John Yuda 🥄
@yuda.org
“There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter.” - Ulysses S. Grant Husband, dad, dog walker, cyclist, outdoors enthusiast, occasional reluctant driver, Alexandrian, federal employee. 5 USC § 3331
I have acquired my first nakiri. Feels like this is going to be a gateway knife. (I've had a santoku for years but this feels like another level entirely)
As I watch some jackass in a Mercedes pass on a residential street for the umpteenth time I increasingly think all double yellow lane dividers should be raised as well. I suppose we can make them mountable for emergency responders.
And people thought he wanted to win another championship
Shams Charania Tweets@shamsbot.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING: LeBron James is signing with the Philadelphia 76ers on a two-year, $8 million deal with a player option, Klutch Sports Group and Klutch CEO and Game Over show host Rich Paul tells ESPN.
The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.
People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.
Blowing Older Child’s mind with the fact that the Rolling Stones are still a going concern.
Mexico shocked at the goal by Argentina as they just now learn you can do something besides cross the ball in against England
once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
Reuters@reuters.com · 3w agoSecurity camera footage obtained from local businesses showed individuals who are believed to be U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surrounding a car and pulling the driver onto the street, in events connected to the fatal shooting of a man in a coastal town in Maine on July 13.
If your tomato plants are producing or you pick some up from a friend or farmers market, do yourself a favor and slice them up with some burrata, fresh bread or toasted flatbread, and a touch of herbs and/or dressing. It’s a perfect summer meal.
Elizabeth@elizqueenmama.bsky.social · 3w agoLunch.
8/ Sure, some of us will still need a car sometimes. But for most people, for most trips? If we stop making it hostile to not drive, I think we'd find most people would quickly discover that driving frankly sucks.
You know what. Don’t be so terrible people are happy you’re dead.
I’d just like to explicitly call out here that you can have a letter taken door to door over literally thousands of miles for less than a dollar. USPS is amazing.
Mindy Moretti@mindymoretti.bsky.social · 4w agoThe price of forever stamps goes up to .82 tomorrow! Get your holiday stamps today!
Younger Child is borrowing my Kobo and has chosen to read Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. You love to see it. Gotta radicalize ’em young.
List of nocturnal campsite visitors in approximate order of size: 1. Mouse 2. Feral cat 3. Striped skunk 4. Fisher 5. White-tailed deer 6. American black bear Really hoping for a bobcat tonight. Will make it feel like a complete set.
Current status: trying to convince 26 of my favorite 11 through 15 year olds that the black bear that just wandered through our campsite is not something that needs to keep them up all night.
Mission accomplished. And it wasn’t even about the rain! It was about helping out with the work instead of letting your troop mates do it.
John Yuda 🥄@yuda.org · 4w agoI won’t consider this week complete until I have a chance to tell a scout that he’s “building character”. It’s coming. I can feel it.
I won’t consider this week complete until I have a chance to tell a scout that he’s “building character”. It’s coming. I can feel it.
Laying in a hammock reading the Pope’s encyclical on AI. As one does.
On my way to summer camp with 26 of my favorite 11 through 15 year olds.
I don’t believe in an interventionist god but if I did, man, it would be hard not to take 105F on July 4 as a warning.