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David Haralson

@laughlax.bsky.social
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Transmission analysis at a grid-scale battery company. Trans rights are human rights! Born @ 358ppm. He/him. Dad/husband. Organist. Democrat. Boomer Sooner! Salt Lake Valley, UT. I represent only myself here. To get your post in the EnergySky feed, add 🔌💡

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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 9h
Okay. ONE, where can I buy the shirt Richard Ayoade is wearing on Taskmaster S22E5, and TWO, where can I get a men's dress shirt with a pattern like Nina Conti's top on the same episode? THREE, same question for the pattern on Isy Suttie's top.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21h
If you look at the four other top five competitors, they're like dedicated watch engineering and adjustment people Katie please stop this, you're making *checks notes* all other humans look bad
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks for waking me up, folks! What did I miss?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A lot of independent college daily newspapers show what journalism could be in the absence of corporate control.
nytimes.com
Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/10/2026
This guy literally packed the courts because Utahns passed an anti-gerrymandering referendum and the state Supreme Court justices, many of whom he appointed, repeatedly sided with the people over him and his fellow Republicans. Spare me the white man tears www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
nbcnews.com
Utah governor signs bill adding justices to state Supreme Court as redistricting appeal looms
Once the new seats are filled, Gov. Spencer Cox will have appointed five of the seven justices.
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Queer and Pleasant Danger @monsterologist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Look. We've played on the fears white folks feel when they face actual equality to maintain power, but calling us racist is mean. Yeah, we've used trans people as boogymen and worked so hard to deny them a place in the world, but 'bigot' is such a rude word. So is "cis", by the way."
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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm very sorry but you're not gonna see a better charging photo today (up to 357 kWh capacity, 240kW ⚡️) #doubleCCS #alwaysbecharging
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do people still talk about finding a cure for cancer as a standard example of something big, good, and maybe impossible? Quite a few cures for (certain kinds of) cancer seem to have been found since I was a kid, so I'm curious whether the phrase has lost any of its rhetorical luster...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer xkcd.com/3304/
4-panel comic. (1) April 2023: [JUICE space probe flying away from Earth] FROM EARTH: *JUICE* is en route to explore the icy moons of Jupiter! JUICE: *Wheee!* (2) August 2024: [JUICE flying past Earth] JUICE: ...So which planet was I visiting again? I got distracted. FROM EARTH: Jupiter! JUICE: Right, OK. (3) September 2026: [JUICE flies past Earth again] JUICE: Is Jupiter the one with all the rings? Or... FROM EARTH: No, the big one near it. JUICE: Got it! (4) January 2029: [JUICE returning to fly past Earth again] JUICE: And *which* moons am I looking at? FROM EARTH: Oh my *god*. FROM EARTH: Now I get why we budgeted for so many Earth flybys.
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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 29/09/2026
So, fun fact: ever since 1994, and Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" campaign stunt, Congress has had a SERIOUS problem with subject-matter expertise and institutional memory. It's why Congress has such a deep and complicated relationship with lobbyists. 1/
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔌💡
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Energy Empire Podcast @energyempire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google offered to pay outright for the data center infrastructure upgrades. The utility said no, because that would keep it out of the rate base, and pushed for a prepayment structure instead so they could still rate base it.⁣ ⁣ Result: everyone's bill went up $5.77 a month.
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nini time! Goodnight Mr. The Missile
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hailey @hailey.at · 27/09/2026
eventually people will realize most of the people they consider evil actually are very well read in the humanities, but for now we are still blaming stem
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New favorite video alert
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
As is the case with most people with the hyperactivity bit of ADHD, I also have the inattentive bit, which means I’m not paying attention at very high speeds 18 to 19 hours a day
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They are cruel to many people in this world who need help and consistently have so much against them. They are hurtfhul to members of my family and god willing ill make them pay before I leave this world
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Bryant Heath @slsees.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Whale is wrapped up! New mural by Jiyoun Lee-Lodge on this iconic Salt Lake City spot looks fantastic — love how the colors at dawn mirror the Whale’s coloring!
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Seems more like the congestion pricing is a standalone proposal, not meant to replace the gas tax? Re: VMT, they should build vehicle weight into the formula but otherwise sounds good to me!
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I feel like if Sam Altman was criminally charged under CFAA they would figure out a way to stop doing crimes all the time
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔌💡
