djjohnrichards

under a cloud during sunset in Virginia in January, driving straight towards the setting sun, reflections off the hood of a Kia Soul.

A daily reminder: there's so much hope in our world.
You are not alone.
Did your morning DJ open their set with Sir Ian McKellen's monologue from Shakspear's play "Sir Thomas More"?
Oh... huh. Well... 14-day streaming archive at KEXP.
#kexp #TheLateShowwithStephenColbert #djjohnrichards

Drunken Seahawks Fans Climbing Space Needle

Drunken Seahawks Fans Climbing Space Needle

"People can change anything they want to; and that means everything in the world." -Joe Strummer

Special thanks to @djjohnrichards.bsky.social and KEXP for the best walking song to serenade our Winter Walk to School. "Radio Clash" had us skipping to school at 7am.

#internationalclashday

Seahawks by 50

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."

After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

We are so broken

Super Bowl advice? Hand the ball off.

Two Seattle schools shelter in place due to reported ICE activity Seattle Public Schools that ICE agents might be trying to draw out families who intended to bring their children home from school after news of ICE activity.

Heads up, Seattle: Aki Kurose Middle School in Hillman City and Cleveland STEM High School in Beacon Hill are sheltering in place after ICE activity was reported in the area.

I had no idea the Seahawks would win on the the first play of the game. But that’s all they needed. They just needed 7 points.

Dreamy

Once again the absolute dumbest people you and I know will be downright gleeful about this.

Disgraceful.

Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Sure. That’s the main thing here to consider, NPR.

Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

This is sad.

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

Congrats!

You burn the house down and walk away. That’s what you do.

Rockets owners expand talks to buy, move Sun

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Please indulge yourself at the mountain goats merch table this week to offset how poorly I’ve controlled my book buying habit at Magus and Elliott Bay in Seattle, thank you, I tried to control myself but didn’t

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:

In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.

In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

Completely unrelated, but this little shop wouldn’t be compliant in new construction in Seattle where retail mandates a 30’ depth for some arbitrary reason. Zoning codes and city planners do not know how to make good buildings.

Dreamy

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81 Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81

‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty

#Spain
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One ~182km x ~211km solar thermal plant could provide all of America’s electricity, including a fully-electrified land transport sector.

100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land.

That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

This seems like good news... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Hate this

"Imagine if your dad was a minotaur and your mom was a mermaid and you got the human half of both and now you're just some guy."

Good morning