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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #CycleSky 🚲

Now at Operation Market Garden. Alas, what can one even say?

Yup! Had this debate on here a while back re volumetric pricing for electricity. Even in a heavily renewable system, you’d want per kWh charges precisely for the incentives they impart. That electricity is a critical service doesn’t change that.

Stalin fundamentally crippled Soviet #science in the 1930s and almost a century later it still hasn't recovered. That's what Trump, RFK Jr., Vought, and MAGA are doing right now to the United States.

orwell is eating his own tongue while spinning in his grave like homer simpson on the ground

I have a lot of questions about the legal exposure for these companies, and I have yet to see a publication get into any of them.

An administration run by zealots and oil-soaked sellouts, engaged in an epic act of national economic self-sabotage.

Hey locals: what is this? It is loud. It only happens at night. It is not a 'Taos Hum', it is a much higher-frequency noise.

I say this as the highest praise: this is the appeal of the Blue Ant Trilogy. Techno-thrillers with sociological and near-future (now present, in several cases!) tech... about things like finding the source of anonymous internet uploads, or the source of a particular fabric and brand.

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

BEHOLD the #OneHourCityConspiracy, brought to light by the #ThreeTenorsOfUrbanism including Hub pal & #UrbanPlanner extraordinaire, Canadian @brenttoderian.bsky.social. Time to push back on the folks sticking you in traffic all day & burning the world down! #yyc #Sprawl #Urbanism #CityBuilding

Bookstore: Tattered Cover Museum: Denver Art Museum, Museum of Nature & Science Food: Asian Cajun

This level of anti-wind policy is just insane.

This is a good article on space based solar. One thing I haven't seen anyone mention yet is the challenge of keeping a beam focused. Keeping concentrated solar rays focused on the right place has proved difficult even on the ground, which is why CPV doesn't work out and Ivanpah struggles.

Thanks to many (many) Torched readers for sending these along. Did you get one of these mailers? From the fine print it looks like only whole-home rentals are eligible to get the $750 bonus

"Section 202 of the Clean Air Act, where does this say anything about fighting global climate change?" - Trump EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin He needed to look at Section 302.

Thank f‘ing god. Can’t wait until they all leave.

Insightful piece from a top scholar of the U.S. Congress: www.cambridge.org/core/service...

one ot my favorite things to collect is the identifiers that mixed kids make up like me, im norjibwe my husband is brexican but tonight i saw a congo + mongolian who calls himself a congolian

US admin & parts of US oil industry are pushing the narrative that they’re supplying “geopolitically secure” energy. Which is bizarre on several levels: ig.ft.com/global-energ...

<stares at the Asia Pacific> ... so, uh, was the pivot meant to be *away* from the US?

A detailed look into how the White House sabotaged research efforts within the EPA's Office of Research and Development.

A big W for states' rights: insideclimatenews.org/news/1704202...

A big W for the Tenth Amendment: insideclimatenews.org/news/1704202...

"The end user has not been publicly named, and information has been difficult to access, deepening unease among residents." insideclimatenews.org/news/1304202...

were you the one raver kid at the school dance with the fight tip light gloves?

Big Brutal Box update

I humbly think the @ward1democrats.org ballot design looks better

Anyone have a Duet-T camera that they don't want anymore? #eBee #drone #UAVs 🧪⚒️

“Oh phew this can’t happen to me” Whatever university you were at during COVID remote learning almost certainly has and owns your (our) lecture videos, 😘

Impeaching Trump doesn’t need to be a top priority. But impeachment of many officials — including not only Trump but also Hegseth, Rubio, Patel, RFK, Miller, Vought, et alia — needs to be on the table as part of a vigorous program of oversight.

Some people continue to advocate for regenerative grazing as a big climate solution. But it's not. The better answer is to cut back on beef consumption, curb food waste, and rethink the food system. drawdown.org/insights/gre...

Do you ever just think about the Philip Glass montage on that Bob’s Burgers episode

teh, damn. I mean the.

I repeat: bsky.app/profile/jeva...

I repeat: bsky.app/profile/jeva...

I don’t understand how they thoroughly messed up the widely used software that opens PDFs? Like as apps go this one is pretty close to “you had one job”???

Nearly having a perfect game and then losing is the most Pittsburgh Pirates thing to have ever happened

You May Be A Narcissist If ...

What’s everyone reading? Is it this?

Great article in the @nytimes.com by @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social about the electricity challenge of the future. Lots of data, I love it. 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Would be curious what other folks have to say in response to this question.

Appropriating creations of a human’s intellect, aka intellectual property

Friends, I play mandolin in a bluegrass band for fun. In May, our "Blue Mondays" band and 8 other bands will play a fundraiser "Pickin' for Democracy". All $$ goes to Movement Voters organizing for the elections. Will you sponsor us? Here's more info & links. drive.google.com/file/d/1GBYh...

appropriate symbolism of the leaders of Trump's new fascist National Guard unit slicing through the DC flag www.war.gov/News/News-St...

Crow in the thread! 🐦‍⬛

'Playing a broken record' via @nsidc.bsky.social at nsidc.org/snow-today/m... "In large parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and Oregon, snow cover duration was 80 to 100 days below average. Snow cover duration in all other western US states was also far below average."

