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@energycheckup.bsky.social
“Is it getting hot in here or is it just me?”
Applied anthropologist, climate/energy efficiency consultant/advocate/troll, local gov appointee (until they read what I say here). Very concerned we don’t have enough 🍿 for the apocalypse.
he/they
Sonoma
Applied anthropologist, climate/energy efficiency consultant/advocate/troll, local gov appointee (until they read what I say here). Very concerned we don’t have enough 🍿 for the apocalypse.
he/they
Sonoma
Watch this video before investing in rainbow unicorns (or any other imaginary power sources) to run your data centers
How Should We Power Datacenters?
There are multiple clean, renewable ways.
Let’s focus on what is useful and what works.
www.youtube.com/shorts/G0ARV...
There are multiple clean, renewable ways.
Let’s focus on what is useful and what works.
www.youtube.com/shorts/G0ARV...
How Should We Power Datacenters?
YouTube video by Mark Z. Jacobson
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Watch this video before investing in rainbow unicorns (or any other imaginary power sources) to run your data centers
This ends well…
Update — I just received this statement from a DHS spokesperson about hiring conspiracy theorist Gregg Phillips to lead FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery:
December 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This ends well…
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Mist underrated technology in the world is "a bus." Some bus. Any bus. A bus where or when there isn't currently a bus. Busses for all.
Minneapolis’ E Line improved bus service, linking downtown with Uptown and suburban Edina, opened yesterday
December 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Mist underrated technology in the world is "a bus." Some bus. Any bus. A bus where or when there isn't currently a bus. Busses for all.
Every generation of colonialists seems to find a new way to justify exploiting the same people and places their ancestors did
On paper, carbon offsets could sound like a good opportunity for Kenya.
But the facts show a different reality 🚩
As the country opens its carbon market, (neo)colonial power imbalances and unequal land systems risk being deepened.
Read our investigation: www.somo.nl/carbon-the-n...
But the facts show a different reality 🚩
As the country opens its carbon market, (neo)colonial power imbalances and unequal land systems risk being deepened.
Read our investigation: www.somo.nl/carbon-the-n...
Carbon: the new frontier in the scramble for land in Kenya - SOMO
Kenya has become a global hotspot in the rapidly expanding market for land-based carbon offsets, with more than 5.4 million hectares now tied to projects that benefit foreign investors far more than l...
www.somo.nl
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Every generation of colonialists seems to find a new way to justify exploiting the same people and places their ancestors did
Agreed. However, until the MRV protocols are fully feasible, implementable, and enforceable, CDR serves mainly to amplify moral hazard and therefore represents a net drag on progress toward climate re-stabilization
Our new 'Monitoring, Reporting and Verification for marine Carbon Dioxide Removal' document presents the state of MRV-readiness for different mCDR methods. The bottom line? More robust, comprehensive MRV frameworks are needed: www.marineboard.eu/publications...
December 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Agreed. However, until the MRV protocols are fully feasible, implementable, and enforceable, CDR serves mainly to amplify moral hazard and therefore represents a net drag on progress toward climate re-stabilization
This should please conservatives fretting about low birth rates…
White storks to make historic return to London in 2026
- Species extinct as breeding birds in Britain since 1416 to be reintroduced in Barking and Dagenham as part of rewilding effort
Story by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Species extinct as breeding birds in Britain since 1416 to be reintroduced in Barking and Dagenham as part of rewilding effort
Story by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
White storks to make historic return to London in 2026
Species extinct as breeding birds in Britain since 1416 to be reintroduced in Barking and Dagenham as part of rewilding effort
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This should please conservatives fretting about low birth rates…
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This video is well worth the time. It shows why we need an urgent innovation strategy in autos in the US. Walking back CAFE standards - or even the standards themselves - are not adequate. But also, it is a great illustration of why an undervalued currency can transform what is possible in exports.
Marques Brownlee’s review of the Xiaomi SU7 EV. This car is faster than a Porsche 911 Turbo S, well built, nicely designed, and is $42k.
This is why they put tariffs on Chinese EVs even though the best selling Lincoln sold in the US is made in China.
youtu.be/Mb6H7trzMfI?...
This is why they put tariffs on Chinese EVs even though the best selling Lincoln sold in the US is made in China.
youtu.be/Mb6H7trzMfI?...
Driving Xiaomi's Electric Car: Are we Cooked?
YouTube video by Marques Brownlee
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This video is well worth the time. It shows why we need an urgent innovation strategy in autos in the US. Walking back CAFE standards - or even the standards themselves - are not adequate. But also, it is a great illustration of why an undervalued currency can transform what is possible in exports.
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Here's Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) raging about Missouri's elections being "decided in California" in response to an article about Missourians protesting a gerrymandering petition in California -- except the article is about the town of California in Missouri.
December 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Here's Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) raging about Missouri's elections being "decided in California" in response to an article about Missourians protesting a gerrymandering petition in California -- except the article is about the town of California in Missouri.
