Public Sector Energy
@publicsectornrg.bsky.social
Humanist, climate hawk, YIMBY, Outdoor Recreation, American, student of cognitive biases, skier, surfer, Californian
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Short version: chasing the hardline party’s voters without any real principles of your own makes you lose your own base and convince fence-sitters to support the hardline party, not you.
What the Democrats can learn from the UK Labour Party's complete implosion after moving right on immigration
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December 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Short version: chasing the hardline party’s voters without any real principles of your own makes you lose your own base and convince fence-sitters to support the hardline party, not you.
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I call this the Dream Vampire Economic Model. It also exists in the arts, publishing, and every other somewhat prestigious industry that young people want to work in.
there's a parallel between nonprofit world and academia, where there's a constant tide of idealistic, hopeful people coming in the door, and the people on top are able to lever that commitment to The Cause to extract from them in a way that's harder when everyone's just there to make a buck
December 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I call this the Dream Vampire Economic Model. It also exists in the arts, publishing, and every other somewhat prestigious industry that young people want to work in.
As someone who just ended 15 years in public higher education, this is 100% correct.
there's a parallel between nonprofit world and academia, where there's a constant tide of idealistic, hopeful people coming in the door, and the people on top are able to lever that commitment to The Cause to extract from them in a way that's harder when everyone's just there to make a buck
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
As someone who just ended 15 years in public higher education, this is 100% correct.
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Time to put on my Eatin Pants
November 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Time to put on my Eatin Pants
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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broke: YIMBYs fighting DSA
woke: YIMBYs and DSA forming an alliance to take down realtors
🏘️🤝🏘️
(op ed written by my friend Thomas Irwin from @abundanthousingla.bsky.social's Eastside Housing for All chapter!)
woke: YIMBYs and DSA forming an alliance to take down realtors
🏘️🤝🏘️
(op ed written by my friend Thomas Irwin from @abundanthousingla.bsky.social's Eastside Housing for All chapter!)
Who are the most powerful NIMBYs in California? Realtors
OPINION: “No one should be more invested in expanding creative home sales opportunities than real estate agents, whose job is to help families realize their homeownership dreams.”
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November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
broke: YIMBYs fighting DSA
woke: YIMBYs and DSA forming an alliance to take down realtors
🏘️🤝🏘️
(op ed written by my friend Thomas Irwin from @abundanthousingla.bsky.social's Eastside Housing for All chapter!)
woke: YIMBYs and DSA forming an alliance to take down realtors
🏘️🤝🏘️
(op ed written by my friend Thomas Irwin from @abundanthousingla.bsky.social's Eastside Housing for All chapter!)
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we need an internet hague to hold everyone who made google unusable responsible
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
we need an internet hague to hold everyone who made google unusable responsible
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"Nothing is more dangerous for man's private morality than the habit of command. The best man, the most intelligent, disinterested, generous, pure, will infallibly and always be spoiled at this trade."
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
"Nothing is more dangerous for man's private morality than the habit of command. The best man, the most intelligent, disinterested, generous, pure, will infallibly and always be spoiled at this trade."
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"No one asked me if I was the mayor."
That is incredible. As bad as you think the state of journalism is in this moment, it's worse. It's much much worse.
That is incredible. As bad as you think the state of journalism is in this moment, it's worse. It's much much worse.
October 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
"No one asked me if I was the mayor."
That is incredible. As bad as you think the state of journalism is in this moment, it's worse. It's much much worse.
That is incredible. As bad as you think the state of journalism is in this moment, it's worse. It's much much worse.
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why are these people unable to say "no, thank you for the interview request, Isaac Chotiner, but I'm fine, actually, I'm okay"
October 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
why are these people unable to say "no, thank you for the interview request, Isaac Chotiner, but I'm fine, actually, I'm okay"
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people who aren't deeply yimbypilled have no conception of how much building codes are just written by random "technocrats" with no connection to either voters or actual expertise
It seems he's a UT Austin architecture professor who was "shocked" to learn that windowless bedrooms weren't illegal when a student mentioned to him a few years ago that they live in one. So he immediately set out to ban them, without investigating/considering any broader context for why they exist.
October 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
people who aren't deeply yimbypilled have no conception of how much building codes are just written by random "technocrats" with no connection to either voters or actual expertise
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I would really love to write a book about America's housing crisis as told through the enshittification of our college towns.
October 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I would really love to write a book about America's housing crisis as told through the enshittification of our college towns.
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like, this has been the consistent position of right wing protestants since FDR; they have hated social welfare for a century. because they want to control who eats and sleeps inside through the church and gain power that way.
October 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
like, this has been the consistent position of right wing protestants since FDR; they have hated social welfare for a century. because they want to control who eats and sleeps inside through the church and gain power that way.
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
This is very typical for toxic work cultures. Been there done that got the t-shirt.
The first time I publicly criticized the NYT as being a horrible institution was on Twitter a month or so after I quit. I did it because of the Tom Cotton op-ed. The number of messages I got from ex and then current nyt employees about the abuse they had endured was... more than I could take in tbh
October 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This is very typical for toxic work cultures. Been there done that got the t-shirt.
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“A close analysis of the US building code development process reveals a system rife with capture by both industry and government interests in which the costs and benefits of regulations are improperly measured (if measured at all), special interests enjoy outsize influence and minimal scrutiny,…"
Out of Code_Zwick_Working Paper.pdf
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October 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
“A close analysis of the US building code development process reveals a system rife with capture by both industry and government interests in which the costs and benefits of regulations are improperly measured (if measured at all), special interests enjoy outsize influence and minimal scrutiny,…"
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too many people’s theory of change is “boo hoo it’s too hard”
October 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
too many people’s theory of change is “boo hoo it’s too hard”
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"journalist" should be a protected title, like "engineer". that if you misrepresent things, you lose your practice
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"journalist" should be a protected title, like "engineer". that if you misrepresent things, you lose your practice
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I love this one. Had a work call yesterday that fit it perfectly.
Text 48. "series of radical meetings" by @theophite.bsky.social again
October 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I love this one. Had a work call yesterday that fit it perfectly.
This one hits pretty hard.
Text 29. evangelical leftism
This is the canonical version of it:
October 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This one hits pretty hard.
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Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
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October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...