Climate dad to E, J, and C. Working on decarbonization and environmental justice in Cleveland. Founded the Cleveland Refugee Bike Project. Supports Juventus & Eintracht. Opinions my own and probably wrong.
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When the panda moves as I'm taking a picture
This is what Tom Homan calls himself
All I will say is it's a blessing to live close enough to walk my son to and from school.
Kill so many Asian lantern flies they call me Lyudmila Pavlichenko
While doing chores and walking/exercising ( I walk a ton) I rarely listen to books while working. Usually podcasts or NPR This year is 100% nonfiction lol
Summer 2025 ended up as the second most humid on record behind 1995. August was downright pleasant, wheres August 1995 was abysmally humid, so that offset the record setting humidity in June and July of this year. mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/plotting/aut...
Technically it's 2.65x but tomato tomahto
Audiobooks on 2.5x
I finished my 100th book of 2025 yesterday, AMA
August 31 / September 1
Happy Labor Day. Unionize babies.
![Title Unfair to babies A helpless infant can't go on strike : It depends on your care. Summary Poster promoting proper child care, showing a baby picketing. Names Krause, Erik Hans, 1899-1990, artist Created / Published [Rochester, N.Y.] : WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1938] https://www.loc.gov/item/93511162/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wvyq44vfj3m3mkw3slpr4lrf/bafkreida5ycftzwe4dnzwmnool6tnbsilqj5lhww5sk72dnskp6rg3oyse@jpeg "Click to view full size")
If you're cold, Elmo's cold. Let him in.
It could have been his Italian cousin Biscotti Mostro
Bluey Season 2 following "Sleepytime" with "Rug Island"
The Spelling Bee people will pay for their crimes
Watching Curious George again
The Ohio Digital Library logo goes extremely hard
Sesame Street adding Aubrey Plaza to the Noodle family is like Thanos adding the last infinity stone to his glove
I like this chart comparing ICE and BEV emissions because it makes clear that just producing the gasoline is about as polluting as completely powering the EV
Grouse, M.D.
"The Great Displacement," Jake Bittle (2023)
The important thing about Robert E. Lee is he was a slave owning traitor who got his shit wrecked by Grant in one year.
NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty. The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...
Just absurd own goals involved in this crusade. Here's one of the projects they're withdrawing funding for, with improvements to a Rhode Island port that improves it generally but "includes offshore wind components." That port is among the top 10 auto importers in the country.
The Three Jerry Problem
only so many words you can put in a headline but the whole response is loud and proud support for the trans community and worth reading
Customer: ABBREVIATION OF NAME IN SPANISH DMV: RACIAL; DEROGATORY TOWARDS ITALIANS Verdict: DENIED
79% of Americans agree with the original endangerment finding, and 86% believe we should regulate climate pollution
79% of Americans agree with the original endangerment finding, and 86% believe we should regulate climate pollution
If there are a thousand air show haters, I am one. If there is one air show hater, I am he. If there are no air show haters, I am dead.
If it's Labor Day, it's I Hate The Air Show season
Arresting firefighters putting their lives on the line to protect our communities doesn't make us safer. This evil stunt is putting families in harm's way just so Donald Trump can score a Fox News hit.
Offshore wind has higher capacity value than gas CTs, according to PJM. So when the Trump admin claims offshore wind makes no contribution to resource adequacy/reliability, it's lying. #energysky #greensky www.pjm.com/-/media/DotC...
"The number of locations with pollution levels above the national U.S. standard rose to 308 in 2023, up from just 12 in 2022, according to the report. Forty-eight of the counties were in Ohio."
We are a Petrostate, and the world is quickly sorting itself into Electrostates (China et al) and Petrostates (US, Russia, OPEC+)
"There's an old saying in England: If you give an Englishman the choice between his success and your failure, he'll choose your failure every time,"
I should read that. Mark Twain published it and thought it was a masterpiece. I'm reading "A World on Fire" by Amanda Foreman, which is a history of the war from the British perspective
Back on my bullshit (33 hour audiobook about the Civil War)
“The more jobs that can locate near public transportation, the more opportunities we are providing the people of Cuyahoga County.”
The Cuyahoga River caught fire 13 times, not Lake Erie
Centers for Disease
Apparently it's World Lake Day, so shout out Lake Erie, the most biologically productive Great Lake www.un.org/en/observanc...
Jerrys, no
“There is quite literally no replacement for this series.”
"America needs to stop treating recovery as a one-time event. Cities are not machines to be fixed and forgotten. They are living systems that need sustained investment and constant evolution. That requires vision and talent, not just funding."
"The U.S., in the first half of 2025, wasn't among the world's top-five wind markets for the first time since 2016."
Is it bad if your baseball team hasn't scored in 28 innings
Another example of how the world will continue on without US leadership -- and another missed opportunity for the US to show up as a trusted partner.
These solar panels will provide a lot of electricity. The solar panels imported into Sierra Leone in the last 12 months, if installed, would generate electricity equivalent to 61% of the total reported 2023 electricity generation, significantly adding to electricity supply🤯
NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵
Check out said dashboard:
Heat waves and cold snaps: Study finds the Great Lakes have entered an era of extremes
20 years ago this week, Hurricane #Katrina became one of the worst disasters in U.S. history. Now, new ocean and hurricane attribution science helps us understand how human-caused climate change left its fingerprints on the storm 🧵
"We’re building houses for A.I. faster than we’re building houses for humans or places for humans to work."
Unconditional surrender is a kind of negotiation
22-month old has started shouting "pee ew" to object when something she doesn't like happens. So I'll be carrying her away from whatever trouble she's caused this time as she's screaming "PEE EW PEE EW"
"It was madness. Italian football deals in madness."
Eunice Foote conducted an experiment showing that atmospheric CO2 traps heat. OTD in 1856, she listened to a man (John Henry of the Smithsonian) present her results to the American Acad. for the Advancement of Science. Henry downplayed the significance of Foote’s finding. #HistSTM #WomeninSTEM 🧪🌎
Need to keep this going. What's the caloric value in 1 HPU and how much energy does that send to my brain, which can do its own computing
But if you leave twitter you apparently give up all of your beliefs, because Twitter is the entirety of existence bsky.app/profile/jeru...
Robot meets bollard. Nothing beats the #WorldBollardAssociation
Just finished @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social's "Everything is Tuberculosis" after sitting on my library's waiting list for months. Now I know why the wait was so long. Excellent little book.
Richard I don't want to pass judgment, since we're not our worst decisions, but a seasonal peppermint seltzer is truly inexplicable to me
Widespread Smoke from Canadian Fires animation from from NASA’s GEOS "the concentration and movement of wildfire smoke from July 30 to August 3, 2025. It shows black carbon particles" earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15464...
Kirkland lemon and lime are God tier. Trader Joe's watermelon lemonade is an underappreciated seasonal delight.
Insanity
“Perfection is not what matters. What matters is trying to reduce as many emissions as quickly and efficiently as possible.”
My uncle is a builder. He is insanely gifted. We were in a computer room together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… “We can’t, we don’t know how to do it."
Floating a new theory that violent crime rates were so high in the 80s and 90s because everyone was chronically dehydrated
"Obviously that will be additional extreme heat, severe weather that takes a significant toll on the most vulnerable members of our community...The total costs of the inaction reached about $170 billion in total by 2050, and that's roughly equivalent to economic output from the region in one year."
FRC: “As this famine is entirely man-made, it can be halted and reversed. The time for debate and hesitation has passed, starvation is present and is rapidly spreading.” #Gaza
Abundance bros in shambles
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I'd like people to publicly admit they were wrong about Chris Wright too
"Based off these two lines, our human-induced climate change is happening FORTY times faster than maybe the most destructive climate-based extinction event in the history of our planet."
China's emissions are falling as US emissions climb. So much for that old canard.
‘Sea change’ in transparency: Ohio regulators revoke utilities’ long-held power to review audits before they're made public
US is on pace to add a record amount of new electricity generation capacity (64 GW) in 2025, and 92% of it is from clean energy sources
Back on my bullshit (waking up at 4:30 to start working)
SCOOP: FEMA is now requiring disaster survivors to sign up to receive aid using an email address - a move that is already putting some of the country’s most vulnerable people at risk of missing out on federal help, employees told me:
“This time last year we had spent a little over $100,000 less than where we’re at right now.”
It's cool that it's 2025 and if you say "hey Excel I need you to repeat 2022, 2023, 2024 in order like 20 times here I'll do it 4 times to show you the pattern" it says "say no more fam, I'll write 2022 50 times in a row"
To be clear, I did not ask Excel to do this. I did not okay it. It just did it for me and ended up costing me more time to fix its hallucinations. All I needed it to do was write short term, short to medium term, medium term, medium to long term, or long term.
Sure but this is Trump in a museum
Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania was a distraction from the rising cost of rice in the Carolinas
I especially like how he asked his LLM for permission to share the story it plagiarized after stealing the work of millions of artists without credit or compensation
Sometimes I let my LLM plagiarize a famous author and give it credit, as a treat
I believe they produced 31 Lordstown Motors Endurance trucks in total, of which they seem to have delivered 6. www.cnbc.com/2023/02/23/l...
Provided my math is right, if every metric ton of CO2 shortens someone's life by 6 hours: 1 VMT in an ICEV= ~9 seconds of life lost 1 lb of coal burned = ~22 seconds of life lost 1 gallon of gasoline = ~3.5 minutes of life lost 1 MCF of fossil gas = ~20 minutes of life lost
"Reducing emissions by 1 tonne of CO2 can be expected to: • prevent 4,000 litres of glacier ice from melting, • increase total life expectancy by 6 hours, • and prevent 5 square metres of vegetation from severely changing." www.csemken.eu/pdfs/Semken_...
"The study shows a sharp increase in the amount of smoke in the air around the U.S. in just the past few years. From 2020 to 2023, the average American breathed in concentrations of smoke-related PM2.5 that were between 2.6 and 6.7 times higher than the 2006 to 2019 average."
This factory (and town) has been through the ringer. It was a Chevy plant until 2019. Then it was Lordstown Motors to make EV pickups, which never happened. Then Foxconn was going to make trucks for Fisker. Then for Monarch. Now this.
22-month old confidently calls rabbits hop-its. She knows it's right, and don't you dare correct her. Also frogs say riddit
"Ohio’s climate risks aren’t being imposed from outside — they are the product of decisions made in Columbus, often at the behest of an industry we’ve chosen to protect. We are not bystanders in this crisis. We are participants. And we will all pay the price."