this is what i mean when i say the suburbs can't be retrofitted
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this is what i mean when i say the suburbs can't be retrofitted
He instantly made anything he was in better. He will be missed. 💙
My gf also has a Niro EV! (I work for Kia so I'm biased) She loves it.
It’s possible that he has already played his last game of golf
If you're in California and want to avoid the hassle of shopping around, you might be a great fit for the @heatpumped.org group buy! It's a great way to get quality equipment and installations at reasonable, transparent prices. Check it out here: buff.ly/clQKdYv (3/3)
Guy is 4-11 for his career and spent his entire time as FAU's kickoff specialist so of course you send him out for a long field goal with the game on the line and he fucking drills it. Why wouldn't you? Football is so easy.
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
Ridiculous
lol- for the love of cycling and country, let’s obliterate the schoolyard rack forever. Bad design is bad design.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
trying to imagine firefighters getting dispatched to this house and the absolute nightmare that would be
Rahal really is a moving chicane at Nashville...
🚨 WE GOT A DESERVED PENALTY FOR SANTINO 🚨
The most VT thing
Up til 20 yrs ago in the Seattle summer (Jun - Aug), half the time you could expect a HIGH temp cooler than 72°F. 90°F days were so rare (<2%) Up til 10 yrs ago (2006-2015), a quarter of our summer highs became >80°F The last 10 yrs, a third of our summer days are >80°F days, and 6% are >90°F days
Winner last week doesn't make it to Turn 2 this week... Wooof. Rasmussen off season starts now #indycar
lmaoooo
Trump's contribution to our politics was exposing that conservatives don't care about any of the principles they've said are sacrosanct for 100 years, and all they wanted was to be openly evil instead of circuitously evil. The Democrats who win will be the ones who understand this and act like it
Guess it didn't happen yesterday
Watching him suffer in the 2 seater was slightly therapeutic
Evergreen
Inequality continues rising, the middle class continues to hollow out, and Disney, like every US institution, continues to shift its services to cater to the rich.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
San Diego Transit Month starts tomorrow. Find a fun event to join! I'll be at transit trivia. sdtransitmonth.org
I'm hopeful for BAL but wooof some bold picks by Mike there
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
I want to highlight that this is a centre-right journalist writing in the most mainstream newspaper in Canada asking: “Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?”
I don't think most liberals realize the degree to which Fox News and the Republican Party exists to propagandize exurban and rural communities into believing that American cities are warzones
Odd, why would Mercedes show their supermobile charging "only" at 650kW in this "faster than a ☕️" ad? #alwaysbecharging
Nooooooo
Aug. Gas Emissions Update- After purchasing a 3-season HVAC Heat Pump & Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH) we've had 5 months with <=0.1 MCF/month gas use. In fact, we shut off our gas seasonally 4 months ago so gas use dropped to 0.0 MCF/mo. That's cut our annual gas spending by $200 so far. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋
Isack Hadjar at the Dutch GP:
Stewards will blame Sainz for that
2 Ferraris 1 corner. Guess we'll have to wait a few more years before Ferraris feel comfortable on banking... #DutchGP
This illustration does a good job of showing you how the building code limits family-sized apartments and condos in America We talk about the two required staircases, but the real culprit is the hallway you have to build between those staircases!
brian kelly halftime speech
(by making it kick ass)
This is gonna affect the Tour
Minimum battery warranties by California and at the time EPA help avoid the enshittification aspect on this, tho with EPA weakened and CA rules wrongfully removed, I guess it is possible that a new entrant tests the boundaries.
About time *someone* stands up and calls it out. Beyond stupid to suspend almost completed work
"ISO New England, the regional grid operator, said delaying Revolution Wind 'will increase risks to reliability.'" www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
I’m aware this is a general thing but seriously if you are at the Coliseum for this USC game you are enduring the angriest sun imaginable
Stopped at a Midas repair shop today and the guy there brought up the CDC. This is an example where raising the salience of what is going on really can break through the noise.
My exact thought. Mina gets us.
……And there’s a drive deep into Alabama territory by Castellanos amirite
Another banger on her hands (and knees)
Induction stoves are quieter, cooler, and produce less toxic pollution than gas. On the other hand, they also cook better, as a growing number of professional chefs recognize.
A lot of people are blaming consultants but Nelson\Nygaard gave us our money's worth on this comprehensive multi-volume study. It was Mayor Durkan who killed it.
Love that trailer setup! 🥹
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
I seriously thought it was a parody account or satire until I looked further. My god.
Trump dying in office after Biden lived through his term would be such an indictment of the press. Made “Biden Old” the top story, treating it as an uncovered secret, a scandal. Then lamented not covering it even more. All while treating “Trump Old” as a nonstory. Because he’s loud and lies a lot.
Meanwhile MS Republicans... Missing the forest for the trees...
Of course, Scottish
Three Scottish brothers set a world record Saturday for completing the fastest unsupported row across the full Pacific Ocean. https://to.pbs.org/4n08THC
EV3 passed Surf! 🌶️🌶️🌶️
I was thinking this might be it, but wasn't sure, ty!!
A local columnist seriously misunderstands why climate legislation fails in the California legislature — it's not that we have weak evidence or bad arguments — it's that the oil companies are major campaign funders decade after decade, which buys them real power. www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/29/e...
For those of us dumb and not in the know, without emergency authorization, is the reason for unavailability / restrictions state laws or something else?
Current situation with COVID19 vaccines at CVS. ACIP is meeting September 18-19 so it will likely become available at pharmacies w/o a prescription then, unless ACIP pulls the rug out. Prescription requirement related to state laws requiring ACIP approval for pharmacist administration.
