Ginny Maier

I made a list of Roc peeps as best I could bsky.app/profile/did:...

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

How are they heating and cooling this building? Will there be any green energy components?

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

This is so fucking racist. What an embarrassment to this country

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

I've been slowly making my way through this all weekend and I am having a rough time sitting with the fact that you can now violate the Clean Air Act if you ask for permission first.

I am still pretty salty about everyone who hand-waved away the explosion of data centre demand as a nothingburger ("demand has grown before", "it's a small-sounding percentage which means it's fine" etc). www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

🥚 Imagine finding out when you are in your 60s that 1) you’re adopted and 2) not born in the U.S. and 3) your parents never filed naturalization papers because you are arrested by ICE for VOTING and hauled into court in shackles. Just happened in Syracuse,NY: www.syracuse.com/news/2026/10...

Trump didn't like Ramaswamy until he saw him sticking up for child rapists and their enablers. He hated the Ivy League until Cornell had a prominent fraternity gang-rape story in the news. He's not just a rapist, not just a serial rapist—he's a rape *enthusiast,* and it's why Republicans love him.

Anthropic outlines its approach to "responsible data centre development", and........explicitly promises to carpet bomb communities with massive, polluting new fossil gas plants. This is what your Claude subscription is enabling: web.archive.org/web/20261016...

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Hazardous material release prompts evacuation order for portion of Toledo

The report finds that if current policies continue, warming could reach 2.8°C within this century and increase thereafter. ...These outcomes are worse than last year’s projections due to the withdrawal of the United States of America from the Paris Agreement www.unep.org/en/news-and-...

Get it youtu.be/ep5kE19nA7A?...

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

Can we just fix daylight savings time at least

Lowest NAHB since 2012

Don't threaten me with a good time?

well tbf, pretty much all protest involves some degree of asshole behavior - it's a matter of whether you think the cause is just.

It’s an unpalatable truth, but Meta, TikTok, and hopefully it goes without saying, X, aren’t sustainable to rely on for political amplification, cultural promotion/marketing or community organizing. It’s long past time for new platforms/means and to move on.

I would like to see the end of the term "vaccine skeptic," to be replaced by "reality denier." These so-called skeptics are actually the most gullible rubes on the planet when it comes to conspiracy nonsense and tech-bro slop; the only thing that makes them skeptical is peer-reviewed evidence.

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Unlike the raid on John Bolton, the targeting of Omar has elicited zero condemnation from NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post.

We’re a banana republic And Republicans in Congress endorse every bit of it.

every campaign, every look both ways, every be seen, every teach our kids, every be alert, every fucking thing is performative when we refuse to do what we all know works and especially when we refuse to protect what is working.

The US is quickly growing a concentration camp system that will soon exceed Japanese American "internment." Given *everything else*, and you get why it isn't dominating the news. But it's a massive and massively shameful story. We know how these things go from awful to hell. No excuses in 2026.

Feels like not enough people are aware of how fully cooked the internal combustion engine is. My mum's old diesel Honda currently costs £120 to fill up, on which it'll do just under 300 miles. My sister's EV costs £6 for a full charge which will take her 280 miles.

Funny that low IQ people are ripping off Americans

WaPo published my letter, but first they censored it. Here’s the story . . 1/

Love this quote from Coates

Guess what? Gas boilers were once a "middle class technology". So were televisions, and phones. That's the standard trajectory for any roll-out. Build the market, drive down the costs and an exclusive tech is universalised. Or did you have another route in mind?

The big tell to me on the narrow claim the bill is so good for clean energy that it will reduce oil & gas is that the oil and gas companies are among its strongest supporters. I don’t think “our side” outfoxed them.

When this portable, window-mount, heat pump came out it was $4,000-$5,000 to purchase and install. Now it is down to ~$3,000. It's a cold-climate heat pump that operates to -22°F, runs on 120V and you can still see out the window! 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋

Asbestos also had ‘good use cases’

Same thing goes for the AI utopia/accelerationist/singularity story, which is basically the same as the AI doom story. There are plenty of problems that don't yield to increased intelligence. A lack of intelligence is not why we have a climate crisis or no durable peace in the Middle East.

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I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...

We are 24 years away from when the world needs to be at net zero carbon emissions. Fossil fuel infrastructure and even some appliances have about a 25-year design life. That means that every gas power plant, gas pipeline, or gas boiler you install today is a middle finger pointed at your grandkids.

"Tax our wealth and provide basic income and we'll all leave and everyone will stop working," says the person with way too much wealth who never stops wanting more more more more more.

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