BC is Burning - 19 Aug 2023

Overnight, it started to cheap in. As the sun rose, a Smokey layer formed and consolidated in the mountains above Squamish and started to spread over Howe Sound. Throughout the day, the Smokey layer firmed and lowered to the point that there was a hint of smoke aroma in the air. You would not notice it except that the sweet and salty smell of the sea has been replaced with the inland smells.

The fires are not here. There has been a fire ban for a month and people are careful to honor the ban. This is coming from fires hundreds of miles away near Kelowna in the interior, near Lake Okanagan. There may be contributing fires in Washington and Idaho, but the main fires are interior BC.

The color of the light has an obvious golden tone that has intensified to orange by sunset. The photo shows the morning view.

Twitter shitter - 16 Aug 2023

Absent from Blogger for a while, a couple recent events have forced me back to record the progress of Twitter-X as it swirls ever downward.

Earlier this week, it was announced that Twitter-X had resisted federal supoena efforts to obtain information about Trump's tweets-xeets.  This was evidently an effort by Elon Musk to protect TFG from Jack Smith's investigations.  

Also earlier this week, it was announced that the Twitter-X URL shortener (t.co or something similar) was injecting delays of 5 seconds when redirecting to sites that were not in Elon Musk's good graces, including newspapers that had reported unflatteringly about Elon.  Shortly after this was documented and reported, the delay went away.

And just today, it was reported that a podcaster and professor at NYU, Scott Galloway, had been locked out of his Twitter-X account after he released a podcast unflattering to Elon Musk.  Evidently Galloway said something about unsubstantiated (inflated) range quotes from Tesla.

The only conclusion is that Elon Musk is a thin-skinned adolescent-minded twerp.

Photo is of blackberries coming into ripeness.

https://gizmodo.com/scott-galloway-locked-out-twitter-musk-1850743635