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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I was an evangelical teenager and it was women that didn’t shame me or call me an idiot, but quietly gave me access to the other parts of life that helped me find my way out. I am eternally grateful to Susan, Ginger, and Pat for ignoring the hateful parts of me and nourishing the curious parts.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Alas, no. I was as April’s meeting which was really informative. Have a great time!

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

For the love of everything, why??? And if it is as simple as generating false demand, whose actual money pays for what’s supplied for that demand?

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Agree that it is so hard to be concise when talking about electricity regulations and markets, particularly in WECC outside of CAISO. Just so many layers of intersecting jurisdictions and non-jurisdictional entities. There are no easy solutions either, which is what people want.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Ok here is something that my brain won’t stop thinking about: does the 6% energy burden metric need to be reevaluated given that the externalities of fossil fuels means most electricity was too cheap at the meter when the metric was developed?

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

It’s not just large projects that reach EFSEC that are opposed in OR on “save the farmland” grounds. A small 10-acre battery project is being opposed in the Hillsboro area right now because “oh my god it ruins the agricultural character of the area”.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I feel like you should be accustomed to this cycle by now

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Trying to imagine what would have happened if Dems in OR had tried this when Senate Republicans returned from fleeing to avoid a cap-and-trade law passing several years ago.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I think all of this is great, but in my experience living in the Bay Area for 16 years the rental buildings, both apartments and homes, were mostly old, with terrible windows and almost no insulation. Is there any effort to change that as well to really reap the benefits of heat pumps?

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

My Saturday afternoon spent swimming in the Willamette River was facilitated by a massive infrastructure project that was only undertaken because of a lawsuit under the Clean Water Act. The rollback of environmental laws will have long-reaching effects in ways that most people will never understand

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I am having trouble reconciling the DOE I was a Fellow for a mere 5 months ago with the DOE as it exists now. It’s so disorienting.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Global emissions from heating are about 4x those from cooling. Air conditioning is an important and lifesaving adaptation to climate change. Decarbonize the grid.

Graph showing global carbon emissions from heating vs cooling. Heating is about 4 billion tonnes CO2e/year; cooling is about 1. Source https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-heating-cooling

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The concept of energy burden needs to be talked about in terms of total household expenditures, i.e. housing+transportation, to be able to illustrate that displacing total fossil fuel use is beneficial. I mostly see them discussed separately.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Shoutout to the person that organized finding 900+ people to sign this document. Hope your name ends up in history as well.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I love the Rivers of London series and the St. Mary’s Chronicles series for good English humor and offbeat mystery+ some sci-fi/fantasy aspects.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

For a great primer on this phenomenon see Heather Mcghee’s The Sum of Us

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Westside Queer Resource Center @westsideqrc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

🌈 🎲 Queer Game Night at Rune & Board 🎲 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 TOMORROW 3pm - 6pm! 🏳️‍🌈We have a game library that includes queer Board Games and queer TTRPGs! Come and play inclusive, drop-in, queer friendly games for all genders and skill levels with us. 🌈238 SE Washington St, Hillsboro, OR 97123

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

These GOP Congress people have never sat in a diner at 1am contemplating a family member’s new diagnosis and it shows.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

if you’ve ever wondered why “escaping small scale subsistence farming” has been humanity’s primary group project for the majority of our known existence, it’s because small scale subsistence farming sucks real bad

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

As the wife of a naturalized citizen, this is crazy. It cannot be the case that Congress people call for denaturalization proceedings based on political differences.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I am the daughter and sister of T1 diabetics and this made me tear up. This is why we need to fund scientific research consistently with no political agenda. If the stem cell debates of my youth had gone the other way this would not be possible l.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Thank you for sharing, the idea that people will not have to go through the death by inches of T1D is so good

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

My entire adult life has involved Republican presidents running up enormous debts by cutting taxes and starting unnecessary wars and then bleating about fiscal responsibility and I am so sick of it.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Far away from infrastructure in fire zones! What could go wrong!?

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Westside Queer Resource Center @westsideqrc.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This is your reminder that the WQRC offers weekly Drop-In Hours every Monday (2-6 pm), Tuesday (3-7pm), and Wednesday (3-7 pm) over at our office in The Downtown Hive (233 SE Washington St, Hillsboro OR 97123). Drop-In Hours are staffed by caring and compassionate volunteers in a welcoming space!

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I was reminded this morning of the cost of changing your mind when you come from high-control conservative cultures and places. Those tiny groups of people protesting in small, rural places are paying a social cost. Sending thanks for their willingness to speak out.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Happy Father’s Day to all the men out there who nurture relationships with their kids, biological or not, and other young people who need someone to step up for them. Your love and care is seen and appreciated,

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

The project I worked on as a US DOE Fellow has officially been killed by the Trump administration. While it was inevitable, it still feels horrible.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Having worked on this issue, I’d love to know where the highlighted numbers came from; they didn’t come from the studies mandated by the Agreement.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Homemade soup with a view of in-office lunch today.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I am the daughter and sister of Type 1 diabetics and I share your rage at this ignorant nonsense.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Spending the majority of Memorial Day weekend cleaning out the garage and I, whose children are 8, 14, and 17, have had to negotiate over the number of sticks, rocks, and soccer balls we can keep. So no, the stick thing never, ever ends.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

All people should have reproductive choice. I am also noticing that fewer people being parents leads to gaps in empathy for families and understanding of childhood. It’s easy to forget what 0-6 year old children are like if you are never around them and you can’t even remember yourself at that age.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

My children have been insured by Medicaid, through the Oregon Health Plan, for nearly 7 years until this month, when we could finally afford to insure them under my new job. The OHP gave us life-saving access to care when we could not afford it. #medicaid

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I can recommend my former colleague Christy Splitt

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

How do all these MAGA folks have the time and energy to ruminate constantly over other people’s genitals and bathroom assignments and marriage details and pregnancy decisions? I can barely keep up with my own life. Mind your own damn business and get a constructive hobby.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Could Stewart be referring to congressional hearings about the 9-11 legislation he worked on? Obviously that is not a notice-and-comment rulemaking. Not making the distinction to the audience makes Klein’s arguments illegible and useless.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Definitely conflating local zoning/planning processes with federal or state level processes for other kinds of regulations. In my field, electricity regulation, local, state, and federal regs often all apply and imprecise descriptions do not help people understand who is responsible for what.

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I am so sorry, that is really shitty

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Anne Thrall-Nash @annethrallnash.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I graduated a year ago, I was meant to start repaying my student loans 10/24 but I applied for IDR and they have been sitting in limbo since. I have no idea when I will be required to repay them and no idea what the amount will be. How does my family make a financial plan like this?? #studentloans

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