I saw a group of kids do this while on a recycling run, and had to stop them briefly to explain why it was a bad idea, literally setting fire to other peoples money. We all deserve to have as little trash end up in our landfills and the kids said they'd spread the word!
New Yorkers, don’t do this! The deposit redemption machines scan the barcode on the can. Which means crushed cans are worthless to the people who live on collecting cans. Just put your cans and bottles outside in a bag—someone will take them!
October 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I saw a group of kids do this while on a recycling run, and had to stop them briefly to explain why it was a bad idea, literally setting fire to other peoples money. We all deserve to have as little trash end up in our landfills and the kids said they'd spread the word!
I intend to blog about this experience soon. The journey has been too interesting not to share and led to the happiest days of my life so far, coming out of the grief of losing my brother last year and plunging into deep isolation. It has also driven me to finish many of my languishing art projects.
October 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I intend to blog about this experience soon. The journey has been too interesting not to share and led to the happiest days of my life so far, coming out of the grief of losing my brother last year and plunging into deep isolation. It has also driven me to finish many of my languishing art projects.
My fellow recyclers have been welcoming in the best possible ways, watching each other's property, passing down strollers, bags & carts when they upgrade and expertise into which techniques and methods are best. The free food and clothing I have come across and passed on to the homeless is amazing!
October 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
My fellow recyclers have been welcoming in the best possible ways, watching each other's property, passing down strollers, bags & carts when they upgrade and expertise into which techniques and methods are best. The free food and clothing I have come across and passed on to the homeless is amazing!
In the past 2 weeks I have embarked on a project to become the best Can Bottle & Glass recycler in Harlem using only found or donated equipment & encountered WILD success. My ADHD Hypomania has led me to v17 of my portable rigs, made me look & feel 10 years younger and nearly ended my introversion-
October 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
In the past 2 weeks I have embarked on a project to become the best Can Bottle & Glass recycler in Harlem using only found or donated equipment & encountered WILD success. My ADHD Hypomania has led me to v17 of my portable rigs, made me look & feel 10 years younger and nearly ended my introversion-
There is SO MUCH LOVE in what a Librarian (Mom), a Composer (Dad), and an Engineer (Brother) left behind for me via their lives' passions that it elicits tears of joy in this maelstrom we call life. To cut through I've become a beverage recycler in NYC and it is great exercise and levels up quickly!
September 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
There is SO MUCH LOVE in what a Librarian (Mom), a Composer (Dad), and an Engineer (Brother) left behind for me via their lives' passions that it elicits tears of joy in this maelstrom we call life. To cut through I've become a beverage recycler in NYC and it is great exercise and levels up quickly!
After years of delay I am spring cleaning my apartment containing 3 other formerly alive humans' belongings and a finishing a ton of art projects and it's like a mashup of Ali Spignola projects and an emotional ayuascha megadose fueled by my hypomania and ADHD.
September 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
After years of delay I am spring cleaning my apartment containing 3 other formerly alive humans' belongings and a finishing a ton of art projects and it's like a mashup of Ali Spignola projects and an emotional ayuascha megadose fueled by my hypomania and ADHD.
