Courtney Shannon

A data-driven look at rising U.S. electricity costs and policy solutions Low-cost power has long underpinned U.S. economic strength, but recent data highlights a notable shift.

So what's really driving up electricity prices?

Basically everything but renewables, according to LBNL and CATF.

It takes three seconds to mute the politico account on here and I highly recommend do that!

One came up to my birdfeeder and I was shocked at how big northern flickers actually are. I guess I had never seen one up close before.

FRANK.

Yes, this is why I strongly encourage all Online Left posters to become PCPs or volunteer for a campaign. They will see who actually shows up to do the grunt work to move progress forward an inch. There are a lot of normie libs there.

I would need the address of the parking lot to confirm, but I think this is the same location of what was once a Methodist Church where my 4th-great-grandfather was buried. He was disinterred and reburied somewhere else back in the late 1890s as the city expanded.

This joke reply is so accurate it made me angry.

All bagels outside of the New York, New Jersey, and the extended NYC metro area are crimes against food.

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IKEA needs to understand that all the people want this, the cat container. It keeps going out of stock.
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Ever read a sentence that feels like you're having a stroke

whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could

People in a park in late winter with dogs running around, big yellow moon in background.

Go look at the moon! As seen from Seawallcrest Park in SE Portland. #pdx

the HPV vaccine is fucking incredible, period end of that's it

Me inside in a poorly lit room: “Wow, I can’t believe how well my surgical scar healed up! You can barely even see it!”

Me outside in full daylight: “Oh yeah, there it is. Yeah that it noticeable. Never mind.”

Wyoming has fewer people than the other 49 states combined

on the left: the infamous image of the old, wise, grey, bearded chessmaster, finger raised tohis eyebrow, face dimly lit, staring at you, glass chess pieces on a lit up board in front of him. on the right, white text font of varying sizes on red: the greatest chessmaster of all time can coach you or crush you. it's your move.

chessmaster 5000, print ad, excerpt (1996) www.mobygames.com/game/14/ches...

Memory Foam: some people want their foam to remember

Some people want their foam to forget

I only want to use buttermilk once in a blue moon, but when I do want it for a particular recipe, the stores are out of stock half the time.

Have you seen Vice? Steve Carell did a great job showing his rise and fall.

She was in Jennifer's Body around that same time where she does a great job playing a nerdy outcast too! And also a ghost in Veronica Mars. This was all around the same time.

Yeah, this has happened to me, someone who followed me for years and just started cursing me out in the replies for reading something else in my OP. I'm a small account. People use this place as a void to scream into/at.

It doesn’t matter who it was. It could be anyone you follow. Don’t worry about unfollowing – you can follow them back later!

They not only wrote a ton of rage posts, they also reposted other people’s rage posts. Unfollowing took all that off the feed.

I hope things get better for them, for you, for everyone! But don’t feel obligated to follow accounts that don’t help you and especially ones that bring you down.

But so much of the news is terrible and people’s lives change, etc. This person’s posts went big-time negative. Writing rage posts was some sort of venting into the void for them.

People use social media for different purposes. I use it to learn about interesting things. In fact, most of my Portland news I get through Bluesky!
So that account, years ago I followed because they did interesting creative work and posted about art.

Wow, I can’t believe how unfollowing just one(1) account improved my timeline on here!

Three rabbits are seen on short green grass - a sign of good fortune on the first day of a new month.

Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit! Happy March 1st to those that celebrate. Spring is on the way and more daylight for those in the northern lats. Or less daylight and summer heat for those in the southern latitudes.

He lives like a monk. He dines like a king San Francisco resident Michael Grepo has made himself into the rarest of rare: a fine-dining restaurant regular.

Nothing but respect to this absolute KING.

Via @sfstandard.com

Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller. First panel, Nancy talking to a logger sawing a tree and pointing to a carved piece of trunk. Nancy: Can I have that piece? My boy friend carved it. Logger: Sure. Second panel, Nancy is watching the log burn in the fire place. Nancy: I'm mad at him.

Every once in awhile I think about this Nancy comic and it makes me laugh every single time. Absolute perfection.