Chris Spooky

A clinic bed labeled “Ritter by Midmark”

Ride now, Rohirrim! Home to the Riddermark!

I’m reminded of that ancient tweet, to the effect of: border enforcement is republicans’ climate policy.

Looking out a third story window to see many solar panels on a flat roof.

Got to see the (instructional portion) of the solar farm at Madison College. Really cool!

Get rid of DST (or use it all the time, I don’t care. Pick one). And while we’re at it, eliminate time zones.

Photos comparing 6:30am in Boston on October 26 per Daylight Saving Time (pitch black) versus Standard Time (bright sky).

DST is why most Americans wake by alarm in darkness. Permanent Standard Time would let us sleep longer and awaken naturally to sunlight, for health!

having one of those late mornings where i feel like the worst person alive again which i know is my brain lying to me but i don't know how to fix

Getting so many more slop trifecta ads on YouTube: AI, gambling, and cryptocurrency. Often all in one!

I ducked into a park by the lake today, hoping to take a few pictures of fall colors. There was a guy there with an easel oil painting. Yes. More of this y’all.

I’ve been using the Kinesis Freestyle that @sammy-sardines.bsky.social has & I really like it. It’s also an ergo split keyboard with a cable connecting the two sides.

Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?

PANEL 1: A GREEN GUY is trapped under a big rock. A BLUE GUY is walking by. GREEN: Hey, a little help? BLUE: Crushed under the big rock, are we? PANEL 2: The BLUE GUY, bending down. BLUE GUY: And you're SURPRISED? GREEN: Not particularly, no! I'm just kind of in horrible pain– PANEL 3: The BLUE GUY, standing up and gesticulating. BLUE: I KNEW that people can be crushed by rocks. For YEARS actually. GREEN: What do you want, a medal? PANEL 4: The BLUE GUY is nailed by a big rock. BLUE: Yeah, that'd be a good start–hrk!

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A light-tight canister sitting in a stainless steel sink holding a roll of film. Behind it are three measuring cylinders of developer, stop bath, and fixer.

I love the “doing stuff” parts of photography. This is a roll from the No Kings rally yesterday. #FilmPhotography

How Scientists Turned Water Into Ice at Room Temperature “Ice XXI” is an entirely new phase of ice with a crystal structure that’s more complex than the ice found on Titan or Ganymede.

What an interesting article. Now I’ll just take a comically large drink of coffee and start this book I’ve been meaning to read, Kurt Vonnegut’s classic 1963 novel “Cat’s Cradle.”

Well, the giant feather quill would be too distracting.

A lot of the features of “Frankenstein” story in the public imagination are really closer to “Herbert West–Reanimator.”

These Brewers have the Mandate of Heaven

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

lt commander data with bangs

I saw this on bsky dot com

A Pentax 17 film camera sitting on a table.

Probably just going to snap some doggo pictures. I’ve got FPP Jiangshi 400 loaded up. #HalfFrameFriday

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

Lends further credence to my crank theory of “the long 90s” The 90s started in 1989 and lasted into the early 2003s-ish

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in… Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.

2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.

3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

Facebook marketplace: “Stunning Rare Painting of Mona Lisa” $800. It’s a replica(?) of the Mona Lisa in a gilded frame

pretty good deal

Kodak Is Selling Its Own Film Again for the First Time in a Decade Kodak announced two new types of film that it will sell directly to photography stores, sidestepping a bizarre distribution agreement that has been in place since its bankruptcy.

Kodak is officially selling their own film again for the first time in many years and will be selling directly to photography stores now.

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"These cars don't have a driver, so they don't have a driver's license and so we're really going to have to rethink who's the responsible party, who's going to be responsible for being in control and who's going to be the operator of that vehicle"

I AM GOING TO BECOME THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD

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quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric