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@abridgeinbflo

Rust Belt raised queer sewer socialist, evangelist for mutual aid networks. Organizer for Environmental and Climate Justice. Also a huge nerd, and literally blue-haired and non-binary. They/Them.

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Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Jul 19

What ever happened to this project? NFTA booted most bus routes out from the transit station with the promise of this replacement structure, and all these years later riders are still left to freeze in winter and bake in the summer. www.buffalorising.com/2022/05/nfta...

Two more unshaded benches, a garbage can without a lid, and one of the three standard bus shelters that weremeant to be temporary during construction of the permanent shelter

A broken bench without any shade or shelter covered in litter and overgrown with weeds

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Jun 28

She had to circle back to get the other side of the street

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Jun 28

I love her

Olivia Chow doing crowdwork at Toronto Pride

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· May 19

I just thought of such a great premise for a heist flick. Wonder if Boots Reily is on this platform.

Screen cap of the disclaimer of the slush fund Trump has created for fascist January 6 terrorist traitors. A passage is highlighted-
Once the funds are deposited into the Designated Account, the United States has no liability whatsoever for the protection or safeguarding of those funds, regardless of bank failure,
fraudulent transfers, or any other fraud or misuse of the funds.

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· May 7

Come on, it's absurd how pretty this ride is. Just missed the peregrine falcon flying along side at speed.

Bucolic photo of the Hudson River on a clear day as seen from Amtrak, with the Catskills mountains in the background

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· May 5

Meme of a guy with a stick poking at a bubble, he is saying "Come on, pop already" and the bubble says "AI Bubble"

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Apr 22

If we're OK with the use of the yellow painted "no traffic/no crossing" areas being used for parking, then we can totally park movable planters in these areas as well! 2/2

Photo of three vehicles parked in "no traffic/no crossing" areas of Niagara Square

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Apr 22

Do I get extra points for both being blocked and blocking?

Screencap of why.bsky.team blocked. Note is that "user blocked by "the great ai-nft-crypto cull" and "user blocking you"

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Feb 26

Tonight 6pm at Bidwell Parkway in Buffalo.

Brown background with graphic of green leaves. Text reads Justice for Migrant Families WNY Our community mourns Nurul Shah Alam join us as a community to mourn. 40 days of Action to follow when: 2/26 6-7pm where: Bidwell & Elmwood

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Feb 24

Buffalo, esp West Side - ICE dropped off a blind refugee from Myanmar, Nurul Amin, who does not speak English at the Tim Hortons on Niagara on Thursday. He is missing. Keep an eye out, and call the numbers on the flyer if you find him. Just boosting, deets at link. www.facebook.com/share/p/18bH...

Photo of a man with brown skin and a mustache wearing a purple shirt and a black cap. Text reads: THIS MAN IS MISSING. PLEASE HELP
Nurul Amin is mostly blind and unable to communicate in English. He only speaks Rohingya. He is 56 and has back problems, difficulty walking, and is in poor health. He is not able to use a phone and does not know phone numbers or addresses. His last known location was downtown Buffalo Thursday February 19, 2026. If you believe you have seen him, please contact Benjamin Macaluso at 716-416-7543 or Falsal Mohammed at 716-290-5293 (limited English) as soon as possible. Thank you for being the City of Good Neighbors Buffalo!

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Feb 15

I actually do think that uniform codes and public presentation of law enforcement influences how fashy a nation is, but, uh, ICE officers masked up just scratches the surface of this problem. Introduce a bill requiring hypervisiblity for any law enforcement equipment purchased with federal funds.

Photo of a typical cop car in Ireland - garishly painted in neon and reflective decals. Impossible to miss.

Photo of a far-too typical cop car in the US - all black with barely visible dark grey lettering identifying it as a law enforcement vehicle.

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Feb 13

Three panel meme from The Lord of the Rings Return of the King - first panel is Gimli saying "I never thought I'd need to fight against coal again", second is Legolas saying "What about side by side national security consultants" and the third is Gimli saying "fuck off"

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Feb 9

Same photos as above, but with outlines of where the curb ends and the sneckdown begins.

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Feb 9

2026 Buffalo Sneckdown challenge - what are your favorite examples of intersections where the snow piles have revealed how overbuilt they are for cars, and how bumpouts or other pedestrian treatments would improve safety? Pictured are examples on Virginia and Edward streets on the LWS.

