Hahaha ok FINE: Trouble with subsidence, leachate-contaminated groundwater, and sulfide gas intrusion? Fill issue

get you a co-conspirator like Robin, I tell ya what

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

Coming up on Wedge LIVE, our conversation with a man who just brought a new toilet home on his bike.

there are lots of places where this is already true, and we are in big trouble in them and because of them

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

had a first meeting with the town solar law volunteer committee I’m on it went pretty well considering that everyone there is basically vibrating with anxiety about wildly different a priori moral commitments why do I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck? wow, good question, brain. it’s a mystery

prove her wrong

trying to cancel a big shitposter account for being insufficiently supportive of sex workers but you don’t have the juice? dril issue

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1. The New York State budget has just been released, and Democrats have provided $0 for transgender care access in the wake of Trump's attacks. Advocates wanted funding for direct access to care. It is the latest in NY electeds not meeting the moment. Subscribe to support our journalism.

can you WAIT til my dang BIRTHDAY, AARP

WHY SHOULDN’T IT

Breaking: The NYS Assembly, dominated by democrats, just voted for a Trumpy energy agenda that guts the NY climate law. The climate law delayed action by 7 years, but a court had ordered Hochul to implement it… so she moved to gut it and the legislature is obliging. 🤦🤦🤦

🎶 Well, the word got around, they said, "This kid is insane, man" Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland "Get your education, don't forget from whence you came, and The world's gonna know your name, what's your name, man?"

current status: making solar waffles

This is so, so much more heartening and conducive to action than climate doom. It neither denies the horrors nor makes them out to be unstoppable. It puts us into a mindset of everything we can do bring worth trying, regardless of what others do.

This is, I think, an element of the Poster's Recession, which is that industries that are full of people who are highly influential on perceptions and culture are suffering far more than average.

I am once again asking for someone to make sure the kids read Judith Jarvis Thomson, as is right and proper

solar is so cool man. I climbed up on my shed roof last week and installed a panel to charge my yard tools and now I’m mowing my lawn with power I stole from a fucking star

this thread is a real heartbreak

relatable

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Fantastic read by @karlbode.com on the bubbling over of AI rage, including by kids and young adults today. "Why the living shit would any of these kids believe anything being sold to them about any of this? ...All these kids have ever known is a world intentionally set on fire by terrible men."

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.

Watch this camera rn if you want to see a timelapse of SoCal’s best-in-the-game firefighting pilots knocking the hell out of a brush fire that popped up right by a home share.watchduty.org/camera/YWxlc...

The pub date for A Pox on Fools is fast approaching...and today I have a short essay at Time on the old anti-vax trope that if you get sick, it's your fault. You didn't eat right, or exercise, or whatever. That's false, of course, but there's a history behind it, a dangerous one. Read more here:

Congratulations to the groups and orgs and elected officials who pushed for this (we did a little, too)! PS this isn’t the budget bill that guts the climate law. That’s probably coming next week to a debate/vote. Legislators should VOTE NO on that segment of the state budget!

1. Incredible breaking news and a landmark ruling out of Colorado. The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that hospitals MUST not capitulate to Trump, and must continue offering trans youth care under state law. They found vague federal threats "speculative." Subscribe to support our journalism.

This is so misleading. It isn’t the US that’s benefitting. It’s US based oil companies. Americans are suffering, not benefiting.

HI REUTERS I'M A RURAL VOTER, A MILITARY VETERAN, A GUN OWNER, A RANCHER, AND ALSO I THINK TRUMP AND HIS WAR SUCK SHIT SO STICK THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT. FURTHERMORE ABOLISH ICE AND FREE PALESTINE YOU JOURNALISTIC HACKS.

or? no shade on this what if you personally work to cultivate the emotions that you find most useful in propelling you toward doing real productive work on climate in your community crazy I know

Nightwood The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B Cat’s Cradle

"I write about the 3 Americas: one built on AI speculation, one held together by healthcare, and one running on memes" Brilliant &brooding piece by @kyla.bsky.social that runs a thread through the american shatterbelt @katemac.bsky.social & I honored to be quoted! kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-hea...

"Heat pumps just shift gas burning to the power station." Wrong. Even if 100% of electricity came from gas, a heat pump at SCOP 3.8 uses 51% less gas than a boiler. At a terrible SCOP 2.5, still 25% less. David MacKay made this point in 2008. The maths hasn't changed.

It reflects my immense privilege but the EPA simply not collecting and publishing this data is a pretty definitive "eventually no one comes to repair the bridge" moment for me.

For several years, it has been cheaper to build new solar and wind capacity than just to maintain a coal plant — even if the coal was free. But gas plants were twice as efficient and much cheaper to operate. Now solar and wind, complete with battery storage, are cheaper than gas.

“Solar is so cheap, batteries are so cheap and EVs are getting so cheap that this is the first energy crisis where people say, ‘but there’s an alternative,’” Turner said. 💡 paywalled

CHPE is coming. ⚡ (From Heatmap AM by @alexckaufman.bsky.social ) heatmap.news/am/fervo-ipo...

This is very foolish, especially in current supply-shock conditions: the price will just rise until consumption ends up balanced with supply *anyway.* There is, in fact, no short-term policy solution to a supply shock. You need to restore inputs, replace inputs or destroy demand. 🤷‍♂️

Genuinely this is the moment where it's very clear that without explicit protections, conservatives will seek to eliminate minority success and achievement at all levels. I don't care what polls well. We either affirmatively support living in a multiracial society or we don't.

it’s me I’m Americans

I got an iPad so I could do work stuff on the road without lugging a laptop around, but all I wanna do is make shitty weird sketches

Drill baby drill* *For heat

THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

5 million US households in the Northeast and Midwest heat space or water with heating oil. Trump's Iran war has driven heating oil prices through the roof. States should help these households switch to electric heat pumps and heat-pump water heaters before heating season - and the midterms.

I could not be more excited for this new series from @climatecabineteducation.org Hyperscalers are re-writing everything we thought we knew about electricity. New industries require new thinking. This actionable decision guide for lawmakers has been months in the making. Here is Chapter 1: