Jimmy Hendricks
@jimismash.bsky.social
Dealing with climate change by deploying solar, storage, and other technologies during the day, and as a first responder at night. he/him
Yesterday, between 9:30 AM and 5 PM, solar provided more than 50% of the energy in ERCOT. It's a low load, sunny, cool day, but we're getting there.
October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Yesterday, between 9:30 AM and 5 PM, solar provided more than 50% of the energy in ERCOT. It's a low load, sunny, cool day, but we're getting there.
This is a draft chart, for ~2004 - ~2018 showing polluter reported emission events of Benzene (red), Toluene (blue), and Xylene (green). Contrasting events in Houston or Beaumont with Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio, some communities exist in a soup of carcinogens.
October 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is a draft chart, for ~2004 - ~2018 showing polluter reported emission events of Benzene (red), Toluene (blue), and Xylene (green). Contrasting events in Houston or Beaumont with Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio, some communities exist in a soup of carcinogens.
Load is low because it's too cold for AC, but >80% of load in ERCOT getting met with zero-carbon energy, nuke+solar+wind
October 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Load is low because it's too cold for AC, but >80% of load in ERCOT getting met with zero-carbon energy, nuke+solar+wind
Modern (okay, 20 year old) body armor had a "cock flap," but later versions of the expanded kit do seem to have a substantial blindspot when it comes to "covering your six."
October 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Modern (okay, 20 year old) body armor had a "cock flap," but later versions of the expanded kit do seem to have a substantial blindspot when it comes to "covering your six."
This is the same Bill Ackman that got all bent out of shape when Business Insider reported that his wife's PhD thesis had plagiarized other authors and lifted passages from wikipedia? We probably need to start looking at whether Neri Oxman is involved in the type of corruption Ackman raising here.
October 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is the same Bill Ackman that got all bent out of shape when Business Insider reported that his wife's PhD thesis had plagiarized other authors and lifted passages from wikipedia? We probably need to start looking at whether Neri Oxman is involved in the type of corruption Ackman raising here.
I like federal projects like this that will likely continue to need large parking based on who they serve (veterans from across a very large catchment area) and much less speculation:
October 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I like federal projects like this that will likely continue to need large parking based on who they serve (veterans from across a very large catchment area) and much less speculation:
Well, this doesn't sound great.
October 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Well, this doesn't sound great.
I don't know much about him, but this George Washington guy sounds almost a woke as that Jesus guy the left is always saying Christians should be more like.
Christian Nationalism sure sounds like it's NOT what THIS founder wanted.
Christian Nationalism sure sounds like it's NOT what THIS founder wanted.
October 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I don't know much about him, but this George Washington guy sounds almost a woke as that Jesus guy the left is always saying Christians should be more like.
Christian Nationalism sure sounds like it's NOT what THIS founder wanted.
Christian Nationalism sure sounds like it's NOT what THIS founder wanted.
We've had the productivity gains without having wholesale employment destruction.
October 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We've had the productivity gains without having wholesale employment destruction.
I never looked up the story from the outside before. Didn't know about the brownies:
www.dvidshub.net/news/536337/...
www.dvidshub.net/news/536337/...
October 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I never looked up the story from the outside before. Didn't know about the brownies:
www.dvidshub.net/news/536337/...
www.dvidshub.net/news/536337/...
Alien entity that a despot attempted to convert into a super weapon star fish?
October 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Alien entity that a despot attempted to convert into a super weapon star fish?
And there is a cool thing where one watt of old panel can be recycled into more than one watt of new panel
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/low-carbon...
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/low-carbon...
October 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
And there is a cool thing where one watt of old panel can be recycled into more than one watt of new panel
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/low-carbon...
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/low-carbon...
Even Luke spends time in the bacta tank*, and he's a space wizard:
*- to be clear, this is a reference to a fictional device and not a med bed thing
*- to be clear, this is a reference to a fictional device and not a med bed thing
October 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Even Luke spends time in the bacta tank*, and he's a space wizard:
*- to be clear, this is a reference to a fictional device and not a med bed thing
*- to be clear, this is a reference to a fictional device and not a med bed thing
Cuomo: And remember, I never sexually harassed a Black woman that worked for me.
(I didn't actually fact check this, but spending that time researching MORE THAN A DOZEN victims felt ghoulish and like a lot of work)
(I didn't actually fact check this, but spending that time researching MORE THAN A DOZEN victims felt ghoulish and like a lot of work)
October 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Cuomo: And remember, I never sexually harassed a Black woman that worked for me.
(I didn't actually fact check this, but spending that time researching MORE THAN A DOZEN victims felt ghoulish and like a lot of work)
(I didn't actually fact check this, but spending that time researching MORE THAN A DOZEN victims felt ghoulish and like a lot of work)
I feel like he's trying to say (while quoting Trembath) that it's bad that climate hawkishness got tied to standing up for marginalized communities. Speaking out on climate issues is standing up for marginalized communities - people living in refinery shadows, floodzones, the future, etc.
