Bryce Anderson

@475nm.bsky.social

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I'm blue, dah-boo-dee dah-boo-diiii.

Screenshot from an SEIA blog post, reads: Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) Grid-scale batteries need advanced cooling systems to operate safely and reliably. Rare earths like neodymium and dysprosium are used in the magnets that power fans and pumps. Other elements, like cerium and lanthanum, are used in sensors that monitor and manage battery temperature. Even though these materials are used in tiny amounts (on the gram-to-milligram scale), they are essential to preventing BESS systems from overheating.
From a CNN interview with Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: "At those town halls, what I saw was that the people who were the most upset, a lot of them had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice and they view their best shot of their student getting a college education as an athletic scholarship. And so when we rush to moralize and be like, "This is all about love versus hate," I think we miss some of the nuance."
A Phillips 1GB SA1110 mp3 player, about the size of a standard-issue human thumb. 2009 was peak technology. All subsequent tech was a mistake.
A gray Nissan Leaf with its cute little bugeyed alien headlights.
A blue first a generation Nissan Leaf
I'm sorry, I really don't know how to describe this one.
A screenshot from Worldometer showing that Germany's GDP has doubled over the last 20 years.
Screenshot of oilprices.com, incorrectly showing the WTI price of a barrel of oil at $0 a barrel. I'm thinking the site failed to fetch some data from somewhere.
A yellow emoji face on the Vegas Sphere.
The most recent YouGov poll on the subject shows 77% of 2024 Harris voters want to abolish ICE.
A chess game that ended in a stalemate even though I had four queens on the board. Actually, it ended in a stalemate *because* I had four queens on the board. 👑👑👑👑
Left: an uploaded picture of Bernie Sanders. He's sitting in a chair, bundled in a coat and gloves and face mask, being pulled into the sky by a swarm of colorful balloons. He appears unimpressed. Right: a stack of colored squares. Next to each, color names and hex values: #98236A | Romantic Vampire #E0DDE8 | Homoeopathic Lilac #18317F | Below the Surface #4189C1 | Warm Spring #0C0E0E | Black Wash #538E38 | Indica #C6D664 | Cool as a Cucumber #D6413C | Blood of My Enemies
Picture of sailboat on the water. Caption of inspiration: "Be an inspiration to everyone around you. Be handsome. Be immortal."
Strong Bad, Checker of Emails
Archaeops, the fossil bird Pokemon
"While Google's zopfli implementation of the deflate compression algorithm is named after Zöpfli, the Swiss German word for a snack-sized braided buttery bread, brotli is named after Brötli, the Swiss German word for a bread roll."
The Hill headline: Support Court to run out of funding due to the shutdown
Sherman, rising from the grave. Happy Octoberween, Alt Text Fanatics.
A screenshot from Oregon Trail, a game from the 1900s. An ox pulling a wagon. "Below it, the words "You have died of Republican policy."
NPR headline: USDA cancelled survey tracking how many Americans struggle to get enough food
Wikipedia: "In 2016, [Boetler] was appointed to the Governor's Workforce Development Board, a nonpartisan 60-member unpaid advisory board, by then-Governor of Minnesota Mark Dayton. Governor Tim Walz reappointed him to a four-year term in 2019."
Wikipedia: Silver's final forecast for the election gave Trump and Harris almost an exactly even chance of winning the Electoral College (50.015% for Harris, 49.985% for Trump). His model also forecast that a Trump victory in all seven swing states was the single most likely outcome (at over 20% likelihood), and that a comfortable Electoral College victory of some form had better than even odds of occurring (with over 60% likelihood that one candidate would win at least six swing states). Trump won the Presidency and all seven swing states.
From Parks and Recreation, Ron Swanson tells a park ranger, "Not to worry, I have a permit." The paper reads, "I can do what I want. Ron."
From the source: "The reason for all of this is of course this “terrible” chemical element called carbon (number 6 on the periodic table). Please remember though that the same carbon is the 2nd most abundant element in the human body and it is a key building block for all life on Earth. By the way, carbon is not only essential because CO2 is plant food and plants grow best at 1.500 ppm of CO2 in the air (current atmospheric content is 420 ppm), CO2 is also a greenhouse gas, contributing to keeping our Earth temperature temperate and livable."
Chart from Pew Research Validated Voter Survey, showing changes in voting behavior between 2020 and 2024.
triple-blind peer review /"trIpl-blaInd pi:r rI"vju:/ noun 1. Scholarly peer review that minimizes bias by concealing not only the identities of the authors and reviewers from each other, but also by concealing the papers from the reviewers. Compare: single- and double-blind peer review.
"My Christian philosophy is that God created the world fundamentally good. When we talk about making technology, we're taking something good that's preexisting and hidden. Uranium in the ground is like goodness that God left there for us to unlock. We just have to make machines which unlock it."
RaceToTheWH polling average: Mamdani 38.5%, Cuomo 24.6%, Silwa 14.8%, Adams 10.9%.
This is how, for example, a green climate NGO can believe that an electricity grid entirely dependent on variable renewable energy is viable ("100% renewables"), while any union member in the energy sector could quickly explain how such a system would fall apart. (As it happens, Klein and Thompson are themselves much too optimistic about renewable energy —a trait common to many journalists and other knowledge workers like them.)
Do recipients of debt relief have any adverse consequences? No. With your help, we abolish medical debt permanently. Recipients have no adverse tax consequence obligations or strings attached. Medical debt relief is a gift from a detached and disinterested third party (Unsure) as an act of generosity. So relief of debt does not count as income to the debtor. We will not file a form 1099-c with the IRS.
Screenshot: Economist/YouGov Poll from July 2025, showing 59% of Americans support Medicare for All, while 27% oppose.
154 replies, six likes... That's some sort of record, right?
Michael Jackson AM radio with headphones. It's red. And it has a picture of Michael Jackson on it. From the early '80s, I guess.
Headline: NASA urges public to leave the city as Milky Way appears, 15 places to go
From the article: a timeline of [substack's] profitability. (this page left intentionally blank)
From PBS.org: Sanders reintroduced legislation prohibiting the use of federal money for force against Iran, insisted that U.S. military intervention would be unwise and illegal and accused Israel of striking unprovoked. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York signed on to a similar bill from Sanders in 2020, but so far was holding off this time. Some believed the party should stake out a clear anti-war stance. "The leaders of the Democratic Party need to step up and loudly oppose war with Iran and demand a vote in Congress," said Tommy Vietor, a former Obama aide, on X.
Screenshot of a story about Ro Khanna trying to recruit Elon Musk to support Democrats in the midterms.
"The Noid" was a character used in ads for Dominoes Pizza in the 1980s. He even got a Nintendo game.
I would be embarrassed to use this sort of AI slop as my public persona.
Onion headline: find the thing you're most passionate about, then do it on nights and weekends for the rest of your life.
Cartoon Dog Muffin sitting on the back of a plastic flamingo, shouting "I AM THE FLAMINGO QUEEEEN!"
But men are not machines of war. Yes, testosterone absolutely gives you dumb bastard brain, but that just makes you want to skateboard a wagon down a hill or duct tape. your friend to the wall, not kill someone.
Futurism headline: "Elon Musk cuts funding for Internet Archive." Link to the story is provided in the post.