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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Some selections this morning from "A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems, 1979-1999". Wendell Berry (1934-2026)

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Solar hits 25% supply of electricity on yesterday's cool, sunny Sunday morning. Matches fossil gas & coal for a little bit. On the MISO grid, which serves 45 million people across the center of N. America. #EnergySky ...

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My friend transformed a tiny strip of lawn grass into a pollinator paradise with native plants accumulated from hither and yon. You get one shot... why lead a sterile life? (featured: caterpillars of the Milkweed Tussock Moth)

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Friend is shopping hybrid vs EVs. Didn't realize he had variable electric rates. Charging overnight (11 pm - 5 am) his fuel costs would be 83% less than gas in Indiana... so think $0.56 / gallon. #DoTheMath #EnergySky

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Visual representation of how much U.S. farmland is occupied by solar panels. Some fraction of that yellow also has grazing sheep, pollinator plantings, etc.

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

...Bought 203 gallons of gas, thus avoided 203 more. Not intuitive, but "daily miles driven" shows how even a small battery range, when topped off every night, can cover a lot of miles. Time for an oil change!

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

First 10K miles (to me) review. 9 months. Plug-in hybrid. It has an electric motor/battery and a gas engine. Small EV range of 30 and gas range of 495. Despite the tiny EV range, it covered 50% of the 10K miles on electric only... #EnergySky

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

as God intended (dairy operation injecting slurry)

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

We could've stopped here. *shrug*

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"Bracken barrens" throughout some swaths of the north country (seen here: northern lower peninsula MI), with little growing in/around it. Weird!

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Full Month #4 for the off-grid solar array. First month to top 1,000 driving miles powered. Covered 94% of my miles... the warm temps also helping driving efficiency. Each unit of energy takes me >25% further than in February.

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A first for me... watching barn swallows appearing to gather mud for nesting materials. Although still widespread and thought of as abundant, Barn Swallows have experienced a 38% decline in population since 1970. #BirdSky journal.afonet.org/vol95/iss3/a...

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I had stumbled across one near Mears State Park a few years ago. I drug him up into the sand, but he went right back to the water :/

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

"Institutions rarely collapse overnight. Norms can persist long after their meaning has drained away. Entire generations may continue operating within structures that are already culturally obsolete, simply because momentum/incentives keep them alive. Like the old VCR in the basement. Still working"

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

PEOPLE ARE SAYING YOU CAN JUST DO THINGS

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Hillbillies vs. Hormuz. Challenge accepted. #EnergySky

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Cuckoo wasp! "the hymenopteran family Chrysididae is a very large cosmopolitan group (over 3000 described species) of parasitoid or kleptoparasitic wasps, often highly sculptured, with brilliant metallic colors created by structural coloration."

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Completely contradictory statements within seconds of each other. ICE is gov't!

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

"Humility is the prize of the leaf-world. Vainglory is the bane of us, the humans." -Mary Oliver pictured: serviceberry

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Going to start monthly updates for the new off-grid solar array, expressed as "solar miles generated". FEB covered 1/3 of my miles. MAR production up 51%, but efficiency of the car also up with temps, so total miles +81%. Covered 79% of my driving fuel for March. #EnergySky

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Indiana's total installed solar nearly *doubled* in just one year. We installed more than any state save CA and TX. See all the residential, commercial, and community solar projects from the pre-COVID era? Now rounding errors in terms of total capacity. #EnergySky

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Spring Beauty, a native spring ephemeral, and the sole pollen source for the Spring Beauty Mining Bee

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Two observations on The Old Site that I keep coming back to.

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

dang... and I thought this was bad

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

oh yes, it's here they are already sharing the AI slop around the tornado damage up here

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Distributed energy systems will be more likely to have some portion impacted... at the same time, it avoids centralization risk. As if proving the point, the MISO grid today set a new solar production record (17 GW), even with this particular array offline.

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Kinda crazy that utility-scale batteries were powering 1-in-3 households during the evening hours in the US's most populous state.

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athada.bsky.social @athada.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I'm calling it "café con frankincense". A nice ending to an Ethiopian meal today, fragrance in the air, sweet airy popcorn, strong coffee, sipped among friends during sobremesa. Popcorn from the Americas, Coffee from the Horn of Africa. Both now global fixtures.