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Honest J

@frangsbo.bsky.social

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Epistemologist working in the trades. Would like to be posting mainly about climate solutions but there's too much other $#!+ going down.

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Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · Nov 12

Being right is necessary but not sufficient.

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Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 10h

Unclear to me what he meant by 'the grid', a term that isn't really synonymous with CAISO.

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 10h

Is there sufficient transmission to the north coast? Also I wonder how much they are still relying on gas for inertial frequency control.

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Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 10h

For CAISO you mean?

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 10h

Which grid? Pick one.

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 11h

(Going to tap my sign here.)

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · Sep 13

Every dollar invested in so-called 'AI' instead of clean renewable energy is a dollar that drives the price of electricity up instead of down.

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Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 11h

I'm still on FB. (I try to post more than consume content, especially now, but I still follow some people.) For a few years I pretty diligently hid, blocked, and clicked 'not interested' on a lot of content, and it seems to have had an effect. If you use it passively, it's a total lost cause.

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Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 12h

Wait, what?

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 12h

Once they figure it out...

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty soon Bezos will be on our side because of all the inflatable costume profits.

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 13h

Corruption Corruption Corruption

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 13h

❤️

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 15h

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 19h

A massive storm that brought a record storm surge to Alaska was poorly forecast, and “this is one of the clearest possible examples to date where missing upper air soundings due to NWS constraints may have led to a degraded forecast.”

Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 19h

Sunday a massive storm surge event from the remnants of Typhoon Halong caused catastrophic damage in remote western Alaska. Thanks to @alaskawx.bsky.social for his help with this deep dive, including the forecast challenges in an area dealing with reduced NWS upper air soundings
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Historic coastal flooding strikes western Alaska

Remnants of Typhoon Halong produce hurricane force winds and push massive storm surge inland in Kuskokwim River Delta, destroying and carrying away homes, leaving devastated communities.

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Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 19h

Technically all groundhogs/woodchucks are marmots, but not all marmots are groundhogs/woodchucks.

Marmot - Wikipedia

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Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 19h

A good reminder that people don't just magically know stuff. 😉 Let's share what we know folks, it's what makes us human.

Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 1d

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 19h

Hiding (almost) that 'small cat' links to the page for the genus Felinae. Good engagement farming strategy.

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 21h

Hot take: Putting someone in conversation with a chatbot without disclosure or consent is as unethical as recording a private conversation without disclosure or intent.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

DHS spending its newly massive budget keeping America safe from [... checks notes...] nail salons and swim moms.

Cross country flights & 5 months of detention based on "officials made a number of false and misleading claims"
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Hagerstown nail salon owner freed after five months in ICE custody

Melissa Tran, a Hagerstown mom and nail salon owner, was freed five months after being detained by ICE and jailed in Washington state. A federal judge ruled that U.S. officials had no basis for prolon...

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Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 23h

Or even Ukraine.

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 1d

Basically everyone.

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 1d

That fits.

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 1d

Future academics will struggle to explain how a gutter con man took over the most powerful nation state in history.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.

ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 1d

Bona fide question, how much of their crowd does this picture not show?

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 1d

I believe he wants to be a dictator anyway, he's said as much. But if Epstein is what convinces the masses that dictatorship is bad these days then I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️.

Sooner or later people will rediscover the many reasons why the founders and many others didn't like dictatorship.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

The reason Mike Johnson is able to keep the House closed and not pass bills to pay the military or fund the government is because Trump is going to circumvent congress and illegally steal that money from other government programs. All to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty soon Bezos will be on our side because of all the inflatable costume profits.

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 1d

I approve of the repeated use of the word corrupt. Dem messaging should have, like, a 3:2 Trump/corrupt ratio strategy. Like every three times you mention him you must call him corrupt at least twice.