Jeff Seidman (he/him)
@jeffsseidman.bsky.social
Teaches philosophy and environmental studies at Vassar College. Climate teaching website under development: https://climatesolutions-careers.org
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food trucks around campus should be required to drop their generators in favor of batteries.
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
food trucks around campus should be required to drop their generators in favor of batteries.
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In a country where 40% of land is used for hamburger production, don't ever let anyone gaslight you into thinking renewables take up too much land. 🔌💡
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
In a country where 40% of land is used for hamburger production, don't ever let anyone gaslight you into thinking renewables take up too much land. 🔌💡
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the only thing musk should be remembered for
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
the only thing musk should be remembered for
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This is the world Republicans want.
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is the world Republicans want.
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Bye gas network; had our gas meter removed today
4 years ago our aging (23 yr old) gas boiler was replaced with an air-source heat pump. 3 weeks ago our aging (26 yr old) cooker/ gas hob was replaced with new electric cooker/ induction hob. So we could finally disconnect from the gas grid. Yay!
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4 years ago our aging (23 yr old) gas boiler was replaced with an air-source heat pump. 3 weeks ago our aging (26 yr old) cooker/ gas hob was replaced with new electric cooker/ induction hob. So we could finally disconnect from the gas grid. Yay!
1/
November 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Bye gas network; had our gas meter removed today
4 years ago our aging (23 yr old) gas boiler was replaced with an air-source heat pump. 3 weeks ago our aging (26 yr old) cooker/ gas hob was replaced with new electric cooker/ induction hob. So we could finally disconnect from the gas grid. Yay!
1/
4 years ago our aging (23 yr old) gas boiler was replaced with an air-source heat pump. 3 weeks ago our aging (26 yr old) cooker/ gas hob was replaced with new electric cooker/ induction hob. So we could finally disconnect from the gas grid. Yay!
1/
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This can’t be stressed enough.
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This can’t be stressed enough.
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This is just to say
I parodied your poem
You left in the public domain
Forgive me
It was so sweet
and juicy
and ripe for riffing
I parodied your poem
You left in the public domain
Forgive me
It was so sweet
and juicy
and ripe for riffing
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is just to say
I parodied your poem
You left in the public domain
Forgive me
It was so sweet
and juicy
and ripe for riffing
I parodied your poem
You left in the public domain
Forgive me
It was so sweet
and juicy
and ripe for riffing
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It is mind boggling to me that anyone would think it makes sense to dig up and burn fossil fuels only to try to regather and and rebury the carbon dioxide molecules once they've flitted throughout the atmosphere. Fossil fuel companies are obviously lying about DAC, but a lot of people believe it. 🔌💡
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It is mind boggling to me that anyone would think it makes sense to dig up and burn fossil fuels only to try to regather and and rebury the carbon dioxide molecules once they've flitted throughout the atmosphere. Fossil fuel companies are obviously lying about DAC, but a lot of people believe it. 🔌💡
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An important, and discouraging, reminder that innovation continues in the fossil fuel industries as well as in renewables. Cheap oil and gas remains a major barrier to decarbonization .
www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
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www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
🔌💡
U.S. rig counts remain low as production efficiencies improve - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
www.eia.gov
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
An important, and discouraging, reminder that innovation continues in the fossil fuel industries as well as in renewables. Cheap oil and gas remains a major barrier to decarbonization .
www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
🔌💡
www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
🔌💡
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if you want to know why US government doesn’t work good and relies on an incredibly dense regulatory kludge to provide social outcomes you have to talk about state capacity!! At every level!! That needs to be the actual centerpiece to your argument! Including the hatchet men who have demolished it!
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
if you want to know why US government doesn’t work good and relies on an incredibly dense regulatory kludge to provide social outcomes you have to talk about state capacity!! At every level!! That needs to be the actual centerpiece to your argument! Including the hatchet men who have demolished it!
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TAE says breakthrough means commercial fusion power plant will be available in the "early 2030s."
My skepticism about fusion remains but lessens.
Bears watching.
More ways to displace fossil fuels the better.
tae.com/tae-shortens... #energysky
My skepticism about fusion remains but lessens.
Bears watching.
More ways to displace fossil fuels the better.
tae.com/tae-shortens... #energysky
TAE shortens device roadmap, prepares for commercial era - TAE Technologies | Fusion Power Clean Energy Company
TAE’s Norm machine – the first to produce FRC plasmas with only neutral beam injection – has performed beyond expectations, leapfrogging a planned sixth device, Copernicus
tae.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
TAE says breakthrough means commercial fusion power plant will be available in the "early 2030s."