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Nov 13

There's been some brohaha about 185 Grant being purchased by a self-storage company, and I do hope the owners split the first floor to put something customer-facing in the front, but it's worth noting that the building literally has a huge ghost sign from when it previously housed a storage company.

Photo of 185 Grant Street taken from the south looking north.

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Nov 9

"The AI Bubble will crash the economy" written in the style of a Zohran Mamdani campaign sign.

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Nov 8

Between this and the NESE water permit approval, Hochul has just fully gone to war with the environmental and climate justice communities. These permits were both DENIED previously. UNDER HER LEADERSHIP.

$First half of an email from Seneca Lake Guardian Text reads "We are shocked and sickened by today’s late breaking news that Governor Hochul has just abandoned the Finger Lakes and gutted the climate law in a political capitulation to the Greenidge Bitcoin Mining facility on Seneca Lake. In a stunning reversal, she has retracted the decision to deny Greenidge’s Title V Air Permit on the grounds that it violates the Climate Law, and has instead issued this dirty polluting fracked gas power plant a five year permit to keep operating- right in the middle of a court case that was set to resume in two weeks. On the same day, she approved the NESE pipeline- a project that has been denied multiple times because of its environmental risks, signaling her commitment to obliterate any semblance of responsibility to the climate. This is a disgusting betrayal of New Yorkers and a slap in the face to everyone who fought for our climate law, and for the Finger Lakes region. Governor Hochul is siding with a fossil-fueled Bitcoin mine over our air, water, and climate future — handing Greenidge a license to pollute after the state rightly denied its permit. This deal drags us backward and makes a mockery of the Climate Act that New Yorkers voted for. It’s a disgraceful failure of leadership , a betrayal of our community and a gift to corporate polluters at the expense of our region and our planet. We are simply speechless, but we promise you that this will not go unanswered. We will be meeting with our legal team on Monday and will have more information to share once we digest this situation. We will fight this together, as we always have, because we are on the side of right. Yvonne Taylor and Joseph Campbell Principals, Seneca Lake Guardian"$

$Second half of an email from Seneca Lake Guardian Text reads "We are shocked and sickened by today’s late breaking news that Governor Hochul has just abandoned the Finger Lakes and gutted the climate law in a political capitulation to the Greenidge Bitcoin Mining facility on Seneca Lake. In a stunning reversal, she has retracted the decision to deny Greenidge’s Title V Air Permit on the grounds that it violates the Climate Law, and has instead issued this dirty polluting fracked gas power plant a five year permit to keep operating- right in the middle of a court case that was set to resume in two weeks. On the same day, she approved the NESE pipeline- a project that has been denied multiple times because of its environmental risks, signaling her commitment to obliterate any semblance of responsibility to the climate. This is a disgusting betrayal of New Yorkers and a slap in the face to everyone who fought for our climate law, and for the Finger Lakes region. Governor Hochul is siding with a fossil-fueled Bitcoin mine over our air, water, and climate future — handing Greenidge a license to pollute after the state rightly denied its permit. This deal drags us backward and makes a mockery of the Climate Act that New Yorkers voted for. It’s a disgraceful failure of leadership , a betrayal of our community and a gift to corporate polluters at the expense of our region and our planet. We are simply speechless, but we promise you that this will not go unanswered. We will be meeting with our legal team on Monday and will have more information to share once we digest this situation. We will fight this together, as we always have, because we are on the side of right. Yvonne Taylor and Joseph Campbell Principals, Seneca Lake Guardian"$

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Nov 7

Texting STOP or clicking unsubscribe in response to DNC spam is for cowards.

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Nov 6

The Fibber Nazi Sequence (cannot claim credit for the brilliant caption)

The golden ratio overlaid a photo of Trump standing behind his desk looking vacant and lost while a team of White House staffers attends to a guest who fainted

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Nov 6

Spot also easily makes this a bargain.

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Oct 30

Oh, you say you want a masc-coded populist progressive candidate who served in the military, owns guns, is unapologetically supportive of queer and trans kids, is a union guy, etc?

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Oct 21

Altered meme from The Office (American version) - Michael Scott saying "I declare a General Strike"

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Aug 19

Ha - coincidentally, check out this street art I just stumbled across in Allentown.

Photo of two fresh sidewalk panels with one of Star Trek's Constitution Class ships (the ship class of the original Enterprise) carved into the concrete.

