Brian Malcolm
@actionfold.bsky.social
Former programmer, current pilot, future plane-builder.
We famously use our military to keep the wind flowing around the world. Why we just sent an aircraft carrier to Venezuela to potentially seize their wind.
We look the other way when wind tyrants use their turbine blades to hack up dissidents.
Nothing like that for fossil fuels.
We look the other way when wind tyrants use their turbine blades to hack up dissidents.
Nothing like that for fossil fuels.
KERNEN: Does the admin want to dismantle wind projects that are getting started?
WRIGHT: The track record is bad. We've spent hundreds of billions of subsidies for an energy source that's sometimes there. The main goal is to stop subsidizing. There are no meaningful subsidies for fossil fuels
WRIGHT: The track record is bad. We've spent hundreds of billions of subsidies for an energy source that's sometimes there. The main goal is to stop subsidizing. There are no meaningful subsidies for fossil fuels
November 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
We famously use our military to keep the wind flowing around the world. Why we just sent an aircraft carrier to Venezuela to potentially seize their wind.
We look the other way when wind tyrants use their turbine blades to hack up dissidents.
Nothing like that for fossil fuels.
We look the other way when wind tyrants use their turbine blades to hack up dissidents.
Nothing like that for fossil fuels.
Short answer, "yes" with an "if." Long answer, "no" with a "but."
October 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Short answer, "yes" with an "if." Long answer, "no" with a "but."
"Don’t quote laws to men who have swords"
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
September 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"Don’t quote laws to men who have swords"
Subways/busses are far safer than two-lane country blacktops.
Every time I see conservative fearmongering about how dangerous the NYC subway is, I feel the need to defend it. I grew up in Ohio. It’s cars that are dangerous. It’s car accidents that are terrifyingly common. I’m not being dramatic when I say the subway is one of the best parts of my life now.
July 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Subways/busses are far safer than two-lane country blacktops.
While there's no question this is a good thing, I will miss the fun of gawking at the out-of-towners in their rental cars with the thousand yard stare wondering why Google got them into this mess.
At long last, after decades, Seattle has taken the smallest of steps, banning tourist vehicles from Pike Place Market "during the daytime."
Just cosmically ludicrous that it's taken this long & been so controversial.
Just cosmically ludicrous that it's taken this long & been so controversial.
More walking, fewer wheels at Pike Place Market
Vehicle restrictions aim to boost pedestrian safety during peak hours at Seattle's famous market.
www.axios.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
While there's no question this is a good thing, I will miss the fun of gawking at the out-of-towners in their rental cars with the thousand yard stare wondering why Google got them into this mess.
1000x this.
The thing is, it is the nature of reactionary psychology to believe on a deep brainstem level that *everyone* acts this way, that everyone is out for themselves and their own advantage, that all talk of principles is bullshit. It is fundamental to their worldview.
April 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
1000x this.
It's amazing how many folks who used to swear we could never let Munich 1938 happen again are letting Munich 1938 happen again...
March 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It's amazing how many folks who used to swear we could never let Munich 1938 happen again are letting Munich 1938 happen again...
Garbage politician has never heard of "garbage in, garbage out".
Johnson: "Elon's cracked the code. He's now inside these agencies. He's created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data & as he told me in his office, data doesn't lie. We're gonna be able to get the information. We're gonna be able to transform the way federal govt works."
February 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Garbage politician has never heard of "garbage in, garbage out".
December 15, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Hard disagree. If the quote does not contain the period then it shouldn't be in it. We already do that for ? And !
Consider the computer instruction case.
Type "format c: /s /y".
vs
Type "format c: /s /y."
Only one will result in a shiny new hard drive!
Consider the computer instruction case.
Type "format c: /s /y".
vs
Type "format c: /s /y."
Only one will result in a shiny new hard drive!
The style of placing a period outside of a quotation mark is so perverted. It is dog shit to me.
December 7, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Hard disagree. If the quote does not contain the period then it shouldn't be in it. We already do that for ? And !
Consider the computer instruction case.
Type "format c: /s /y".
vs
Type "format c: /s /y."
Only one will result in a shiny new hard drive!
Consider the computer instruction case.
Type "format c: /s /y".
vs
Type "format c: /s /y."
Only one will result in a shiny new hard drive!
You will all know I have been kidnapped or bodysnatched if I ever use the phrase "begs the question" to mean "raises the question".
You all will know I have been kidnapped or bodysnatched if I ever use the phrase I could care less.
You all will know I have been kidnapped or bodysnatched if I ever use the word epistemological.
December 6, 2024 at 3:25 PM
You will all know I have been kidnapped or bodysnatched if I ever use the phrase "begs the question" to mean "raises the question".
I have no opinion RN about 2026. 2028 w/Vance as VP and the current (or worse) Supreme Court will *not* be a fair election. Sufficient electors will be denied to throw to the house or Congress will refuse to certify and "Speaker Trump" will become president.
We need to come to terms with that.
We need to come to terms with that.
November 24, 2024 at 2:02 AM
I have no opinion RN about 2026. 2028 w/Vance as VP and the current (or worse) Supreme Court will *not* be a fair election. Sufficient electors will be denied to throw to the house or Congress will refuse to certify and "Speaker Trump" will become president.
We need to come to terms with that.
We need to come to terms with that.
