Irvine is the 80th biggest city in the country. San Diego is 8th!

Forest Hills Garden has spent *$1m* suing Forest Hills Stadium in a bid to shut down its concerts -- queenseagle.com/all/2025/11/...

Speaking of geothermal, here's a company that's doing traditional, old-school geothermal, but with a twist: they use AI to locate overlooked geothermal hotspots. In 3 years they've discovered more hotspots than the whole industry discovered in 30 years.

Free tonight? Pop on down to Greenlight bookstore in Brooklyn! greenlightbookstore.com/event/2025-1...

"Modelling the effect into the future, Kurganova estimates that, since the land has remained uncultivated, another 261 million tonnes will be sequestered over the next 30 years." It makes the challenge harder to look past politics and economic paradigms. www.newscientist.com/article/dn24...

I was just sent this image of the aftermath.

#climaterisk With news on this front from India and Pakistan of declining LNG usage due to cheaper renewables.

Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.

Will say again. If this was London or Paris, it would not be tolerated. But we expect Ukrainians to put up with this horror every night. Indeed, we in the west are getting inured to it. It should enrage us.

This is ominous (from Politico):

The office market remains a disaster for most cities outside of NY/SF class A www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

Major ground subsidence on the north and west side of Houston, especially around new developments in Katy, from overdrawing groundwater. Cracks foundations and increases flood risk. HT Ryan Riggs, and great reporting by @houstonchronicle.com 🎁 link ⚒️

In 2024, China installed 1.5x as much new solar as the entire US installed base. (via MS/Jonas)

"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."

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As Coastline Erodes, One California City Considers ‘Retreat Now’ #climaterisk www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

We have FinSky turning into OsIntSky

There's a call to dedicate funds to make the mission valley bike trail contiguous especially with the new river run development. Would let you bike from the OB dog beach to I think Ikea. sandiegoriver.org/connect-the-...

just learned about the delightful 1940s.nyc, which matches tax assessment photos with old maps for maximum street-view time travel. here's the almanac house, where pete seeger & woody guthrie threw basement gigs & partied with dashiell hammett & nicholas ray, among others.

We got an air fryer last year and it was one of the best decisions possible. Small and compact, you can hit target temperature really fast, and get a really even cook. It beats the hell out of our conventional conduction oven which was basically don't use anymore. Climate win too

🇺🇸: “We no longer have the ability to install a bus stop” 🇺🇦: “Gotta raise our anti-drone nets above our trolleybus wires”

Hydrogen is hyped as a climate solution, but it wastes energy—electric cars use 3.3 times less than hydrogen ones. Better approach: save limited clean hydrogen for fertilizer factories and chemical plants that have no alternative, not things we can electrify cheaply.

Saw at least 5 disabled vehicles + 3 or 5 car crashes between Irvine and San Diego. One guy was facing the wrong way in the shoulder on the 405.

The most #SanDiego of headlines. @abc10news.bsky.social

The LOSSAN double tracking and bluff erosion measures should be in the NDAA and we can then stop fighting over the funding

With $3 billion you could easily 10x transit service for the 1 million+ people in Santa Clara County

After failing to stop a major state housing bill from becoming law, Los Angeles leaders are turning to plan B: Delaying Senate Bill 79's implementation and pushing for unspecified legislative changes next year. My dispatch for @politico.com Pro subscribers subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

Early-career transit nerds: This looks like a really cool internship with MTS in San Diego! Transit Services Intern myjobs.adp.com/sandiegometr...

When the dog wakes you up because it’s time for breakfast.

Radiation fog fills the valleys near my childhood home in Contra Costa County, California at sunrise this morning. November is shaping up to be a very wet month in California. @alertcalifornia.bsky.social Lafayette Lucas cam.

was listening to this NPR piece on insurance and the cost of hailstorms in the US exceeding $150 *billion* just last year alone that's incredible. and it'll get worse w/ climate change. also, operable exterior shutters help address this! www.npr.org/2025/11/13/n...

Yesterday Ukraine blew up the Novorossiysk oil refinery, which is still burning furiously. Today Russia has been forced to suspend all exports - 2.2 million barrels a day. That sound you now hear is the Russian economy burning.

Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation. We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.

Ok apparently this is actually not widely known: Gov. Shapiro withdrew Pennsylvania from RGGI today as part of a deal to pass a now-4month overdue budget.

russia launched 120+ drones and dozens of missiles at #Kyiv on Nov 13-14, hitting 5 residential buildings, injuring 5, and causing fires in 4 districts. Power outages followed as 100+ projectiles targeted the capital, intensifying attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure. Casualties expected to rise.

It's Heat Pump install day in Bay Ho. First order of business: out with the old! (I JUST put a new filter in there 😁).

Downtown San Diego is getting a new COASTER stop! We're getting through-running, now it's time to move forward with the other two pillars of Electrolink: level boarding and electrification! www.cbs8.com/article/traf...

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Controversial take but who is the target audience of the new construction in uptown San Diego? $4500-$5k for a 2 bdr in bankers hill? You can live by the beach for that (same salary) or in a lot of NYC neighborhoods (higher salary options).

This is going to be awesome! #urbanism Although, not sure why they'd put it between 1st & 5th instead of btw 5th & Park where there's more room and closer to Petco. Also, I thought they were supposed to bring the Amtrak down there too.