Reposted by JMDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026You often hear that clean energy is not replacing fossil energy, only adding to total energy, and thereby not reducing emissions. ("There is no transition," they say.) It's nonsense. Read this post from @zekehausfather.com about how much FF has been displaced by renewable energy:theclimatebrink.comWhat if the world hadn't built wind and solar?Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built. 413737
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026ah, that IS the 2 door short bed f-150, lol I wonder how many of these have *ever* been sold 110
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026also, though (and this is me being a little judgmental) "he's corrupt and ideologically pre-committed" should really be a pretty effective argument for lots of people who DO pay attention to legal questions!! :D 010
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I mean, I think it is likely that those people *do* exist, I just think the argument catering to them is likely to muddy the waters for the (much larger, i assume) audience of others. e.g "oh, well, the legal profession is answering him on his own terms, so this is simply legal debate" etc etc 220
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026to be clear, the idea is that these are people who are largely *unreachable* by persuading that "alito's analysis comes from motivated reasoning"? and who DO benefit instead from technical discussion of the internal inconsistencies (which are *caused* by the motivated reasoning?) 120
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I think most legal commenters are more predisposed to engaging on the level of legal analysis than average, and will tend to regard it as more persuasive and more valuable than those outside the legal profession by default. but we should probably not focus persuasion efforts on legal experts, only 020
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026question of what people find more persuasive! are there many people who *can* be reached by: "this legal analysis is problematic according to legal principles" but *can't* be reached by: "HIS legal analysis is transparently subjugated to his corruption and his ideological pre-commitments" 240
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026They technically seem to sell a 2-door f-150, though I can't find one so far 120
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026i have never seen one of those trucks, what is it even called?! (also, fwiw, that starting price is only like 2 grand less than an actual f-150 starting price?!) 250
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"thing got a lot harder to do" isn't the same as "thing got impossible to do" but it also *does* change what people do, on average, so... probably a vicious cycle is the way I should start thinking about it 020
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026any actual attempt at getting a small truck is legitimately very silly these days as well! 120
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026they don't sell the Honda Fit here anymore, and I'll be sad forever about it tbh (not a sedan I know, but... even carmakers that [do, still] make car-ass cars have deprioritized them in real ways) 140
Reposted by JMjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast 667296408
Reposted by JMIsaac 🌹🏳️🌈 @isaacng.bsky.social · 05/10/2026*screaming off the top of my lungs* SOCIALISM IS AN EXTENSION OF LIBERALISM. WITHOUT LIBERALISM SOCIALISM WILL DEGENERATE INTO HORRIFIC AUTOCRACY 410324
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026kinda not fair that The Phantom Menace has *two* all time greats, lol! 000
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026i am a huge sucker for perhaps the most standing-still action sequence of all time: youtu.be/DCNZYZtPioQ?...youtu.beThe Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966) - Three-way gunfight (Duel)YouTube video by Movie Clips Classics 030
Reposted by JMBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...liberalcurrents.comWe Have No Supreme CourtThe philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court. 1232996780
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026now to take a big sip of coffee and review all of elon's public behavior for the last *two decades*... 011
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026no way, not Elon! 1. he's FAMOUS for really sticking to one project with a lot of focus, and not forgetting about whatever he was doing last month 2. he's NOT confused and bewildered by a sneaky ketamine addiction 1 + 2 = he's still actively breaking grok, just like he's still running doge! 120
Reposted by JMMolondrongo 🐹💾 Retro Capibara in Veroño @molondrongo.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026There is no heterosexual way to look at this painting. 3881
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026these people all get instantly blocked in my world, I don't understand how this behavior can be understood as anything but toxic 070
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"before a certain moment in fetal development, we think nobody is home even though all the hardware is in place, and then they *are* home, inhabiting all that hardware, and that's best understood as a tiny miracle that routinely happens to every living thing" 030
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026*lots* of interesting theology and philosophy around this question (not to mention fierce religious debate) in the historically well-attested phenomena of "babies" and "children" 130
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026maybe one day [after a lot of personal growth] i can be like you 100
Reposted by JMceej @ceej.online · 02/10/2026incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time 663168483
Reposted by JMWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not to repeat the obvious, but this is literally lawless behavior that makes a mockery of the Constitution and judicial system, should result in contempt prosecution for anyone involved, and disbarment of any lawyers 367462
Reposted by JMWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified 19745232
Reposted by JMRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else 558404845
Reposted by JMFr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Youth pastor voice 16887144
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i'm tempted to say it's because it slots neatly into preexisting news coverage archetypes, but surely there are a bunch of congressional hearings that fit into this shape. I don't get it, that's all. 000
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I don't understand why the Jack Smith congressional hearing has such immense engagement/coverage it has ~no consequences? the video consists of a guy saying "I don't think that's true, can i read the paper maybe" and some procedural bickering? the premise is entirely obscure anyhow? 100
Reposted by JMfreecialis @freecialis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026American media: time to come up with the dumbest possible discourse about a Billboard hit British media: You are like a little baby. Watch this 217143
Reposted by JMVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In Friedersdorf’s defense he is a dumb motherfucker 1552
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026static.klipy.comMax Rockatansky Says 'That's Bait' MemeAlt: Max Rockatansky Says 'That's Bait' Meme 2941
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Indeed, where people get in trouble is exactly in the assumption that they have protections they don't have (see all the science/math professionals with work potentially getting ganked by frontier models!) 180
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026well there you go, a no-nonsense block. I always encourage this sort of behavior, even as it occasionally gets me blocked. can often be the sanest response to social media! :) 000
Reposted by JMval (try medaka) @tech-val.bsky.social · 28/09/2026look, if your white collar job is an ineffable expression of the human spirit that contains no menial drudgery I'm truly happy for you 1998
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026no, in general the enterprise licenses for these tools will operate on very different terms than the non-enterprise licenses, for exactly this reason. 260
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026depending on how you count white collar, a majority of American workers DO in fact work white collar jobs. even if you're very strict about what counts, it's like 45% (up to 65% if generous!) counting people who aren't working, the statement is true, but this is still a LOT of people to hand wave. 110
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026also, I think it was part of his strategy to get things passed "under the radar" 000
JM @jonmarke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i dunno, i think Dems want to be The-West-Wing-style "Great Compromisers" when they are governing. not maximally "do something" of course, but also not ideologically committed to war against the oncoming inexorable tide forever. 010
