Various lakeside camping sunset pics from my recent visit to the MN northwoods.
professoraxeman
@axeeugene.bsky.social
Not a real professor, but I used to play one in everyday life. No, it's not a Cuban, goddamn it. It's Dominican. Stop the world; I want to get off. I block all engagement farming accounts, no matter their stripe.
As a chronically single person who "isn't interested in dating," I'll tell you I would be *very* interested in dating if the modern methods of it weren't so goddamned demoralizing and dehumanizing. Being solitary is infinitely more pleasant than subjecting oneself to the shitshow of dating now.
NPR@npr.org · 6d agoSolo living, solo travel, and solo dining are all being embraced as more adults are choosing to remain single. Many Americans aren't interested in dating, and being single is a symbol of autonomy. n.pr/4bjMd1P
Fuck this stupid lying corporate stooge Putin shill asshole. Every goddamn day I'm embarrassed my state replaced Russ Feingold with this subhuman stain.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Ron Johnson claims the the "injection injured" are committing mass suicide
Every time I see an ad for AI it makes me want to strangle a tech oligarch.
I haven't spoken to either of my parents in five years and I guarantee you they've done more for me in that time than the current occupant of the Oval Office has done in his entire miserable life.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump: "I've done more for you than your parents, okay? Your parents are okay. I'm not gonna knock to your parents, but I have been better to you than your parents."
Oof, it's a steamy one out there, friends. 30 minutes of carpentry work on a single piece of replacement flooring and I'm done.
I just awoke from a dream about a catastrophically leaky water supply pipe uunder the sink in my rental apartment late on a Sunday evening. I've been a a homeowner for 20 years. There must be anxiety somewhere in my life that's creeping out in strange ways.
People actually think refusing to use LLMs "holds you back"? How much more fucking stupid can this become?
Tim Newman@tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 2w agoHer mind! This from @karenhao.bsky.social should be one of those inspirational quotes that a crafter does in needlepoint. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
I'm a regular at a semi-rural dive bar in a college town in WI and I'm being honest when I tell you this is overblown. Yeah, there are some *heavy* drinkers and sloppy idiots. It's normal to have 3 drinks at social functions without batting an eye. But most people are chill and mostly sober.
Atlas Shvitzed@therafischwartz.bsky.social · 2w agoI'm not sure people who haven't lived in wisconsin truly appreciate HOW drunk it is there. I've never seen anything like it before or since. Just total normalization of being hammered. Helluva place to land as an 18 year old college kid.
We only need one. His name is Simo Häyhä.
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2w agoIf only we had enough Finns
There damn well better be tribunals ending with piano wire for these traitors in 2029.
Paul Bleicher@pbleic.bsky.social · 2w agoAstonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
This will be - by far - the most expensive Professoraxeman's Summer Backyard Movie Night in the history of the series. But what a banger!
I carry a Danger Room with me wherever I go.
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission@cpsc.gov · 2w agoAny room can be a Danger Room.
Who just picked up a karaoke machine complete with TWO essentially unused Shure SM58 microphones for $20 at a garage sale this morning? <-- THIS GUY!
Shit. Amok Time *again*? Guess I have to put off tonight's plans for another hour.
This is NOT funny. My uncle was killed by a "joke," you know.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨 ALERT: A JOKE HAS ESCAPED CONTAINMENT. REPEAT: A JOKE HAS ESCAPED CONTAINMENT. PEOPLE ARE SEEING A JOKE WHO DO NOT KNOW WHAT A JOKE IS. BE CAREFUL AROUND CORNERS. 🚨
This describes the entire superhero ethos.
Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2w agoThe "Supergirl" movie's message is that it doesn't matter if you're unprepared and narcissistic; you win because you are strong and the stars align for you. This is an American way of seeing things. Our disastrous war in Iran has been fought on these principles. snyder.substack.com/p/supergirl-...
Now you all know my position on leaf blowers ("The thing about leaf blowers is that everyone who uses them should die."), but the pro tree service gugs are here and I *do* give that one use case a pass. Nevertheless, fuck me, they're loud as hell.
The thing about someone ‘improperly receiving benefits’ is I don’t care. Oh no did someone get food or health care? Good!
I am a school bus driver and I wear French cuff shirts. You don't have to have money to dress well. All you have to do is care how you look and know how to shop.
Dave von Ebers@dave-von-ebers.bsky.social · 2w agoMinor point, of course, but seeing the UK's new prime minister talk about the cost of living and issues people really care about while wearing French cuffs is ... odd.
Well, @haggischomper.bsky.social , I have many criticisms of Nolan's The Odyssey, but most of them are nitpicking. I do, however, stand steadfastly by my position on the woeful miscasting of the lead role.
I understand why, but an Oddysey with no Nestor, no Polykaste, no Alkinoös, no Arete, no Naussika, no *Hermes*, and a dead Mentor really loses something.
One reason I despise going to the movies in modern times is the seats are atrocious. No, goddamn it, I don't want to lay down in public. Give me a solid-backed chair.