Tweets for the Week of 2018-10-14 to 2018-10-20

@ericmbudd I feel like it's about choosing which part(s) of life you keep your shit together in. I seem to max out… https://t.co/T8N9OjBaJQ in reply to ericmbudd 16:21:43, 2018-10-20
@fishnette Why do you hate America Fish? in reply to fishnette 14:50:03, 2018-10-20
RT @Wwm_Shakespeare: False face must hide what the false heart doth know. 14:18:39, 2018-10-20
RT @mattyglesias: A GOP candidate for congress physically assaulted a reporter for asking him about health care, lied about it, won the ele… 14:18:13, 2018-10-20
I fixed a bug! Revealing another previously unknown bug. Some reward. 14:10:38, 2018-10-20
@cmgosnell https://t.co/laKHODRIN4 10:33:53, 2018-10-20
See also: stories about state utility commission dockets. https://t.co/3rSNU2fjfT 03:19:46, 2018-10-20
Investment in replacing old pipelines will either lock us in to decades of continued fossil fuel consumption, or be… https://t.co/Qb7YIfefza 03:09:12, 2018-10-20
@erinoverturf I love how they capitalize Conspiracy. in reply to erinoverturf 02:51:44, 2018-10-20
@SarahdawnH @ericmbudd Nope haven't come across the conference. Familiar with ACS though. in reply to SarahdawnH 14:31:48, 2018-10-19
@shayshinecastle @nami_knows The person I know who worked at one of these places in Boulder said they also did a ki… https://t.co/LWdteJFkBm in reply to shayshinecastle 12:34:13, 2018-10-19
@nami_knows @shayshinecastle There are real medical uses (like healing burns) but it sounds like there are a bunch… https://t.co/Izus03zdxe in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:26:57, 2018-10-19
@nami_knows @shayshinecastle It is totally a real thing. I know someone who works at the clinic! It's like… an ox… https://t.co/D8PrPPlbbv in reply to nami_knows 12:22:15, 2018-10-19
@erinoverturf Please tell me this story doesn't end with everyone getting priced out of the town… in reply to erinoverturf 10:08:55, 2018-10-19
Update on the DMEA co-op's bid to escape Tri-State's fossil fuel commitments and the resulting rate increases. Memb… https://t.co/X8WvMPrFSG 09:21:05, 2018-10-19
EV muscle car trolling is now a thing. https://t.co/T6rNsG5vZL 07:10:02, 2018-10-19
I've been trying to generate meaningful plant IDs for @FERC plants reporting in Form 1 since February. Now that I h… https://t.co/0lAbHEECQ4 04:39:54, 2018-10-19
@ericmbudd Can you quit Landmarks Board again? in reply to ericmbudd 01:07:23, 2018-10-19
Like the goddess Tiamat, the salt water sea serpent Mesopotamian mother of chaos. https://t.co/50WC6A5QSP https://t.co/FvCF6Fw7A8 in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:36:06, 2018-10-18
The Gods Below are chaos gods. Once released they will find a new balance of power with the sun god. They will turn… https://t.co/zOrLOPpBb8 in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:14:34, 2018-10-18
The burning places are the shrines we've built to these gods. Huge communal ones: the power plants and jet engines… https://t.co/F6Zxn8pUDs in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:03:43, 2018-10-18
It's like they've been sleeping, and we're waking them up with the burning. Releasing them from the Underworld into… https://t.co/bhJqPHqTg9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:59:19, 2018-10-18
RT @kashanacauley: We’re probably going to need a Disney princess who hates fossil fuels. 15:57:27, 2018-10-18
(and also, I suspect, because they want to get full cost recovery on the resulting regulatory assets, as well as ow… https://t.co/CBLU0lbjlZ in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:34:06, 2018-10-18
A utility in one of the least progressive regulated markets in the US is proposing to retire all of its coal plants… https://t.co/6H70nPwSNa 15:32:45, 2018-10-18
Perhaps not coincidentally, Romans made burnt offerings to the Gods Below — animals often not meant for human cons… https://t.co/ezky2fAauB in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:25:13, 2018-10-18
Fossil fuels are literally cthonic: they are of the Underworld.
They're also figuratively cthonic, in that they're… https://t.co/SvX13EQLRD 15:17:39, 2018-10-18
Shout it from the rooftops. https://t.co/PKey86YLxK 13:44:42, 2018-10-18
RT @j_dunkley: This has GOT to change. It is almost laughable – like no-one thought to look at the selection committee and say 'oh right, n… 13:41:34, 2018-10-18
RT @erinoverturf: The second is a Flexible Grid Analyst focusing on creating the clean energy grid of the future here in Colorado. Learn m… 13:27:30, 2018-10-18
RT @erinoverturf: The first is a Clean Energy Attorney, representing WRA various proceedings, mostly in front of the Colorado PUC. Take it… 13:27:15, 2018-10-18
@solaroof Yeah, it's not about heroes, it's about a different kind of zeitgeist — a societal sense of the project… https://t.co/yK8reIaMed in reply to solaroof 11:42:01, 2018-10-18
@rdchappell @GreatDismal I feel like I'm struggling with a plausible present. in reply to rdchappell 19:48:55, 2018-10-17
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But it's also a great opportunity for storytelling. It's not a space opera, but this time is anything but boring, a… https://t.co/t9ks0ZRE0r in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:39:33, 2018-10-17
Maybe it's hard to tell convincing, positive non-fiction stories about our future because living through difficult… https://t.co/a3dNETffUL in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:28:17, 2018-10-17
The utopian Everything Is Awesome / End of History narrative actually sucks as a story. It's boring. It doesn't pro… https://t.co/brc9DXka19 in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:13:39, 2018-10-17
@ericmbudd And we certainly could have had that outcome, if we wanted it. in reply to ericmbudd 19:09:14, 2018-10-17
And that's honestly the last time I read a book that inspired me to a (somewhat) positive vision of the future: Kim… https://t.co/TZWLRyGKdb in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:08:20, 2018-10-17
The 1990s (again: selection effect) were kind of the height of this. Internet bubble inflating. Soviet Union deflat… https://t.co/nq8nOXRm61 in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:05:30, 2018-10-17
Especially for white people in the latter 20th century US, the Good Future was just kind of supposed to magically… https://t.co/ok9q1k8yOm in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:58:40, 2018-10-17
Or, any scenario where we get < 2°C of warming: it's either speculative fiction, or it's not an entirely happy stor… https://t.co/Th2RiyyPai in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:54:02, 2018-10-17
Non-fiction stories about an easy, positive near-future seem far-fetched. Like, this TEDx talk about the wonders of… https://t.co/NnBZsYeNn9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:47:33, 2018-10-17
I'm suffering from a selection effect, but it feels like we're awash in lovingly crafted and beautifully realized d… https://t.co/c5eC9njIQx 18:40:25, 2018-10-17
RT @CostaSamaras: “These actions no longer carry the consequence of a backlash from the international community. Instead, these actions may… 18:31:56, 2018-10-17
RT @DataProgress: Republicans have used their state level power to crush unions, strangle voting rights, limit reproductive rights and gerr… 17:03:04, 2018-10-17
@shayshinecastle For some reason in my mind you have a partially buzzed head and some purple hair. But now I'm ques… https://t.co/8FEwX09qYR in reply to shayshinecastle 16:57:51, 2018-10-17
Indiana is currently my least favorite docket search interface. https://t.co/XxczbINadx https://t.co/IkBMTtiZ1j 14:43:02, 2018-10-17
@erinoverturf What?! in reply to erinoverturf 12:50:31, 2018-10-17
@markgelband @welcomehomebldr I just don't understand how they can live in denial of the fact that there are *at le… https://t.co/eT1pprSAMT in reply to markgelband 08:47:39, 2018-10-17
@joshdr83 As long as your voicemail message makes it clear that this is your practice and tells folks to text you f… https://t.co/MbZLuTzDsE in reply to joshdr83 08:42:10, 2018-10-17
@welcomehomebldr That it has to *personally* individually impact them before they get that it's over the top is, I… https://t.co/4SQyMcaula in reply to welcomehomebldr 08:37:00, 2018-10-17
A great, accessible explanation of what an algorithm is, and why it's important that we have some transparency into… https://t.co/3iUWyUzw0s 08:28:36, 2018-10-17
RT @MinorHeretic: Here’s a thread and real life parable about my kitchen stove. Like many modern stoves it has a digital display with a clo… 08:18:31, 2018-10-17
@welcomehomebldr It is wild that this is even coming up as a discussion given the previous ADU coverage and actions… https://t.co/6CWRwt1x9Q in reply to welcomehomebldr 08:13:51, 2018-10-17
@alanawlsn Ugh. https://t.co/A9JxLaGFb8 05:06:27, 2018-10-17
@nbminor Have you come across @jennycohn1? in reply to nbminor 04:59:26, 2018-10-17
Cyberspace is just a room full of people wearing headphones silently hunched over their laptops typing for hours. S… https://t.co/o2Wla2Emjk 02:11:24, 2018-10-17
@welcomehomebldr WTAF is up with that town man? https://t.co/GLgqezoMNy 02:02:34, 2018-10-17
@notFromShrek I think a lot of them probably do know you never forget to vote on time and that's part of why they a… https://t.co/1XzP0TaOEB in reply to notFromShrek 01:56:15, 2018-10-17
@nami_knows @shayshinecastle Maybe it's all that time they spend in the hyperbaric oxygen therapy chambers. in reply to nami_knows 01:48:04, 2018-10-17
Actual proposal floated by #BoulderCouncil. https://t.co/qigF2FIZmq 01:41:03, 2018-10-17
@shayshinecastle I've cried about the Boulder housing situation plenty of times, but my god if anybody has paved th… https://t.co/j9EBkFecXa in reply to shayshinecastle 01:33:56, 2018-10-17
@DennyMcCloskey Not a population problem. A policy problem. https://t.co/sXK7QV3siN in reply to DennyMcCloskey 01:18:02, 2018-10-17
This is a great idea. https://t.co/rhcFH7IxmS 18:36:37, 2018-10-16
This is the school district I grew up in. ¿Por qué no aprendí español allí? https://t.co/d5dyTOATbR 18:21:10, 2018-10-16
A house of size zero on a $500,000 lot still costs $500,000. https://t.co/GEJdQL1ViK 12:01:38, 2018-10-16
RT @louishyman: In my history of consumption class, I teach about #Sears, but what most people don't know is just how radical the catalogue… 00:18:46, 2018-10-16
Growing up in (and then fleeing) a poor rural place, I kind of reflexively rejected Costco. But the more I've learn… https://t.co/x4YeK45NP7 17:03:44, 2018-10-15
@ericmbudd That looks like mud, Budd. in reply to ericmbudd 12:45:51, 2018-10-15
@EricGimon @ElephantEating @gilbeaq @joshdr83 @JesseJenkins @CostaSamaras @ericmbudd Well, I'm glad my intuition on… https://t.co/Qu5SegFDhc in reply to EricGimon 12:44:58, 2018-10-15
@CHThiem @BoulderCoopFood Switzerland is crazy for the kholrabi! in reply to CHThiem 11:02:28, 2018-10-15
@ElephantEating @joshdr83 @JesseJenkins @CostaSamaras @ericmbudd Haha. They've got *potential* in reply to ElephantEating 08:12:35, 2018-10-15
@joshdr83 @JesseJenkins @CostaSamaras @ericmbudd @ElephantEating The scale just seems… wrong. Like the total mass… https://t.co/ljLk7yMS8z in reply to joshdr83 07:03:49, 2018-10-15
@JesseJenkins @CostaSamaras @joshdr83 Can they be serious about this? It sounds like "Solar Roadways", except at a… https://t.co/D9rdw095gY 06:30:29, 2018-10-15
Meanwhile @SierraClub & @NRDC are suggesting in the same docket that the commission explore outlandish ideas like..… https://t.co/EjxmzOzLCr in reply to ZaneSelvans 06:15:14, 2018-10-15
@YIMBY_Princeton Scale is everything here though — even pumped hydro (by far the largest source of energy storage… https://t.co/1LotFUqqoC in reply to YIMBY_Princeton 06:11:47, 2018-10-15
If we took all 1.5 million rail cars in the US, loaded them up with 150 tons of coal each, and lifted them 1km vert… https://t.co/QQRcGqqO73 in reply to ZaneSelvans 05:51:06, 2018-10-15
Okay, someone please correct me if I'm wrong here, but this is a *comically* non-scalable energy storage mechanism.… https://t.co/jDw3WbiJeQ 05:44:01, 2018-10-15
OMG is this a joke? Missouri's Office of Public Counsel is suggesting the MO Public Service Commission investigate… https://t.co/ylT84nvssn 04:25:41, 2018-10-15
RT @DynamicWebPaige: one of my high school teachers, after finding out I got accepted to @RiceUniversity: "That's such a wonderful place to… 03:08:52, 2018-10-15
Starting @BoulderCoopFood with affordability as a priority on par with natural / organic was a weird experience for… https://t.co/FzA19qFtns 01:11:54, 2018-10-15
Said a nice goodbye to the Alps, biking dirt roads and fall colors beneath Säntis in Alpstein. Hard to believe that… https://t.co/WoYdPygB7M 09:11:04, 2018-10-14

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