So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms. And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell... This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names

SCOTUS has just allowed Medicaid to refuse to pay for services from a provider based on politics. In this instance, Planned Parenthood can be pulled as a Medicaid provider.

For the record folks, people with Medicaid have a hell of a time finding primary care services right now. Getting rid of a huge provider because some religious nuts don’t like women’s healthcare is going to be terrible for a lot of people, and on balance will probably kill people.

For Louis Brizuela, leading the microfiche digitization team for Democracy's Library is more than a job—“I feel like I’m making a difference,” he says.

From Supreme Court docs to Canadian archives, he’s preserving history—live on stream. Meet Louis & tune in: ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/06/26/digitizing-democracy-louis-brizuela-takes-viewers-behind-microfiche-scanning-livestream/

Something lost a bit in the amazing images released earlier: Vera Rubin Observatory is a steely-eyed asteroid hunter! It's already found thousands of new ones in just a few nights, and is predicted to find *3.7 MILLION* more.

THREE POINT SEVEN MILLION

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/vera-rubin-observatory-will-find-millions-of-asteroids-millions-513f

In more "recycling is just shipping your plastic overseas where it actually doesn't get recycled"

LA Times: Malaysia will stop accepting U.S. plastic waste, creating a dilemma for California

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-06-26/malaysia-bans-us-plastic-waste-what-will-california-do

#plastic #environment #ReduceRepairReuseRecycle

Brace for impact. The #ECMWF #weather #model promises scorching temperatures over #Europe the coming week. Anomalies of up to 15-20 C higher than normal are expected.

This weather is brought to you by climate change (for those who claim it's been hot before: weather is what happens, climate is the probability it happens. And this has become significantly more probable because greenhouse gases and physics.)

#wx #Climate

New instance, new #introduction !

Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.

One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!

We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy

And many thanks to @sebinthestars for running our former instance!

📷 ESO/G. Vecchia