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@psl4loko.bsky.social

Grid Ops nerd (BA and a TOP again, thank goodness), public power enthusiast, and basic-est of bitches. He/him. 4Loko should make a PSL flavor. Occasional submarine and infrastructure opinions. Bike commuting is best commuting.

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Latest posts by psl4loko.bsky.social on Bluesky

The Venezuela boat murders are meant to be a gateway drug to domestic murders. The β€œyou can’t let this MAGA regime out of power now because you military are going to jail if we leave” is a powerful cooption technique but not atypical for authoritarian regimes

09.12.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 270    πŸ” 106    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 7
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For NYPA to build renewables at scale, we must provide stable financing, support projects like Clean Path Transmission, and reform NYISO's interconnection process. Public developers need support to achieve their goals.

See CPE's statement on the updated NYPA strategic plan.

09.12.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I think many people will only take public power seriously - or understand how to tell the story of what it took to beat the incumbent - once we have won. Every thread of the movement work here contributes to the progress we need and brings that moment closer. Every bit matters!

09.12.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Appears To Doze During Stroke

09.12.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3412    πŸ” 508    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 19

Thanks for elaborating in your thread. I didn't know there was a genre term for this stuff, just that Battle: Los Angeles (2011) and Battleship (2012) felt like HG Wells fanfic!

09.12.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The in the twilight decades of the British Empire, this kinda handwringing was so common that an entire genre of literature spawned from the anxieties produced by a loss of global dominance lol

It’d be fascinating to examine & live thru now if it weren’t for the technofascist hellscape

09.12.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 101    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 7

Huzzah! I'll keep an eye out!

09.12.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like worried about an invasion from Johnny Foreigner/a specific country or War of The Worlds type stuff?

09.12.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Me wearing a tee shirt with the words 15 minute cities in blue. 
No big conspiracy just lazy below.

Me wearing a tee shirt with the words 15 minute cities in blue. No big conspiracy just lazy below.

i rep this angle everywhere i go. fighting for tired parents everywhere.

09.12.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Any chance of this one in a baseball tee like the Meet The Radicals design?

09.12.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season

14.12.2024 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 19966    πŸ” 6249    πŸ’¬ 218    πŸ“Œ 435
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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

08.12.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 19853    πŸ” 10632    πŸ’¬ 791    πŸ“Œ 1035
Gandalf summons a 2018 Ford Focus RS
YouTube video by ZVEB Gandalf summons a 2018 Ford Focus RS

just gonna leave this here

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4W8...

09.12.2025 04:36 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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We Did It, Texas Dems, We Did It Candidates in every legislative, statewide, and federal race. Now it’s time to build power where it counts.

Texas Democrats just did something historic under the leadership of new state party chair @kendallscudder.bsky.social. We have filed a candidate in EVERY 2026 race.

U.S. Senate: 1 of 1
U.S. House: 38 of 38
State Senate: 15 of 15
State House: 150 of 150
State Board of Education: 8 of 8

09.12.2025 04:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2182    πŸ” 495    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 81

I experience True Freedom when I ride my bike 30 miles, take a hot shower, and then house a wet burrito the size of my dog.

07.12.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2

Post ride binges are the best!

My commute's ~23mi each way and I work next to *the* place in the county to get a badass sandwich for cheap. Here's post ride FirstMeal on a night shift.

08.12.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

08.12.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

You posted about bike commuting once. That was 100% of my rationale, lol.

Many moons later I learned about all the other cool shit you're into.

08.12.2025 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's what they want in ICE. The criminals, DV perps, sex pests, racists, "I would have been delta by their standards are too low for me" frauds.

The people with no standards, morals, or integrity -- they adequately reflect the current admin and pretty much every politician ever created.

07.12.2025 07:51 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I've been saying this for a year now: the Democrats have missed a gigantic political opportunity--and, at this point, have failed in an ethical obligation--to create a shadow-government health department that dispenses medically accurate information, guidance, and advice.

06.12.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1318    πŸ” 358    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 27

COVID provided a lot of real-time evidence of which people would sacrifice for the greater good, innovate, keep up morale and emotionally endure devastating loss...and which would sell out their grandma if it meant they could go back to Applebee's.

07.12.2025 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 143    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

As someone who was troubled by watching members of the Afghan National Army simply kick a detainee…

*who I know with 100 percent certainty tried to kill me personally just hours beforehand*

… I can’t say what I want to do to the entire chain of command here.

06.12.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I can’t get over how Barbie succeeded because it offered tangible ways for women and girls to celebrate each other (and dress up and go to the movies together) but studios thought it worked because it’s about toys so now they’re making like Bananagrams the movie

06.12.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3063    πŸ” 493    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 27

That plan was for if she put at least a couple hundred miles on it in a year. Alas, life comes for us all. She had a busy one this year and some health issues that made riding dicey.

Maybe next year!

06.12.2025 05:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I found them last year. My plan was normally open switch + a 100Wh 5V power bank with 3 output ports.

Headlight gets one, pulsing tail light another, and brake light a third. Pulsing light and brake light in parallel.

Then I'd use the normally open switch on a leg of the brake light. (1)

06.12.2025 05:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm pretty sure Sundance is somewhere where it doesn't get all that cold and the main hazards are rain and fog.

But of course, taking the show on the road might require something more elaborate.

06.12.2025 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tripwire Ebrake Cutoff - Grin Products - Product Info The tripwire adds an electric brake cutoff signal to existing hydraulic or mechanical brake levers through a clever cable pull reed switch sensor.. This way you don’t have to replace the brake levers ...

A possibly better option I have zero experience with is a Hall Effect sensor. It would sense the change in position of the magnet and provide an output.

Or ebikes.ca/product-info.... Never used it but researched for a conversion for my mother in law.

06.12.2025 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

My first thought here is magnet on the actuator, and a reed switch on the brake housing. Squeezing the brake lever opens the circuit. After the switch goes a small normally open relay. Heat shrink it all and run wire.

Opening the switch closes the relay. Relay fails and there is no brake light.

06.12.2025 04:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

Really love how this guy posted this on TikTok thinking the woman who broke his Meta glasses would come off as the villain, as opposed to him, the guy recording her without her consent for social media content via a surveillance device made by one of the worst companies on earth

05.12.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4856    πŸ” 906    πŸ’¬ 103    πŸ“Œ 86
A red panda sleeping in the sun on a plank behind a fence. The red panda is painfully cute as they all are

A red panda sleeping in the sun on a plank behind a fence. The red panda is painfully cute as they all are

Dear @darthbluesky.bsky.social,

Were you in Eureka yesterday? Or was this a relative?

06.12.2025 03:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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