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Sean Sweet-Fern⚓

@moldybasil.bsky.social

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Distressed of Conscience Biking, walking, and taking the bus in Providence Rhode Island | Dense housing advocate | I think about plywood boats and mushrooms he/him Ask me about systematics or plant diseases

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Sean Sweet-Fern⚓ @moldybasil.bsky.social · Jul 24

With every item I become more powerful

A bicycle with 5 boxes of seltzer on the front

Handlebar view of a bicycle with 5 boxes of seltzer on the front

Rear view of A bicycle with 5 boxes of seltzer on the front showing cooler bag on the rear rack as well

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Sean Sweet-Fern⚓ @moldybasil.bsky.social · 29m

Right yeah don't tempt me with a good time

Sean Sweet-Fern⚓ @moldybasil.bsky.social · 1h

Otherwise, there's so many opportunities on Broad, Elmwood, all over the city where a handful of really egregious lots really degrade the neighborhoods for the folks who live there. Housing on those lots would have incredible returns for quality of life

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Sean Sweet-Fern⚓ @moldybasil.bsky.social · 1h

You were there! Hard to think of a better candidate than Smith Hill especially given all that neighborhood has suffered for urban renewal plans that didn't value those neighborhoods and their residents. Would love to see it

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Sean Sweet-Fern⚓ @moldybasil.bsky.social · 1h

Smooth SpongeBob as the PRA tackling housing affordability. Buff SpongeBob as the PRA leveling neighborhoods

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David Morales @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social · 1h

Providence already has the power to build affordable housing, we just need to use it! Here’s the story of the Providence Redevelopment Agency.

Tell us in the replies: what’s a vacant area in your community that you’d like to see transformed?

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House on Huntered Hill (1959) @drhbus.bsky.social · 19h

Made me laugh

Graffiti on a brick wall reading
"Bitchstopher
Colombitch"

The kids might just be alright

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 3h

Kinda how I cook dinner. Buy *all* the vegetables that I like, then throw them all into a pan together to cook at a low temperature…and I’m happy with it.

Very logical.

‘1.87 MW…supply 70% of gravel plant’s electricity, covering ~4.65% of lake surface…4 meter wide rows…improved water quality’

World’s ‘1st’ Vertical Floating Solar PV Plant, In Germany

German clean technology company SINN Power GmbH has switched on what it says is the world’s 1st vertically installed floating solar PV project with 1.87 MW inst

taiyangnews.info

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 15h

Remnants of Typhoon Halong bring widespread damage to Native villages in Western Alaska. alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

Remnants of Typhoon Halong bring widespread damage to Western Alaska

Dozens of residents were rescued after floodwaters in multiple communities swept homes off their foundations.

alaskapublic.org

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 16h

The Spanish crown didn't even pay cash out of pocket for the expedition: They sold a round of indulgences, borrowed from some Genoese financiers, and turned a port's back-tax obligations into one of the caravels.

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Sean Sweet-Fern⚓ @moldybasil.bsky.social · 17h

I spend 70 bucks a month on my bus pass and essentially 0 bucks on bike maintenance (belt drive baybee). Though Ill probably drop the bus pass since with my current commute im only using about 50 a month in fares.

All the money I used to spend on car (gas, insurance, loan, parts) is mine now!

Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 1d

When my partner's car died almost 11 years ago, we calculated that it would be cheaper to rent every other weekend than the spend the $$ on maintenance for his clunker. We've been #carfree ever since!

Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 1d

About 5 years #carfree for us. Well north of £10k saved. I’m used to it now but ‘free’ is the right term. It honestly felt like having a weight lifted. No stressing about insurance, huge unexpected bills & money wasted at petrol pumps. Journeys are now fun. 🚆 🚊 🚃 🚌 🚲 🚶‍♀️

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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 22h

MANY BOSTONIANS & MASSACHUSETTSIANS KNEW WAT IT WAS 2 BE UNDER THE BLOBS THIS DAY, EYE CULD TELL U

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 1d

The Underground Railroad’s Stealth Sailors | Eric Foner | @nybooks.com

The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom were better below deck than over land.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The Underground Railroad’s Stealth Sailors | Eric Foner

The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom below deck were better than over land.

www.nybooks.com

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Sean Sweet-Fern⚓ @moldybasil.bsky.social · 18h

This is Rhode Island of course but still

Sean Sweet-Fern⚓ @moldybasil.bsky.social · 18h

They tried for like two years to hire someone before me and you'd never guess but instead of bioinformaticians they kept getting environmental scientists applying. How frustrating.

🙃

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Sean Sweet-Fern⚓ @moldybasil.bsky.social · 18h

My state job category is environmental scientist. The job posting I answered talked about looking at algae with a microscope and checking water for fecal contamination. The fact I happened to be a bioinformatician and also apply for this job was a coincidence. This is just how it works.

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Sean Sweet-Fern⚓ @moldybasil.bsky.social · 18h

I was discussing our inability to hire with the state during our most recent contract negotiations using myself as an example. I am the bioinformatician. I talk to the genome sequencers with computer code. I write very poor software and conduct complicated phylogenetic analyses. ->

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Sean Sweet-Fern⚓ @moldybasil.bsky.social · 18h

Yoooooo

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i'm sure duffy is just lying here but also i'll say again that they hard time conceptualizing relations between people that aren't strictly hierarchical.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Sean Sweet-Fern⚓ @moldybasil.bsky.social · 18h

Impossible to articulate how many of the state's problems are just our hiring process is fucking garbage. Yet somehow it was easier to rename the state than it is to change basically any aspect of it!

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 20h

Pedestrians have been under attack from drivers for a long, long time.

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Sav-AAAHH!!-nnah Thorpe Capizzi 👻 @savthorpecap.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps this is bold but I’m actually gonna submit for your consideration Pittsburgh’s own biracial girl union comrade football legend Franco Harris

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Sean Sweet-Fern⚓ @moldybasil.bsky.social · 19h

We am what we am and that's all that we am

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BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 1d

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Sean Sweet-Fern⚓ @moldybasil.bsky.social · 20h

This website was absolutely shot through with vagueposting and audience specific contextless posts since the day it came online. Many of us were vagueposting the moment we got an invite code. This is our natural state.

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