Duke Energy has applied to the state to operate 57 diesel generators that would temporarily power the data center until a transmission line is built. They could emit several hundred tons of pollutants and 70,000 tons of greenhouse gases in a year.

Inside the Secretive Deal for a $10 Billion Data Center in Rural North Carolina - Inside Climate News

Residents say they were left out of the decision-making process for a project that includes hundreds of polluting diesel generators.

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This is where "infotainment" screens were always headed Buttons and knobs, please. Buttons and knobs.

Matt Thrower@mattthr.bsky.social · yesterday

BWM cars now showing owners and unskippable ad for the new Spider Man Film whenever they start the vehicle. This shit needs to become illegal, yesterday, else how long before you have to watch it *before* you can start the vehicle.

emergency cool bike pic post h/t @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social for the 'avoid replying to pearl clutching fb posts about how dangerous it is for kids to ride bicycles in public' one weird trick

Me: been so unfocused lately but I really need to get this draft finished & sent off today, so I'm just gonna pop my phone in a little cardboard box and tape it up until I'm done. Duo: HOLD MY BEER

I'm not here for politics, I'm here to see posts from people who did things with a bike that society says you need a car for.

it’s empty peanut butter jar day for coconut pumpernickel, a holiday that appears sporadically and takes an entire day’s effort (split up by naps)

always fun encountering evidence of a presumably out-of-control motor vehicle crashing into the refuge island I use twice a day

Vision Zero has had a mixed record in U.S. cities. Perhaps it's time to ask more fundamental questions about the purpose of our public spaces. The latest Infrastructure and Its Discontents essay is up: sethlajeunesse.substack.com/p/what-and-w...

What and Who is a Street For?

Infrastructure and Its Discontents, Essay No. 10

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When you're only 15 pounds but you neeeeeed every inch of your 75-lb cousin's bed

Hiya new followers! Did somebody re-up a starter pack? If so, I'll try not to disappoint 😃

erm, I don't think this is what ADA compliance means "To comply with ADA Title II digital accessibility requirements, Division Engineer Letters added to the website prior to April 2026 have been removed from this site and archived."

#chapelhillnc tornado Take cover people. Now

@drtcombs.bsky.social "Just act like cars" "okay!" *stares at phone, bikes directly into wall*

Seen some tutorials lately on the best place for a person on a bicycle at a multilane intersection like this, and friends, the actual best place to be is at city hall every day asking WTF we're still telling people on bikes to "just act like cars" rather than building safe infrastructure

Made a new friend at the bike rack yesterday: someone else who hates grocery shopping but will happily use it as an excuse to ride their cargo #ebike. E-bikes make everything better.

shout out to our local columnists at @wchlchapelboro.bsky.social, who are definitely anything but median. If you want to see an excellent model for reporting on local transportation (and traffic) issues, I highly recommend!

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2w ago

The median newspaper columnist writing about bike infrastructure is like, "I once had to park 150 feet away from the coffee shop so I talked to 2 other drivers, a failing restaurant owner, and a person who once saw a cyclist run a stop sign about how bike lanes ruined our lives."

getting spammed by the 'journal of pain' is a little too on the nose, academia

Has anyone checked on Aldi? #NCMonsoon #ChapelHillNC

There is nothing more I love in this world right now than these two lunch ladies performing Firestarter by The Prodigy. [instagram.com]

Esha 👠 on Instagram: "#theprodigy #lunchladyenergy"

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I wrote 1,000 words this morning on a paper I've been struggling hard to get traction on and now I'm too proud of myself to get anything else done today.

TIL from our local FB that it's kids' fault they keep getting run over by distracted drivers Look at me not replying!

Oh yay the first of this year's youth soccer surprise fees just dropped.

Getting a PhD is not about knowing more things. It's about learning how to create more knowledge through rigorous, ethical, replicable research. It's about learning how to come up with novel questions and challenge old ideas. These things are hard. They take time and effort and care.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is the kind of idiocy you get on Threads. I think the main purpose of pursuing a PhD is to develop your thinking, research, and communication skills, which you can't do in 45 minutes on Claude.

For unknown reasons my browser is not showing graphics today and let me tell you, a whole lot of you are really crappy at #AltText.

The Naked Ladies are here!!! #garden #bloomscrolling

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Curb space is the most valuable resource in any city's street network. It's also a finite resource. It's a really big problem that waymo thinks it belongs to them.

David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 3w ago

Waymo’s robotaxis keep blocking bike lanes. It’s emblematic of a bigger problem. When passenger convenience and public safety conflict, robotaxi companies will favor the former. 🧵 about my guest essay in @driverlessdigest.bsky.social

Link here! Livestream starts at 10:15am ET. youtube.com/live/Ww46Lds...

Taylor Farms Situation Is Insane: Outbreak Updates

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

Livestreaming tomorrow morning on the Taylor Farms updates to the outbreak news! 10am Eastern time on my YouTube, www.youtube.com/@FarmToTaber.

Your friendly neighborhood car dependency researcher here. If we want to get people out of car dependency, we need to let people who are car dependent talk to us about what's keeping them in car dependency. It's really not enough to say, "you should be less dependent on your car" I've tried.