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Aug 12

Goodbye, my dear sweet prince. I'm afraid our paths shan't cross again for an age. 😭😭😭 (I'll be back in two weeks for FanExpo.)

A badly composed photo of the CN tower and Rogers Stadium in downtown Toronto taken from a bus on the Gardiner highway, complete with a coating of diesel exhaust on the window.

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Aug 6

Finally a representative that makes me feel seen

Screenshot of the below links Rachel Holliday Smith tweet "subway mosaics get me every time" retweeted by Zohran Kwame Mamdani

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Jul 17

Proudest moment of my Bluesky experience

Screencap of The HoffBott Your daily Hoff @hoffbott.bsky.social liking the post

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Jul 10

See NYISO Power Trends 2025 pages 8-9 - this is the current trajectory for NY's energy future without advocacy and organizing to demand better. www.nyiso.com/power-trends Three slides to fit all the alt text.

The benefits of repowering
A change as monumental as decarbonizing our electric system can be challenging and unpredictable.
For instance, to achieve the mandates of the state’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection
Act, new, emission-free generating technologies must replace retiring fossil fuel-based generation.
However, these new technologies are not yet available on a commercial scale.
In addition, economic development investments, the likes of which haven’t been seen in New York
in decades, are driving a need for additional power. New data centers, chip fabrication facilities, and
even traditional manufacturing projects are arriving at a quickening pace.
So, what options exist in the short-term to transition the electric system, support economic
development, and achieve deep emissions reductions? One idea is the repowering of existing, older
fossil fuel power plants, or upgrading existing renewable generating facilities with new technologies.
Repowering can offer a bridge between old and new, the past and the future. It involves replacing
or upgrading existing components with new equipment that can increase power output, improve
efficiency, and aid the transition to cleaner energy sources.
Repowering is especially important to consider as we rely more on an aging generation fleet. With
many power plants in New York already beyond industry standards for their expected useful life, the
NYISO has raised concerns with future reliability. Upgrading our existing fleet not only can help with a
stepped approach to carbon reductions by replacing older, dirtier turbines with new, cleaner cutting-
edge technology, it also holds the potential for helping avoid future generator breakdowns, therefore
bolstering grid reliability.
Here's a more detailed examination of the benefits of repowering:
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What it is
Repowering is the process of retrofitting and modernizing existing power plants, often focusing
on replacing older components with cleaner, more efficient, and powerful equipment that can provide
more energy and lower emissions.
Why it's done
• Increased efficiency: Newer technologies can generate more power with the same or even less
resources.
• Reduced environmental impact: Repowering can allow for a transition to cleaner energy
sources, reducing carbon emissions.
• Extended lifespan: By upgrading components, the overall lifespan of a power plant can be
extended, bolstering reliability.
• Cost savings: Repowering can be a more cost-effective solution than building a new plant,
especially when existing infrastructure can be utilized.
Examples of repowering
• Fossil plants: Replacing older boilers or turbines with newer, cleaner, more efficient, cutting-
edge technology.
• Hydro power: This process often includes replacing turbines, generators, automation systems,
and hydraulic components to enhance the plant's performance,
• Solar power: Replacing older photovoltaic equipment and inverters with newer, more efficient
generating equipment.
• Wind power: Replacing turbines with greater capacity or upgrading older blades with more
efficient technology can improve energy yield.
The benefits
• Increased power generation: Repowering can lead to a material increase in the total capacity
of a power plant, something increasingly important as we observe declining reliability margins
across the state.
• Improved grid stability: Newer, thermal-based generating technologies can provide what’s
known as “voltage support,” which bolsters grid reliability and keeps the flow of electricity
steady along transmission infrastructure over great distances.
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Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Jul 8

The NY energy/enviroment/climate sphere has to direct some of our ire at NYISO. These unwashed asses rubber stamp massive power allocations for data centers while pushing to repower retired fossil fuel power plants. Pgs 8-9 www.nyiso.com/documents/20... Table IV-7 www.nyiso.com/documents/20...

Table of large interconnection requests from the 2025 NYISO Gold Book

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Jul 1

This might be the single worst example of bike parking racks I have ever seen.

Weird bike parking at Rutgers University - no bikes parked for obvious reasons

Bridge from Buffalo 🌈 🖖@abridgeinbflo· Jun 29

Ah yes, the 8th Congressional District, famously not a part of NYC. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yor...