David Haralson
@laughlax.bsky.social
Transmission analysis at a grid-scale battery company. Trans rights are human rights! Born at 358ppm. He/him. Dad. Organist. Democrat. Boomer Sooner! Salt Lake Valley, UT. I represent only myself here.
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David Haralson
@laughlax.bsky.social
· Jun 28
Hi everyone, I'm here now! Hopefully looking forward to what the future brings in this brave new world.
If you know of good people to follow here in any of these categories, please point me their way!:
* Energy industry
* Clean energy transition
* Mormonism
* Pipe organs
If you know of good people to follow here in any of these categories, please point me their way!:
* Energy industry
* Clean energy transition
* Mormonism
* Pipe organs
"What infrastructure should be stranded NOW?"
What a question!! One that can really illuminate things, if taken seriously. 🔌💡
What a question!! One that can really illuminate things, if taken seriously. 🔌💡
In energy justice, what is the matching demand for justice on a much shorter timescale in policy, and then in material energy system transition and shutdown? What massive investments must we make to eliminate energy cost inequality starting this year? What infrastructure should be stranded NOW?
February 5, 2026 at 9:01 PM
"What infrastructure should be stranded NOW?"
What a question!! One that can really illuminate things, if taken seriously. 🔌💡
What a question!! One that can really illuminate things, if taken seriously. 🔌💡
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Just learned that the Salt Lake Community College's chapter of SWE (Society of Women Engineers) has been forced to close thanks to the Republican party's "anti-DEI" campaign against women, minorities, and people with disabilities 🤬🤬🤬
February 5, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Just learned that the Salt Lake Community College's chapter of SWE (Society of Women Engineers) has been forced to close thanks to the Republican party's "anti-DEI" campaign against women, minorities, and people with disabilities 🤬🤬🤬
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Immigration is America's superpower. I understand concerns about border towns or other regions that can't shoulder the cost of influx on their own, and there are some other security concerns worth addressing, but we need more immigrants, not fewer.
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
February 4, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Immigration is America's superpower. I understand concerns about border towns or other regions that can't shoulder the cost of influx on their own, and there are some other security concerns worth addressing, but we need more immigrants, not fewer.
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Good to see these generation plant owners sue DOE/Secretary Wright for unconstitutionally taking their property.
DOE last year prevented 6 plants with ~4,300 MW from retiring.
Do conservatives still oppose such government abuses of power?
www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-eme... #energysky
DOE last year prevented 6 plants with ~4,300 MW from retiring.
Do conservatives still oppose such government abuses of power?
www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-eme... #energysky
Coal plant owners say DOE ‘emergency’ order to run it violates Constitution
By mandating the generator’s availability to operate, the order “constitutes both a physical taking and a regulatory taking” of property by the government without just compensation or due process, the...
www.utilitydive.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Good to see these generation plant owners sue DOE/Secretary Wright for unconstitutionally taking their property.
DOE last year prevented 6 plants with ~4,300 MW from retiring.
Do conservatives still oppose such government abuses of power?
www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-eme... #energysky
DOE last year prevented 6 plants with ~4,300 MW from retiring.
Do conservatives still oppose such government abuses of power?
www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-eme... #energysky
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Those who dig pits for their neighbors fall into them themselves. It's an old promise that repeats all over Scripture.
I believe in that kind of justice. It's why the most dangerous weapon I can imagine isn't a gun. It's a shovel.
And it's bizarre, watching my people dig their own graves.
I believe in that kind of justice. It's why the most dangerous weapon I can imagine isn't a gun. It's a shovel.
And it's bizarre, watching my people dig their own graves.
February 3, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Those who dig pits for their neighbors fall into them themselves. It's an old promise that repeats all over Scripture.
I believe in that kind of justice. It's why the most dangerous weapon I can imagine isn't a gun. It's a shovel.
And it's bizarre, watching my people dig their own graves.
I believe in that kind of justice. It's why the most dangerous weapon I can imagine isn't a gun. It's a shovel.
And it's bizarre, watching my people dig their own graves.
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This is quite a big deal, though I actually think it will have short-term negative effects for the state. These voters are not (by and large) registering as Democrats--they're either registering with the Forward or United Utah parties or, more likely, going independent. That's actually a problem.
For the first time in who knows how many decades, Republicans are below 50% of registered voters in what was once the most reliably Republican state in the union.
Utah voters keep telling the Republican Party they don't like their far-right tactics, but then the party keeps ignoring voters.
