The Brownsville community has been fighting this proposed oil refinery for many years now & we won't give up.
Community members legally challenged the air pollution permit with TCEQ for this proposed oil facility years ago with the Environmental Integrity Project
Something worth noting is that the sodium ion battery manufacturing seems essentially exclusive to China now, with various US startups folding over that past year. I hesitate on sharing popular youtubers but this video covers it quite well: m.youtube.com/watch?v=nrTC...
Worth noting India also has a 'Natural Mission on Natural Farming' program with govt incentives to transition away from manufactured fertilizers.
I’m briefly in India. This is a facile observation, but Americans have barely scratched the surface in understanding how the rest of the world is reacting to this war. It’s already an Iraq War-style disaster in the global imagination, underscored by the thuggishness and caprice of the Trump approach
This is what ecocide looks like.
Would it have been so much worse if it had been a nuke? Consider the fact that birth deficiencies and rates of leukemia and cancer in Iraq, post 2003- invasion, are worse than what was observed in Hiroshima. In Japan, rates of leukemia rose by 660% in the years following the bomb. In Falluja, it increased by 2,200%. The toxicity of war has never been greater, and we are in no way reckoning with the scope of the horror that's been unleashed.
The real damage comes years later, with elevated cancer rates, leukemia clusters, respiratory disease, cardiovascular failure, neurological damage, reproductive issues.
This is chemical warfare, with delayed carnage. Worse than radiation sickness.
I am ashamed to be American today.
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Huh, I remember that Code Switch podcast you shared interviewing Paola Ramos: bsky.app/profile/ians... (sept. 2024)
This is really getting scary. Follow my former office mate @neginowl.bsky.social for updates.
Some context for people just following on why this is very bad, horrible, no good:
bsky.app/profile/alex...
Related: bsky.app/profile/negi... (via bsky.app/profile/sanh... )
WaPo image of light pollution in low-orbit space.
Still time to submit comments to the FCC in opposition to Reflect Orbital's request for approval to help put a million orbital data centers into space: aas.org/posts/advoca...
(SpaceX also has filed to do so, but the deadline for public comments has passed.) If you care, speak up!
Roughly around Mid-2022 was supposedly one of the lowest surveyed points in the past 40 years of US consumer sentiment: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
related: bsky.app/profile/oliv...
Photo of an HEB electronic gas fueling station closeup on the terminal portion showing an lcd payment screen, credit card reader, and gas selection buttons taken around May 2022 in Central Texas. The gas prices listed are: Diesel: 5.299 Unleaded: 3.999 Mid-grade: 4.249 Premium: 4.539 There is a sticker placed next to the unleaded label depicted then president Joe Biden with a large font undernearth saying "I DID THAT" and a text bubble saying "That's all me."
May 2022. Had a memory of coming home one night and seeing the 'I did that' Biden sticker at a gas station for the first time and also having someone in a much bigger vehicle than mine asking for gas money.
I cant read the full article (paywall), but sounds like they had to in following Swiss law: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4727...
We haven't won yet! Please read this post I made on the danger of claiming false victory:
bsky.app/profile/laik...
Reminds me of this: bsky.app/profile/keta...
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116053742685475452
Deadline for comments on a million SpaceX "AI data centers" and a company that wants to deliver "sunlight as a service." If you have time and energy, please write a comment! Instructions below.
(I heard a rumour that Reflect Orbital […]
It depends on the AV setup, and im just sharing guesses.
Waymo & AVride have lidar sensors on the taxi vehicles themselves, I'm not sure what additional data they use.
Tesla FSD is vision only, and possibly Cybercab is too, so I'm guessing they need supplemental map data to help w/navigation...
Updating HD map data I would guess for Tesla cybercabs (and possibly 'Full Self Driving') to use. Seen em in Austin too.
Could mean CyberCab could be coming to Dallas, +cc @niedermeyer.online
This report ( bsky.app/profile/sste... , Aug 2025 ) talks more about the risks about water-cooled datacenters, referencing cen.acs.org/business/Dat... exploring coolant types (aug 2025)
Not sure if you'd call this datacenter water pollution exactly but seems related: bsky.app/profile/nied... (see full 🧵 , sounds more like a bad maintenance practice at a datacenter )
They did it again twice today. It’s clearly deliberate and no surprise given they are likely being fed targets from Israel.
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
Reminding me of this compression of news coverage from ~24 years ago...
youtube.com/watch?v=d5WX... (Plaid
& Bob Jaroc - Crumax Rins)
Guessing this might be related from a couple months ago: bsky.app/profile/vive...
Neat watch on how to make a salient environmental issue go viral on the other sites.
Huh, so Media Matters linked to www.military.com/daily-news/2... which also references the questionable Jonathan Larsen post. bsky.app/profile/mmfa... .
Same energy: bsky.app/profile/theb...
I have my issues with the labeling but some background context on 'woke 2' here: bsky.app/profile/vand...
