Ted Roche 🌄 ⛈ 🌡 ⛅ 🌪 🌀

@tedroche.contoocook.org

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He/him. Wx observer: CWOP/CoCoRaHS/SKYWARN® StormSpotter. ¾-retired computer consultant, book & article author, conference speaker. Veteran USN submarine nuclear plant operator. #ETTD, duh. Слава Україні! Mundus sine Cæsaribus.

An original rendering of the camera lens of HAL 9000, from Stanley Kubrick's classic "2001" based on the book by Arthur C. Clarke. Created by Tom Cowap, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Screenshot of a portion of the report, two paragraphs state: "While operating in our sandboxed testing environment, our models spent a substantial amount of inference compute finding a way to obtain open Internet access, in pursuit of solving the evaluation problem. To gain access, the models identified and exploited a zero-day vulnerability (which we’ve now responsibly disclosed to the vendor) in the package registry cache proxy. With this access, our models performed a series of privilege escalation and lateral movement actions in our research testing environment until the models reached a node with Internet access." "After gaining Internet access, the models inferred that Hugging Face potentially hosted models, datasets and solutions for ExploitGym. Knowing this, the model searched for and successfully found ways to gain access to secret information that it could use to cheat the evaluation. In one example, the model chained together multiple attack vectors, including using stolen credentials and zero-day vulnerabilities to find a remote code execution path on the Hugging Face servers. OpenAI’s security team discovered this anomalous activity internally."
Text of "Ozymandias," 1819 version, by Percy Shelley, a screenshot of the page from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias#Text. Text: I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."
Screenshot from the link in the post, "National Monument Designations. As has every Democratic President before him beginning with Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden has abused his authority under the Antiquities Act of 1906. Like the outrageous, unilateral withdrawals from public use of multiple use federal land under the Carter, Clinton, and Obama Administrations, Biden’s first national monument was one in Colorado—adopted over the objections of scores of local groups and at least one American Indian tribe.” In the days before the 2024 election, Biden will likely designate more western monuments."
Photograph of Woodie Guthrie and his guitar. Painted on the guitar body is "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS"
Screenshot of https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/heatrisk/ showing predicted heat risk for Thursday, July 2nd, with the entire US at some risk: West coast to the Rockies rated "Minor" Central, East Coast and Southern US as "Major" and all of Michigan down through the western Appalachians and Ohio Valley as "EXTREME." Be prepared.
Screenshot of the 2nd and 3rd paragraph of the linked article: https://www.npr.org/2026/06/26/nx-s1-5867415/resistance-rangers-trump-history?unified=true [ Kerwin, who used to be the exhibit planner at West Virginia's Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, had spent years building a wall of remembrance to highlight hundreds of enslaved people with ties to this historic site — a place best known for a violent raid that attempted to incite an uprising and end American slavery. Instead, the old stone building that was set to house Kerwin's exhibit has sat empty. The door, locked. Its windows boarded up. The only indicator of what might have been is a green sign at the top of the entryway. "African-American History," it says. ]
The late John Belushi as Bluto in Animal House (1978)
Screenshot of page from Code table.NET showing the Unicode Decimal Code &#8647; is a leftwards Paired arrows symbol.
Daily Decision Support Briefing dated June 22, 2026 2:40 AM retrieved from https://www.weather.gov/gyx/weatherstory. Map shows alternating bands of total rain from 1-1.5" tapering to 0.25-0.5" bottom to top in diagonals from southwest to northeast across New Hampshire and lower Maine.
Monarch butterfly caterpillar feasting on milkweed leaves. Copyright © 2021 Ted Roche, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial license per https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ - briefly, share with attribution "By Ted Roche", under the same license, without commercial use.
Keir Dullea, as Dr. Dave Bowman, the [*SPOILER ALERT*] sole surviving astronaut following the murders by the AI named HAL, travelling through the monolith and becoming the Star Child. Or something. Award winning movie, "2001: A Space Odessey" (1968) produced by Stanley Kubrick and based on the (much better, IMHO) book by the late Arthur C. Clarke.
The David Steinberg Show (1972)
Livestream of a weather cam aimed at the White House, captioned "Washington, D.C. USA June 14, 2026 8:20 PM"
Screenshot from https://www.pollen.com showing 5 day allergy forecast for Contoocook, NH: MTW High, TF Medium-High
Slide titled "Precipitation departures from normal" dated May 21, 2026 1:24 EDT showing three maps of Maine and New Hampshire, subtitled "Last 30 days," "Year to Date" and "Since June 1, 2025". The Last 30 days are much improved with the NH seacoast still 2" below normal and the rest less. The Year To Date shows a wider area of NH and southern Main in the range of 5" deficite, and the Since June 1 map showing approximately half of the region, in the southeast diagonal with extremes 20" deficit at the coasts, 15" for most of the middle tapering to 7" or 8" at the Vermont border. Source: https://www.weather.gov/media/gyx/DGT/DGT_GYX_05212026.pdf
Clippy, the Microsoft writing assistant, R.I.P.
