According to @themainemonitor.org, they will build solar to generate 150MW, but claim to only need 25MW on days with "no solar output." Really? Why would they build 6x the solar generation they need? The Lewiston Sun Journal says they will need "about 82 megawatts, with a potential to scale higher."

'We have to get beyond this trope that “taxes are always bad.” Taxes aren’t the enemy. They’re the entry fee for a state worth living in. Any businessperson who can’t see the return on that investment isn’t paying close enough attention.'

News used to be better.

happy Appomattox Day to those who celebrate AMERICAN UNION PRESERVED AFRICAN SLAVERY DESTROYED BY THE UPRISING OF A GREAT PEOPLE BY THE BLOOD OF FALLEN HEROES

He discovered that we had "mailing lists" before social media, there was a mailing list for "cypherpunks", both Satoshi and this guy used the word "backup" on that list, and they both use two spaces after a period. Pretty thin gruel. The article is not convincing, but at least it's long.

Trump has learned his lesson By Susan Collins

This weekend I put away the snowblower, driveway markers, and snowshoes, so I take full responsibility for this. I can only apologize.

Nope

Reason number 42 NASA would fire me: coming out of loss of signal I would be screaming about aliens eating the crew and then cut the comms.

As someone whose livelihood depends on these data centers to house the big ass computers I've spent my career building, I'm all for this moratorium. Developers must provide complete and timely info about the impacts to local economies and environments before being allowed to start construction.

It's been a couple of hours, and I still haven't seen or heard of a single corporate joke today. I have seen at least a dozen angry, snide, or world-weary posts complaining about these elusive jokes, though.

I’m sure Susan Collins, chair of the Appropriations Committee, will be very concerned about this misappropriation of funds.

This is the 7th year in a row, and 9th of the last 10, in which the Red Sox have started the season with a manager who cheated his way into, and through, the World Series.

I haven't read the article yet (open in that tab there -->), but this is a heck of a picture.

Que Sora Sora

roar

Over/under until we find out that there are still no talks going on, and this is just more BS?

I don't have broadcast TV, so all the ads I've seen have been on streaming services. It's been 95% Collins, 4% Mills, and 1% Platner, so I'm surprised to hear that Platner has spent 3x as much as Mills.

As is now apparently tradition, I'm starting my pepper and eggplant seedlings while it snows/sleets outside. Just me and winter playing chicken.

Watching Liverpool/Galatasaray on replay. I don’t think I’ve ever seen somebody stretchered off with a thumb injury before.

LOL. GFY. HTH.

hotdog_guy.gif www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

This year Pi day falls on Saturday so offices all around the country are observing today, Pi-day the 13th.

Go public with a SPAC, use convertible bonds to overpay for a sneaker website, sell off the news division, and go big on AI generated quizzes as a money maker. How could this genius plan not work?

I'm using Google Translate a lot to work out how to say certain things in French and sometimes when a sentence involves the second person it chooses the wrong form for what I need (tu vs vous) but it turns out I can get it to use the desired form by ending the sentence with either "buddy" or "sir" 🙃

Looks like I picked exactly the right time to switch from oil to heat pumps and solar.

Actually, adjunct professors statewide at all of Maine’s Community Colleges voted for me as their union chapter president…twice. ✊🏼

We know what she'll do. She vote to let her out of the committee, where she could be the deciding vote against. She'll then vote against in the full Senate, knowing full well that she'll still get approved. She gets to keep up the fiction of being independent, while fully enabling Trump's agenda.

Why did it take the @nytimes.com 16 paragraphs before giving credit for this revelation to @npr.org and @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

Sure, Polymarket and Kalshi are out there, but Valve is the problem. WTF.

The “Bald Eagle … is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly … [he] is too lazy to fish for himself,” - Ben Franklin I don't care. That video with Queen Elizabeth and the cows? That's me and bald eagles.

*chanting* UUA! UUA!

Outcomes like the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the return of measles, and ICE kidnappings in Portland and Lewiston.

Until 36 hours ago, I would have sworn this was Ed Sheeran. (That ginger dude who was in one scene of Game of Thrones).

Trump’s CryptoCrash™ is accelerating.

I don’t feel bad for people losing all sorts of money from cryptocurrency collapsing because they have all those super valuable NFT monkeys to fall back on

'Everything before the word “but” is horse shit.'

btw with everyone organizing in their cities in preparation for ICE coming to their communities, a huge shout out to Trump and MAGA for actually fucking creating Antifa

Getting a med school in Maine would be great, but it won't undo a fraction of the damage Collins did with her vote to approve RFK.

We'd be better off if they just issued the plates. ICE-001, ICE-002, etc. www.pressherald.com/2026/01/17/m...

I look forward to it breaking loose, rolling down that highway, and killing every person in its path.

In a world where fiberglass and powertools exists, there are still people who build furniture and wooden boats entirely by hand, and I salute them. If I end my software career in the New Yankee Coders Workshop, I'm good with that.

"Thank you for calling The Void. Your scream is very important to The Void but right now it's overwhelmed. If you could please leave your scream at the beep The Void will accept it as soon as possible. Thank you. "

Welcome to America, Роджер.

Holy fuck they actually did it

Another success for google AI summary. Winter Harbor is in district 6, not 7 That district does not include any of the other towns it mentions The incumbent in District 6 is a Republican I think it just hallucinated Brian Udall entirely

You want us to stop talking about what, now?

WAYSKJ (What Are You, Some Kinda Jagoff?): A Works Progress Administration style program to organize a national force of disapproving uncles, aunties, and cousins to roll up on these people's houses with that unique combination of shaming and intimidation that you used to see in the neighborhood.

“His brash approach”. What the fuck is wrong with you?