Bryan McAvoy
@bryanmcavoy.bsky.social
Former NWS met, currently involved in state air quality work. Read the same cyberpunk novels the tech bros did. Reached different conclusions. Ardent Bokononist. Don't follow me! I mainly repost, which is to say, there is no original content herein. (:
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SNAP benefits are under attack during this government shutdown and food banks are picking up the slack.
But they need your help. Here are the best ways to do that:
But they need your help. Here are the best ways to do that:
November 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
SNAP benefits are under attack during this government shutdown and food banks are picking up the slack.
But they need your help. Here are the best ways to do that:
But they need your help. Here are the best ways to do that:
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Brilliant @hannahdaly.ie post on data centre impacts in Ireland
- Data centre demand growth eating *all* new wind power
- Only 16% (!!) of new wind is thanks to corporate deals
- DCs either 0 impact or worsen emissions. Electrification only reduces emissions
hannahdaly.ie/2024-10-18-d...
- Data centre demand growth eating *all* new wind power
- Only 16% (!!) of new wind is thanks to corporate deals
- DCs either 0 impact or worsen emissions. Electrification only reduces emissions
hannahdaly.ie/2024-10-18-d...
November 28, 2024 at 7:16 AM
Brilliant @hannahdaly.ie post on data centre impacts in Ireland
- Data centre demand growth eating *all* new wind power
- Only 16% (!!) of new wind is thanks to corporate deals
- DCs either 0 impact or worsen emissions. Electrification only reduces emissions
hannahdaly.ie/2024-10-18-d...
- Data centre demand growth eating *all* new wind power
- Only 16% (!!) of new wind is thanks to corporate deals
- DCs either 0 impact or worsen emissions. Electrification only reduces emissions
hannahdaly.ie/2024-10-18-d...
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me: are you familiar with the infinite universe theory
gf: yeah of course
me: so there must be one where I run over your dad with a go-kart
gf: I guess so
me: so *pulling out flowers from behind my back* you can see how this isn’t my fault
gf: yeah of course
me: so there must be one where I run over your dad with a go-kart
gf: I guess so
me: so *pulling out flowers from behind my back* you can see how this isn’t my fault
May 2, 2024 at 3:02 PM
me: are you familiar with the infinite universe theory
gf: yeah of course
me: so there must be one where I run over your dad with a go-kart
gf: I guess so
me: so *pulling out flowers from behind my back* you can see how this isn’t my fault
gf: yeah of course
me: so there must be one where I run over your dad with a go-kart
gf: I guess so
me: so *pulling out flowers from behind my back* you can see how this isn’t my fault
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
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From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Portland City Councilor @counciloravalos.bsky.social woke up to her car and home engulfed in flames late last night. She had to grab her cat and escape to safety.
October 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Portland City Councilor @counciloravalos.bsky.social woke up to her car and home engulfed in flames late last night. She had to grab her cat and escape to safety.
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I keep saying “it’s almost impossible to explain how corrupt this is” but then something like this happens that’s even MORE corrupt:
President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.
Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
October 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I keep saying “it’s almost impossible to explain how corrupt this is” but then something like this happens that’s even MORE corrupt:
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#Greensky : Webinar TOMORROW (noon EST, 10/22): "Battery Energy Storage Systems: Getting to Yes and Getting it Right." The webinar aims to help local communities and their elected officials understand the benefits of grid-sale batteries as well as safety concerns. Register here: shorturl.at/d8QXa
October 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#Greensky : Webinar TOMORROW (noon EST, 10/22): "Battery Energy Storage Systems: Getting to Yes and Getting it Right." The webinar aims to help local communities and their elected officials understand the benefits of grid-sale batteries as well as safety concerns. Register here: shorturl.at/d8QXa
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WELL HOW ABOUT THAT
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
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"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
WELL HOW ABOUT THAT
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking to the site
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking to the site
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
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Between the search becoming almost useless, to websites becoming ad-rotted, infused nightmares, the web has become functionally dystopian.
September 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Between the search becoming almost useless, to websites becoming ad-rotted, infused nightmares, the web has become functionally dystopian.
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“One of my previously published studies found that for every additional 10 micrograms of particulates per cubic meter of air there was a corresponding 10 percent increase in infertility risk.”
She Found a Link Between Air Pollution and Infertility
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“One of my previously published studies found that for every additional 10 micrograms of particulates per cubic meter of air there was a corresponding 10 percent increase in infertility risk.”
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The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.
I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now
I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now
Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
October 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.
I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now
I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now
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America’s biggest offshore wind farm will be online in six months.
"Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW project off Virginia’s coast is progressing fast. The utility has a new, more definitive target to plug into the grid: March 2026." Via @canarymedia.com
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... 🔌💡
"Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW project off Virginia’s coast is progressing fast. The utility has a new, more definitive target to plug into the grid: March 2026." Via @canarymedia.com
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... 🔌💡
America’s biggest offshore wind farm will be online in six months
Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW project off Virginia’s coast is progressing fast. The utility has a new, more definitive target to plug into the grid: March 2026.
www.canarymedia.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
America’s biggest offshore wind farm will be online in six months.
"Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW project off Virginia’s coast is progressing fast. The utility has a new, more definitive target to plug into the grid: March 2026." Via @canarymedia.com
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... 🔌💡
"Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW project off Virginia’s coast is progressing fast. The utility has a new, more definitive target to plug into the grid: March 2026." Via @canarymedia.com
www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... 🔌💡
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“Thank you to President Putin!”
October 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“Thank you to President Putin!”
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Oh:
- The US sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July.
- China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period.
By @akshatrathi.bsky.social
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- The US sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July.
- China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period.
By @akshatrathi.bsky.social
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance
China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.
www.bloomberg.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Oh:
- The US sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July.
- China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period.
By @akshatrathi.bsky.social
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- The US sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July.
- China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period.
By @akshatrathi.bsky.social
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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“Judge Diane Goodstein is known for her recent ruling that blocked the Trump regime from accessing all sensitive information about South Carolina voters.”
www.live5news.com/2025/10/05/3...
www.live5news.com/2025/10/05/3...
3 hospitalized following reported Edisto Beach fire, SLED investigating
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating a house fire that hospitalized three people Saturday afternoon.
www.live5news.com
October 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
“Judge Diane Goodstein is known for her recent ruling that blocked the Trump regime from accessing all sensitive information about South Carolina voters.”
www.live5news.com/2025/10/05/3...
www.live5news.com/2025/10/05/3...
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Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean warming.
Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas
Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences
www.newscientist.com
October 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean warming.
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Overnight: Unions representing hundreds of thousands of federal workers asked a US judge to immediately prevent the Trump administration from carrying out mass firings during the government shutdown while they press a legal challenge
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-05/federal-worker-unions-ask-to-preemptively-block-shutdown-layoffs?utm_medium=email&utm_source=author_alert&utm_term=251005&utm_campaign=author_22946324
www.bloomberg.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Overnight: Unions representing hundreds of thousands of federal workers asked a US judge to immediately prevent the Trump administration from carrying out mass firings during the government shutdown while they press a legal challenge
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...