Zane Selvans
@zaneselvans.org
Data Liberation Engineer @catalyst.coop. Climate, energy, bikes, cities, co-ops, and the strangeness of Our Modern Age. A former space explorer, now lost in the misty highlands of Mexico.
https://amateurearthling.org
🇺🇸/🇲🇽 he/él
https://amateurearthling.org
🇺🇸/🇲🇽 he/él
Ooh @greenprofgreen.bsky.social's book Existential Politics, about the unavoidable conflicts between fossil, climate vulnerable, and green asset holders, is finally out.
@drilledmedia.bsky.social interviewed her, audio and transcript here:
drilled.media/news/drillin...
@drilledmedia.bsky.social interviewed her, audio and transcript here:
drilled.media/news/drillin...
Why We Need More Confrontation at COP
In ‘Existential Politics,’ Jessica F. Green argues that head-on conflict with fossil fuel interests is a prerequisite for real progress.
drilled.media
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Ooh @greenprofgreen.bsky.social's book Existential Politics, about the unavoidable conflicts between fossil, climate vulnerable, and green asset holders, is finally out.
@drilledmedia.bsky.social interviewed her, audio and transcript here:
drilled.media/news/drillin...
@drilledmedia.bsky.social interviewed her, audio and transcript here:
drilled.media/news/drillin...
Man I'm out of popcorn and want to go get some but also I feel like I might have developed a popcorn habit. Is this a healthy snack or just junk food you can make at home? 🍿
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Man I'm out of popcorn and want to go get some but also I feel like I might have developed a popcorn habit. Is this a healthy snack or just junk food you can make at home? 🍿
Reposted by Zane Selvans
When I showed this slide to my wife, who is a software engineer for a power company who has written environmental impact statements for the DoD, she simply started screaming
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
When I showed this slide to my wife, who is a software engineer for a power company who has written environmental impact statements for the DoD, she simply started screaming
A look at the weird limbo of weed's legalization in Mexico. It's been decriminalized, but the government has so far refused to actually write the promised regulations. Se llama "ghosting institucionál" 🤣
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrSX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrSX...
Marihuana en México: así se fuma en el limbo de la legalización
YouTube video by Florencia Guerra
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A look at the weird limbo of weed's legalization in Mexico. It's been decriminalized, but the government has so far refused to actually write the promised regulations. Se llama "ghosting institucionál" 🤣
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrSX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrSX...
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Temperatures have warmed across the contiguous United States over the last five decades or so during the months of December through February (a rapidly warming season)...
Check out @climatecentral.org's winter package for more information and graphics: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... ❄️🥵
Check out @climatecentral.org's winter package for more information and graphics: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... ❄️🥵
November 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Temperatures have warmed across the contiguous United States over the last five decades or so during the months of December through February (a rapidly warming season)...
Check out @climatecentral.org's winter package for more information and graphics: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... ❄️🥵
Check out @climatecentral.org's winter package for more information and graphics: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... ❄️🥵
Lol, the AI is trying to trick us into building more nuclear power plants so it can grow.
www.404media.co/power-compan...
www.404media.co/power-compan...
Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
www.404media.co
November 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Lol, the AI is trying to trick us into building more nuclear power plants so it can grow.
www.404media.co/power-compan...
www.404media.co/power-compan...
Reading about the Mexican Revolution I was reminded that there's really no upper limit on the number of times allies can turn on each other and become enemies after they win. Especially when all they care about is power.
November 15, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Reading about the Mexican Revolution I was reminded that there's really no upper limit on the number of times allies can turn on each other and become enemies after they win. Especially when all they care about is power.
I should probably go for a walk.
November 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I should probably go for a walk.
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A new quarterly release of PUDL is available, v2025.11.0. Lots of final 2024 data from EIA, quarterly updates for EIA-930, EPA CEMS and other continuously updated sources. Plus the first EIA-176 natural gas tables, thanks to contributions from @switch.box #EnergySky
github.com/orgs/catalys...
github.com/orgs/catalys...
PUDL v2025.11.0 is available · catalyst-cooperative · Discussion #4767
Overview The November, 2025 release of PUDL is out! This is a quarterly PUDL data release, and includes final 2024 data for a number of annually reported EIA forms, as well as quarterly updates to ...
github.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A new quarterly release of PUDL is available, v2025.11.0. Lots of final 2024 data from EIA, quarterly updates for EIA-930, EPA CEMS and other continuously updated sources. Plus the first EIA-176 natural gas tables, thanks to contributions from @switch.box #EnergySky
github.com/orgs/catalys...
github.com/orgs/catalys...
