How to spot a stroke. (The faster you can get them to care, the less damage that occurs. Better to call 911 and have them checked out at the ER than wait and possibly have major, permanent damage). #FirstAid #strokes

@ai6yr Fun fact from the Socorro Is. Wikipedia page:"Archie Smith, an American laborer from San Diego, was marooned on the island for one month in 1929 before being rescued by a passing fishing boat. This was because the expedition that brought him to the island to shear wild sheep returned to port for supplies, but went bankrupt and could not return."

@ai6yr My partner Brian worked at a group home a few years back. One day, another employee came in from taking out the trash, shrieking in panic that there were raccoons in the dumpster. They were shouting, "Call animal control! Don't anybody go out there!" Brian was a relaxed unflappable guy, and he calmly said, "Leave them to me". He found a large fallen tree branch, and tossed it into the dumpster, so that it slanted up towards the rim. Then he talked to them, saying stuff like, "Ok, party's over, you guys had better go while the going's good, otherwise they're going to call animal control on you. C'mon, let's move along!" They obediantly climbed up the branch, dropped to the ground, and scurried off into the woods. This news story reminded me of Brian's raccoon story, sort of... He never tried to give a raccoon CPR, though!

@ai6yr Historians claim current America is quite a bit worse than the old west."Tombstone had much more restrictive laws on carrying guns in public in the 1880s than it has today,” says Adam Winkler, a professor and specialist in American constitutional law at UCLA School of Law. “Today, you're allowed to carry a gun without a license or permit on Tombstone streets. Back in the 1880s, you weren't.” Same goes for most of the New West, to varying degrees, in the once-rowdy frontier towns of Nevada, Kansas, Montana, and South Dakota.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-control-old-west-180968013/

Hey, all those worries privacy advocates have had about Stingray (fake cell phone data collection devices) being abused? GUESS WHAT.Forbes: How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phoneshttps://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2025/09/09/how-ice-is-using-fake-cell-towers-to-spy-on-peoples-phones/#privacy #cybersecurity #stingray #fascism #ice #bigbrother

@ai6yr @coolandnormal @ChrisKillat Apple watch knows when you're masturbating.Just saying.

@ai6yr @ChrisKillat I almost said "Hey I do all the time!" And then I checked my birth certificate.

@ai6yr To me, it looked like the shots came from Kirk's right, which would also be the right side of this image.

Oooh, looks like the local university wants me to teach my GIS class again! Will get to work on improving my lectures. I will need to find another or different textbook, the one I used last time was only so-so... Any GIS folks here have any favorite books on practical use of satellite/remote imaging? (I used Lillesand's Remote Imaging and Interpretation, but it's less applied skills and mostly theory. Less math and algorithms, more concepts would be preferable--teaching this to Environmental Science and Resource Management students).#gis #gischat #satellites #remoteimaging

Founders of Ben & Jerry unhappy with the brand:"When we founded Ben & Jerry’s in 1978, we had a simple but radical idea: that a business could thrive by making great products while standing up for progressive values and social justice. Over the past five decades, Ben & Jerry’s has become successful precisely because people know it stands for something deeper than ice cream......For several years now thevoice of Ben & Jerry’s has been silenced by Unilever, particularly when the brand has tried to speak out about social justice and unjust wars. That is not the Ben & Jerry’s that we founded, or the one that we envisioned when we agreed to join Unilever 25 years ago...."https://freebenandjerrys.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/BNJ-Final-Board-Letter.pdf#icecream #politics

The moon is so bright it is generating .21V on one of my solar panels! #moon

AP: Undersea cables cut in the Red Sea, disrupting internet access in Asia and the Mideast https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2025-09-07/red-sea-internet-cables-cut-19004255.html

A new ham radio amateur got an antenna I gave for him for free a couple of years ago on the air (recently got General Class). Hooray! 17m dipole. Cost a whopping nothing (SO-259 connector removed off a non-working CB radio, soldered to a couple of pieces of salvaged wire, LOL). New radio amateurs always ask what brand of HF antenna to buy, and how much to spend, and I always tell them to NOT pay money for antennas and just build a dipole to start. #hamradio

LA Times:People can’t get COVID vaccines as cases surge. Anger is building against Trumphttps://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-05/covid-vaccines-are-harder-to-get-under-trump-and-people-are-angry-about-it#politics #vaccines #covid

Also this..."...if you want a search experience without AI-generated images, without Search Assist answers, and without Duck.ai prompts and entry points, start your searches on noai.duckduckgo.com instead of duckduckgo.com...."