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I’m gonna post here because I am extremely annoyed.

Apparently Puerto Rico’s governor made a podcast where her sex life was either directly or indirectly referenced to. And no one seems to want to stop talking about it.

This is an awkward use of flooding the zone and I hate it. #PuertoRico

So we *have* a power grid, and we'll be paying for it for the remainder of my natural life and yours, but it can't do things like, you know, keep the airport running, or the hospitals.

I understand that keeping the power on up here in Adjuntas is fraught with risk; I grew up in the country, so power outages are nothing new to me. But in town? In town a functioning society is supposed to be able to keep the lights on.

metro.pr/noticias/2025/04/24/c

Placas solares en aeropuerto
Metro Puerto Rico · Comienza instalación de placas solares en Aeropuerto Luis Muñoz Marín para evitar que apagones afecten sus laboresBy Metro Puerto Rico
Continued thread

This article describes the situation in regards to energy management and how the island is constantly affected by blackouts due to a poor management orchestrated by #Luma (a private company that suceeded the public institution PREPA)

Everything goes out in #PuertoRico except for #DataCenters However, it seems that in critical times their workers opt to provide refugee to the general population despite security concerns.

anthropology-news.org/articles

Anthropology News · La Nube sin Apagón - Anthropology NewsWhy Puerto Ricans were plunged into darkness, but their cloud kept running.

As part of the #WebsOfWater activation we are researching the effects of digital infrastructures on water bodies in the Caribbean.

I'm focused on #PuertoRico. I chose the country because I feel attracted to their culture and because of the colonial relationship with the #USA.
I'm finding a lot of really interesting stuff beyond water bodies. I'll be posting some in this thread.

I'm starting with this article that gives info on water management history in the island brooklynrail.org/2021/08/river

The Brooklyn Rail
brooklynrail.org · Colonial Waterscapes: The Water Issue in Puerto Rico | The Brooklyn RailTo fully grasp the current state, and the issue of water in general, we need to ponder the history of the waterscape in Puerto Rico and the changing social circumstances that have influenced its making, without losing sight of the role that both capitalism and colonialism have played in this process.

Puerto Rico power blackout

On Wednesday more than a million customers lost power in an island-wide blackout.

An initial report puts the initial failure down to vegetation. It appears that the coincident solar storm was just a coincidence, although subsequent cascading failures that caused the whole island to go off line are subject of a further report due to be delivered "this weekend".

Read the article:
metro.pr/noticias/2025/04/18/i

Trabajadores de la empresa LUMA Energy, realizan labores en Fajardo tras paso de la tormenta Ernesto
Metro Puerto Rico · Informe preliminar revela causa del apagón de miércoles santoBy Metro Puerto Rico

#MastodonPR #PuertoRico

Our current governor, saying, "You don't lose groceries in 24 hours."

What she alludes to, is that losing power for a day does not cost people the food in their fridge.

She doesn't know, because she has never been poor, that its not just the cost of the groceries in the fridge. It's a knock on effect, you HAVE to throw out the meat in the freezer, and the lettuce, and now your whole weeks meal plan is ruined. So spend MORE to eat half as well.

For the #ThursdayFivelist, #MoreCowbell from #PuertoRico #mastodonPR 🇵🇷

"Ola de la Mar". La Máquina Insular, Héctor 'Tito' Matos 🖤 on vocals.
youtu.be/x9fBPbkONB8?t=2049
All the cowbells. Watch the full concert, it is a treat.

"Pan de Piquito". Yubá Iré
youtube.com/watch?v=OzhBQ0GXmB
Clave and cajones.

"Loro". Cándido Reyes
youtube.com/watch?v=Ob-lYkCt4j
Güiro galore.

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