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Persistent Weak Layer

@teresabarnes.bsky.social
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Scientist working on reliable solar for decarbonization. Researcher, mountain biker, lifter, skier, mom, punk. she/her, #energysky All posts my own and not endorsed, accepted, or associated with my mysterious employer. Love solar. Hate fascism.

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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New Mom’s night out plan - we ditch the rotten children and take the precious WiFi router out for a night on the town while they stare at the wall.
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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Kitchens on fire off the oil in the ovens. I watched tokens glitter in the dark near the skeeball grate. All those moments will be lost in time, like pizzas in rain. Time to die.
Photo of a dilapidated Chuck E. Cheese animatronic rotting outside in the middle of nowhere
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m so bored with all the discussion around AI. Can we talk about some useful technology, like heat pumps?
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Headed to Austin for PV Manufacturing USA. It’s time to build the domestic supply chain may also be time to resume taking normie conference attendees to their first protest.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i don't understand how the gas prices have not yet caused a mutiny
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three crows on top @shrike17.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
white people will trade anything for a bag of magic racism beans
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026
anyway congratulations to Calvin’s Dad on diesel prices
Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin’s dad hopes gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
An open note to the stranger who noted that it’s kind of weird that I care so much about measles in Pennsylvania and about Ebola in Congo when I am not in either place: I am very sorry to hear that you seem to believe that it’s kind of weird to care about other people.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Colorado: I will move Denver airport even further from civilization to protect you from visitors
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Just had a bunch of orders from Nashville. Not sure why, but thanks! thewaroncars.store/products/cle...
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CLEARANCE: Logo T-shirt (free shipping)
As we make the transition from our old store to this new one and as we wrap up our epic book tour, we need to clear out Doug's closet. Grab our original logo t-shirt at a bargain price and represent T...
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Every day we get closer to WeWorks 2 but much, much funnier
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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Mechafuckboy.
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
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[Sic] Burns @sicburns2.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Cheer up guys raw cookie dough is now at least as safe as most fresh produce
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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 05/09/2026
Highly, highly recommend this long read on why AI writing is slop. silentroom.media/the-craft/br...
Science attempted to describe this phenomenon in formal terms. A group of researchers led by Cody Kommers of the Turing Institute proposed three identifying properties of slop: surface competence, asymmetry of effort, and mass producibility. The first is the appearance of quality with no real meaning behind it. The second is that content costs the producer almost nothing while it costs the reader dearly. The third is scale: the economics of such content rest entirely on mass production of text.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This one’s my favourite
A reddit post from the Wile E Coyote AMA that says “Hi WEC, I've watched you since I was a child, just wanted to say thank you for running into paintings of tunnels for all those years.”

The replies is a film still of Wile E Coyote smiling and holding a sign that says “Keep art alive”
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Colin Smith @welcometotsavo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts” - Wendell Berry
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
When you hear people discussing the flooding in Nepal, or the power outages in Gary, or any of the other disasters in this moment, by saying that these are what the future looks like, calmly but firmly remind them: that these disasters are what the present looks like.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yikes. This is even crazier when you realize the boulder is at roof level.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Self-censorship, institutional censorship, and good old fashioned govt censorship. Good times.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
She ran a CrossFit gym, which is basically a swinger's club that produces orthopedic injuries
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Lettuce and peppers will break your butt, but fries will never hurt you.
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percussion rinse @mcdeconstruction.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
you’d be clutching your decorum pearls from a labor camp if Vance had his way
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
By far the best correlation since pirates and global average temperatures.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Muppet backup dancers for Shakira would fix us.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Ok, what the muppets?
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Wallace @wallace.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I got to know Lindsey Graham during our years working together to pass the Incinerate Children on Other Continents for Profit Act. He was a good man.
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Ghost_of_Gandalf 🇺🇸 @quirkyhndl.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Now, now, I'm sure all the Ivy league schools don't have toxic, cult-like groups of well-connected young men doing coke, sexual assault, and pushing white replacement theory. That would be crazy...
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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Yet again, USA: Require that Congress ensure that the executive branch operate as it has ordered. Instead of anything like this. And remove the Trump appointees who keep trying to steal everything they can. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative
A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency’s budget is already squeezed and it struggling to clear a backlog of grant applications.
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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
So bottom line: if you drink water from a treatment facility built in last 50 years, if you drive on roads or bridges that need repair, if you live in a flood zone, getting any Fed grant to support this stuff will now depend on your officials’ fealty to the crown.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
When suggested as a response to airborne illnesses the recommendation to “wash your hands” is often seen as insufficient, but cyclospora is not an airborne illness, so in this case please: wash your hands, and wash your produce, and then wash your hands again.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Is Graham Platner’s alleged inability to hear “no” a personal failing, or a symptom of how late-stage capitalism has hardened the hearts of our economically anxious oyster-farming veterans? by Matt Stoller
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Put it in my veins.
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 01/07/2026
Colorado wildfire update: Snyder fire reaches 10% containment as crews battle flames statewide
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Colorado wildfire update: Snyder fire reaches 10% containment as crews battle flames statewide
Firefighters made progress on the state's largest wildfire near the Colorado-Utah border, but conditions continue to bring high fire danger
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
My thoughts on DACS and CCS got me on a few block lists. This is me not apologizing and doubling down on solar.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Ah, fond memories of my Mom telling me, “I don’t think I am a socialist, I just try to be a nice person.”
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
staple the snack wrappers to your union cards to demonstrate dominance
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Is this a bad time to have a health secretary who is pro- virus and pro-worm?
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It fucking well will not. The "AI assistance" is basically human bias concentrate.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
this is a pride flag made from real nasa imagery happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈✨
A pride flag made out of NASA images.
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Scott Rich, Ph.D. @richcompneuro.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Top story on the @nytimes.com app. A big sign that this all-important story is breaking into mainstream consciousness.
Top story on the NYT app regarding science funding.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is very bad.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It’s crazy. I’m forced to understand “conservative climate solutions”, and we could probably do some less terrible stuff for bad reasons and go on fox about it.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Godzilla stomps through a city and thinks to himself "For Godzilla all cities are walkable."
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Pregnancy has tried to kill me twice. I was lucky enough to be able to deliver viable babies, but delivery is the only treatment. I’d feel awful for this woman, but she literally voted for this. She didn’t think it could happen to her. Abortion is healthcare, and women die without it.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 23/05/2026
White House got Crack House problems
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Acceptable Danes over here.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Arguing for solar, wind, and storage is pretty easy. We should try it more often.
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