I'm hopeful this coming election finally breaks the Republican super-majority.
I'm hopeful this coming election finally breaks the Republican super-majority.
February 3, 2026 at 6:46 PM
This is quite a big deal, though I actually think it will have short-term negative effects for the state. These voters are not (by and large) registering as Democrats--they're either registering with the Forward or United Utah parties or, more likely, going independent. That's actually a problem.
Kid's plate made its way down to the heating element in the dishwasher
Reject modernity, folks, today we're breathing MACROplastics!
Reject modernity, folks, today we're breathing MACROplastics!
February 3, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Kid's plate made its way down to the heating element in the dishwasher
Reject modernity, folks, today we're breathing MACROplastics!
Reject modernity, folks, today we're breathing MACROplastics!
Wait, you can just put a suit on and go out and claim to be a groundhog?! I've been missing out!
February 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Wait, you can just put a suit on and go out and claim to be a groundhog?! I've been missing out!
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Me when I get more than 1 message a day
February 3, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Me when I get more than 1 message a day
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It is unprecedented because it is expressly forbidden by the constitution -- the only specifically enumerated cause of action for impeachment and removal.
WSJ: “.. The deal marked something unprecedented in American politics: a foreign government official taking a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president's company."
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
February 2, 2026 at 12:19 AM
It is unprecedented because it is expressly forbidden by the constitution -- the only specifically enumerated cause of action for impeachment and removal.
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Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
February 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
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Nobody made the GOP do this. The GOP fully, deliberately abused power in ways that turned the US against them. With their eyes wide open.
Nobody needs to take their scolding & shouting seriously ever again.
Nobody needs to take their scolding & shouting seriously ever again.
Former Texas Lege reporter here. A Dem hasn't held this seat since 1990. Tarrant is the safest of red suburban counties. There is no way the TX and national GOP aren't in panic mode right now.
JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
February 1, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Nobody made the GOP do this. The GOP fully, deliberately abused power in ways that turned the US against them. With their eyes wide open.
Nobody needs to take their scolding & shouting seriously ever again.
Nobody needs to take their scolding & shouting seriously ever again.
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‘21 wind turbines, was first opened by Bord Na Móna in 1992 and could supply about 6.5 megawatts at 30 kW each…height 46-53 metres at tip…replaced w/18 new turbines (adding to 60 others nearby)…a tip height of 176m and a capacity to produce 192 megawatts - 2.5 MW each’
Ireland has dismantled its first commercial wind farm to make way for a step-change in scale. Each new turbine generates more power than the entire 1992 Bellacorick site, illustrating how 3 decades of innovation have compressed land use while multiplying output. buff.ly/goiabIO
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Last turbine on first commercial wind farm dismantled
The last wind turbine of what was Ireland's first commercial wind farm at Bellacorick in Co Mayo has been dismantled.
buff.ly
February 1, 2026 at 3:01 PM
‘21 wind turbines, was first opened by Bord Na Móna in 1992 and could supply about 6.5 megawatts at 30 kW each…height 46-53 metres at tip…replaced w/18 new turbines (adding to 60 others nearby)…a tip height of 176m and a capacity to produce 192 megawatts - 2.5 MW each’
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You ok with this @govcox.bsky.social ?
UTAH auto body shop owner: “You guys broke the fucking window to get in here! Where is your warrant??”
Trump’s ICE goons: “Yes we did… We don’t need one.” 🤔
Rights are gone under this regime.
(From Somali Snaps: www.instagram.com/reel/DUKpzuS...)
Trump’s ICE goons: “Yes we did… We don’t need one.” 🤔
Rights are gone under this regime.
(From Somali Snaps: www.instagram.com/reel/DUKpzuS...)
January 31, 2026 at 1:41 PM
You ok with this @govcox.bsky.social ?
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“/pol/ was created after moot met with jeffrey epstein” is maybe the single most cursed true sentence I have ever had the displeasure of writing
January 31, 2026 at 4:09 AM
“/pol/ was created after moot met with jeffrey epstein” is maybe the single most cursed true sentence I have ever had the displeasure of writing
I don't remember when I set my lock screen to its current image*. 2-4 years ago, I think? But my home screen background has been pure black for a decade+.
* a shot I took around graduation of the Catlett Music Hall lobby at OU with the sun & stained glass windows splashing color all over the place
* a shot I took around graduation of the Catlett Music Hall lobby at OU with the sun & stained glass windows splashing color all over the place
January 31, 2026 at 3:57 AM
I don't remember when I set my lock screen to its current image*. 2-4 years ago, I think? But my home screen background has been pure black for a decade+.
