Notices by Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her) (susankayequinn@wandering.shop), page 2

@phaedral well, if that's what you got from the image, that's a YOU thing, not a thing I hear from anyone else

Let's do this, America.

#Gotv @KamalaHarrisWin

It is not “revolutionary” to break things. Everything is breaking. That’s the problem.

If you want a revolution, fix something.

I've replaced with stainless steel and wood (particularly bamboo, it's more sustainable).

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/10/black-plastic-spatula-flame-retardants/680452/?gift=YWDW2OAyl_HaZqFJCddtKqEo8fvUWcF0eL1OizFnzuU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Sure would be nice if this led to taxing the rich and prosecuting them for their crimes.

via @rjmccall

PA FRIENDS: make sure you check that your ballot was received and not rejected. Get your friends to check. Get your friends' friends to check. You can FIX problems with ballots but not unless you know to do so.

#vote
#GOTV @KamalaHarrisWin

The photo shoot with PennEnvironment went great, and they posted a bunch of pictures (and nice words about me and the new book!). So if you're curious, you can see some sneak peek pictures from the making of our video promoting solar energy!

(picture is me in front of my new native plant garden holding the new #solarpunk release, Metamorphosis, which contains my short story, Seven Sisters)

#ClimateChange #solar #energy

Spent the morning with a film crew of three, plus two young women from PennEnvironment, doing a video shoot in support of clean energy, talking about all the things I've done around the house and in the garden. Can't wait to share! It's always so energizing to talk with folks doing the work to build a better world. 🌱💚

#climatechange #climatesolutions #solar #ev #rewilding

@Jon_Kramer the woman who decided that it was okay to upload this person's image and edit it using AI; the organization that approved using AI (or at least didn't explicitly ban it)

The tech company that hired the 5000 people can be held accountable too.

The great gift that AI gives people/companies is obscuring harms such that "no one can be blamed" — it's a fig leaf for harms as a service and it's one of the reasons WHY people use it.

@KathleenC @petrosyan @publictorsten

@Jon_Kramer if you start holding people accountable for using AI and causing harms with it, I guarantee you that will "help"

@KathleenC @petrosyan @publictorsten

@argv_minus_one new tech sails can definitely augment but cargo ships are huge. It’s an argument for smaller ships and less shipping but in the mean time probably green H2 is the answer. Same for planes—small planes can go electric like large trucks, but it’s the weight that kills you (or more specifically energy density of storage)—green H2 has energy density like jet fuel which is what makes air travel possible (only ultralights could work directly on solar). Again: less flying too.

@argv_minus_one Agreed! The drop in price on solar (plus the Inflation Reduction Act tax credits) are superpowering solar adoption (and batteries)! The real limit now is how fast we can make them, and that's going to be a challenge for a long time just because we have so much to build out. But it's coming. (Decarbonizing ships and planes is tougher but we're working on that too)

Renewable distributed power is radical. It would transform the world.

#ClimateChange #power #renewables

@NireBryce

#ClimateChange #Milton #evacuation

@RhinosWorryMe @kim_harding @CelloMomOnCars @gooba42

"Black swan" is unforeseen & unforeseeable, hard to predict & rare.

A catastrophically large storm like Milton hitting a populated city like Tampa is not only predictable (climate change), it is no longer rare (and will be more frequent). It's not "unforeseen"—climate scientists have predicted intensifying storms forever&they've ALSO been predicting/observing the "rapid intensification" factor that makes storms turn into monsters overnight

@dangrsmind @RhinosWorryMe @kim_harding @CelloMomOnCars @gooba42

I think we *can* have climate-related Black Swan events because weather/climate forecasting is by no means perfect or able to predict everything that the climate weirding will throw at us — but we have to be careful not to call "unpredictable!" and "who could have seen this coming??" things that are literally being predicted

The “rapid intensification” of hurricanes is yet another way climate change messes with our expectations of weather in deadly ways.

(It’s not enough to know the climate is changing, we have to start questioning baseline assumptions about how the weather will behave.)

LOL

@inthehands yes, that's when it's most powerful, when we can't even name it. I literally had someone (a friend, a decent person) say "why would she leave her boyfriend for Musk" and MAN rape culture goes deep. I named it for her and she was like... Oh... (Yeah)