Unless you prefer to eat dog food, read this to understand why you should “Just Say No” to buying/eating industrial animal broth…
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Unless you prefer to eat dog food, read this to understand why you should “Just Say No” to buying/eating industrial animal broth…
Ra is pissed
Tomorrow, we may see a strong, G3 geomagnetic storm and auroras occuring further equatorward than usual. This is in response to a coronal mass ejection (CME) heading towards Earth. Impact may occur sometime Monday night into Tuesday. Here's what's happening and what to expect 🧵
#heliophysics
#heliophysics
December 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Ra is pissed
Takin’ off his turban, they said, “Is this man a Jew?”
Workin’ for the clampdown…
Workin’ for the clampdown…
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Takin’ off his turban, they said, “Is this man a Jew?”
Workin’ for the clampdown…
Workin’ for the clampdown…
Simply paying close attention is an act of power… do it, or lose it
December 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Simply paying close attention is an act of power… do it, or lose it
We don’t need more charity for the genocide in Gaza, “we need more consequences for the oppressors”
aje.io/yrykme
aje.io/yrykme
Muslim scholar says staying vocal about Gaza matters amid Israeli assaults
Scholar says that abandoning the Palestinian struggle now would repeat the very failures that enabled Israel’s genocide.
aje.io
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We don’t need more charity for the genocide in Gaza, “we need more consequences for the oppressors”
aje.io/yrykme
aje.io/yrykme
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This is in no way an attempt to dunk on Roberts but if the energy policy space would take viewpoints from the environmental justice space more seriously then there would not have been such a widespread misunderstanding of what the GOP was going to do and why they were serious about the threats.
In my world (energy policy), to a first approximation, *everyone* underestimated how bad Republicans would be this time around.
So my basic question is: has anyone updated their priors? Revised their analytical categories? Learned anything from this? Will do things differently next time? Anyone?
So my basic question is: has anyone updated their priors? Revised their analytical categories? Learned anything from this? Will do things differently next time? Anyone?
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This is in no way an attempt to dunk on Roberts but if the energy policy space would take viewpoints from the environmental justice space more seriously then there would not have been such a widespread misunderstanding of what the GOP was going to do and why they were serious about the threats.
Fog of War > Fog of Gin?
BREAKING: Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth's use of Signal to share details of airstrike posed risk to U.S. personnel, AP sources say.
Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth’s use of Signal posed risk to US personnel, AP sources say
The Pentagon’s watchdog has found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information about a military strike against Houthi militants in Yemen.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Fog of War > Fog of Gin?
Choose one:
Global Climate Apocalypse vs. Locally Abundant Parking?
Global Climate Apocalypse vs. Locally Abundant Parking?
City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.
City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.
City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
December 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Choose one:
Global Climate Apocalypse vs. Locally Abundant Parking?
Global Climate Apocalypse vs. Locally Abundant Parking?
Permitting rollbacks are popular with project developers and finance bros who just want to make money… they don’t care about the environment, and they fund BOTH political parties
I mean, if permitting reform is supposed to make it easier to build fossil fuels AND clean energy, and Trump and the GOP are, uh, “using an expanded definition of executive power” to suppress clean energy, then permitting reform will just mean more fossil fuels.
December 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Permitting rollbacks are popular with project developers and finance bros who just want to make money… they don’t care about the environment, and they fund BOTH political parties
Hillary Clinton should realize her criticism only makes TikTok look cool and more trustworthy
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Hillary Clinton should realize her criticism only makes TikTok look cool and more trustworthy
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And he would still make a more responsible Secretary of Defense than Pete Hegseth.
Raccoon goes on drunken rampage in Virginia liquor store and passes out on bathroom floor apnews.com/article/drun...
Raccoon goes on drunken rampage in Virginia liquor store and passes out on bathroom floor
A raccoon broke into a closed Virginia liquor store and drank alcohol from the bottom shelves over the weekend.
apnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:09 AM
And he would still make a more responsible Secretary of Defense than Pete Hegseth.
Treason, War Crimes, or All of the Above?
Here’s Pete Hegseth in 2016 arguing there have to be consequences for war crimes and how the military won’t follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief.
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Treason, War Crimes, or All of the Above?
Back when SF still had the mojo to launch new empires…
Congrats to my friend @ellenhuet.bsky.social, whose book, Empire of Orgasm, comes out TODAY. What started as some dogged reporting about an SF wellness company, turned into a vivid tale about a full-on sex cult. Get it now!
bookshop.org/p/books/empi...
bookshop.org/p/books/empi...
Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
bookshop.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Back when SF still had the mojo to launch new empires…
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The moment an Israeli missile hit a tent in Gaza was caught on camera when a Palestinian girl filmed herself showing her hair clips.
December 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The moment an Israeli missile hit a tent in Gaza was caught on camera when a Palestinian girl filmed herself showing her hair clips.
Only if you are paying attention…
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
December 2, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Only if you are paying attention…
Yawn. Wake me when you’re ready to raid the gated communities…
wake up babe, woke bill kristol is mogging the democratic party again
December 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Yawn. Wake me when you’re ready to raid the gated communities…
Translation:
“Great taste, less filling”
“Great taste, less filling”
I could have spent a year and would never have come up with a worse slogan than “Strong Floor, No Ceiling.”
December 2, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Translation:
“Great taste, less filling”
“Great taste, less filling”