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Aimee Tuck
@aimeenvironment.bsky.social
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Renewable energy nerd, graphic designer with a strategic branding focus, reader o’ sci-fi and urban fantasy. The internet was built by and for cats.
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Is it just me, or is whoever rebranded NREL a Lord of the Rings fan?

NREL to NLotR

"New Lord of the Rings"
"Northern Lord of the Rings"
"Nearly Lord of the Rings"
"Nihilistic Lord of the Rings"

Wha else?
Aerial of former NREL, no rebranded National Lab of the Rockies
December 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Huh. Pantone's color of the year choice feels completely, utterly tone-deaf. Racial profiling seems to be status quo for the U.S. government, but hey picking a shade of white makes sense. 🤦
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Woman in all white clothing standing on white ground with clouds behind her. The words Pantone Color of the Year 2026, Cloud Dancer are overlaid over the image.
December 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Who needs a tree when you’ve got a tree skirt?

They’re currently taking turns diving at it and sliding across the wood floor. 🤣🤣🤣
Two long-hair cats sitting on a Christmas tree skirt.
November 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Some days the clouds are so low, it feels like dusk at noon. Other days, the sun shines on the countless water droplets and the world sparkles.
Close up of red berries on a leafless bush with blue sky behind it. Red berries on a leafless bush with blue sky behind it.
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I read. A lot. 68 books so far this year. I also have a mind like a steel sieve, so I pay attention when books stick with me. If you’re looking for gifts for the holidays, here are books I’ve read this year that have stuck with me:
1. The Mars House, Natasha Pulley (I can’t recommend this one highly enough) 2. Feeding Ghosts, Tessa Hulls 3. The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss (whole series) 4. The Witch Roads, Kate Elliot 5. Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Heather Fawcett (whole series) 6. Starvation Heights, Gregg Olsen
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Screenshot of a scene from the Simpsons, showing a Kristy the Clown doll with its switch turned to evil instead of good.
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Sunday morning entertainment brought to us by our kitteh overlords.
Black and white cat sitting in an overturned box. The cat is watching a feather toy move.
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Don't worry, this is next:
Screenshot from The Simpsons in which Mr. Burns shows his model to block out the sun to Mr. Smithers.
October 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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"...in this corner of planet Earth, you have to be the best of humanity. We can land this together, if you are the best you can be. You are decent, brilliant people.” – Doctor Who

Thinking about this, I wonder at what an amazing world it would be if WE all tried to be the be best of humanity.
Close up of maple leaves on a tree. The sun is shining through the leaves and a couple of them are starting to turn red, while most are still green.
October 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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“That’s DOCTOR Fluffybottoms, thank you. Professor of physics.”

Yay! Look what arrived yesterday! Physics for Cats by @tomgauld.bsky.social!
Fluffy black and white cat looking at a copy of the book “Physics for Cats” by Tom Gauld.
October 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Can we talk about the 2nd half of this article? Unsubsidized solar and utility-scale solar, NOT CSP (which is what Ivanpah is), make way more sense economically. Repeating: unsubsidized.
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A chart from Lazard, showing utility-scale solar plats are cheaper than the lowest-cost marginal cost of fossil fuel, meaning that even the most cost-effective combined cycle natural gas plants that are already built and operating are more expensive electricity generators than new-build solar and wind.
October 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I love living where I do. Ten minutes before I snapped this pic, I was walking in the rain.
Wide view of the Puget Sound, above a marina, with giants, fluffy clouds, blue sky, and islands in the background.
October 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Almost autumn walk = beautiful black-eyed susans!
Close up of a brilliant yellow and black black-eyed susan flower
September 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Caturday!
I’m fairly certain that look is telling me he’d like the sunbeam moved to his location. 🤣🤣
Black and white tuxedo cat lounging on a picnic blanket on the floor. In front of him is a sunbeam, but he’s not quite lying in the sun and is looking annoyed by it.
September 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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*waves paw over basket*
This is not the basket you are looking for.
Tuxedo cat sitting in the middle of a collapsed laundry basket.
September 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Cartoon saying rebrand of the week. Shows the CDC logo and a new logo that just says center for disease.
September 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Doctors I trust more than RFK, Jr.
A portion of a book cover for Robert Louis Stephenson’s book, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide, showing a line drawing split down the middle of a normal middle-aged male face and a monstrous, evil grinning face.
September 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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As renewables investment grows to $386B in H1 2025 globally, I believe the phrase this article is adroitly avoiding is, "the US is getting left in the dust." Quite literally if Arizona is any indication.
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August 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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🤣🤣🤣🤣 It’s funny because it’s true.
3D map of Washington D.C. with the White House circles and the words “heaviest crime zone in DC” overlaid.
August 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Received my copy of Faraway Dreaming by Ulla Thynell.
For me it’s a beautiful meditation of a journey through a forest. Every page asks me to stop and observe. Love it!
@atthisarts.com
Front cover of the book, “Faraway Dreaming” by Ulla Thynell. The cover art is a beautiful illustration of a nighttime forest scene with a dragon and a person riding a unicorn.
August 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Current weather conditions: too hot! Must nap!
Two cats sleeping on a couch. One sleeping on the back of the couch and one on the cushions.
August 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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For all my fellow scifi nerds coming to Seattle this week for WorldCon, don’t worry, you’ll get to experience “real” PNW weather, inclusive of sun, rain, and dramatic shifts in temperature.
Screenshot of Seattle weather for this week. Today: 87 and sunny, Wed: 77 and partly sunny, Thurs: chance of rain and 73, Fri: rain and 68, Sat:: rain and 73, and Sun: partly sunny and 75.
August 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Monday vibes….
Close up of a cat lying down hiding behind its tail. Can only see one open eye.
August 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Today’s Caturday brought to you by a sunbeam and cardboard box.
Two long-hair tuxedo kitties looking at the camera. They’re sitting in a sunspot. One of the cats is in a cardboard box, while the other cat sits behind the box.
August 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Fixed it.
Screenshot of a DoE Twitter post trying to make coal look sexy.
August 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM