Preach. Journalists need to do a better job of putting things into context. Moss Landing was a terrible event. And it will not be repeated. Period.

I wonder if this will get even a small fraction of the press that the battery fire at Moss Landing received. Fires happen. But fossil fuel-related fires are far more common than fires at lithium ion facilities. And, a fire like Moss Landing will never happen again given design changes.

I hope this is a historic piece of writing. You should read it.

This company has zero revenue, ~200 employees, is burning $60 million per year on operations, will not have its first project online for another 3 years, but has a market cap of almost $18 billion. Encapsulates everything wrong with the market right now. finance.yahoo.com/quote/OKLO/

Without further ado, here is the trailer for Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. Against all odds, it will air in select theatres on October 2nd, along with the theatrical debut of Sex House. Tickets go on sale tomorrow. And, yes, this is real.

The bullying of children that the Republican party is doing is going to backfire on them just as hard as Epstein. Only psychopaths *want* to be on the side of bullies. Others have been convinced that the bullies are doctors/parents/teachers of trans kids. 100% false, of course. We can turn this.

Holy shit www.youtube.com/watch?v=emiB...

This is an immensely powerful 3 minute video. Please ignore what it is selling and feel the message. We need more of these stories made to help break down barriers of misunderstanding of trans people. It is hard to see today, but love wins! #LGBTQ+ #TransIsBeautiful www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOVV...

the way you do this is you encourage more people to protest. numbers provide safety, anonymity weakens any protest

Ok my cis friends, we are going to need a lot of you to step the fuck up and fight hard for us www.them.us/story/trump-...

This man is one of the campaign’s super volunteers, the nicest dude you’ll ever meet, wildly dependable, and apparently capable of taking the coolest photo of 2025.

There was a tv movie with the home alone dad en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_o...

I'm reading "A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them " and I would very much like to be in a room with Timothy Egan plying him with questions.

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

It is all just pretext for censorship. Facists gonna do facism.

Preach. We need your voice again. Forget "decorum" and past practice. Things are different now and the opposition needs leadership.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Yes. We have to stop fighting with a hand tied behind our back. You must have power before you can enact policy. If Wyoming, Alaska and Vermont qualify as states, so should DC.

I think Democrats win by being the best version of the Democratic Party: a forceful, assertive, dynamic liberal coalition that stands up for the rights of the vulnerable, unrelentingly opposes the endless corruption and bigotry of MAGA and Trump, and wants a fair prosperous America

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

ChatGPT is pretty sure what is going on with Donald's birthday note. "This isn’t just a quirky birthday card. It’s a coded message of power, secrecy, and indulgence.": chatgpt.com/share/68bf47...

Solar is really kicking ass around the world these days. It's about the economics. It wins. What would happen if solar got better? It seems like it just did. "This fundamentally changes solar economics" "For an industry used to 2-3% annual improvements, 40% jumps rewrite every assumption. "

Our New Paper that might be interesting to some folks around here: "The Optimal Timing of Storage Additions to Solar Power Plants" 🔌💡 Open access here: www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18...

Ok so, had some time to read the Red Electrica report on the Iberian blackout and now I have a little time for some posts - due to the format and word count issue I'm gonna skip a lot, I'll link a longer form summary I like after. So, uh, 🧵I guess 🔌💡

What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others

Just to establish a checkin on my VRE positions compared to a few years ago. Positives first! - BESS is looking better at frequency and voltage response than I worried it would be, that's nice. Genuine optimism for the ability of these systems (properly configured) to arrest 1/x

🔌💡Did a climate thing last night I’m proud of & hopeful about: organized a meeting to help about 50 town supervisors, fire chiefs & planning officials in my county understand the value and safety of grid-scale batteries… so they’ll stop imposing moratoria on siting them. 🧵 (1/9)

This is the fuel mix in ERCOT (Texas) for the past week (top) vs same week 4 years ago (bottom). Solar generation is in yellow. Solar barely registered in 2021; today it accounts for roughly 50% of generation during the day in the shoulder months. data via @gridstatus.io

A new battery record in ERCOT! 5,970 megawatts. Beat the old one by nearly 400 megawatts. This is great for the Texas grid & for consumers. It's a fully dispatchable, flexible resource ready to go during times of scarcity. Batteries are changing the grid for the better.

An eighth grader is showing more courage than many elected Democrats right now.

Very informative chart from Washington Post

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

I think today might have been the largest S&P 500 intraday reversal in at least 40 years. Since 1983 (when my intraday price data begins), there has never been a session where the market was up over 4% before 11:00a before a loss of more than 5% off that high. A truly historic collapse.

THE WORST DEFENSE OF THE TRUMP TARIFFS: I wrote in the newsletter today about how annoying it is to hear people talk about how we need these tariffs to reindustrialize and counter China in high tech manufacturing. We were literally just doing that! Sub here www.bloomberg.com/account/news...

Really important for more people to be trained in these lifesaving techniques.

Math is hard...

This is a joke, but to be 100% clear for the people of Bluesky, by Monday we will have reached the point where vols are high enough trading options subtracts value even if you’re right. From here on out on if you wish to do directional punts you need to just trade delta one instruments.

No. No no no. I fostered kids from the system for 7 years. I have amazing trans parents friends and parents of trans kids. There is real child abuse happening every single day (& abuse of CPS), and this country ignores those kids on the daily. Do not come for trans people & ESPECIALLY not like this.

Don't mess with Derek...

NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

Seriously; smuggling is about to become America's greatest (only?) growth industry

Tariffs on batteries from China going up to 61.5%, with a shadow of more hanging over (Venezuelan oil tariffs, active anode materials AD/CVD). This will throttle US #energystorage deployment when it's the largest source of near-term grid capacity/RA. Bad for business, bad for grid reliability 🔌💡

It occurs to me I should probably actually post this and not hide it in replies. Our research from late last year.

Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct." Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.

But at least Trump is good news for the oil & gas industry. Drill baby drill and all. Right? .... Right?? Oh.

Wow

Future flight bookings between Canada & the US have collapsed. Comparing total bookings held at this point last year with those recorded this week for the upcoming summer season show bookings are down by *over 70%* in every month through to the end of September. www.oag.com/blog/canada-...

Stasi wannabes doing this stuff...she brought in some frog embryos. She doesn't deserve to be imprisoned or die (and if she is deported back to Russia, she will die) for that.