Lucas Johnson

I do like me some Ice Coffee and Iced Cream

I work in the light blue graph’s sector, and am genuinely curious about the data source & how it’s measured? In equipment sales, companies, or at investment vehicle level?

Now we can move on to wondering about how many games under .500 the Orioles will end up at next year.

Songs in the Key of AAAAAHHHH

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/EOixNrF

That’s a cool hat

Ok THIS is the last inning I’ll watch.

Is this where we start betting on how many innings?

I always like to imagine them as skiiiiinny little lines if drawn to scale. Low profile in the grand scheme of things

Earlier I was walking in my Brooklyn neighborhood past a bar and I heard a whoop, and I grimaced, then I peeked in at the TV and saw a Blue Jay on first, and was relieved. NYC is full of fans from everywhere. #GoOs #someday

Am I sleepy again yet.

I’m suddenly reminded of the federal paperwork reduction act which, while well meaning, reduced the government’s ability to solicit useful input and be more responsive to constituents. It made it really tedious to run surveys!

You want true public comment on the broad goals right? The wonky ‘how’ should have open-source comment too of course. But the broad goals are where true preferences should be proactively sought after.

That said, what would people likely say? Cheap… clean… no outages… don’t text me about my AC on a hot day… more EV chargers (if relevant)

I may try to comment on the NY state energy plan before public comment is over in a few days. I feel like the spirit of “public comment” is lost when the documentation is so voluminous that it’s only going to be industry insiders commenting…

Isn’t Trump a hotels guy, why can’t he be a generous host, providing the highest of hospitality?

Grumpy ass innkeeper

I suppose best option is escalating visible nonviolent resistance until the politics shift and resources can be stripped.

You can get anything you want at America’s restaurant. Sincerely and generously.

How do you defeat raiders who pop up anywhere? Now thinking of nomadic warrior horse societies of history, Mongolians, Comanches… In terms of military strategy.

Genghis’s empire dissolved after generational changes & unwieldy size. Comanches overwhelmed by numbers & cutting off resources.

Alice’s Restaurant but for blocking ICE.

But it’s easier when the lunch counter is stationary, when the draft office is in a piece of real estate.

Next Dem primary, it’s not about “no money from PACS” instead it should be “I will never sell your data to another campaign, but I WILL send intro emails to you encouraging you to follow other campaigns, like a human being who’s actually looking to build a political following.”

“Everyone’s talking about affordability.” Just thinking about how trends in the discourse depend on real measurable signals of opinion: elections!

Zohran used the word affordability, won. Absent that, would we still be in post-Nov-2024 “price of eggs” rhetoric?

So… we already have abundance? High standard of living. Super cheap energy. Infinite entertainment.

This was my feeling upon leaving NYC for a trip to family in Iowa. There’s So Much Stuff And Space. And we drive around at super speeds to… go get a donut?

But loss aversion!

Hello toddler cough, goodbye good night’s sleep, hello brain oh yes let’s think about all of these things right now good idea

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

Disney execs hastily assembling Andor S3 about a group of charismatic Coruscant businessmen who just keep their head down and work with the Empire until the Battle of Endor and then say they were actually against the Empire all along and everyone cheers

1/x 🧵 🔌💡 #Greensky. Hey climate peeps! Here’s a local victory to celebrate, and some lessons from it. Last night, the Town of Poughkeepsie, NY, voted to overturn its 18-month moratorium (6 months, renewed twice) on grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS).

An extra reason for an electric car over a [prius]: no stolen catalytic converters!! With either the higher insurance premiums for comprehensive coverage or the $3k replacement.

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I have Major Questions about this Doctrine

With Mamdani winning, here’s implications on climate/jobs:

✅Local Law 97, NYC’s “Green New Deal” law, will be fully implemented 😄
✅shot at fast, free buses to cut pollution, improve quality of life 🙏
✅we can ADVANCE on smart small building energy efficiency requirements👍

Landlord lobby lost!!!