November 8, 2024 at 3:21 PM
We haven't had a healthy center-right party in the US for... At least 100 years.
👇🎯 Nothing makes all kinds of very online people here on Bluesky more angry than the very true, utterly banal, & deeply unpopular belief, often articulated by smart mainstream Democrats like Pete Buttigieg & Nancy Pelosi, that durable 🇺🇸 democracy requires a healthy center-right pro-democracy party.
Counterpoint: Giving Republicans a permission structure (yes, that phrase is real and important) to vote for Harris is good. And no one in the Democratic party is better at it that Pete.
November 5, 2024 at 12:48 AM
We haven't had a healthy center-right party in the US for... At least 100 years.
October 30, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Voting complete!
October 19, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Voting complete!
Repost your five favorite #TTRPG settings, regardless of system.
1. Miles Christi
2. Aquelarre
3. Ars Magica
4. Call of Cthulhu
5. Transhuman Space
1. Miles Christi
2. Aquelarre
3. Ars Magica
4. Call of Cthulhu
5. Transhuman Space
Repost your five favorite #TTRPG settings, regardless of system.
1. Vimary - Tribe 8/Tribes in the Dark
2. Poseidon - Blue Planet
3. Destera - Spire/Heart
4. Duskvol - Blades in the Dark
5. Creation - Exalted
1. Vimary - Tribe 8/Tribes in the Dark
2. Poseidon - Blue Planet
3. Destera - Spire/Heart
4. Duskvol - Blades in the Dark
5. Creation - Exalted
September 13, 2024 at 2:12 AM
Repost your five favorite #TTRPG settings, regardless of system.
1. Miles Christi
2. Aquelarre
3. Ars Magica
4. Call of Cthulhu
5. Transhuman Space
1. Miles Christi
2. Aquelarre
3. Ars Magica
4. Call of Cthulhu
5. Transhuman Space
"And I should know, being an individual who was one of the greatest threats to our republic."
""In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump," Dick Cheney said in a statement."
wild to get this statement from one of the few legitimate counterexamples to this claim
www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
wild to get this statement from one of the few legitimate counterexamples to this claim
www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says he will vote for Harris
His daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney, offered her endorsement of the Democratic presidential nominee earlier this week.
www.nbcnews.com
September 7, 2024 at 12:26 AM
"And I should know, being an individual who was one of the greatest threats to our republic."
I'm not about to read Isaacson's biography to get details, but this sure sounds like someone stumbling on the Martingale strategy and deciding they're a genius and no around them knowing that's a (bad) thing.
Which I think is far more revealing than any "what a risk taker" type hagiography.
Which I think is far more revealing than any "what a risk taker" type hagiography.
This isn't a man who "understands risk." It's a man who inherited enough money that he's never faced risk in his life.
August 26, 2024 at 11:31 AM
I'm not about to read Isaacson's biography to get details, but this sure sounds like someone stumbling on the Martingale strategy and deciding they're a genius and no around them knowing that's a (bad) thing.
Which I think is far more revealing than any "what a risk taker" type hagiography.
Which I think is far more revealing than any "what a risk taker" type hagiography.
Keanu Reeves tries to soothe an inconsolable baby in JOHNNY WITH COLIC.
Keanu Reeves plays an overpowered D&D 2nd edition character in JOHNNY PSIONICS.
Keanu Reeves plays an early childhood education teacher in JOHNNY with PHONICS.
August 15, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Keanu Reeves tries to soothe an inconsolable baby in JOHNNY WITH COLIC.
A picture is worth a thousand n-words.
August 14, 2024 at 4:33 AM
A picture is worth a thousand n-words.
Back in the day we used to say, "What's the difference between Google & Microsoft? About 15 years."
Turns out that was wrong. Looks like it was 23 years.
Turns out that was wrong. Looks like it was 23 years.
Here's our first stab at the news that Google has been found guilty of being a monopoly, from @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social and I. We'll have more coverage this week of this historic ruling.
Federal Judge: Google Is a Monopoly
Today on TAP: The Justice Department just won its case against Google.
prospect.org
August 5, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Back in the day we used to say, "What's the difference between Google & Microsoft? About 15 years."
Turns out that was wrong. Looks like it was 23 years.
Turns out that was wrong. Looks like it was 23 years.
A tale of two headlines. Same organization. Both the day of the verdict. Note that Biden's headline focuses on what he did, whereas the Trump headline focuses on the consequence of the court proceedings.
![Headline: Donald Trump becomes first US president convicted of a crime.
Highlighted text: A New York jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star... [the] jury pronounced Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts he faced."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zikspcgl2hkf3w4oirble6rh/bafkreiduxtelksfrxexvoeldl22toem35edx2vgldbkwqh3x2j6ziocwsa@jpeg)
![Headline: Hunter Biden lied about drug use to buy a gun, jury finds.
Highlighted text: Hunter Biden was convicted by a jury on Tuesday of lying about his drug use... [the jury] found the defendant guilty on all three counts against him.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zikspcgl2hkf3w4oirble6rh/bafkreibmrgrxhblrxxriwsy442r2yqmv3ojt6czzndscjfyarjiqmxkeni@jpeg)
June 11, 2024 at 6:58 PM
A tale of two headlines. Same organization. Both the day of the verdict. Note that Biden's headline focuses on what he did, whereas the Trump headline focuses on the consequence of the court proceedings.