You're a ruthless little cunt, Liam, I'll give you that. But I've got no time for grassers.

Another piece from Twitter, written after someone who should damned well know better disappointed me deeply, and was unfollowed.

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I really am at the point where exactly one (1) “democrats are no better than republicans” tweet triggers an unfollow.

If your leftism is so deeply unserious that your take is “letting actual fascists into power is better than the democrats” then I just have no time for you.

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For that matter, if your take on the democrats is that they’re all the same too then your political understanding is so deeply unserious that similarly, I have no time for you.

Even I acknowledge the difference between a Mitt Romney and a Marjorie Greene and that this matters.

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If your demand is that everything be fixed immediately, I understand that.

If your _expectation_ is that everything be fixed immediately, and your response when it isn’t is “we may as well have voted in fascists,” you’re an idiot, and the left has so. many. idiots.

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The other part that pisses me off is the assertion that everyone working to, you know, keep the actual fascists out of power by electing people from the party that actually accepts election outcomes somehow believe that magically everything will be okay now, and since it’s not…

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…then _we’re_ the problem and need to admit we were “wrong” and…

…should’ve let the fascists actually have hands on all the levers of power, apparently, since that is literally the only _actually possible_ outcome.

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I didn’t expect fucking rainbows and flowers out my ass from keeping fascists out of power.

I worked to get Democrats into power so that the party in power would be _easier to fight_, and not coincidentally, would not _actively be trying to kill me_ as I demand better from them.

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Exactly what part of this is “wrong” of me?

Exactly what part of this should I be apologising for?

EXACTLY FUCKING NONE, that’s what.

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Get a goddamn grip on yourselves, get _out_ of your fantasy world and work for what can actually be accomplished _now_.

Then take the win and fight for the _next_ win.

Victories breed victories. Noble losses breed more losses. Sometimes that’s needed, yes. But mostly, it’s not.

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I know. I know. Looking more than one step ahead, it’s soooo harrrd, why can’t everything be perfect now?

Because fuck you is why.

You want better? Great. We all do. So get a goddamn grip, get to work, and _stop_ going at all of us who already have been at it.

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And that’s why one (1) “they’re all the saaaaame” tweet is all it takes for me to drop you like a hot potato these days.

I just don’t have the patience for that kind of bullshit anymore.

I got no time for your whingey negging.

Not with fascists at the goddamn gate.

absolute bodyslam on electricity

Year-over-year electricity usage on the new bill (mid-August to mid-September) down 17.2%. Absolute bodyslam to the usage rate. So much of one that despite a rate hike the bill went down year-over-year by double digits.

Now, this period is 2F cooler than last year. That's material. But it also includes a head advisory day and a day where things got pretty warm but not warm enough inside to really require the AC, and the next day we had it back under control - all through air exchange.

Also, cooler means more likelihood that Housemate Paul (on the ground floor) will use his space heater in the morning, which he did a couple of times - but despite the cooler temperatures, that, he reports, is still dramatically less common than the year before.

Which goes back again to the whole-house air circulation keeping his space at housewide average, bringing it down on the main floor, and up on his floor.

(Despite, again, cooler temperatures.)

Also, today was the third day since moving to "winter" (warming) mode that we've been able to do a little air-exchange warming, and I think the most effective day of it so far. I don't think we're going to get a lot out of it, because the heat pillow out front only forms on days with fair amounts of sun, and we won't have that many of those past the next week or maybe two if we're lucky. Also, the temperature deltas are just much, much worse than the other way around - a hot summer day is 20F too warm, a cool to cold winter day is 30-40F too cold, and that matters.

But there is a little proof of concept in it, just because today it both felt like it worked, and kinda looked like it in the graphs. It's not dramatic, we're talking probably around 1C of gained temperature, but that's still more than zero, and basically free.

And now it's time to see what things look like heading into the autumn and winter. Over the last 12 months, last October was the least-usage month before I built the sensor network. While I don't remember specifically when I took down the AC units last year, I'm sure there wouldn't've been any AC usage in October, but there would've been a lot more space heater use on the ground floor. So I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next.

The GOP hate fair elections

Lawsuits claiming 2020 ballots were manipulated come to WA
Sep. 21, 2021
The Seattle Times

[Again, written originally on Twitter]

Now the @GOP are working here, too, to discredit elections. Understand this: no matter how overwhelming the loss, they'll allege fraud, because the only elections they consider valid are ones they win.

(Are various @wagop members involved? Absolutely.)

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They're not dumb enough to claim right out that results were changed. Not here.

They're just raising questions, you see, by filing a set of lawsuits based on Arizona-style bullshit, demanding an Arizona-style "audit" circus.

As one does when one wants discredit elections.

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What they want is an Arizona clown-car "audit" in every state they don't win, so that all elections they lose are "stolen."

As a profoundly anti-democratic party, discrediting elections is in the @GOP's best interest.

They'll bring it to every state they can.

Including yours.

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This is one reason why @SenateDems and @HouseDemocrats need to STOP FUCKING AROUND AND GET VOTING RIGHTS PASSED while you still can.

Because if they'll bring this shit here? They'll bring it everywhere.