Chris Miller
@thatmushroom.bsky.social
YIMBY, 🔌💡 data scientist, filled with love for The Queen City of the Plains. In the words of Frightened Rabbit, making tiny changes to Earth. I don't post all that I do here because I'm bad at posting.
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 2d agoToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
Updated our 'Do Moderates Do Better?' paper When you analyze the question rigorously (and don't assume correlation is causation), you find that moderates & non-moderates perform ~equally well in the Trump era Love working with @adambonica.bsky.social
Blackberry Belle -> Powder Burns -> Dynamite Steps kinda falls off by the end, but it's also the three albums that first come to mind for me when thinking of a streak. Greg Dulli has a gift.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 3d agoi won't weigh in on "best", but congregation, gentlemen and black love was a hell of a run from the afghan whigs
I was biking home from the gym last night, and someone on a scooter going the other way was belting Semi-Charmed Life at full volume. I crossed paths right under a bridge, so it sounded friggin' amazing.
Happy sesquicentennial, Colorado! You don't look a day over 130.
"The Green Revolution" was going to be my answer, but I'm a decade off, so I can't use it. So, I'll go with "advances in materials science" as the unheralded but absolutely critical achievement in this timeframe.
Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 5d agoI like this brainstorm: greatest achievements since 1969. Number one for me: eradicating smallpox What else?
we might be throwing out a generational umami opportunity. i will taste the forbidden fish sauce defector.com/abandoned-fi...
Let Me And A Food Scientist Sample The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing A Small Canadian Town | Defector
Take capelin, a small silvery fish in the smelt family. Now add salt. Then throw those two ingredients in 110 vats, each of them about 10 feet tall, and let them sit in a defunct factory for over two ...
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swallowhillmusic.configio.com/pd/8042/1-b-... I wonder if I can take the class if I skipped Tin Whistle 1A
1-B Tin Whistle
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In conclusion: a very good stockpicker and a very bad portfolio manager, and the latter was sufficiently disastrous he wound up destroying most of his assets and probably causing the largest trading loss of all time. If the reported numbers are true, going $45bn -> $10bn is 3x the size of Archegos.
My medium-spicy take of the day: While AIPAC has not exactly been a force for good, they've *already* lost the juice for electoral results. And so, punching at them now is no longer an accurate message of "Look, this interest group is causing problems on net", but "I want someone scary to blame."
Manifesting the cursed mashup I desperately want to exist: Sweet Criminal (Are You Okay Annie Lennox)
Note that this deal only works for the UK Amazon, not the US. Which means I'm out here losing a trade war today.
Soumaya Keynes@soumayakeynes.ft.com · 2w ago"How to Win a Trade War" made it to number 1 in the "Business Economics" Amazon bestsellers list! Very exciting! And if you want the Kindle edition for 99p ***today only*** then here's the link: www.amazon.co.uk/How-Win-Trad...
Testing out non-spreadsheet ways of logging weightlifting. Hevy app weighs in firmly on the side of a week only having 7 days.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysia_... A photosynthesizing sea slug is very cool. Doubly so for being a member of "sap-sucking sea slugs", which is a great band name. Or insult from the 60's.
Elysia chlorotica - Wikipedia
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it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption
Jessica Nix@jessicanix.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: As cyclosporiasis cases jumped, the company linked to the outbreak - Taylor Farms - effectively delayed a recall that mounted in consumer confusion. Gift link for @business www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
![PERSON: First we win the super bowl and then we host the World Cup to rave reviews!
GUY: What is this unfamiliar feeling of…civic pride?
[voice from down below] Go down to 3rd and pine and say that!
GUY: [kneeling down to face 2 tiny people, one of them with aselfie stick] Choe? Suarez? What are you guys doing down there?
CHOE: were here to remind people Seattle is still full of crime and filth! SUAREZ: 12th and Jackson!
GUY: Aha, and you’re shrinking because people have stopped believing in the power of fear?
SUAREZ: Bingo
PERSON: Did you know we’ve also got the highest light rail ridership in the US?
CHOE: [shrinking] Agh!
SUAREZ: .[shrinking] North Aurora!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:carj4mhaflwfubqzioy5wxl3/bafkreibx7cxgpypbr3467qh3hqsmzuli35ct4nn36yfpw5rtqgrhhultmi)
Now this, this is what it looks like to love a city.
Crystal Fincher@finchfrii.bsky.social · 2w agoSeattle, the World Cup brought possibility. Let’s build on it
This game has contained a level of shithousery which deserved to be featured in Azteca.
Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan
Tired: Mysogony Wired: Massagony (This works better in a Hoosier accent, I swear)