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📍 Portland, OR 📚 History. Philosophy. Political economy. Sci-fi. ⚡🚈🌱🚲 Decarbonization. 🌹Trying to show solidarity and keep an open mind. A veces posteo en español también.

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· 28d

Installations by year

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· 28d

Total cumulative installations

Chart showing total offshore wind installations by country. China leads with 52.3%. UK is next with 18.4%.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· 28d

The Global Wind Energy Council released their 2026 offshore wind report. 9.3GW installed globally with China leading.

a chart showing the percentages of new installations for different countries. China is 71%. UK 11.3%. Taiwan 6.5%. France 4.4%. Germany 5.4%. South Korea 1%.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· 28d

BOOK REVIEW A grizzled Trotskyist turned mercenary leads us into cyberpunk London with his trusty AI-enhanced AK-47 in tow. Can he overthrow the oppressive government with a little help from his friends?

A gray and black book with a bluish animal with glowing eyes and concentric rings of gears is on a background of a purple milky way. The book is The Star Fraction by Ken Macleod.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· 28d

Like, are you kidding me?

An infographic introducing two Penn State college football players. Both men could pass for much older (40?) and have massive necks.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· 28d

The 1985 Penn State football team was something else. Idk what they were putting in the water down in Happy Valley, but these guys look like 45-yr-old steel workers.

An infographic introducing two Penn State college football players, John Shaffer and Keith Radedic. Both men could pass for much older (40?) and have massive necks.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· 29d

Picked up both these books for $5 to support Oregon Educators for Palestine! (Mochi is very excited.)

An orange cat sits next to two books. One day everyone will have always been against this and decolonial marxism. There are emojis or a Palestinian flag, the earth focused on Africa, and a fist.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jul 13

Meme showing Matthew McConaughey in a suit. You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jul 9

To my urbanist friends: is the Canadian pattern of transit oriented development that results in a sort of "skyscrapers in the suburbs" vibe considered good policy? ie does it result in higher mode share for transit and are people happy living in these neighborhoods? Genuinely curious.

Photo of skyscrapers in a suburb of Vancouver. The tall buildings are right next to single family homes

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jul 9

IDK maybe they're right

Chart showing % Catholic and Protestant in Brazil over time vs their performance at the World Cup with a star in each of their 5 winning years. The trend of Catholics is down and Protestants is up.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jul 7

Let's get some changes to this map, shall we?

A map color codes by country's best finish at the world cup

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jul 7

Some really interesting stuff in the 2025 Statistical Review of World Energy from the Energy Institute.

Chart showing the global energy system with bars representing percentage from renewables, hydro, nuclear, coal, gas, and oil with the length the % of total energy supply in that region and the height the total absolute value of energy supply in that region.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jul 1

BOOK REVIEW: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans brings together two scholars, one a professor and one a psychotherapist. They interpret the case histories of Asian American patients in relation to racial identity, assimilation, and more.

A black book with light blue art and blue and white text on the cover sits at an angle on a wooden desk. There is a mechanical pencil next to it. Also on the table are two stone stamps sitting upright. They have Chinese zodiac characters carved on the top.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jul 1

When people ask me who I'm supporting in the World Cup:

Photo of the EZLN in soccer uniforms still wearing balaclavas to hide their identity. They are on a soccer pitch with fans in the background . Photo is from 1999 when they held a friendly against the Mexican national team.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jun 30

23k installed. Portland has around 300k housing units. Math checks out.

PCEF AC distribution dashboard showing 22,561 installations since 2022. 2243 installations so far in 2026. 90% of the way to the goal of 25000.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jun 30

Please let this happen and don't let it get water down

Images from the summary of the proposed green loop changes showing more space dedicated to pedestrians and cyclists

Renderings of the South Park blocks of the loop that reduce car space and make space for pedestrians and cyclists

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jun 29

China is not playing.

Line graph comparing metro network growth over time of 10 large countries. China massively exceeds them all.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jun 29

This is so cool! Looking forward to playing around with this website a lot more.

Map showing the Portland area with neighborhoods shaded by % who commute by public transit.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jun 28

Related chart from recent @iea.org report. US is an outlier in that the share of investment going to low emissions forms of generation is declining. Still above 50% though.

Chart showing % of total electricity generation investment in low emissions technologies. General trend for all regions is increasing towards 100% except in the US where it has dropped to around 60%

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jun 28

Bewick's Wrens are nesting in a gap in the siding of this house

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jun 27

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Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jun 26

Global investment in solar and wind are still much higher than natural gas.

Bar chart showing the global investment in different forms of electricity generation by year. Solar and wind are the highest, although solar has declined 2 years in a row.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jun 26

@iea.org shows that AI is driving investment into new gas generation. In the US just the investment in onsite gas-fired generation for data centers exceeds $30B. If data centers were a country, they would be the second largest destination in the world for gas turbines over the last 15 months.

Horizontal bar chart showing value of new gas generation Q12025-Q12026 by country/region. The US also shows a big chunk of its bar a different color as "captive data centre"

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jun 26

Did I take the right quiz?

The political results format from britmonkey but the results say City boy vs Country girl, state-capitalism vs degenerated workers' state, Hoochie daddy vs bookworm, has to do chores before relaxing vs will do that awkward little job when someone holds the door for me. The closest match shows a cartoon Nintendo character called Raphael the Raven. He's a black circle with orange feet and bill.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jun 26

The band LMFAO released two studio albums: "Party Rock" and "Sorry For Party Rocking." These guys really made two albums, the second apologizing for the first, and then dipped. I love that for them.

The Wikipedia section showing the discography of the band LMFAO. There are two albums, party rock in 2009 and sorry for party rocking in 2011.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jun 24

Hot commie summer part two! Get in loser, we're doing socialism!

DSA election tracker showing multiple candidates winning

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jun 23

New issue of @catalystjournal.bsky.social has two good articles on strategies for Palestinian liberation, an excellent article on Milwaukee's "Sewer Socialists," and a good recontextualization of Trump's immigration policy (spoiler: it benefits capital to have a terrified, exploitable workforce.

The cover of volume 9 number 10 of Catalyst journal. It shows a young boy carrying a Palestinian flag with writing on it in a reddish filter. There are article titles and authors as well.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jun 22

Portland's flag is very cool although I think Chicago might take top spot

A flag with a white background, 2 horizontal light blue stripes, with 4 6-pointed red stars in the middle

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jun 21

This article from @ericblanc.bsky.social on Milwaukee's "sewer socialists" feels relevant today as DSA expands its influence in cities across the US. This passage reminds me of what socialists are facing in Portland right now.

Unsurprisingly, the political establishment and bourgeois newspapers resorted to all sorts of machinations to undermine and constrain socialist administrations. Some of this took the form of intense scaremongering. In addition to the endless refrain that socialist policies would ruin the city by forcing businesses to flee, the SDP’s main opponent for mayor during 1918’s wartime election suggested that if the socialists won, then the federal government would react by imposing martial law in the city.

Obstruction also found its way into law. Part of the reason it was so difficult to cobble together a city council majority was that, faced with a growing socialist threat, the state of Wisconsin in 1908 imposed a new law requiring that city councils be elected on a nonpartisan basis — undermining straight-ticket voting for the SDP — and through at-large, rather than ward-based, voting. To avoid splitting the anti-socialist vote through three-cornered mayoral contests, Wisconsin’s legislature in 1914 decreed that henceforth all mayoral races required an open, nonpartisan primary followed by a runoff of the two top candidates. Further undermining the socialist threat, in 1911 the state legislature reduced mayoral control over various city departments — including the police, whose chief openly antagonized the socialist administrations for many years. Similarly, the city’s nonsocialist tax commissioner sabotaged the Seidel administration on the eve of the 1912 election by pushing through an unpopular reevaluation of housing properties to make working people pay more taxes and the rich pay less. Low-information voters blamed the administration itself, paving the way for Mayor Seidel’s defeat that year.

Left Coast Reads 📚🌹@leftcoastreads· Jun 21

I know this has been posted so many times but it stays true