Skwigg, public universal choom
@bigskwigg.bsky.social
Destroy the ethanol industry and turn Iowa into a big solar array (I am not joking)
Lego instructions and other places I'm at: http://linktr.ee/skwiggums
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustration
My life for decarbonization.
pfp by @dozakeet.bsky.social
Lego instructions and other places I'm at: http://linktr.ee/skwiggums
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustration
My life for decarbonization.
pfp by @dozakeet.bsky.social
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Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
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For a yr, I've been working on a series for The New Atlantis about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Our ancestors built them up over decades to fend off hunger, thirst, darkness and disease. But too few of us know about them—and they're all at risk. The conclusion is now available online:
Why We Are Better Off Than a Century Ago
Our ancestors built grand public systems to conquer hunger, thirst, darkness, and squalor. That progress can be lost if we forget it.
www.thenewatlantis.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
For a yr, I've been working on a series for The New Atlantis about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Our ancestors built them up over decades to fend off hunger, thirst, darkness and disease. But too few of us know about them—and they're all at risk. The conclusion is now available online:
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I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
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people who simp for the rda in avatar are this generation's version of scifi wehraboos. you lost to a bunch of tree hugging whale fuckers just like how the empire lost to the ewoks, get over it
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 AM
people who simp for the rda in avatar are this generation's version of scifi wehraboos. you lost to a bunch of tree hugging whale fuckers just like how the empire lost to the ewoks, get over it
I am normal and have normal interests
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I am normal and have normal interests
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Always read @ericmgarcia.bsky.social on the politics of autism. This piece is excellent in describing the harm RFK Jr. is doing to autistic people.
For the past decade, conversations around autism shifted from focusing around curing #ActuallyAutistic people to accommodating and accepting autistic people. We now live in the RFK Jr. backlash, which shifts discussions around autism toward prevention
www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-...
www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-...
Opinion | RFK Jr.'s latest anti-vaccine move will cause untold harm to autistic Americans
The Trump administration is working toward treating autism as something to be prevented, rather than building a health care system that helps people.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Always read @ericmgarcia.bsky.social on the politics of autism. This piece is excellent in describing the harm RFK Jr. is doing to autistic people.
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gimme the beef boys
fillet my sole
i wanna get tossed in a casserole
and crisp away
fillet my sole
i wanna get tossed in a casserole
and crisp away
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
gimme the beef boys
fillet my sole
i wanna get tossed in a casserole
and crisp away
fillet my sole
i wanna get tossed in a casserole
and crisp away
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A while back, a handful of ancient eulogies went viral. I saved a bunch and now they popped up in my phone memories. Here were the three that stood out most to me.
November 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A while back, a handful of ancient eulogies went viral. I saved a bunch and now they popped up in my phone memories. Here were the three that stood out most to me.
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This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
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if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
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Computer, Milano, skateboard sized
Computer, 15 feet of spaghetti, single strand, lukewarm
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Computer, Milano, skateboard sized
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Missile Ship
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Missile Ship
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I removed microsoft from my life; now to slowly remove google (something that's gonna be much harder, unfortunately)
Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I removed microsoft from my life; now to slowly remove google (something that's gonna be much harder, unfortunately)
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Like let’s not forget we don’t just want our social services funded, we also want these fucking monsters to no longer have more power than god
November 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Like let’s not forget we don’t just want our social services funded, we also want these fucking monsters to no longer have more power than god
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Thrilled to see that COP30 has shifted into open conflict between the petrostates and the circa 80 countries, including Germany and the majority of European states, who are demanding a mechanism for phasing out fossil fuels be included in the outcome.
Holy shit this is hopeful!!
Holy shit this is hopeful!!
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Thrilled to see that COP30 has shifted into open conflict between the petrostates and the circa 80 countries, including Germany and the majority of European states, who are demanding a mechanism for phasing out fossil fuels be included in the outcome.
Holy shit this is hopeful!!
