It’s not even that they’re ugly. It’s that “people aren’t used to it”. Who TF would make that kind of argument
08.03.2026 03:57
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It’s not even that they’re ugly. It’s that “people aren’t used to it”. Who TF would make that kind of argument
Lol love the headline! Very good convo about why energy prices are rising in the Mid-Atlantic and what we can do about it!
@volts.wtf: "... people can freak out all they want, but it’s insoluble unless you speed up the interconnection queue. That is the eye of the needle here."
Sara "I'm pro housing" Nelson is voting against the elimination of parking minimums in Seattle. Good to get her on the record I guess.
Motherfucking wind farms…
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell removed speed humps and other safety improvements from an already scaled-back plan to make a dangerous lakeside street safer for people who don't drive. The parkway is in the wealthy neighborhood where Harrell lives.
www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/07/10/f...
LET ME SAY IT IN A WAY YOU WILL UNDERSTAND: Hundreds of people jammed onto a four-foot-wide sidewalk moving in the slowest possible ways—like walking three-legged, stuck behind a toy car propelled by pulling on a chain link fence—were still faster than the L8.
On a Stanford @siepr.bsky.social abundance panel today, I offered this analogy for how US generator interconnection works outside ERCOT, which I was told was helpful: 🔌💡
Infuriating. What blue states lack in actually doing anything they make up in studies and paperwork. We need Abundance now
This is a really thorough article about the obstacles to this needed form of housing & how to remove the obstacles. Please take a look and contact your reps. Also if you have experience in this area, there are opportunities to serve & help directly (end of article).
NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov
The president’s economically ruinous trade war will also be a disaster for America’s role in the fight against climate change. I wrote about it for @nytopinion.nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
This is fine meme, but with dog saying “So I have a book coming out”
Chuck Schumer right now:
This is a hugely important economic study. It says quite clearly the costs of acting to slow climate change are far, far less than the costs of failing to act.
Are you a researcher who's comfortable with statistics and GIS, and coming up with quick answers for complex policy questions? You probably have a lot of options, but if you would like to do work at the heart of the YIMBY movement, California YIMBY could use you. DMs open.
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
NEW:
“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
Compared to Alternative 5, the Bruce Harrell growth plan would result in:
-19,000+ fewer apartments & condos
-3,400+ fewer affordable housing units
-18% more land used for redevelopment
-More tree removal
-More GHG emissions
-More residents near a major roadway
www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/04/h...
This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
Largest city in the state kneecapping a housing law after negotiating on the bill before passage. Unbelievable.
Yet another example of why we need to take further state level action to increase housing options including passing the Housing Accountability Act. @futurewise.bsky.social @sightline.org @nwurbanist.bsky.social @seattleyimby.bsky.social @cityofseattle.bsky.social
a colourful blue, orange, red and purple chart showing a light and dar kblue history for temperatures, recent shifts upwards through orange and light red, and two futures: one of light and dark red (1.5c), and one of deep purple (3c and more)
I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once:
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
Change in Paris air quality between 2007 and 2023 using visuals
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
A blog post from Seattle Bike Blog titled, "Is 225 the year you become a community bike mechanic?". It highlights The Bikery, Wright Brothers, Bike Works, Sharing Wheels, Shoreline Bike Shack, NE Seattle Bike Shack, and the Center for Bicycle Repair.
The answer is yes! Learn how to become a community bike mechanic or use your skills at some of the organizations @seattlebikeblog.com highlighted in their recent blog post 🚲🔧
Seattle Bike Blog Post: www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/01/03/is-2025-the-year-you-become-a-community-bike-mechanic/
I can tell you FOR SURE that one of the options is better for the salmon and the orcas.
Re-upping this excellent discussion of advocacy to build local support for clean energy projects.
Cover from The Economist from two years ago "Say goodbye to 1.5°C; why climate policy is off target". It has a graphic of the Earth with an apple on its head, and a arrow shot through the Earth.
A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting.
Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
