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@volts.wtf
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h
One thing about Copenhagen is that there's tons of dense housing but you *never* find it fronting a busy road with cars racing past, which describes about 90% of the apartments in the US. They manage to make it feel tucked away, private, cozy. (These are all from Sluseholmen, my dream neighborhood.)
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Wish I had a better shot than this, but ... it is *strikingly* similar to the Highline.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
New kitten dropped. (BIL is fostering.)
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/10/2026
Every NextDoor post sounds like a parody of a NextDoor post.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
Lookin' good, atmosphere.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/09/2026
Lots of good people with good-old down-home values.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/09/2026
Things seem to be going great.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/09/2026
Just checking in on my old home town of Cookeville, TN.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
This city fucking rules. It's ridiculous.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
I just completed my final professional obligation of the trip (excellent Denmark podcast incoming) and now I am standing on top of Copenhill, the giant waste incineration plant on the edge of Copenhagen, drinking a beer and looking out over the city. Life is good.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
Awesome! This is the crucial distinction:
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
Kids swimming in a pool that's actually part of the river. In the middle of the city. Really just my idea of heaven.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/09/2026
what
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026
I love this slide. I really don't think the geopolitical implications of the clean energy transition have sunk in for most people.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026
😢
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026
DO we need one of these on the left? I mean, do we, really?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026
It's not just that Zendaya is beautiful, it's that every time I see a picture of her she looks like a different person. She's like 20 different beautiful people.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/09/2026
Normal, healthy political party.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/09/2026
My new email auto-response:
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/09/2026
This little guy turns 21 today. 🥲
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026
A true thing, from one of our nation's leading purveyors of True Things the Relevant People Refuse to Listen To, @brianbeutler.bsky.social. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026
For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026
Tapping the sign.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/09/2026
The modal NextDoor post.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/09/2026
Lucy Dacus! Fun random fact: I interviewed Dacus back in 2012, before she was boygenius or famous or anything.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/09/2026
Bikini Kill! PNW OGs.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/09/2026
Bumbershoot!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/09/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
Sorry ladies. Catturd has spoken.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
Huh.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/09/2026
😐
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/09/2026
This raises many questions, such as, "why are there four big chickens in our front yard?" And, "why are these chickens so extraordinarily handsome? Are they show chickens?" And, "what exactly does one do about a gaggle of chickens in one's front yard?"
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/09/2026
Some strange goings-on at House Roberts this afternoon. The 23yo just walked out the front door, came back in, & said "there are chickens in our yard." I was thinking, is this some euphemism the kids use these days? Some kind of metaphor? But no. There are four (4) big chickens in our front yard.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026
Now, I'm sorry, you're going to need to spell this out for me. Why are we not outside walking right now?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/08/2026
A listener sent this in ...
Lake Maybe Today
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/08/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/08/2026
My work-from-home life, summarized in one image.
My work-from-home life, summarized in one image.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026
Because I'm on this dumb list, I'll just say for the record: my professional work is clean energy journalism, the newsletter & podcast I maintain at volts.wtf. That's the work I put my heart into, care about, stand behind. My political commentary on social media is purely a hobby, for shits+giggles.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/08/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
Angine de Poitrine is playing. Watching Seattle's assembled white people trying to dance along is quite hilarious.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/08/2026
It's just so important that Democrats not listen to dipshits like this any more.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/08/2026
Guess who saw a mf'ing Orca off the side of their ferry this evening?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/08/2026
Schnitzel with eggs, anchovies, and capers, over spaetzle and red cabbage
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/08/2026
I'm about to eatze the schnit out of some schnitzel.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/08/2026
Bear watching!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/08/2026
Guess where I've been.
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