B Erickson
@bjaardker.bsky.social
Just a regular person fleeing Meta platforms. Like stuff like Barbershop Harmony, Bowling, EVs. He/Him
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At least once a week now we're being served another example of how Ford, GM and Chrysler won't be globally relevant beyond this decade.
October 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
At least once a week now we're being served another example of how Ford, GM and Chrysler won't be globally relevant beyond this decade.
#paythemwhatyouowethem
Collier warns WNBA players can’t back down in CBA fight share.google/jas7sWdPP27b...
Collier warns WNBA players can’t back down in CBA fight share.google/jas7sWdPP27b...
Collier says if WNBA players back down in CBA talks it would hurt women’s sports
Revenue sharing is where the rubber hits the road in for the two sides as the deal expires on Friday, Oct. 31. The WNBPA says it won't compromise.
share.google
October 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
#paythemwhatyouowethem
Collier warns WNBA players can’t back down in CBA fight share.google/jas7sWdPP27b...
Collier warns WNBA players can’t back down in CBA fight share.google/jas7sWdPP27b...
If you haven't watched formula E racing, you really should. It's a fascinating sport with some really exciting races
Formula E cars keep getting faster and faster: What’s next for the sport? - Ars Technica share.google/OoNWe4ERz3hI...
Formula E cars keep getting faster and faster: What’s next for the sport? - Ars Technica share.google/OoNWe4ERz3hI...
Formula E cars keep getting faster and faster: What’s next for the sport?
We hope downforce doesn’t ruin the racing when it arrives in a couple of years.
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August 2, 2025 at 7:09 AM
If you haven't watched formula E racing, you really should. It's a fascinating sport with some really exciting races
Formula E cars keep getting faster and faster: What’s next for the sport? - Ars Technica share.google/OoNWe4ERz3hI...
Formula E cars keep getting faster and faster: What’s next for the sport? - Ars Technica share.google/OoNWe4ERz3hI...
More people should watch the WNBA. These games are really entertaining.
August 2, 2025 at 3:50 AM
More people should watch the WNBA. These games are really entertaining.
People really are as stupid as we think they are.
"He really dragged down perceptions of EVs in general. It’s definitely unusual to have a chief executive have an impact on a whole class of products like this.”
[from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org]
[from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org]
Elon Musk has turned off many liberals to electric vehicles—and not just Teslas
Disgust over his political antics has cast a pall over the EV industry.
www.motherjones.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
People really are as stupid as we think they are.
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Inflatable Elon Musks doing a Nazi salute outside the Tesla diner in Hollywood
🎥 johngreenla | TW
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July 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Inflatable Elon Musks doing a Nazi salute outside the Tesla diner in Hollywood
🎥 johngreenla | TW
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MAGA is the glorification of indoctrinated ignorance.
July 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
MAGA is the glorification of indoctrinated ignorance.
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Indeed. Keep talking about this. US automakers don’t have any globally significant EV models and China is helping Africa rapidly shift to renewables and opening a whole new market for their world beating EVs. American Exceptionalism is a cancer.
EVs Surpass 60% of New Car Sales in Ethiopia in 2024. Africa is shifting away from oil faster than some countries in Western world.
birrmetrics.com/evs-surpass-...
birrmetrics.com/evs-surpass-...
EVs Surpass 60% of New Car Sales in Ethiopia: Outlook - Birr Metrics
More than 60 percent of newly registered personal cars in Ethiopia in 2024 were electric vehicles (EVs), marking a major shift in the country’s transport and
birrmetrics.com
July 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Indeed. Keep talking about this. US automakers don’t have any globally significant EV models and China is helping Africa rapidly shift to renewables and opening a whole new market for their world beating EVs. American Exceptionalism is a cancer.
This is a bullshit headline. Americans want EVs, we just don't have anyone producing reasonable cars.
In fact it's the very first thing mentioned:
"A recent AAA survey revealed that the top motivators against buying EVs included high purchase prices"
Stop the FUD
share.google/nIdXfnNlG1I6...
In fact it's the very first thing mentioned:
"A recent AAA survey revealed that the top motivators against buying EVs included high purchase prices"
Stop the FUD
share.google/nIdXfnNlG1I6...
Remember When EVs Were the Future? Americans Don’t Really Want Them Anymore
Automakers are shifting their focus to their plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles for the foreseeable future.
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July 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This is a bullshit headline. Americans want EVs, we just don't have anyone producing reasonable cars.
In fact it's the very first thing mentioned:
"A recent AAA survey revealed that the top motivators against buying EVs included high purchase prices"
Stop the FUD
share.google/nIdXfnNlG1I6...
In fact it's the very first thing mentioned:
"A recent AAA survey revealed that the top motivators against buying EVs included high purchase prices"
Stop the FUD
share.google/nIdXfnNlG1I6...
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Wait…I thought tariffs were taxes other countries paid. Weird.
July 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Wait…I thought tariffs were taxes other countries paid. Weird.
July 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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5/ The bill cuts the help middle income Americans get to buy health care on the Affordable Care Act exchange.
A 60 year old couple making $85,000 (not a king's ransom) would see a $26,000 increase in health care premiums. Yes, that's right - $26,000.
A 60 year old couple making $85,000 (not a king's ransom) would see a $26,000 increase in health care premiums. Yes, that's right - $26,000.
June 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
5/ The bill cuts the help middle income Americans get to buy health care on the Affordable Care Act exchange.
A 60 year old couple making $85,000 (not a king's ransom) would see a $26,000 increase in health care premiums. Yes, that's right - $26,000.
A 60 year old couple making $85,000 (not a king's ransom) would see a $26,000 increase in health care premiums. Yes, that's right - $26,000.
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4/ A new tax break for coal companies! So the tax incentives for wind and solar are GONE, and the coal industry is getting NEW tax incentives.
It's official policy now to to not just deny global warming exists - but to actively make it WORSE.
It's official policy now to to not just deny global warming exists - but to actively make it WORSE.
June 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
4/ A new tax break for coal companies! So the tax incentives for wind and solar are GONE, and the coal industry is getting NEW tax incentives.
It's official policy now to to not just deny global warming exists - but to actively make it WORSE.
It's official policy now to to not just deny global warming exists - but to actively make it WORSE.
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2/ It was bad enough they cut all the tax incentives for wind and solar energy - they added a NEW TAX on these projects to make sure America never builds any new renewables.
Remember, Trump promised the oil industry provisions like this in exchange for a $1B campaign donation.
Remember, Trump promised the oil industry provisions like this in exchange for a $1B campaign donation.
June 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
2/ It was bad enough they cut all the tax incentives for wind and solar energy - they added a NEW TAX on these projects to make sure America never builds any new renewables.
Remember, Trump promised the oil industry provisions like this in exchange for a $1B campaign donation.
Remember, Trump promised the oil industry provisions like this in exchange for a $1B campaign donation.
The Big abomination of a bill passed and is going to be law. Tens of millions of people will lose healthcare. Millions more will go hungry. Every poll shows the American public hates the bill.
I never EVER again want to hear Dems say they can't make legislation happen.
I never EVER again want to hear Dems say they can't make legislation happen.
July 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The Big abomination of a bill passed and is going to be law. Tens of millions of people will lose healthcare. Millions more will go hungry. Every poll shows the American public hates the bill.
I never EVER again want to hear Dems say they can't make legislation happen.
I never EVER again want to hear Dems say they can't make legislation happen.
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Not that anyone cares, but now that JD Vance has cast the tiebreaking vote for $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts, I'm reupping these Vance quotes from 2017, in which he flatly declared that Medicaid cuts like these betray Trumpism's promises to the working class:
newrepublic.com/article/1954...
newrepublic.com/article/1954...
July 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Not that anyone cares, but now that JD Vance has cast the tiebreaking vote for $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts, I'm reupping these Vance quotes from 2017, in which he flatly declared that Medicaid cuts like these betray Trumpism's promises to the working class:
newrepublic.com/article/1954...
newrepublic.com/article/1954...
So I'm starting to look at vehicles to replace my Volvo C40 when the lease is up next year. Right now my short list is:
Genesis gv60 performance
Hyundai ioniq 5 ltd
Volvo EX30
Also under consideration
Cadillac lyriq
Acura RSX or ZDX
Polestar 2 (used) or 3 (lease)
What am I missing?
Genesis gv60 performance
Hyundai ioniq 5 ltd
Volvo EX30
Also under consideration
Cadillac lyriq
Acura RSX or ZDX
Polestar 2 (used) or 3 (lease)
What am I missing?
June 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
So I'm starting to look at vehicles to replace my Volvo C40 when the lease is up next year. Right now my short list is:
Genesis gv60 performance
Hyundai ioniq 5 ltd
Volvo EX30
Also under consideration
Cadillac lyriq
Acura RSX or ZDX
Polestar 2 (used) or 3 (lease)
What am I missing?
Genesis gv60 performance
Hyundai ioniq 5 ltd
Volvo EX30
Also under consideration
Cadillac lyriq
Acura RSX or ZDX
Polestar 2 (used) or 3 (lease)
What am I missing?
Truly frightening how far back the big dumb bill would set this country.
June 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Truly frightening how far back the big dumb bill would set this country.
Heck of a way to distract people from the GOP decimating Medicaid and SNAP
June 22, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Heck of a way to distract people from the GOP decimating Medicaid and SNAP
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Hey there Scott Walker. I noticed you deleted this after learning that in fact the shooter was from the right. I don’t think it matters either way, violence is violence, so I’m waiting for you to tweet the same thing with corrected facts?
Cuz you’re uh, to use your words, “being silent.”
Cuz you’re uh, to use your words, “being silent.”
June 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Hey there Scott Walker. I noticed you deleted this after learning that in fact the shooter was from the right. I don’t think it matters either way, violence is violence, so I’m waiting for you to tweet the same thing with corrected facts?
Cuz you’re uh, to use your words, “being silent.”
Cuz you’re uh, to use your words, “being silent.”
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The longer you use #climate as the main thrust of your arguments, the longer it will take to actually see the change you want.
Half the US is turned off by these arguments.
Find other ways, flank the issue. Heat pumps provide far better comfort used well for example.
#energysky #preachtochoir
Half the US is turned off by these arguments.
Find other ways, flank the issue. Heat pumps provide far better comfort used well for example.
#energysky #preachtochoir
a group of frogs with their mouths open and their tongues out
ALT: a group of frogs with their mouths open and their tongues out
media.tenor.com
June 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The longer you use #climate as the main thrust of your arguments, the longer it will take to actually see the change you want.
Half the US is turned off by these arguments.
Find other ways, flank the issue. Heat pumps provide far better comfort used well for example.
#energysky #preachtochoir
Half the US is turned off by these arguments.
Find other ways, flank the issue. Heat pumps provide far better comfort used well for example.
#energysky #preachtochoir
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Global EV sales rise by 28% in 2025...just in case you have been believing the North American auto industry claims about the demise of the EV: rhomotion.com/news/global-... #cdnpoli
Global EV Sales Grow 28% in 2025
Rho Motion, the leading EV research house, today revealed that the number of electric vehicles sold globally in May 2025 is 1.6 million, with 7.2 million sold year-to-date (YTD). The EV market grew by...
rhomotion.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Global EV sales rise by 28% in 2025...just in case you have been believing the North American auto industry claims about the demise of the EV: rhomotion.com/news/global-... #cdnpoli