Mordant Fights the Virus

Red Flag Warnings in the Cascades this weekend. Record breaking high temperatures + dry easterly winds + less than 10% of normal rainfall since July 4th = about the worst conditions you can get for possible fire starts. Going to the Cascades...be VERY careful! Please! #wawx

been kind of a week in #seattle... TGIF peeps.

YIKES! It's a hot one today and the temps are going to keep getting warmer, but that won't stop our crews from finishing up bridge deck repairs WB between MP 50 and 51 and at MP 55 and 56. Plan for a little extra travel time this week. Things should wrap up by Friday morning.

Just a reminder we have a couple of work zones WB next week, which will require a single-lane closure between mileposts 50 & 51 as well as at mileposts 55 & 56. Work starts Monday and will be complete Thursday. Plan for some added travel time. We are working on bridge decks.

What’s the risk of getting COVID outside? Here’s why new variants may have changed the answer: sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

🚨Map update!🚨 We've updated the map showing the full closure of 520 across Lake Washington to reflect that the HOV ramp will also be closed from 11pm July 8 to 5am July 11 to install large girders over the highway for the new Montlake lid. sr520construction.com/activity/view/…

The BA.5 variant is a beast w/r to immune escape and transmissibility —UK report today on its growth advantage relative to BA.2.12.1 and BA.4 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… —San Diego wastewater today searchcovid.info/dashboards/was…

Giant sunspot doubled in size in 24 hours, and it's pointing right at Earth livescience.com/doubling-sunsp…

The Omicron BA.4/5 subvariants are leading to a new wave in Europe and the United States, with an impact of some increase in hospitalizations ft.com/content/8c8715… @SarahNev @JamieSmythF @jburnmurdoch @TWenseleers

The graph at the left is weeks behind. On the right, from Minnesota's twin cities, is where we are headed. BA.4/BA.5 has more immune evasiveness than BA.1.12.1, more transmissibility, and more pathogenic in the lab and experimental model twitter.com/EricTopol/stat…

@moosechildd @MissRoverTravel OMG! You match the forest! 😊🌲

i don’t have a lot of photos of me bc i struggle with confidence issues but my sweet friend @MissRoverTravel snagged this of me and margaret in the forest the other day and it makes me really happy 💗🌲✨

But now it's that famous $350,000 NFT that resold for only $115--which makes it worth at least $1,500 or so, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Incredible footage of Saturn rising from behind the Moon during a lunar occultation, captured from a ground based telescope by astronomer Jan Koet. Source: bit.ly/3as5V9y

@avalonpenrose 😊🙏

hi i hope all of you can find a little moment of joy in your day today because you deserve to smile and be like “woah it’s pretty cool that im alive rn” for at least like a minute

Philosophers: the only way to solve the trolley problem is to kill one of these groups of imaginary people. Model railway dads:

Watch #Ukraine colors being projected on the Russian Embassy in DC. The Russians didn't like this and tried to wash it out with their own flashlights, but didn't really succeed.

My dog accidentally swallowed a whole bag of Scrabble tiles. We took him to the vet to get him checked out. No word yet…

@chadenelsen love CA Newts! Spent some time with this charmer a few weeks ago.

Take a trip on a cable car in San Francisco 1906, You are travelling down Market Street, four days before the earthquake and fire that destroyed most of the city. Taken from the front of a cable car. (Part 1) Credit Nass (youtube)