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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade  4mo ago (text post) 267 thread views #282274

Bard spotting on Bluesky 09 July 2024 :marseyrandom:

Here we spot wild Bardfinn Bluesky activities.

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Sy Nakamura (@theredprince.bsky.social):

Houston doesn't have an outage map?!!???

Texas is a Shithole Country

ben schwartz (@benschwartz.bsky.social):

this is great, but there really should be a vegan alternative to finding texas power outages.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

My house is in one of the last metropolitan / suburban / urban neighborhoods in the US where there is no option to buy electricity from a marketplace provider, because out switching distribution branch serves the AM radio station that first broadcasts the EAS signal for an area the size of Maine

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

My city owns its own electricity generation plant, because my city used to host a bunch of defense contractors + has the EAS station. There's a 30-ft wide strip running out from the city proper to the lake where the transmission lines make landfall, from the plant, on the other side of the lake

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Texas has its own distribution grid, unconnected to the rest of the nation.

It's just nuts

Sy Nakamura (@theredprince.bsky.social):

Yeah, the interconnections are very limited, DC only

A Texas energy guy told me that if the federal government ever tried to exercise jurisdiction over the Texas grid the governor would personally vote those lines with an ax

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Sy Nakamura (@theredprince.bsky.social):

You are probably better off; third party supply has been a disaster of grifters

A lot of states are considering ending or limiting it

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Texas wants Bitcoin miners here so they can maintain the demand load on the grid in mild weather months; they actually pay the miners to shut down during high demand.

Just a wild, industry-captured-regulatory-agency business model

Sy Nakamura (@theredprince.bsky.social):

I am stealing that

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