If I won the lottery I wouldn't tell anyone, but there would be signs. And by 'signs' I mean cat apartments.
"Damage and impacts from Milton are extensive and widespread and will take many more hours or days to assess fully:
While avoiding the worse of the storm surge, Tampa was deluged with more rain in one day that it had ever received in an entire October.
Milton spawned a tornado outbreak that led to the most tornado warnings ever issued in Florida in a single day, and the second most ever issued anywhere in the United States."
~ D. Kurtz
"A tower crane in St. Petersburg collapsed during the storm and fell into the building that houses the Tampa Bay Times. No injuries were reported. With not enough time to dismantle tower cranes before the storm arrived, warnings had been issued in advance to those near cranes, including the one that collapsed."
"Seems like it will take some time to know just how devastating and deadly Hurricane Milton was. As a strange man once said, it was 'one of the wettest we've ever seen, from the standpoint of water.' As a political matter, it’s unclear why Joe Biden didn’t use his weather machine to aim Milton more directly at the most Republican parts of Florida. A glitch in the firmware perhaps."
~ Brian Beutler
"It's too early to have a full view of the damage done by Milton, and cautious anchors and editors have made that clear. The all-caps headline on the Sarasota Herald-Tribune website this morning was 'EARLY IMPACT,' reflecting the uncertainty of the moment. As the day goes on, we'll learn more about the impacts of the storm surge and flooding, as well as yesterday's tornado outbreak."
~ Brian Stelter
"More than 3 million people in Florida are without power after Hurricane Milton made landfall in Sarasota County on Wednesday as a Category 3 storm, pummeling the area with torrential rains and winds of up to 120 miles an hour. Multiple deaths were confirmed after tornadoes tore through a senior center in Fort Pierce, but officials have just begun assessing the full damage…."
~ Democracy Now
"Multiple deaths were confirmed after tornadoes tore through a senior center in Fort Pierce. Overall, 116 tornado warnings were issued across Florida Wednesday. In St. Petersburg, the storm ripped off the roof of Tropicana Field, the home of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team. A massive crane also collapsed in downtown St. Petersburg, where more than nine inches of rain fell in just three hours. CNN described it as a one-in-one-thousand-year rainstorm."
"Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday got angry at a reporter who asked him about a Wall Street analyst’s estimate that Hurricane Milton could cost the state over $50 billion. …
It’s puzzling as to why he would get upset at a reporter for a legitimate question regarding the financial impact of the hurricane."
~ Hafiz Rashid
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Trump allies fear 'pea-sized brain' strategies are 'chasing away half the electorate'
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Toronto City Council meets today! It’s been a while. Mayor Olivia Chow has set the debate about the island airport as the first order of business, so fasten those seatbelts.
The meeting is streaming here. I’ll post happenings. youtube.com/watch?v=L73NkvaiSQ…
Motions have started to get advance circulated.
- Saxe wants a decision on lease extension by end of 2025.
- McKelvie wants Council to not endorse any of the options for runway safety areas, leaving it to negotiation process.
- McKelvie wants to speed up report timeline.
Council takes an early lunch to allow more time for members to attend a Rosh Hashanah get-together being held by Councillor James Pasternak.
Back at 2 p.m. to land this airport debate.
"What's your long-term view of this airport?" Holyday asks Chow. "How do you see society's grandchildren using this? Do you see a future?"
Chow says, "the airport is serving a function right now" but, "Should it have more flights? Should it have jets? I don't know about that."
"Why wouldn't we do everything we can right now to help this airport?" Holyday asks the mayor.
Chow says again this is about safety. "It's not about the future of the airport." She doesn't think anyone has answers yet on airport growth in the future.
Noting their "energic lobbying effort," Carroll says Chow's motion gives Ports Toronto what they've been asking for: 20 years to take out a loan. She says they should "recognize the win."
"So if that really is what it was about, then we're done! We're actually done."
Councillor Stephen Holyday moves to extend the island airport lease to 2073, a 40-year extension.
"Right now, we are a rudder-less ship that is adrift," he says, calling for a strong show of support for the airport. He says his motion "rolls out the red carpet" for the airport.
"I'm also tired of the games," notes Councillor Fletcher. "I am also tired of being in a perennial mayoral debate in this chamber."
She adds there's been a "full-court press" lobbying effort on this issue. She says there's no "secret motion" to close the airport.
"I challenge anyone in this room to give me a coherent explanation of what travel patterns on earth are going to be like in 2075," says Perks.
I like to think I'll have a jetpack.
Councillors are drifting in for the start of day two. This morning's schedule starts with a salute to Toronto Olympians and Paralympians, followed by a debate about student nutrition programs.
Today's meeting stream is here: youtube.com/watch?v=0JLEFl04uN…
Holyday says his kid already gets breakfast before school and a packed lunch, so, "Why do I want my kid to have the extra calories?" he asks the Medical Officer of Health.
Dr. De Villa says evidence suggests univeral programs do better at getting food to kids who need it.
Holyday says there are "a very small percentage of people that are so desparately poor, that they can't put enough money together to feed their kids" but there's a "whole span" of kids who aren't eating because of "parenting issues."
"Is that the role of government, to parent?"
A Crazier Path to 270:
Can Harris Wrest Alaska Away From Trump?
A poll showed Harris within striking distance of Trump in the reliably Republican state,
but she is a different kind of Democrat than the one Alaska recently sent to Capitol Hill.
The state has become an unlikely talking point for Democratic fundraisers and strategists
as a small but tantalizing presidential election prize after a poll last month showed Harris trailing former President Donald Trump by just 5 percentage points.
— it suddenly seems not impossible for the Harris campaign to scoop up Alaska’s three electoral votes,
offering an alternative path to the 270 electoral votes needed for the presidency.
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Michelle Obama's voting initiative announces more than 500 early voting events
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The Strike
In this image, a snowy egret (Egretta thula) is in the process of pulling back from the water after striking at something beneath.
I've had several inquiries about how to get a print of some my photographs. This is a hobby for me, so I haven't been equipped to handle those requests. But I enjoy what I'm doing and want to share my photographs.
So, I set up an account and website with pixels. My website is:
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If you want a print of one of my photographs, you can get it there, If I haven't loaded it, let me know which one it is, and I'll gladly load it there for you.
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Searching for voters, Donald Trump goes dark(er) with pre-election rhetoric (David Jackson/USA Today)
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Donald Trump Says Project 2025 Author 'Coming on Board' If Elected (Flynn Nicholls/Newsweek)
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[CREATION] Inktober 2024 #10
Le thème est l'eau pour ce 10 octobre. L'élément le plus important de notre planète, à mon sens. J'y ai d'ailleurs consacré une série de photographies, notamment sur son aspect solide (donc la glace). Retrouvez-là sur le book suivant : brunet-photo2.ultra-book.com/
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DeepfakesTracker.org Launches to Combat Deepfake Disinformation - Social Media Lab
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@nitot 👏 pour le dernier épisode du #podcast de l'octet vert.
Ton invitée envoie une grosse vague d'énergie positive, et ça fait du bien 🧡.
Je pense que la loi EROOM est l'avenir de l'informatique.
L'Octet Vert par Tristan Nitot: L'Octet Vert S4E02 — Justine Bonnot de WeDoLow, un logiciel pour optimiser les autres
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Kim Possible
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in reply to Kim Possible • • •@kimlockhartga
i had a dream something was watching me in a room.
i looked up and it was my cat on the wall like spider-pig snarling at me.
i had forgotten about it and it had gone feral.
Kim Possible
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in reply to Kim Possible • • •@kimlockhartga
i felt so bad i had not fed it.
i am a responsible pet owner.
paul OBE
in reply to Kim Possible • • •@kimlockhartga
Comin' out of my cage and I've been doin' just fine
Gotta, gotta be down because I want it all
It started out with a dream, how did it end up like this?
It was only a dream, it was only a dream