Mike O'Brien
@obrien.page
Full-stack fish ecologist. Richmond, VA culture leech living in Eastern Henrico. Small farm dabbler. https://obrien.page https://github.com/mhpob
Datatype, a variable font that turns text to charts > franktisellano.github.io/datatype/ Maybe useful for small charts inline with text and tables?
Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts
An OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images — just type.
franktisellano.github.io
I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”
If Odysseus had just given his sailors testosterone injections, it wouldn’t have taken him 10 years to get home.
Yo what the fuck is up with outside right now
[news story 6 months from now] HEARTWARMING: Elementary school hold bakesale to raise money to pay heating bill, data center owner donates half box of Nilla Wafers 🥰
Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · last mo.“To mitigate the impact of higher electric costs, I am asking that we, collectively, make slight adjustments to conserve electricity across our individual workspaces[...] A typical space heater alone can cost the county from $150 to $300 per year in electricity costs.”
Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it.
County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’
Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers...
404media.co
Hardgrove House – Yesterdays
Image from The Valentine, Mary Wingfield Scott Photograph Collection.
yesterdays.maprva.org
Bob Crespo@uncle-brooklyn.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday’s UGallery Artist: Mary Beatty-Brooks "Up 23rd Street, Church Hill, Richmond, VA" (2023) acrylic painting on cradled wood panel more by this artist: www.ugallery.com/pages/mary-b... www.ugallery.com/products/acr...
@subletteweather.com what would be the best place to find climatology info? Specifically average # days >90F over the past 10/20/30/50/100 yrs in Richmond/Virginia as a whole?
There’s no graceful way to get into or out of a kayak.
Icelandic authorities just rerouted a planned hot water pipeline so as not to disturb an elf hill.
Fjóla@fjolagud.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt's been a long while since we had news of a project change because of elf-dwellings and it's high time, I say. Article heading: Hot-water pipeline rerouted to avoid offending elves.
What's the point in paying for fast internet if every site needs to check if you're a robot first?
A menhaden management board is considering implementing quota periods for VA’s reduction fishery in the Bay. Conservation groups say the fleet is scooping up the forage fish before they get further up the Bay, the fishery says they’re not. #valeg #vagov virginiamercury.com/2026/05/06/m...
Menhaden board punts vote to increase Virginia reduction fishery quota restrictions • Virginia Mercury
The Atlantic State Marine Fisheries Commission Menhaden Management Board on Tuesday put off a vote on new potential restrictions for Virginia’s only reduction fishery in the Chesapeake Bay.
virginiamercury.com
You can have dinner with anyone alive or dead. Pretty much limits your choice to having dinner with Schrödinger’s cat
Interested in the different technologies surveilling you? Join us Thursday, May 7 in Shockoe Bottom #RVA; we'll survey and map all of the different surveillance types in the area: at least two different types of ALPRs and two different types of gunshot detectors! https://maprva.org/events
Events · MapRVA
We are geospatial enthusiasts in Richmond, VA who make our city better one map at a time.
maprva.org
In a DARPA program I just proposed to, they asked for a short abstract, then invited our team for an oral presentation and Q&A instead of a long full proposal. Presumably because everyone's writing proposals with AI (and contrary to some opinions here, frontier models can write great proposals) 1/
The release of the Wii is now closer to the fall of the Berlin Wall than to today
Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 3mo agoteens’ church youth group activity tonight is playing “retro video games” they’re playing a wii
Henrico PD's own budget overview shows Flock's gunshot-detection devices produced ~2700 alerts in 2025, with ~740 "tied to" actual gunfire. Rough math puts the accuracy rate at about 27.4%.
Report: Every Place On Earth Has Wrong Amount Of Water https://theonion.com/report-every-place-on-earth-has-wrong-amount-of-water-1851544516/
To celebrate the launch of Yesterdays of the Inland Empire, five cities have been added to @oldinsurancemaps.net: Redlands, Ontario, Corona, Colton, and San Jacinto. All are circa 1907-8. There are many other cities around that time to be added. Let me know if you want one in particular!
Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3
mori: Shared memory for R objects
mori is a new R package for sharing R objects across processes via OS-level shared memory. Parallel workers get zero-copy, lazy ALTREP access to the same physical pages — share once, read anywhere.
opensource.posit.co
(possibly hot) take: public libraries are the most consistently innovative and progressive institutions in the western world. Definitely beating out universities or tech companies
TIL that the producer of No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom wrote the soundtrack to Mulan.
Matthew Wilder - Wikipedia
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Not to put too fine a point on it here, but I'm an independent journalist with no budget who *doesn't even cover Richmond as my actual beat.* I started asking basic, critical questions about the RPD's surveillance system, and instead of sitting for an interview, the mayor convened a spin room.
Texts show Richmond officials planning to 'saturate the public narrative' with positive Flock camera stories
In text messages, Mayor Avula, police Chief Rick Edwards and others discuss how to turn the tide of public opinion in favor of controversial automatic license plate readers.
richmond.com
remember, doing this for voting or w2s would be communism
The Hill@thehill.com · 4mo agoEligible men will automatically be registered into the military draft pool by December as part of an effort to streamline the previous process of self-registration and save money.
