the city-state of mind

"The only easy day was yesterday" - guy who hasn't figured out a good recovery protocol.

completing my transformation. rigorous nutrition tracking shows I'm consistently low on intake, so I've been supplementing.

had to use Diane Duane's Famous, Never-Fail Hiccough Cure for youngest today. The hiccup cure - Out of Ambit www.dianeduane.com/outofambit/2... Sugar (stopped here this time), salt, lemon.

The hiccup cure - Out of Ambit

A former nurse discusses the only hiccup cure she knows that works FAST and for almost everybody. Your mileage may vary, but give it a shot.

dianeduane.com

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

Paris, who has world-historic parental issues from having been abandoned and exposed to die as a baby: this is the Most Beautiful Woman In The World!

Sol Feggio@wtdore.bsky.social · last wk.

Well, sort of. Castor and Pollux complicate the issue (unless Helen gets kidnapped at like 40)

Tick-tock, just past seven o'clock. Today is August 4, 2026 in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday! Today is "There Will Come Soft Rains" day! This celebration has been scheduled in advance. This message will display even if none are left to read it.

My training? Concurrent. My periodization? Undulating. My splits? PPL. My cardio? Multi-modal.

Sol Feggio@wtdore.bsky.social · 2d ago

with this race result the thread of time trial season is severed. Advanced to the next training block or persist in the doomed training cycle I have created.

me rn

Spiderman: Back to Formula?

ALT: Spiderman: Back to Formula?

static.klipy.com

Sol Feggio@wtdore.bsky.social · 2d ago

with this race result the thread of time trial season is severed. Advanced to the next training block or persist in the doomed training cycle I have created.

the moral equivalent of flame war

with this race result the thread of time trial season is severed. Advanced to the next training block or persist in the doomed training cycle I have created.

the golden gate highway and transport district page says each tower supports a 5.6x10^7 kg load from the main cables. Replacing that would require a mere 242 Hindenburg-equivalents of lifting capacity.

Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 2d ago

Main Span xkcd.com/3279/

de-escalate to escalate

I think that I once opined that there isn't anything analogous in U.S. history to the inter service rivalries in Japan. But I've also said that the current administration is more comparable to Imperial Japan than other Quasi-Totalitarian States. cc: @sharonk.bsky.social @aelkus.bsky.social

coming around to the idea that the best way of understanding the Mountain West states' governance is a kind of hydraulic despotism.

and people say AppleTV doesn't advertise...

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 5d ago

War now only occurs when the markets are closed is actually very cyberpunk

it's tough out here for the homo economicus

probably the most nebulous family type relation I'm in routine contact with is Cousin Bobby. He (& his siblings) are my mother's brother's wife's brother's kids. But that relationship isn't about ties of blood, it's about time spent.

Sol Feggio@wtdore.bsky.social · 5d ago

uncle as 'first cousin once removed' is a good bit, since 'removed works both up and down the chain. I don't know any of my second cousins but my kids know theirs, because all us first cousins hang out.

With the war showing no end in sight, @taskandpurpose.com created a living timeline linking to our and others' coverage of major events, to better track how the war unfolded and continues to unfold.

Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · 6d ago

Tracking America’s latest conflict: The Iran war timeline trib.al/idrHYKR

For the machiavelli-curious I recommend Ada Palmer's @adapalmer.bsky.social series of blog posts: Machiavelli I – S.P.Q.F. (Begins Machiavelli Series) – Ex Urbe www.exurbe.com/machiavelli-...

Volt Beleriand@yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 6d ago

interesting how much midcentury liberals and socialists hated machiavelli

alright, be well, good luck out there.

destructive creation

traffic engineering and safety in the US is so twisted around, we're doing administrative controls for high energy potentially lethal incidents and engineering controls for privacy concerns.

"Today is the day I settle all family business." *buys replacement lids for the Pyrex set* *buys replacement tine clips for the dishwasher* *buys a years worth of HVAC filters*

'Twas brillig, and the slithey toves Did gyre and gimbal in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogoves And the mome raths outgrabe.

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · last wk.

You’re caught unawares and offered $1000 per correct word if you recite any existing piece of text you know - accumulating up to the point you make your first mistake. How much do you walk away with?

Everyone talking about sousveilance got me thinking about how I never paid enough attention to you, when we were together…should have seen the signs, should have done some youveilance

Bark@smorc.bsky.social · last wk.

Thought this was going to be one of those text to your ex memes from the start of the post

this all used to be single family homes, as far as you could see.