I was judging Jean Piaget for this and then I realized this is how the number of tabs I have open looks to my laptop

I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)

Theater producer/managing director of a theatre

With both South Park and Wicked back in the general consciousness, a reminder that You and Me from the Book of Mormon is a perfect satirical take on Defying Gravity.

PJM capacity prices cleared at $329.17/MW-day (UCAP) RTO-wide for delivery year 2026/27, hitting the price cap approved by FERC after prices rose nearly 10-fold in the July 2024 auction. See Full Story: ow.ly/SbTC50WtEEt Writer: Devin Leith-Yessian and Rich Heidorn Jr.

Look, I just want to be on this app without having to engage in discourse about the other app. Is that too much to ask?

I....what??

Everyone be careful out there, international adoptee fam. www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...

8:40 on a Saturday night, and everyone is watching C-SPAN.

it’s pretty wild that the nation’s first climate law is headed towards a chainsaw and the only people talking about it here are wonks

Congrats to Vamsi Chadalavada, the next CEO of ISO-NE! www.iso-ne.com/static-asset...

We’re about to release a new Forecast Analysis app, and we're looking for users to test it out! If you have experience analyzing forecasts or enjoy beta testing new data tools, comment or shoot us a DM for the link 🔌💡 we've been using it to watch PJM's load forecasts for the heatwave next week

If you're a trans person in Massachusetts, know that @massequality.bsky.social is out there fighting for you every day. Even with the inhumane treatment at the federal level, know you can find space in our little Commonwealth.

Iberian blackout: not inertia, but lack of procurement of voltage regulation (reactive power absorption) by TSO to blame for spreading power outage, according to first government report. Plausible explanation for the scale of the incident, less for the root cause. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Still strongly recommend her autobiography as one of my favorites. Hearing famous and deeply traumatic events from her perspective is eye-opening. Plus, she's a terrific writer.

It takes a special kind of person who confuses Chris Hanson the NRC Chair with Chris Hansen the former Colorado State Senator who heads La Plata Electric, and that leads to a bunch of nonsensical texts about whether the President can fire the head of a co-op. Anyway, I'm here all week, folks.

Former state rep here. Here's the thing: being a state legislator is not fancy. You're not doing it for the money or the glamor. You're not raising millions of dollars like folks in Congress. You don't have security details. You're just a person who cares about their community.

Before Les Miserables was a musical, it was a book. One of those classic books you're supposed to read, especially in elite university settings. That's all I'm saying.

YES FRANCIS JUE FTW!!!!! What a gorgeous performance and human. #tonyawards

What is Joey wearing?? #tonyawards

I know everyone is already irritated with all the camera cuts to George Clooney, but just pretend they're cuts to Celia Keenan-Bolger! So much more enjoyable! #tonyawards

I love this for Brian Stokes Mitchell #tonyawards

Extremely excited to see how this new partnership between SPP and Hitachi develops to combat long generation interconnection times! spp.org/news-list/sp...

It's official: Trump's 50% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to the U.S. have gone into effect.

Building a reliable, resilient electric grid takes steel. Rates continue to increase due to years of deferred maintenance/necessary end of life replacements. This tariff will just harm consumers. Tough time to be a utility regulator trying to balance it all!

I guess you won't see me going east of 95 on these days, especially with university graduations going on.

I put together some very initial thoughts on the four nuclear executive orders today. A lot of heavy lifting for LPO to do in there (10 AP1000s anyone?)

@marisakabas.bsky.social has been gracious enough to lend me her platform to make one last plea to the universe to keep Papa in the US. www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-deport...

🤯 EVERY DAY for these 10 days we’re in now, is going to be the same backwards. 5/20/25 5/21/25 5/22/25 5/23/25 5/24/25 5/25/25 5/26/25 5/27/25 5/28/25 5/29/25

An extremely quick Summer Reading recs post only this time with books that actually exist, because I'm fussy like that. kjcharleswriter.com/2025/05/20/s...

Doctor's refusal to listen to and respect female patients is such a huge factor in women's attraction to woo and anti-vax propaganda and this is something our medical system really, really needs to reckon with and fix.

DOE's super useful guides to commercializing key technologies are back! You can find the collection of "Pathways to Commercial Liftoff" reports here: yardsale.energy/liftoff-reports Plus check out my amazing graphic design skillz!

Step aside, Enola Holmes: a new relative of Sherlock's has picked up a deerstalker hat, with Brittany Cavallaro's young adult Charlotte Holmes series headed to TV: reactormag.com/brittany-cav...

The Vatican press office is so not prepared for a Chicagoan older brother, and I love it.

I cannot wait to see what other tidbits the Pope's brother drops.

I FINALLY GET OVER MY JET LAG, AND I MISSED THE WHITE SMOKE FOR AN AMERICAN POPE WHO TWEETS??!? AND HIS NAME IS BOBBY FRANK IMPORTANT PERSON?? there's no way this is real.

Bipartisan permitting reform has repeatedly failed to get off the ground, so now House Republicans are taking a crack at it. Their proposal: a new, streamlined, and high fee NEPA process that would do an end-run around judicial review heatmap.news/energy/permi...

Heads up that I'm going to be posting a second run of a few sold out prints to my store in a couple weeks, including Power Lines Drawing #107 (Chicago, Pilsen) marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

This is the best take: go see something, anything, because they're all good!

It's a little hard to get a chart of generation over time from the Spanish grid operator's website, but the below from ENTSOE looks correct. Can see that currently it is a portion of solar/wind/hydro that is still running. All nuclear, gas and coal generation has tripped offline.

Anyway the last bit of Sunset Boulevard's "As if we've never said goodbye" after "I'll be home at last" goes perfectly into the last 16 bars of Phantom's "Wishing you were somehow here again," and my brain refuses to accept any other ending.

A few observations re: NYC theatre: 1) I'm enjoying the trend of the 7pm evening curtain. I don't know when we as a society agreed to this, but I know we've decided an earlier bedtime is great, so I'm here for it.

Saw this tonight and really loved how into it (sometimes resulting in my own giggles) the audience was! The show itself is hilarious and natural and fun despite the topic being hard. With this show+ Amy Poehler's podcast, I feel like 2025 is the year of culture finally valuing female friendships.

I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...

Extremely cool FEDS Note that links consumer sentiment data to actually spending at the respondent level and shows that the disconnect between sentiment and spending post-COVID was extremely unique and driven by inflation perception not real incomes.

I finally saw Maybe Happy Ending, and I think my usually broken soul was healed by approximately 8%.

Bought a new phone and immediately increased the font size, in case you had any questions about my age.

If you need 45 minutes of distraction today, you can't do better than this beautiful discussion between two of the best actors of our time. youtu.be/V4forAyTP5A?...