@ariadneshaffer.bsky.social
Montana born, Seattle raised, Californian. Screenwriter/Producer/Train enthusiastic/Climate obsessed.
Screenwriter for The Never List - available on most platforms
Screenwriter for The Never List - available on most platforms
I'll take that. Happy 2026 everyone. May we all have picturesque years!
January 2, 2026 at 6:48 AM
I'll take that. Happy 2026 everyone. May we all have picturesque years!
Prices for solar panels and EVs are going down, which means there is good climate news tucked in amongst the horrors. The charts of solar installations in a lot of African countries are just vertical lines, and 70% of all cars imported to Nepal this year were EVs.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Emissions Are Still Rising. That Doesn’t Mean We’re Failing
When 196 nations adopted the momentous Paris climate accord, the UK prime minister at the time, David Cameron, wrote on Twitter: “Our grandchildren will see we did our duty.”
www.bloomberg.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Prices for solar panels and EVs are going down, which means there is good climate news tucked in amongst the horrors. The charts of solar installations in a lot of African countries are just vertical lines, and 70% of all cars imported to Nepal this year were EVs.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Universities embracing generative AI be like:
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Universities embracing generative AI be like:
Costa and I talk about this all the time. Private utilities in California are a disaster. 'The future is public'!
The citywide outage is San Francisco is going to be the straw that broke PG&E's stranglehold on California politics. Here's my state Senator calling for public ownership- not just for San Francisco but all of PG&E statewide. The future is public and that's what @publicgrids.org is for.
20,000 SF customers still lack power due to PG&E’s meltdown.
The private utility model is broken. PG&E is a monopoly fighting to stay a monopoly & not paid based on its performance.
It’s why I authored legislation to make PG&E publicly owned. Utilities must serve the public, not shareholders.🧵
The private utility model is broken. PG&E is a monopoly fighting to stay a monopoly & not paid based on its performance.
It’s why I authored legislation to make PG&E publicly owned. Utilities must serve the public, not shareholders.🧵
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Costa and I talk about this all the time. Private utilities in California are a disaster. 'The future is public'!
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Also, Air is Money and Dogs are Gore Vidal.
December 16, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Also, Air is Money and Dogs are Gore Vidal.
Wait? Good news? I almost forgot what that felt like.
Renewables have now overtaken coal in global power generation. 🔌🧪💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.weforum.org/stories/2025...
Renewables overtake coal – and other latest energy news
Top energy news: Renewable energies overtake coal; IEA urges grid investment; US energy firms spend billions on gas pipelines.
www.weforum.org
December 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Wait? Good news? I almost forgot what that felt like.
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There are a lot of things that make me mad. Like. A long list. But fake AI videos of wild animals doing cute things that animals do in fact do, make me so unreasonably mad. Should this incite the most rage in my heart, of all the horrible things going on right now? No. But here we are.
December 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
There are a lot of things that make me mad. Like. A long list. But fake AI videos of wild animals doing cute things that animals do in fact do, make me so unreasonably mad. Should this incite the most rage in my heart, of all the horrible things going on right now? No. But here we are.
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Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
U.S. seizes ‘very large’ oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says
The seizure was a significant escalation in the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his country’s oil-dependent economy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Fuck *anybody* who formula-shames.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Fuck *anybody* who formula-shames.
I don't know all the ins and outs of this particular company or its bankruptcy, however I do think we'll be seeing a lot more bankruptcies like this in the farming industry thanks to Trump's erratic policies.
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
MSN
www.msn.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I don't know all the ins and outs of this particular company or its bankruptcy, however I do think we'll be seeing a lot more bankruptcies like this in the farming industry thanks to Trump's erratic policies.
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD:
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD:
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
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Writing doesn't just help you process your thoughts.
Neuroscientists have found it physically changes your brain in ways that build resilience and help you handle everyday stress and challenges.
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Neuroscientists have found it physically changes your brain in ways that build resilience and help you handle everyday stress and challenges.
buff.ly/8PdXnTT
Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges
Resilience is often presented as feats of bravery and endurance. But everyday practices like journaling, drafting a text or even writing a to-do list are manifestations of a capacity to adapt.
buff.ly
November 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Writing doesn't just help you process your thoughts.
Neuroscientists have found it physically changes your brain in ways that build resilience and help you handle everyday stress and challenges.
buff.ly/8PdXnTT
Neuroscientists have found it physically changes your brain in ways that build resilience and help you handle everyday stress and challenges.
buff.ly/8PdXnTT
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Leftism doesn't mean "I get other people's labor for free because I'm poor" and Capitalism isn't a synonym for "selling things." At this rate, online leftists are going to polarize themselves into fighting wars for Anthropic and OpenAI bc they've "nationalized art."
