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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · Jun 15

New QT’ing to pin

Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · Jun 15

“Ruby Bridges and ruby ridges” is the prescription for 21st century liberalism

homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · Jun 14

i am not talking about arresting them. we need a ruby ridge every week for four years.

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 45m

Building would need to happen *fast*

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 48m

And then like two hundred people move in from the burbs into the city itself in that building.

Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 49m

This ruuuuuules I hope this guy moves to the valley and they build a bigass apartment on his current lot.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

won't anyone think of the uhhhh sales executives who will be harmed by transit-oriented development in California

Gerisch, a 46-year-old sales executive, isn’t sure whether he and his family will stay put. SB 79 would allow five-story residential buildings on his and other nearby streets, which sit within a half-mile of a Metro K Line light rail station.

“I feel like I’ve been blindsided,” he said. “A lot of us were.”

Under SB 79, developers would be permitted to build up to nine-story residential buildings adjacent to subway stops, seven stories within a quarter-mile of them and six stories within a half-mile — overriding local planning and zoning rules.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

what

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 1h

Omg…omggggggg California Dreaming

California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 1h

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...

cayimby.org

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1h

“Are you familiar with the term ‘weird sun twitter’”

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Pritzker to @gregsargent.bsky.social: "Trump says a lot of crazy things. I genuinely think there's something wrong with him. I wish his family would intervene... I don’t think anybody around is going to do it bc they’re benefiting from his dementia"

Full interview: newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 1h

Has anyone ever claimed that Tito was Albanian?

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 1h

If ‘hundreds of thousands’ since 2007 is a significant number, then surely being a million homes *per year* lower than peak construction is much much more significant

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 3h

Yud was literally Thiel-sponsored for like a decade before Thiel decided he was afraid of him. Made Thiel a bunch of money by connecting him with the right people in AI, too. No gratitude

George Pearkes @peark.es · 3h

I couldn't believe this but it's true, Thiel can't decide whether the antichrist is Greta or Big Yud. Positively reeling.

(Washington Post) -- Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are "legionnaires of the Antichrist" in private lectures on Christianity that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future, according to recordings reviewed by The Washington Post.
In the four, roughly two-hour lectures, which began last month and culminated Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Thiel laid out his religious views to a sold-out audience told to keep the contents "off-the-record," according to an event listing. He argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings.
"In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science," Thiel said in his Sept. 15 opening talk, according to the recordings. "In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It's someone like Greta or Eliezer," he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry's approach to AI.

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 2h

I’m skeptical that Dylan deserved the Nobel in literature but I’m really glad they gave it to him because it’s so funny

Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 2h

It’s frustrating how there is not one thing that is not dumb and stupid

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 2h

And Zurich is sort of famously not the most exciting city in Europe (as nice of a city as it is!)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 9h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 3h

Huh.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, yeah the Erik Prince connection is false but Platner still went to Afghanistan in 2018 to be a contractor for Constellis, it’s still really weird and a bit troubling.

Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 5h

Whenever I read about China solar and EV buildup I think about how remarkable it is that the US wasted the last decade and are set to waste the next…? When we could just as easily(you’d think) have been making the country a better place re: climate, cars, cities.

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 5h

It’s crazy how we straight up could just *use less land*

Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 5h

~40% of the ENTIRE corn crop of the US is used to make ethanol. This gets blended with gasoline to power well under 10% of our vehicle miles. If we converted 100% of our vehicles to EVs installing solar on a small fraction of the land this corn is grown on would power them all.

US domestic corn use graph from 1980 to 2020. The orange bar representing "Alcohol for fuel use" (aka ethanol) starts growing in early 2000s, explodes before 2010 and stays huge through the graphs 2022 end. This explains most of the increased corn production in the US.

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks!

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 5h

Should I understand this by the same metric I understand US unemployment? Because that’s so high!

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Boo Jank @billjank.bsky.social · 5h

America is gonna be a backwater in 10 years.

Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 5h

Just a reminder as it is clear most of the population doesn't understand this.

BNEF: Renewables Are Becoming Cheaper than Natural Gas in Southeast Asia

Despite the large number of benefits, many countries in Southeast Asia are planning to expand their use of natural gas.

energytracker.asia

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A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 1d

The "I'm not against it, either" is the point where any self-respecting journalist stops and says "Don't give me bullshit. I'm not here for you to prattle about nothing."

But of course, Douthat is there for the bullshit and he and his editor are delighted to publish prattlings about nothing.

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 18h

If you don’t think Woke Napoleon would have been awesome you have no heart
If you don’t think Woke Napoleon is an impossible contradiction in terms you have no brain

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