My therapist said I need to express my emotions so I just angrily made a grilled cheese at 2am.

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Hochul Proposes Tax on N.Y.C. Second Homes That Are Worth $5 Million

We will be taxing the ultra-wealthy and global elites.

Jim Jordan is commenting on Eric Swalwell's sexual misconduct allegations. Jordan was assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State while team doctor Richard Strauss sexually abused at least 177 athletes. Multiple wrestlers testified under oath they told Jordan. He did nothing. He was never charged.

Your reminder, and you young folks may not relate to this, that America without black people is Pat Boone singing Little Richard songs.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

I think we should all start blogs again. Or online journals, even. That was a nice time. Just writing a few paragraphs about your day (don't forget to list the sad song you're listening to!) and maybe your friends will leave a comment. Then you go and read theirs and comment. It was fun.

Hungary's New PM Just Showed Us What Courage Looks Like. Where's Ours? Hypothetically, if I was elected President, here are the opening salvos of restoration

Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

In a First for the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas In March, for the first time, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the transition to clean power. However, rising power demand is complicating the shift away from fossil fuels by extending the lives of many aging coal power plants.

In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.

Young raccoon in a cage places paws through it onto a person’s hand while looking pleadingly up at the camera.

“Alright Dave, listen to me and listen carefully. I hid everything before I got busted. Get me outta here, and I’ll split it with you 50/50. There’s candy wrappers, toilet paper tubes, some rancid bologna, and half a Hot Pocket. Now, open up the cage before the guard comes back.”

A painting of colorful tulips of different colors at a close perspective. Scattered light travels through the petals and surrounding landscape.

My painting BACKYARD TULIPS

For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕

*All four astronauts went to public schools!

Dumbasses. People so dumb they can't do math, so they don't really understand how much wealth they have, nor how that's a problem, & think they need more, because that's what everybody else they know thinks.

THIS is who is driving the AI bubble.

So THINK about that shit, please.

because of their brilliance, but because of who they know, of whom they were born. Classist gits who couldn't solve a software development problem if it was as simple as spelling things correctly, or properly punctuating a sentence. I mean, STUPID people with power & wealth. (...cont'd)

A big problem with all of this is how many younger people have no memory of the world that existed before the Internet, so they just don't know the truth of so many subjects, & accept whatever the computer tells them.

Then there's the CEOs, a big minority of whom are not in the position (...cont'd)

No - it's because I'm technically advanced, savvy, experienced, & knowledgeable (on many subjects).

I ask AI questions that I know the answer to - questions about my lived history. And it makes shit up. I know it makes shit up because I WAS THERE AT THE TIME & know the truth. (...cont'd)

adopters of technical things all our lives.

I was on the Internet before AOL. Way back in the CompUServe days. I was on #PacketRadio long before #APRS was a thing. Long before #WinLink.

I poked around with AI very early on. My resistance to it is not 'cuz I'm an old fuddy-duddy. (...cont'd)

1st part of post found at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ray-smith-61a6262_the-workers-opting-to-retire-instead-of-taking-share-7447240648153264130-hY50 These workers are opting to retire instead of taking on artificial intelligence. They had planned on working for a few more years. But AI was a last straw. After rising for decades and then hovering around 40% in the 2010s, the share of Americans over 55 years old in the workforce has slipped to 37.2%, the lowest level in more than 20 years. The financial cushion of rising home equity and stock-market returns is driving some of the decline, economists and retirement advisers say. But for some older professionals, money is only part of the equation. They say they don’t want to spend the last years of their career going through the tumult of AI adoption, which has brought new tools, new expectations and a lot of uncertainty.

I understand that older people have a decades-long reputation for not adopting new things because we just don't like adopting new things. And #AI is the latest thing we're too grumpy to grok, ya? But in the case of my colleagues & myself, you're wrong if you think that. We've been early (...cont'd)

World’s best girlfriend here. I let him explain something I already knew for a full three minutes before I stopped him.

@hankgreen.bsky.social
Tagging you after-post like a dork.

Explaining the Most Important Artemis II Photos YouTube video by Hank Green

This reminded me of a question that popped into my head when I should’ve been sleeping. How far into their mission would they have to be when the #ArtemisII crew could look at the #moon & say “It’s getting bigger.”?
#HankGreen

youtu.be/oaXRREHVkHo?...

Daughter: “Mother, can a woman get pregnant from anal sex?”
Mother: “Why of course dear. Where do you think Republicans come from?”

Bookshops are: Travel Agents Rocket ships Time machines Mystical portals Safe

I’m in the shop all by myself today - so let’s have the best day ever, just to prove to the others that I do do some work.

I understand that a lot of Trump supporters are feeling betrayed. He didn't betray you beloved. You knew who he was and didn't care about the people he would hurt until he hurt you. You betrayed yourself. Own that shit.

Denmark didn’t “transition” its grid—it replaced it.

~15% → 92% renewable electricity in 25 years.

Wind did the heavy lifting. Solar is scaling. Interconnection balanced. Flexibility solved variability.

Wind built it. Solar is scaling. Fossil lost it.

This IS system replacement. ⚡#Bettrification

thou art false in all,
And art confederate with a damned pack

60s Folk Revival Island, Pt. 1 (Among Friends // S2 E4) YouTube video by Josh Turner Guitar

youtu.be/uRj6vbjIM2g About 13min in, #JoshTurner & the #Glaswegian singer #SamGrassie talk about #SocialMedia encouraging people to become “blandly palatable”.

So true.

About 45% of pet ownership is walking by them and badly singing little songs that integrate their names. If you can’t do this, then I’m sorry, you are not ready for the responsibilities of owning a pet.

Dave Chappelle helps keep Ohio radio station rooted in hometown with renovated building Dave Chappelle has helped secure the future of a small-town radio station by funding the renovation of a historic building in Yellow Springs.

Dave Chappelle has helped secure the future of a small-town radio station by funding the renovation of a historic building in Yellow Springs.

I wanna point out something serious. The admin has been complaining about Iran winning the information war.

This same administration shut down Voice of America, and other information operations the US govt does.

It’s a self goal. Actions have consequences