Twitter’s Proposed “No Replies” Feature Could Be A Nightmare During Weather Emergencies
Twitter announced on Tuesday that they would test a new feature to give users another tool to deal with the site’s rampant and often-unchecked harassment problem. Twitter users will be able to limit who can reply to their tweets, even allowing…
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Weather Matters
Climate change is a profoundly important topic that’s worth almost every ounce of coverage it gets. Understandably, the discussion about how to deal with the problems posed by climate change and solutions to curb these dangerous effects takes up…
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Chemtrails Are a Figment of Your Imagination So Stop Emailing Me You Angry Twitter Eggs
Hello! It’s been a while since I’ve updated this page. It seems some of my old chemtrail debunking posts from The Vane (RIP) are making the rounds again, and lots of people are sending me lots of hate mail because I have the nerve to explain…
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Blizzard 2016: Frequently Asked Questions, Answered
Q: How much snow am I going to get? A: Here’s a snowfall forecast issued on Thursday morning and valid through Sunday morning. Q: Where do I live on that map? A: https://www.google.com/maps Q: Yeah but how much snow am I going to get?…
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A Dusting of Snow Is More Dangerous Than a Foot of Snow
Washington D.C. fell apart in the snow on Wednesday night. No, it wasn’t the big blizzard everyone’s freaking out about. A passing disturbance dropped an inch of snow, and not even an inch in some spots. Yet at midnight the traffic map still…
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Blizzard 2016: Prepare for Zero to Thirty Inches of Snow or Ice or Rain
The breadbakers and cows of America are proud to present the blockbuster feature of Winter 2015-16, an event to rival all model-simulated events, one that will result in the highest number of breathless street interviews since the release of the iPhone.…
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When Storms Threaten Lives, Words Matter
News outlets have to follow a certain narrative in order to cover certain news events. The necessity of driving traffic to rake in advertising money often outweighs the urge to accidentally commit journalism, requiring the development of a sort of prefab…
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Typical! Self-Absorbed Millennials Don’t Remember This Thunderstorm From March 1996
We all know that one special millennial who’s so wrapped up in their overwhelming magnificence that they can’t stop to marvel at the world that revolves around them. One of the greater tragedies of this generation that failed us (because…
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Top Ten Warmest Novembers in the Future, Ranked
If you live east of the Rocky Mountains, you don’t need me to tell you that it was a warm November. Frankly, it’s been a warm fall overall, and with the way things are going, we could have a similar conversation come the end of December.…
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Now That’s What I Call a Cold Front
Some cold fronts sweep through virtually unnoticed. Others crash through with the ugly blow of someone ripping the covers off of you in the morning. That is to say, rude. Winds swirling around a low pressure system up near the Arctic Circle and a broad…
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