Mr Springs
@mrsprings.bsky.social
Geographically: Taiwanese cosmopolite.
Ideologically: Theravada extensionalist.
Professionally: Editor, book doctor, ghostwriter.
Temperamentally: Into care, compassion, and sick burns.
Ideologically: Theravada extensionalist.
Professionally: Editor, book doctor, ghostwriter.
Temperamentally: Into care, compassion, and sick burns.
Students beginning to refer to essay questions as "prompts"
December 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Students beginning to refer to essay questions as "prompts"
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Courage, moral outrage, love and care — these are things I struggle to maintain in my mind. Other people may need to cultivate different affects.
But none of our feelings will help if they aren’t based on reality.
8/n
But none of our feelings will help if they aren’t based on reality.
8/n
December 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Courage, moral outrage, love and care — these are things I struggle to maintain in my mind. Other people may need to cultivate different affects.
But none of our feelings will help if they aren’t based on reality.
8/n
But none of our feelings will help if they aren’t based on reality.
8/n
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Truly, not trying to be doomer. If anything I think that the hope that arises out of *determination* — the capacity to fight on despite all odds — comes not from painting a falsely reassuring picture of the past and present, but by cultivating qualities that allow us to rise up and fight on.
7/n
7/n
December 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Truly, not trying to be doomer. If anything I think that the hope that arises out of *determination* — the capacity to fight on despite all odds — comes not from painting a falsely reassuring picture of the past and present, but by cultivating qualities that allow us to rise up and fight on.
7/n
7/n
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I know it can be UNBEARABLE to hold this knowledge right now — and it’s very hard to see how to have hope in this dark — but we have to remain poised to grab the next political opportunity to turn this ship around, which we won’t be ready to do if we think THIS what we have now is “progress.”
6/n
6/n
December 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I know it can be UNBEARABLE to hold this knowledge right now — and it’s very hard to see how to have hope in this dark — but we have to remain poised to grab the next political opportunity to turn this ship around, which we won’t be ready to do if we think THIS what we have now is “progress.”
6/n
6/n
Deeply heartening how much my 11 year old hates AI: voiceovers to YouTube vids, AI generated images and film, anything. He’s already totally attuned to it, and fucking loathes it. Hopefully an indication of its long term viability
October 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Deeply heartening how much my 11 year old hates AI: voiceovers to YouTube vids, AI generated images and film, anything. He’s already totally attuned to it, and fucking loathes it. Hopefully an indication of its long term viability
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Despite the noise, renewables keep rising now generating more electricity than coal.
@iea.org halved its US outlook, but raised India’s by 10%, putting it on track as the No. 2 growth market after China. MENA up 23%, driven by Saudi wind and solar.
@iea.org halved its US outlook, but raised India’s by 10%, putting it on track as the No. 2 growth market after China. MENA up 23%, driven by Saudi wind and solar.
October 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Despite the noise, renewables keep rising now generating more electricity than coal.
@iea.org halved its US outlook, but raised India’s by 10%, putting it on track as the No. 2 growth market after China. MENA up 23%, driven by Saudi wind and solar.
@iea.org halved its US outlook, but raised India’s by 10%, putting it on track as the No. 2 growth market after China. MENA up 23%, driven by Saudi wind and solar.
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This was a word AND he cussed 😂
September 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This was a word AND he cussed 😂
If you want to cause ChatGPT to really lose its shit, use Roman numerals
September 2, 2025 at 3:12 AM
If you want to cause ChatGPT to really lose its shit, use Roman numerals
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At #COP30 fossil fuel PR fave, Edelman, will regale attendees with their Oilwell wellness app
Choose from:
🧘Smog Breathing Exercise
🧘Drought Meditation
🧘Lifeless Rock Vizualisation
🧘Endless Growth Affirmation
🧘Third Eye of the Storm
🧘Drowning Mindfully
Get this @olifro.st genius at 👉 oilwell.app
Choose from:
🧘Smog Breathing Exercise
🧘Drought Meditation
🧘Lifeless Rock Vizualisation
🧘Endless Growth Affirmation
🧘Third Eye of the Storm
🧘Drowning Mindfully
Get this @olifro.st genius at 👉 oilwell.app
July 31, 2025 at 3:59 AM
At #COP30 fossil fuel PR fave, Edelman, will regale attendees with their Oilwell wellness app
Choose from:
🧘Smog Breathing Exercise
🧘Drought Meditation
🧘Lifeless Rock Vizualisation
🧘Endless Growth Affirmation
🧘Third Eye of the Storm
🧘Drowning Mindfully
Get this @olifro.st genius at 👉 oilwell.app
Choose from:
🧘Smog Breathing Exercise
🧘Drought Meditation
🧘Lifeless Rock Vizualisation
🧘Endless Growth Affirmation
🧘Third Eye of the Storm
🧘Drowning Mindfully
Get this @olifro.st genius at 👉 oilwell.app
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Rooftop solar power in Australia is the cheapest power available to consumers in the world, full stop. I wish more people knew that.
July 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Rooftop solar power in Australia is the cheapest power available to consumers in the world, full stop. I wish more people knew that.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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On fossil fuels being a bad investment: the person you must follow for this is @connorpchung.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
On fossil fuels being a bad investment: the person you must follow for this is @connorpchung.bsky.social
The world? It’s everything that is the case.
June 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
The world? It’s everything that is the case.
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By 2025, China will likely sell over 16M EVs—more than the total US vehicle sales (~15.5M). That’s one country, single-handedly, pulling the global auto industry into the electric era—and slashing transport emissions along the way. The scale is staggering, and next are the export markets. #EVs #LFP
June 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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LAPD when they think nobody is watching
June 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
LAPD when they think nobody is watching
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When I called out UK complicity in the genocide in Gaza, Wes Streeting called it “cheap”.
Now he calls it a “horror show” — as if Britain isn’t enabling Israeli genocide with arms and surveillance.
A parlour game to him. A “cheap” performance while Palestinians are massacred.
Now he calls it a “horror show” — as if Britain isn’t enabling Israeli genocide with arms and surveillance.
A parlour game to him. A “cheap” performance while Palestinians are massacred.
June 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
When I called out UK complicity in the genocide in Gaza, Wes Streeting called it “cheap”.
Now he calls it a “horror show” — as if Britain isn’t enabling Israeli genocide with arms and surveillance.
A parlour game to him. A “cheap” performance while Palestinians are massacred.
Now he calls it a “horror show” — as if Britain isn’t enabling Israeli genocide with arms and surveillance.
A parlour game to him. A “cheap” performance while Palestinians are massacred.
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Oilwell wellness app, created by Edelman™, the leading PR firm for fossil fuel clients
Choose from:
🧘Smog Breathing Exercise
🧘Drought Meditation
🧘Lifeless Rock Vizualisation
🧘Endless Growth Affirmation
🧘Third Eye of the Storm
🧘Drowning Mindfully
Get this @olifro.st genius 👉 oilwell.app
Choose from:
🧘Smog Breathing Exercise
🧘Drought Meditation
🧘Lifeless Rock Vizualisation
🧘Endless Growth Affirmation
🧘Third Eye of the Storm
🧘Drowning Mindfully
Get this @olifro.st genius 👉 oilwell.app
May 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Oilwell wellness app, created by Edelman™, the leading PR firm for fossil fuel clients
Choose from:
🧘Smog Breathing Exercise
🧘Drought Meditation
🧘Lifeless Rock Vizualisation
🧘Endless Growth Affirmation
🧘Third Eye of the Storm
🧘Drowning Mindfully
Get this @olifro.st genius 👉 oilwell.app
Choose from:
🧘Smog Breathing Exercise
🧘Drought Meditation
🧘Lifeless Rock Vizualisation
🧘Endless Growth Affirmation
🧘Third Eye of the Storm
🧘Drowning Mindfully
Get this @olifro.st genius 👉 oilwell.app
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Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit.
ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.
ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.
April 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit.
ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.
ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.
Getting people to give a shit about other people by saying "They're like highly individualized LLMs, each trained on a unique dataset."
April 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Getting people to give a shit about other people by saying "They're like highly individualized LLMs, each trained on a unique dataset."
Getting many books to edit composed entirely or in part by LLMs, I'm reminded of something Anne Carson wrote in "Kinds of Water":
March 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Getting many books to edit composed entirely or in part by LLMs, I'm reminded of something Anne Carson wrote in "Kinds of Water":
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The cement industry is responsible for 8% of global CO2 emissions - more still when combined with concrete production.
Might this be a genuine powerful technofix?
interestingengineering.com/innovation/s...
Might this be a genuine powerful technofix?
interestingengineering.com/innovation/s...
Strong carbon-negative concrete made from seawater, electricity
The study is inspired by nature, mimicking how coral and mollusks create their shells.
interestingengineering.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The cement industry is responsible for 8% of global CO2 emissions - more still when combined with concrete production.
Might this be a genuine powerful technofix?
interestingengineering.com/innovation/s...
Might this be a genuine powerful technofix?
interestingengineering.com/innovation/s...
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🚨NEW: climate inaction will cost more than a third of global GDP this century, but an investment of less than 2% GDP now will reduce harms by 90% - a "massive opportunity for humanity", finds a report from Boston Consulting Group and University of Cambridge.
Climate Inaction Could Cost 1/3 Of Global GDP This Century, BCG Warns
The Big 3 consulting firm finds that most harms come from productivity losses, but also reveals how nations could avoid 90% of climate damage.
www.forbes.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
🚨NEW: climate inaction will cost more than a third of global GDP this century, but an investment of less than 2% GDP now will reduce harms by 90% - a "massive opportunity for humanity", finds a report from Boston Consulting Group and University of Cambridge.
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
Fondly recalling Swedish People Don’t Feed Guests Day from a few years back. What a time to be alive
February 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Fondly recalling Swedish People Don’t Feed Guests Day from a few years back. What a time to be alive