Trans rights aren't starting at zero. We've lost 90 years of rights in the last 10. We don't want perfect. We want the Democrats to stop promising us the rights we recently had will be returned to us in a decade or three if we're quiet and obedient enough.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 15h ago

It turns out that choosing the lesser of two evils is, in fact, a moral imperative. And some folks want to wait for the Revolutionary Perfect, but I would equally challenge them to demonstrate a single time where a 'start from nothing, year-0' revolution has turned out well for most people.

FLOODING along the Animas and San Juan Rivers in NM. Officials urge residents to EVACUATE NOW if water approaches their homes. Over 1" of rain has fallen in San Juan County, with another inch possible. Shelter is open at McGee Park, with RV parking in the RV1 lot. #NMwx

Tell Congress: nodirtydatacenterdeal.com

Arthur Delaney@delaneyrules.bsky.social · 3d ago

Democrats could confront a data center backlash of their own over a permitting reform bill www.huffpost.com/entry/permit...

If the bill is good for climate, where is the modeling that shows substantial emissions reductions? There isn't any. So are we supposed to just take the word of a lobbyist with a history advocating for fracking? bipartisanpolicy.org/wp-content/u...

The Witch Wolf is ready to be your new fall read! #webcomic thewitchwolf.org Patreon.com/thewitchwolf

Killing wolves doesn't protect cows, but it does destabilize wolf packs and can result in increased poaching of wolves. States should listen to peer-reviewed science, not USDA Director Rollins. (2/2)

The USDA memo that was circulated to the governors of gray wolf and Mexican gray wolf states on October 12 is, frankly, a load of crap. The letters urge the governors and state agencies to lethally remove wolves to protect cows - the same wolf-scapegoating BS we've heard for years. (1/2)

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) is STOKED that @heinrich.senate.gov is helping him nuke Utah's public lands. #BAAJA from @westernpriorities.org @aweiss.bsky.social

The Senate permitting bill would lock in data centers and nuclear waste on public lands. It only gets worse from there

A startup wants 456 nuclear reactors, a fuel plant, and nuclear waste storage on 9,000 acres of public land. The Senate permitting bill would make sure the next president can’t touch it

westwise.substack.com

Specifically one thing they mentioned was that a lot of senate staffers had no idea what #Section106 was or how it affects #archaeology, so whoever is running @welch.senate.gov's accounts might give this a listen and move up in the office rankings. Also #BAAJA is 417 pages long.

Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them@cassidyaster.bsky.social · 18h ago

Yesterday's webinar from the National Trust for Historic Preservation about the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act was really helpful for understanding the specific dangers of the bill to #archaeology and #HistoricPreservation, give it a listen if you can! 🧪🏺

Yesterday's webinar from the National Trust for Historic Preservation about the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act was really helpful for understanding the specific dangers of the bill to #archaeology and #HistoricPreservation, give it a listen if you can! 🧪🏺

Section 106 Under Threat: Understanding and Responding to Federal Permitting Reform

YouTube video by National Trust for Historic Preservation

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Is your State's AG on the list? Mention them when you contact your senator about your opposition to the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act! #Archaeology #NEPA #NHPA #Section106 🧪🏺 www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

Brad Johnson@climatebrad.hillheat.com · 19h ago

"Without amendment, some of the bill’s provisions will unnecessarily intrude upon states’ rights, harm critical resources in our states, and create uncertainty in ways that undermine the purposes of the bill." - AZ, DE, CA, IL, MA, ME, OR, WA, VT AGs on #BAAJA

I was wondering why this permitting reform bullshit in the senate was Bipartisan, and of course senators agree and want above all else to protect their stock portfolios. The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act is just them trying to goose the stock market before the AI bubble bursts.

Oh the #BAAJA makes it easier to build data centers? And do it without community input? Makes them easier to plug into the grid & drive up energy prices & harder to close coal and natural gas power plants? Historically unpopular data centers everyone hates getting a huge handout? Those data centers?

