Reposted by Lloyd Wood
Reposted by Lloyd Wood
Clever! (This Was Hollywood)
December 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Clever! (This Was Hollywood)
it's not a shoe event horizon.
it's a car wash event horizon.
it's a car wash event horizon.
Why are there FIVE car washes around me? Maybe because private equity loves them.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Why Are There Suddenly So Many Car Washes?
Fueled by private equity and a subscription-based business model, the auto wash industry is flooding the US with new outlets. Some towns and cities have had enough.
www.bloomberg.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
it's not a shoe event horizon.
it's a car wash event horizon.
it's a car wash event horizon.
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Reposted by Lloyd Wood
Apparently people are once again asking who's at fault here. We can improve road safety dramatically by revoking the driver's licence of everyone who thinks it's the cyclist's fault.
December 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Apparently people are once again asking who's at fault here. We can improve road safety dramatically by revoking the driver's licence of everyone who thinks it's the cyclist's fault.
Reposted by Lloyd Wood
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Has anyone compared Hot Frosty (Netfilx, 2024) with Mannequin (1987)?
there's a Snow and the City joke in here somewhere.
there's a Snow and the City joke in here somewhere.
November 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Has anyone compared Hot Frosty (Netfilx, 2024) with Mannequin (1987)?
there's a Snow and the City joke in here somewhere.
there's a Snow and the City joke in here somewhere.
Reposted by Lloyd Wood
Reposted by Lloyd Wood
I'm really digging Pluribus!
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I'm really digging Pluribus!
The Upton Sinclair quote, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it" seems apropos.
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
November 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The Upton Sinclair quote, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it" seems apropos.
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
@zeldman.bsky.social I'm opposed to this thesis, but I'm not going to sign up to medium to read it, much less debunk it point by point.
sometimes paywalls are a good thing.
stories.byburk.net/the-end-of-p...
sometimes paywalls are a good thing.
stories.byburk.net/the-end-of-p...
The End of Personal Websites
And why that might be a good thing
stories.byburk.net
November 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
@zeldman.bsky.social I'm opposed to this thesis, but I'm not going to sign up to medium to read it, much less debunk it point by point.
sometimes paywalls are a good thing.
stories.byburk.net/the-end-of-p...
sometimes paywalls are a good thing.
stories.byburk.net/the-end-of-p...
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its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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Remembering today #RicardoMontalbán born #OnThisDay in 1920, seen here as the villainous bullfighter Luis Montoya in the #Columbo episode "A MATTER OF HONOR" (1976) with co-stars Peter Falk, Pedro Armendáriz Jr. and Maria Grimm
dir. Ted Post
📺 Universal Television
dir. Ted Post
📺 Universal Television
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Remembering today #RicardoMontalbán born #OnThisDay in 1920, seen here as the villainous bullfighter Luis Montoya in the #Columbo episode "A MATTER OF HONOR" (1976) with co-stars Peter Falk, Pedro Armendáriz Jr. and Maria Grimm
dir. Ted Post
📺 Universal Television
dir. Ted Post
📺 Universal Television
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*wake up - play air drums*
youtu.be/IG_VDj8Eh_g
youtu.be/IG_VDj8Eh_g
Owner of a Lonely Heart
YouTube video by Yes - Topic
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
*wake up - play air drums*
youtu.be/IG_VDj8Eh_g
youtu.be/IG_VDj8Eh_g
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Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
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@mjhibbett.bsky.social hang onto those early Whizzers , Dandys etc.
A Depression-era comic costing 10 cents is $2.34 in today's money.
Superman edition found in mum's attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12m
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a new record after Man of Steel comic found in a California home is auctioned.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
@mjhibbett.bsky.social hang onto those early Whizzers , Dandys etc.
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TAX THE MOTHER FUCKING RICH
November 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
TAX THE MOTHER FUCKING RICH
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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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On 1 May 2026, we will abolish Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions when we switch on the new private rented sector tenancy system.
More details in our roadmap for implementing the Renters’ Rights Act published today 👇🏻
www.gov.uk/government/p...
More details in our roadmap for implementing the Renters’ Rights Act published today 👇🏻
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Implementing the Renters' Rights Act 2025: Our roadmap for reforming the Private Rented Sector
www.gov.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:22 AM
On 1 May 2026, we will abolish Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions when we switch on the new private rented sector tenancy system.
More details in our roadmap for implementing the Renters’ Rights Act published today 👇🏻
www.gov.uk/government/p...
More details in our roadmap for implementing the Renters’ Rights Act published today 👇🏻
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
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A man I love in a time travel film where he saves the future from evil Al?
Hell yes.
youtu.be/CaSxNAZUKsM?...
Hell yes.
youtu.be/CaSxNAZUKsM?...
GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE | Teaser Trailer | February 13 - Only in Theaters
YouTube video by Briarcliff Entertainment
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A man I love in a time travel film where he saves the future from evil Al?
Hell yes.
youtu.be/CaSxNAZUKsM?...
Hell yes.
youtu.be/CaSxNAZUKsM?...
@gruber.foo you do need to look at replacing dead links in your archive with links to archived wayback machine content. jwz automated that for his blog.
www.jwz.org/hacks/waybac...
www.jwz.org/hacks/waybac...
www.jwz.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
@gruber.foo you do need to look at replacing dead links in your archive with links to archived wayback machine content. jwz automated that for his blog.
www.jwz.org/hacks/waybac...
www.jwz.org/hacks/waybac...