Robb Rugeroni

Dude, husband, father, teacher, coach. Order updates daily.

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

Given rising interest in the rapidly strengthening El Niño event in the tropical Pacific Ocean, I've created a one-page fact sheet succinctly describing what El Niño is, this year's (remarkable) forecast, and potential impacts from California to global scales. [Thread]

[Robb Rugeroni @robbdogr]

@SleeperSFGiants #Blockbuster

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“Religion has failed us because long ago it separated us from Nature, which we now call Our Mother, and made us worship things. History has failed us because long ago it convinced us that by reason we could absent ourselves from the pain of life and reach harmony, peace, and plenty.

Science has failed us because it bedded down with wealth, became technocracy, and made so many things that clutter up our lives. We have nothing left but this Ecology…

We can imagine nothing, not a single thing. We reach instead for memories, memories of our future. Instead of going west, we will escape to the moon, the planets, safety beyond the farthest star.

Instead of liberal social legislation we will have liberal environmental legislation, a little tinkering with landfills, a ban on disposable everything, car pools, passive solar design in housing, abundant devices for contraception, mass tree plantings.

We will not question our world, but polish its edges. We will use our memories. And crawl toward our future. And live in this great barren.”

—Charles Bowden, Desierto: Memories of the Future

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

We received a complaint saying that this is spreading misinformation as bees aren’t the only pollinators. Genuinely. Basically, these cats don’t know what they talking about 😂

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A reconstruction of 485 million years of climate history reveals just how unusually rapid Earth’s current warming is.

Scientists have pieced together nearly half a billion years of global temperatures, showing a planet that experienced far more extreme climate conditions than those familiar to humans. Across that span, Earth’s average surface temperature varied from roughly 52°F (11°C) at its coldest to about 97°F (36°C) at its hottest. The planet actually spent more of the past 485 million years in warmer climate states than in colder ones.

The most concerning aspect of modern climate change is therefore not simply the rise in temperature itself. It is the speed at which the change is occurring.

The reconstruction, known as PhanDA, draws on evidence preserved in ancient sediments and fossils, combined with hundreds of climate model simulations. It also demonstrates a remarkably consistent link between atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and global temperature across nearly half a billion years, confirming CO₂ as a primary driver of Earth’s long-term climate.

In the distant past, major climate shifts typically unfolded over thousands to millions of years as volcanoes, shifting continents, evolving ecosystems, and other geological processes altered the atmosphere. Today, humans are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide through the burning of fossil fuels on timescales of mere decades and centuries.

That rapid pace is critical. Forests can migrate, species can adapt, and coastlines can adjust when given sufficient time. Sudden change leaves ecosystems and human societies with far less opportunity to respond.

The record does carry one important limitation. Rocks hundreds of millions of years old cannot capture climate variations year by year in the way modern thermometers do. Scientists therefore cannot use this archive to prove that no brief warming episode in the past 485 million years was ever faster.

What the record does make clear is striking. Earth is capable of becoming dramatically hotter, carbon dioxide has consistently tracked those shifts, and the relatively stable climate in which human civilization developed is by no means guaranteed to persist.

[Judd, E. J., Tierney, J. E., Lunt, D. J., Montañez, I. P., Huber, B. T., Wing, S. L., & Valdes, P. J. (2024). A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature. Science, 385(6715). DOI: 10.1126/science.adk3705]

[Physics-astronomy @Physicsastronmy]

THIS Is What a Solar Eclipse Looks Like From Space 🌑

[LBPLFoundation @LBPLFoundation]

Our community deserves more library access, not less. Only 5 of Long Beach’s 12 libraries are open on Mondays, and proposed budget cuts could end Monday services entirely. Sign the petition today to protect library hours and services across Long Beach: https://t.co/ZBL9X5oIk5

[National Air and Space Museum @airandspace]

Today in 1977, Space Shuttle Enterprise (crewed by Fred Haise and Gordon Fullerton) made its first free flight from a 747 during shuttle approach and landing tests.

[old toons @oldtoons_]

This Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote clip was director Chuck Jones' one of the most favorites.

He included it in his compilation of the best Road Runner gags in his 1979 "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie".

[BrainPOP @brainpop]

Barbecue sauce 🎯

[David Pogue @Pogue]

76 years ago, Ray Bradbury published "There Will Come Soft Rains," an apocalyptic short story about a time when we have wiped ourselves out—but our AI obliviously continues automating our empty smart homes.

Bradbury set the story on August 4, 2026.

https://t.co/0jBNbjt4Ng

[Dead Wrong History @deadwronghist]

Grace Hopper on Letterman in 1986, aged 79, holding a piece of wire: "That is the distance light travels in a billionth of a second. When an admiral asks why it takes so long to send a message by satellite, you point out there are a very large number of nanoseconds."

[Robb Rugeroni @robbdogr]

@MLB @SFGiants Who doesn't love the Kung Fu Panda? Humm Baby!

[MLB @MLB]

The Giants have a Pablo Sanchez bobblehead as a Special Event Item this weekend 😍

Repost and reply for your chance to win one!

[Google Argentina @googleargentina]

Te cruzaste al Doodle de la suerte, COMPARTILO para que hoy salga todo bien. 🇦🇷🙏

Por la última de Leo, VAMOS ARGENTINA!!!!

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Today in 1969, Apollo 11 launched and the mission to the moon carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins began!

[UEFA Champions League @ChampionsLeague]

"It's just a game"

[Scottish Banter @1scottishbanter]

Choose Argentina.
Choose the blue and white.
Choose Messi.
Choose Maradona.
Choose the Hand of God.
Choose the left foot, the low centre of gravity and the ball that somehow never leaves their control.
Choose a nation where football isn’t just a sport, it’s a religion.
Choose packed streets in Buenos Aires.
Choose flags hanging from every balcony.
Choose drums, flares and 90 minutes of absolute chaos.
Choose number 10s who don’t just play the game, they change it forever.
Choose Maradona dancing through defenders like they weren’t there.
Choose Messi walking around the pitch, waiting for the exact moment to ruin someone’s night.
Choose outrageous goals.
Choose impossible passes.
Choose free-kicks that bend around walls and into history.
Choose last-minute winners.
Choose penalty shootouts you can barely watch.
Choose grown men crying in the stands.
Choose the World Cup champions.
Choose a country that gave football two of the greatest players it has ever seen.
Choose temporarily forgetting every argument you’ve ever had about Messi and Ronaldo.
Choose learning the words to Muchachos by kick-off.
Choose backing Argentina with the same passion as someone born and raised in Rosario.
Choose anyone playing England.
Choose Argentina. 🇦🇷

[OneFootball @OneFootball]

This has to be the photo of the tournament so far 😳📸

[The Academy @TheAcademy]

250 years. One unforgettable backdrop.

From city streets and small towns to deserts, coastlines and monuments, America’s landscapes have helped shape some of cinema’s most enduring stories. Happy 250th, America. 🇺🇸

Featured films: Field of Dreams, La La Land, The Florida Project, Easy Rider, The Dark Knight, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Past Lives, No Country for Old Men, Forrest Gump, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, Thelma & Louise, Do the Right Thing, The Way We Were, Rocky