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Connor
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Energy and other stuff. Some coding, some reading. Graphs and maps, birds and sports
no IR dust removal 😭
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 AM
given the lengths people go to keep old scanners alive, this is extremely interesting

would love to re-scan so much film
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I really thought these two in the timeline were connected 😅
November 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
that would challenge the deepest ever dug, so I suspect not
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🍋🥚🍊 got their own units!

I actually started this in grams, but quickly rembered that my repertoire of cookie recipes goes too deep into ancestral family stuff to have weights for everything

so then it became the most practical unit I could think of
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I realized after that screen snip that 4 recipes had not had their ingredients fleshed out yet. . . so it may be more like 60 sticks
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I blame it on a kind of upper midwest diaspora (which I am a part of), bringing the light of great lakes ship ballads to the wilds of the east, west, and south
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
did this bit actually cross over into the now?
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
now that you said it out loud, it must happen
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
yup!

wrote some slides load growth in West Texas (and Dominion) last winter and threw it into a blog in the spring, the west texas stuff was all O&G blog.gridstatus.io/west-texas-a...
West Texas and Northern Virginia, Harbingers of Load Growth
Prior to the current datacenter demand explosion, far west Texas in ERCOT and Dominion in PJM were already experiencing significant demand growth.
blog.gridstatus.io
November 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
they've also already moved onto thinking about a Northern set for the 2026 ITP
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
lots of specifics out there!

bsky.app/profile/wald...
super good SPP presentation from the other day on their integrated transmission plan, load growth, and the push for a 765kV backbone 🔌💡

spp.org/documents/74...
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
November 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is quite a strong headline given the lack of actual grid ops in the original paper.

It feels like the central concept has really spun out from a broad idea into this vague solution picked up from all over industry to justify themselves because it’s a super easy/convenient thing to refer to
November 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Gotta assume it’s almost the exact same breakdown of people unaware that the best Chicago pizza is tavern style
November 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM