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Red Texas is a leader in renewable energy deployment. The state's solar surge proves that the energy transition defies politics.

It could take decades to recover from where we are.

Vibecession's not so fun when you're in office!

Spoiler Alert: Canada is not one of them. At all. Quite the contrary #cdnpoli #MarkCarney www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/c...

Some good news. “A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”

In just a few generations, it's gone from "women need you & you'll get one as a mate/domestic servant regardless of how you act" to "women can survive on their own & will only mate with you if you bring something to the table" and WOW men are not adjusting well.

Holy fuck this is bleak.

Using hydrogen for low/medium temperature industrial process heat is by far the most expensive option available. Our recent analysis shows that heat pumps coupled with electro-thermal storage is the most cost-effective technology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The process whereby "anti-woke" evolved into a general purpose shield to protect white men from accountability was as predictable as it was rapid.

Weird to go on Twitter and announce that you also harass female students.

this is the single most harmful thing newsom has said in his bid for the 2028 democratic presidential nomination

it’s so weird to think about how sad food would be in the rest of the world without foods indigenous to the Americas it’d be interesting to see folks in europe do a pre-columbian exchange restaurant, like their Owamni

A badger in the rainforest at night, captured in this image by Ross Bartley. 7,319 of these amazing, gorgeous native animals were culled by the Irish state last year alone, and 66,000 since 2014, in a pointless, cruel attempt to eliminate bovine TB, despite a promise to switch to vaccinations.

A daily thing is seeing UK folks genuinely and justifiably disgusted by an anti immigration line that has been the absolute widely accepted norm in Australia for decades

If you're one of those who's swallowed the lie that "plants and trees are having a party with all the increased CO2 in the atmosphere and flourishing, it's all good", please read this. Natural ecosystems ARE vital allies in the fight against climate breakdown, but that can only go so far.

Excellent new @commsdeclare.bsky.social work out today - read the whole thing here: commsdeclare.org/wp-content/u... The Shell-funded education program urging students to 'design their own CCS' inspired me to re-share an original artwork of mine from a few years ago:

I'm lost for words. All I can say is that if you're okay with this level of bigotry, you need to unfollow me.

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 426 ppm in November 2025 10 years ago November averaged about 400 ppm Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Here comes the sun! (And wind and storage…) 🎶 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 apnews.com/article/clim...

Norway's US embassy had a Christmas tree lighting ceremony sponsored by Equinor, including a massive Equinor logo right next to the tree. Somehow still not as disgusting as the grilled cheese recipe. Norway absolutely has its own culture: it's ingrained petroganda :)

This graphic gives the annualized new methane added to the atmosphere, taking into account the atmospheric lifetime of methane of 110 months. New methane is currently sitting flat at about 153 ppb per year. Fondly remembering the COP-26 Global Methane Pledge. We were so young.

Being protected from the flu and COVID is great, but I did it for the coupons.

This is a joke, right?

Some of you already know this Music is the operating system of the mind. you’re welcome

Among many other things, the entire teen social ban saga is a brilliant example of how shitty, badly-researcher airport books can have shockingly outsized influence www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Bless IBCK www.ifbookspod.com

The Trump regime breaks the law on everything but somehow had to follow the law on this? C’mon!

Receiving reports now that FIFA may be slightly corrupt

my favorite thing related to this was when our kid bought a phone at the thrift, tried to set it up at home and thought it was broken. me: how do you know it is broken? we don’t have a phone line to test it on? her: i put batteries in it and it doesn’t do anything. what is a phone line?

This is very cool. Can't wait to see it spread to other states.

"The ignoring of facts, the sidelining of scientists and the breezy assertions, repeated ad nauseum, that Irish agriculture is ‘sustainable’ are largely responsible for the mess Irish farming finds itself in. Honesty alone will not dig us out of the hole, but it would be a start." Brilliant piece.

Lol. The MAHA lunatics are going after the corporate hacks. 🍿

half our city is shut down for a marathon and it’s like ew, don’t rub your kink in my face like this

Remember how Tim McOsker fought to have LA28 split sailing events across into two venues, Port of LA and Long Beach, so the city of LA could "benefit" from the games? No one mentioned the part where local kids would lose their waterfront access for the next three years

If the US becomes just another authoritarian government with nukes like China or Russia, why should the Europeans sentimentally side with us? It would be in their national interest to keep their options open.

The term 'Axis of Evil' has a bad history, but in this case it's truly warranted. share.google/DgBMNvIYzaxk...

A primary purpose of Disaster Films is to provide an opportunity for us to safely explore our collective anxieties together, but now more and more, we are expected to process our collective anxieties alone. Seems bad?

MUST READ: "The real story isn't about the ads you see but the power you don't. It's about the candidates who never run, the policies that never get debated, and the slow, systemic drift of our democracy away from the will of the majority." 💯

Just when you thought this campaign couldn't get worse. If anyone has more information about the creatives behind this abomination, I'd like to speak with them immediately

Check out the recent "warmth" over #Antarctica! Maps show temperature anomalies over the last month (left), 3 months (center), and 12 months (right) across the Southern Hemisphere. Red areas denote warmer than average temperatures. Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.

Mist underrated technology in the world is "a bus." Some bus. Any bus. A bus where or when there isn't currently a bus. Busses for all.

Viva la #Resistance 💪🇺🇸👇

It could be a climate change induced earthquake - caused by the rapidly melting glacier’s shifting mass above the tectonic plates.

"Based on >100 peer-reviewed studies, this analysis finds that dietary change plant-based with rewilding provides far greater environmental benefits than any grazing-based approach. (...) this makes plant-based + rewilding one of the most powerful solutions to the climate and ecological crises."

lol i don’t think i can get home. i have been trying for 90 minutes and from every direction.

My 20yo loves Timberland boots. We were going to get his favorite pair repaired for Xmas, but the cobbler said they can't do it because the sole is glued on instead of stictched on. Very irritating. Are there similar boots out there that are more repairable?

Yes! An ode to close reading. (via @annehelen.bsky.social)

Bluesky politics won’t win Texas

Good thread on why trying to control the size of the human population is at best unlikely to have a significant impact this century and at worst a Trojan horse for racism and eugenics.

For all the talk about how the internet allows people to find community, I've somehow yet to meet the other people in my "desperately seeking size 13 EEEE-width flip flops" community. Where are y'all?

My #Arctic sea-ice thickness and volume graphics are now updated for November 2025 (record low!): zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... #SciComm #DataViz #OpenScience #OpenData

“The words as written in the Constitution don’t really mean that, they mean this other thing” -legal scholar who nobody would have ever heard of but for this exact type of gambit

Hillary Clinton is married to a Jeffrey Epstein client. And she’s known that fact for 20 or more years. What kind of fucked up person stays married to their fucked up husband for 20 years like that? Answer: Hillary fucked up Clinton.

trying to fit in here on bsky, so I'm listening to Sigur Rós

Rather interesting collection of @natureportfolio.nature.com Climate Action papers, if I may say so myself: Just out: A special issue I co-edited on the "Behavioral economics of climate action," with papers on everything from Veggie Days to carbon pricing Intro: gwagner.com/climate-action-behavior

But how do we know it would work?

The US Department of Energy approved an $8.6 million grant that will allow the nation’s first utility-led geothermal heating and cooling network (in MA) to double in size. www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti... 🔌💡

What is the Trump administration's vision for America with its insidious anti-immigration efforts and raids on places of work? While immigrants are in a variety of professions, many are concentrated in key trades & services, agriculture, restaurants, cleaning, construction, health care. 1/

i wouldn’t be so crabby about this if there wasn’t such outrage everytime protestors shut down like…one block. one intersection. people talk like we are literally stopping and opening ambulances and killing people.

Have been collecting up examples of prominent ppl in cleantech and climate spaces relying on chatbots as an information retrieval source........ I can't find a single example *anywhere* of the 2012 India blackouts being blamed on renewables. archive.ph/NYfMU www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/w...

watching a wildly popular show, 10 years after it is over, like why did no one tell me this was good? (sherlock)

Writing a like 100,000 word take down on AI from an emergency management perspective is high on my to do list for 2026, don’t worry. I’m breathing fire.

Donald Trump bankrupted casinos, but his administration will bankrupt millions while enriching crooks of every stripe. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...

uh oh i am writing music again

I've been living with Mac's new "liquid glass" interface for a while now and, nope, it still seems like a bad joke to me. I genuinely couldn't believe it when I first saw it. This is like Mac teleporting back to Windows Vista era! All bubbly everything, so hackish. This is interesting:

St Nicholas DELIVERED this year

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

While chaos has reigned since President Trump took office, one thing that has been consistent is the administration’s commitment to deregulation. This is concerning on its own, but perhaps more troubling is how it’s happening. Our analyst Darya Minovi explains what’s at stake and how to fight back:

🥚 An adoptee scriptwriter calls it: Hollywood stories reinforce damaging tropes of adopted people as imposters/ devil children with trauma used as a plot device for evil [Marvel’s Loki] OR as the grateful waif who graces the lives of others [Roald Dahl’s Matilda] www.bbc.com/news/article...

Democracy Under Attack: Smith Derides Judges as Mere "Gatekeepers" More evidence that @abdaniellesmith, @Alberta_UCP are "ungoverning" Alberta. Know who else "ungoverns"? Donald Trump. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli youtu.be/-R76y9OBOis

McGowan Emphatically Denies Unions Are Behind Alberta MLA Recall Campaigns Did @ABDanielleSmith lie about union involvement in her Saturday radio show comments? @gilmcgowan thinks so. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli youtu.be/M9c3X7FjW_w

Nice to see electrification proceeding apace…

The House Republican military authorization bill bans trans women in military academies from playing women’s sports

Y'know, I was under the impression that Poland's government was pretty right-wing, but I can also totally understand why they, of all countries, would *particularly* detest Nazis.

i got the logitech mx creative console with my tech allowance from work and i feel like a superhuman i have never been so excited about something so nerdy

Is Bill Gates a child rapist like Donald Trump? Nobody knows!

Ah, the Lando Norris riches to riches story: “The 26-year-old, whose father Adam is a multimillionaire who made his fortune as a pensions trader, started racing karts at the age of eight, and was on pole position for his first national event…” 🥰

I was today years old when I learned the Japanese for Caturday is ケツ曜日 (“ketsuyōbi”)

Thread from a European perspective on the new National Security Strategy from the Trump administration. An effort to make the US like other nations in a turn inward will make the US less distinctive and exceptional and undermine the attributes that make it attractive for other countries to emulate.

It's that time of night when everyone is done riffing and back to posting the most horrific things they can and I encourage you to allow your brain to focus on this for a while. Remember a trip on a train or a bus or a ferry or gondola. Remember what made it memorable. Then remember two more.

My high school aged son had an assignment for his geography class on demographic decline and why countries in Europe, Japan, and China were in trouble. As their populations age, they will have trouble supporting all the retirees with a smaller working population. 1/

Do you want to keep up with the latest on climate change? Here are some of my favorite sources — mainly scientists and great science communicators who know their stuff and share it with the world. Check them out! go.bsky.app/Q4Uo8vV

once again, there is a borg of centrist thought that is trapped within its own mind prison of that website, and it is increasingly divorced from the reality of how most people feel. & the beltway press is attached to it via umbilical cord

Calm tonight before a slight chance of light snow ❄️Accumulation probabilities are higher south and west of D.C. (only a 20% chance D.C. sees an 0.1" dusting), especially SoMD and Fredericksburg 🥶Wind chills in the teens Monday morning with highs stuck in the 30s More at CWG.live

One of the fiercest bouts of vertigo I have ever experienced. Like being in the middle of a tornado. Used the Epley maneuver and felt a little better after about 2 hours. Still feel nauseous and exhausted. World no longer spinning.

Went out to cut down a tree and found a rib cage instead

Great thread on the Tiny Tim of the fish world. I love how this GIF suggests that giving birth involves jet propulsion. *Nyoooom*

Earned a silver star pulling drowning and wounded GIs out of the water at Omaha Beach… And a bronze star in Korea. Wasn’t allowed to vote in federal elections ‘til 54 and Maine elections ‘til 67. Charles Norman Shay, Tribal Elder and World War II Hero, Dies at 101 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

Trump's Asserting US "Dominance" Over Western Hemisphere. Canada, Too? The Monroe Doctrine is back. The US will again be bullying Latin America, its "backyard." What about its "front yard," Canada? I worry about Danielle Smith's treachery more than Trump. youtu.be/qbCxcEA1Ifw #ableg

Going to trust the bird expert that this bird is pink-footed:

"anti-vaxxers are dedicated to filling the coffers of Big Coffin. Simple math leads to another obvious conclusion: they also work extremely hard to enrich hospitals and Big Pharma"

at least TWO good new songs tonight

jasmine crockett made fun of the sitting governor of texas for being in a wheelchair. you have to willfully stupid to think she will win this senate race

Potentially spectacular Aurora (Borealis and Australis) might be visible further outside the normal polar regions. During northern hemisphere winter the northern variety will likely be much more spectacularly visible much further south…

Unbelievable rain totals for dry season! Almost 3 Decembers worth of rain in 24 hours in spots. Normal Dec rain is 2.5”. Downtown Tampa had double that! Areas like Tarpon Springs, Palm Harbor, East Lake, Odessa, Trinity, Keystone, Lutz, Wesley Chapel etc.., had 5 to 7 inches.

pink balloons by ekko astral

Taking things slow and easy today on this anniversary of my beautiful mom being fitted with her angel wings in 2021. And she was truly an angel. Love you forever mom. dusk.geo.orst.edu/jeanne.html

I am once again learning about an appalling thing that happened in my country by reading the foreign press. 🏳️‍🌈 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

donald trump jr says his father may walk away from ukraine

Be careful of a few slick spots heading out this morning from areas of freezing fog that formed overnight.

Happy FEMA Review Council Report Week to all who celebrate.