Pip: Welcome to RAWSEP Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates, where even the cats have opinions about clean energy — and they are not taking questions.
Mara: lindakarr904744833 has a post that braids together cat behavior, Wisconsin candidates, plug-in solar, and a concert — and somehow it holds together. Let’s start with the Eleventh Hour Concert and the October Cats leading it.
Web 57DHYAFZZFLLR October 11 2026: The Eleventh Hour Concert
Pip: The frame here is a concert — an Eleventh Hour Concert on October eleventh, set in what the post calls the Sugar Castle in Wisconsin — but the concert is doing double duty as a vehicle for some very real policy arguments about clean energy and candidates.
Mara: The post opens with cat behavior as its entry point, and the observation lands with real specificity: “I remember catching China edging then free falling off a shelf in California with no equanimity — a successful fluke catch during that earthquake eventually was only one dramatic calamity that I forestalled without a catcher’s mitt but caught barehanded.”
Pip: So the catch is the metaphor — you can only barehanded-catch so many falling things before you need a system. That is what the policy pivot is doing: the cat edging china off shelves becomes a stand-in for chaotic forces that need more than individual heroics to address.
Mara: The post makes that turn explicitly. It describes Wisconsin October candidates who counter chaos — one an ER nurse who chose public service, another advocating to ban fossil fuels, and a third promoting Agrivoltaics, combining wind turbines with conventional farming because turbines take little earth space.
Pip: Agrivoltaics is the one that deserves a beat — it is not a footnote, it is a genuine land-use argument, and pairing it with the cat-herding metaphor is either accidental genius or very deliberate.
Mara: The post also centers Balcony Solar, described as plug-in solar for residences, as a way for households to control how their energy is collected and lower their bills. Wind energy gets a direct callout too: “Clean energy in the form of Wind has leapt to the top in lowering bills.”
Mara: The concert’s winning song, chosen by audience suggestion, carries the refrain “Cat Solar and Wind are Wild!” — which the post reframes as an invitation: stop being labeled corporate hacks, sing along instead.
Pip: The post closes with a direct address to the wood-smoke and fossil-fuel question that sits at the heart of RAWSE: “Does indoor residential wood burning as well as fossil fuel and other solid fuel burning leave your air polluted and your wallet thinner? Get off the fence and stop yowling.”
Mara: Which is, honestly, a pretty clean call to action dressed in cat fur.
Pip: Cats, candidates, and plug-in solar — not a combination you see every day, but the throughline holds.
Mara: The air quality argument and the affordability argument keep meeting each other. More of that next time.