In a a similar way, 6 is “about the only” number on a die :)

Text from my mom: I donated to Flourish Placemaking Collective. Thanks for letting me know where I could donate. I have really been upset about this today.

I encourage folks to share this incredible resource of Minnesota organizations to donate to with folks who aren’t on Bluesky: www.standwithminnesota.com#gofundme

I texted family, and they were so appreciative and ready to donate.

My mom (whose siblings were all murdered in the Holocaust) texted:

Peter Gabriel - Been Undone (Dark-Side Mix) YouTube video by Peter Gabriel

m.youtube.com/watch?v=gb-s..., I believe it is this

Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Deeply understand if you're not in a place to receive it but I do often return to Justin McElroy of all people with "I'm gonna wake up and keep trying to do good and so are you and nobody gets to vote on that."

Agree with others when they say engage and nurture your community relationships.

The House just passed the One Big "Beautiful" Bill. Here's six key takeaways from REPEAT Project's rapid analysis of the bill on what passage means for U.S. energy costs, investment in new electricity supplies, and greenhouse gas emissions. #OBBB 🔌💡

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Debate and amendments continue today on the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill. There's still time to make it less bad, especially on energy provisions.

If you want energy abundance, cheaper electricity, less pollution, NOW is the time to CALL Senate offices and tell them to...
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Good transit is key to great cities.

"Witnessing large-scale systems slowly unravel in real time can be profoundly surreal and frightening. The hypernormalization framework offers a way to understand what we’re feeling and why."

Graphic showing slow down in battery electric vehicle sales if current policies supporting EV adoption are repealed. If EPA tailpipe regulations and federal clean vehicle tax credits are repealed, sales of battery electric vehicles could drop about 30% in 2027 and 40% in 2030 relative to a scenario where current policies are continued.

Repealing clean vehicle tax credits would destroy demand for new US EV manufacturing. If federal policies supporting projected market demand for EVs could be met entirely with current assembly plant capacity. This calls into question the economic viability of all additional manufacturing plants that have been announced or are under construction across the US and would potentially result in the idling of some existing EV assembly plants and workers.

Repealing clean vehicle tax credits risks ending America’s battery manufacturing boom. Without clean vehicle tax credits, between 29% and 72% of battery cell manufacturing capacity currently operating or online by the end of 2025 would be unnecessary to meet automotive demand and could be at risk of closure, in addition to 100% of other planned facilities.

New REPEAT Project report: repealing federal tax credits and regs supporting deployment of electric vehicles would slow sales and threaten the economic viability of dozens of manufacturing projects taking shape across the country. zenodo.org/records/1500... 🔌💡

st sa i Poenius Lifetime material consumption of passenger cars: battery vs petrol burned ® x500 12,400L Materials newly mined for an EV Amount of ful buted during the fetime of battery afer recycing ‘one hybrid vehicle sold in 2030 Source: TAE analy TSE

If you do not like mining and the damage it does, something very useful to do is stop driving a combustion engine fossil-fuelled vehicle.

Replace it with a small EV, a bicycle, public transport, walking - it all cuts out

www.transportenvironment.org/state-of-eur... @transenv.bsky.social

In cutthroat cultures, people kiss up and kick down. They protect themselves by currying favor with people in power and exploiting those without it.

In supportive cultures, people speak up and shield down. They protect others who lack power by raising problems to those who have it.

I told students this week, live your lives with integrity so that your entire existence isn’t distilled into a one line bio that says: when it mattered, they chose to be terrible, the end.

This is a cartogram map of the United States depicting land use by different categories. The map distorts state shapes to represent proportional land usage. Key land use types include cow pasture/range (covering much of the central U.S.), private and federal timberland in the Pacific Northwest, corporate timberland in the Southeast, and urban housing/commercial areas in the Northeast. Other categories include agriculture (livestock feed, wheat exports, ethanol/biodiesel, cotton), protected lands (national parks, federal wilderness, state parks), and infrastructure (railroads, airports, highways). Additional specialized land uses include wildfires, golf courses, Christmas tree farms, and maple syrup production.

I think about this map a lot.

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Remote work doesn't thwart productivity. It boosts focus.

Government workers are 12% more productive when randomly assigned to work from home. They're more efficient where it's quiet.

Most people aren't shirking from home. They're escaping distractions and long commutes.

once an intern and now our Sustainability Specialist, you might remember him from our favorite content such as sewer shanty

Was recently thinking about a sort of hierarchy of needs that speaks to this moment.

1) Survive. Nothing happens without this.

2) Hope. Believe in a better future.

3) Plan. What can I do to help make that future a reality (even a small thing)?

4) Act. Put your plan in motion.

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

How extreme car dependency is driving Americans to unhappiness A car is often essential in the US but while owning a vehicle is better than not for life satisfaction, a study has found, having to drive too much sends happiness plummeting

“…this extreme car dependence is affecting Americans’ quality of life, with a new study finding there is a tipping point at which more driving leads to deeper unhappiness…having to drive for more than 50% of the time for out-of-home activities is linked to a decrease in life satisfaction.”

What's happening in America is that, in the most literal sense, internet trolls have taken over the government.

I separately heard NREL tools and data are shutting down today, and EIA may be next 🔌 💡

If you use tools and data from NREL, I recommend you download them now.

Everyone seems to be framing Trump's freeze on federal grants as a Constitutional fight over powers of the purse & whether presidents can disregard Congressional appropriations. It is that. But also at stake is the fundamental validity of government contracts! I see much less discussion on this... 🧵

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

Graphics fill of statistics on the efficiency or in efficiency of cars

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.

Sound efficient?

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Progress isn’t always about getting better. Sometimes it’s about bouncing back.

Success is not only the peaks you reach—it’s the valleys you conquer. Every experience of enduring adversity and overcoming obstacles is a meaningful accomplishment.

Resilience is a form of growth.