Ian McLeod

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

I have a plea for you. I need an automotive engineer familiar with programming of the safety systems in a crash.

This is both an engineering passion of mine, and deeply personal. Hell, I will pay them an hourly rate.

Story I've tried for years. It feels like I've hit a wall on millisecond logic.

It's time once again.

I recall.

With the latest news of SNAP benefits being withheld, now is a better time than any to not only donate to food pantries but for you to also become knowledgeable in how to budget for food, cook that food, and not waste anything coming in and out of your own house! Pick up the Poorcraft Cookbook for 30% off for National Food Day! And again please donate to your local food pantries!

Rather than starting right away, Penny produces a chart of different places to pick up food and where to get it cheapest. "Do we have to do all this first? I thought we were cooking..." "Smart cooking starts in the store! It's worth it trust me." "Aright alright, let me get my shoes on."

PRODUCE! says the sign, and there's a lot of it! "Not all outlets have produce, so keep an eye out! Usually their produce is overstock, damaged, or other excess from farms that larger stores wouldn't buy. Investigate your produce like you would any other store! How does it look? Is it unmarked? Bruised? Firm? Mushy? If its soft is it something you can use today or tomorrow? Give it a sniff!" She offers it to her companion who just goes 'Uhhh' as she leans in a little.

Especially these days, it's important to know how to get yourself fed for your $'s worth 💸

The Poorcraft Cookbook and Meal are both 30% off for NATIONAL FOOD DAY! (That's like $8 for the PCC PDF!) 🍴
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(Donate to your food bank!)

this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!

I've been getting this question a lot lately. Click through to find out.

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

A teeny sweet baby possum that is slightly bigger than a mouse that ran up to me and wanted to be held before I found his mama and her pouch before the feral cats found it.

Talking with a friend about country living, but not sure if I ever shared this one here. Several years ago, heard a hoarse weird sound in the yard and got to it before the feral cats could make a meal.

For service to the English language and positive cultural exchange...

Repost this genius, post-haste.

"I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne: 'Let my armies be the frogs in the suits, and the nudes on the bikes.'"

Absolutely gorgeous morning in Chicago.

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

cc: @rprc.bsky.social

Almost-full Moon, tinged orange, against a black sky

Another shot of the Moon

Last night's Moon over Chicago, shortly after it rose.

I'm encouraged to see the duffel bag. About how much would you say it weighs, and how are you finding having that additional weight on a relatively light (or at least, not explicitly cargo-oriented) bike?

Yes. Yes I would.

Flat, graphic poster of a Whooping Crane standing in the negative space of many Sandhill Cranes. The poster reads "The Great Midwest Crane Fest - Nov. 15-16, 2025 Baraboo, Wisconsin.

Poster I made for the Great Midwest Crane Fest!

Get a heat pump, get a job installing insulation or selling EVs, go to local council meetings in support of bike lanes or solar parks or dense housing near public transport. Run for political office, or at least vote. Recommend flight-free holiday destinations to others. (Delete as applicable).

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Share your favorite black and white movie

How about "Camel humps compliment the duck curve"?

Imagine being so fit you can do this at the end of 26.2 miles.

Yes

Heh. I mean, it was genuinely helpful on-the-ground information, the kind of thing that was the better side of some.... earlier iterations of social media platforms similar to this one. I've gathered that individual amplification and re-posting is vital for that kind of thing here.

Sorry to hear that. FWIW, your now-muted post nudged me to schedule flu/COVID for me and the missus. Thank you.

I’m sure this is because I’m not well read enough, but I continue to wonder if any futurists more correctly predicted that computing power was dangerous not because it would become an uncontrollable superintelligence but because zero cost rapid bullshit generation is destabilizing to society.

Delightful. I can convince myself that it briefly hesitates after seeing that there is a mooring line it its way, then "whoops" because it has to jump a little further/harder.

Delightful. I can convince myself that it briefly hesitates after seeing that there is a mooring line it its way, then "whoops" because it has to jump a little further/harder.