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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ok, so maybe it’s just us against CONMEBOL vs UEFA

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You know Cavan Sullivan is real young because for the 2001 Eminem hairstyle to come back he’d need to be ~2 generations on from millennials

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

has there ever been a moment where the third way shtick has rung more hollow? I get that the overwhelming asymmetry at play in terms of policy pursuits makes it pretty impossible to thread that tired middle path, but it also makes equivalency in fault and continuing on look ridiculous

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

T-shirt and shorts weather, finally

U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @usmnt.ussoccer.com · 18/09/2026

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Last looks before the international break!

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My analysts recorded a podcast for fun back in January, named it Status Check, and then they're been running with it ever since Tough to get a spot on it, they've only let me guest once 😅

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

we actually have an opposite example in power markets, where PJM and Joe Bowring ended up at loggerheads almost 20 years ago, and the feds eventually sided with the market monitor examples like this are on my mind more and more as tech people have rushed into power (even preceding AI, worse now)

Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Look, this probably won’t happen, but it would be so incredibly funny

Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I was also outside wednesday evening in the DMV, although playing soccer, and let me tell you, the actual temperature was a total lie because the humidity was roughly 300%

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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 04/09/2026

Over 150K without power after Thursday night's insane storms with nonstop lightning + violent winds. We'll have an explainer on this event on Friday. For now, see these dramatic videos from CW readers... Link: www.capitalweather.com/video-violen... Video here by @philliefan99.bsky.social

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

at least all three Clippers fans can rest easy in their championship oh wait, no, their single Conference Finals appearance

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

when you know the caveats are extensive but decide to publish anyways there is a place for first-order analysis, but in its overuse it's earning a spot in my heart next to dynamic scoring

Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

When you’ve conquered the dog bed

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

very very curious if the tariffs touch energy in any way we took a look when the early 2025 US tariffs were being announced and the white house seemed poised to tariff electricity blog.gridstatus.io/tariffs-chal... might be time to dust some of that off, picture has changed with CHPE and NECEC 🔌💡

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Tariffs Challenge the Interconnected Northeast

New York and New England are heavily interconnected with the Canadian grid, importing cheaper and cleaner power than internal generation. Tariffs are driving uncertainty in both operations and plannin...

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Truly honored that my reference to Missy Elliott's seminal 2002 hit Work It made it into the promo 🤩 🔌💡

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Grid Status @gridstatus.io · 20/08/2026

check these out and more in the recently redesigned Insights feed www.gridstatus.io/insights also, we're hiring on the markets team if you've got ERCOT chops www.gridstatus.io/jobs

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Insights | Grid Status

Stay up to date with our team's live analysis of events happening on the grid

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

pulled a few off of the non-fiction shelves in my office to recommend (tbh, I read way, way more fiction than non) 1. The Price of Peace - A Keynes (mostly) bio I quite enjoyed, that also delves into what Keynes wanted societally and how it faded. Also, I didn't know how many famous people he knew

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

the really fucked up part is that we're still early in the wave of these heart-wrenching stories while the man who took personal credit for this carnage was crowned the world's first trillionaire just two months ago

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It’s good! Easy read over a few evenings or a single Saturday, the world remains really compelling, and having just finally gotten around to Wind and Truth the other week, I deeply appreciate the relative brevity nice author’s note at the end as well

Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Appreciate this categorical breakdown of large loads from MISO #energysky

California ISO @caiso.com · 13/08/2026

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Curious about how California's electricity markets are independently monitored? ⚡ Eric Hildebrandt, Executive Director of the DMM, breaks it all down in our latest Energy Matters blog. 💡 Learn more: bit.ly/4xA4LmZ

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Save Big Money at Menards" goes hand in hand with "I've got something for youuuu" in my childhood commercial pantheon www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4-e...

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Eagleman (The Original)

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Form raised another $750M, earlier this year they were talking $500M, $2B total now still no operational projects btw, the first one started to get installed last autumn, but paused, "end of 2026" is the current goal afaik, will be about 3 years behind at that point no visible progress elsewhere

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

her last year was my first year of grad school at IU, she was still involved and working right up until the end it was cool how cross-disciplinary the folks who showed up could be

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Recently bought a car for the first time in ~13 years, and what we encountered was basically resignation that everyone coming in and buying an Ioniq 5 at the time was qualifying for 0% financing so there was no leverage after we said what car we wanted they went and got it then left us alone

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

really wondering what transmission has or hasn't been shut off yet the Grand Coulee - Bell 500 kV line is in the evacuation zone, and the fire seems to be within ~1.5 miles at its closest point @worstcaseeng.bsky.social

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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 31/07/2026

Warm and relatively pleasant final Friday evening of July ahead. Temps dip through the 80s on the way to lows mid-60s to near 70. Close to 90 on Saturday. More humidity and higher rain chances by Sunday. Updated forecast at CapitalWeather.com (Photo by angela n.)

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PJM Interconnection @pjminterconnection.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

PJM Reliability Backstop Proposal Outlines Steps To Secure New Supply and Maintain Reliability insidelines.pjm.com/pjm-reliability…

PJM Meeting Demand Growth: PJM has filed with FERC for approval to run a one time Reliability Backstop Procurement in September. Why? To help close the gap between electricity supply and demand.

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

trying and failing to put myself in the mindset of someone who puts defense and data-integration-for-defense companies in the non-conformist quadrant just a couple of the bizarre choices here, which I think may be a reflection of an "I'm in tech and ignore politics/the world" ethos

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

don't worry though, they've designed it to be defeated by. . . standard hallways? if you don't have a standard hallway, the robot centaur will be stealing your soul to feed the insatiable appetite of the machine gods

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Tomer Burg @burgwx.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🚨 New PolarWx Site Launch 🚨 After a long time planning the next steps for PolarWx, phase 1 has rolled out this evening with a completely revamped real-time tropical cyclone monitor website. Check it out below or read the thread for more on what's new: polarwx.com/tropical/

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

some new books for early project scoping

Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The pickup soccer closest to my house has been going consistently for 20 years and is run by someone in their 60s I manage to get in 3-4 hours of soccer a week in an empty field behind a ymca, it’s great

Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Who was asking for post rehab acoustic vaguely religious Bieber, they tryna put people to sleep?

Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 18/07/2026

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It was a really bad air day for DC. A pollution double whammy. Not only did smoke pollution reach code purple (very unhealthy) levels this AM and hover at code red this PM, but ground-level ozone, another pollutant, spiked to code red this afternoon. This is not something we can remember seeing.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 17/07/2026

Over at the Climate Brink I take a deep dive into climate and wildfires in Canada, and why complaints about Canadian forest management largely miss the mark as conditions rapidly have become more favorable for megafires: www.theclimatebrink....

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Grid Status @gridstatus.io · 16/07/2026

Wildfire smoke is wreaking havoc on solar forecasting in the northeast #energysky

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

man, early days of CHPE have kind of been a disaster first a substation on the HQ side, now an underwater section of the cable in New York

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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Siri, show me numbers that would supercharge the Illinois-solo-RTO discussions #energysky