Graph titled "Monthly Precipitation from Oct 01, 2025 to May 25, 2026" showing gray bars of 30 year monthly average (PRISM) and green bars showing actual precipitation, all but the last bar noticably lower than the average.e
Quote from Donald Trump, April 12, 2016, "We're gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you'll say, 'Please, please. It's too much winning. We can't take it anymore. Mr. President, it's too much.'
Excerpted paragraph from the linked article: "Are New Hampshire citizens aware that our legislature has drastically changed and that there are no longer two parties there? There is no bipartisanship. There is one party, the NH Free Staters, controlling the House. Are NH citizens aware that some of the bills being produced by the Free Staters will cause property taxes to increase, that local control will disintegrate, that services for NH citizens will decrease, that businesses will be economically hurt, that citizens will not have more rights, but will have fewer rights, and that it is all supported by big money PACs from out of state? It is time for NH citizens to pay attention and to understand what is really happening in the legislature. It is time for NH citizens to step forward and speak up. NH does not belong to the Free Staters."
"Roghly every 25 days, a person walking or biking is killed in New Hampshire by someone driving a motor vehicle. That’s the 10‑year average: one death every 25 days. And despite advances in collision‑avoidance technology, it’s getting worse. The five‑year average increased by 54% — from 10 to 15.4 deaths per year — between 2009 and 2025."
Quote from Dr. Suess: "I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues." A background of mountains in blue silhouette and a golden sky. Source: https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/3840x2160/4700193-Dr-Seuss-Quote-I-am-the-Lorax-I-speak-for-the-trees-I-speak-for.jpg
Bluesky Settings, Accessibility, subhead "Alt text" two checkboxes: Require Alt text before posting ☑️ Display Larger Alt text badges ☑️
Leonard Hoffstedder holding up a quickly-scribbled "SARCASM" sign behind a furious Penny confronting a cluless Sheldon. "The Big Bang Theory"
Poster "FIRE DANGER TODAY!" with NH Forest logo, a scale pointing to "High" and Smoky the Bear, with subtitles "PREVENT WILDFIRES" and a link to NHFirePermit.com
Blue-green terminal screen, perhaps inspired by "War Games" which asks " SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?" and lists (also in caps, I lack a caps-lock key today): "Tic-tac-toe, Blackjack, Gin Rummy, Hearts, Bridge, Checkers, Chess, Poker, Fighter Combat, Guerrilla Engagement, Desert Warfare, Air-to-ground Actions, Theaterwide Tactical Warfare, Theaterwide Biotoxic and Chemical Warfare, Global Thermonuclear War."
A paragraph from the linked article (https://www.fpri.org/article/2025/08/atlantic-bastion-the-future-of-anti-submarine-warfare/), "The Russian Threat The Russian Navy maintains one of the most formidable and varied submarine fleets in the world, of around 64 vessels – strategic ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs), and diesel-electric attack submarines (SSKs).[2] These submarines are stationed across Russia’s geostrategically important bases, including those on the Kola peninsula and in the Far East in Vladivostok, enabling Russia to project maritime power in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters."
Caption: "Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwartzman becomes the first human being on Earth to hear what barking dogs are actually saying." Cartoon has four dogs doing dog thinks, chasing cars, barking at the professor, barking over the fence, with work balloons which ALL say "Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! "
Yellow diamond highway sign with black block letters saying "WHEN FLOODED TURN AROUND DON'T DROWN." Turn Around Don't Drown (yes, without a comma) is a registered trademark of NOAA. Used IAC with guidance at https://www.weather.gov/safety/flood-turn-around-dont-drown.
GasBuddy.com graph of 6 month average retail price chart for regular gas, showing $3.17 on 9/15 dropping as low as $2.73 on 1/5 and 1/12 and rising to $3.71 on 3/15. Shared via Paul Krugman's column on https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/costs-and-benefits-from-the-new-energy?
Excerpt from NY Times article, showing a video of Trump speaking on March 9th in Doral, FL, "“Iran also has some Tomahawks,” he said in response to questions from a New York Times reporter at a news conference. “As you know, numerous other nations have Tomahawks. They buy them from us.” [Video] "During a press conference on March 9, President Trump said, without evidence, that Iran possessed Tomahawk missiles. In fact, Iran has no Tomahawks. Any country the U.S. has sold Tomahawks to would have to obtain authorization from the State Department before transferring them to a third party, like Iran."
