Stev Balo
@stevbalo.bsky.social
broad-spectrum data scientist and modeler - PhD env sci - systems thinker - ecologist - energy nut - beagle lover. Co-founder HedgeRow Analysis
My Aunt made this when I was a kid for family parties and I think about it at least once each holiday
December 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
My Aunt made this when I was a kid for family parties and I think about it at least once each holiday
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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I do my part every day
are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
December 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I do my part every day
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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This explains something that has always mystified me about drivers who rail against bike lanes and transit. Why WOULDN'T you want people to have options not to drive? It would make your own driving better! But they don't just want good traffic, they want to reinforce the NORM of driving
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This explains something that has always mystified me about drivers who rail against bike lanes and transit. Why WOULDN'T you want people to have options not to drive? It would make your own driving better! But they don't just want good traffic, they want to reinforce the NORM of driving
Aurora trying to get going in South Jersey. Better viewed through the camera lens than naked eye at this point
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Aurora trying to get going in South Jersey. Better viewed through the camera lens than naked eye at this point
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It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
Spectacular sunset over a soccer playoff victory
November 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Spectacular sunset over a soccer playoff victory
Salt potatoes
hygge reindeer
September 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Salt potatoes
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Reader, I choked up
September 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Reader, I choked up
Untitled from Green or World Leader Pretend
September 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Untitled from Green or World Leader Pretend
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August 31, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
June 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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I do wonder what it costs financially to have an army occupying Los Angeles and why I keep being told the government doesn't have enough money to pay for public schools to buy supplies for their teachers
June 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I do wonder what it costs financially to have an army occupying Los Angeles and why I keep being told the government doesn't have enough money to pay for public schools to buy supplies for their teachers
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People have no understanding of the enormous avoided health costs that EPA has made possible. The Clean Air Act alone has paid for all of EPA's costs by a factor of nearly 100.
March 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
People have no understanding of the enormous avoided health costs that EPA has made possible. The Clean Air Act alone has paid for all of EPA's costs by a factor of nearly 100.
This is a nightmare for these students. Some of the best and brightest
The Fulbright Foreign Student Program invites graduate students from abroad to come study in the US and guarantees funding for them to do so paid in a monthly stipend. Yesterday, some FFSP scholars received notification that they're only getting a week of their stipend.
March 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is a nightmare for these students. Some of the best and brightest
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🏆 Presenting the front page of tomorrow's Inquirer, memorializing the Eagles' second Super Bowl win.
February 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
🏆 Presenting the front page of tomorrow's Inquirer, memorializing the Eagles' second Super Bowl win.
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Has any reporter asked the question in the briefing: "does musk work for the government? In what role?"
February 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Has any reporter asked the question in the briefing: "does musk work for the government? In what role?"
This would be devastating for energy researchers
Trump appointees may force the shutdown of large sections of USDOE website by COB today, according to a credible source. If you want to save anything, this may be last chance—if they follow through. 🔌💡
January 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This would be devastating for energy researchers
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Trump appointees may force the shutdown of large sections of USDOE website by COB today, according to a credible source. If you want to save anything, this may be last chance—if they follow through. 🔌💡
January 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Trump appointees may force the shutdown of large sections of USDOE website by COB today, according to a credible source. If you want to save anything, this may be last chance—if they follow through. 🔌💡
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EPA just confirmed to me that the agency "has paused all funding actions related to the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act at this time."
January 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
EPA just confirmed to me that the agency "has paused all funding actions related to the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act at this time."
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Reminds me of a certain time in Jewish history.
Homan: Don’t knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien from ice. Because that is a felony. We have one hell of an Attorney General coming in… we're going to have consequences of people who violate the law and try to prevent us from doing our job.
November 27, 2024 at 12:49 AM
Reminds me of a certain time in Jewish history.