Peter Martini
@pcmartini.com
$work: Technical debt collector $home: skiing, hiking, spending time with the family, and mostly using social media to keep up with political and technical news
If your car doesn't have a backseat weight sensor with an alarm and you can't add one, you should put something you can't walk away from the car without next to the car seat when you buckle it in. The easiest and most foolproof thing? Your left shoe.
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
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THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 4w agoBREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
I hit post the second I finished. To have gone back and changed anything, even a typo, would have been to taint what may end up being my favorite thing I’ve ever written.
@knickerbacker.bsky.social · 2mo agoI started writing my recap down 21 in the second quarter because I didn’t want to stay up late. I just kept typing. I have not gone back and read or edited it. It’s 3400 words. Also, my house lost power when Castle was at the line at the end. Read it here: knickerblogger.net/2026/06/2026...
🫧 Smoke trapped in a bubble on water: surface tension, soap film physics and fluid mechanics in action
I have seen very few movies this year so I can't really judge the oscars, but one of the movies I did see was Sinners, and its portrayal of the Jim Crow economy is the film's driving force, even more than its supernatural elements www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
The Jim Crow Economy Is the True Horror in 'Sinners'
The film illustrates the near-impossibility of upward mobility during the segregation era.
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Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala
Weber State with a "WTF did I just watch? (Complimentary)" to win the partner stunt competition at nats www.instagram.com/reel/DTmAnJx...
Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
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This and James Burke's rocket speech from Connections are two science/tech monologues from the 70s that have really stuck with me over the years.
James Burke - perfectly-timed rocket launch 8/20/1977
YouTube video by WL
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 7mo ago
Agrivoltaics boost crop yields even when the solar panels aren’t generating power. New research from Canada shows that shading crops with elevated solar panels creates a cooler, wetter microclimate that can lift yields and improve performance across dozens of crops. buff.ly/6eqClf1 #ShareGoodNewsToo
The gift that keeps on giving: How solar panels on farms can help increase crop yields
A new study finds farmers can enjoy increased crop yeilds under partial shade of solar panels long after they stop working decades from now.
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I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful. A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
Book club suggestion: Ted Chiang's "The Story of Your Life", followed by a discussion on language vs cognition in LLMs
Boss, during meting: "ok, wait, I gotta ask, Mike, what's going on with those socks?" Me: "they've got the London Underground map. They're tube socks."
Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.
Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥 Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey
forgot to put this up somewhere so here you go. visualize your favorite zlib stream! lynn.github.io/flateview/
Hey dude can you pass me that video of the tall birds simultaneously getting knocked over by a wave thanks
Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.
Exclusive | The Onion Brought Back Its Print Edition. The Gamble Is Paying Off.
Publications turn to the old-style products to appeal to nostalgic readers and stand out in a crowded digital-media landscape.
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Watching this video 10 times has significantly improved my mood.
A picture is worth a thousand words. 🤷♂️ Typewriter artist, James Cook
Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole". (It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)
Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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