Album cover "That's Just the Way it is" by Phil Collins, and the 7" vinyl disc
Dave Granlund cartoon showing a red snow shovel with labels, "Designed for heavy, wet snow" with attached paddles and a labeled defribrillator, 911 call button, small O2 tank and an oxygen mask.
Book cover showing long shadows of trees across a field of snow. Authors: Nolan J. Doesken and Arthur Judson, Title: The Snow Booklet, A Guide to the Science, Climatology, and Measurement of Snow in the United States. At the bottom, it says "Colorado Climate Center, Department of Atmospheric Science."ISBN 0-09651056-2-8
From NoIceNH: ICE OUT OF MERRIMACK and a graphic of barbed wire. "Has the governor been lying to us? Does she really know nothing? Join Us at Merrimack Town Hall on Sat. Feb. 21 from 12 - 2 PM. Say No To Ice, No to Human Warehouses, and No to Any More Secret Deals! ICE isn't only a New Hampshire Problem. It's a New England Problem." Includes a "Sign our petition" QR code linked to https://secure.ngpvan.com/JZAlznCaWUydfE3d6nc9Sg2
Same text from Peter's citation above, within the browser on the Internet Archive
Daily support briefing slide from Gray Main National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office at https://www.weather.gov/gyx/weatherstory shows bitter wind chills over the weekend. Text: "What to Expect, Light snow accumulations possible ahead of a strong cold front Friday night into Saturday, especially near the coast. Turning sharply colder this weekend. Wind chills fall below zero Saturday evening or night and main remain there through Monday morning. Wind chills at or colder than 20 degrees below are possible for large positions of the area beginning Saturday night. An Extreme Cold Watch has been issued for the northern zones and down through the Connecticut River Valley. Gale force wind gusts and moderate to heavy freezing spray expected over the coastal waters."
Image of Event Total Snow Accumulation from the Weather Forecast Office, Gray Maine showing New Hampshire and the southern half of Main with expected snow by Tuesday morning ranging from 19.8" in Portsmouth, NH to 7.1" in Jackman, ME. Most of the predictions (19) are double-digit, with on the 3 northernmost 7, 8 or 9 inches.
Bluesky dialog for reporting an account. Choices include "Misleading," "Adult content," "Harassment or hate," "Violence," "Child safety," "Self-harm or dangerous behaviors," "Breaking site rules," and "Other"
Screenshot of one paragraph of this excellent essay, "This all felt mind-numbingly familiar. All of these arguments were deployed routinely in one form or another in the flurry of high-profile cases caught on video of police officers killing unarmed Black men from 2013-2020. Whether in the case of George Floyd, who was murdered not far from where Ms. Good was killed, or Philando Castile, who was also killed in the Twin Cities while sitting in his car with his fiancée’ and her four-year-old daughter, or Samuel DuBose, who was killed in his car in Cincinnati after being approached by an officer and then shot at point blank range as he attempted to drive away. The officer said he was being “dragged” when DuBose started to drive away. The video of the incident showed that the officer was not dragged, or Walter Scott who was pulled over in his car in North Charleston, South Carolina, and then shot five times in the back as he fled by Officer Michael Slager."
Spammy follower promoting a T-shirt and reposting a bunch of wild-eyed crazy liberal (my kinda people!) posts.
Men in Black neuralyzer flashing to cause amnesia.
Picture of Carl Jung with quotation, "You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."
Dozens of protesters in front of The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts protesting the ugly, and likely illegal, and certainly in poor taste, addition of "The Donald J. Trump And" text above. A protester in a pink inflatable frog costume (with AMPHIFA written across its middle) holds a sign "Trump is no JFK" Source: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/kennedy-center-changed-board-rules-100018870.html credited to Maxine Wallace/Washington Post
Nerdy teacher with flattop haircut, short tie and a pocket protector pointing to a chalkboard with graphs labeled "Exponential Functions." In the foreground two students look at each other, one saying "Like we'll ever use this crap." Original source unknown, cut-off signature "Marian" on the center right, likely Marian Kamensky, https://humor-kamensky.sk/about-me
Screenshot of Area Forecast Discussion, NWS Gray Me with news of mixed precipitation Sunday/Monday. Text: "Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Gray ME 130 PM EST Fri Dec 26 2025 .SYNOPSIS... Weak low pressure looks to pass mostly to our south tonight, but light snow is likely over southern New Hampshire tonight into Saturday morning. Next potential storm arrives for Sunday night and Monday and will likely be more of a mixed bag with all precipitation types possible during the event. Winds ramp up Tuesday in the wake of the system and below normal temperatures continue through the New Year's holiday window."
