Steven Goldman
@sustainingability.bsky.social
Writing for my life to accelerate #cleanenergy and decelerate #climatechange; comms & ESG at MN8 Energy. Also writer of plays, comics, audio fiction, sometimes voice actor. Opinions are my own.
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"When Microsoft opened a data center in central Mexico last year, nearby residents said power cuts became more frequent. Water outages, which once lasted days, stretched for weeks. The shortages led to school cancellations and the spread of stomach bugs in the town of Las Cenizas..."
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
"When Microsoft opened a data center in central Mexico last year, nearby residents said power cuts became more frequent. Water outages, which once lasted days, stretched for weeks. The shortages led to school cancellations and the spread of stomach bugs in the town of Las Cenizas..."
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@ramez.bsky.social:
"Wow. 12 GWs of natural gas plants have unplanned outages in Texas right now, more than twice the amount the grid is supposed to be able to handle. Batteries keeping the lights on as we speak."
"Wow. 12 GWs of natural gas plants have unplanned outages in Texas right now, more than twice the amount the grid is supposed to be able to handle. Batteries keeping the lights on as we speak."
August 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
@ramez.bsky.social:
"Wow. 12 GWs of natural gas plants have unplanned outages in Texas right now, more than twice the amount the grid is supposed to be able to handle. Batteries keeping the lights on as we speak."
"Wow. 12 GWs of natural gas plants have unplanned outages in Texas right now, more than twice the amount the grid is supposed to be able to handle. Batteries keeping the lights on as we speak."
HUBRIS, the 24-hour #audiodrama / #audiofiction challenge is back!
For this round, I wrote and we produced a #scifi / #timetravel short titled "There Is No Time," an ode to knowing when to trust the path you're on vs. when to chart a new one.
Check it out here: open.spotify.com/episode/11uX...
For this round, I wrote and we produced a #scifi / #timetravel short titled "There Is No Time," an ode to knowing when to trust the path you're on vs. when to chart a new one.
Check it out here: open.spotify.com/episode/11uX...
9.1: There Is No Time
Hubris: A 24-Hour Podcast Project · Episode
open.spotify.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
HUBRIS, the 24-hour #audiodrama / #audiofiction challenge is back!
For this round, I wrote and we produced a #scifi / #timetravel short titled "There Is No Time," an ode to knowing when to trust the path you're on vs. when to chart a new one.
Check it out here: open.spotify.com/episode/11uX...
For this round, I wrote and we produced a #scifi / #timetravel short titled "There Is No Time," an ode to knowing when to trust the path you're on vs. when to chart a new one.
Check it out here: open.spotify.com/episode/11uX...
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Good morning, Bluesky.
May 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Good morning, Bluesky.
In 2016, Robert Schenkkan wrote a deeply disturbing play titled BUILDING THE WALL that was about *exactly this*. www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/s...
May 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In 2016, Robert Schenkkan wrote a deeply disturbing play titled BUILDING THE WALL that was about *exactly this*. www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/s...
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Hey remember when people said “we need a domestic terrorism statute” and people like me said “that would be super ripe for abuse for whatever lunatic is in power, would you want Trump to have that power” and you sneered at “slippery slope thinking”? Yeah, I remember, dipshit.
President Trump says that he is going to label incidents of violence/vandalism at Tesla dealerships as “domestic terrorism.”
March 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Hey remember when people said “we need a domestic terrorism statute” and people like me said “that would be super ripe for abuse for whatever lunatic is in power, would you want Trump to have that power” and you sneered at “slippery slope thinking”? Yeah, I remember, dipshit.
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"The fact is, the battle over “DEI” has always been a fight about labor, work, and who has access to the jobs and political institutions that build and protect wealth. If we ever forgot that, we’re learning it again now."
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Why Corporate DEI Is Such a Perfect Target for Trump
It’s an attack on labor. But he can frame it as something else.
slate.com
March 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
"The fact is, the battle over “DEI” has always been a fight about labor, work, and who has access to the jobs and political institutions that build and protect wealth. If we ever forgot that, we’re learning it again now."
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Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
www.science.org
March 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
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#ERCOT has been running at 85% clean today: 75% wind and solar and 10% nuclear. You would have been laughed out of the room if you predicted this 10 years ago. But the smallest interconnection in North America is cranking away at 75% variable resources. Beautiful sight.
@gridstatus.io
#EnergySky
@gridstatus.io
#EnergySky
March 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
#ERCOT has been running at 85% clean today: 75% wind and solar and 10% nuclear. You would have been laughed out of the room if you predicted this 10 years ago. But the smallest interconnection in North America is cranking away at 75% variable resources. Beautiful sight.
