Serena Larkin
@serenalarkin.bsky.social
Comms + messaging for @sightline.org. Here for all our climate, cities, + democracy issues, plus weird fiction, farming, cats, + two-wheeled tootling 🚲 Chicago 🌇 Opinions my own
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The gestapo just needed better training. That would have made everything better in the 1940s.
January 16, 2026 at 1:38 PM
The gestapo just needed better training. That would have made everything better in the 1940s.
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I don't care for LCOE as a metric, but Brookfield analysis here is spot on. The cleanest power sources are the cheapest power sources. Those who advocate for fossil power are responsible for pushing your prices up. www.brookfield.com/views-news/i...
January 16, 2026 at 2:37 PM
I don't care for LCOE as a metric, but Brookfield analysis here is spot on. The cleanest power sources are the cheapest power sources. Those who advocate for fossil power are responsible for pushing your prices up. www.brookfield.com/views-news/i...
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When you focus on the regular people showing up magnificently in all of their flawed beauty, it helps you to keep going.
January 16, 2026 at 11:34 AM
When you focus on the regular people showing up magnificently in all of their flawed beauty, it helps you to keep going.
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Good news!
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www.independent.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Good news!
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To celebrate the possibility that SB 6026 will end mandates for apartment buildings to have commercial uses on their ground floors, here's a bunch of pics of empty retail spaces in Seattle's Capitol Hill, the most densely populated neighborhood in WA.
app.leg.wa.gov/BillSummary/...
app.leg.wa.gov/BillSummary/...
January 15, 2026 at 12:00 AM
To celebrate the possibility that SB 6026 will end mandates for apartment buildings to have commercial uses on their ground floors, here's a bunch of pics of empty retail spaces in Seattle's Capitol Hill, the most densely populated neighborhood in WA.
app.leg.wa.gov/BillSummary/...
app.leg.wa.gov/BillSummary/...
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Ambitious WA data center bill just dropped. Lots of good stuff incl. protections for other ratepayers if the data center bubble goes bust and demand response requirements.
app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...
app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...
HB 2515 Washington State Legislature
app.leg.wa.gov
January 15, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Ambitious WA data center bill just dropped. Lots of good stuff incl. protections for other ratepayers if the data center bubble goes bust and demand response requirements.
app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...
app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...
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Rings true theconversation.com/yes-those-bi...
January 16, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Rings true theconversation.com/yes-those-bi...
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casting spells
January 10, 2026 at 12:27 PM
casting spells
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I started throwing together background research to share with folks who wanted more details on the U.S.-Venezuela-Guyana oil triangle I wrote about in @drilledmedia.bsky.social last week, and then figured I should make it public. Hope it helps! drilled.media/news/venezue...
Showing Our Work: The Real U.S. Oil Payoff in Venezuela, a Timeline
The U.S. invasion of Venezuela was at least partly driven by oil, but not in the ways most people are talking about.
drilled.media
January 15, 2026 at 8:40 PM
I started throwing together background research to share with folks who wanted more details on the U.S.-Venezuela-Guyana oil triangle I wrote about in @drilledmedia.bsky.social last week, and then figured I should make it public. Hope it helps! drilled.media/news/venezue...
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Annoyed by those delivery robots seen recently on Chicago's too-narrow sidewalks? They sometimes make mobility more difficult and less pleasant for people with disabilities, seniors, and families with small kids. Here's some more bad news.
momentummag.com/doordash-pla... @momentummag.bsky.social
momentummag.com/doordash-pla... @momentummag.bsky.social
DoorDash Plans to Send Autonomous Robots into Bike Lanes | Momentum Mag | Momentum Mag
DoorDash has begun rolling out Dot, its new autonomous delivery robot — a sleek, all-electric bot that can hit speeds of up to 20mph.
momentummag.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Annoyed by those delivery robots seen recently on Chicago's too-narrow sidewalks? They sometimes make mobility more difficult and less pleasant for people with disabilities, seniors, and families with small kids. Here's some more bad news.
momentummag.com/doordash-pla... @momentummag.bsky.social
momentummag.com/doordash-pla... @momentummag.bsky.social
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A must watch: our friends at @sightline.org explain the elevator policy fixes needed to unlock more inclusive, affordable homes 🛗
The United States has the fewest elevators in the rich world, with Canada only a bit ahead. We teamed up with @uytaelee.bsky.social of About Here Videos to investigate why, exactly, North America sucks at elevators.
