Chris Turner
@theturner.bsky.social
Author of HOW TO BE A CLIMATE OPTIMIST. Writer & talker about the energy transition. Baseball (in season). Nova Scotia resident.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Somehow the perfect second-term Trump headline tho
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Somehow the perfect second-term Trump headline tho
Fargo is not a better COMEDY than The Big Lebowski, let alone 60-odd places better. (There aren't five comedies ever made better than The Big Lebowski, but that's a whole other issue.) Silly list.
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!
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The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
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November 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Fargo is not a better COMEDY than The Big Lebowski, let alone 60-odd places better. (There aren't five comedies ever made better than The Big Lebowski, but that's a whole other issue.) Silly list.
Mostly agree but for a couple years in the early 90s, alt/punk culture definitely had a strain of burn-it-all-down nihilism running through it that led some folks to be glibly dismissive even of the Beatles. Maybe not as far as denying the music had merit but treating it as completely worn out
As someone who is this guy's age I can tell you 100% that if you were into Pixies, Nirvana, 120 Minutes stuff, etc. but didn't like the Beatles you had to have worked hard to contort yourself into that special little box. Your enemy, if you absolutely needed one, was hair metal. GTFO here with this.
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Mostly agree but for a couple years in the early 90s, alt/punk culture definitely had a strain of burn-it-all-down nihilism running through it that led some folks to be glibly dismissive even of the Beatles. Maybe not as far as denying the music had merit but treating it as completely worn out
This verges on “Charlie Brown had hoes” as a food take. Many of the world’s greatest dishes are prepared rarely and seasonally for lavish holiday feasts BECAUSE THEY ARE SEASONAL DISHES THAT TAKE DAYS TO PREPARE
(with no particular disrespect to this dude who I don’t know and probably means well)
(with no particular disrespect to this dude who I don’t know and probably means well)
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This verges on “Charlie Brown had hoes” as a food take. Many of the world’s greatest dishes are prepared rarely and seasonally for lavish holiday feasts BECAUSE THEY ARE SEASONAL DISHES THAT TAKE DAYS TO PREPARE
(with no particular disrespect to this dude who I don’t know and probably means well)
(with no particular disrespect to this dude who I don’t know and probably means well)
We don't even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
To dust, I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
To dust, I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
We don't even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
To dust, I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
To dust, I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
This is who traded Tungsten Arm O’Doyle to the Akron Groomsmen
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 AM
This is who traded Tungsten Arm O’Doyle to the Akron Groomsmen
Furthermore this is the best possible MTG joke for reasons I can’t fully comprehend let alone explain
MTG is resigning from Congress because she has agreed to be my business partner in a cart selling the world's first alcoholic hot dogs
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Furthermore this is the best possible MTG joke for reasons I can’t fully comprehend let alone explain
The thing about American fascism is it’s weird af
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The thing about American fascism is it’s weird af
Quite a shock for the apparently many people who didn’t realize that reading and writing are two of the main ways you learn things
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Quite a shock for the apparently many people who didn’t realize that reading and writing are two of the main ways you learn things
No one ever went broke underestimating Anthony Kiedis’ way with words
what, you'd rather the plan be of dillinger escape?
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 AM
No one ever went broke underestimating Anthony Kiedis’ way with words
What a time to be alive
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:42 AM
What a time to be alive
"Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs." Couldn't agree more with colleagues @gmbutts.bsky.social @rjcsmith.bsky.social and Peter Nicholson on the only sustainable way forward for Canada www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
New data shows the world is embracing renewable energy. Canada can’t follow Trump’s fossil fuel obsession
North America at risk of becoming an island of fossil fuels in an electrifying world. Canada should take note and choose a better path.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs." Couldn't agree more with colleagues @gmbutts.bsky.social @rjcsmith.bsky.social and Peter Nicholson on the only sustainable way forward for Canada www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
I don't generally read a lot of the AI hype/anti-hype cycle stuff, is it all this wild?
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I don't generally read a lot of the AI hype/anti-hype cycle stuff, is it all this wild?
I’m inclined to suggest that any agreement missing these elements remains pretty far from a finished “deal”
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I’m inclined to suggest that any agreement missing these elements remains pretty far from a finished “deal”
Let’s be clear on this: Danielle Smith is ripping up the Charter of Rights & Freedoms to take away rights from the most vulnerable people in Alberta. And she’s doing it to protect herself from the militant wing of her own party, nothing more. Hope it’s all she’s ever remembered for in the long run
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Let’s be clear on this: Danielle Smith is ripping up the Charter of Rights & Freedoms to take away rights from the most vulnerable people in Alberta. And she’s doing it to protect herself from the militant wing of her own party, nothing more. Hope it’s all she’s ever remembered for in the long run
Just want to acknowledge the Alberta government for its the impeccable timing of its bigoted, retrogressive debasement of the Canadian constitution this week
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November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Just want to acknowledge the Alberta government for its the impeccable timing of its bigoted, retrogressive debasement of the Canadian constitution this week
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I’m not happy I understand this reference
We have to outlaw wildfire and invasive plant metaphors until someone can figure out what the hell is going on
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I’m not happy I understand this reference
The Nuzzi memoir excerpts work much better once you realize they were written in an obsolete vernacular
Ok, I’m farther along in the Nuzzi book now and it’s starting to get better.
November 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The Nuzzi memoir excerpts work much better once you realize they were written in an obsolete vernacular
She writes. She writes writing. She writes writering about writing. She writes writering itself. So it is written.
This whole Nuzzi excerpt reads like a stream of consciousness freestyle.
November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
She writes. She writes writing. She writes writering about writing. She writes writering itself. So it is written.
There are coffee beans that fetch luxury prices for passing through the intestinal tract of a civet. This is an arbitrage opportunity waiting to be captured
This table topped with coffee beans was in the green room at MSNBC for at least 15 years, back to when Morning Joe was sponsored by Starbucks. The beans were fuzzy in places and had lost their smell.
Today was MSNBC’s last day at 30 Rock, and I guess the beans aren’t making the move.
Today was MSNBC’s last day at 30 Rock, and I guess the beans aren’t making the move.
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
There are coffee beans that fetch luxury prices for passing through the intestinal tract of a civet. This is an arbitrage opportunity waiting to be captured
One last time before winter is fully upon on us...
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
One last time before winter is fully upon on us...
I mean, a lot of those what-about-China? arguments were disingenuous and self-serving. Still, there does feel like a bit of a sea change in climate hawk and energy wonk circles regarding the level of awareness that China is now fully in charge of the global energy transition
For years, people argued that there's no point in taking climate action unless China is onboard. I'm at a COP30 event where Chinese government officials and renewable industry reps are outlining the fast-paced renewable energy transition and long-term carbon neutrality plan. The story has flipped.
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I mean, a lot of those what-about-China? arguments were disingenuous and self-serving. Still, there does feel like a bit of a sea change in climate hawk and energy wonk circles regarding the level of awareness that China is now fully in charge of the global energy transition
This IEA scenario will likely get a lot of headlines. It'll likely be the one informing people who come up to me at conferences in the next while and say "I heard the energy transition's dead." It likely won't matter just how untethered from reality it is, as @hannahritchie.bsky.social's graph shows
Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines.
Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.
I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.
I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This IEA scenario will likely get a lot of headlines. It'll likely be the one informing people who come up to me at conferences in the next while and say "I heard the energy transition's dead." It likely won't matter just how untethered from reality it is, as @hannahritchie.bsky.social's graph shows
Been raining all week here in Nova Scotia but the skies cleared tonight and we have a show going on
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Been raining all week here in Nova Scotia but the skies cleared tonight and we have a show going on