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Ryan Sholin

@ryansholin.bsky.social
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Data-driven decarbonization at @electricitymaps.com There are 20 data centers between my house and the grocery store. Sometimes, this is a light-on-context soccer account. Often, VAR is trash.

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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Julian Hall can stay. Not really buying Westfield at this level. I would love to see Seb Berhalter play a full CONCACAF tournament or qualifying cycle for the vibes.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We once more unto the breach, dear friends.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Stop slouching and get a move on!”
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Morning after USMNT analysis: 1. Play your kids. 2. Sebastian Berhalter belongs in a top five league, not sure how he settled for Boro, although it’s fun there are like seven US players there now. 3. Cavan got that dawg in ‘im.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oliver Nelson - Blues and the Abstract Truth Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch Andrew Hill - Point of Departure Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lowkey pumped to see Diego Kochen finally get a senior cap!
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
VAR is trash, indeed.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I understand *why* Apple Music plays me Arcade Fire after M83 every time, but I need Apple Music to understand I may not be emotionally ready to listen to Arcade Fire again for like, a decade.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy 100th Birthday, John Coltrane. (This version of Love Supreme live at Antibes is my favorite.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWuh...
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John Coltrane 4tet "A love supreme" | Archive INA
YouTube video by Ina Best Of Jazz
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Power Converters and JSON: What Tosche Station can teach us about API interconnectivity
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When the Acela to Climate Week loses power and takes a few minutes to cycle the breakers and restart? That's not an outage; that's flexibility.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Someone finally nailed my parenting style
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Errrrrr that’s a data center fire, and crews remaining on scene… “actively cooling a battery storage area” brings up some questions…
A screenshot of an Instagram post from Loudoun County Combined Fire and Rescue System. The text of the post indicates there was a structure fire at a building in the 21000 block of Uunet Drive in Ashburn, Virginia. The fire was quickly extinguished but crews remained on the scene “cooling a battery storage area affected by the fire.” No reported injuries.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The best thing about purchasing a toilet is having a new toilet instead of an old one. The worst thing about purchasing a toilet is weeks (months?) of retargeting ads for toilets.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If "audited methodology valid for Scope 2 and ISO 14064 carbon accounting" is the kind of thing that gets you going in the morning, drink this up with me: www.electricitymaps.com/resources/up...
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Independent Assurance Verified: Electricity Maps Earns Letter of Assurance from SGS - Electricity Maps | The world’s most comprehensive electricity data platform
Electricity Maps provides global access to electricity mix, prices and carbon intensity. Available in real-time, historically and forecasted.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
PSA for content marketing folks: When you download a PDF from Google Docs and change the filename later, it still shows up with the Google Doc title in the Chrome PDF view unless you change it in Google Docs first. That's how people end up seeing things like "__whitepaper-final-final-091426"
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Is AI going to kill us all? (This is not a rhetorical question, I want to know if I have to keep planning for the future or if I can just chill for a while.)
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
how my brain works, chapter 129893.23124.a
It's Doctor Who wearing a fez, except the text is "I WEAR AN OBSERVABILITY NOW" and "OBSERVABILITY IS COOL"
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Me over breakfast: The chorus of the My Chemical Romance song I have stuck in my head goes "Teenagers scare the living shit out of me..." My 16yo: *raises eyebrows to the ceiling*
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Here’s one of my most powerful Gen X relics: A paper I wrote on a 512KB PC (and printed on our household dot matrix printer) on Anna Karenina, having read only the first 50 pages. Sorry, Ms. Nobil, but at least I didn’t use ChatGPT.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I am 20 years late to My Chemical Romance (well, Welcome to the Black Parade on repeat, at least) and I know I'm supposed to say they sound like Queen playing an emo rock opera, but I'm getting A LOT of Motley Crue. And I love it.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Anyone who compares the water cost of computing to the water cost of food should be required to eat a GPU.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Happy to report that I am listening to the Flea album again, and again I forgot the Nick Cave Wichita Lineman was coming, and again it is delightful.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
How it feels to support Everton today
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We have a very local neighborhood power outage tonight, probably just a transformer. No data to look at, no interesting root cause, and highly unlikely data centers are involved. Just some good ol’ maintenance.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The disappointing plot twist (uh other than the murdering) is that he was complaining his enchiladas were *too* spicy.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Heckit universe, cut it out already.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In February 2021, 49 days into my year of recording a cover song every day, Dolly Parton *turned down* someone who wanted to build a statue of her, saying "I don’t think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time." And that night I played Jolene. songs.ryansholin.com/2021/02/18/d...
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day 49: Jolene – songs:365
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Most things in here don’t react well to bullets
Sean Connery in Hunt for Red October telling Jack Ryan to be careful what he shoots at
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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New @thebulletin.org by Neta Crawford: "How much does war, and the preparation and recovery from it, contribute to the climate crisis? Nobody knows, because there is no comprehensive accounting of global warming emissions from militaries, military industries, or war."
thebulletin.org
Mission impossible? Quantifying military emissions
Military and wartime emissions are difficult to track—but too important to ignore.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Here are some energy headline puns that are subject to curtailment ny US RTOs and ISOs, according to FERC order 2026.4.19 Part J* - Geothermal is heating up - Solar's future is cloudy - Blowing in the wind - Hydro: anything involving "in the water" - Batteries "piling up" *which I just made up
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Saw Odyssey at the Udvar Hazy IMAX and it was good! Kinda gross in a couple spots? Fine. I would like to see the BTS of that one camera move up the rocky trail to the cyclops cave. Show me the crane track!
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Attention, fellow climate + football people! If you play Fantasy Premier League and want to be the latest in a long line of data nerds to absolutely destroy me at it, you should join this league: fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto...
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Fantasy Premier League, Official Fantasy Football Game of the Premier League
Official Fantasy Premier League 2026/27. Free to play fantasy football game, set up your fantasy football team at the Official Premier League site.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
As a casual band and orchestra parent, I would advise the current US administration to *tread lightly* when considering tariffs on brass and wind instruments. Yikes.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Here’s the PJM explainer on the huge July load drop out: insidelines.pjm.com/pjm-dominion...
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PJM, Dominion Review Large Load Transfer Event | PJM Inside Lines
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
You keep saying "President escaped Turkey in a food cart" and I keep hearing "Preznit no giv me turkee" because I am that old. www.eschatonblog.com/2003/12/prez...
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Always a pleasant surprise when a Google privacy policy update email reminds me of a Gmail address I didn't know I have!
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Have we done this yet?
The moment in Hunt for Red October where the US diplomat says to the Russian "So let me get this straight. You've lost another submarine?" except instead the second sentene is "you've had another parasite outbreak"
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Bring me an LLM trained on usenet and AOL chat rooms and Tumblr and hand-edited HTML websites and *maybe* Weird Twitter™ circa 2009-2013 or so.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Most hyperscaler data center announcements that come with a side dish of community engagement read like: "We are going to use 3GW of electricity and spend $14B on construction and GPUs! But, here's $3 million for your STEM magnet schools and a $500K electrician training program."
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Quite the back-to-back stack of posts.
First post: A Moms Clean Air Force post of a Climate Central story "How New Satellites and AI Are Transforming Wildfire Detection"

