Chris Neklason

Infrastructure geek. Award-winning journalist. Full-stack developer. Pro-democracy.

Eats, shoots and leaves.

Co-owner: https://cruzio.com
Co-owner: https://californialocal.com
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2025-11-03 21:51:57 UTC

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Tracks with my own personal survived overnight at altitude experience in the Inyo National Forest a few years ago.
A symptom of altitude sickness is it makes you stupid and you make poor choices. I made it back downhill after a very uncomfortable night because I packed well to be stupid.

2025-10-02 22:56:44 UTC

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Wait, that watch on the 2x4 definitely has radium on its face! No, Homer, NO!

2025-09-05 00:44:27 UTC

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Until I get the Nobel for "Best Tom Jennings."
Eh?

2025-08-13 16:27:21 UTC

The $29 billion compensation recently awarded to He Who Shall Not Be Named by the Tesla board after completely destroying the brand and creating a huge unsold inventory and now even failing at the drive-thru diner business absolutely blows my mind.
The fact there aren't shareholder lawsuits for fiduciary negligence jamming the courts right now is even more mind-blowing.
https://www.jalopnik.com/1938650/tesla-diner-drops-most-menu-options-cuts-hours/

2025-08-05 00:44:17 UTC

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And: reverting back to landlines. Telcos were mandated by law to power the lines from huge CO batteries w/ gen backup.
Cell towers have no such mandate. Communities that rely on cell phone emergency access during extended power outages are SOL after who knows when. It's site by site.
In the '89 Santa Cruz quake, there was no mains power for 3 full days. We could make outgoing calls but no connection because PacBell switches (under provisioned for disaster) overwhelmed.

2025-08-05 00:33:26 UTC

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Been thinking more about this and all of the replies to the thread.
And an oftentimes missing component to the Firewise and Firesafe Council programs, which are very successful here in California and spreading like, pardon the pun -- never mind -- is neighborhood communications.
Every Firewise neighborhood should have a walkie radio net with a licensed ham who is part of the local ARES group.

2025-08-04 15:33:49 UTC

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They've been trying to drop landline support for years and years.
Doing so would be a public safety disaster in rural areas where there is no cell service and too much tree cover for something like Starlink.
Here in Santa Cruz County, some neighborhoods in Bonny Doon have been forming little radio nets with walkie talkies to communicate with a local licensed ham to link up with the outside world. Expect that practice to expand.
https://californialocal.com/localnews/statewide/ca/article/show/420511-doing-good-amateur-radio-emergency-service-ares/

2025-08-03 23:30:00 UTC

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🤷
By the time I was personally involved, email was how the editorial and publishing iteration workflow was managed.

2025-08-03 23:07:14 UTC

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THIS IS HUGE!
Mike Gunderloy is a god in my life.
His "Why Publish?" column and interviews led me to 'zine and web publishing.

2025-06-14 19:06:20 UTC

#NoKings #SantaCruz California
Guessing > 10,000 people. Hundreds of American flags.
https://d1d3f6pfjybrbz.cloudfront.net/media_attachments/files/114/683/264/659/804/363/original/6c79f152ef34aeda.mp4

2025-05-07 15:42:19 UTC

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Ha ha. Our family once stayed at the Old Faithful Lodge in Yellowstone. There was a tv screen mounted over the checkin counter which played a clip on loop of a tourist walking up to a bison which lowered its head and used its horns to toss the tourist over a small nearby tree.

2025-04-30 23:19:39 UTC

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From San Diego to _Oregon_, according to news accounts of the spread of dead marine life.

2025-01-30 03:08:09 UTC

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Are we good?
You have a large following and you've questioned my credentials.

2025-01-30 02:46:02 UTC

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Coffee, mostly.
You?

2025-01-30 02:43:34 UTC

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What the link in my profile links to.
Is there a problem?

2025-01-30 02:25:50 UTC

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That is so personal.

2024-12-09 19:39:34 UTC

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Enshittification.
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2024-12-04 23:53:02 UTC

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"Health CEO murdered. 90 million suspects" went through my feed today. Along with the wealth disparity graphs comparing pre-revolutionary France with the US today.
And a bunch of bike stuff.
C'mon Thursday!

2024-11-15 23:36:43 UTC

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Oh great. You have a new handle for your crazy cursed hammer.
Bet it has a name, like "Driver of Finishing Nails" or "Odin's Revenge on Sheetrock" or "Wainscotting's Bane."

2024-10-29 00:25:47 UTC

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How the hell does asbestos get introduced into the logistics supply chain and manufacturing process to get MIXED INTO BABY POWDER!
Sorry, Lewis Black enters my soul at ever increasing frequency these days.

2024-10-18 23:24:36 UTC

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Compliance! \

2024-10-06 00:24:43 UTC

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This is one reason I love Watch Duty.
Social media is being jammed as a communication channel, especially for disaster comms, so having a volunteer remote & ground truth squad distilling and curating reliable info for folks to do what they need to do when they need to do it is awesome and so timely.
News that WD is going year round & all-disaster is good news for the coming bad times.
Folks need to donate:
https://www.watchduty.org/donate
Donate a lot and get it rolled out nation wide.

2024-09-11 23:15:42 UTC

Super bummed about the rapey jokes out there about Taylor Swift.
Hoping all the rapey jokers receive the help they so desperately need.
It's just not that hard to be a man in the 21st century. Grow into it, bro.

2024-07-27 16:53:44 UTC

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Yes! Just did a Google and found it in their blog:
"This includes delving more deeply into all-hazards, or better put, more hazards than just wildfire. Over the past two years, our reporters have also been monitoring floods, weather advisories, and other disasters that involve life and safety with no single place to find actionable information – just like wildfire used to be before Watch Duty."
Awesome!
https://www.watchduty.org/blog

2024-07-27 16:12:56 UTC

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We'd delete our accounts there but were banned and unable to login back in March 2023 because reasons. (never learned why, suspect our weather/traffic/sig alert bots).
Still feel some butt hurt over that, we invested a lot of time in sitrep comms during winter storms of 2023.
Watch Duty way surpasses Twitter for fire info now.
Need something for flood season next.

2024-07-26 03:49:23 UTC

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"Couch surfing" will never be the same.

2024-07-26 03:43:45 UTC

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Ewwwwwww. You went there.