Tom Whittington 🇺🇦🇹🇼 🇨🇦🤝🇺🇸
@tomwwhittington.bsky.social
PhD student at OSU AEDE. I study AFOLU emissions reduction schemes and want to study energy. Mostly I used Twitter for politics and space and war stuff, I figure this will be much the same ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men, and less Carbon
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men, and less Carbon
The only two presidents who have ever been divorced are... family values Trump and Reagan.
February 6, 2026 at 5:15 PM
The only two presidents who have ever been divorced are... family values Trump and Reagan.
When teams do this, is there ever any expo game or scrimmage or anything for the hosting city? I have ecuadorian cousins who would probably love to see a public event here in town.
February 6, 2026 at 4:57 PM
When teams do this, is there ever any expo game or scrimmage or anything for the hosting city? I have ecuadorian cousins who would probably love to see a public event here in town.
I looked it up and she is running pretty tight against Stratton, so the case isn't as strong as I thought. But they're obviously splitting the vote against an inferior candidate (I guess he's fine). Gosh we need better electoral systems
February 6, 2026 at 4:41 PM
I looked it up and she is running pretty tight against Stratton, so the case isn't as strong as I thought. But they're obviously splitting the vote against an inferior candidate (I guess he's fine). Gosh we need better electoral systems
Shouldn't Kelly drop?
February 6, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Shouldn't Kelly drop?
Just frustrating that the most craven attention-seekers all climb over each other while the better options all declined.
Hard to see Steyer making it ahead of Swalwell and Porter, but maybe? I don't know the state I guess.
Hard to see Steyer making it ahead of Swalwell and Porter, but maybe? I don't know the state I guess.
February 6, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Just frustrating that the most craven attention-seekers all climb over each other while the better options all declined.
Hard to see Steyer making it ahead of Swalwell and Porter, but maybe? I don't know the state I guess.
Hard to see Steyer making it ahead of Swalwell and Porter, but maybe? I don't know the state I guess.
Seems that way, but like half of them need to drop to prevent lock-out
February 6, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Seems that way, but like half of them need to drop to prevent lock-out
I take your point, but *is it* their strategy? I don't think it is.
February 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I take your point, but *is it* their strategy? I don't think it is.
I do think it's useful to have a term for the kinds of people who are just kinda around any administration doing various this and that. If not Czar (for these purposes I don't see people use the "proper" anglicization), something else
February 6, 2026 at 3:32 PM
I do think it's useful to have a term for the kinds of people who are just kinda around any administration doing various this and that. If not Czar (for these purposes I don't see people use the "proper" anglicization), something else
Damnatio Memoriae (after he's been hit with all the criminal cases)
February 6, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Damnatio Memoriae (after he's been hit with all the criminal cases)
I'm always astonished by my standard of living as a grad student. I can live like this on a near-poverty line stipend? It's amazing. That said, I don't have kids and I wouldn't have half the luxury I have without student discounts.
February 5, 2026 at 3:26 PM
I'm always astonished by my standard of living as a grad student. I can live like this on a near-poverty line stipend? It's amazing. That said, I don't have kids and I wouldn't have half the luxury I have without student discounts.
This is a weird race because most of them seem alright to good? I like Biss but who do you want, as a Chicagoan (Chicagolander?)
February 4, 2026 at 11:58 PM
This is a weird race because most of them seem alright to good? I like Biss but who do you want, as a Chicagoan (Chicagolander?)
(I don't actually care how left the next president is but she does. I want him to be the next president because he seems the most likely to bring fire and brimstone down on the people fucking up my country, which isn't exactly a left-right thing)
February 4, 2026 at 11:53 PM
(I don't actually care how left the next president is but she does. I want him to be the next president because he seems the most likely to bring fire and brimstone down on the people fucking up my country, which isn't exactly a left-right thing)
And now that we're wish casting, I want her to push her support behind an electable progressive. I want to believe that means Pritzker, who seems credibly to the left of basically everyone in that poll.
February 4, 2026 at 11:51 PM
And now that we're wish casting, I want her to push her support behind an electable progressive. I want to believe that means Pritzker, who seems credibly to the left of basically everyone in that poll.
I mean, Schumer retiring would be even better for sure.
February 4, 2026 at 11:46 PM
I mean, Schumer retiring would be even better for sure.
I think she'd be wise to skip a run and primary Schumer. Her ideology isn't easy to win with for now and she builds her profile better.
February 4, 2026 at 11:44 PM
I think she'd be wise to skip a run and primary Schumer. Her ideology isn't easy to win with for now and she builds her profile better.
The best value focused brands series has been a guiding light for me for 2.5 years now
January 31, 2026 at 2:56 PM
The best value focused brands series has been a guiding light for me for 2.5 years now
I think my challenge with US urban living centers on private green space; if I wanted to garden but otherwise live in dense urban space I don't always feel like there are good options
January 29, 2026 at 2:49 PM
I think my challenge with US urban living centers on private green space; if I wanted to garden but otherwise live in dense urban space I don't always feel like there are good options
loser of Flanagan v Craig?
January 29, 2026 at 1:27 PM
loser of Flanagan v Craig?
I mean, I agree but we were always going to need to compete in TX, FL, GA
January 27, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I mean, I agree but we were always going to need to compete in TX, FL, GA
Okay well it felt pretty rural last year. Dunno what I saw then
January 27, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Okay well it felt pretty rural last year. Dunno what I saw then
Promising Young Woman was so good tho.
January 27, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Promising Young Woman was so good tho.
Please Pedro Sanchez, my country is under the boot of fascism. Send american rebels Eurofighter Typhoons
January 27, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Please Pedro Sanchez, my country is under the boot of fascism. Send american rebels Eurofighter Typhoons
(Then) reddish Ohio suburb. It was taught to me as a "this can happen anywhere" thing. That was a pretty uniquely good teacher in the system tho
January 27, 2026 at 5:38 AM
(Then) reddish Ohio suburb. It was taught to me as a "this can happen anywhere" thing. That was a pretty uniquely good teacher in the system tho
I think this is sadly necessary, right? We will have to make new journalistic institutions to replace, but creative destruction will exact a cost on Bezos and that's good.
January 26, 2026 at 8:43 PM
I think this is sadly necessary, right? We will have to make new journalistic institutions to replace, but creative destruction will exact a cost on Bezos and that's good.