Emily

I submitted my first public, formal analysis and recommendations on a natural gas company’s rate increase requests this week and I am so proud and so tired 🥲

I grew up and went to school on military bases in the US and abroad.

During the first Gulf War, 3rd grade in Germany, they made us wear little pouches around our necks containing emergency contact info in the event of a terrorist attack.

Pretty sure folks would have been upset if we were killed.

Jane would also probably vomit over the urban/wildlife interface mess that is DRW…but she’d probably vomit over many things.

After 3 years of saying never again- I’m moving in (at least temporarily) with my partner as he really wants to help with pup care. I’m feeling really thankful I know my neighbors who are just more than glad to keep an extra eye on my house while I’m gone. Jane Jacobs lives! Eyes on the street!

Sincerely thank you it’s been a rough week and this genuinely made me laugh

I’m sending this to my coworkers ASAP

I have had this dream TWICE that my partners adoptive parents are actually Barack and Michelle Obama. And Michelle doesn’t like me because I keep talking too loud and startling her. What does this mean?!?!

My sweet baby is on crate rest for 6 weeks for IVDD. Send her good and healing thoughts❤️❤️❤️

Same dude is calling for ODOT’s SRTS budget to be cut lol

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

I’ll say though- thankful for the bike lanes I have access to on the south end of Bend. My partner lives off 18th and Empire and I worry about being able to bike downtown/the west side if we ever move in together (he doesn’t want to live in DRW which lol fair)

Me leaving Brookswood going into DRW at night 🫠

Important connection because this is something Tim Walz can do something about bsky.app/profile/swee...

I’m really trying not to be holier than thou about this, and honestly like recycling individual action does not amount to much, but I am begging us to collectively stop using AI. It is literally killing us.

World enters era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ The world has moved beyond a water crisis and into a state of global water bankruptcy, says a new flagship report released on Tuesday by UN researchers.

Insane that amongst all the horrifying news I completely missed that we are are now in our “global water bankruptcy” era: news.un.org/en/story/202...

Also 100% not the point but can we all talk for a second about how Ricky Martin has not aged a day and 🥵🥵🥵

I really hope people who didn’t know about PR’s energy grid crisis before are learning about it now and screaming for them to at the BARE FUCKING MINIMUM to get equal representation in congress.

The performance overall made me sob complicated tears (mostly hopeful ones) but that part specifically gave me chills. The impacts of colonialism and climate change on the islands so many mainland US-ers treat as personal playgrounds are so real and only getting worse.

As an energy nerd and someone who generally just has concerns about how the US treats its own citizens (controversial I know!) the power lines in Bad Bunny’s halftime show last night were some top notch political performance art that you literally did not have to speak Spanish to get.

I have this same mug ❤️

If this were twitter I’m sure some dude would tell me it’s my hormones tho

Am I feeling emotional because I just started my period or that I read emails detailing the torture of children, after witnessing 2+ years of children being murdered in real time in Gaza, and then watched a video of children being gassed in my home state? Who can say!

Mayor Wilson needs to expedite the rulemaking for our Detention Facility Fee.

I try not to laud electeds in this era of American politics, but Rep.Omar is bad ass as hell.

There are things I want to say about these people, the leaders allowing this and the social media influencers who platformed them but I’d end up getting more jail time (ie: any) than the man who shot a woman 3 times in the face in broad daylight.

I love having “woke” colleagues so much

Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @chanda.blacksky.app If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does If your position is that regime change should be not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have got news for you about your position on the United States

This is persuading me in the opposite of the intended direction honestly.

This is really bad.

All my fucking tax dollars go towards murdering innocent people abroad. Never enough money for free college. Or free school lunch. Or to fix the goddamned roads and the crumbling bridges. Always enough for murder.

I am so livid.