Bryan McAvoy

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

I have read dozens of outraged posts because the US special envoy Witkoff called Putin a "humanist." But no one is writing about the fact that the American negotiators are simply not doing their job. Let me explain.

Thank you, Tom. RIP

Skull Boy loves to share jokes with friends! (Bluesky Edition 💀)

Elon didn't run from California's restrictive regulatory environment, he ran towards the ability to buy people like Ken Paxton wholesale

Electric vehicle adoption is accelerating worldwide – but not in the United States:

The yearly theses from the oracle of solar (and now storage). Read now. Full stop. (:

Trump wants the US to fund Putin’s evil regime.

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! For the first time in recorded history, the Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature (SST) is above 30.0°C, reaching a preliminary SST of 30.06°C on October 5th. The Niño 3.4 SST anomaly is now 3.41°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Everything is not fine.

Donald Trump’s remarks were dangerous — if not treasonous — putting a target on two of our biggest cities and one of America’s largest naval hubs.

Temperatures in the Central Pacific El Niño region are the hottest ever measured (top panel), and far above any other El Niño at this time of year. But, if you adjust for the warming of the global ocean, the current trajectory is not so different from other very strong events.

NOAA reconnaissance data coming out of Hurricane Polo are nothing short of spectacular and indicative of a very intense, compact, and tall hurricane.

The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor.

Still holds up today #MontyPython1975 IG: @thecinevoidclub www.instagram.com/thecinevoidc...

MERCX: “.. The cost of shipping 2 million barrels of oil jumps another 14.3% today to $18.15 per barrel. That move is already extreme. I think it gets even more extreme from here.”

Trump posted this morning that he unequivocally got Russia and Ukraine to stop bombing refineries. As usual, the parties to this supposed deal have a different interpretation.

"Weekly tokens on just OpenRouter doubled in just 4 weeks, and as of the last week in August, were up 25x for the year." -Moses Sternstein, Random Walk

‼️ Dust Bowl, left in the Dust! Climate contrarians love to cherry pick summer of 1936 in the US. But zoom out… Summer 1936 was about 1.36°C or 2.45°F cooler 🥶 globally, than 2026. 1/

I applaud California AG Bonta and the California Energy Commission for pursuing this important lawsuit. "This 'TotalEnergies model’ of buyout operates with the cynical logic of an extortion racket,” reads their filing. www.utilitydive.com/news/califor...

Vietnam's own Vinfast is the main driving force behind a very strong shift to battery-electric cars in the country, which reached 51% of sales in the first seven months of this year. robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/?co...

Electric trucks were ~45% of heavy truck sales in China during June 2026. That compares to ~25% for all of 2025. China will put on the road ~430,000 EV heavy trucks from June 2026 to May 2027, if the June 45% share is maintained for 12 months! Incredible! www.msn.com/en-us/autos/... #energysky

I love R.E.M., I love R.E.M.-related content, and I love librarians 💜

History says the 9/11 attacks began at 8:46 a.m.—but that's not how most, from NYC officeworkers to the President, experienced it. Instead, the "attack" begins at 9:03, when we saw the second plane strike. I wrote abt the fascinating 17 minutes in between: www.nationalgeographic.com/history/grap...

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

It’s not “an oil deal with Venezuela.” It’s Trump kidnapping an autocrat, refusing to hold elections, then leaving the remainder of the regime in place but only if they allow him to pillage their natural resources, which they are doing to remain in power oppressing the people.

New from @vantortech.bsky.social. Absolutely astonishing images of the China-Nepal Gyirong Port/Rasuwagadhi border post. Literally nothing is left. (Before 19 April, After 27 Aug)

Just dawned on me that we lost two officers of the Red October in a month

[Exit Queen.]

Still loving these robot Olympics crashes

An advance against melanoma A personalized mRNA vaccine was found to reduce risk of spread and to increase disease-free and overall survival in high-risk or advanced melanoma. It teaches immune cells to target the patients' particular tumor. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/19/m...

You can’t talk about debt without talking about how we got into a bad predicament, and there’s only one correct answer: tax cuts enacted this century

I sincerely believe they could have ridden “They Weird, Yo” all the way to the White House.

Rendered by the inimitable @cooljerk.bsky.social, here are all the new power plants that went online in the first half of the year, by state. Wow, Texas! That's a shit ton of batteries. Here's the accompanying story: insideclimatenews.org/news/1308202...

I hope my use of made-up words doesn't make you...discomfortable

I'm old enough to remember when South Korea was the linchpin of US plans to increase ship building capacity. (That was 3 days ago btw.)

I had a great chat with Rob Meyer over at The Shift Key podcast about this year's likely-record-shattering "monster" El Niño event, and what it means for both local impacts and global temperatures. Take a listen here:

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You may have seen I broadcast a message to planet Earth from the edge of space. I thought it was equally important to speak to deep space about you and your lovely little planet. But I thought humans might like to see it too, so here it is. #Clacton #VoteBinface

He basically used journalists as…human shields?

I realize very few actual humans follow me, but this guy is bloody brilliant. Worth following for his insights into the market.

El-Sayed on Trump posting image of him & his wife in a restaurant w/ caption "2 DIFFERENT Americas": "He's right. One in which your overlords are 2 people who don't like each other joined in the interest in making billions off of you, or 2 people who genuinely love each other enjoying pancakes ... "