Second post: A Wired story "Facing a growing drone threat, the Pentagon is poised to sign a first-of-its-kind contract for “Enduring High Energy Lasers”—and make directed energy weapons an official part of the Army’s kit. "
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My favorite thing about Pochettino staying on with the USMNT through 2030 is that he’ll have to go through some vintage of a qualifying campaign, even if CONCACAF gets 8 teams or whatever in a 64 nation World Cup. Poch away at Azteca! Away at Saprissa! Poch away at Cuba!
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Back at work after a week in the Outer Banks. This was Jasmine on day 1, morning 1, walk 1. We're both mentally refreshed and physically a bit tired today.
A black dog on a beach not too long after sunrise, the ocean white with foam behind her, the reflection of the sun sparkling. Tongue out, tail up.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
All week at the beach I’ve been annoyed at an airplane ad for a drug I assumed was a new antidepressant, but it’s a new motion sickness pill, and honestly, well played.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
If “literally” ever becomes an AI tell, I’m cooked.
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Literally me telling my teenagers why they should bring their wallets on vacation.
Homer’s brain telling him “Money can be exchanged for goods and services.”
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
[finger to earpiece, shuffling papers] How do you say "welp" in Catalan?
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Odysseus Scooby Doo ending where everyone who has been slowing him down gets unmasked and they're all Poseidon
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Ryan Sholin @ryansholin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Meh. I thought he could do better, maybe a mid-tier Serie A team? The Championship will be a long slog with limited visibility.
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