N8 þə Gr8

Our friend was leaving the area and looking for someone to take his EV off his hands, and the home we’d recently moved into had standard 50amp 350volt utility outlets (level 2) in the garage. It has been far more than enough for us. Even in a pinch.

Headshot of a red fox in a dark wooden frame

A close-up of the fox’s cheek revealing that it’s composed of individual shards of glass applied to the canvas

There were so many beautiful things on display. This one really caught me.

An arrangement of blue striped glass fruit sitting on a blotchy off-white table constructed from pallet wood

A closer shot of the grapes and melons where fine details of twisted glass cane can be seen within the wider stripes

“Banana for scale”, but it’s my relatively large hand dwarfed by the three bananas, each about 3 1/4 times the length of my hand

Hit up our local glass working shop for a gallery show tonight. This stuff brings me such joy.

I’ve usually had NPR on the radio by default, and that has led to so many complicated discussions with my elementary school boys. Fortunately for me, the 10 year old is way into history, so he’s already got a decent frame for understanding these things

May you ride eternal, shiny and chrome

The GOAT >>>> GOT. Also works

Pointing at mirror me with an absolute shit-job putting Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s The Proples’ Eyebrow in the mirror

I apologize for this low quality

Is he attempting “The Peoples’ Eyebrow” here?

Oh, that’s just Projectile McProjectileface.

I honestly think the best thing you can do is find an activity/sport you really enjoy and people you like sharing it with. It ticks so many boxes at once.

After the Maduro capture it occurred to me. Because Trump lacks the ability to differentiate himself from the presidency and the country itself, he can’t differentiate between other countries and their leaders. So he thinks capturing the king is the win condition like chess. He might do it more.

Typical Bluesky user. He turns 36 this year.

WTF is a “d95w19p9”?

I’m… going to use this all the time

There’s memes as old as dirt about old men haphazardly spending young service members’ and innocent civilians’ lives for their delusions of grandeur. Even ones about it being meaningless waste. But until now I couldn’t internalize just how dumb it could be

Staffer IT desperately trying to delete history on every prompt that immediately listed this outcome

It’s a fold laundry while watching annual security training videos kind of morning

They don’t seem to see “lethality” as a tool that achieves some strategic ends, that for these guys, mass killings is the ends unto itself. A terrifying mindset to have controlling the most powerful military in history.

Because you can’t lay out your red lines and cards on the table before you go into a negotiation. That’s one part of why Trump gets rolled so hard every time. He actually has no concept of negotiating a deal, despite the book title.

My colloquial Joe understanding is that congress has been ceding this power piece by piece ever since we got a standing army

I was feeling pretty good about sleeping in today, then I read this

My 8 year old named his bird companion “Geoffrey” and that was already perfect before everything else in the game was also perfect.

I knew exactly when this spike happened only because 2 or 3 parents would ask me about the cargo bike at every drop-off/pick-up, as opposed to the usual 1 or 2 a week. Median voter believes the president has a "gas price" dial they can turn. Darkly funny the current administration slammed "go up"

Someone could write a dissertation on the usage of "NPC" here, and a follow-up on "leftist".

One of the harder parts of parenting, both for teaching the kids and for structuring your own behavior. "Punish bad thing" seems to be so hard-wired that it takes actual brain power to overcome it and consider efficacy, let alone morality.

Seconded Hell Yeah 💪

It's a popular take in rural America that continually votes to have their hospital shut down! So we have a real counter-example to punishing rural America changing votes. It sucks that there isn't a "push button to win" available to, you know, good things.

Because at some point a guy like me who had the pieces but wasn't able to put them together yet heard it from someone like you and things started to *click*. Then suddenly, good things can become popular.

There’s nothing I enjoy more that a stochastic process modifying the basic schema of my production database