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Hey it’s a heat pump.

Sorry but a $500 ticket for going 100mph over the speed limit is not a serious penalty.

This was a great post and alone worth the price of membership.

Here's a horror story. If plastics sourced from crude oil (naptha) have a GHG intensity indexed to 1, then from gas sourced ethane it's 0.8, but from coal based methanol to olefins it's ~7. Coal Fischer Tropsch to olefins is ~10. And guess which way some markets are trending?

found an NYC Teamster whose tiktoks are just skate tricks he dedicates to other unions.

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

How are folks approaching or thinking about the Insurance Commissioner’s race in California? I am leaning toward Kim, but I am also genuinely not sure how to think about what each is proposing.

Trump’s obsession with demonizing the Somali community is dangerous and reprehensible. Hate to break it to him: Somali Minnesotans are resilient. We will not let Trump intimidate us. Our neighbors have our back.

Just the most feeble industry group going. Where to even start with this...

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

ABS challenges are good.

“He likes to ride his bike in L.A., and he doesn’t want to die.”

This just reminds me of the time Zinke cosplayed as an outdoorsman until the reporter pointed out that he had set up his reel backward. www.cnn.com/videos/title...

This absolutely rules.

Was joking earlier today that CT is pretty formless when it comes to culture, but ... I did spend 18 years there, it seems. Went to college in ME before moving to CA.... mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

People really need to stop saying that high temp industrial heat is hard to electrify.

Meanwhile, SEIA thought Tim Pawlenty was the answer to the solar industry's irrelevance in DC....

Arte Moreno bought the Angels in 2003 (the year after they won the Series) for $184 million. He then spent 23 years running them into the ground, let the stadium decay, wasted Trout and Ohtani, and sold for $4 billion. And the owners are crying poverty and threatening to kill baseball next year.

Almost every week, we see a liberal writer condemn “wokeism” or the “woke. . .” They are attacking a caricature, a perversion, a distortion of a historically Black concept that MAGA propagandists first distorted. These people are not serious thinkers.

The bookstore in our neighborhood is easily the most popular Third Place in the area and, as best as I can tell, is doing very brisk business. It is packed 12 hours a day, every day.

This poem helped me survive living in New York City. It helped me to stay in touch with what home and land meant for me. I will always be grateful for its gift.

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry: a great poem for troubled time...

aw man

Imagining having a job at the Atlantic and believing **this** is important thought leadership.

Oh look, a state that wants to increase rooftop solar.

Cannot wait to learn how much this developer donated to Trump. Corruption through and through.

Per Laura Albanese, Carson Benge walked up to "Jolene" in the 8th inning. Give him ROTY now.

My 10-year-old came home from his LAUSD school having spent an hour with no AC and 100-degree temps in his classroom. It got fixed. But as @leahstokes.bsky.social notes, CA’s school electrification program could be on the chopping block during this record heat wave electricnotes.news/p/california...

Behind closed doors, Newsom is negotiating with investor-owned utilities to help limit their liability for the wildfires they cause, while capping how much local govs and victims can recover. This needs to be subject to public scrutiny and input. www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/08/22/p...

Francisco Lindor makes a SPECTACULAR diving catch to keep it tied in the 9th 😯

My panels from @brightsaver.bsky.social arrive in 4 weeks!

April counts just as much as any other month, but wow, Carson Benge has been on a tear since May 1. Might actually have a case for ROY. www.fangraphs.com/leaders/majo...

Peter Alonso thank you for being good at baseball

"I click to autofill my password somewhere, and a 1Password authorization appears, only for an iCloud Keychain authorization to pop up directly over it, preventing me from clicking on the 1Password one." This is such a specific and enraging problem, and it is mild therapy to know I’m not alone.

It seems the administration has learned very little about the relationship between the steel industry and its most important consumer.

Announcers Watch Angels-Royals Game In Total Silence

Good stuff from @mariagallucci.bsky.social and @canarymedia.com, per usual. "Residents in southeastern Missouri who support restarting the smelter said they’re nevertheless concerned that it will drive up pollution, unless the smelter moves away from coal and toward clean energy."

The draft permit for emissions from the “rescoping” of work at Cliffs’ Middletown Works in Ohio will raise pollution in the area to levels higher than those for almost all times in the last five years. @canarymedia.com www.canarymedia.com/articles/gre...

With Atlanta losing the Mets are now only 19.5 games out of first place.

Have seen a little grumbling about how this might make it harder for Ds to pick up that seat and a) fuck Andy Ogles forever - good riddance to a horrible racist, and b) leave it to those D strategists to completely miss the point of how building and exercising power work.

A new UC Berkeley analysis finds on-site wind, solar, storage, and heat pumps can economically meet up to one-third of U.S. industrial heat demand by 2035. Clean manufacturing is already within reach. Read Utility Dive’s article: www.utilitydive.com/news/renewab...

People talk about how Gavin Newsom is running for President so he's not paying much attention to the needs of regular Californians (like housing, transit, clean air and clean water). Hopefully this gets his attention and he undoes those funding cuts

Took the dog on her longest trip in the Sierras yet.

Not like anyone needed more evidence, but shit is getting very, very real in Europe right now vis-à-vis climate.

California just became the first major grid system on the planet to generate more than 50% of its electricity from solar across an entire month.

Plaxico Burress compared playing with the Jets to prison: "They're both kind of similar because when I walked into prison on my first day, I was like, 'damn man you a fucking loser.' And I had the same damn feeling every day I walked through the door with the Jets."