October 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I feel like he's trying to say (while quoting Trembath) that it's bad that climate hawkishness got tied to standing up for marginalized communities. Speaking out on climate issues is standing up for marginalized communities - people living in refinery shadows, floodzones, the future, etc.
I tabbed over the add an if statement and a try/except. Included in that was the text formula for these skeets. The tabs counted as characters and put me over the limit.
October 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I tabbed over the add an if statement and a try/except. Included in that was the text formula for these skeets. The tabs counted as characters and put me over the limit.
Like a Phoenix, yadda yadda. I'm sure she'll be back. After all "[she] has not yet begun to fight."
![On 23 September 1779, the squadron encountered the Baltic Fleet of 41 sail under convoy of HMS Serapis and HM hired armed ship Countess of Scarborough near Flamborough Head. Bonhomme Richard and Serapis entered a bitter engagement at about 6:00 p.m. The battle continued for the next four hours, costing the lives of nearly half of the American and British crews. The more heavily armed Serapis used its firepower to rake Bonhomme Richard with devastating effect. The commander of Serapis, Captain Richard Pearson finally called on Jones to surrender. He allegedly replied, "Sir, I have not yet begun to fight!"
Jones eventually managed to lash the ships together, nullifying his opponent's greater maneuverability and allowing him to take advantage of the larger size and considerably more numerous crew of Bonhomme Richard. An attempt by the Americans to board Serapis was repulsed, as was an attempt by the British to board Bonhomme Richard. Finally, after another of Jones's ships joined the fight, Pearson was forced to surrender at about 10:30 p.m. Bonhomme Richard – shattered, on fire, leaking badly – defied all efforts to save her and sank about 36 hours later at 11:00 a.m. on 25 September 1779. Jones sailed the captured Serapis to the Dutch United Provinces for repairs.[5]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ldy5nnxm436t65qnpb2fo7oj/bafkreigmfsiseykzzluevluheuvrkrshlg4hsoonn4mdxl5pixra74kmfi@jpeg)
September 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Like a Phoenix, yadda yadda. I'm sure she'll be back. After all "[she] has not yet begun to fight."
If you need extra color for the Marine, the ship I was on for my first deployment was the Bonhomme Richard (pronounced Bon-hom Rish-ard), or, if you were better acquainted, the Bonnie Dick. Unfortunately, it was destroyed in a fire while docked for maintenance years after my deployment.
September 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
If you need extra color for the Marine, the ship I was on for my first deployment was the Bonhomme Richard (pronounced Bon-hom Rish-ard), or, if you were better acquainted, the Bonnie Dick. Unfortunately, it was destroyed in a fire while docked for maintenance years after my deployment.
Kinder Morgan "discovered" 20 pounds of benzene on top of a tank this morning, but all weekend I was seeing unusually high (even for Houston!) readings at a monitor in the area. The terminal is less than a mile from a high school and an elementary school.
September 24, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Kinder Morgan "discovered" 20 pounds of benzene on top of a tank this morning, but all weekend I was seeing unusually high (even for Houston!) readings at a monitor in the area. The terminal is less than a mile from a high school and an elementary school.
For anyone who says "but the S&P is at an ATH," with Harris (or Biden!) we would have had:
- tamed inflation
- lower prices
- numbers that mean things
Instead we get a corrupt, corpulent king, coercing and conning corporations to cover up colossal crimes.
- tamed inflation
- lower prices
- numbers that mean things
Instead we get a corrupt, corpulent king, coercing and conning corporations to cover up colossal crimes.
September 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
For anyone who says "but the S&P is at an ATH," with Harris (or Biden!) we would have had:
- tamed inflation
- lower prices
- numbers that mean things
Instead we get a corrupt, corpulent king, coercing and conning corporations to cover up colossal crimes.
- tamed inflation
- lower prices
- numbers that mean things
Instead we get a corrupt, corpulent king, coercing and conning corporations to cover up colossal crimes.
Should have been wearing this:
September 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Should have been wearing this:
@erikloomis.bsky.social
What's your favorite history honoring the "Long Weekend" holiday?
What's your favorite history honoring the "Long Weekend" holiday?
August 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
@erikloomis.bsky.social
What's your favorite history honoring the "Long Weekend" holiday?
What's your favorite history honoring the "Long Weekend" holiday?
I really hate that the language used obfuscates the underlying topic. I had to fill out this questionnaire, but I don't know if they're talking about the Kama Sutra or a book about gay penguins.
August 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I really hate that the language used obfuscates the underlying topic. I had to fill out this questionnaire, but I don't know if they're talking about the Kama Sutra or a book about gay penguins.