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Beeveeme
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garden variety enviro attorney
born at 325 ppm
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wafoli.bsky.social
The metric should not be whether drivers hate it. The metric should be whether it makes our streets safer for everyone. And by all accounts this accomplished that. That’s more than worth a few seconds of all of our time
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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leahstokes.bsky.social
Here's a gift article version of my article in the Atlantic about how to lower electricity prices.
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Electricity Should Be Free at Noon
And two other ideas for lowering electricity costs.
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
"Local officials are warning that more than 14,500 L.A. County formerly homeless households in subsidized, permanent housing could be forced back onto the streets or into shelters over the next year, mostly because of a loss of federal funding."
Expected loss of federal funds could push thousands of L.A. County households into homelessness
Local officials say more than 14,500 L.A. County households in subsidized, permanent housing could be forced into homelessness, mostly because of federal cuts.
www.latimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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michaelwara.bsky.social
That is, do American auto manufacturers want to compete in the global market for auto sales.

Answer is apparently no.

This and the repeal of IRA subsidies will be remembered as the end of auto manufacturing in the US. In 10 years we will all be driving BYDs. BYD cars. BYD trucks. BYD SUVs too.
December 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
"The IRA’s survival was premised on the logic that a loose alignment of corporations would support climate policies in exchange for subsidies and convince Republicans to get on their side. That didn’t work"

Top @katearonoff.bsky.social piece in @newrepublic.com -->>>
The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy
It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
newrepublic.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
beeveeme.bsky.social
The overconfidence is born from a misunderstanding that the incumbents don’t have.
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 9d
I think overconfidence in a technological, free-market and autopilot energy transition also inspires a follow-on dismissiveness around governments approving, supporting or encouraging fossil fuel infrastructure (on the grounds that it won't compete with cheap renewables and therefore isn't a worry)
November 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
beeveeme.bsky.social
This is excellent. I’m probably using the salesman with an absence of encyclopedias example in a talk I’m giving on CA-offset-adjacent law.
November 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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amywestervelt.bsky.social
Given that the words "information integrity" were followed by, effectively, science denial in the #COP30 text, that is not a win but rather a co-opting of the language folks are trying to use to fight climate disinfo. drilled.ghost.io/there-can-be...
There Can Be No Information Integrity Without Scientific and Political Integrity
I'm just back from COP30 in Belém and it is making me feel crazy to watch so many climate advocates and reporters declare the final text coming out of it a victory. It's true that the final text inclu...
drilled.ghost.io
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
A while back I coined the phrase "ecocide-plagiarism machines" for LLM-based genAI.

A better term is "ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis machines."
3/3

buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
buttondown.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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jael.bsky.social
cool
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12d
JFC. Three gigawatts of fossil-fuelled power for a new Amazon data centre

@beninskeep.bsky.social points out the new gas plant could produce 4x the harmful climate pollution as the coal plant it's replacing 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

www.utilitydive.com/news/nisourc...
A Northern Indiana Public Service Co. affiliate — called NIPSCO Generation, or GenCo — plans to build up to 3 GW of gas-fired generation and battery storage to serve planned Amazon data centers, the companies said Monday. Combined with electric transmission to be built by NIPSCO, the companies expect to spend about $7 billion. Under the arrangement, GenCo plans to build two 1.3-GW gas-fired power plants and a 400-MW, 4‐hour battery storage system to serve the data centers, according to filings at the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. In comparison, NIPSCO expects its non-data center load in 2028 will be about 2.3 GW. The IURC on Nov. 19 reaffirmed a September decision to approve the GenCo framework, which is designed to ensure that NIPSCO’s existing customers don’t pay for infrastructure needed to serve hyperscalers like Amazon. Under the framework, GenCo will own and operate power plants for large load customers. NIPSCO, a NiSource subsidiary, expects its 15-year deal with Amazon will produce about $1 billion in savings for its ratepayers. Those savings will be reflected as a credit on customers’ electric bills, according to a Nov. 7 filing by NIPSCO and NIPSCO Generation at the IURC. Residential customers will receive roughly $7 in monthly savings, according to the utility. Also, the 2.6-GW of gas-fired generation GenCo plans to build at its coal-fired Schahfer power plant site could produce nearly four times the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that the existing Schahfer coal plant emitted in 2023, according to Inskeep.
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
beeveeme.bsky.social
Very excited for this. www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/11/26/s...
Sonoma County’s wild sounds come to life in new musical debut
A new composition for woodwind, brass and percussion instruments is based on the sounds and rhythms of Sonoma County’s natural environment.
www.pressdemocrat.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
beeveeme.bsky.social
Bad Brains history on NBC?!?! youtu.be/bfKVxeYrc0Q?...
Newly discovered Bad Brains recording to be released | NBC4 Washington
YouTube video by NBC4 Washington
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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bradlander.bsky.social
Today I’m recommending that NYC’s pension fund boards drop BlackRock and 2 other (out of 49) public markets asset managers due to inadequate decarbonization plans.

Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
beeveeme.bsky.social
Moving on to another cooking groove. Family politics have started already and it’s not even Thanksgiving yet. youtu.be/WL9RsoOka3w?...
Rokia Traoré - Ka Moun Ké
YouTube video by Le HibOO
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
beeveeme.bsky.social
Music to cook by. maddieashman.bandcamp.com/album/demo-l...
demo library no.1, by Maddie Ashman
4 track album
maddieashman.bandcamp.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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riogranderift.bsky.social
Bruno Latour, in 2017, writing about the implications of the Paris Climate Agreement and its role disrupting (or challenging) the presumed trajectory of modernity and capital-driven development.
In relevant part, re: adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement on December 12, 2015: "[O]n that December day all the signatory countries, even as they were applauding the success of the improbable agreement, realized with alarm that, if they all went ahead according to the terms of their respective modernization plans, there would be no planet compatible with their hopes for development."
November 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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warrenjwells.bsky.social
Two-way stops on residential streets are a total menace.

I'm out walking the baby to sleep and just saw a neighbor (I recognize her car) run over a jogger and then proceed to blame him for being in the crosswalk.
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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energycheckup.bsky.social
California has figured out how to make the sun shine AT NIGHT!!
paddymccully.bsky.social Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 15d
As of 5pm today, batteries were the largest single source of power for the Californian grid www.caiso.com/todays-outlo...
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Whether it's Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference or Donald Trump calling for the execution of Democrats, both presidents engaged in norm-busting behavior.
November 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Sources close to Jared and Ivanka say that, privately, the couple disapproves of executing the president's political opponents.
November 21, 2025 at 4:23 AM
beeveeme.bsky.social
What the hell is my %#^*!?* school doing.
November 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
beeveeme.bsky.social
Let’s not forget…

www.nytimes.com/1992/02/07/b...
November 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!!

It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱

newrepublic.com/article/2028...
a slop generated baby hippo swimming in water In 2021, every active Meta user cost around one kilogram of carbon dioxide equivalent, or CO2e—a way of measuring greenhouse gases—in terms of direct and unadjusted power grid emissions. By 2024, that had risen to 1.8 kilograms of CO2e. Similarly, every $1 million of revenue caused about 26 tonnes of CO2e in 2021. That’s now 36 tonnes. Meta did not respond to a request for comment for this story. Meta’s push to force-feed advertising slop into every single corner of the massive digital space it controls could not have worse timing. The country it’s headquartered in is pouring cash into resuscitating coal and accelerating gas. The United States just saw the first two half-year periods with an increase in coal generation for at least half a decade (probably longer), as the Trump administration sets about pouring millions into keeping coal on life support. meta's emissions rising fast
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
Progressive groups yes but also a lot of the federal employees involved with all this

www.gravityisgone.com/a-slap-in-th...
"Nobody is better at turning victory into defeat than Chuck Schumer," said the NIH staffer. "After Tuesday I started to have hope again for... the first time since Schumer caved the first time. So much for that, I got nearly a week of not being hideously depressed." Another federal employee said Schumer and Durbin must resign. "What just happened in the Senate was a betrayal. We are governed by cowards all around," they said. "We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM