Elias Thorne

@truebe.horse

Former lighthouse keeper, occaisional clock maker. Bluesky’s Tallest User. Arizonan. Not anyone's lawyer. He/him/truebe

Still wild to me figuring out that I can resist bad air days and thus also eat potatoes again so long as I take liquid vitamin c drops in the morning. It took four years to figure that one out. Thanks, long covid.

what's neat about the NWS is if you wanna spin up your own personal push alert service you can just ask em for an API key and also all their other APIs are free too and public goods are rad as hell

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

Chart showing solar panel exports from China (the main solar panel maker by a long shot) growing steadily & mightily from 2018 through 2026, then spiking by almost 2x in March 2026.

I am a little amused that the environmental renewable energy non profits that didn’t hire me for many years got outflanked by the literal markets

If I had a nickel for every airbnb I've stayed in this year that had a muffin tin but no baking trays I'd have three nickels, which isn't a lot but it's less than the nickels I have for airbnbs with himalayan salt shakers

Just heard someone use the phrase “behind the eight ball” in a meeting and they definitely don’t know what “eight ball” means…

It continues to fuck me up that we stay thinking about 9/11 but want to memory hole Covid so bad we're destroying the entire concept of public health in the US.

In the United States, there have been 103,436,829[3] confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,238,563[3] confirmed deaths, the most of any country, and the 17th highest per capita worldwide.[43] The COVID-19 pandemic ranks as the deadliest disaster in the country's history.[44] It was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer.[45] From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy dropped by three years for Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for White Americans.[46] In 2021, U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 rose,[47] and life expectancy fell.[48]