My question was meant to be a softball lobbed across the plate—an opportunity for SDOT to express its stated values. So, here’s a thread demonstrating how they could have responded if they wanted to. 🧵

A thing of dreams.

Great time to expand all electric mass transit.

Does the equivalent of a smart electrical panel (digital, managed load control) exist for the water meter? Could we manage the water supply system better with a bit of water capacity (i.e. water batteries) in more dispersed locations? Smaller pipes between demand points? Easier connection?

This is the bar. We are still very far from "could a child and their grandma cycle here, be safe, and have fun" in most places.

As a starting point, lets just narrow it down to super rich Trump cabinet officials or appointees with a record of using their public position for private gain. *Taps earpiece* Being told that does not help at all.

Making lemonade out of lemons. EV demand growth is far below expectations, but a lot of those facilities are still coming online, repurposed towards the grid. Very important pivot. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

"The deal is an extraordinary transfer of taxpayer dollars to a foreign company for the purposes of boosting the production of fossil fuels, a main driver of climate change, while throttling offshore wind power."

Not density OR trees. Density AND trees. Better cities are climate action. #UrbanTruth

We need to stop asking how much street width we can use for cars and start asking how much we can use for playgrounds.

I started working on leaves and climate in 2012...still at it with some new tools (plant hydraulics - the plumping of the terrestrial biosphere) to try and predict interannual variation. Response to drought suggests an adaptive acclimate to leaf shedding. eos.org/editor-highl...

Breaking: UCAR filed a lawsuit today against several federal agencies and their directors, alleging that “The Agencies’ ultimate apparent goal is to destroy NCAR entirely.” eos.org/research-and...

PLONK infrastructure. @gordonofseattle.bsky.social (acronym to be determined at a future date, negotiations between PLONK infrastructure and PLOP infrastructure on going)

When you learn how cheap and easy it is to create safer neighborhoods, all the time and effort we spend doing nothing feels like a waste.

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today. You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: [email protected]

All signs continue to point to an exceptional, long-duration, and record-breaking to (in some cases) record-shattering March heatwave initially centered across U.S. Southwest but expanding to much broader region next week. This is effectively a full-on summer heatwave in March.

We're very excited to be launching the new and improved @theurbanist.org website tonight. The new site comes with the ability to become a subscriber and turn off ads, one of our most-requested features. www.theurbanist.org

The difference between a slowly cooling cloud of gas and a fusion powered star.

I've probably just been listening to too much @volts.wtf, but I can't read this article without thinking "why not just add a small battery?", win for the grid, win for housing. Also cringing at the level of concern trolling around a smart panel curtailing a few percent of people's load.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

The concerning background: -CEO of the Thiel Foundation -Managing Director at Thiel Capital -Managing Director of Clarium Capital (hedge fund led by Peter Thiel) -Managing Director of Mithril Capital Management (VC fund founded by Peter Thiel that funds Palantir) -Co-founder of the Thiel Fellowship

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

the epidemic of men launching podcasts about nothing has gotten out of control to combat this I am launching a podcast WITH A WOMAN (veteran climate journalist Tracy Wholf) to talk about stuff that actually matters (the planet being destroyed by the worst people alive) Find subscribe links here:

Delighted to announce that following the consultation, I'm giving the green light to make Oxford Street traffic-free.

You know things are off the rails when a flat income tax at (adjusted) 1995 levels of spending looks good.

This would be great, AND what could a few hundred million from the Climate Commitment Act do for foot ferries and getting around the Puget Sound? #SeaBus 🦟

Fucking bullshit 🔭🧪 gizmodo.com/white-house-...

New: Trump admin moves to pull supercomputing center out of top weather and climate research center (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. Part of its effort to "break up" the lab. www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/w...

Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science in the most me way possible: I let myself make a video about the textbooks I would take with me if I was stuck on a desert island 🥹 🔭⚛️🧪 It's too long for Bluesky (yes I exceeded 3 minutes) but it's over on instagram with captions!

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

ICE agents just seem to consider pepper spraying people in the face to be an appropriate casual greeting. www.noozhawk.com/federal-ice-...

This horror is happening right here at home.

Truly the stuff of nightmares for the fossil fuel lobby. Check out this renewable energy park in India that's SEVEN TIMES BIGGER than Paris! 🤯 www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

One of the reasons I am so insistent that everyone remember that only 22% of the US population voted for Trump is that the Christian Nationalists want the myth of a mandate in circulation. We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Each summer the JPL Center for Climate Sciences brings in ~25 grad students & postdocs to engage with premier climate scientists, focusing on "Using Satellite Observations to Advance Climate Models." Applications for July 2026 now being accepted. climatesciences.jpl.nasa.gov/events/summe...

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

Please look at this chart and tell me we don't need more people working on more approaches to transportation emissions.

As a reminder, the White House announced plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (in Colorado) last month. Some Colorado lawmakers suggested the move was retaliation over Polis' refusal to release Tina Peters.

A golf course next to the Fraser River in northeast Metro Vancouver will be transformed into a public park with sport and playing fields. It is part of the City of Maple Ridge's strategy to build a new major aquatic & community centre. #vanpoli #vanre dailyhive.com/vancouver/ma...

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

You know what buys a lot of fast ferries to get people where they need to be? $1B - our shipbuilders have already built a few, why not a few dozen? bsky.app/profile/gove...

Maybe that pivot away from fast ferries was a bit premature?

WSDOT planners can't find space to add bike and bus lanes on a street that looks like this and say they need to spend $370 buying private property to make the road wider?

I'm making a starter pack of Generative AI slop-free newsrooms that you can donate and support. Obvious good eggs include @404media.co and @thexylom.com (which I founded). Drop your suggestions below and provide evidence; this has gone too far and I'm losing my mind

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AGU25 #climate

It’s incredibly easy to support trans people if you believe that everyone should have the same rights! I struggle to understand the mental gymnastics here!

In response to a question about considering cutting funding for highway expansion projects to fill the budget shortfall, @juliareedwa.bsky.social doesn't want to spend another dollar on highway expansion until we address our existing backlog of maintenance of our transportation infrastructure.

HELLO YES I STILL HAVE MY AFFORDABLE TALARIS STICKER LET'S GOOOOO