"Used EVs are now the most affordable cars in America," says [checks notes] the Wall Street Journal. I almost feel bad for fossil dickheads. Reality is just tromping all over their arguments, one after the other.

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

I am pleased to announce that today's Hot Pick 🔥📈 is once again Vanguard Target Date Index Funds!

If there’s a water shortage, don’t subsidize showers. If there’s a blackout, don’t make AC cheaper. If there’s an oil shortage, don’t cut gas taxes. Prices are helping signal scarcity. A gas tax holiday weakens that signal right when it matters most.

Global level structural shift in oil market may already be playing out

3/ Systems are enacted and reproduced through behavior, while also shaping the possibilities for action. Rather than treating individual and system change as opposing pathways, we focus on how people can exercise agency through the social roles they occupy.

The President wants a gas tax holiday. So do Dem Senators Kelly and Blumenthal. And folks in the House. And a bunch of state governors. So let's dig into what it is, and why it may not have the effect these folks are hoping for: newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/a-gas-tax-...

Continued burning of fossil fuels = Super El Niño, lower yields, more expensive food Interruption of supply of fossil fuels = Insufficient fertilizer (particularly nitrogen) and expensive transportation If you are a person who eats, I suggest supporting the energy transition.

Hey, so you know how solar is solid-state energy production with no moving parts? It turns out there's still one moving part and its a stupid little fan that will absolutely throttle your energy production when it stops a-whirring.

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i have had the same tern gsd for six years now and it is still going very strong. incredible value.

Yep, you will definitely run into posts like "Can't have battery storage in our area, that will bring data centers!" Or "Why build that solar farm, it's just going to power the data center in the next county." It's bad!

many such cases! in fact the anti data center movement is super duper empowering opposition to renewables in the U.S. 😊

me waiting for the anti data center movement to realize it is teaming up with anti renewables activists and christofascist anti tech figureheads

Sir, we are running low on panem! Well, fire up the circenses!

Firing up the sci-fi brain on what it would take to terraform Venus. Let's set aside the clouds of sulfuric acid and just do the CO2 -Venus has an atmosphere 93x the mass of Earth's, and it is 96.5% CO2. Let's say 99.9% of that needs to go.

It turns out that one of the most efficient ways to hear a catalog of absolutely outrageous human behavior is to take a tour at an Exotic Feline Rescue Center. "This lady thought she could breed caracals" "This leopard was found after the wife chained in the basement escaped and called the cops"

You want tallow? We will give you tallow. Bitcoin? That's not even a material substance, but we will figure it out.

Steak ‘n Shake now has a Bitcoin-flavored milkshake. They are desperately trying to survive by becoming the #1 fast food chain for RFK-worshipping idiots with a heart-disease related death wish.

would enjoy a deep dive into how the Sunrise Movement became the way it is, and whose money is involved.

It turns out there are 2 countries where blaming the incumbent government is precisely what you should do, and I live in one of them.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

When you go to a wedding, you don't actually spend that much time with the bride and groom. You are mainly hanging out with other guests. So what I'm trying to say is that Trump was actually avoiding Eric.

I have like 40 books of his. One of the biggest accounts on this site is a guy who quotes him daily. This is like a teenager "discovering" the Beatles and yelling his dad about them.

Gotta be a good sign, right?

Look, the reason you learned "mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell" in high school wasn't to crowd out knowledge about personal finance or auto repair, it was so that when people like RFKJ show up selling bullshit about "mitochondrial disease", you know it's bullshit.

I think academics and pundits are wildly overestimating how competent and flexible businesses actually are. I work at a Fortune 500 company and nothing is documented or organized so AI can do literally nothing helpful right now.

If only a forward thinking government created a $7500 tax credit for US made EV purchases that could be taken instantly at time of purchase to greatly increase their sales and add to future used EV sales. Oh and add a similar $4k credit for those used EVs too. That'd really have been planning ahead.

A flash policy to address the pain at the pump would be point of sale rebates for e-bikes and rapid bike lane and infrastructure build out.

The mid-transition hitting Norway

Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Lot of fusion companies out there. Stellarator seems to be the most popular approach. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified…… History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - George Orwell -

I was there, Gandalf, 3000 years ago, and it definitely had Orwellian vibes obvious enough for teenagers to pick up on.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Lol

Again, the total, multi-dimensional failure of both strategy & tactics in the wildly illegal Iran war is simply not getting remotely the same tone or intensity of coverage that JOE BIDEN FAILED EPICALLY IN AFGHANISTAN AND IS WALKING AMERICA AWAY FROM THE WORLD got in 2021. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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the Democratic Party going anti-tax is the logical endpoint of the death of social trust, especially when couched in the reasoning that taxes are bad because all they do is fund the DoD

Happiness hack: enjoying a treat no one else in your household will touch

The real conservative choice is propane. Libs would be so owned if you allowed – nay, FORCED – us to use a literal fossil fuel as refrigerant.

20-watt meatwad with anxiety and loads of biological overhead to deal with surprisingly tough to beat

Yo dawg, I heard you like solar panels - so I out some solar panels on your solar panels!

Great job with a fantastic team: job-boards.greenhouse.io/climatecabin...

I suspect I'm not normal in this regard, but one of the best things about becoming an adult was nobody made me do crafts any more.

insideevs.com/news/796532/... 🎶I knew a man, Bojangles and, he'd charge for you Levels 3 and 2 🎶

This is better than switching back and forth every year, but as one might expect from the Trump Admin, a worse move than permanent standard time. Looking forward to putting my kid on the bus in the dark all year, I guess. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Member Story: @miamiuniversity.bsky.social Alumni Sharon and Graham Mitchell made a $5 million gift to create the Sharon and Graham Mitchell Sustainability Park, a first-of-its-kind co-located solar and geothermal energy system on a college campus. Read the story: bit.ly/MitchellSust...

www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/19/a... To put this in perspective, Australia's record peak load ever is 38.6GW, and this could probably take 3GW off top. Not too shabby for 10 months!

I work in the largest academic HVAC research lab in the US. Tons of my prof and grad student colleagues have worked for years to characterize low-GWP refrigerants and adapt equipment to use them. In collaboration with most major manufacturers. That train is moving, fast. Trump lackeys won't stop it.

Thermal energy networks mentioned!