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'd like to file a minor complaint about the captions for the latest @gamechanger.dropout.tv—it wasn't The Muffin Man, it was Ievan polkka!
youtu.be
Loituma Girl Original (Leekspin) - Fix'd Version
YouTube video by loulan
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don't know much about the proposed AI oversight. But I do know enough about US grid reliability regulations to draw a rough sketch. Might be informative for folks thinking about the AI proposal, idk. Context: I worked at a NERC Regional Entity 2018-2021. So here's a thread on NERC, I guess 🔌💡
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
First trial of the cat harness, one cat at a time in the shared backyard: One disliked the harness but was curious to eat grass and explore. One spent the time crawling toward any space she could hide in. One was just scared stiff. To 2&3's credit, it was quieter when 1 and I went out
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🔌💡
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 14/09/2026
Phenomenal video, as science that demonstrates concepts but also as just a compelling visual.
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Get ready for a Squid Game Changer!
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🔌💡
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ABC4 Utah @abc4utah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado touched down just before 2:00 p.m. near Fruit Heights, Utah. www.abc4.com/weather/tornado-warnin… 
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Rep. Grothman: "We recently had a big tornado, and I think one of the reasons nobody died is everybody got in their basement because they heard of the danger on AM radio." 🙄
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Networking? I hardly know 'ing!
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yo @sharxiii.bsky.social, HBD!
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yo @valiantamm.blackskycomra.de, HBD!
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
😍
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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
really loving the Earnest Millennial Wholesome side plot in New York right now
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I've been to D.C. twice, and this sculpture is one of the few things I specifically remember. I was 14, there for the national MATHCOUNTS competition, and this statue is ~a Möbius strip. There's already a 555-ft obelisk to GW. This sculpture should stay and spark the minds of today's young 'ins.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Republicans say that voting by mail doesn't work and they get into office and make it so.
propublica.org
U.S. Postal Service Failed to Properly Handle Some Ballots During This Year’s Primary Elections, Audit Finds
An inspector general’s audit found a lack of training for post office staff, deficiencies in how ballots were tracked and errors leading to delays. Experts say it raises questions ahead of the midterm...
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Temu "I am the Senate"
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just days ago I was wondering how much horsepower the average horse can give. There you go!
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Well, they also arrest the Korean battery engineers when they come here, so kiss the future goodbye if we can't do any knowledge transfer.
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Ben Winslow @benwinslow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ran into Salt Lake County Clerk Lannie Chapman at the labor unions' annual Labor Day picnic. She tells me because of confusion/litigation over vote-by-mail on a federal level, she's planning to expand the number of dropboxes and vote centers in the coming weeks. #utpol #Utah
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. 
Elves are marvelous. They cause marvels. 
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. 
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. 
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. 
Elves are terrific. They beget terror. 
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. 
No one ever said elves are nice. 
Elves are bad.
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Excuse me. Whomst?!
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1 vote

This is from that "Top 38 most influential Bluesky posters" thing that's going around
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
Trump continues to disperse disaster recovery funds based on how states vote, which for any other president or public official, in any other time, in any other country, in any other context would be a morally horrific scandal that would dominate headlines for months.
subscriber.politicopro.com
POLITICO Pro: Trump rejects disaster appeals by four Democratic governors
New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will have to pay the entire cost of recovery from a major February snowstorm.
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Doesn't seem great... #utpol
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Does 1 bus route between the near-ish light rail stop and the far-ish commuter train stop (both in other cities) count? (asking for the far suburbs of a small Real City with a Real Public Transport System)
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Jesse Harris @elforesto.coolestfamilyever.com · 02/09/2026
The Internet was a lot of fun when we gave weirdos a copy of Flash.
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David Haralson @laughlax.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Concur? I hardly know 'er!
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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Whenever people start talking about what evolution "wants" us to do they're just subbing in "evolution" for "God". Evolution is non-teleological.
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