Seth Kaplan
@sethlkap.bsky.social
Work in, and low key obsessed with, clean energy and climate. Currently working on offshore wind. Open to varied and good music, movies, pet pictures and science stuff.
FYI www.carrienationcocktailclub bar in Boston named Carrie Nation up by the State House. @jodyavirgan.com @pastpunditry.bsky.social @kcarterjackson.bsky.social @thisdaypod.com
Carrie Nation Restaurant and Cocktail Club
Choose from a sprawling selection of food menus, crafted to complement the spirit of the atmosphere and a meticulously poured cocktail. After dinner make your way to the red velvet curtain and find yo...
carrienationcocktailclub.com
My Brookline MA brag question - does your city or town have a train line that runs under a High School building?
An uncomfortable truth we avoid- one of the reasons to not use Hanukkah as a Christmas substitute is that the heroes of that story were murderous tyrannical schmucks www.haaretz.com/jewish/holid...
The Hasmoneans: Jewish dynasty that gave us Hanukkah is a symbol of murder, not heroism
Israelis Glorify the Hasmoneans for Purifying the Temple and Liberating Jerusalem, but They Were Actually a Bloodthirsty Clan Whose Members Turned on Each Other. The Romans Put Them Out of Everybody's...
haaretz.com
I don't know what "the dolphins lead the orcas to salmon so they can eat scraps when the orcas sloppily eat the salmon" is a metaphor for, but it is a metaphor for something www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/s...
Killer Whales Find an ‘Unlikely Friend’ in Dolphins
nytimes.com
Just went to craft fair in a church where they were using the sanctuary for sales space, I think they got the idea from research done by Pew.
Defying generational stereotypes by making and having avocado toast
@amtrak.com NextGen Acela going through the section of RI that has long run of new tracks in straight-ish line and trains can go the fastest. Maxed out at 161. Not world record of course or up to European, Japanese or Chinese standards but pretty good for the US
"If a man were porter of hell gate, he should have old turning the key" Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3
@dahlialithwick.bsky.social hey did you see Ari Peskoe from Harvard's amicus about FERC and Humphrey's Executor? He would make a great guest on the podcast
Working from my phone reminds me of the first great tool for remote road warrior electronic work. IFYKYK, in this case it is more IFYAOYK (you will figure it out) - put 4 AA batteries, a cassette drive & a phone coupler in your bag and you were set for travel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_...
TRS-80 Model 100 - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Toronto (aka polite Chicago or clean NYC) unexpectedly loses the World Series
Remember that the generally excellent TTC (Toronto Transit) service ends at 2 am
True Red Sox fan take would be: oh yeah I had forgotten why I didn't like Kike Hernandez. Showboat.
Dan Kennedy@dankennedy.net · 12mo agoYou reach the point where you’re out of pitchers.
Yeah yesterday @milkepescs.bsky.social was agreeing w/Iowa journo Art Cullen on his podcast that Ds need to stop emphasizing transgender & related issues "like they did in the last election" -Delusional. National Ds were (for better or worse) desperately running away from those issues in 2024
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 12mo agoThe reality of the Democratic Party -- what its elected officials actually do with the power they are given -- is almost entirely immaterial to US political discourse. Happens off-stage, basically. Discourse is dominated by a kind of collective hallucination, a bogieman invented by its opponents.
A scoop that I’m not happy to report: CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution. heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News kills its climate unit
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
heated.world
Nice to get good news - in this case from Moldova www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w...
Moldova’s Pivotal Election Projected to End in Victory for Pro-Europeans
nytimes.com
Significant - and almost 200 years ago Eunice Foote published a note that was one of the earliest pieces of foundational science in this area. Amazingly she is still celebrated on a US government website! www.climate.gov/news-feature...
Happy 200th birthday to Eunice Foote, hidden climate science pioneer
American Eunice Foote was an amateur scientist and women's rights pioneer from the mid-1800s whose experiments foreshadowed the discovery of Earth's greenhouse effect.
climate.gov
All Our Yesterdays@allouryesterdays.bsky.social · last yr.70 years ago today, (Sept 22, 1955) a General Electric scientist warned about carbon dioxide build-up. C02 “may be having a greenhouse effect on our climate” because mankind is “contaminating the earth’s atmosphere faster than nature can clean it.” allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/22/7...
So there is @maryroach.bsky.social popping up on no less than 3 podcasts in my feed - @ologies.bsky.social @99pi.org and @nprfreshair.bsky.social discussing her new book Replaceable You. Should listen to a couple & buy the book
And we find the center of the Venn diagram where @michaelemann.bsky.social and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce agree www.uschamber.com/economy/we-n...
Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · last yr."The darker agenda behind Trump’s obsession with windmills" [I originally titled this "Breaking Wind"] | My #ScienceUnderSiege -themed op-ed for the @bostonglobe.com: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/10/o...
Well said @pbump.com - I am still waiting to see any actual assertion of what law that poor Texas A&M prof broke - or even allegedly broke.
Philip Bump@pbump.com · last yr.There is a throughline between Texas A&M's embarrassing response to a student's complaint and a certain newspaper's "who's to say who signed it" article. www.pbump.net/o/the-climat...
@espiers.bsky.social Have him on and use the phrase "magical sky friend" and see what happens @felixsalmon.com @emilypeck.bsky.social
Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · last yr.When the PR guy has definitely not googled me
My grandmother, who was an early female grad of NYU law school, told me she was taking an Evidence class with him when he disappeared
Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · last yr.A brand-new mystery is waiting for you! 🚨🎙️ My latest podcast delves into one of the most intriguing missing persons cases in American history—the baffling disappearance in 1930 of Judge Joseph Crater. This case became so famous that Crater earned the nickname "the missingest man in America." 🔎🕵️♂️
@julianakaplan.bsky.social invokes the Turkish historical example in talking about Fed independence www.businessinsider.com/trump-fire-f... The same historical precedent that apparently scarred @galendruke.bsky.social judging by his comments on the Gist with @milkepescs.bsky.social
Trump is trying to fire a Fed governor. Here's what happened when other countries' presidents did the same thing.
President Donald Trump wants to fire Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook. Here's what it means for inflation and interest rates.
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