Sam Sklar \\ Exasperated Infrastructures

Help Us Send Ryder Kessler to Albany! · Ryder for New York 2026 Ryder Kessler is a child of Assembly District 66: a gay kid born at St. Vincent’s Hospital who played little league basketball at Tony Dapolito and got his Bar Mitzvah cake at Veniero’s. He has spent ...

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@ryderkessler.bsky.social for assembly!

Mini Exasperation #4 Doing stuff and a few small (big) articles.

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hey @johnsurico.bsky.social it’s here too.

Mini Exasperation #3 You can just do stuff

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you can just do stuff folks

#UrbanPlanning #Infrastructure #Urbanism #PublicPolicy #CityTwitter​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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if you don’t know me or my work, i’ve been posting as exasperated infrastructures since mid-2020. i’ve got hundreds of posts and i’m looking for some community feedback to help guide my next years of work.

it brings me great joy to write and connect.

The Best Book I Read All Year Hold your nose and hope for thes best. It's not "Life After Cars," but something totally different.

The Best Book I Read All Year
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@malgeo.bsky.social @islandpress.bsky.social

He Zohran, He Zohwon and Now We Must Fight So where do we start? WIth the current table as it's set.

He Zohran, He Zohwon and Now We Must Fight
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i am not convinced that people scared of socialism or democratic socialism actually know what the words mean or, more jarring, are literate.

Percent Zohran The Mayor-elect's platform is ambitious and quasi-DOA on paper. But the political and pundit machine are missing how powerful even 30% success for Mayor Mamdani could be for real people in New York.

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what would make a successful mamdanistration? do we need a zohreckoning? yes!

read on

Percent Zohran The Mayor-elect's platform is ambitious and quasi-DOA on paper. But the political and pundit machine are missing how powerful even 30% success for Mayor Mamdani could be for real people in New York.

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what counts as a success for a mamdanistration?

#mamdani #urbanplanning #futureofnyc

Percent Zohran The Mayor-elect's platform is ambitious and quasi-DOA on paper. But the political and pundit machine are missing how powerful even 30% success for Mayor Mamdani could be for real people in New York.

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Wrote about Zohran's burgeoning and exciting campaign for mayor, the challenges he might face and a little table setting for a rethink about his upcoming Mamdanistration.

thanks to @jgee.bsky.social for the edits and for helping me think through this piece!

okay mamdanistration.

coining it now.

josh kraft response: yea but my daddy owns patriots.

A Review: The Transit Guy's Review of The Inter-borough Express (IBX) Shining up the words and ideas of a great thinker and friend.

A Review: The Transit Guy's Review of The Inter-borough Express (IBX)
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@thetransitguy.com and i collaborated on his review of the IBX. He wrote it, i just did a lil #exasperation on top.

let’s start selling the idea.

hot take: the MTA should ghost in the IBX onto all of its digital maps. (@queenslink too)

Y’all I figured it out I figured out why Fulton Street doesn’t look as good as it could need more trees and a bike lane and no cars and frequent buses and thriving businesses and amazing people that’s all

what happened to us where traffic death is normal and expected and blamed but other death isn’t? why are we not enraged that thousands of people die every year-preventably-on our roads.

why isn’t the pursuit of arriving home safe the key to our system?

it’s money and power and it’s all made up.

this thing

i said what i said

play smart games win smart prizes

curious if any readers read this how i did.

There are four main reasons why @ndhapple.bsky.social's Momentum continues to be eminently readable, rereadable, and relevant.

Candor, personality, and voice.

Data relevance, not dependence.

Reader-centered narrative arc.

Reality-checked solutions.

This paper is as much style as substance.

this simply makes me want to run headfirst into a wall.

i don’t understand why we have 8.5 million people and we continue to elect the absolute dumbest of all of us.

happy to review something delightful, exasperatedly. cheers!

i hope everyone knows this was meant as a joke obviously you rule. (thank you for your work @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social)

more more!

i love it so much