@gridstatus.io
#EnergySky
@gridstatus.io
#EnergySky
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As another Trump-induced market crisis unfolds from tariffs, it's time we ask "What's the Matter with Billionaires?" I've run the numbers. Billionaires do better under Dems. So why do billionaires keep supporting GOP policies against their economic interests? See my latest piece on why. (TLDR 🧵⬇️)
What's the Matter with Billionaires?
How America's wealthiest sabotage their own prosperity (and ours) to avoid paying taxes
open.substack.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
As another Trump-induced market crisis unfolds from tariffs, it's time we ask "What's the Matter with Billionaires?" I've run the numbers. Billionaires do better under Dems. So why do billionaires keep supporting GOP policies against their economic interests? See my latest piece on why. (TLDR 🧵⬇️)
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One more time for the people in the back.
March 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
One more time for the people in the back.
Peace <> surrender.
March 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Peace <> surrender.
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The former Social Security chief has warned that Elon Musk’s cost-cutting spree could cause a system breakdown within the next 30 to 90 days.
Former Social Security Head Warns System Could ‘Collapse’ in ‘Next 30 to 90 Days’
The agency’s former commissioner said the Department of Government Efficiency’s cuts could cause disruptions in benefit payments.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The former Social Security chief has warned that Elon Musk’s cost-cutting spree could cause a system breakdown within the next 30 to 90 days.
Know why they're called "entitlements"? Because people paid into them so they'd be entitled to them.
You poach from those pots, you wake the largest outrage an American can muster - *give me what I'm owed, what I signed a [social] contract for.*
You poach from those pots, you wake the largest outrage an American can muster - *give me what I'm owed, what I signed a [social] contract for.*
March 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Know why they're called "entitlements"? Because people paid into them so they'd be entitled to them.
You poach from those pots, you wake the largest outrage an American can muster - *give me what I'm owed, what I signed a [social] contract for.*
You poach from those pots, you wake the largest outrage an American can muster - *give me what I'm owed, what I signed a [social] contract for.*
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Nikolay Patrushev: To achieve success in the election, Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations....he will be obliged to fulfill them.
CNN: Why the US president would choose the Kremlin over America’s traditional partners remains the subject of intense speculation.
CNN: Why the US president would choose the Kremlin over America’s traditional partners remains the subject of intense speculation.
March 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Nikolay Patrushev: To achieve success in the election, Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations....he will be obliged to fulfill them.
CNN: Why the US president would choose the Kremlin over America’s traditional partners remains the subject of intense speculation.
CNN: Why the US president would choose the Kremlin over America’s traditional partners remains the subject of intense speculation.
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If you are using Signal, and you are doing something the government considers illegal, the way they are going to read your messages about it is they'll arrest the person you sent the messages *to* and make them show the logs. We see this technique appear repeatedly in "Jan. 6" court filings.
February 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
If you are using Signal, and you are doing something the government considers illegal, the way they are going to read your messages about it is they'll arrest the person you sent the messages *to* and make them show the logs. We see this technique appear repeatedly in "Jan. 6" court filings.
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Hearing DOGE is cutting off access to EIA and NREL datasets 🔌💡
February 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Hearing DOGE is cutting off access to EIA and NREL datasets 🔌💡
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I will never not be mad that legacy media allowed "the price of eggs" to stand in for "we're too fucking racist and misogynistic to vote for Harris" and now there isn't a single giddamn word about it. Meanwhile, at Publix today there are just a handful of egg cartons going for 8 bucks each:
February 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I will never not be mad that legacy media allowed "the price of eggs" to stand in for "we're too fucking racist and misogynistic to vote for Harris" and now there isn't a single giddamn word about it. Meanwhile, at Publix today there are just a handful of egg cartons going for 8 bucks each:
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
FYI, I'm not ignoring the world on fire. Just posting my silly things in between to give people a little relief as the bombs drop.
January 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
FYI, I'm not ignoring the world on fire. Just posting my silly things in between to give people a little relief as the bombs drop.
Comics fans: Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 17 (H/T to @kylebakerart.bsky.social forever):
One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 17 (H/T to @kylebakerart.bsky.social forever):
January 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Comics fans: Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 17 (H/T to @kylebakerart.bsky.social forever):
One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 17 (H/T to @kylebakerart.bsky.social forever):
Comics fans: Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 16 (makeup):
One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 16 (makeup):
January 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Comics fans: Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 16 (makeup):
One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 16 (makeup):