Have fun this Sunday at a free potluck picnic hosted by Indivisible Charlottesville! 5-7pm at Belmont Park... food and drinks (from you and others!), games, singing, and more... followed by a 7:30 Watch Party at Firefly of the national "Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment".
Just replace a 15 y old washer/gas dryer combo with an electric all-in-1 washer dryer. EnergyStar rates it @ 525Kw energy/year, but we’ll probably be lower. And that cost will be essentially nada, because of my #solar panels. Way better than the gas dryer!
Next big upgrade will be to get rid of the gas cooktop for an induction cooktop. Then, the relatively new gas water heater for a heat pump water heater. That’s a few years away. But once that’s done, no more gas in the house!
#endfossilfuels
Thinking about this story today. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-white-house-pharmacy-improperly-provided-drugs-misused-funds-pentagon-2024-01-28/
https://seansublette.substack.com/p/drought-climate-change-and-virginia “these bigger swings from wet to dry will require new ideas, new engineering, and new approaches to decrease risks from both flooding and drought as the 21st century progresses.
Especially in this era of rising data centers” #Virginia #VAWx #drought #flooding #AIBubble #climate
New album from #TheKillers makes me think they’re off their meds. Whiny, sad, and wimpy.
Just had the odd thought that the White House UFC fight may be the only cultural artifact that future archeologists discover from the Anthropocene. "Was UFC some kind of plastic manufacturer? Did it create the radioactive material that appears everywhere from this time? It was clearly central to their society."
Thanks to Sean Tubbs for covering the Charlottesville Planning Commission and double checking my figures. #cville https://communityengagement.substack.com/p/june-9-2026-charlottesvilles-planning
“Because the president has a tiny peepee and his father never loved him.”
Chair Schwarz rightly praised her efforts on cleaning up the Development Code. While it is by no means perfect, it is better today than it was and I remain hopeful that we can continue to refine it over time. Likewise I'd like to note here that her efforts to stand up an in house long range planning team is important and long needed. Much more to do but thanks to Kellie Brown for carrying the ball this far.
Tonight was Charlottesville Neighborhood Development Services Director Kellie Brown's last planning commission meeting. Her comments were brief but clear. While we didn't get as much done as I hoped during her tenure with us, we have made important progress we can build on in the future.
https://electrek.co/2026/06/08/donut-lab-solid-state-battery-exposed-lithium-ion-fraud/ “the claims made to investors and the public were false” #battery #fraud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer Back when I was studying environmental policy around the turn of the century, the greenhouse effect seemed like it was about to be wrapped up nicely similar to acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer but the really hard problem looked like the collapse of the Ogallala Aquifer and all of the farming that depends on it in the western U.S. Best I can tell both remain a big problem. #climate #CleanWater
I’ve been pretty happy with how #Apple made it easy for me to know using my phone wasn’t burning tons of carbon by accident by using #AI without my knowledge, but based on #WWDC I think I’m going to have to go through all settings with a fine tooth comb on the next update. Just because #PrivateCloudCompute isn’t part of Alphabet or some other AI provider, doesn’t mean I feel good about burning energy for daily BS.