* a shot I took around graduation of the Catlett Music Hall lobby at OU with the sun & stained glass windows splashing color all over the place
* a shot I took around graduation of the Catlett Music Hall lobby at OU with the sun & stained glass windows splashing color all over the place
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
Intro to Ordinary Differential Equations
Digital Design
Modern Physics
Electronics Lab
Choral Conducting
Intro to Ordinary Differential Equations
Digital Design
Modern Physics
Electronics Lab
Choral Conducting
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
Math
Lab
Language
Seminar
Preceptorial
Math
Lab
Language
Seminar
Preceptorial
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
The Black Radical Tradition in America (Craig Wilder)
Recent United States History (Bruce Nelson)
Semantics (Tim Pulju)
Environmental Law (Pat Parenteau)
Animation (David Ehrlich)
The Black Radical Tradition in America (Craig Wilder)
Recent United States History (Bruce Nelson)
Semantics (Tim Pulju)
Environmental Law (Pat Parenteau)
Animation (David Ehrlich)
January 31, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
Intro to Ordinary Differential Equations
Digital Design
Modern Physics
Electronics Lab
Choral Conducting
Intro to Ordinary Differential Equations
Digital Design
Modern Physics
Electronics Lab
Choral Conducting
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Gotta appreciate the economy of this portion of the latest legal challenge to the DOE's attempt to force the Craig, CO coal power plant to remain open after everyone agreed to close it, and still want it closed! coloradosun.com/2026/01/30/c...). Source: earthjustice.org/wp-content/u...
January 31, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Gotta appreciate the economy of this portion of the latest legal challenge to the DOE's attempt to force the Craig, CO coal power plant to remain open after everyone agreed to close it, and still want it closed! coloradosun.com/2026/01/30/c...). Source: earthjustice.org/wp-content/u...
A new little bank branch opened on my street. Opens at 9, only open past 5 on Friday, and even then only until 6. No weekend hours. 😔
Bank hours are shrinking. Online-only, AI chatbot-only banks are increasing. It's nuts and terrible.
January 31, 2026 at 1:43 AM
A new little bank branch opened on my street. Opens at 9, only open past 5 on Friday, and even then only until 6. No weekend hours. 😔
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Ever since Spencer Cox called for prayer for moisture in Utah it’s only gotten warmer. God has abandoned him and the leg for their regressive trans policies clearly
January 30, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Ever since Spencer Cox called for prayer for moisture in Utah it’s only gotten warmer. God has abandoned him and the leg for their regressive trans policies clearly
Okay, fine, I'll bite. I'm MAN OVERBOARD
But only for the moment. Then I'll probably be I AM ON FIRE; KEEP CLEAR OF ME
(on fire in a good or bad way? I'll never tell)
But only for the moment. Then I'll probably be I AM ON FIRE; KEEP CLEAR OF ME
(on fire in a good or bad way? I'll never tell)
January 30, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Okay, fine, I'll bite. I'm MAN OVERBOARD
But only for the moment. Then I'll probably be I AM ON FIRE; KEEP CLEAR OF ME
(on fire in a good or bad way? I'll never tell)
But only for the moment. Then I'll probably be I AM ON FIRE; KEEP CLEAR OF ME
(on fire in a good or bad way? I'll never tell)
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New from @gruberte.bsky.social and I in @science.org: The energy transition is at risk, and energy models are missing the threat. Fossil energy networks from oil to coal to gas have minimum viable scales of operation, and those thresholds are closer than we think:
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Fossil energy minimum viable scale
Unseen infrastructural threats to safety and decarbonization may arise as fossil energy systems are phased out
www.science.org
January 29, 2026 at 7:26 PM
New from @gruberte.bsky.social and I in @science.org: The energy transition is at risk, and energy models are missing the threat. Fossil energy networks from oil to coal to gas have minimum viable scales of operation, and those thresholds are closer than we think:
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
💡🔌
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
💡🔌
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Our latest, a bit niche for the LDS crowd, but hopefully worthwhile overall
www.cityweekly.net/opinion/glib...
www.cityweekly.net/opinion/glib...
Glib dismissals from Utah's LDS lawmakers are anything but heavenly.
Opinion
www.cityweekly.net
January 29, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Our latest, a bit niche for the LDS crowd, but hopefully worthwhile overall
www.cityweekly.net/opinion/glib...
www.cityweekly.net/opinion/glib...