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
How did it take me half a century to discover eating popcorn with chopsticks. 🍿🥢
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 AM
How did it take me half a century to discover eating popcorn with chopsticks. 🍿🥢
All The Single Ladies say...
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
All The Single Ladies say...
Just a little pilot project. Collect some data. Though to be statistically significant the experiment might have to run for a while.
hear me out, maybe it’s time to stop making men the president for awhile
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Just a little pilot project. Collect some data. Though to be statistically significant the experiment might have to run for a while.
I remember going to some hearings about building affordable housing on the Hogan-Pancost property.
bouldercolorado.gov/projects/eas...
bouldercolorado.gov/projects/eas...
November 13, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I remember going to some hearings about building affordable housing on the Hogan-Pancost property.
bouldercolorado.gov/projects/eas...
bouldercolorado.gov/projects/eas...
Of course this kind of market *should* exist, but aren't there a bunch of lucrative monopoly rate base capex opportunities that it will displace? Will utilities just stand by and let it happen? Is there a reason why they no longer have a choice? #EnergySky
www.volts.wtf/p/how-to-mak...
www.volts.wtf/p/how-to-mak...
How to make a market for distributed energy flexibility
Piclo has created a marketplace where buyers of grid flexibility can find sellers.
www.volts.wtf
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Of course this kind of market *should* exist, but aren't there a bunch of lucrative monopoly rate base capex opportunities that it will displace? Will utilities just stand by and let it happen? Is there a reason why they no longer have a choice? #EnergySky
www.volts.wtf/p/how-to-mak...
www.volts.wtf/p/how-to-mak...
It's got those old school "They call it pollution, we call it life." vibes.
Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe is the latest prominent Democrat to join Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future, a fossil fuel industry front group that seeks to influence liberals to embrace methane gas as clean, climate-friendly energy
Former Gov. McAuliffe joins pro-natural gas group as national co-chair • Virginia Mercury
Terry McAuliffe to promote natural gas as a route to long-term energy reliability as renewable energy sources are built out.
virginiamercury.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
It's got those old school "They call it pollution, we call it life." vibes.
It's like Comanche 3 decided to retire even earlier than expected.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/11/x...
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/11/x...
Xcel Energy seeks to delay closing coal plant while its largest generating unit remains down
Xcel Energy-Colorado and three state agencies are asking regulators to keep a coal plant open a year beyond its planned closure because the utility’s largest generating unit is out of commiss…
www.denverpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It's like Comanche 3 decided to retire even earlier than expected.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/11/x...
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/11/x...
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KATIE WILSON LEADS BY 1,346!
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
KATIE WILSON LEADS BY 1,346!
I feel like insurance companies have 3 departments:
1. The department of lying to you about how great their insurance is.
2. The department of investing your premiums.
3. The department of figuring out how not to pay you when you make a claim.
1. The department of lying to you about how great their insurance is.
2. The department of investing your premiums.
3. The department of figuring out how not to pay you when you make a claim.
New York Times investigation finds home insurance companies have exploited loopholes in California wildfire regulations to avoid high-risk areas while still charging higher rates: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
California Promised Insurance Relief, But Delivered Loopholes
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I feel like insurance companies have 3 departments:
1. The department of lying to you about how great their insurance is.
2. The department of investing your premiums.
3. The department of figuring out how not to pay you when you make a claim.
1. The department of lying to you about how great their insurance is.
2. The department of investing your premiums.
3. The department of figuring out how not to pay you when you make a claim.
Guinea Bissau you have three minutes!
In college I was in Model UN but like bad at it (you should do things you enjoy but are bad at). And one conference I was like Libya or something and rather than engage in actual geopolitics I decided to embody the "vibe" of Libya and the chair kept calling on me just cause I was funny.
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Guinea Bissau you have three minutes!
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It's a terrible idea to hire Captain Ahab! He's clearly nuts!
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
It's a terrible idea to hire Captain Ahab! He's clearly nuts!
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
¡Bienvenidos a México!
You know who's the real winner in all of this?
Medical tourism.
Medical tourism.
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
¡Bienvenidos a México!