Perry Engle

Live in NH, retired from a great FFRDC. Off Xitter because it’s gone full Naxi/Sov/unamerican. He/him. #WearADamnMask @[email protected]

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A rural Arkansas school district was hemorrhaging $250,000 a year and couldn't keep teachers. So residents voted to take out a $5.4 million bond, upgrade every building in the district, and install 1,400 solar panels.

Three years later, the deficit flipped to a $1.8 million surplus.

The project wasn't just solar. Energy efficiency upgrades across all six schools, new lighting, HVAC systems, windows, and thermostats cut energy consumption by 1.6 million kilowatts annually.

The panels, some installed as a canopy at the school entrance and some on unused district land, generated enough excess electricity that the district started selling it back to the grid. Monthly utility bills dropped from $17,000 to $4,000.

The school board voted to put the savings into paychecks. Teachers saw raises averaging $2,000 to $3,000 a year, with some receiving up to $15,000 depending on tenure.

Batesville went from one of the lowest-paying districts in Arkansas to one of the highest-paying in its county. Resignations slowed and applications went up.

Taxpayers funded the upfront cost through the bond. The savings paid it back and then some. "Batesville has reduced the checks they write to utilities," said the energy company that managed the project, "and increased the checks they write to teachers."

At least 20 nearby districts have since copied the model. Nine thousand schools across the US now run on solar. Batesville was the first to route the savings directly into teacher salaries.

[Perry Engle @NHKayak]

@archer_rs Maybe it’s their idiot b-school or social media managers overruling them to look “hip”

[Perry Engle @NHKayak]

@jennnixon @NBCNews And turn off your ad blockers

[Perry Engle @NHKayak]

No lies detected (except the mention of the orange liar)

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke

[Perry Engle @NHKayak]

This must be AI. I 100% agree but how can someone so smart possibly say a thing this stupid. It's Congress that passes these laws.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

WARREN BUFFETT: "I can end the U.S. deficit problem in 5 minutes."

"Just pass a law that any time there's a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all members of Congress are ineligible for re-election."

[Perry Engle @NHKayak]

I'm begging you to fill out this survey from the house republicans.

[Steve Scalise @SteveScaliseGOP]

Could you spare some advice? It’s Majority Leader Scalise: Please take 90 seconds to complete our Official 2026 GOP Agenda Survey.

[Perry Engle @NHKayak]

The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1967 following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, clarifies the procedures for presidential succession, vice-presidential vacancies, and handling presidential incapacity.

[Perry Engle @NHKayak]

@archer_rs Reporters keep asking that they stop using AI for the headlines

[Perry Engle @NHKayak]

@Dreamweasel Sure there were people who are old, and young, and in between. What are the common denominators? Educated, angry and we care about democracy. Sorry about the big words.

[Perry Engle @NHKayak]

@MPrejety85087 @sandibachom Nice job too. I would have burned $40 to put this on a poster board for No Kings.

[Perry Engle @NHKayak]

@sandibachom @Kaos_Vs_Control Great shot, thanks! He's not the king might see and hate it.

[Daniel DePetris @DanDePetris]

Trump’s top two goals in the war:

(1) No Iranian nuclear weapon.

(2) The Strait of Hormuz is open for business.

Just a friendly reminder that we already had both before the war.

[Perry Engle @NHKayak]

There are exactly 2 people who are surprised and they are both war criminals

[Rep. Don Beyer @RepDonBeyer]

The Trump White House has continuously insulted and alienated our allies, including with indiscriminate tariffs. They failed to build a credible coalition that would support their reckless war of choice in Iran and clearly didn’t plan for the most predictable Iranian response in the Strait of Hormuz.

Now, they want those same allies to bail them out of an energy crisis of their own making.

A completely self-inflicted failure.

[Perry Engle @NHKayak]

@AIPromptLord @lukOlejnik Don’t lots of browsers and apps still ignore revocations anyway?

[Chiefs Mama 🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️💛❤️ @bling_momma]

@BrendanCarrFCC

[Perry Engle @NHKayak]

@JoJoFromJerz @Nance726 @shaunking Kakistocracy

[Perry Engle @NHKayak]

@TheAtlantic @RadioFreeTom Three F15’s lost d/t “friendly fire”on day 3. Excellence? No.

[Perry Engle @NHKayak]

As I’ve said… even a broken clock is right twice a day. Trump could be so lucky- here’s one for him

[Cubs World @CubsWorld2]

@atrupar 🤔

[Perry Engle @NHKayak]

@SethAbramson Yes

[Perry Engle @NHKayak]

@chipfranklin @JetBlue OMG we’re flying them in April, and if they pull that nonsense they won’t see us again @JetBlue