Be sure to follow my astute colleague, @michelletomkim.bsky.social, for coverage of the unfolding Musk v. Altman saga to come (and on tech legal matters in general).

this is the deranged logo Big Balls designed for the DC alphabet-soup goon squad

at the “fuck my security deposit and my landlord the rest of this shit can just stay here” phase of moving

always such a surprise when a billionaire industrialist embraces fascism

"A true synthesis of the biological & the digital. Your ambition, your agency, & your will, amplified & actualized by a dedicated, symbiotic intelligence. That is the reality you have dreamed of." AI can't be safe as long as it's inhaling the garbage of Kurzweil & other TESCREAL hucksters.

This seems right Academic freedom slides globally, as it takes a nosedive in the US www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi...

Apparently, I'm part of a state-level effort to make students (and the population) "AI-ready." I've never been more tempted to quit my job.

i found out that if you need to swim for recovery reasons, your doctor can write you a letter for a free unlimited swim pass to the city natatorium? that’s so cool.

This is the right fight for the Democratic Party But note that Jeffries is defending the American... "consumer", "homeowner" and "ratepayer" Total triumph of neoliberalism

This is the right fight for the Democratic Party But note that Jeffries is defending the American... "homeowner" and "ratepayer" Total triumph of neoliberalism

let them eat ballrooms

Trump’s rejection of wind projects scrambles GOP politics before midterms | AP News apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump’s Environmental Cuts Further Marginalize Vulnerable Communities - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/2704202...

Some day they'll invent a neurotypical trans lesbian.

john oliver data center segment WHEN

Heading to #EGU26? Come find us at booth 68/69! Meet Dr. Lorraine Tighe and the Esri Earth Sciences team! Ask questions, catch a live demo, and grab some swag. 🗺️ Read our community blog for more info: ow.ly/N4gU50YNcgW

Can we not say "Charles, third of that name"? It'd be fun

This is great reporting by @miriamwasser.bsky.social, but it's sort of weird for Massachusetts to ask gas utilities how to wind down gas utilities. The answers are bound to be laughably bad. But I suppose now the utilities can't say the state didn't include them in planning processes.

Keith VanGraafeiland & the Esri ocean science team are problem solvers. Bring your GIS questions to Booth 8 at this year’s #GulfCon and meet with us! Read the Esri Community Blog for more info: ow.ly/s8aX30sVmre 🌊 🦑 #gischat

See? Bsky has the juice (and the throwback fizzy drinks)

cc @kermodemovie.bsky.social

A pet peeve of mine: “But remember, Andrew happened in an El Niño!” No it did not. El Niño had ended before August Aug 24, 1992. See the Nino 3.4 box… it had cooled already.. 1/

i really do not like the word “slopulism”

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update: this was sooooo good and so easy and will need to be worked into the rotation you just take an onion, green peppers, celery, and carrots, fry it up with kielbasa and tony chacheres, pour in 4c of chicken broth, add 2 bags of success rice, boil, add a shredded rotisserie chicken, reduce

Update on Zorro Ranch investigation. www.internazionale.it/ultime-notiz... thehill.com/homenews/sta...

rest in peace my stomach she got hit by a kombucha

build the ballroom :)

he data on my center til i exercerbate an affordability crisis

cancel me like one of your trans girls

what should i listen to while i write this story? 1) tame! impala… 2) tame? impala. 3) tame, impala, 4) tame: impala¡

These 'casts' are the soot-filled mucus & bronchial lining from a patient in Beijing. 😨 Key points: - Only a few hours of exposure - No thermal burns evident - removed via cryoprobe - The man made ~full recovery at 2 weeks - A warming world will have a lot more of THIS in it.

AI stands for “Alf’s intelligence”

brianna wu’s face is now congressionally mandated to be the last thing you see before you die

brianna wu’s face is congressional mandated to be the last thing you see before you die

dramamine by modest mouse. send tweet

feels like the WHCD shooting brought us all back to bluesky. silver linings

glad people are learning about this

This is a really sad story, and also now reading the details of it I'm surprised there hasn't been any discussion of how the waiting room delay at the ER could have contributed (like if he had been seen instead of leaving) calgaryherald.com/news/crime/a...

So many problems w Holly Jean Buck's latest apologia for the investments of fossil capital under the name of "democratic governance" of technology, but a very big one is: she doesn't understand systems networking, so her counterfactual hypotheticals are basically wrong. 1/3

Ex-CHP officer doing 130 mph in the carpool lane without lights or sirens

Hopefully now, at least, some people will be more willing to consider whether calls for "public governance" of new technologies might not be a fig leaf for the same ol' ecomodernist advancement of fossil capital's interests.

if this story doesn’t get at least five hundred likes on bluesky this place has no juice anymore

ugh i luv journalisming my gawdh

one of those “write all night eating thai food and watching youtube videos of municipal government meetings for good reasons” mondays

yeah this one is a hall of famer story

a Very Serious Person just said they don't like the term "mid-transition," rather preferring "overshoot," and this is maybe the grimmest mis-read of the work I've heard

A hilarious new low on the academic job market: Immediately after receiving my job application, this university used it to sell my email address to their credit union. They've since rejected me, but the credit union's marketing team sure hasn't! (Nor, of course, does their unsubscribe link work)

I keep getting asked about this so: I also agree you should be able to sue Bayer. But if you’re claiming you got sick from eating food sprayed with Roundup, you should lose, because you didn’t.

1) i'm surprised this took so long to repeal 2) omg i know nothing is funny but it's actually so, so funny that a Trump EPA is saying CCS isn't tenable for US power plants. guess what is tenable? closure! (the other compliance option)

I would be curious to know what this would look like at a state level in the US. Also, what’s going on in the UK?