Greggles
@grolby.standarddouble.com
Virtue signaler. Man who stares at cats. Occasional rider of bicycles. Pro scientist. Mostly rated correctly. Views represent no one except my own foolish self.
Maybe it’s just a short person thing but I just spent a solid 2 hours re-cabling an old CAAD10 to sell it because routing cables at the front is such a bear. Sorry not sorry but I don’t miss cables at all.
November 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Maybe it’s just a short person thing but I just spent a solid 2 hours re-cabling an old CAAD10 to sell it because routing cables at the front is such a bear. Sorry not sorry but I don’t miss cables at all.
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Haro CX
Redline Conquest
Salsa Chile con Crosso
Ridley X-Fire
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Ritchey Swiss Cross (canti)
Ridley Crossfire
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Ritchey Swiss Cross (V2 disc)
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Regarding the latter, one could argue there is a level of seniority below which it is not reasonable to expect service members to exercise their own judgement about that.
But the former—*everyone* knows that kind of order is illegal and must be refused. This is basic-training-level stuff.
But the former—*everyone* knows that kind of order is illegal and must be refused. This is basic-training-level stuff.
Refusing to follow a “kill the survivors of the previous strike who are clearly hors de combat” order SHOULD BE significantly more clear-cut than refusing one due to “this entire operation is unlawful because citing inherent Article II authority is insufficient.”
There must be accountability.
There must be accountability.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Regarding the latter, one could argue there is a level of seniority below which it is not reasonable to expect service members to exercise their own judgement about that.
But the former—*everyone* knows that kind of order is illegal and must be refused. This is basic-training-level stuff.
But the former—*everyone* knows that kind of order is illegal and must be refused. This is basic-training-level stuff.
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Hegseth is a cold-blooded murderer. There's no way to dress it up. He's a criminal. And his was precisely the kind of illegal order that those Dem members of Congress urged the military not to follow. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Hegseth is a cold-blooded murderer. There's no way to dress it up. He's a criminal. And his was precisely the kind of illegal order that those Dem members of Congress urged the military not to follow. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
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Dang. I posted this last night and should have waited a day.
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Dang. I posted this last night and should have waited a day.
Man I really hope Ayanna Pressley sees this as the blazing bat signal that it is. And Markey, too.
UNH poll | 11/13-11/17 LV
Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary
Ed Markey 34% (incumbent)
Seth Moulton 25%
Alex Rikleen 2%
Write in someone else 3%
Don’t know/undecided 35%
scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcont...
Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary
Ed Markey 34% (incumbent)
Seth Moulton 25%
Alex Rikleen 2%
Write in someone else 3%
Don’t know/undecided 35%
scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcont...
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Man I really hope Ayanna Pressley sees this as the blazing bat signal that it is. And Markey, too.
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this is an electorate practically crying out for Ayanna Pressley lol
UNH poll | 11/13-11/17 LV
Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary
Ed Markey 34% (incumbent)
Seth Moulton 25%
Alex Rikleen 2%
Write in someone else 3%
Don’t know/undecided 35%
scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcont...
Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary
Ed Markey 34% (incumbent)
Seth Moulton 25%
Alex Rikleen 2%
Write in someone else 3%
Don’t know/undecided 35%
scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcont...
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
this is an electorate practically crying out for Ayanna Pressley lol
AAAAAHHHHHHHHH
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
AAAAAHHHHHHHHH
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Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
No regrets whatsoever about kicking these tyrants to the curb in 1776.
November 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
No regrets whatsoever about kicking these tyrants to the curb in 1776.
Should it make me nervous that today we have Dems saying to mil/intel personnel, “remember, it’s your duty to not follow illegal orders,” and Republicans on TV saying, “nah, definitely you should follow the illegal orders”? Like, any reason people are talking about this? It’s not a great vibe tbh.
Fox News's Martha MacCallum makes a case for following illegal orders: "If you are in the US military, you sign up, you carry out the mission that is assigned to you. The other option is to not join the military or to leave if you feel you can't carry out an order. But the command is integral."
November 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Should it make me nervous that today we have Dems saying to mil/intel personnel, “remember, it’s your duty to not follow illegal orders,” and Republicans on TV saying, “nah, definitely you should follow the illegal orders”? Like, any reason people are talking about this? It’s not a great vibe tbh.
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Suburbanization was absolutely inevitable in the post-war period, but the fact that it took the form of automotive suburbs rather than streetcar and rail suburbs in most of the country is a legacy of planning, and denser rail suburbs are often the most sought-after neighborhoods.
November 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Suburbanization was absolutely inevitable in the post-war period, but the fact that it took the form of automotive suburbs rather than streetcar and rail suburbs in most of the country is a legacy of planning, and denser rail suburbs are often the most sought-after neighborhoods.
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I mean it's not this simple but a handful of policy elites really did drastically reengineer our urban fabric in ways that were popular in the immediate term and created massive social dysfunction beyond that.
Because a lot of leftists/progressives have pseudo conspiratorial models of reality where they think the only reason Americans live in suburbs is bc GM tore up the streetcar lines in LA etc.
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I mean it's not this simple but a handful of policy elites really did drastically reengineer our urban fabric in ways that were popular in the immediate term and created massive social dysfunction beyond that.
I really fuckin hate the way the news reports these crooks saying “oh we’re looking for a way to bypass Congress,” as if there might be some clever legal maneuvering that allows this. But it’s just a straightforward overthrow of Constitutional government!
If the President can impose his own taxes and use the proceeds to spend on his own projects, all without Congress, we have a dictatorship not a constitutional republic.
BREAKING: Deputy White House Chief of Staff James Blair said the administration is eyeing ways to give millions of Americans $2,000 dividend checks from tariff revenue without congressional approval, per Bloomberg.
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I really fuckin hate the way the news reports these crooks saying “oh we’re looking for a way to bypass Congress,” as if there might be some clever legal maneuvering that allows this. But it’s just a straightforward overthrow of Constitutional government!
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If the President can impose his own taxes and use the proceeds to spend on his own projects, all without Congress, we have a dictatorship not a constitutional republic.
BREAKING: Deputy White House Chief of Staff James Blair said the administration is eyeing ways to give millions of Americans $2,000 dividend checks from tariff revenue without congressional approval, per Bloomberg.
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
If the President can impose his own taxes and use the proceeds to spend on his own projects, all without Congress, we have a dictatorship not a constitutional republic.
This is the kind of super dangerous, blatantly illegal regime consolidation move you should actually worry about, fortunately they’ve probably already pissed everyone off too much for it to actually work. But yeah musing about buying off the public with the public’s money. Bad!
BREAKING: Deputy White House Chief of Staff James Blair said the administration is eyeing ways to give millions of Americans $2,000 dividend checks from tariff revenue without congressional approval, per Bloomberg.
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 AM
This is the kind of super dangerous, blatantly illegal regime consolidation move you should actually worry about, fortunately they’ve probably already pissed everyone off too much for it to actually work. But yeah musing about buying off the public with the public’s money. Bad!
One note in this essay that I like a lot is that sex is evolutionarily very plastic. Species are constantly evolving different ways of doing it, or evolving away from doing it altogether. Sex and not-sex are in constant tension because sex is essential but also very expensive.
Good read. Back when I was a PhD student in evolutionary biology, evolution of sex was actually my focus. I do remember this “large gametes = female,” idea, but even if it were true it would be its strongest just a convention of terminology. Gametes don’t command us to order society a certain way.
I have a new essay coming out next week so stay tuned! since one of the ppl I critique in it is a hardcore "gamete truther", I figured I'd re-up this – discusses both the actual biology & the bonkers anti-trans talking point that's grown out of it (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...
November 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
One note in this essay that I like a lot is that sex is evolutionarily very plastic. Species are constantly evolving different ways of doing it, or evolving away from doing it altogether. Sex and not-sex are in constant tension because sex is essential but also very expensive.
Good read. Back when I was a PhD student in evolutionary biology, evolution of sex was actually my focus. I do remember this “large gametes = female,” idea, but even if it were true it would be its strongest just a convention of terminology. Gametes don’t command us to order society a certain way.
I have a new essay coming out next week so stay tuned! since one of the ppl I critique in it is a hardcore "gamete truther", I figured I'd re-up this – discusses both the actual biology & the bonkers anti-trans talking point that's grown out of it (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...
Why Are “Gender Critical” Activists So Fond of Gametes?
plus my new video “Trans People and Biological Sex: What the Science Says”
juliaserano.medium.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Good read. Back when I was a PhD student in evolutionary biology, evolution of sex was actually my focus. I do remember this “large gametes = female,” idea, but even if it were true it would be its strongest just a convention of terminology. Gametes don’t command us to order society a certain way.
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This is great but I would add a big reason GCs are stuck on gametes is they spent ages hopping from trait to trait ("it's genitals! No? Okay, XX/XY!! No? Okay it's...") and gametes are the square they were on when they found themselves at the end of the board without further spaces to retreat to.
I have a new essay coming out next week so stay tuned! since one of the ppl I critique in it is a hardcore "gamete truther", I figured I'd re-up this – discusses both the actual biology & the bonkers anti-trans talking point that's grown out of it (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...
Why Are “Gender Critical” Activists So Fond of Gametes?
plus my new video “Trans People and Biological Sex: What the Science Says”
juliaserano.medium.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This is great but I would add a big reason GCs are stuck on gametes is they spent ages hopping from trait to trait ("it's genitals! No? Okay, XX/XY!! No? Okay it's...") and gametes are the square they were on when they found themselves at the end of the board without further spaces to retreat to.
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While camera-based speed and red light enforcement are great and speed governors will help stop the worst repeat offenders, what we really need is for the police to actually enforce basic traffic laws like “you have to actually stop at stop signs and red lights” and “your car needs license plates.”
so uhhhhh is anyone going to do anything about the epidemic of drivers just blasting through red lights these days? @timdonnelly.com investigates: nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
Society broke down and all, but you really still need to stop at red lights
I can't believe we need to explain this one, but it seems that we really do
nygroove.nyc
November 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
While camera-based speed and red light enforcement are great and speed governors will help stop the worst repeat offenders, what we really need is for the police to actually enforce basic traffic laws like “you have to actually stop at stop signs and red lights” and “your car needs license plates.”
What gets my goat is, any time there’s an engagement-bait Insta post of a conflict between a driver and a cyclist, you get a flood of troglodytes yelling that the cyclist deserved it “because they always run reds/don’t obey the laws,” like WHAT?? LOOK AROUND. ARE DRIVERS OBEYING LAWS? (NO).
It just needs to be way easier to lose your license and your car for reckless driving, because a few months of major societal disruption 5 years ago taught people that driving in such a way that kills others or themselves is nbd
so uhhhhh is anyone going to do anything about the epidemic of drivers just blasting through red lights these days? @timdonnelly.com investigates: nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What gets my goat is, any time there’s an engagement-bait Insta post of a conflict between a driver and a cyclist, you get a flood of troglodytes yelling that the cyclist deserved it “because they always run reds/don’t obey the laws,” like WHAT?? LOOK AROUND. ARE DRIVERS OBEYING LAWS? (NO).
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It just needs to be way easier to lose your license and your car for reckless driving, because a few months of major societal disruption 5 years ago taught people that driving in such a way that kills others or themselves is nbd
so uhhhhh is anyone going to do anything about the epidemic of drivers just blasting through red lights these days? @timdonnelly.com investigates: nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
Society broke down and all, but you really still need to stop at red lights
I can't believe we need to explain this one, but it seems that we really do
nygroove.nyc
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It just needs to be way easier to lose your license and your car for reckless driving, because a few months of major societal disruption 5 years ago taught people that driving in such a way that kills others or themselves is nbd
I’ve learned a little bit of baby-talk SQL that I can use in a rubber-room environment and I’m remembering why coders are like “I COULD CODE SOMETHING TO MAKE [X] MORE EFFICIENT” and then waste hours trying to code to make [X] more efficient rather than just doing [X].
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I’ve learned a little bit of baby-talk SQL that I can use in a rubber-room environment and I’m remembering why coders are like “I COULD CODE SOMETHING TO MAKE [X] MORE EFFICIENT” and then waste hours trying to code to make [X] more efficient rather than just doing [X].