Zeb Palmer

My dad and I have very different opinions on what a “season ending event” is. His is when a fire over 1,000 acres is extremely unlikely. Mine is when I don’t have to check my dashboard to know there are no fires. #IdahoFire

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Idaho Fish & Game website is among the very long list of sites offline in the wake of the PHP2Shell vulnerability. Given how wide open their authentication has been for years, I’m just amazed to learn they care about security at all.

So long Viper

My dad: your week getting better? Me: apnews.com/article/php-... Dad: holy crap (Yeah… fun week to have Security on the list of teams that report to you)

Happy PHP2Shell day to all who celebrate.

UPDATE: Since my last post I've confirmed this is planned burning of slash piles, which... **finally** cleaning up that area. Additional slash piles between China Springs and Williams Summit are putting up smoke now. #IdahoFire

Ummm… the Titanic?

Getting questions about smoke in Salmon. The AlertWest cam on Baldy shows dark smoke behind Lake Mountain, around china springs, on the Ridge Road. There's been logging/fuels-reduction activity there last couple years, I assume this is burning slash. No reported incident. #IdahoFire

Wouldn't it be really cool if you could send a text message from Vancouver, BC, to the Grand Tetons without the Internet or cell service? Entirely off-grid and open source? yeah... I think it is cool. 😎

Ended up making homemade butter to go with the bread. Then decided honey-whipped butter was even better. The family made one of the loaves and an amazing amount of the honey butter disappear moments after I sliced it. Also made pea soup and my award-winning chili. Might have overdone it today.

I wonder how the pig-to-temperature ratio compares to the dog-to-temperature ratio. Like, if it's a 3-dog night, how many pigs do you need?

Think #breadmas2026 may be starting early

Couldn’t figure out why I was sore this morning. Then I looked out the window and saw the new trampoline 12 got yesterday.

Ash is falling at my house in Nampa. #IdahoFire

Given the number of fires today, I should have anticipated this question… #IdahoFire

And another fire SE of Kuna, a 3 acre fire, just N of Swan Falls Dam. #IdahoFire

Ain’t over.

The Smore Fire SE of Kuna is at 500+ acres. #IdahoFire

3 New IA Fires in last hour. #IdahoFire Another fire E of Nampa. one near High Valley (S of Smith Ferry) and one near Jumbo Mountain ENE of Featherville

Three active fires in the Treasure Valley. #IdahoFire - 200+ acre sage/grass fire SE of Kuna. - IA fire on the Idaho side of the river across from Nyssa - Robinson fire SE of Nampa, structures threatened. Also an IA fire SE of Sun Valley.

About 10 years ago somebody felt-markered the holy shit out of this bell. Crazy maga stuff. They came to me as a metals guy and I brought in Francis Fox, the sculptor prof at BSU. Obviously patina is a huge issue on something like this, so we put together a careful plan around a table at Dawsons.

This has been an important fire season. I tried to string some of the key events and issues together here. My thoughts are with the family, friends and colleagues of the 20 people we have lost on the fireline so far this year. www.boisestatepublicradio.org/news/2026-10...

Go to your local council meetings and be like this woman. Get right to the shits

The Orb Weaver in the Thistles

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Translation: fuck the Constitution.

Some engine crew gets to hike to the top of a ridge in the Yankee Fork today... #IdahoFire

We lost one of the greats…. Margaret Hamilton, the first “Software Engineer,” who literally invented the term and an entire industry, had died. Her code got us to the moon and back. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Always weird to be on the receiving end of an interview, but I enjoyed my conversation with @wsj.com to talk #idpol. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, you owe it to the generations of people who have fought so tirelessly to ensure you have the right to vote to show up on Nov. 3.

Gov. Brad Little did not attend the gubernatorial candidate forum, which was sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Idaho and other nonprofit organizations.

Today, a man told me he was voting no on Idaho's Prop 1 on repro freedom & privacy because we are going to have embryo incubators in the near future. They will simply remove the embryo from the mother who doesn't want it. Please vote because this guy is going to vote. Thanks. #idpol #yeson1

And, fwiw, I still think the snowpack numbers/models this year in some areas were overreporting vs actual. #IdahoFire

Never thought I’d see anything like the 1996 ValuJet 592 Everglades crash scene ever again. And then I opened Reddit this morning and saw video of an ATR crash site in a swamp in Nigeria. It’s gone. “All we are finding is body parts”

“It also sets the precedent for using this chilling tactic on any journalist or watchdog as it sees fit.“ Oregon cities are doing this over and over again, making it prohibitive for any independent journalist without a team of lawyers to get public records. It’s outrageous.

I've spent a fair bit of time around #Idaho bears. And once got into a self-defense situation w/ an *injured* bear. (not fun) If you get attacked by a bear in Salmon, 99.9% chance it's your fault Hearing the sow & cubs were getting into trash piles near the house (sigh) Like I said earlier...

#IdahoFire

Pre-dawn in my hood! #IdahoEscape

Sunset Heights... It's always Sunset Heights... whatever *it* is, it's always there. I drove up through that neighborhood the last time I visited fam (Salmon is my hometown), and I was shocked by what it's become in the last 10 years. used to be nice up there. kinda trashy M@G@ now.

Signaling you are worried about a Republican Senate seat in Idaho is sure something

To the 3 of you who reached out for a health and welfare check. Tnx. Yes, I’m still alive. #IdahoFire is winding down, work got busy, crazy shit happened w/ wife’s job that I can’t talk about, had fam in town & then I got wrapped up in a side project I can’t talk about yet September was insane….

Ten districts and charters applied for $1.2 million for optional in-school services. A legislative committee abruptly tabled the idea last week. #idaho #idleg www.idahoednews.org/top-news/ver...

NEW from me today: As physicians continue to navigate care for patients in states with abortion bans, a group of maternal-fetal medicine specialists has developed new guidelines to help providers in those states navigate legal risks for themselves and medical challenges for high-risk patients.

New data from the USDA shows more than 330,000 Americans lost access to food assistance between May and June, the latest numbers available.

Lasso Night