Nicholas Thompson ⚛ BLM @thompn4

Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering and Science. Interested in energy, education, policy, and all things nuclear. Working at LANL. He/him. thompson.energy Joined April 2013

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Nicholas Thompson ⚛ BLM @thompn4

2 years ago

Read this post from @TedNordhaus today and it made me break my long absence from Twitter. I know Matt Marzano - he has a lot of experience and knows we need changes at the NRC. I strongly support his nomination to the NRC. thebreakthroughjournal.substack.com/p/matthew-marz…

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Nicholas Thompson ⚛ BLM @thompn4

4 years ago

Been off twitter since Elon took over. Logged back in to archive my data. Might be my last tweet, who knows. Anyway, if you need me, don't reach out here - text or email is best.

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai

4 years ago

What is this paragraph even doing in this @nytimes story about the attack on Paul Pelosi? And how does it come *before* the paragraphs about how Nancy Pelosi has been the target of right-wing attacks for years?

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Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

4 years ago

Amazing how consistently bad the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been at predicting the growth of solar and wind energy

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Judd Legum @JuddLegum

4 years ago

.@elonmusk has been the sole owner of Twitter for 48 hours, and is now using the platform to promote vile conspiracy theories against Nancy Pelosi's husband, who is still in the hospital after being violently assaulted with a hammer

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Will Stancil @whstancil

4 years ago

I cannot get over this. There was an assassination attempt on the Speaker of the House by the exact kind of GOP ultra-radical that sacked the Capitol two years ago, and it is RUNNING BELOW THE FOLD IN THE NEW YORK TIMES. Our news and political culture broken beyond repair.

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Ripley Matthews 🇵🇸 @a_queer_wizard

4 years ago

Everytime I hit a paywall on some respected journalism site and then simply don't read the article rather than subscrining, I think about how Fox, Breitbart, The Daily Mail, et al. never ever ever paywall their content. I think about this constantly.

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Nicholas Thompson ⚛ BLM @thompn4

4 years ago

@the_transit_guy I'm going to throw in a honorable mention for the ABQ sunport - just nice, comfortable, and it works.

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Jane Coaston 🏔️ @janecoaston

4 years ago

Who could possibly tell the difference between “Tiger Woods” and “another black person”

Olivia Beavers @Olivia_Beavers

4 years ago

🤫HMM… This ad for Kris Kobach, the R candidate running for Kansas AG, hits his Dem opponent for being soft on violent crime. But the voiceover part about “no capital punishment for cop killers” actually features a clip of Tiger Woods getting arrested host2.adimpact.com/admo/viewer/d3…

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Joe Cutrufo @JoeCutrufo

4 years ago

Shinkansen: zero passenger deaths in its 50-year history Texas highways: at least one person killed every day for 22 years

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Nicholas Thompson ⚛ BLM @thompn4

4 years ago

@pwnallthethings $15 billion is lunacy. I can't imagine what the money was spent on. Let's just say they had tons of people working on it, all making $200k. That would be 75,000 people. Facebook only has ~72,000 employees.

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Hayden @the_transit_guy

4 years ago

Now that California has dethroned Germany as the fourth largest economy in the world, maybe the state can take pointers on what urban transit should look like?

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler

4 years ago

Schumer and Biden could go to the cameras tomorrow and say Oz spilled the beans about the Republican plan to let local GOP politicians into the (figurative) room to decide whether women can have abortions. Nationalize the gaffe, clarify the stakes.

Pat Dennis @patdennis

4 years ago

Holy shit: Oz says his abortion position: should be between "a woman, her doctor, and local political leaders" #PASenDebate

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push the needle @pushtheneedle

4 years ago

the space race vs the timeline for seattle to build a bike lane and bus lane. same scale.

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Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉 @jmhorp

4 years ago

Only 37 people under age 45 died by falling from ladders in 2021. There were 23,834 COVID deaths

Justin Hart @justin_hart

4 years ago

95% of all #COVID19 deaths are OVER the age of 45. If you are under 45 you have better 1-year odds of dying: 🏍️ motorcycle crash 🪜 falling from a ladder 🌊 drowning 🚗 car crash 🔫 firearm ☠️ poisoning 🚘 If you're younger than 65 - it's same risk as commuting to work.