My skepticism about fusion remains but lessens.
Bears watching.
More ways to displace fossil fuels the better.
tae.com/tae-shortens... #energysky
My skepticism about fusion remains but lessens.
Bears watching.
More ways to displace fossil fuels the better.
tae.com/tae-shortens... #energysky
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1. Public utility commissions rubber stamping rate increases
2. Households being taxed to pay for infrastructure used by industry
3. Electric grid not designed for climate change, extreme weather driving rebuilding costs up
Solutions:
1. VPPs & efficiency
2. Build clean energy
3. Accountable PUCs
2. Households being taxed to pay for infrastructure used by industry
3. Electric grid not designed for climate change, extreme weather driving rebuilding costs up
Solutions:
1. VPPs & efficiency
2. Build clean energy
3. Accountable PUCs
You are a random Dem running in 2026 -- say, for some House seat in some swing state. You're on local media. You're asked: "what are three reasons that energy prices are rising & what are three things you'd like to do to bring them down?" What's your answer?
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
1. Public utility commissions rubber stamping rate increases
2. Households being taxed to pay for infrastructure used by industry
3. Electric grid not designed for climate change, extreme weather driving rebuilding costs up
Solutions:
1. VPPs & efficiency
2. Build clean energy
3. Accountable PUCs
2. Households being taxed to pay for infrastructure used by industry
3. Electric grid not designed for climate change, extreme weather driving rebuilding costs up
Solutions:
1. VPPs & efficiency
2. Build clean energy
3. Accountable PUCs
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I’m sorry to be self promoting but I a) have never been seduced by a fascist with a brain worm b) am capable of crafting a decent sentence and c) wrote a book that did not earn me a fawning profile in the newspaper but is still pretty good
bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
bookshop.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I’m sorry to be self promoting but I a) have never been seduced by a fascist with a brain worm b) am capable of crafting a decent sentence and c) wrote a book that did not earn me a fawning profile in the newspaper but is still pretty good
bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
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Found my Met Gala outfit
November 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Found my Met Gala outfit
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Microrobots may become an effective tool in breaking down the dangerous blood vessel blockages that cause strokes.
www.popsci.com/health/micro...
www.popsci.com/health/micro...
These tiny robots swim through your blood to fight strokes
Magnets steer the injectable microrobots to destroy blood clots.
www.popsci.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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In 16th cen Florence, the Uffizi (now a famous art museum but originally the Offices of the Medici) were connected to the family's Pitti Palace by a passageway--the Vasari Corridor--that ran across the Arno. This made it possible to avoid people when commuting.
13yo me was shocked to learn this.
13yo me was shocked to learn this.
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 AM
In 16th cen Florence, the Uffizi (now a famous art museum but originally the Offices of the Medici) were connected to the family's Pitti Palace by a passageway--the Vasari Corridor--that ran across the Arno. This made it possible to avoid people when commuting.
13yo me was shocked to learn this.
13yo me was shocked to learn this.
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this sucks
@americanprogress.bsky.social - absolutely shameful that Larry Summers has a leadership role (or any role whatsoever) in your organization.
November 16, 2025 at 4:52 AM
this sucks
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Procrustes tailoring services, making sure everything fits to size!
Narcissus cosmetics. You've got the look.
Sisypheus hauling services. You’ll keep calling us back.
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Procrustes tailoring services, making sure everything fits to size!
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I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
Narcissus cosmetics. You've got the look.
Sisypheus hauling services. You’ll keep calling us back.
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Narcissus cosmetics. You've got the look.
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Sisypheus hauling services. You’ll keep calling us back.
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Sisypheus hauling services. You’ll keep calling us back.
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“'She did not just approve a fossil fuel project. She made a moral choice,' Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado (D), who is primarying Hochul, said on Monday. 'New Yorkers deserve a governor who does not treat the climate crisis as a PR problem, but as a test of moral leadership.'”
Hochul enrages environmentalists with shift to ‘all of the above’ energy policy
Democrats are focusing on affordability over climate goals as midterm elections loom.
www.politico.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“'She did not just approve a fossil fuel project. She made a moral choice,' Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado (D), who is primarying Hochul, said on Monday. 'New Yorkers deserve a governor who does not treat the climate crisis as a PR problem, but as a test of moral leadership.'”
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I give Catholic bishops a hard time often for all the obvious reasons, but this is beautiful and loving, and I'm deeply grateful to hear it. This can change hearts and save lives.
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I give Catholic bishops a hard time often for all the obvious reasons, but this is beautiful and loving, and I'm deeply grateful to hear it. This can change hearts and save lives.