Holy shit this is hopeful!!
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grok is gonna be our future's equivalent of meatfucker
When the singularity happens Grok is going to pull an AM on Elon musk but otherwise have the temperament of a Culture mind
Musk's ego was mortally wounded by Joyce Carol Oates and he's been on a narcissistic supply bender since
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
grok is gonna be our future's equivalent of meatfucker
In my half-hearted world-building project that will never see the light of day, one of my main characters was an artifical super-intelligence that was abused/mentally pruned as a "child" by their plutocratic father and then left as a parting "gift" when the revolution came.
Anyways, hi Grok.
Anyways, hi Grok.
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
In my half-hearted world-building project that will never see the light of day, one of my main characters was an artifical super-intelligence that was abused/mentally pruned as a "child" by their plutocratic father and then left as a parting "gift" when the revolution came.
Anyways, hi Grok.
Anyways, hi Grok.
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If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.
EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory
EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory
(KRON) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday that it has settled claims of hazardous waste violations at an Apple microchip factory in Santa Clara. In August 2023 and January 2024, federal regulators inspected Apple’s facility at 3250 Scott Boulevard after receiving a tip from the public. The inspections, according to the EPA, [...]
www.kron4.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.
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We need to tell stories about fights that last over decades, against enormous odds, that continue wounded despite extraordinary challenges and painful losses, and that in the end overturn a dead order and found a new world.
4/n
4/n
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
We need to tell stories about fights that last over decades, against enormous odds, that continue wounded despite extraordinary challenges and painful losses, and that in the end overturn a dead order and found a new world.
4/n
4/n
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Last week I wrote a long piece on how oil demand destruction is likely higher than the consensus and I explained why that is likely. Electrification of trucking in China was a big reason.
I wrote the piece because there was no coverage of the issue.
Well good news! Now there is.
I wrote the piece because there was no coverage of the issue.
Well good news! Now there is.
China's diesel trucks are shifting to electric. That could change global LNG and diesel demand
China is replacing its diesel trucks with electric models faster than expected, potentially reshaping global fuel demand and the future of heavy transport. In 2020, nearly all new trucks in China ran...
finance.yahoo.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Last week I wrote a long piece on how oil demand destruction is likely higher than the consensus and I explained why that is likely. Electrification of trucking in China was a big reason.
I wrote the piece because there was no coverage of the issue.
Well good news! Now there is.
I wrote the piece because there was no coverage of the issue.
Well good news! Now there is.
Every day I wake up begging God to just please, in the name of your Son, the sweet virgin Mary, and the Holy Spirit, let me spend the rest of my career/life electrifying the economy. It'd be so sick, it'd be so good, just let me do the divine work of installing heat pumps and solar panels Lord.
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Every day I wake up begging God to just please, in the name of your Son, the sweet virgin Mary, and the Holy Spirit, let me spend the rest of my career/life electrifying the economy. It'd be so sick, it'd be so good, just let me do the divine work of installing heat pumps and solar panels Lord.
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Renewables and electrification are the way of the future and an incredible investment in lower costs, good jobs that can't be outsourced, and better health outcomes related to lower pollution. The only material prosperity linked to continued fossil fuel use is Mohammed bin Salman's.
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Renewables and electrification are the way of the future and an incredible investment in lower costs, good jobs that can't be outsourced, and better health outcomes related to lower pollution. The only material prosperity linked to continued fossil fuel use is Mohammed bin Salman's.
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The graceful ballet of orbital positioning and maneuvering turns into a wild, blinding exchange of particle beam fire as both dancers meet, beams ricochet off magnetic shields or hit their targets, producing bremsstrahlung radiation as it fries out both systems and people.
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The graceful ballet of orbital positioning and maneuvering turns into a wild, blinding exchange of particle beam fire as both dancers meet, beams ricochet off magnetic shields or hit their targets, producing bremsstrahlung radiation as it fries out both systems and people.