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Lissa Harris🐀

@lissaharris.bsky.social

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pompe à chaleur. recovering local digital news reporter. volunteer firefighter. climate solutions and NYS policy watcher. feral rural sword queer. Gideon the Sixth your favorite deep state climate bureaucrat’s favorite shitposter she/her/bro

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · Apr 30

anybody know of any examples of people mapping out where federal funding is flowing in their town/city, and what the impacts are if it is cut off?

I’m talking small scale

I’d like to write up a report like this for my town of a few thousand residents

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 6h

this is the way

Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 7h

real ones remember

a cover from Boston’s Weekly Dig 20 years ago: guy in Red Sox uniform making out with guy in Yankees uniform. I was the managing editor. we got an amount of hate mail you would not believe

Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 7h

hahahahahaha sorry not sorry

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 7h

every morning I’m out here making weird joyful noises with my kid while we’re having tea and getting ready for school, and going “look at all this autism”

the autism has enhanced my life, I’m sorry you don’t all get to experience it

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t exactly how to phrase this, but like… is autism that bad???? Like, why is it such a source of fear??? Of course there are challenges but you can be autistic and have a rich, fulfilling life! Many people do! I don’t understand the preoccupation.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

It is notable that while a lot of important people are running around right now braying about how AI can replace the work of creative people, pretty much no one is saying the same things about using AI to replace pro athletes - even though it would be very technically feasible, and save money.

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 7h

mazel?

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daaaaaaa yankees lose!!!

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 8h

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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Kevin Duggan @kevinduggan.bsky.social · 12h

Dave basically got Kathy Hochul to back off a highway expansion of the Cross Bronx

Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 12h

Holy fucking shit: New York State is not going to expand the Cross Bronx Expressway with a "traffic diversion structure" nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/09/s...

State DOT Scraps Cross Bronx Expansion Road On Highway Repair Plan - Streetsblog New York City

The state Department of Transportation will not build a "traffic diversion" structure next to the Cross Bronx Expressway — a highway expansion project that Streetsblog exposed.

nyc.streetsblog.org

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 15h

he’s not AI generated, he’s just built that way

two black and white kittens on a bathmat. the bigger one has way too many thumbs

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18h

Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels

He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down

www.ft.com/content/5ba8...

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Will Jordan, chief legal and policy officer at EQT, a leading US gas producer, also thought that any glut would be temporary, and said US demand was also rising on the boom in power-hungry artificial intelligence data centres.

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“Supply leads demand — you put the supply on the market and demand gets created.,” he said. “Over the long term we’re very bullish.”

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Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 16h

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 20h

Two graphs in today’s FT.

Notice the UK’s position on both graphs.

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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 18h

Good to see this informative piece about NY ending oil & gas in new buildings by Western NY state assemblyperson McMahon. 👏

The law, which already went into effect in NYC, starts Jan 1 statewide. It will:

✅ save money
✅ create good jobs
✅ cut pollution

🧵

www.beenews.com/amherst_bee/...

McMahon: The facts about the All-Electric Building Act

Some community members have shared their concerns about the All-Electric Building Act that takes effect in January. There is some confusion about what this new law means for New Yorkers,

www.beenews.com

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 18h

Coal: you can't give it away. (+/- $0.001/ton) apnews.com/article/trum...

Company bids less than a penny per ton in biggest US coal sale in over a decade

A Navajo tribe-owned company has bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana.

apnews.com

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

fucked up if true, but I’m skeptical that this one is accurate

Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve met so many incredible people on these internets. just so many. my life has been so vastly enriched

@mpgphd.bsky.social wasn’t one of them, but I bet we would’ve lost touch if not for all the parallel-play hollering we did on Twitter

one flesh, one end, bitch ❤️‍🔥

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Combustion is the past, electricity is the future, pass it on.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Stand up for the rights of trans folks because everyone should have human rights and freedom to live their lives, it's really not complicated.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

oh man. tossup between the bike and a big fun train trip

Canada isn’t quite as fucked up as we are, but they got their own issues

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Todd Woody @toddwoody.bsky.social · 1d

New: A heat pump that can be installed in minutes is allowing Boston to quickly decarbonize a public housing complex for the elderly and provide air conditioning as climate change-driven heat waves intensify. The window heat pump is made by SF startup Gradient.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Boston Public Housing Upgrades Units With Window Heat Pumps

A pilot project aims to cut heating costs and provide air conditioning while reducing emissions.

www.bloomberg.com

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

I gotchu ⚔️💀⚔️💖💖💖

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so stoked to go fancy camping in this thing with my induction hot plate

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

if we have a power outage, I’m gonna run an extension cord out the window and run the fridge from the car on Vehicle To Load

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