Transportation politics is about dragging people kicking and screaming into change that results fairly quickly in a widespread consensus that we can't imagine going back to the way it was before.

V handy writeup of the state of play in state-level data center legislation, but I wonder: is @jael.bsky.social cooking up a deep dive on the POWER Act in IL? It's not included here.

5yo: "Daaaad, this hug is nice, but what I really want is TV."

Like Water Lasagna for Chocolate

Dreamed last night that there was a “Canadian Easter” that was in early March but the whole thing was goose based instead of bunny

Every time i read this i laugh harder

Magritte, "La Trahison des images"

STL Style bagel sandwich undefeated:

concept: pneumatic tube deviled egg delivery service

As a Christian, Easter reminds me that life is a gift, and we’re called to care for it. Right now, climate change is putting that gift at risk for people and nature around the world. That's why I see climate action as an act of love: for all our global neighbours and the home we share. 💚

It's an MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade, with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps. This is so good.

𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧: And then Kim Gordon goes "Have you heard the new Updog record?" and I go "What's Updog?" 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞: Unbelievable. 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧: I thought Updog was one of those hipster Matador bands. 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞: Wait weren't they on K Records? 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲: Thurston also called me Moby by mistake.

There is a 2009 Hyundai sitting in my driveway right now, next to my much newer EV. 16 years is optimistic.

A coworker yesterday mentioned that she only found out we were currently in a war because she googled “why are gas prices getting so high”

When the black, grey, and light blue bars vanish for good, we have 16 years until gas cars stop warming the atmosphere. If you want the latter to be 2045, enact policies to make the former happen in 2029.

All this in service ultimately of bow-hunting moon-deer in the moon-forests.

Accounting question: How are states counting this in their GHG inventories? Electric sector or industrial?

I ate your PLUMS and I cannot lie I'm guilty and I won't deny That when I found them kept in a pretty chilly place yeah I put them in my face and man, YUM, couldn't have enough 'Cause you know that my tum is stuffed, But you were breakfast saving, Your forgiveness now I'm craving

Yo fr fr. This place is the end of the line for me social media-wise. Once i'm done here, i am retired from sad.

South Korea's President: “South Korea must swiftly transition to renewable energy.” “Relying on fossil energy is extremely dangerous for the future. We do not produce these resources ourselves, and chasing imports has led to the current crisis.” www.chosun.com/english/nati... #energysky

You can't kill my social media presence in a way that matters

2️⃣ Insurance market reform. Thanks to climate catastrophes, many states have spent huge $$s bailing out failing insurance markets. We need to pass insurance policy that *insulates* state budgets from climate disaster market meltdowns.

💯 this. States are facing significant budget problems. We need a new set of state policy goals that are grounded in the realities of state budgets. For example: 1️⃣ Creating new state financing vehicles, like Illinois did last year on transportation. Polluter pays and cap-and-invest are others.

All laughter All poems All strawberry shortcake All cello sonatas All orcas All drag queens All corrupt politicians All zen monks All single malt All phytoplankton All foolish youth All puppies All roses with dew drops All snow geese All tea ceremonies All acts of selflessness All of it, here

So... I have kind of a different take here than most of this website, which is that my position on AI's social value or my personal use is mostly beside the point. Regulators and legislators have authority over pollution and they should use that authority bc pollution is bad.

Hey @ragesinggoddess.bsky.social

Follow along here. I am personally supporting Mai Vang, fwiw.

K-Pop Lehman Brothers

We don't really have legal and regulatory systems built around whether an industry is a good or bad use of resources. It is interesting to imagine that world. So I start with what we do have: clear jurisdiction and laws governing pollution, regardless of the economic purpose.

This is about 10% of California's power sectors emissions. Think about how hard it is to make a grid this size 10% cleaner. That is the amount of work a new fossil plant of this size cancels out. We cannot have new fossil infrastructure if we hope to have a safe climate. There just isn't time.

When I went to West Texas I was stunned by all of the brand new grid infrastructure in this very rural and low population area of the country. It takes a lot of energy to get oil and gas out of the ground and move it around. For example: this was outside a small town.

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Research from the 1920s, 1940s, 1970s shows that shocks present an unparalleled chance to rewire commuter habits. State govts that are serious about affordability and/or sustainability should be spending big rn to help transit agencies surge capacity and advertising!

okay but look, if we had the power to tell all major American broadcasters that they had to give us an hour to just ramble aimlessly about whatever stray neurons happen to still be firing we probably would do it too ngl

Thinking of checking out this new netflix documentary series

Same number as downtown San Francisco

Can almost see the little red panda @darthbluesky.bsky.social riding on it reverse dr strangelove style

Bring back mochi

The reason internet lie-based April Fools "jokes" fail is bc nothing funny or good happens when/after a person falls for it. A person just ends up being wrong/disappointed. A good prank either plays on hubris, hoists a person by their petard, punches up, or else is like a surprise party.

Budget Ask: A $200 million annual addition to the Active Transportation Program (ATP), which is our state's premier pot of street safety funding. Last year, ATP only funded about 30 of the 350 projects that applied.

LFG

Thrilled to see this investigation out in @theguardian.com today (follow-on piece from @drilledmedia.bsky.social mañana) on the shocking news that voluntary certifications built on self-reported data are probs not going to meaningfully reduce methane emissions 🙃 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On the one hand, having one of my law school classmates rise to notoriety for being a leading voice providing intellectual cover to open fascism doesn't feel great, but on the other, it is gratifying to see him be so publicly derided and humiliated as too dumb and evil even for this supreme court.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

New bsky slogan just dropped:

What's your favorite song about climate change? Is it "Nobody" by Mitski?

Some things just shouldn't be mapped Not only because someone might use the map for nefarious purposes, but because in making a map you may also inadvertently define a new object, a new discourse that power didn't know existed before because you just created it in the map And that can be dangerous

Like imagine being taught that a skill - writing - was so fucking basic. that it wasn't really hard like math, science, engineering etc. And then being bad at it.

If this site is dying then why is my feed 60% discourse about discourse on this site? Could a dying site sustain several days of sui generis metadiscourse?