The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners. Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs. 2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar. 3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

pretty good deal

Kodak is officially selling their own film again for the first time in many years and will be selling directly to photography stores now. 🔗 www.404media.co/kodak-is-sel...

"These cars don't have a driver, so they don't have a driver's license and so we're really going to have to rethink who's the responsible party, who's going to be responsible for being in control and who's going to be the operator of that vehicle" I AM GOING TO BECOME THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD

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quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

When a contestant brings in their doors for a prize task. #taskmaster

this is a really good video about how increases in CO2 affect plant growth. the channel only has a few dozen subscribers, which is criminal.

Just a box containing some numbers that should make every single one of us re-evaluate what we choose to do for the rest of our lives.

The US conservative movement has organized & funded a massive anti-wind power campaign, based on lies & bullying. Researchers at Brown University have been investigating & revealing that campaign. Now cons are pressuring the university to shut the investigators down.

“Outrageous Fortune” would be a great title for a nonfiction book about how billionaires are wrecking everything.

When I give my dog gabapentin for his anxiety, I say “here’s ya gabagool”

me when my 32mm scale model Meiji Restoration-era Japanese village is out for delivery

Bought a book & blu ray today at a little local bookstore. I’m slowly getting on the “back to physical media” bandwagon. Streaming feels increasingly like a shell game.

Petrostate Politicos delusionally say there is no energy transition. The massive flow of global investment away from oil and gas and into renewables, electrification, energy efficiency and nuclear makes their heads explode. Is that why they laughably say there is no energy transition? #energysky

get yourself a congressional candidate who can kill charybdis *and* prioritize direct action

Film Ferrania P30, Nikon FM #filmphotography

Lunch with friends and talking over all the crazy shit that’s going on: I recommend it.

All confirmed what i said from the jump Good luck with massive high tech infrastructure investment republicans

none of the gotcha examples of "out-of-control scientific spending" bother me in the slightest. isn't science about finding shit out? "they spent a million dollars of taxpayer money to see if they could make mice sexier" okay, well, what was the answer? I want to know too

This is so crucial. When people think about these land comparisons, they don't think about the entire sprawling infrastructure behind FF.

Okay plan B. We’re switching to a fully electric eel-based power grid. Also money, eels are money too.

My pet history idea: “the long 90s” being the period from roughly 1989 to 2003. An era when politics, entertainment, and culture was recognizably 90s-ish.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Tapping on a can of soda before opening it is the real woke mind virus.

Seen in Madison Wisconsin

Hey, I can do this! half-frameday.com #Pentax17

Tomorrow I'm talking with a company that is 3D printing batteries. This "dry" process avoids the need for toxic solvents & big drying ovens, saving tons on capex & opex. And they've printed a metal-free battery that basically can't catch on fire! Magical shit. Got any questions?

My latest @washingtonpost.com supercut: RFK Jr. spent parts of yesterday's hearing contradicting what he has said previously about vaccines, public health and the former CDC director

@teslatakedown.com is more important than ever with this news. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

trains rock

I’m taking a few classes (on renewable energy) and I’ve forgotten how fun it is to start a new semester. Plus I get an excuse to shop for stationery and that’s great all on its own.

Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea? 139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea. A 🧵

jamelle’s post about drafting made me wonder something: how many of you learned shorthand when you were in school, and are you over or under, say, 45? suddenly curious about the latest someone might have learned it outside of a specialized class

fully ceding buildout of the renewables industry to china at this moment is still not talked about enough as a catastrophically bad decision for both politics and economics

The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff

It’s Sunday and I can have a fancy little drink as a treat.

Here's what it sounds like. This is a digital radio protocol used by hams to send short text messages over very long distances. A free software package encodes and decodes the wailing from/to text.

I know there's a lot of controversy about the Cracker Barrel logo, so I worked up a new option that should be good with everyone... The barrel is back, but it's now guarded by Scubble, The Cracker Goblin. I also worked up a new slogan for the company!

Sam Altman Places Gun To Head After New GPT Claims Dogs Are Crustaceans For 60th Time https://theonion.com/sam-altman-places-gun-to-head-after-new-gpt-claims-dogs-are-crustaceans-for-60th-time/

Repost with a group you’d love to hang out with…

Germany gets 60% of its power from renewables and is shutting down its coal plants. No blackouts. No high bills. Every right wing lie about renewables has been proven false.

Robot meets bollard. Nothing beats the #WorldBollardAssociation

Ugh. Sick. Anyone have pet photos?

Renewable energy escaped the polarization that has consumed everything else in US public life for a remarkably long time. It is *still* broadly popular across party & geographic lines, in polling. But the right-wing shit machine has decided it's bad & is currently working hard to change that.