URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
927 AM PDT Tue Aug 12 2025
...EXTREME HEAT WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PDT /8 PM MST/
WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with high temperatures between 103 and 106 in Kingman, Golden Valley, and Dolan Springs; between 108 and 112 in Barstow-Daggett, Twentynine Palms, and Yucca Valley; between 112 and 116 in Lake Havasu City, Needles, and Fort Mohave; between 118 and 122 at Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park. Major Heat Risk expected with heat-related impacts possible to much of the population is precautions are not taken.
* WHERE...In Arizona, Lake Havasu and Fort Mohave and Northwest Deserts. In California, Cadiz Basin, Death Valley National Park, Morongo Basin, San Bernardino County-Upper Colorado River Valley,
and Western Mojave Desert. In Nevada, Western Clark and Southern Nye County.
* WHEN...Until 8 PM PDT /8 PM MST/ Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Heat-related illnesses increase significantly during extreme heat events.
#CAwx #NVwx #heatwave #extremeheat
Oooh, this guy builds a dress shirt from scratch by taking his measurements and drafting his own shirt pattern. I guess I should pick up an old bedsheet from one of those garage/estate sales for this kind of thing. (though, i do have a roll of muslin I somehow ended up with, would be useful to prototype a shirt).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDFF6jT43-M
#sewing
Ooh, I forgot I got this in the grab-bag of patterns. Though, will I ever wear a wool blazer? (Mind you, my wardrobe is mostly t shirt and cargo pants, the Hawaiian shirts are formal for me....) #sewing
The Guardian: ‘Petri dish for disease’: attorney raises alarm of possible Covid outbreak at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/12/attorney-covid-outbreak-alligator-alcatraz
#fascism #disease #pestilence #ice #racism
"...The development follows a claim by a woman, a state licensed corrections officer, who said she contracted Covid-19 after working at the camp in unsanitary conditions for about a week last month, and was subsequently fired.
“We had to use the porta-johns. We didn’t have hot water half the time. Our bathrooms were backed up,” the woman told NBC6 News after being granted anonymity to discuss conditions there.
“[The detainees] have no sunlight. There’s no clock in there. They don’t even know what time of the day it is. The bathrooms are backed up because so many people [are] using them.”..."
#fascism #ice
The Guardian: ‘Petri dish for disease’: attorney raises alarm of possible Covid outbreak at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/12/attorney-covid-outbreak-alligator-alcatraz
#fascism #disease #pestilence #ice #racism
Looking at the bolt of wool blend suiting I picked up at an extraordinary price at the JoAnn's clearance... 🤔
🤪
#sewing
Oooh, this guy builds a dress shirt from scratch by taking his measurements and drafting his own shirt pattern. I guess I should pick up an old bedsheet from one of those garage/estate sales for this kind of thing. (though, i do have a roll of muslin I somehow ended up with, would be useful to prototype a shirt).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDFF6jT43-M
#sewing
Hmm, all the sellers of e-bike batteries online (LiFePO4 or Li-ion) are no-name mystery Chinese brands. Are the LiFePO4 actually LiFePO4, or are they Li-ion? Will they explode while charging? Not having any kind of safety standard attached to e-bike batteries and their manufacturing really seems to be unfortunate. (even saw a YouTube video showing the crappy construction of a Bosch battery.. .so even the high end stuff not great). #BikeTooter
Popular offroading YouTubers died in BC, Canada.
B.C. couple behind popular offroading YouTube channel die in crash
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-off-roader-couple-1.7606428
Looks like this is the V71498 wildfire in BC, Canada, very near Port Alberni. Doesn't look good
https://socialbc.ca/@alberniweather/115013676194866963
#BCwx #wildfires
Official information page
https://wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/incidents?fireYear=2025&incidentNumber=V71498&source=map
#BCwx #wildfires
Looks like this is the V71498 wildfire in BC, Canada, very near Port Alberni. Doesn't look good
https://socialbc.ca/@alberniweather/115013676194866963
#BCwx #wildfires
BBC: Jellyfish swarm forces French nuclear plant to shut
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx299eyg7qko
#TeamOrca #NuclearPower
Nuclear jellyfish, swimming around
Said, mon amie! we'll shut the nuke plant down
Come my partisans, let us invade
No more power for the entire town!
One for all, all for one
A jellyfish's life is short
Let's clog up those nuclear power plant filters
Make the BBC report
They may sell nuclear power as green
But the radioactive waste they ignore
We'll make them stop everything
When will the humans ever learn? Zut alors!
#jellyfish #poem (human poem)
AI6YR Ben