isaac
@sevier.io
Posting about electricity and how we can care for one other. Building @publicgrids.org. SF. they.
Latest: “To fight oligarchy, build local democracy"
https://www.isaacsevier.com/notes/to-fight-oligarchy-build-local-democracy/
Latest: “To fight oligarchy, build local democracy"
https://www.isaacsevier.com/notes/to-fight-oligarchy-build-local-democracy/
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· Oct 23
Overcharged: The Rules Of The Electricity Affordability Crisis
Nearly a quarter of adults in the US—or over 52 million people—cannot pay their power bills.
climateandcommunity.org
In this new report from me & @rhymeswithocean.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social & @publicgrids.org, we argue the current electricity affordability crisis is caused by the rules of private ownership. To solve the crisis, we recommend banning shutoffs now and using many tools to expand public power!
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"We have to imagine the world we want to live in because right now we're living in someone else's imagination instead." Je, paraphrasing Ruha Benjamin's Imagination: A Manifesto.
October 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
"We have to imagine the world we want to live in because right now we're living in someone else's imagination instead." Je, paraphrasing Ruha Benjamin's Imagination: A Manifesto.
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"Housing, transit, energy, and food should all be conceived of as a public utility." @drmitchpdx.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
"Housing, transit, energy, and food should all be conceived of as a public utility." @drmitchpdx.bsky.social
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I want this very badly to be the case. We cannot continue with the status quo
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 3:42 AM
I want this very badly to be the case. We cannot continue with the status quo
we're manifesting over here
PLEASE LET THIS BE TRUE
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.
December 23, 2025 at 3:39 AM
we're manifesting over here
The Great PG&E Blackout of 2025 closed City Hall, the Main Library, and has affected almost all of the Muni subway. N & J temporarily merged with no subway service, KLM only goes inbound to Castro, and they're running bus bridges only down to Embarcadero.
Several San Francisco city offices closed Monday due to power outage
Several city offices in San Francisco will be closed Monday due to the massive power outage over the weekend.
www.nbcbayarea.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The Great PG&E Blackout of 2025 closed City Hall, the Main Library, and has affected almost all of the Muni subway. N & J temporarily merged with no subway service, KLM only goes inbound to Castro, and they're running bus bridges only down to Embarcadero.
San Francisco could follow the example from New York and begin to build a whole new political bloc based entirely around making PG&E public. In the Hudson Valley, the fight against their corporate utility, Central Hudson, is a defining part of @sarahana.bsky.social's work as a state Assembly member.
Sarahana Shrestha is building a progressive movement in the Hudson Valley
The growth of left-wing politics isn’t limited to New York City.
www.cityandstateny.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
San Francisco could follow the example from New York and begin to build a whole new political bloc based entirely around making PG&E public. In the Hudson Valley, the fight against their corporate utility, Central Hudson, is a defining part of @sarahana.bsky.social's work as a state Assembly member.
The discourse on Reddit and TikTok about PG&E is off the charts. This decade it's going to be the utility corporations vs. everybody else.
December 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The discourse on Reddit and TikTok about PG&E is off the charts. This decade it's going to be the utility corporations vs. everybody else.
It would win, without a doubt. There's no amount of propaganda that could overcome the last 72 hours of experience here in the city.
December 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
It would win, without a doubt. There's no amount of propaganda that could overcome the last 72 hours of experience here in the city.
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.🧵
California utilities will keep almost all profits as regulators ease up. They’re still upset
Utilities will suffer small reductions to profits as state regulators ease up on recommended cuts and electric bills remain high
calmatters.org
December 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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.
I mistakenly said the muni buses run on their own distribution system so I deleted that bc it seemed to be moving fast. They are still up and running, but not specifically because it runs on Hetch Hetchy public power. Thanks @alxlndomountain.bsky.social
PG&E owns the entire distribution system in the city & hetch hetchy power is gets dumped into the distribution grid in San Mateo Co. after being sent over city owned wires from Yosemite.
December 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I mistakenly said the muni buses run on their own distribution system so I deleted that bc it seemed to be moving fast. They are still up and running, but not specifically because it runs on Hetch Hetchy public power. Thanks @alxlndomountain.bsky.social
Helluva night for the American electrical grid i gotta say
NIST reassures the world that despite atomic clock power outage time is not broken. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
Power outage in Boulder area affects atomic clock, "Time is not broken" NIST says
Due to the power outage, time (very) briefly stood still at the NIST Internet Time Service facility in Boulder.
www.cbsnews.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Helluva night for the American electrical grid i gotta say
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bad day to be a Waymo in SF during a PG&E-induced power outage
December 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
bad day to be a Waymo in SF during a PG&E-induced power outage
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PG&E asked for several rate increases recently, including one that was specifically for the benefit of shareholders.
December 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
PG&E asked for several rate increases recently, including one that was specifically for the benefit of shareholders.
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lol. lmao.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org
December 21, 2025 at 4:19 AM
lol. lmao.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Well I think these negotiations are going to look much different after today, five days out from Christmas
i subscribe to this channel because IBEW 1245 has a great set of history vids on how the union came to be in a California landscape dead set against workers in the early 20th century. that history matters for wherever we go from here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=apQu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=apQu...
Update on PG&E Contract Negotiations 12-19-25
YouTube video by IBEW 1245
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Well I think these negotiations are going to look much different after today, five days out from Christmas
I went over to Oakland and back and am so grateful for the SFMTA crews out there directing traffic, in the rain, now in the dark, with some wildly aggressive drivers on the road. They're keeping some bare minimum functionality up out there.
December 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I went over to Oakland and back and am so grateful for the SFMTA crews out there directing traffic, in the rain, now in the dark, with some wildly aggressive drivers on the road. They're keeping some bare minimum functionality up out there.
The city of San Francisco has been offering PG&E a fair price to buy our grid back and run it as a public power utility. They refuse to sell, and tonight their ownership and management is why we're sitting in the dark.
A hearing today in California is emblematic of corporate capture of utility regulation. The state public utility commission is likely to grant power providers a risk-free return that analysts say overcharges ratepayers by $4.4 billion per year, or roughly $340 per household.
Why Californians Will Pay $340 More for Electricity Next Year - The American Prospect
The state public utility commission is poised to approve a rate of return that critics say overcharges customers by $4.4 billion per year.
prospect.org
December 21, 2025 at 5:42 AM
The city of San Francisco has been offering PG&E a fair price to buy our grid back and run it as a public power utility. They refuse to sell, and tonight their ownership and management is why we're sitting in the dark.
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There is a station closure at Civic Center on the San Francisco Line due to a PG&E power outage.
December 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
There is a station closure at Civic Center on the San Francisco Line due to a PG&E power outage.
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Longest night of the year, new moon, earthquake storm, nearly half of sf is without electricity. It’s a night of great power
December 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Longest night of the year, new moon, earthquake storm, nearly half of sf is without electricity. It’s a night of great power
sometime around my 2022 'should i make a utility curriculum' era i was really curious about video based popular education on seemingly complex stuff. practical engineering, philosophy tube, rm transit, city nerd, any austin, all very different but so good at this.
December 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
sometime around my 2022 'should i make a utility curriculum' era i was really curious about video based popular education on seemingly complex stuff. practical engineering, philosophy tube, rm transit, city nerd, any austin, all very different but so good at this.
gonna let you guys in on one of my fav youtube subs as an end of the year treat
How Many Trees Are There in Skyrim?
YouTube video by Any Austin
www.youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
gonna let you guys in on one of my fav youtube subs as an end of the year treat
i subscribe to this channel because IBEW 1245 has a great set of history vids on how the union came to be in a California landscape dead set against workers in the early 20th century. that history matters for wherever we go from here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=apQu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=apQu...
Update on PG&E Contract Negotiations 12-19-25
YouTube video by IBEW 1245
www.youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
i subscribe to this channel because IBEW 1245 has a great set of history vids on how the union came to be in a California landscape dead set against workers in the early 20th century. that history matters for wherever we go from here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=apQu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=apQu...
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BREAKING: the Georgia Public Service Commission, including two lame-duck members, voted unanimously on the evening of the final working Friday of the year to approve a $16 billion deal that allows Georgia Power to build more power plants to meet data center demand.
December 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
BREAKING: the Georgia Public Service Commission, including two lame-duck members, voted unanimously on the evening of the final working Friday of the year to approve a $16 billion deal that allows Georgia Power to build more power plants to meet data center demand.
something deeply relatable here
"This all started as a joke — a "how hard could it be?" over drinks."
"This all started as a joke — a "how hard could it be?" over drinks."
Hey, hi, hello!
Our website is now live! If you want to get an idea of what the .meow Foundation is all about, what our mission statement is or you just want to look at pictures of the beautiful people involved, you can do so at dotmeow.org/en/what/
Go give it a look!!
Our website is now live! If you want to get an idea of what the .meow Foundation is all about, what our mission statement is or you just want to look at pictures of the beautiful people involved, you can do so at dotmeow.org/en/what/
Go give it a look!!
.meow - The Project
dotmeow.org
December 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
something deeply relatable here
"This all started as a joke — a "how hard could it be?" over drinks."
"This all started as a joke — a "how hard could it be?" over drinks."
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this seems extremely cool and potentially very very good
Hey! Hi! Hello!
Our Kickstarter is... (drumroll, if you please) LIVE!
You can find it riiiiight
here: kickstarter.dotmeow.org
But what IS .meow?
Well!
Let us explain... with video!
Our Kickstarter is... (drumroll, if you please) LIVE!
You can find it riiiiight
here: kickstarter.dotmeow.org
But what IS .meow?
Well!
Let us explain... with video!
December 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
this seems extremely cool and potentially very very good