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Leftism doesn't mean "I get other people's labor for free because I'm poor" and Capitalism isn't a synonym for "selling things." At this rate, online leftists are going to polarize themselves into fighting wars for Anthropic and OpenAI bc they've "nationalized art."
Holy mackerel! AI data centers are even worse than we already knew. Nightmares right up and down the line.
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Holy mackerel! AI data centers are even worse than we already knew. Nightmares right up and down the line.
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If Mamdani invites Trump to Gracie Mansion and serves him 1980’s surf-and-turf and chocolate cake with a chilled can of Diet Coke in a graciously appointed dining room, we might be able to get Medicare For All.
Dream big.
Dream big.
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If Mamdani invites Trump to Gracie Mansion and serves him 1980’s surf-and-turf and chocolate cake with a chilled can of Diet Coke in a graciously appointed dining room, we might be able to get Medicare For All.
Dream big.
Dream big.
This is a great read. There is no way to know where this is all going, but the one thing we can be sure of is that Thiel and his creepy peers are not on our side.
NEW: Peter Thiel has blinked. Yesterday, I posted an article about the "Great AI Bubble". And today, we find out that he's bailed on the market.
Has he cut & run? Or is this some 3-D chess-type voodoo? Thoughts please.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Has he cut & run? Or is this some 3-D chess-type voodoo? Thoughts please.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Peter Thiel Gets Out of Dodge
Yesterday, I published on "Great AI Bubble". Today, Silicon Valley's Dr Evil dumps his stock
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 AM
This is a great read. There is no way to know where this is all going, but the one thing we can be sure of is that Thiel and his creepy peers are not on our side.
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bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
Saw this on the freeway today. I think they might want to reconsider this font on the back of their trucks.
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Saw this on the freeway today. I think they might want to reconsider this font on the back of their trucks.
As horrible as the US has become on renewables thanks to Trump's policies, it is heartening to see that the renewable revolution charges ahead in the rest of the world. Pakistan, for example, went from no solar, to 30% of is energy from solar in just six years!
www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/c...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/c...
The surprising countries pulling off stunningly fast clean energy transitions | CNN
Fossil fuel production is still increasing and the United States is in climate denial mode. But, globally, the use of renewable energy is on the rise — and several countries are shifting to solar fast...
www.cnn.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
As horrible as the US has become on renewables thanks to Trump's policies, it is heartening to see that the renewable revolution charges ahead in the rest of the world. Pakistan, for example, went from no solar, to 30% of is energy from solar in just six years!
www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/c...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/c...
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This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
Seriously. The Blue Jays had a great series. Respect from a Dodgers fan.
Ditto, every word.
I'm sure no one wants to hear it from me but condolences to the Jays fans, an absolutely incredible season, a juggernaut of a team that deserved to win
November 2, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Seriously. The Blue Jays had a great series. Respect from a Dodgers fan.
This is crazy. The Douglas is all tech bros. Their worst crime in my experience is being unremittingly irritating.
Los Angeles, CA -
LAPD has commanded The Douglas, the nearest bar to Dodger Stadium to turn off the televisions. They are now calling unlawful assembly, though as far as I can tell the only signs of anything are people on the sidewalk. It is the 9th inning.
LAPD has commanded The Douglas, the nearest bar to Dodger Stadium to turn off the televisions. They are now calling unlawful assembly, though as far as I can tell the only signs of anything are people on the sidewalk. It is the 9th inning.
November 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
This is crazy. The Douglas is all tech bros. Their worst crime in my experience is being unremittingly irritating.
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As someone who doesn't watch sports but does love human suffering, I'm having a great night
November 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
As someone who doesn't watch sports but does love human suffering, I'm having a great night
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Lead is the gift that keeps on giving and here's Gen-X giving lead right back to people.
As a generation ages, it generally makes up more of the population than the pool of murder victims. That hasn't yet been the case for Gen X. www.pbump.net/o/the-rise-o...
The rise of the middle-aged murder victim
Analyst Jeff Asher, one of the best sources for up-to-date data about crime in the U.S., shared numbers on Tuesday that struck me as interesting: the age of victims of murder has been trending upward ...
www.pbump.net
October 30, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Lead is the gift that keeps on giving and here's Gen-X giving lead right back to people.