North America's Elevator Problem
YouTube video by About Here
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January 15, 2026 at 9:21 PM
A must watch: our friends at @sightline.org explain the elevator policy fixes needed to unlock more inclusive, affordable homes 🛗
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At least we still have the Great Lakes live cams
January 14, 2026 at 10:19 PM
At least we still have the Great Lakes live cams
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shoutout to my therapist's therapist
January 14, 2026 at 9:58 PM
shoutout to my therapist's therapist
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There's a long history of bikes as tools of resistance. And for good reason!
I have a lengthy video of a long chase yesterday, including one maniacal e-bike rider who was absolutely giving the ICE Wagoneers hell. They’d try to lose us in traffic but the bike didn’t care about traffic
It occurs to me that it also depends on how fast ICE can go in that particular neighborhood. Big streets/no traffic would make bikes less useful because they couldn't keep up, but on narrower downtown streets with traffic, an ebike could easily outpace cars.
January 14, 2026 at 10:06 PM
There's a long history of bikes as tools of resistance. And for good reason!
can't wait to personally upgrade from 'weird aunt' to 'powerful aunt'
Sara Levine recommends books featuring powerful aunts by Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse, and Elena Ferrante.
A Reading List of Ersatz Mothers: Three Novels Featuring Powerful Aunts
The picnic of literature is crawling with aunts. Often an aunt bustles in and replaces a dead mother. Other times the aunt stands to the side, offering subversive remarks that skew the family’s off…
buff.ly
January 14, 2026 at 10:25 PM
can't wait to personally upgrade from 'weird aunt' to 'powerful aunt'
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If you're interested in scissor stairs and other #WALeg housing solutions, you're gonna want to follow @danbertolet.bsky.social and @homes4wa.org for updates!
The scissor stair bill, HB 2228, is a simple bill to get the state building code council to do a simple thing: adopt code to allow them.
They've been legal in NYC and Vancouver, BC for decades and are common in Europe and Asia.
lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/202...
They've been legal in NYC and Vancouver, BC for decades and are common in Europe and Asia.
lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/202...
January 14, 2026 at 7:48 PM
If you're interested in scissor stairs and other #WALeg housing solutions, you're gonna want to follow @danbertolet.bsky.social and @homes4wa.org for updates!
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Great reporting by @oregonian.com on the daunting path ahead for clean electricity in OR.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Oregon electric utilities have strict green-power deadlines. They’re way off track
Slow compliance puts utilities ability to meet the emission targets in doubt and could drive up costs for ratepayers.
www.oregonlive.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Great reporting by @oregonian.com on the daunting path ahead for clean electricity in OR.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
okay, but actually what running feels like
Adidas marketing manager in 1993: You get that sneaker ad done?
David Lynch: Sure did boss, real fucking surreal and kind of scary, just like you said
Adidas marketing manager: First of all, and I am on a tremendous amount of cocaine, I love it
David Lynch: Sure did boss, real fucking surreal and kind of scary, just like you said
Adidas marketing manager: First of all, and I am on a tremendous amount of cocaine, I love it
January 14, 2026 at 8:53 PM
okay, but actually what running feels like
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January 14, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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Subsidies prop up ranching, grazing degrades the land and politics underpin the system.
6 takeaways from our public-lands grazing investigation - High Country News
Subsidies prop up ranching, grazing degrades the land and politics underpin the system.
www.hcn.org
January 14, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Subsidies prop up ranching, grazing degrades the land and politics underpin the system.
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New report from @t4america.bsky.social assesses what it would take to create world class transit in the US. The study makes the case that getting US transit up to international norms is feasible, but would require trillions of dollars in investment.
t4america.org/resource/wor...
t4america.org/resource/wor...
January 14, 2026 at 2:45 PM
New report from @t4america.bsky.social assesses what it would take to create world class transit in the US. The study makes the case that getting US transit up to international norms is feasible, but would require trillions of dollars in investment.
t4america.org/resource/wor...
t4america.org/resource/wor...