as you've said, so much climate action is way out of the control of the feds and isn't even billed as climate action density good buses municipal waste management green infrastructure safe and sound local elections city and county procurement affordable electric bills innumerable others

I missed this last week - Howard County passed a bill prohibiting privately owned ICE detention facilities. Interesting for other counties or the state, which has a whole land use article... @aacoexec.bsky.social @votepruski.bsky.social @senatordawngile.bsky.social www.wbaltv.com/article/howa...

cheers to @rincewind.run for asking climate people what Dire Fuckery Headline means, like, pragmatically half these bozos’ game is wearing you down with despair if you’re a casual, you might think all US climate action ground to a halt today because the EPA threw in the towel not even close

(it's always worth saving)

gesturing toward the figurative leviathan, making This Old House jokes. "you see this? it's rotten. full of carpenter ants. we're gonna have to take aaaall this out."

you guys there is no putting this all back together again in the next admin without supreme court reform there is simply no way

Sun sign: whatever sign immediately mentions climate change in a room where everyone is worried about fascism Moon sign: whatever sign quietly looks forward to bringing baby native plants to the host of the meeting in the Spring

pro tip for sharing extremely fucked up climate news: if you don’t include a doable action step, it’s just gonna burn people out I got about a bajillon of em. how bout: find out when your local planning and zoning people meet, show up and support clean energy projects and dense housing

Hear me now ye fellowes: I hath seent a byrd. 🪶

when u log on:

This whole thread is good (esp for me, a climate preoccupied person who is not usually deep in scenario conversations). It also reinforces the degree to which engineering is about risk management and also my conviction that if I could do it all again, I'd train as an engineer.

Endorse! Jagged Ambush Bug (western erosa-group) #inverts #becurious

🧵 spend a few moments to learn the on-the-ground reality of emergency immigration law in Minnesota over the past few weeks... then - please - maybe send a few bucks to one or more of these immigrant legal defense funds...

Oh no

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

For today’s photo, who doesn’t love a good praying mantis ootheca (egg case)?! …in this case, we don’t, & neither do you! Why? Because unfortunately, & like most you’re likely to find in our part of the US, this one is from the invasive Chinese mantis (Tenodera sinensis). (1/7) #2026photos

I finally did it, I made the sign

This all makes sense now: the “EPA press team”—given credit for ‘working’ the despicable Washington Post editorial that reads like a Daily Caller right-wing fever dream—literally includes the Daily Caller’s former editor-in-chief. www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

Small grippy friend reporting for #WoodpeckerWednesday duty (Downy Woodpecker) #birds 🌿

"El Apagón" is the song Bad Bunny was performing during this part of the halftime show using imagery that was apparently too subtle for some people It's one of his most interesting songs with a ton of political context and meaning plus it’s an absolute banger

Going #blue for the #BirdOfTheDay with this handsome male Blue Grosbeak and his patch of Wild Blue Lupines from several springs ago. #birds #wildflowers

This whole thread is a very good argument for public utilities.

I love when art+culture+wonk come together like this

look at this freakazoid i saw yesterday

WAAAUGH

Curious when they'll add wind risk as that's the big bad around here.

I wrote about the first 100% transparent climate risk tool. You can look up your home's wildfire risk, w/ all underlying data, methods, and code available to dl. The hope is to get this info out of black box models and invite public/scientific scrutiny and collaboration. heatmap.news/adaptation/c...

I heard y'all wanted a thread on "El Apagón"

So very tired today.

every six months I hear about a new species of bean we could eat if we wanted to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigna_u...

My supervillain origin story: I see one more screen shot of the Black Knight satellite conspiracy, have a meltdown, and turn into a were-mammoth who bursts through walls like the Kool-Aid man, kidnaps people, and makes them go on hikes where I show them skunk cabbages and woolly alder aphids.

I'm still vexed by this, especially by how & which words in all caps my screen-reader chooses to read as acronyms. But just to say. Please avoid putting all caps in alt text if you can. Maybe adding 'written shoutily in all caps' after the text would be better than copypasting all caps?

Just saw a hawk carrying a stick over the road near my house this morning, and a bluebird pair were chatting by the bird house in my front yard 🩵 behold my terrible bird photo 🪶

Yesterday along the Little Patuxent: Yellow-rumped Warbler, Red-shoulderd Hawks, Hooded Mergnasers, Great Blue Heron #birds

This is the first year I've really noticed birds doing nest things this early and I highly recommend it. Spring is coming.

This is a framing error, NYT. It's different technologies. Chatbots are not the same as the machine learning involved in reading scans (better defined inputs, clearer evaluation of outputs). Calling both AI is like conflating bombs dropped from planes with cars, because they both involve explosions.

Best writing, academic or popular, about floodplains?

Anyone with a brain could see this coming.

The beatings will continue… We lost some fantastic folks today.

My first flower of 2026 is in a very Monday morning mood. Astranthium ciliatum, Western Daisy. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

Looked closely at the curtains for the first time since this started, and

My paint shop is open again at lycomorpha.etsy.com Here's some of this month's new colours, including a blue & red for a colour calendar, & a smooth non-granulating teal based on customer requests. There's also a restock of several sets & single colours…

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

THE SUGAR CANE WAS PEOPLE!!!

I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.

You probably need to read this thread

Bad Bunny is telling the world that the people in Puerto Rico are American citizens and deserve reliable and resilient electricity and infrastructure investment from the U.S. government.

THAT'S NOT WHAT JUVENILE BALD EAGLES LOOK LIKE MOTHERFUCKERS

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

Last year, the administration cancelled the solar for all program that was helping improve the grid and help low-income households in all 50 states and Puerto Rico bsky.app/profile/cost...