Limited Edition Ellie

My biggest expenditure of unfounded hope is thinking that Louisville could ever adopt a truly forward-thinking urbanist vision for itself

One of Old Louisville's biggest advantages as a neighborhood is it's housing density, but we have not built much in decades. If only there was some land nearby that has sat empty for years. It would be even better if some of these lots were owned by housing developers 🤔🤔🤔

it's so hard to believe that 20 years ago we were so close to light rail actually being a serious proposition.

maybe that $500k to kidpa will result in a report about the feasibility of a 35 mph train to Chicago by 2050.

i cannot emphasize enough that the level of analysis people bring to public discourse on “why are women universally worse at [some sport] than men” is on the exact same level as “womens heads are smaller so thats why they cant do math or think critically”

it’s so crazy seeing a succulent out in the wild that you also have at home. Like woahhhh buddy that’s what your life is supposed to be?? sorry my guy

I need to quit my job so I have time to learn theatrical lighting, stonemasonry, printmaking, welding, bushcraft, tattooing, forestry, gymnastics, filmmaking, pedal steel guitar, lost-wax casting, jazz drumming, weaving, graffiti, carpentry, snowboarding, blacksmithing, and navigation

"How do I square wanting copyright to have less power with not wanting massive economic distortion to destroy the entire creative industry" is an easier problem if you don't try to use copyright to solve the second part

The polarization thing is wild! My car has a big LCD display and it's deliberately polarized at an odd angle so sunglasses are minimally affected (unless you rotate your head 37.5 degrees I guess)

Seeking flimsy excuse to buy airbrush

Just saw a house nearby go on the market as a short sale, the spirit of 2008 is back baby

An N scale tram chassis on a small circle of track

Update

You can't litigate or thinkpiece your way into healthier sexual norms because any real solutions relies on giving new generations of young people a life outside of capitalism.

This pairs great with the announcement that any AI created by US companies is legally disallowed from recognizing the existence of trans folks.

this country hates children and sees them as retirement plans, little slaves, or tulpas for their parents’ pathetic status anxiety. FREE THEM ALL

every "nuanced view on trans issues" is just piece meal transphobia that elides with the next "nuanced view on trans issues" until we've been systematically deleted from participation in every area of public life. fuck you.

It's so dispiriting to see jobs feeds filled with Flock, Axon, Boeing, Lockheed, Defense AI Startup, Surveillance Startup, Etc, etc

extremely detailed pixel art of an amiga computer sitting on a column with water pouring out of the monitor and filling a reef filled with bright fish, a pink flamingo, orca whales, a distant mountain and a toucan on top of the monitor - all spilling out from the screen.

Please enjoy one of the sickest pieces of pixel art I've ever seen: "Amiga Lagoon" by Jim Sachs (~1993)

"Why are things like this?" because we got damn close to getting free from their systems, because many of their favorite people and political systems fell under the cries of the people, because the Black Revolution had the POTUS hiding under the white house while they attacked the gates

I'll grant that I had a poor graduate school experience from an "understanding academic research and the business model of universities" perspective, but the press release from the ACM makes it seem like they're going to keep on with some hybrid OA publications?

It's easy to be a hater in 2025 but it's frustrating when shit like this happens in a city that just cut funding to its already unacceptably-bad public transit. In a city with more homelessness per-capita than San Francisco in a state that has criminalized rough sleeping.

Why does every tourism board seem to think that chintzy overpriced improvements like this will make any impact. People choose to visit cities that people want to live in! Make cities more livable and more people will want to visit!

Dissolve the tourism board and reallocate all its funds to public transit

This is close to $1 million. Good thing every need in the city is already fully funded!

so my stock shift knob is coming apart and it turns out they used a pressed on, non-standard diameter knob, so the cheapest way to replace it might be to buy a short-throw kit 👀

Another time, it turns out the lab fridge wasn't on generator power and an overnight power outage caused vile things to happen to the expensive x-ray calibration mice stored within.

Chemicals stored in the break room fridge, a coworker who only ate Chickfila, God knows what cancer exposure risks...

Aside from the racism, sexism, homophobia, low pay, and bad management, this was the most entertaining job I ever had.

Once, I discovered the flammable chemicals storage had 3 inches of an unknown liquid in the bottom of it, for who knows how long.

Eventually, the plug just fell off, no air or water coming out. Okay, some sort of inner plug arrangement? He got down to look just in time to see the giant slug of rust-and-biofilm ooze its way through, and got a high pressure blast of fetid rust water, along with everything else in that closet.

Thinking about the time at an old job when we discovered the air compressor (big, 3-phase, used daily for shop air) hadn't been drained in 5+ years.

The shop manager emptied it to 40 psi and started pulling the drain plug, but it didn't start leaking, so he just kept going.

An old morse fotomatic sewing machine, in its late-50s styled glory

Looks like it's time to get this fella repaired

My nice juki can't punch through 4 layers of this awning canvas :(