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stoey @stoey.bsky.social · Dec 28

This great thread about the second worst inappropriate fluid discharge to occur at the Kinzie Street bridge in Chicago.

The worst? That one occurred 12 years earlier but rather than a moment of bad judgement by one person this one needed almost a century of weird city history for it to happen. 1/🧵

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · Aug 8

You see, Chicago is not overly blessed with places to empty a rock and roll tour bus' septic tank.

It does, however, have a surplus of bridges. And our man on the scene, Stefan Wohl, quickly spotted a solution.

The Kinzie Street Bridge.

The Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago. It's a Bascule bridge that can lift for river traffic

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stoey @stoey.bsky.social · 1d

US-East-1 really does provide a unique service that is unavailable literally anywhere else.

stoey @stoey.bsky.social · 1d

I inherited an infrastructure entirely based in US-East-1 at a relatively small startup.

The one advantage US-East-1 has over every other cloud providers' region is that when it goes down your customers don't blame you.

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stoey @stoey.bsky.social · 3d

Put Bernt back in a Fiat Tempra to give the marshals more time.

A Fiat Tempra safety car leads a wet race in the 90s.

stoey @stoey.bsky.social · 4d

Multiviewer has been a band-aid fix for some of the not so great broadcast choices recently.

If US F1TV subs go away with this deal and take away that option then I expect watching races will be a worse experience for me (but I know I'm a tiny minority on this)

stoey @stoey.bsky.social · 5d

I seem to remember that hazelnuts are actually nuts and pretty much nothing else is.

stoey @stoey.bsky.social · 13d

Wear a second uninflated suit?

I just don't think anyone is coming back from the visual of an inflatable frog being shredded only for it to slowly reappear completely unscathed.

stoey @stoey.bsky.social · 14d

That look a lot like the plotter I modded to manufacture PCBs back in school.

OHP markers were pretty effective (and cheap) etch-resist pens that could be crammed into the body of a dead pen.

There was juuuuust enough clearance to squeeze a board under the arm.

stoey @stoey.bsky.social · 15d

If you want a video interviewing the guy that invented an entirely new suspension component type this was a really good watch.

Applying electrical circuit theory to suspension components blew my mind a little bit.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FhmL...

The Genius Device That Rocked F1 | An Interview With Its Inventor

YouTube video by Prof. Giordano Scarciotti

m.youtube.com

stoey @stoey.bsky.social · 15d

Rats in (Tim Curry voice) SPAAAAaaaaaaaAACE!

stoey @stoey.bsky.social · 22d

That does sound like it fairly accurately captures the experience of visiting the US for the first time.

stoey @stoey.bsky.social · 23d

The finger on the monkeys paw snaps down as Tim Cook suddenly figures out what to do with that giant pile of surplus butterfly switches they have lying around.

stoey @stoey.bsky.social · 25d

Just because the song has been randomly popping into my head for weeks now I'm wondering what the titular Charlie Big Potato actually looks like.

stoey @stoey.bsky.social · Sep 21

Most teams would ask for the swap before the last corner on the final lap but that's just not the Ferrari way.

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stoey @stoey.bsky.social · Sep 19

Sure so most *ships* people call dazzle aren't technically painted in dazzle but can we get a verdict on this cow?

Spoon & Tamago @spoon-tamago.bsky.social · Sep 19

Japan once again wins the IG Nobel Prize, this year for research showing that painting a cow to look like a zebra decreases bug bites by close to 50%

www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic...

stoey @stoey.bsky.social · Sep 16

It's not just les Québécois. There's a long tradition of L'Académie Française desperately fighting to keep English out of the French language.

stoey @stoey.bsky.social · Jul 22

My favorite French word is "cédérom".

Since "CD-ROM" had already become the standard term in France they created that word to try and fight back against the encroachment of English on their language by pretending everyone had actually been speaking French all along.

stoey @stoey.bsky.social · Sep 13

In case you aren't familiar with The Sun (the best selling UK newspaper at the time), until 2015 they had a photo of topless woman on page 3.

At one point during the 90s they had a week long countdown for a new model becoming old enough for them to legally print photos of her topless.

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stoey @stoey.bsky.social · Sep 12

If they need a name, may I suggest Croc Martens?

stoey @stoey.bsky.social · Sep 7

Wait, the context for this was Wordle? That's even more confusing.

It looks like a live action remake of Inside Out — five people behind a big desk each bringing a completely different emotion.

stoey @stoey.bsky.social · Sep 7

I used a similar cave and erm, did you mark *all* the entrances?

<exploring a new bit of the map> Oh look a nice cave to explore… hmm it's a bit clicky down here, I must be almost standing on a uranium node. Wow, that's actually very clicky and this looks familia—OUT! OUT! OUT! <hub counter resets>

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.

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stoey @stoey.bsky.social · Sep 3

Former colleague knew very little about the NFL so she drafted players based on how much the names sounded like race horses. To the absolute horror of all the very serious sports dudes she won the league that year.

stoey @stoey.bsky.social · Aug 25

Have you checked Denver Zoo for it?

(nothing like watching four 11 day old murder kittens to brighten your day)

Araali's Cub Cam

YouTube video by Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance

www.youtube.com

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stoey @stoey.bsky.social · Aug 24

There was a wildlife sanctuary in West Yellowstone that at one point had a collection of "bear poof" trash recepticals that had failed to live up to that promises.

There were dumpsters reduced to twisted messes of surprisingly sturdy looking metal. I wonder why I was suddenly reminded of them?

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stoey @stoey.bsky.social · Aug 24

The light falling on that bush in the background makes it look like she has an absolutely incredible mohawk!

stoey @stoey.bsky.social · Aug 23

At first I hated this but having thought about it for a while I still hate it just with a bit more nuance.

If you need 2 voltages and are forced use two identical sized barrel jacks then this does physically prevent 12V being connected to the 5V circuit.