Not a lot of guys walking around these days named "Art"
Herzog's Dream
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Late Blooming Gym Rat | He/Him | Amateur Photographer | Fair-weather hiker | E-bike and EV Evangelist | Recovering Engineer | Lifelong PNWer | #exvangelical Agnostic
I passed by a wind farm on Saturday. I'm always baffled why they're the subject of intense NIMBYism and years (decades?) of endless lawsuits. I think they look futuristic and cool as hell.
My most boomer dad-coded behavior is that I keep all the paper manuals for my stuff sorted into binders.
There's something instructive about the creative process in the example of Sufjan being embarrassed by Carrie and Lowell. Like WDYM you're ashamed of something as transcendently beautiful as John My Beloved. youtu.be/0oJINcvq9KA?...
John My Beloved (Live)
YouTube video by Sufjan Stevens - Topic
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This Iran War and its effects on the global economy are dumb, but also, just saying: EVs can charge for $0.20/kWh this weekend at IONNA. Roughly analogous to $1.48/Gal gas for a fleet average car.
Thomas Flight is quickly becoming my favorite video essayist on YT youtu.be/1cdw9WcTdyU?...
Why Are The Backrooms Like That?
YouTube video by Thomas Flight
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Interesting quirk of The Social Network/Reckoning: both actors are older than the real-life Mark Zuckerberg. Like born before the real person, whom they're portraying in past events. I was curious how often this happens; found a good reddit thread that points to about a dozen examples.
Midnight Mass not being available on physical media is a crime. Time for Netflix to learn that they're only a little more convenient than sailing the high seas ...
I'm trying to make the idea of "Suburban Brainrot" a thing. A broad term to describe the personality quirks of suburban residents. Examples: - NIMBYism (obviously) - Excessive focus/gossip over what the neighbors are up to - Only capable of framing stuff in terms of how it affects them personally
I was trying to explain Nolan's Tenet to someone, and settled on "It's like the opening scene in Dark Knight Rises, where it's an impressive action sequence, but it makes no goddamn sense when you try to tease out the logic of it."
It's still crazy to me that there's a sitting US senator who was a working adult in the 1950s
Evening everyone, It’s true… CA SB 868 has passed! The most populated states plug in solar bill is now on Governor Newsom’s desk! Congratulations are in order to the 39 million increasing their access to plug-in solar! Governor Newsom, you know what to do. Thanks everyone for the support!
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
When it comes to pets, Evangelicals are annihilationists
CR's latest survey results for EV charging network reliability: Top: Rivian, Tesla, IONNA (my fav), and Chargepoint. Bottom: ShellRecharge (of course)
Reading up on foam cannons - basically blasting your car with soap before a hand wash. I wondered about the water runoff - all this stuff goes straight into a storm drain if you're washing in the driveway. As far as I can tell, detailers solve this issue through a technique called "not caring".
I wonder what would happen if the DNC invested all their resources in trying to flip one single red state. Like if a billion-dollar campaign apparatus went all in on winning Wyoming. Would it work?
As you get older, it's very important to fight that creeping reflex of, "I don't know anything about that new thing, but it's probably bad"
I wonder what the Black Mirror writer's room is like these days. One person after the next pitching, "ok, but what if AI is actually bad"? Yeah, no shit
Mallorca #eclipse seeing a red sunset corona and crescent sunset was amazing and awesome, astonishing and perfect
I was trying to remember the opening line from The Odyssey, and my brain kept coming up with, "A man! A plan! A canal! Panama!"
Solid point I have to keep reminding myself of: what you pay attention to forms your reality. It doesn't mean bad stuff isn't happening; but you will never get to the bottom of the barrel of outrage, and it will trick you into depriving yourself of life-saving joy and meaning.
Kim McCauley@kimischilling.bsky.social · 4w agoThis piece is good and correct, but here's the thing: So is the therapist. You have to log off. You have to touch grass. You have to ride your bike. You have to hang with your buds and talk about the local sports team. You can't make them go away but you CAN decide if they consume your life.
It's crazy how busy the sky has gotten with satellites. I really noticed last night how there was always at least 1-2 visible wandering dots at all times.
The poor man's wealth is drinking the absolute frostiest Baja Blast Cabo Citrus after working outside
It's very weird how much of a Rorschach test political content can be. The exact same interview will be labeled "RFK Jr wipes the floor with Dana Bash", and also "RFK Jr's Humiliating Crashout"