In case anyone needs an excuse to rewatch The Detectorists. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

This is actually ridiculous, @washingtonpost.com. You've become unrecognizable. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

outfit has the same colors as the crying emoji 😭

My latest for @oilandgaswatch.bsky.social: Canadian PM Mark Carney, a former U.N. envoy on climate change, seeks major new oil sands pipeline to reduce reliance on U.S. as energy trading partner. news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/after-e...

After twelve years of work, the world’s most beautiful subway station has been inaugurated in Rome: Colosseo, an underground archaeological museum.⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️

Next up, Trump renames EPA the Industrial Protection Agency. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

I am currently reading Running Man and Marathon Man at the same time. So far, so good. I look forward to watching the movies at the same time.

Adding a pedestrian lane to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge at a cost of $1 billion as a treat for cycling organizations is a concise illustration of how the groups drive up infrastructure costs

My latest: the Endangered Species Act is taking a beating under Trump. news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/trump-a...

In September, I went to Greece to report on its rapid move away from coal. Despite getting ~50% of power from coal a decade ago, it'll be coal free next year. Solar is booming. It's a stunning shift — but not without challenges for Greece's coal region. www.canarymedia.com/articles/jus...

My latest: How “Unleashing American Energy" includes lifting a long sought after drilling ban in historically treasured lands of northern New Mexico to, possibly, drill a few dozen wells. news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/trump-w...

FIFA wins prize for biggest ass kissing

NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

The operation of a coal plant in Michigan that the Trump Administration has ordered to remain open is costing taxpayers $615,000 — a day — and harming public health & air quality thru the Midwest. With clean energy cheaper & more abundant than ever, why is this admin... 1/2

The EPA is picking and choosing who gets to work during the shutdown: "virtually everyone who is working to undo marquee Biden-era regulations for air pollution, climate change and water quality is still on the job." This is, to put it mildly, not normal. www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

Updating my LEGO White House

EPA Commissioner Lee Zeldin announces his agency is launching a major investigation into the right-wing conspiracies about chemtrails and weather manipulation to get to the bottom of it.

I need to devote a week to long reads.

My latest: Trump's free market hypocrisy when it comes to energy. news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/trump-c...

Libraries! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I would like to cancel the standard spelling of 'cancellation' with a double L.

California just opened up more oil drilling in response to pressure related to the fear of rising gas prices and closing refineries. My latest for Oil & Gas Watch. news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/deep-bl...

One of our awesome editors, @re-ari.bsky.social featured in @literaryheist.bsky.social 🔥💪 www.literaryheist.com/articles/im-...

My first literary criticism/book review in a long time, published in Literary Heist. It's been nearly a decade since I went through the Knausgaardian looking glass. His newest novel spurred me to write about the experience. www.literaryheist.com/articles/im-...

Hivemind - is there anywhere to do a pull up on the national mall?

My second novel, 1983, is now out in paperback. Roscoe and I have decided to give away signed copies to 4 randomly selected people who repost this and pop a reply below. You might like it if you like: The old, fun idea of The Future D&D Nottinghamshire Robots Imaginative children Aliens Mining

Delisted for all the wrong reasons. sourcenm.com/2025/08/21/c...

It's happened. Rick Perry has become sympathetic. The goal posts keep moving. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

EPA chief Lee Zeldin says he's not enforcing the laws to help “lower the cost of buying a car, heating a home and running a business.” How's that going? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/c...

I am weirdly moved by this tomato evolving into potato story.

I think maybe the EPA meant "logical leaps" here and not mental ones, but hey...Freud? www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

I think maybe the Trump EPA meant "logical leaps" here and not mental ones...but hey, Freud? www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

Seriously? U.S. Interior Department officials laud Sable Offshore for resuming oil and gas production without necessary state permits from platforms off California’s coast that were involved in a 2015 spill, calling it a “comeback story for Pacific production.” www.eenews.net/articles/int...

What's a recent news story that might make a good short story if fictionalized?

Happy Gilmore 2 might not just be the movie we deserve this year, but also the one we need. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKzR...

"...not investigating chemical disasters would be akin to failing to investigate airplane accidents." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/c...

The inside of a landfill is a scary place www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Seems like a good undertaking for a men's book club www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/o...

I wrestle with the idea of starting a book club, but then I think I just wanna read what I wanna read and not talk that much about it. Too masculine?

Man starts book club (for men), has panic attack after first meeting, realizes depressed, spends months grappling with painful realizations that came out of the discussion, especially the idea that real men do not share their feelings. A+ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...

HUGE: Senate Parliamentarian says that Mike Lee's public land sell-off violates the Byrd rule, requires 60 votes in the Senate. A bunch of other terrible anti-environment provisions do too. This isn't over, but this is a huge win. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Why are musician deaths always the saddest?

The Houston area is projected to see a surge of new gas-fired power plants as companies race to meet the energy demands of AI data centers, according to EIP's new report of projects that could add over 58 gigs of electricity capacity. @houstonchronicle.com www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/202...

Scoop: NOAA's climate portal, climate.gov, will soon no longer publish new content after its staff were recently dismissed. Former staff fear that the website may become a mouthpiece for the administration's anti-science views. My latest for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

On the anniversary of the Antiquities Act, the law that allows presidents to create monuments, the DOJ says Trump can abolish national monuments under the Antiquities Act. www.landmark.earth/p/antiquitie...

"Regulatory rollbacks by the Trump administration will have major, direct consequences for health and well-being." Good investigation by @apnews.com on potential harm caused by letting polluters open their vents. apnews.com/article/epa-...

Paper mills. Still stinky. Still a pollution problem. Still churning out cardboard for shipping. An @insideclimatenews.org story based on our recent report, "A Paper Trail of Pollution." I will take credit for the title. insideclimatenews.org/news/3005202...

NEW, from me: It has attracted *shockingly* little attention, but last week the Supreme Court transformed one of the country’s biggest environmental permitting laws. The ruling could reduce the number of energy and infrastructure projects that face legal challenges: heatmap.news/climate/kava...

My latest: PA's retaliatory bill against communities that want more space from fracking. news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/pa-bill...

Karl Ove Knausgaard tries to get outside of technology and mostly fails. harpers.org/archive/2025... @harpers.bsky.social