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@jwgibbs.bsky.social
'Share with me the sun, you forget sometimes it's yours.' I do YIMBY stuff and self study math in my spare time. Currently Studying: Intro to Linear Algebra (Strang) 💡🐦 🧦🦢🥑🦚🔰🏢🏘️🏛️🗽🗳️🐝
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Trump: If we build more housing, the price of homes will go down, and homeowners will lose their wealth.
December 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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at this point it looks like you have to be putting carbon into the atmosphere out of spite if you do buildouts that aren't primarily solar
This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm”
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.
www.pv-magazine.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.
The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.

Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Here's Sandra Day O'Connor endorsing News Max levels of voter fraud conspiracies in the 2000 election.
December 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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this fact is the definitive judgment on kirk's life
ultimately, no one even grieved Charlie Kirk. he was just another thing for the worst people on earth to get outraged over. and when the outrage of real events wasn't enough, they invented new ones.

not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
my read is they were trying to whip up the usual frenzy, but then the effort got blown up by Candace Owens saying The Jews did it
December 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I hope every moderate, sensible (soi-disant) Dem is watching this. This is what they're trying to do when they have power. Think about that the next time you have power.
One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
December 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
When did we forget @timheidecker.bsky.social is a mass murderer? How's the health of the Electric Sun 20?
I hope @timheidecker.bsky.social takes care of his health. If that's why he must end the show, I understand and wish him the best. His body has been through the ringer for On Cinema over the years. It's amazing he's still with us.
December 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I don't really have any expensive hobbies since it is just playing the same 3 games, reading, and self studying math. So I will be damned if a president tells me to give up my 12 packs of Blackwing Matte pencils in various styles and colors.
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Did you really need to circle the big red number that takes up a third of the screen?
Enten: "Trump's net approval rating is at -15 -- the lowest it has been during his entire second term... the Democratic lead on the generic ballot has widened. Trump's political position has worsened. I don't think how you can look at both and conclude anything other than that Dems won the shutdown"
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Island of misery is set to make inhabitants even more miserable.
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Firmly believe that in less than five years all video will be untrustworthy and if you continue to use any social media you will be living a fake reality. We all gotta go back to book clubs and conventions.
God the AI is getting scary, this had me for about 30 seconds until i started to notice how the voice was just a tad uncanny for a news reporter and the story itself got a bit ridiculous
#GVerse #KingResist #Unite #FBaRmy
News Flash - Racism can be very expensive.

Nazi Karen calls the police on the Boston Police Chief. Good for him for suing that racist. #DemsUnited
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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25 years from now, some young person finds out the top selling series of the 2010s was something called 50 Shades of Grey. It's a bondage porno novel, widely read by regular people. How do you explain this phenomenon to them?
November 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I've never read an article by Maureen Dowd but these pitchbot posts always make me laugh and I wonder just how close to home these land.
Country Roads

Olivia’s little buddy Bobby Jr. is more Bob Denver than John Denver, but her romance with a certain Appalachian trail hiking himbo had him saying “thank God I’m a country boy.”

by Maureen Dowd
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Family Enters Crisis Talks After Learning Restaurant Has 45-Minute Wait http://theonion.com/family-enters-crisis-talks-after-learning-restaurant-ha-1819577952/
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I have lots of opinions about political journalism, but mainly I think there should be less of it. Less time devoted to scoops, speculation, who is winning, who is positioning themselves to win, etc. There are so few journalistic resources, and fewer all the time. Devote them to something else.
November 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
>no tool to stop it

THERE IS A TOOL AND IT'S CALLED AN ELECTION.
Straightforward confirmation from Angus King that the gang of eight made the deal out of earnest concern for the filibuster. www.pressherald.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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They say:

We can’t just be AGAINST, we have to be FOR something.

We can’t just DENOUNCE people.

We have to stress KITCHEN TABLE issues.

I say:

I’m AGAINST Trump.

I DENOUNCE Epstein and his enablers.

My KITCHEN TABLE issue is authoritarianism.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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The US Senate is a worthless institution that has, with a few very brief exceptions, been a reactionary force in the US for all its history, holding back progress, holding back the will of the voters, upholding a grossly oligarchic, patriarchal, racist hierarchy. Flush it down the toilet.
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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and the best part about all of this? the yankees don’t get to experience this feeling
November 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Toronto, you will not taste victory until you sacrifice Drake
November 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Following your principles wherever they take you—& in particular being willing to break with the social groups with which they were once associated—is a rare thing worth lauding when the principles are good or even just defensible
If I told 14 year old me this had happened hed say "time to cut back on the beer old man."
October 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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"We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced."
October 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM