Rachael Born

Wanderer, environmentalist, electrical engineer making a smarter grid

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

No, @FT, it isn't.

The world is warming AS FAST as we predicted--and that's bad enough.

Accuracy is important!

(h/t @Hausfath)

[Vagina Museum @vagina_museum]

Last month, a ground-breaking paper was published documenting the first time ever that humpback whales had been photographed having sex.

Both of the whales were male.

[Rachael Born @Born_Wander]

@Forbes When you're investor focused and only cut costs that usually means you're also cutting quality

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

🧵 ~#MLKDay Eve Reading/Listening~

I invite everyone to read and/or listen to my father’s words this evening before posting tomorrow.

Here’s a list:

[Rachael Born @Born_Wander]

Our neighborhood in Raleigh should be affordable starter or middle class homes. But we seem to be the only millennials that own and are surrounded by renters or retirees.

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

Sure. @TheNCRep sponsored a bill in this year's #NCGA to put very generous limits on exactly this. Republican leadership didn't even give the bill a hearing.

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

Fossil fuel CEOs who continue to promote inaction and greenwash while doubling down on fossil fuel extraction are absolutely appropriate targets for disruptive direct actions (especially when they're absurdly being honored for their destructive behavior).

[Yellow Dot Studios @weareyellowdot]

Are you creative? Hate evil polluters who are blocking climate progress? Want to have any kind of future?

We got something for you! Check it out: https://t.co/jgm9gFX9cU

[PP South Atlantic NC @PPSATNC]

After going against her campaign promise by voting to ban abortion, Rep. Tricia Cotham gets House District 105 drawn explicitly for her.

They’re erasing any competition between parties with these gerrymandered maps. #ncpol

[Colin Campbell @RaleighReporter]

I tried to find a route in which the senator for proposed #ncga District 2 could drive from one end of the district to the other without leaving the district...and it appears to be impossible without a boat. This route is 6+ hr and requires two ferries outside district #ncpol

[NASA @NASA]

Summer 2023 was the hottest summer in NASA’s record, continuing a trend of long-term warming caused by human activity.

All three summer months broke heat records: https://t.co/fAbXthgoP4

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

NEWS 🚨: The Perseid meteor shower peaks this weekend on Sunday (Aug 13)

With around 90 meteors per hour or more

[Prof. Abel Méndez 🔭 🔬 @ProfAbelMendez]

The computers of the Arecibo Observatory are closing down this Monday, August 14. We need a small computer server with IDL to host from now on the Arecibo software and data for our students. If you want to help, please donate here. Thanks! https://t.co/XjXuW9pKNO @PlanetaryHabLab

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

$19,961. That’s the average cost of 1 year of child care in Massachusetts. And that’s why I’m staying in the fight for universal child care.

Under my plan, half of families nationwide would pay no more than $10 a day & every family would see costs capped.
https://t.co/h4jtDPuMaf

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

There's been much gaslighting & moderate justifying of the new Florida social studies standards, people stating the "clarifications" were designed to show Black resilience, or were just "facts." So, I thought I'd compare the African-American history standards to the Holocaust's.

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

🎯

[John Bull @garius]

To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.

And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.

Here's how that happened. 1/🧵

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

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[Rachael Born @Born_Wander]

@poppy_northcutt I love this!

[Rachael Born @Born_Wander]

Daycare was absolutely worth their weight in gold this week. And brought me the necessary reminder to chill the fuck out

[Rachael Born @Born_Wander]

Potty training 4 day weekend. What better way to celebrate independence than throwing off the tyranny of diapers.
Morning of day 1: he is fully naked, we have done all of the activities, zero poop or pee for 5 hours. Now it's nap time.

[Rachael Born @Born_Wander]

Potty training day 8: after several days of personal self doubt and feeling on the cusp of failure, breakthrough: no accidents last night and told me he needed to pee this morning!
Parenthood is such a rollercoaster