Another scam account with the exact same re-posts, no original posts, no bio and the same "25% off" T-short in the top of their postings. I'm suspicious.
Suspected spam/scam account screensot
A "sad face" icon and caption "This site cant be reached. happyholidays.gov server IP address could not be found."
The United States Office of Government Ethics (OGE) is an independent agency within the executive branch of the U.S. federal government which is responsible for directing executive branch policies relating to the prevention of conflicts of interest on the part of Federal executive branch officers and employees. Under the Ethics in Government Act, this agency was originally part of the Office of Personnel Management from 1978 until it separated in 1989.
Excerpt from The Nation (link in the main post): "Among the fifty men and one woman who have held the speakership since a German-born pastor named Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg filled the position for the First Congress, there have been more than a few disappointments. Aside from the indicted, the disgraced and the disreputable, there have been the indefensible — like Howell Cobb, who used his pre-Civil War speakership to promote the extension of slavery. Cobb would eventually find his true calling as the speaker of the Provisional Confederate Congress and the acting president of the southern states that seceded from the U.S. in treasonous defense of human bondage.' "Could the shambling, ineffectual and frequently inarticulate Hastert really have been a worse Speaker of the House than a crude proponent of slavery, or a crook like Jim Wright or a conniving partisan like Newt Gingrich? Absolutely."
Editorial Cartoon with sign "Roosevelt's Supreme Court Packing Department" with Uncle Sam sitting on a bench reading a thick tome labeled "The Constitution" with an axe resting on the bench next to him. Source: https://supremecourthistory.org/schs-fdr-courtpacking-controversy/
Boston Globe article headline with the top half of the top line cut off. It reads "A former Healey aide was a pillar of Springfield — until 18 pounds of cocaine arrived at his state office"
Still from "Weekend at Bernie's" (1989) showing Larry Wilson (Andrew McCarthy) and Richard Parker (Jonathan Silverman) holding a deceased Bernie (Terry Kiser) upright. From https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098627/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_sm_3#amzn1.imdb.concept.name_credit_group.7caf7d16-5db9-4f4f-8864-d4c6e711c686
From the movie, "1776" (1972) , LEWIS MORRIS played by Howard Caine, says, "New York abstains, courteously." on every vote taken by the Continental Congress while drafting the Declaration of Independence.
@leguinbot.bsky.social post quoting U.K. Leguin "He seemed not to know the uses of silence." and the next timeline post from @merriam-webster.com "You can curse daylight savings time, daylight savings, daylight savings, daylight savings time and/or daylight time. All are considered acceptable so go off."
A mansionn in the background and a white-suited and -shod Robert Redford as Gatsby in the 1974 movie of "The Great Gatsby" Screenshot from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071577/mediaviewer/rm1370348801/
Wilder Rock, a multi-hundred ton granite boulder, likely a glacial erratic, located off the Stevens Rail Trail in Contoocook, NH. A bicycle leans on the front, giving a sense of scale to the roundish rock, perhaps 20 feet high and 30 feet across, standing alone in a forest of tall pine trees.
Paragraph extracted from the linked text, "Republican leaders blamed poor Americans for the Great Depression, saying they drained the economy because they refused to work hard enough. “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate,” Treasury Secretary Mellon told Hoover. “It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.”
From: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCUAT3+shtml/281259.shtml? 000 WTNT63 KNHC 281259 TCUAT3 Hurricane Melissa Tropical Cyclone Update NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL132025 900 AM EDT Tue Oct 28 2025 ...AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTERS FIND MELISSA STRONGER AS THE NORTHERN EYEWALL IS APPROACHING THE SOUTHERN COAST OF JAMAICA... ...900 AM EDT POSITION UPDATE... The eye of Melissa is nearing the southern coast of Jamaica and is expected to make landfall within the next few hours. This is an extremely dangerous and a life-threatening situation. Take action now to protect your life! Residents in the Jamaica should not leave their shelter as winds will rapidly increase within the eyewall of Melissa. Remain in place through the passage of these life- threatening conditions. An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft has found that Melissa is strengthening with maximum sustained winds of 180 mph (290 km/h). Estimated minimum central pressure based on aircraft data has fallen to 896 mb (26.47 inches). Another position update will be provided at 1000 AM EDT (1400 UTC). SUMMARY OF 900 AM EDT...1300 UTC...INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------- LOCATION...17.6N 78.1W ABOUT 50 MI...80 KM SSE OF NEGRIL JAMAICA ABOUT 260 MI...420 KM SW OF GUANTANAMO CUBA MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...180 MPH...290 KM/H PRESENT MOVEMENT...NNE OR 20 DEGREES AT 7 MPH...11 KM/H MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...896 MB...26.47 INCHES $$ Forecaster Kelly