on UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem.

Searches on both Google and DuckDuckGo for "UNRWA attack" and "UNRWA fire" are either non-western sources, or are about the allegations of Hamas affiliated staff. "UNRWA Jerusalem" provided the most relevant results, but again, no western sources show up.

Where are you Reuters? BBC?