The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act is a big old giveaway to data center builders who want to get out of doing their due diligence to evaluate air quality, water quality, endangered species, and historic preservation impacts of their projects.

we invest preservation projects, like 2,000+ feet of tributaries in the Medina Marsh shown here, that maintain and improve water quality. since 2005, we’ve helped preserve thousands of natural acres like bogs (Cuyahoga bog above) and wetlands and *hundreds of thousands* of feet of streams.

got that bog in me.

Activated charcoal can also reduce the efficacy of any oral hormones - that means means if you take HRT or birth control by mouth, avoid festive Halloween beverages

then i keep going 👻@madsabouthugh.bsky.social · 5d ago

PSA FOR THE GAYS (and others tbh) be careful this halloween season if your cocktails are colored black. they may be using activated charcoal, which will make several medications less effective, INCLUDING PrEP.

Elon Musk confirms @rokhanna.bsky.social's critique of #BAAJA, that energy infrastructure & construction fast-tracking is what will make data centers easier to build "the constraint on deployment of superintelligence [sic] is more in power and cooling and infrastructure than it is in chips"

It is not an exaggeration to say that the passage of #BAAJA threatens Yellowstone with irreversible harm. Maybe we should take a little more time to decide whether powering Elon Musk's mechaHitler is worth that sacrifice.

Brad Johnson@climatebrad.hillheat.com · 2d ago

"Federal review would disappear even where a well taps the same underground system that feeds park geysers.... Any harm to park thermal resources would more than likely be permanent."

Folks, just follow @climatebrad.hillheat.com and see how bad #BAAJA really is 🧵

Brad Johnson@climatebrad.hillheat.com · 2d ago

It is not an exaggeration to say that the passage of #BAAJA threatens Yellowstone with irreversible harm. Maybe we should take a little more time to decide whether powering Elon Musk's mechaHitler is worth that sacrifice.

Telling people to call their senators and tell them to vote no on #BAAJA has become my second shift. I wish congress would fight about something normal and less annoying like state trees. Force every state to have a different state tree, and the ones who have the same one have to do battle over it.

The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act is being considered by the senate and will allow data centers to avoid even the bare minimum environmental permitting to protect the air you breathe and water you drink. Call your senators and tell them to vote no. #archaeology #Section106 🧪⚱️

The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d ago

“There is a good chance that our children and grandchildren will breathe dirtier air than we did…”

reminder that "A.i." is a gat damn pox

The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d ago

“There is a good chance that our children and grandchildren will breathe dirtier air than we did…”

Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

My closing date was supposed to by at the end of August but there was so much nonsense it ended up being the end of September, but I used all my winter blankets and clothes to pack delicate things and I only just found my wool socks. My feet, warm once more.

The Center and @westernwatersheds.bsky.social have filed a legal intervention to defend sage grouse from an oil industry lawsuit. More details: biodiv.us/4i08ju6

Near Prescott, Arizona this morning youtu.be/rizssQC7NOY

Tornado forms over town in northern Arizona

YouTube video by Arizona’s Family (3TV / CBS 5)

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A subtropical storm could form later today or tonight off the U.S. east coast. This system has already produced coastal flooding, beach erosion, and marine impacts and will continue to due so as it slowly moves away from the coast this week. hurricanes.gov

OK a lot of good info from the National Trust webinar about the dangers of Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act #BAAJA, but good news is that a lot of senate offices are undecided. Contact your senator, tell them to oppose the bill! #archaeology #nepa #nhpa #section106 🧪⚱️

Call your senators and tell them to vote no on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act! Permitting protects you, your land, your water, your air, and your history. #archaeology #section106 #NHPA #NEPA 🧪⚱️ www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist@hknorton.bsky.social · 2d ago

Did you know that 98% of #S106 projects in Colorado are no adverse effect/no historic sites and are resolved in less than 30 days? #BAAJA 🏺 #historicpreservation #archaeology S106 doesn't hold up projects, poor planning by developers does.