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David Savage

@dtsavage.bsky.social
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Transmission/Resource planning and RTO issues, IN PUC. PhD ecologist. Consistently mid sports (🚴/⛹️) takes. 🖤🤍💜. Posts represent personal views.

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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If salt lake city can have light rail, Indianapolis can have light rail.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In a state with a vaguely functioning transit system (Utah)
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fate: tempted
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unironically and with complete and absolute patriotism: LETS GO BRANDON
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Got new headphones and immediately threw on The Inner Mounting Flame like a true dork.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Beer Mile should be an olympic sport. But every athlete who competes in it has to already be on their nation's team in a non-track&field sport.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Zuko Avatar The Last Airbender: That's Rough, Buddy
ALT: Zuko Avatar The Last Airbender: That's Rough, Buddy
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Single issue voter on beaver reintroduction.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My jealousy of friends with covid mortgages has been damped significantly by being grateful I got in before this.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nyt should have me in their focus group so I can explain that the biggest problem facing the country is constantly declining ELCC as we chasing risk hours around the year.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What a great blog. defector.com/i-spent-thre...
defector.com
I Spent Three Sweltering Days Shredding The High Seas At Jogging Pace, And It Ruled | Defector
Sisi is a Volvo Ocean 65 racing sailboat. She is fast as hell and built for sickos. She is not a comfortable luxury yacht, I assure you. Sisi is a frightening, angry, 72-foot, 12-ton sea monster.  Sis...
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's pretty simple: the competition has been extremely weak. Choosin' Texas is a good song, but in a stronger year it wouldn't have stayed number one. Nothing more complicated than that.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Love being almost right-hooked by a driver turning into their driveway despite my being in a curb-separated bike lane. You know, the thing that's supposed to be the safest possible option.
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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for
Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's good to see this argument articulated, but I'm seeing a lot more dollars discussed than tons. The key question is in what year if ever the carbon reductions AI supposedly enables begin to outweigh the cumulative emissions of the gas buildout to support it. heatmap.news/ideas/ai-cli...
heatmap.news
The Future Climate Benefits of AI Are Worth the Risks
An investor argues that climate tech should learn to stop worrying and love the robots.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 21/09/2026
One weird thing about energy/climate academia is how many people choose to do lots of unnecessary and harmful stuff (fly lots, eat lots of beef, drive fossil vehicles lots, etc.). I get that we need policy and system change, but also, doesn't this it undermine credibility after a point?
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Jokic would never. He'd be at a physical bookie three cigarettes before his horse races.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The idea that "regenerative" grazing is a climate solution has really taken hold in some quarters. But the science is clear: It doesn't work. Methane and land-use emissions just overwhelm any soil carbon benefits. Here's a great piece by @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social drawdown.org/insights/eig...
drawdown.org
Eight reasons regenerative grazing can’t make beef climate-friendly
An influential regenerative grazing movement continues to grow. But here's why the science doesn't back up the purported climate benefits.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New Carly Rae Jepsen album is excellent.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There is a protected bike lane on Michigan right here. It's not enough to keep us safe.
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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 17/09/2026
The inimitable @mikegrunwald.bsky.social has an exceptionally well written oped on the disastrous proposal from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol to give companies carbon credit for cutting down trees.
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Latest Corporate Climate Ruse (Gift Article)
Making deforestation look climate-friendly will encourage a lot more deforestation.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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A'ja Wilson walks
ALT: A'ja Wilson walks
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I just want a dew point below 70F in mid September is this too mich to ask
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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The new Indianapolis Greenways for All master plan will put Greenways within one mile of 80% of Marion County Residents. Looking forward to getting as many of these in District 13 on the fast track to completion. (Note: Standard Protected/Unprotected Bike Lanes are not included on the map).
Indianapolis Greenways For All Master plan
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
getting ready to ride my bike to work past the $3.80/gallon gas (expensive for Indy, not so much for rest of the world) and I will still be smug as hell about it.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just got out of the Phoebe Bridgers show in Indy, which was my first concert that used the lock-your-phone-up pouches. Definitely improved the concertgoing experience: no distractions, you actually talk to people next to you, and god damn do the lighting effects hit way harder.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you are an environmental ngo working on a non climate issue (eg biodiversity), you're pretty justified in thinking the permitting reform folks are throwing you under the bus. At the very least that permitting reform camp has yet to articulate its affirmative vision of eg the ESA or MBTA
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Feels like the whole data centers and utility bills conversation is sidestepping the potential impact of a massive new gas buildout (whether behind the meter or grid-connected) on gas prices themselves--or at least i haven't seen much coverage.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Paycheck comes in, bills go out, you can't explain that.
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Tide Goes In, Tide Goes Out
ALT: Tide Goes In, Tide Goes Out
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Only correct helmet choice because sometimes you gotta go FAST
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Love when companies use AI support bots that just provide incorrect information about their own product.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People
Alt: Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I guess you could say Pablo Torre Found Out.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Mark Cuban you still #TeamBallmer?
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/09/2026
For me, the biggest takeaway from Sophie Cunningham’s hard launch into the right-wing culture wars is how *lucrative* bigotry is now. There’s an entire conservative media ecosystem that will turn anyone willing to make transphobia their personal brand into a well-compensated star.
fastcompany.com
Sophie Cunningham and the cynical economics of the anti-trans athlete
The conservative media machine is turning WNBA athletes into well-compensated culture-war assets.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Renaming a great lake just in time for Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald season. Disappointing.
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Matt Zeitlin @zeitlin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It's very very hot in Texas. But the grid is fine. Electricity prices are manageable. What happened? 🔋🔋🔋🔋BATTERIES!!! 🔋🔋🔋 heatmap.news/energy/texas...
heatmap.news
The Texas Grid Has Had a Boring Summer Thanks to Batteries
Temperatures are high, but electricity drama is low.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Gonna be really interesting to see if national media picks up on this one www.wvpe.org/wvpe-news/20...
wvpe.org
I&M announces electric rate cut plan enabled by data centers
Indiana & Michigan Power on Wednesday filed a rate cut plan with state regulators that the utility says would save the average customer $100 a year, and the plan would freeze rates for three years.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Mamdani should have just worn a poc tempor in his PSA. Who cares if a helmet makes you safe or not as long as it makes you fast.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Tired: oil export ban Wired: alfalfa export ban
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Grid nerd: the cup gets 50% ELCC
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Huge problem that we're calling K-means clustering and Claude Sonnet both "AI". Huge problem that we're calling my office NAS and a gigawatt-scale LLM training complex both "data centers".
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It's sad that we have to give a newspaper credit for using the "driver kills" construction in their headline but it is genuinely refreshing to see.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
data4democracy.substack.com
Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Bike related hills I'll die on: utility cyclists are way more snobby towards roadies than the other way around. (this is because many roadies are also utility cyclists sometimes)
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Johnny Normality @probgobl.in · 14/08/2026
EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
See a ranger, post a ranger
Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I was never a big fan of Westbrook the basketball player. Westbrook the human being seems like a great dude.
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