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I have to say I'm glad boba straws exist to counteract the enshitification of normal straws via paper. There are like 4 or 5 gauges of straws outside the norm and I'm unashamedly collecting them to the degree that I have a functional 80s telescoping antenna straw. (SFX: cackling laughter)
September 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I have to say I'm glad boba straws exist to counteract the enshitification of normal straws via paper. There are like 4 or 5 gauges of straws outside the norm and I'm unashamedly collecting them to the degree that I have a functional 80s telescoping antenna straw. (SFX: cackling laughter)
I have to say I'm glad boba straws exist to counteract the enshitification of normal straws via paper. There are like 4 or 5 gauges of straws outside the norm and I'm unashamedly collecting them to the degree that I have a functional 80s telescoping antenna straw. (SFX: cackling laughter)
September 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I have to say I'm glad boba straws exist to counteract the enshitification of normal straws via paper. There are like 4 or 5 gauges of straws outside the norm and I'm unashamedly collecting them to the degree that I have a functional 80s telescoping antenna straw. (SFX: cackling laughter)
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“Bluesky is bad because the people here can be annoying” boy do I have some terrible news for you about people generally
August 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
“Bluesky is bad because the people here can be annoying” boy do I have some terrible news for you about people generally
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"The Nuremberg Trials, held after World War II, established a fundamental principle of international law: "following orders" is not an acceptable defense for committing crimes against humanity or war crimes"..... Sorry ICE
August 16, 2025 at 5:48 AM
"The Nuremberg Trials, held after World War II, established a fundamental principle of international law: "following orders" is not an acceptable defense for committing crimes against humanity or war crimes"..... Sorry ICE
@99pi.org Amsterdam to install kitty steps in canals to save cats from drowning nltimes.nl/2025/07/22/a... #urbanism #architecture #design #accessability #cats
Amsterdam to install kitty steps in canals to save cats from drowning
Amsterdam will install special steps in its canals to prevent cats and other small critters from drowning because they can’t get out on their own. The Amsterdam city council adopted a proposal to this...
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August 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
@99pi.org Amsterdam to install kitty steps in canals to save cats from drowning nltimes.nl/2025/07/22/a... #urbanism #architecture #design #accessability #cats
Users of Facetune are so Faceist
August 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Users of Facetune are so Faceist
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A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
Some of the anti-AI stuff feels a bit like when people would say "don't use Wikipedia as a source." It's just like anything else, a piece of information that you weigh against multiple sources and your own understanding of its likely failure modes
April 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
Blogged about Continuum and made a map of everywhere I went batchout.blogspot.com/2009/03/bunc...
Twisty Passages, All Different
I never saw the manual for this game, it was installed in a Apple Compuer Lab long ago. So I googled it. (It's also known as Alpha Waves) I...
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August 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Blogged about Continuum and made a map of everywhere I went batchout.blogspot.com/2009/03/bunc...
Let's call this what it is: the Idealogical Pandemic. DJT made MPD a WMD
August 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Let's call this what it is: the Idealogical Pandemic. DJT made MPD a WMD
Zoomlympics with fact checkers like the Guinness book.
August 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Zoomlympics with fact checkers like the Guinness book.
Join ICE or go to Prison, either way it's costing the taxpayers $150k/year. Worst money ever spent. Give that budget to PBS and you get miraculous education. Give that money to Science and you cure diseases. Our budget is now steeped in hatred and racism begetting a pile of ruin.
August 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Join ICE or go to Prison, either way it's costing the taxpayers $150k/year. Worst money ever spent. Give that budget to PBS and you get miraculous education. Give that money to Science and you cure diseases. Our budget is now steeped in hatred and racism begetting a pile of ruin.
Oh you two are such a delight. Sound Man and Pod Woman - Cheers on more AMT as well!
August 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh you two are such a delight. Sound Man and Pod Woman - Cheers on more AMT as well!
I keep telling people you can't re-lie on Truth Social...
August 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I keep telling people you can't re-lie on Truth Social...
All it would take is Melania liking The Handmaid's Tale garb for hubby to mandate it via executive order. Or, as usual, he could just lie
August 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
All it would take is Melania liking The Handmaid's Tale garb for hubby to mandate it via executive order. Or, as usual, he could just lie
I am here for Timothy Olyphant becoming David Bowie with age
August 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I am here for Timothy Olyphant becoming David Bowie with age
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So now that we’ve officially entered the ICE AGE, one wonders, will the Cavemen who have been given masks and bulletproof vests with badges, and big guns, be willing to give all that up when the round up of ‘illegal aliens’ is done?
August 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
So now that we’ve officially entered the ICE AGE, one wonders, will the Cavemen who have been given masks and bulletproof vests with badges, and big guns, be willing to give all that up when the round up of ‘illegal aliens’ is done?