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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 · 7h

I also think mentioning large scale carbon capture and “green” air travel as possible scientific breakthroughs that might significantly impact humanity in time to be relevant to climate change conveys a significant ignorance to physics, economics, or both.

Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · 7h

I want to touch on a few points that made me bristle in this chapter- I think talking about allowing immigration as solely an economic engine, and not as a moral imperative, is pretty tough to swallow…

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · 7h

I think there’s a hand waviness here that’s unnecessary. The authors cite our lack of information about the science happening. During trump cuts to NIH grants, there were loads of quantitative analyses of economic impacts of the funding, which could’ve been cited and expanded upon here.

Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · 7h

For me, this is where Abundance creates its distinction from YIMBY, by expanding its scope from housing and infrastructure into science and research. Ultimately I think the connection is apt. The authors make the case well that bureaucracy and regulation have choked research and housing alike.

Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · 7h

Ch 4: invent

I took some time away from this book and I’m back. This chapter covers research and invention in the US, framing around examples of Karikó’s mRNA research which facilitated the COVID vaccine, the NIH, Bell Labs, and DARPA.

Photo of the start of Abundance’s fourth chapter, Invent

Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · 1d

He could fix me

Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · 1d

Man on the late A train with a Sniffies sticker on his bike

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 4d

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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

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 · 11d

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

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@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 · 14d

and you know what, god bless

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · 14d

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

collin (enjoys sitting) @bussyrizzler.nyc · 14d

does anyone wanna fall in love via Scruff Stories

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Sean (parody) @slinkyvillain.bsky.social · 18d

happy friday gay guys 😌

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

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

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · Sep 11

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 · Sep 11

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 · Sep 9

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 · Sep 9

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 · Sep 9

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 · Sep 9

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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