Chris Turner
@theturner.bsky.social
Author of HOW TO BE A CLIMATE OPTIMIST. Writer & talker about the energy transition. Baseball (in season). Nova Scotia resident.
Toronto Blue Jays George Springer
Alt: George Springer lifting his hands palms up to correctly assess the Blue Jays' shot at a playoff spot this season, which is, roughly, "ennnnhhh but you never know in baseball"
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Mike Petriello@mikepetriello.bsky.social · 6h agoI don't actually think they're going to get there, I don't really believe in them, yes there are a half-dozen teams ahead of them, but .. [Toronto is only 4 games out of a playoff spot]
Been living with this lousy situation for a couple years now. Though to be fair, MS Word was doing enshittification long before it was cool
Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · yesterdayThe most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
It’s likely the 2026 Jays get no closer to a wildcard spot but I’m thankful that we get to watch George Springer try to drag em there anyway
George Springer's Epic Springer Dinger Celebration
ALT: George Springer's Epic Springer Dinger Celebration
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Tough break for the "solar ruins prime farmland" crowd, whose wholly evidence-based case against solar appears to have little merit. I'm sure their mea culpas will be posted shortly and this is the last we'll hear of it
Suw@suw.bsky.social · 3d agoCrops grown underneath solar panels produce more, require less water and are more resistant to extreme weather, even during a hot, dry summer. We need agrivoltaics to be rolled out asap, for both the electricity and the better growing conditions. microgridmedia.com/solar-panels...
I truly don't care what beer-flavoured water Americans prefer, but that graph shows Bud Light sales in free fall from about 2015 onward, and yet the FT story tries to pin it all on MAGA being big mad about a trans spokesperson
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2d agoThe 'easy to drink' brand with a blue and white label was the best-selling beer in America until 2023. ft.trib.al/2TWKIih
Thankfully the trade deadline comes quick, so we should only have a couple days of commentators who long thought this year's team was hopeless second-guessing the return on eight weeks of production from guys who've had middling seasons and such
Toronto Star@thestar.com · 2d agoOpinion | The #BlueJays’ return for Kevin Gausman was underwhelming, writes @gregorchisholm.bsky.social. Could keeping him for playoff push have been the better option?
Doing the math, those are 0.9% and 0.2% rejection rates. And a thorough repudiation of the narrative around gender-affirming health care and vulnerable youth embraced by shamelessly self-serving politicians like Alberta Premier Danielle Smith
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 2d agoA new study out of Canada looked at four youth gender clinics. Out of 445 patients only four who started gender affirming hormone therapy ceased taking it, and only one did so due to a re-identification with their birth sex. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
His subtle keyboard work on AM was left too low in the mix by the album’s producer IMHO
Jay Jaffe@jayjaffe.bsky.social · 4d agoWoke up from a dream where I was very excited about a Wilco box set documenting the formative period where …. Ichiro Suzuki …. was part of the band
Mark Baum's Angry Phone Call: Yep, There's a Bubble
Alt: Steve Carell calling it a bubble on a phone call in The Big Short, because I couldn't find a gif of the stripper in Florida telling him about the multiple properties she owned as investments
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Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 5d agoMicrosoft had its best stock single day stock performance since 2008 this week and Amazon is now ripping as well. The reason for both is that demand for AI services is skyrocketing and they can’t build datacenters fast enough to keep up. It’s a gold rush and the hyperscalers have found the gold
I know we're so far beyond this in a horse-in-the-hospital sense, but I still can't help but wonder how the Beltway media would react to literally any other senior government official whose bumbling attempt to change the colour of the water in a decorative feature led to 6 weeks of this stuff
This was my first encounter with this particular Very Serious Person and imagine my surprise to find on a quick search that he was pro-Brexit
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 7d agoIt is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.
It’d be great if everyone who loved to repeat that stat they heard 10 years ago about the number of coal plants China was allegedly building every week would now pivot to searing this graph just as deeply into their brains
Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · 6d agoIt's happening... pretty fast! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This is just to say I have adapted the poems that were optioned by Universal and which you were probably saving for A24 forgive me they were entertaining so epic and so good in IMAX
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
I’m generally not surprised by viral posts that are like “OMG Dazed and Confused was 30 years ago” or whatever but what the hell is this
It's hard to find fun clips of the 2026 Blue Jays right now but Pinango's "route" in front of the Monster should be set to Yakety Sax to soothe our weary souls
Keegan Matheson@keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 2w agoThis inning unravelled on CJ Van Eyk, which included Yohendrick Piñango fielding a Green Monster ball off his back? While the Red Sox warm Aroldis Chapman, the #BlueJays hand it from Van Eyk to Macko...
When I first started reporting on Germany's Energiewende in 2005, I heard repeatedly -- even from German energy bureaucrats -- that the goal of 20% from ALL renewables was a far distant dream that might be practically impossible
Nicolas Fulghum@nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 2w agoSolar produced a record 35.5% of Germany's electricity in June ☀️ That was more than all fossil fuels combined: Solar: 35.5% Fossil: 30.7% Other: 33.8% 10 years ago, solar reached a share of 11.6% in June, and has since tripled.
Also this is not who Vladdy is. There is a decade of evidence to the contrary. Even Babe Ruth had slumps
D.M. Fox@dmfox.bsky.social · 2w agoThe good news is that Parker, King, and Nimmala will still be Blue Jays for a while.
While I’m at it, many Jays fans currently acting like they always knew the team would come to nothing under Rogers and Shapiro are the same ones who would’ve been ecstatic if we’d signed Kyle Tucker, who has 7 HR and a .704 OPS for the genius-led Dodgers. The answer is almost always BECAUSE BASEBALL
Chris Turner@theturner.bsky.social · 2w agoBaseball gods are unknowable and capricious. The vaunted LA Dodgers won I think 9 straight division titles before they won a World Series. Don’t overthink it, this is a baseball problem, not a Toronto one
I guess what I’m trying to say is I was pretty confident I’d get a W for my fantasy team when I started Drew Rasmussen today and I am in no way surprised to learn I was right
Chris Turner@theturner.bsky.social · 2w agoI mean this is basically the entire organization right now
I mean this is basically the entire organization right now
혼파망 피자
ALT: 혼파망 피자
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Mike Petriello@mikepetriello.bsky.social · 2w agoI didn't expect the Jays to repeat what happened last year. But man, I didn't expect *this,* either. What a collapse. They're going to sell some very interesting names next week, I think.
There is something almost sweet about the fact that the baseball gods have given us a classic Rays series where they seem like the luckiest team in the history of sports to kill the Jays’ season for us
Youre Unlucky Unlucky
ALT: Youre Unlucky Unlucky
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A core lesson of the 2025 Blue Jays’ delirious run is that many many things have to break just right to get to the World Series. The lesson of the 2026 team is that when very little breaks right — but especially this — the result from basically the same crew can be pretty dismal
Keegan Matheson@keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 2w agoAfter tonight's 0-for-4, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is now batting .259 with a .695 OPS. Even as we watch it all happen, I can't believe that it keeps stretching on. Baffling season. #BlueJays
This combination, two days apart, will serve for future historians as an effective shorthand for the lunacy of the moment.
Bike lane discourse is always unhinged, but the Alberta government’s whiny-ass snitch line is next level
Jason Markusoff@markusoff.bsky.social · 3w agoBoy, the Alberta Transportation's new Barbaric Urban Bicycle Lanes Tip Line, and that drop-down menu sans "Other" field. www.alberta.ca/report-conce...
Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Veep: Holy Mother of God
Alt: Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Veep, a sitcom about how little technical competence at anything it takes to be the vice-president of the United States of America
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FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4w agoVance: A lot of the people who are going and getting 4-year degrees, they're not like engineers and doctors. They have fake jobs
Turns out you cannot readily become an elite thinker by feeding yourself buckets of slop
Lauri Donahue@lauridonahue.bsky.social · last mo.futurism.com/future-socie... lol
I say this a lot, but when I started reporting on the renewable energy business 20 years ago, a great many energy experts assured me this could never possibly happen
Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · last mo.Did you know? Renewables have just overtaken coal as the world's largest source of electricity 34% – global renewable share, up 2x in 20yrs 48% – EU 37% – China 26% – US 24% – India
