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@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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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 16h
Killing people doesn't unkill other people. It just causes even more dead people. In fact once you realize that, you end up being opposed to *gestures generally at everything going on right now*.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 13h
I didn’t know I still had a very Catholic red line for evil political stunts, but I do, and it’s this.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Based.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I find myself unable to judge.
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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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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just burn it all down. I got off easy by skipping all the petroleum industry strip bar trips. Hotel interviews are evil nasty bs.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We could launch all the frat people into the sun, let them test Elons rockets, or even try custom deep water subs. Way better than letting them into society with the rest of us. Monsters.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s gross. I’m a public school grad, and I would be kicking asses and starting fires in the admin buildings if it happened there. I have no faith in alums here to do the right thing, but we threw down for everything at Maryland.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jfc. That place needs to be cleansed with fire. The alumni should be in the admin buildings with torches and pitchforks, but they won’t.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He must be extra terrified of flying Frontier. Pilots have to send videos dressed as a tail animal to be allowed to fly.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Abandoned oil and gas wells do crazy shit like blowing up houses and poisoning wells. Abandoned solar plants are not good, but they aren’t explosive, toxic, leaky, hazards. They now usually have decommissioning bonds expected to cover costs.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don’t think there is an oath in the US, but there is a code of conduct and scary liability intended to make sure you don’t screw up.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not all engineering disciplines routinely get their PE. I went through Chem E when very few chemical engineers got their stamps. Nuclear probably is/was similar. We still take this stuff deadly serious because a sign error can blow up or poison a town, which is very bad.
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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 · 22/09/2026
Nobody would judge if you said was Diet Coke. That is a perfectly normal amount of morning juice.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My mom always made baked rice pudding. It’s the best.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And you get extra lottery entries if you send video of punching.
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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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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Time to researching Amtrak options. BWI, Boston, or bumblefuxk
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Excellent.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My best friend and my aunt died from melanoma in the same year. My best friend was so proud of all of the immunotherapy trials she participated in over the last 10 years of her life. She would be so happy to know there are now treatments.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My pig headed 16 year old insisted on a gas car last year. I haven’t had one in 10 years. Seems like it really sucks for her. Too bad, so sad. Pretty sure this will be her only gas car.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’d like to request extra sharks for my walk into the sea
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hating each other is half of the fun in this crowd.
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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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all night, drug-prowling werewolf @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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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Very cool model. Loveland is looking good for powder and nasty weather. Perfect combo for me.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Boy Scout lore is to “slap a cold trout on it”.
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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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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mine might be Against Me! Last show before COVID hit left a big impression. Getting tickets for Mastodon in a few weeks. Seeing them with John Baizley is too good to pass up.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Stealing bikes is already one of the easiest and most lucrative crimes, and they are begging for more bike theft? Wild.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I thought it was hilarious.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I can only imagine the rutting bull elk finding trail zyns. It’s not good.
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Tomacco!
Alt: Tomacco! Home has created highly addictive tobacco tomato hybrids. Things go badly.
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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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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My kid called. He started dinner.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BYOP and “around the meter energy” are not nearly enough. Looks like they just jack up fuel prices and then T&D. Seems bad, actually.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Agreed, and I’m still not sure that we can actually overbuild renewables in a world where we have to get off fossil as fast as possible. Let them build the “data center” power. We will use it for electrification of everything.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Can we really overbuild renewables? I’m fond of the idea that we make the tech companies fund the electrify everything buildout, and we use all of the speculative data center buildout for things we actually need. This requires a much stronger backlash against gas turbines.
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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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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Cool Disco Dan
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Can we start a media machine for “cheap energy is good, and expensive energy is dumb”?
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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Mechafuckboy.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Reminds me of a high school classmate who posted about rolling up to the polls on Election Day and joyfully spotting all the proud Trump people in big diesels while the “Biden pussies” rolled up in minivans and EVs. Anyway, fuck her and fuck all them. Good thing they only eat red meat too.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Imagine a full nights sleep where you then decide to rent gear, meet them on the second run, spend many frustrating hours trying to find the right lift while frantically texting, finally meeting them for last run, then having a panic attack and losing all your shit at the top of the run.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yes! Add a unit on public health effects of each system and one on funding for each.
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Persistent Weak Layer @teresabarnes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I feel good about hating everyone involved in this for making remember she exists.
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