Severn Clay-Youman
@caworkshop.bsky.social
Architect, lighting designer, passive house consultant, dad, stutterer, maker of things, lazy gardener, compost enthusiast, Kentuckian, biker, sailor and boat-builder. He/him
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Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
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Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
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when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
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Just preaching my message of "wanting to do less more often" we all have our reasons.
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Just preaching my message of "wanting to do less more often" we all have our reasons.
Crazy photos of the scene at the Manhattan 30th st heliport Wednesday morning:
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Crazy photos of the scene at the Manhattan 30th st heliport Wednesday morning:
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Love this man. Although it’s not quite “one of-one” because his wife and daughter were also wearing them 🤣
Gotta appreciate a family that hates together so well.
Gotta appreciate a family that hates together so well.
Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.
November 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Love this man. Although it’s not quite “one of-one” because his wife and daughter were also wearing them 🤣
Gotta appreciate a family that hates together so well.
Gotta appreciate a family that hates together so well.
Teen Vogue has been an excellent source of political reporting the last eight years. Sadly, no more, it seems.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Teen Vogue has been an excellent source of political reporting the last eight years. Sadly, no more, it seems.
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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I used to live a few blocks away from Elizabeth Warren in Cambridge, and I can personally confirm that they give out full-size candy bars on Halloween.
“For the first time in U.S. history, the President is cutting off food assistance and telling more than 40 million Americans to eat dirt.”
Hell yeah Elizabeth Warren, that’s my senator
www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Hell yeah Elizabeth Warren, that’s my senator
www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Warren Urges Trump to Continue Food Assistance, End the Government Shutdown | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
www.warren.senate.gov
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I used to live a few blocks away from Elizabeth Warren in Cambridge, and I can personally confirm that they give out full-size candy bars on Halloween.
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My latest from @hyperallergic.com is on Trump’s proposed triumphal arch—& why looking at the structure’s history symbolizing imperialism & subjugation + its reception (Napoleon, Hitler) is important. NB: the ecclesiastical architectural firm pitching this structure. hyperallergic.com/1050375/the-...
The Arch of Trump’s Triumph and Downfall
Triumphal arches have been used for imperialistic ends since Roman antiquity, and the president’s latest proposal is no exception.
hyperallergic.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
My latest from @hyperallergic.com is on Trump’s proposed triumphal arch—& why looking at the structure’s history symbolizing imperialism & subjugation + its reception (Napoleon, Hitler) is important. NB: the ecclesiastical architectural firm pitching this structure. hyperallergic.com/1050375/the-...
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Here is a block list for them bsky.app/profile/best...
Blockety block block BLOCK!!!
October 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Here is a block list for them bsky.app/profile/best...
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This brutalist Timezone arcade in Christchurch New Zealand gives off a weird feeling. r/brutalism
October 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This brutalist Timezone arcade in Christchurch New Zealand gives off a weird feeling. r/brutalism
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We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.
c o n s t a n t l y.
October 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.
c o n s t a n t l y.
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LLM extruded essays are like being cornered by the most boring person at a party while they monotone monologue small talk at you, convinced that they’re pronouncing something profound.
October 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
LLM extruded essays are like being cornered by the most boring person at a party while they monotone monologue small talk at you, convinced that they’re pronouncing something profound.
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We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.
October 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.
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After law school, only one thing is gonna keep me from prosecuting murders in my home town, and that is prosecuting the shameful federal ‘law enforcement’ officers who are so proudly violating the law. Save your signing bonuses for defense lawyers. You’ll need them.
October 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
After law school, only one thing is gonna keep me from prosecuting murders in my home town, and that is prosecuting the shameful federal ‘law enforcement’ officers who are so proudly violating the law. Save your signing bonuses for defense lawyers. You’ll need them.
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I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
October 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Israeli pirates have just kidnapped Irish, Spanish, British, American, Turkish, and Dutch citizens, among others, sailing peacefully in international waters where the state of Israel has absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever. Demand a response from your politicians and governments to this outrage.
October 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Israeli pirates have just kidnapped Irish, Spanish, British, American, Turkish, and Dutch citizens, among others, sailing peacefully in international waters where the state of Israel has absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever. Demand a response from your politicians and governments to this outrage.
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The success of multi-ethnic liberal cities violates the belief that racially homogenous, conservative places with white people (however they choose to define that) at the top are the best.
That's why they're trying to destroy those places.
That's why they're trying to destroy those places.
September 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The success of multi-ethnic liberal cities violates the belief that racially homogenous, conservative places with white people (however they choose to define that) at the top are the best.
That's why they're trying to destroy those places.
That's why they're trying to destroy those places.
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You don’t live in one country anymore.
Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
September 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
You don’t live in one country anymore.
Long overdue rewatch of "Death of Stalin" because [waves hand at current administration]. Having a Wikipedia page open helps- a bit like watching "Oppenheimer", except the operative question is "who are they, and when were they shot" instead of "who are they, and when did they die of cancer".
September 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Long overdue rewatch of "Death of Stalin" because [waves hand at current administration]. Having a Wikipedia page open helps- a bit like watching "Oppenheimer", except the operative question is "who are they, and when were they shot" instead of "who are they, and when did they die of cancer".
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Since it seems like Google is hellbent on hiding ways to disable its ai and even is ignoring "-ai" at times now, does anyone know of alternate browsers, search bars, etc. To move away from these shitass ai bloated systems?
Bonus: Alternatives to photoshop, premiere, and acrobat.
Bonus: Alternatives to photoshop, premiere, and acrobat.
September 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Since it seems like Google is hellbent on hiding ways to disable its ai and even is ignoring "-ai" at times now, does anyone know of alternate browsers, search bars, etc. To move away from these shitass ai bloated systems?
Bonus: Alternatives to photoshop, premiere, and acrobat.
Bonus: Alternatives to photoshop, premiere, and acrobat.
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Some news: This winter Team Oonee is launching NYC's first Dutch-Style🚲 parking hub in Brooklyn's Sunset Park. The Hub will provide free parking for 100+ bikes/scooters, and will include safe charging, and appt based repairs + lite service. This will make history in several ways.
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September 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Some news: This winter Team Oonee is launching NYC's first Dutch-Style🚲 parking hub in Brooklyn's Sunset Park. The Hub will provide free parking for 100+ bikes/scooters, and will include safe charging, and appt based repairs + lite service. This will make history in several ways.
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