That's quite a dream, wow
Less asthma, better food. There really is no excuse. And yeah, induction comes at any price point. The cheapest option used to be the contractor-grade gas stove for $300, now it's the $60 IKEA induction plate. #ClimateTech FTW www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... [gift link]
A rare correct framing by NYT
I hope we can do this with Long Beach 2nd Street. Restaurants are dying? Time to pedestrianize.
Abundant community space and retail business, achieved by regulating scarcity of cars.
Lol, lmao even.
Thanks for the nice words by @patrickgeorge.bsky.social on our EV6 on @insideevs.com! I recently upgraded my company lease to the refresh after doing a fun weekend trip to Sonoma with the pre-refresh. Excited to take the new one out to Zion in a few wks, anxiety-free insideevs.com/news/770328/...
Ah damn. Need to revisit my dinner plans now
BREAKING: Epstein estate agrees to hand over documents to Congress, including the "birthday book," according to ranking member @robertgarcia.bsky.social.
8 kids meeting up at Taco Bell after school. When this Taco Bell was remodeled, it triggered the parking minimums in force at that time, 1 car stall per 50 sf of dining room space. Thus, they had to shrink the dining area and become a drive thru. 5 drive thrus built in 1 mile due to this law
A one-time $3.3B would electrify 75% of Metrolink at Caltrain costs. SCORE and LinkUS have big funding gaps. But the LA delegation's proposed capital $ would mostly go to local improvements that are vaguely defined or don’t improve service - like ZE buses and grade separations.
That disastrous reshaping of the world's ocean currents that would leave the EU in an ice age & shift the world's fertile regions thus causing persistent global famine? According to science, it's no longer "low probability." Sleep tight.
Frustrated by rising electricity prices, one Pennsylvania farmer installed solar panels on 3 barns to generate 100% of the farm’s electricity ⚡ #Solar #PA
SCOOP: Revolution Wind employed 80 fishermen over the past 2 years, paying out $9.5 million to captains, deckhands, and fishing boat owners. Trump's pause means he just put Trump-voting fishermen out of work. When Trump paused Empire Wind, the fishermen stayed quiet. This time, they spoke to me.👇
Major update: As of this morning, CVS says it's decided it can offer the vax in 13 of the 16 states IF you get a prescription. Still a big new barrier for many people, but a change from its "no vaccines at all in these states" position yesterday. The three remaining absolute-nos are MA, NV and NM.
Latinos built a vibrant community on the sea in Oxnard. Trump raids are shattering it
Nice to see steelies still being used front and center on the show cars
Wonder how long before ChargePoint becomes part of Eaton lol
it happened in my replies: one or two canadians blocked each other over whether GTA means grand theft auto or greater toronto area
Please please
I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵
President just signed executive order essentially requiring new fed buildings to be designed neoclassically. Hardly important compared to the cascade of horrors coming from the White House, but another case of this administration's use of symbols designed to pull the US away from social modernity.
Excited for when HMG will show V2L on the next hybrids, starting with Palisade / Telluride
Interesting that they're finally showing as a CPO. Was always interesting to figure out how to place them from a charging implementer vs CPO
There’s a widespread myth that Americans hate traffic cameras. It’s simply not true. On the contrary, researchers have consistently found that Americans broadly support using automatic enforcement to curb crashes. And for good reason: It works. Me, in Bloomberg 🧵
New study confirms dramatic drop in air pollution in Paris between 2012 and 2022: • 40% drop in NO2 (smog) • 28% drop in PM2.5 (particulates) Modernization of the car fleet played the biggest role in decline—but the city's 34% drop in car traffic was instrumental. www.airparif.fr/actualite/20...
Our comment on the DOE CWG report is done. It tips the scales at 439 pages, approx. 3x longer than the DOE report. This is related to Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Example: refuting one sentence.
Having participated in this effort (some editing, leading the review of DOE CWG citations), I can confidently say that @andrewdessler.com is a helluva leader. Many of us contributed, and Andy's oversight, organizational work, and vision are ensuring those contributions will matter.
This is the way
More haboob dust storms are coming to California thanks to climate change
HRRR Model's Simulated Radar depiction through the next 40 hours - While the remnants of #Juliette will bring widespread mid/high clouds across most of #SoCal on Thursday, measurable rainfall will be focused over the South & Southeast portions of the region. #CAwx
Kudos to Councilmembers Nithya Raman @cd4losangeles.bsky.social and Bob Blumenfield for shepherding this very worthwhile push to reform L.A.'s counterproductive outdated parking laws!
Are you ready for the government to control your weather [information] to the whims of the Sharpie?
After firing hundreds of meteorologists, the National Weather Service announced it is filling vacant positions. Applicants are being asked to detail their support for Trump’s policies.
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
Here’s the clip of CM Padilla bragging about reducing the size of a 100% affordable housing project in her district and increasing the amount of parking while arguing against the transit oriented upzoning bill SB 79. (ED 1 is an affordable housing program in LA.)
Yep. I'm holding out hope though that U.S. gets some good EU things out of it but a) current climate means bad U.S. ideas to be "accepted" b) hurts Canada's chance to align with EU standards and leave US alignment behind.
just putting this out there: we could all get together and buy G-A-Y. I'm gay, I'm a pub manager, I need a job. let's do it. www.rightbiz.co.uk/buy_business...
Jesse Peltan: "batteries 🔋 are the new duck curve 🦆" nitter.net/JessePeltan/...
love how they're casually charging well over 900kW ⚡️⚡️⚡️ curious about those plugs! #alwaysbecharging #mercedes #hyc1000