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Luke Griffin
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· Sep 20
This is my pup, Tate. She’s continuing the lessons her predecessors began in how to be a better being.
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Equalizing electricity prices between residential, commercial, and industrial customers would save households - aka voters - 21% on their electricity bills. Commercial prices would go up 1%. Industrial prices would go up 59% because residential and commercial customers deeply subsidize them today.
7. Residential customers - aka you and me, aka voters - pay 28% more (16.5 c/kWh, 2024 average) than commercial customers (12.9 c/kWh) and 201% more than industrial (8.2 c/kWh). This trend is accelerating: Residential prices rose 27% from 2019-2023, vs. 21% for commercial and 19% for industrial.
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Equalizing electricity prices between residential, commercial, and industrial customers would save households - aka voters - 21% on their electricity bills. Commercial prices would go up 1%. Industrial prices would go up 59% because residential and commercial customers deeply subsidize them today.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Confirmed: Katie Wilson will be mayor of Seattle, ousting the incumbent from his left.
And Erika Evans will be the new city attorney, ousting the GOP city attorney after promising to take the office in a more progressive direction.
What do progressives' win mean for law enforcement? NEW IN BOLTS:
And Erika Evans will be the new city attorney, ousting the GOP city attorney after promising to take the office in a more progressive direction.
What do progressives' win mean for law enforcement? NEW IN BOLTS:
Progressives Win in Seattle, Changing Directions on Public Safety - Bolts
Voters ousted a mayor who oversaw a surge in encampment sweeps, and a Republican prosecutor who pursued punitive policies toward homeless people and drug users.
boltsmag.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Confirmed: Katie Wilson will be mayor of Seattle, ousting the incumbent from his left.
And Erika Evans will be the new city attorney, ousting the GOP city attorney after promising to take the office in a more progressive direction.
What do progressives' win mean for law enforcement? NEW IN BOLTS:
And Erika Evans will be the new city attorney, ousting the GOP city attorney after promising to take the office in a more progressive direction.
What do progressives' win mean for law enforcement? NEW IN BOLTS:
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😔 WETA in Washington, D.C., and its subsidiary News Hour Productions are ending broadcasts of PBS News Weekend, closing News Hour West bureau, because of Congressional Republicans gutting of federal funding for public media:
current.org/2025/11/weta...
current.org/2025/11/weta...
WETA to cut staff, cancel ‘PBS News Weekend’ and close News Hour West bureau
The restructuring includes the elimination of 34 positions, following another round of cuts made in September.
current.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
😔 WETA in Washington, D.C., and its subsidiary News Hour Productions are ending broadcasts of PBS News Weekend, closing News Hour West bureau, because of Congressional Republicans gutting of federal funding for public media:
current.org/2025/11/weta...
current.org/2025/11/weta...
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Today is World Kindness Day
Not because I had a small part to play but because now more than ever we need to amplify kindness and human connection, let me share with you the Tale of Kathleen & John
After I had given directions to Kathleen (as I was to learn was her name) she headed off with her trusty walking frame, Esmeralda
After I had given directions to Kathleen (as I was to learn was her name) she headed off with her trusty walking frame, Esmeralda
A woman steps into the shop: Where do I vote?
Me: Are you looking for Carysfort National School?
Her: Yes, I feel it's my duty, I turned 97 yesterday!
#Áras25
Me: Are you looking for Carysfort National School?
Her: Yes, I feel it's my duty, I turned 97 yesterday!
#Áras25
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Today is World Kindness Day
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Surveillance isn’t “out there” anymore—it’s on our streets. Help EFF fight surveillance today: takebackctrl.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Surveillance isn’t “out there” anymore—it’s on our streets. Help EFF fight surveillance today: takebackctrl.org
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Wood chipper, feet first.
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Wood chipper, feet first.
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Re: Epstein’s emails
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Re: Epstein’s emails
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When Ken Starr and his team delivered the printed copies of his report to the House it was treated like the Moon landing.
The kids won't remember but the dc press served as ken starr's personal PR firm and basically elevated him to sainthood
Ken Starr, immediately after being fired for his role in the coverup of sexual abuse at Baylor: I should reach out to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
this happened! this is a thing that happened!
this happened! this is a thing that happened!
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
When Ken Starr and his team delivered the printed copies of his report to the House it was treated like the Moon landing.
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NEW in Bolts: In Seattle, voters ousted a mayor who oversaw a surge in encampment sweeps, and a Republican prosecutor who pursued punitive policies toward homeless people and drug users.
Progressives Win in Seattle, Changing Directions on Public Safety
Voters ousted a mayor who oversaw a surge in encampment sweeps, and a Republican prosecutor who pursued punitive policies toward homeless people and drug users.
boltsmag.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
NEW in Bolts: In Seattle, voters ousted a mayor who oversaw a surge in encampment sweeps, and a Republican prosecutor who pursued punitive policies toward homeless people and drug users.
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If it seems like there are fewer #birds around, it's not your imagination.
In Episode 7 of Sounds Wild, Jeff Walters from the American Ornithological Society talks about the 2025 State of the Birds report and what can be done about our declining bird population ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Kz9rGA
In Episode 7 of Sounds Wild, Jeff Walters from the American Ornithological Society talks about the 2025 State of the Birds report and what can be done about our declining bird population ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Kz9rGA
November 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If it seems like there are fewer #birds around, it's not your imagination.
In Episode 7 of Sounds Wild, Jeff Walters from the American Ornithological Society talks about the 2025 State of the Birds report and what can be done about our declining bird population ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Kz9rGA
In Episode 7 of Sounds Wild, Jeff Walters from the American Ornithological Society talks about the 2025 State of the Birds report and what can be done about our declining bird population ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Kz9rGA
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When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
if you cant go in to the office 3 days a week then you really can't complain when cities are hollowed out. cities are places where ppl work and network. getting rid of that makes cities useless
And it's usually something like "but that's not what the literal DNC does!" as if I don't know, as someone who has worked on Dem campaigns, sometimes in conjunction with the DNC what they do. So I'm going to be very specific here: this is the DNC being shitty: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
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The Super Secret Origin of O-Matsu is so deliciously prosaic.
"Hello, former colleague of my murdered samurai husband. Kindly help me seek revenge."
"Heh heh! Wanna see my special katana?"
"Ugh, no." *Stabs concupiscent samurai dead* "Hot damn, that was easy. I reckon I can get my own vengeance."
"Hello, former colleague of my murdered samurai husband. Kindly help me seek revenge."
"Heh heh! Wanna see my special katana?"
"Ugh, no." *Stabs concupiscent samurai dead* "Hot damn, that was easy. I reckon I can get my own vengeance."
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The Super Secret Origin of O-Matsu is so deliciously prosaic.
"Hello, former colleague of my murdered samurai husband. Kindly help me seek revenge."
"Heh heh! Wanna see my special katana?"
"Ugh, no." *Stabs concupiscent samurai dead* "Hot damn, that was easy. I reckon I can get my own vengeance."
"Hello, former colleague of my murdered samurai husband. Kindly help me seek revenge."
"Heh heh! Wanna see my special katana?"
"Ugh, no." *Stabs concupiscent samurai dead* "Hot damn, that was easy. I reckon I can get my own vengeance."
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ahhhh my book is published today, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
this one is a real labour of passion - I think it is genuinely important to understand the information crisis that we're living through and how and why it makes us all feel anxious and angry
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
this one is a real labour of passion - I think it is genuinely important to understand the information crisis that we're living through and how and why it makes us all feel anxious and angry
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today
What’s the most useful thing you could know about your own life?
In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns her boundless curiosity and in...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
ahhhh my book is published today, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
this one is a real labour of passion - I think it is genuinely important to understand the information crisis that we're living through and how and why it makes us all feel anxious and angry
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
this one is a real labour of passion - I think it is genuinely important to understand the information crisis that we're living through and how and why it makes us all feel anxious and angry
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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Love any post that's like "I worked at the New York Times for seven years and here's how the emails don't make us look bad." Keep 'em coming
November 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Love any post that's like "I worked at the New York Times for seven years and here's how the emails don't make us look bad." Keep 'em coming
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In fact, B&N has been expanding rather a bit recently; their sales are up and they've refreshed their stores. And independent books stores have been growing in numbers too! It's been quite a turnaround for brick and mortar bookstores in the last couple of years. I hope it lasts.
I'm more shocked they're still opening new B&Ns.
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
In fact, B&N has been expanding rather a bit recently; their sales are up and they've refreshed their stores. And independent books stores have been growing in numbers too! It's been quite a turnaround for brick and mortar bookstores in the last couple of years. I hope it lasts.
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very happy to announced tour dates with @clppng.bsky.social all on sale now
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November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
very happy to announced tour dates with @clppng.bsky.social all on sale now
mikeeaglestinks.tumblr.com/post/8966612...
mikeeaglestinks.tumblr.com/post/8966612...
There are eldritch burritos behind this opinion
Today's heretical opinion: Milk chocolate is better than dark chocolate and expensive chocolate is so very rarely worth the additional expense. Most chocolate more costly than a Lindt bonbon is a waste of money.
Also white chocolate is perfectly fine. Not real chocolate, okay, whatever. But fine.
Also white chocolate is perfectly fine. Not real chocolate, okay, whatever. But fine.
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
There are eldritch burritos behind this opinion
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Horseshoe Crab Blood Has Long Helped Us Make Safe Medicines. Now, Alternatives That Spare the Ancient Creatures Might Be Breaking Through www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
Horseshoe Crab Blood Has Long Helped Us Make Safe Medicines. Now, Alternatives That Spare the Ancient Creatures Might Be Breaking Through
An enzyme in the blue blood has been key to testing vaccines since the 1980s, raising concerns for the crabs’ population. But regulatory approval and new data are signaling the tide may be turning
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Horseshoe Crab Blood Has Long Helped Us Make Safe Medicines. Now, Alternatives That Spare the Ancient Creatures Might Be Breaking Through www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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They should use AI to analyze the Epstein files because I'm really interested to see what it makes up and the news reports as fact.
November 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
They should use AI to analyze the Epstein files because I'm really interested to see what it makes up and the news reports as fact.
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This Saturday night I'm doing a solo talk/show at @calstate.bsky.social Long Beach. Will be talking about the future, tech, humanity, fascism. ALL the things. There will be jokes. www.carpenterarts.org/event/baratu...
An Evening with Baratunde Thurston
SAT, NOV 15, 2025 AT 8PMTickets
www.carpenterarts.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This Saturday night I'm doing a solo talk/show at @calstate.bsky.social Long Beach. Will be talking about the future, tech, humanity, fascism. ALL the things. There will be jokes. www.carpenterarts.org/event/baratu...
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Scientists should be good story-tellers, but we don't include enough training on how to tell stories that people can understand.
What I love to see: 'lightning talks' / '5 minute seminars' for the general public as outreach efforts.
Those skills translate to industry, too.
What I love to see: 'lightning talks' / '5 minute seminars' for the general public as outreach efforts.
Those skills translate to industry, too.
Scientists should graduate ready to share what they know, effectively. Even the top science programs in our country do not require science communication and public engagement for their graduates. This is dangerous. Let's change the future. Sign the petition to make a difference: bit.ly/3LbnfHB
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Scientists should be good story-tellers, but we don't include enough training on how to tell stories that people can understand.
What I love to see: 'lightning talks' / '5 minute seminars' for the general public as outreach efforts.
Those skills translate to industry, too.
What I love to see: 'lightning talks' / '5 minute seminars' for the general public as outreach efforts.
Those skills translate to industry, too.
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one thing we need to do as a society is treat all fraud or theft over $100 million or so as a potential capital crime, with the possibility of execution for offenders.
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
one thing we need to do as a society is treat all fraud or theft over $100 million or so as a potential capital crime, with the possibility of execution for offenders.
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It is high past time for the Democrats to go full-send on a rampaging, ferocious, fire and brimstone anti-corruption push.
The people thirst for it.
The people thirst for it.
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
It is high past time for the Democrats to go full-send on a rampaging, ferocious, fire and brimstone anti-corruption push.
The people thirst for it.
The people thirst for it.