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There are 100% Heelys in adult sizes. I booked that a pair as a gift for a girlfriend who’d always regretted missing the trend

One of my fondest family cargo biking memories was taking my boys to the park. A mom there approached me and asked if there were models that would work for her son’s wheelchair. We spent the next hour together browsing dozens and dozens of adaptive bike designs.

RIP to oligarchs killed by the autocrat for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the previous oligarchs.

What if it happened today? I know a lot of couples who already put an extra bottle of champagne in the fridge for tonight.

And the very first immigration laws were actually to protect immigrants from grifters taking advantage of people first coming to the country. All that reversed with the Chinese Exclusion Act.

We just moved from CA to Pittsburgh, and boy is there a lot of little witchy things to figure out.

Can I consistently take free money with the "over" on the Jesus bet?

The "thin blue line" is just a piano wire strangling whole communities

My “ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency” t-shirt is raising a lot of questions that are already answered by the t-shirt.

Dismantle DHS.

Abolish ICE.

#WideAwake

My “We’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process” t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt

My "ICE is a legitimate law enforcement agency" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

It took me a moment. But I got it

I think a lot of corporate strategies, especially with new tech, are often implemented before rigorous study can be done to confirm results.

I took a hyphenated name when I was married. And I have three close male friends who legally changed their last names after becoming estranged from their fathers. This is additionally an attack on anyone who’s taken control of their own name and ties them to patriarchal hereditary identity alone.

And we've built enormous institutions to illicit similar effects in people, and are at a dawning moment of that feedback loop becoming incredibly fast.

Sad I can't find it right now. But I recall an experiment of baby birds visual recognition of their mother's face and beak for feeding. And it was discovered that something like black chopstick crossed in front of a white piece of paper was far more optimized than mom to trigger that instinct. /

a user's ability to mentally place what exactly it is they are doing / exploring?

than the complex manifolds contained in the models. The math of how we move from discrete objects like the former, to the somewhat continuous structures the later represent, but I wonder if we haven't lost something there. Is it my imagination, or is wandering the continuous space messing with /

Maybe this is an incredibly naive sort of question. But I was somewhat enamored with the attempts to model information in graphs, and I also have a fair amount of database experience. I I tend to see people interacting with LLMs like they are one of these stable stores of information, rather /

Every day we're getting new evidence that sortition might be the best democratic institution

Post a tree(s) you photographed

Preheat your eggs to 425

Maybe it's hard to maintain focus on something outrageous when there's a shiny new outrage demanding attention 2-5 times a week. We're all under the fire hose all the time

So the Earth is ~10% moon?

A bundled up selfie down by the bike in the snow

My motor is dead after nearly 4,000 miles. Now I have to figure out a replacement and installation. Gonna be a rough week or two.

I fully believe that every single one of these "important people" is entirely replaceable. The rich & powerful all think they are sui generis main characters, but you could replace them all tomorrow and it wouldn't matter a wink.

There's an alternate reality where
telegraph => phone => internet (+ email)
were seen as part of the US Post Office's constitutional mandate to maintain postal routes.

What's the current "lying under oath" count looking like here?

For reals people. We give away our environment to the very richest, as a treat

Carbon Tax and universal dividend. It’s everybody’s atmosphere, pay them for it!