...turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US population is crammed into a vertical bar, one pixel wide. Each pixel is $500 million wide, illustrating that $500 million essentially rounds to zero from the perspective of the wealthiest Americans.
/Nosanitize
http://www.righto.com/2024/10/wealth-distribution-in-united-states.html

Meat recall (USA) mainly prepared foods containing chicken. Toss it or face the Wrath of Lysteria.

https://apnews.com/article/brucepac-listeria-meat-recall-f4d8db2752137f5bdaa5fbfcc12dd3d6

Seems apropos:
Aurora covers the Beatles Across the Universe
#music
https://youtu.be/Zb4sIiGLXvc

136 tracks! Go get you some!

Meanwhile back at Helene relief efforts: Musicians Pull Together Massive Compilation for Western North Carolina Flood Relief
The 136-track “Cardinals at the Window” release features music from Waxahatchee, R.E.M., Phish, MJ Lenderman, and dozens of other artists. All proceeds will go to on-the-ground mutual aid organizations in Western North Carolina.
#Helene #bandcamp #cosomusic

https://cardinalsatthewindow.bandcamp.com/album/cardinals-at-the-window-2

Thing about storm surge, which is already bad one it's own -- imagine a sudden ten foot wave -- it's full of STUFF. Multiple entire docks, boats, cars, arriving at speed. No one can "tough it out", just get as far from the coast as possible. #Milton

If I understand W-E hurricanes (I don't), then Tampa and Orlando being both on the NW side of #Milton are not on the "dirty side" (SE quadrant) --should be spared the highest winds? But will get loads of rain. That sound right @MyRadar ?

Took longer than I thought, about 14 hours. #peppers

Half of Godot showed up, Go I guess. They did do a lot of work real quick. Dot called in sick, no telling when they'll be here to do their part of the job.

Holding my breath, Merida's only seeing ~20 mph winds and no(!) rain yet.
#hurricane #milton

dehydrating a couple hundred peppers because winter is coming.

"Hyperwave patented technology keeps the..."
#fillInTheBlank

Merida, Yucatan, MX Traffic Cameras (also Key West)

https://www.weatherbug.com/traffic-cam/merida-yucatan-mx

damnit I have people in Merida. This is personal now Milton, you and I need to chat.

Called Godot, not showing up today. Maybe tomorrow for sure🙄
Bear boops instead.
/nosanitize

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bear%20curious%20camera&iar=images&ko=-1&iax=images&ia=images

Waiting for Godot^H^H^H a contractor to show up "in the morning". #football #Lucy #obscureReferences #moreCoffeePerhaps

Hand is cramped and I have tendonitis in my elbow: finished the stack of postcards to voters and not 20 minutes later got recruited to phone bank. #vote

@Alfred gimme a random number between 0 and 1 (it can be pseudo-random)

Kyiv Independent tracked down the right name, date of birth and photo of Putin's spy chief, and then went about investigating how various governments failed to do it (TBD).

Investigation: Shattering the secrecy of Putin’s top spy chief
#ukraine
https://kyivindependent.com/investigation-shattering-secrecy-of-putins-top-spy-chief/