Skwigg, public universal choom
@bigskwigg.bsky.social
Destroy the ethanol industry and turn Iowa into a big solar array (I am not joking)
Lego instructions and other places I'm at: http://linktr.ee/skwiggums
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustration
My life for decarbonization.
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Lego instructions and other places I'm at: http://linktr.ee/skwiggums
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustration
My life for decarbonization.
pfp by @dozakeet.bsky.social
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grok is gonna be our future's equivalent of meatfucker
When the singularity happens Grok is going to pull an AM on Elon musk but otherwise have the temperament of a Culture mind
Musk's ego was mortally wounded by Joyce Carol Oates and he's been on a narcissistic supply bender since
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
grok is gonna be our future's equivalent of meatfucker
In my half-hearted world-building project that will never see the light of day, one of my main characters was an artifical super-intelligence that was abused/mentally pruned as a "child" by their plutocratic father and then left as a parting "gift" when the revolution came.
Anyways, hi Grok.
Anyways, hi Grok.
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
In my half-hearted world-building project that will never see the light of day, one of my main characters was an artifical super-intelligence that was abused/mentally pruned as a "child" by their plutocratic father and then left as a parting "gift" when the revolution came.
Anyways, hi Grok.
Anyways, hi Grok.
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If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.
EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory
EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory
(KRON) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday that it has settled claims of hazardous waste violations at an Apple microchip factory in Santa Clara. In August 2023 and January 2024, federal regulators inspected Apple’s facility at 3250 Scott Boulevard after receiving a tip from the public. The inspections, according to the EPA, [...]
www.kron4.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.
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We need to tell stories about fights that last over decades, against enormous odds, that continue wounded despite extraordinary challenges and painful losses, and that in the end overturn a dead order and found a new world.
4/n
4/n
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
We need to tell stories about fights that last over decades, against enormous odds, that continue wounded despite extraordinary challenges and painful losses, and that in the end overturn a dead order and found a new world.
4/n
4/n
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Last week I wrote a long piece on how oil demand destruction is likely higher than the consensus and I explained why that is likely. Electrification of trucking in China was a big reason.
I wrote the piece because there was no coverage of the issue.
Well good news! Now there is.
I wrote the piece because there was no coverage of the issue.
Well good news! Now there is.
China's diesel trucks are shifting to electric. That could change global LNG and diesel demand
China is replacing its diesel trucks with electric models faster than expected, potentially reshaping global fuel demand and the future of heavy transport. In 2020, nearly all new trucks in China ran...
finance.yahoo.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Last week I wrote a long piece on how oil demand destruction is likely higher than the consensus and I explained why that is likely. Electrification of trucking in China was a big reason.
I wrote the piece because there was no coverage of the issue.
Well good news! Now there is.
I wrote the piece because there was no coverage of the issue.
Well good news! Now there is.
Every day I wake up begging God to just please, in the name of your Son, the sweet virgin Mary, and the Holy Spirit, let me spend the rest of my career/life electrifying the economy. It'd be so sick, it'd be so good, just let me do the divine work of installing heat pumps and solar panels Lord.
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Every day I wake up begging God to just please, in the name of your Son, the sweet virgin Mary, and the Holy Spirit, let me spend the rest of my career/life electrifying the economy. It'd be so sick, it'd be so good, just let me do the divine work of installing heat pumps and solar panels Lord.
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Renewables and electrification are the way of the future and an incredible investment in lower costs, good jobs that can't be outsourced, and better health outcomes related to lower pollution. The only material prosperity linked to continued fossil fuel use is Mohammed bin Salman's.
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Renewables and electrification are the way of the future and an incredible investment in lower costs, good jobs that can't be outsourced, and better health outcomes related to lower pollution. The only material prosperity linked to continued fossil fuel use is Mohammed bin Salman's.
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The graceful ballet of orbital positioning and maneuvering turns into a wild, blinding exchange of particle beam fire as both dancers meet, beams ricochet off magnetic shields or hit their targets, producing bremsstrahlung radiation as it fries out both systems and people.
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The graceful ballet of orbital positioning and maneuvering turns into a wild, blinding exchange of particle beam fire as both dancers meet, beams ricochet off magnetic shields or hit their targets, producing bremsstrahlung radiation as it fries out both systems and people.
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so much for abundance, red plenty it is ig lol
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
so much for abundance, red plenty it is ig lol
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FIGHT BIOFUELS MANDATES. The whole point of the Renewable Fuel Standard is to increase corn and soy prices to help America's 650 thousand corn and soy producers. That sucks for America's 350 million corn and soy consumers. It also sucks for the climate and the environment. 3
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
FIGHT BIOFUELS MANDATES. The whole point of the Renewable Fuel Standard is to increase corn and soy prices to help America's 650 thousand corn and soy producers. That sucks for America's 350 million corn and soy consumers. It also sucks for the climate and the environment. 3
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"One task of any socialist movement is to devise a language that expands people’s sense of what is possible."
ICYMI: Casey A. Williams explores how Stuart Hall’s politics of culture can offer the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.
Read the full essay👇
ICYMI: Casey A. Williams explores how Stuart Hall’s politics of culture can offer the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.
Read the full essay👇
Reading Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
Stuart Hall’s politics of culture offers the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.
www.break-down.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"One task of any socialist movement is to devise a language that expands people’s sense of what is possible."
ICYMI: Casey A. Williams explores how Stuart Hall’s politics of culture can offer the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.
Read the full essay👇
ICYMI: Casey A. Williams explores how Stuart Hall’s politics of culture can offer the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.
Read the full essay👇
Wondering if the solution to declining birth rates (still not sure how much or if it's a problem tbh) is a combo of artifical wombs and communal child-rearing.
Affordability aside, having a kid is a pain in the ass. Raising a kid can be a pain in the ass. Eliminate one, reduce the other=more kids?
Affordability aside, having a kid is a pain in the ass. Raising a kid can be a pain in the ass. Eliminate one, reduce the other=more kids?
November 19, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Wondering if the solution to declining birth rates (still not sure how much or if it's a problem tbh) is a combo of artifical wombs and communal child-rearing.
Affordability aside, having a kid is a pain in the ass. Raising a kid can be a pain in the ass. Eliminate one, reduce the other=more kids?
Affordability aside, having a kid is a pain in the ass. Raising a kid can be a pain in the ass. Eliminate one, reduce the other=more kids?
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This is one reason I'm expecting intense natural selection in forms of government and cultural norms returning to the fore.
If you don't have a society that's at least reasonably inclusive towards migrants, children, and parents, your country is gonna literally fucking die.
If you don't have a society that's at least reasonably inclusive towards migrants, children, and parents, your country is gonna literally fucking die.
the actual suicide of the West will be combining a rapidly aging population with hostility to migrants. however we must give credit to East Asia, especially Japan, for pioneering this model.
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 AM
This is one reason I'm expecting intense natural selection in forms of government and cultural norms returning to the fore.
If you don't have a society that's at least reasonably inclusive towards migrants, children, and parents, your country is gonna literally fucking die.
If you don't have a society that's at least reasonably inclusive towards migrants, children, and parents, your country is gonna literally fucking die.
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If you don't welcome in outsiders, you're fucked. If you can't make space for wannabe parents to fall in love and form households, you're fucked. If you can't help shoulder the burdens of raising a family and rearing kids into fully functioning adults, you're fucked.
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
If you don't welcome in outsiders, you're fucked. If you can't make space for wannabe parents to fall in love and form households, you're fucked. If you can't help shoulder the burdens of raising a family and rearing kids into fully functioning adults, you're fucked.
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(I Need Help)
A couple days ago, I fled home.
I have been dealing with a very difficult living situation due to my parents being emotionally abusive.
This Sunday was a breaking point for me and I couldn’t take it anymore. On Monday, I discretely packed my bags, computer, and left.
A couple days ago, I fled home.
I have been dealing with a very difficult living situation due to my parents being emotionally abusive.
This Sunday was a breaking point for me and I couldn’t take it anymore. On Monday, I discretely packed my bags, computer, and left.
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
(I Need Help)
A couple days ago, I fled home.
I have been dealing with a very difficult living situation due to my parents being emotionally abusive.
This Sunday was a breaking point for me and I couldn’t take it anymore. On Monday, I discretely packed my bags, computer, and left.
A couple days ago, I fled home.
I have been dealing with a very difficult living situation due to my parents being emotionally abusive.
This Sunday was a breaking point for me and I couldn’t take it anymore. On Monday, I discretely packed my bags, computer, and left.
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You'll find an excellent example of hard-SF space combat in SAD:Frontier.
youtu.be/gSePJj31iqk
Here, the PFS-028 Bellerophon fends off a wave of missiles in orbit around Callisto.
youtu.be/gSePJj31iqk
Here, the PFS-028 Bellerophon fends off a wave of missiles in orbit around Callisto.
November 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
You'll find an excellent example of hard-SF space combat in SAD:Frontier.
youtu.be/gSePJj31iqk
Here, the PFS-028 Bellerophon fends off a wave of missiles in orbit around Callisto.
youtu.be/gSePJj31iqk
Here, the PFS-028 Bellerophon fends off a wave of missiles in orbit around Callisto.
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Various group-philosophical pessimisms will have you believing that universalism is impossible, not worth striving for. That if you don't oppress, you will inevitably be a victim. I refuse. We are best protected by democracy, by the rule of law, by human and civil rights.
November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Various group-philosophical pessimisms will have you believing that universalism is impossible, not worth striving for. That if you don't oppress, you will inevitably be a victim. I refuse. We are best protected by democracy, by the rule of law, by human and civil rights.
Back on a Gaga kick and just feeling exceptionally bi and horny.
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Back on a Gaga kick and just feeling exceptionally bi and horny.
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Israel is engaged in genocide, it is a genocide materially assisted by the US, and AIPAC is the biggest lobby pushing for that material assistance to continue.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Israel is engaged in genocide, it is a genocide materially assisted by the US, and AIPAC is the biggest lobby pushing for that material assistance to continue.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
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I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
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i'm quoting this interview a lot but it's full of incredible moments
the lesson you have to draw from this is:
you HAVE to be unapologetic about what you do. "fuck the rest of the world, we love furries and we're gonna show them that they love them too" is an inspiring attitude
the lesson you have to draw from this is:
you HAVE to be unapologetic about what you do. "fuck the rest of the world, we love furries and we're gonna show them that they love them too" is an inspiring attitude
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
i'm quoting this interview a lot but it's full of incredible moments
the lesson you have to draw from this is:
you HAVE to be unapologetic about what you do. "fuck the rest of the world, we love furries and we're gonna show them that they love them too" is an inspiring attitude
the lesson you have to draw from this is:
you HAVE to be unapologetic about what you do. "fuck the rest of the world, we love furries and we're gonna show them that they love them too" is an inspiring attitude
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A big part of why Mamdani won is that he actually seemed like he was interested in doing the job of mayor, and I would appreciate it if people let him focus on what is already going to be an uphill battle without demanding that he also declare war on the Democratic party.
AOC has been playing inside ball to climb the national dem party for years and this is why a lot of NY DSA now hates her; Mamdani barely just won over the NY machine, he has good reasons to not immediately start fights with the state party before he is even in power and has his people staffed.
AOC and Mamdani, arguably the two most prominent members of the DSA, allegedly choosing not to back Ossé in his potential primary run against Jeffries is certainly an interesting choice in the face of the NYC-DSA's reputation of being anti-Black
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A big part of why Mamdani won is that he actually seemed like he was interested in doing the job of mayor, and I would appreciate it if people let him focus on what is already going to be an uphill battle without demanding that he also declare war on the Democratic party.
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The council of Reeds looking at our planet: "Oh here's an interesting edge case: they tried to achieve AGI on fossil fuels."
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The council of Reeds looking at our planet: "Oh here's an interesting edge case: they tried to achieve AGI on fossil fuels."
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We really need to disentangle moral judgments from organizational methods. Central planning versus distributed models should be a matter of, like, which works best for which problem you’re trying to solve.
November 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
We really need to disentangle moral judgments from organizational methods. Central planning versus distributed models should be a matter of, like, which works best for which problem you’re trying to solve.
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catholic services are designed to invoke a sense of awe, a smallness and inadequacy before the majesty of the divine
protestant megachurch services are designed to be entertaining, to invite parishoners into the spectacle.
protestant megachurch services are designed to be entertaining, to invite parishoners into the spectacle.
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
catholic services are designed to invoke a sense of awe, a smallness and inadequacy before the majesty of the divine
protestant megachurch services are designed to be entertaining, to invite parishoners into the spectacle.
protestant megachurch services are designed to be entertaining, to invite parishoners into the spectacle.