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Sean (parody)

@slinkyvillain.bsky.social

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Renewables guy reading and posting about energy, housing, transportation, gay people, being a gyroscope. Brooklyn. 📸 @ twosetsoflegs

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · Nov 6

Thrilled that bsky now has video so I can thirst trap (post cyr wheel)

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · 2d

My best Halloween costume idea so far is Robyn on the cover of Body Talk but I’m concerned that I’ll just look like a weird ass ghost

Photo from photoshoot for Robyn’s album Body Talk. She’s standing behind a hanging group of evenly spaced ~1.5 inch squares that together make the vague shape of a dress.

Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · 5d

Edited screenshot of a Sia tweet, sections in brackets in different font, indicating insertion or edit:

sia
@Sia
Hey [@charlixcx @taylorswift] you aren't thinking about a feud right now are you?
We are focused on the problem of [a government shutdown]
9:00 PM • 6/12/20 • Twitter for iPhone

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · 8d

and you know what, god bless

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · 8d

I posted one and I think every man I’ve ever met got a push notification

collin (enjoys sitting) @bussyrizzler.nyc · 8d

does anyone wanna fall in love via Scruff Stories

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · 12d

happy friday gay guys 😌

Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · 26d

[REDACTED] eliminated on project runway… yeah that was nine eleven

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 27d

Charlie Kirk was a fascist and paid agitator for powerful interests who gleefully spread dangerous misinformation, targeted vulnerable groups and academics for harassment, glorified the violent, helped fuel the Jan 6 insurrection, and ultimately contributed the impoverishment of our discourse.

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 27d

Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

www.nytimes.com

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · 29d

I felt a blindness in the continuation of the “Texas is building and we (California) aren’t” stuff. There’s a sense that, a unit of housing is a unit of housing- we should laud Texas housing for its wins, but sprawl is bad. These people have not exorcised their car brains!

Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · 29d

I think the strongest parts of the chapter were discussions with people from homeless agencies talking about how they have to quilt together bits of funding with individual, disparate, contradictory conditions to make anything happen- many well intentioned actors create an unnavigable space.

Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · 29d

3 uses examples of a supportive housing development in SF and Gov. Shapiro’s emergency rebuilding of the 95 bridge to make the point that the projects people like and respect, that happen well and on time, pull major levers to get around government/regulatory processes.

Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · 29d

I started chapter 3- govern overlooking the block island wind farm, and finished it riding another of my pet favorite pieces of infrastructure, the MTA C train. I mostly liked this chapter.

Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · Sep 5

Remainder of chapter two includes some more false equivalency (Nader & co to “small govt” R’s), but otherwise gets into lawyer brain and its govt impact pretty well. Glad to see Procedure Fetish invoked.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · Sep 4

I've been a pretty consistent proponent of a progressive abundance agenda, so it's pretty dismaying to see the Abundance Conference bending over backwards to try and bring outright racists and fascists into the tent.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · Sep 4

abundance con. where you can hear radical pro-abundance moves like "we should deport more immigrants" and "what if we had more tariffs"

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · Sep 4

Section on unexplained construction inefficiency omits construction unions’ enshrining of make-work and its dampening effect on efficiency gains from innovation- see elevators, NG hookup in all electric buildings, plumbing to waterless urinals- unclear if this is relevant in intl comparison.

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · Sep 4

Halfway through chapter 2 and I just wish the prose flowed better? We’ve got lots of choppy, short sentences going on and frankly it’s not giving.

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · Sep 4

The chapter covers CA HSR, my big takeaway here is I didn’t realize how big a proponent Obama was of the project (I was 11 and wasn’t paying much attention sorry)

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · Sep 4

Electrification section does accurately name local control/permitting and transmission capacity as huge hangups for the needed explosion of renewable generation. I would’ve liked to see transformer manufacturing and fickle trade relationships for solar modules in here too.

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · Sep 4

The chapter proceeds into electrification, and again fails to challenge car society, describing the need for more EV’s without nodding to urban geography/the negative externalities of private car society beyond fossil fuel use…

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎉🎉🎉 Jesse Jenkins cited 🎉🎉🎉

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · Sep 4

I depart from them some on their degrowth takes- namely, I think taxes on fossil fuels and industrial meat agriculture commensurate with their societal costs are ethically and environmentally beneficial enough to be worth pursuing, despite their high political costs.

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · Sep 4

2- Build kicks off with an unbelievably generous interpretation of Republican Party attitudes on climate change, followed by a pretty worthwhile and agreeable takedown of degrowth philosophy.

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · Sep 4

Trend alert!

Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · Sep 4

I take some umbrage with this passage- it seems like the perfect place to mention the destruction of dense housing through the interstate highway system, and destruction of dense neighborhoods during GI bill white flight. Index doesn’t list GI bill at all!

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · Sep 4

Crux- history of permitting schema and American culture of growth and environmental protections as they grew through the 1980’s. Also evolution of cities as economic engines, and their diminishing power as middle class paths to prosperity (strongest part of the chapter IMO)

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · Sep 4

1- Grow