#StrictlyInstrumental #MusicChallenge Appellative - Thus Speaks the Queen youtu.be/H5l11SPPDUs?...

#StrictlyInstrumental #MusicChallenge Pelican - Gulch youtu.be/cteSz3oJQNA?...

#StrictlyInstrumental #MusicChallenge AV Sunset - The Science of Fire youtu.be/cjWtSz8_B4g?...

#StrictlyInstrumental #MusicChallenge This Will Destroy You - The Mighty Rio Grande (from Live in Reykjavik, Iceland) youtu.be/LIVtfXXYUoM?... This one's a little more well known, but its just so good.

#StrictlyInstrumental #MusicChallenge Explosions in the Sky - Owl Hunting youtu.be/NJyq0K31mzs?...

#StrictlyInstrumental #MusicChallenge AV Sunset - Hasselhoff youtu.be/oa3IQ-zNatA?...

#StrictlyInstrumental #MusicChallenege Black Prairie - Dawn Departure, Jefferson County youtu.be/dKCbxa5Nj9A?...

#StrictlyInstrumental #MusicChallenge Time Pieces - 90's Guitar Music youtu.be/GGCyql2JOxE?... (technically, there's a tiny bit of vocals on the track, but I think it still fits the spirit) (also, that's some great cover art, right?)

#StrictlyInstrumental #MusicChallenge Six Parts Seven - Confusing Possibilities youtu.be/WKDnEdDjfkw?...

#StrictlyInstrumental #MusicChallenge Totorro - Festivalbini (Live at a pool?) youtu.be/KibThlhJvUE?... (Album version) youtu.be/BUXfu6vc3lA?...

#StrictlyInstrumental #MusicChallenge Lymbyc System - Morning Flats www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAyZ...

#StrictlyInstrumental #MusicChallenge Explosions in the Sky - Greet Death youtu.be/Atzfe-JM1V4?...

#StrictlyInstrumental #MusicChallenge Cloudkicker - % youtu.be/3RZtKb2_JwI?...

Aw, we have our own little AEC nerd island...

I'm heading to New York tomorrow for AEC Tech, hope to see my fellow nerds there! I waited a little too long and couldn't get into the workshops I wanted most, but still should be a good event!

Maybe I don't understand how journalists work, but this seems odd. Why would Michael Wolff give warning and advice to Epstein? I guess I could understand having to talk and deal with repugnant people as part of reporting on them, but this seems more friendly?

This is so minor in the context of <gestures everywhere>... but does it bother anybody else that we've collectively stopped differentiating between "conspiracies" and "conspiracy theories"?

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Friggen Penn. Stupid.

Florida weatherman John Morales explains how the drastic cuts to science and federal services would reduce his ability to predict the movements of hurricanes.

@nytimes.com @npr.org @washingtonpost.com @inquirer.com Hey any of you guys want to cover this?

Interesting choice of words to describe bringing back an old CEO after the ouster of a new CEO in light of potential criminal fraud investigations... www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/b...

Was watching the latest episode of @tastinghistory.bsky.social yesterday, which mentioned the "Hooverville" shanty towns from the Great Depression era. Had the thought - should we ever get to the place where that happens again, the contemporary equivalents could / should be called "Trump Towers".

Haven't listened to Agaetis Byrjun in a while, but decided to make that my morning listen. Man, Staralfur gets me in the feels, and I'm down for it.

I keep deleting these in Gmail, but I keep getting more of them - anybody else getting this? How can I keep Gmail from showing me these ad?. I don't want this SH!T in my inbox!

Don't know why, but seeing an ad for T(fascist) Golf Courses in my Gmail really pisses me off. F every single person that spends money on those gaudy shit holes.

I wonder if the uncanny valley for humanoid robots is getting / will get less deep because of the increasing abundance of heavily modified human faces in society.

If we're ever allowed to do independent science and research after this, someone should study the cognitive dissonance of the supposedly Bible following Christians who support this man.

Awesome show by @mogwai.scot at the TLA last night! Thanks for coming to Philly!

As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵

Pushing this up out of my replies...

Never, ever accept that these people give one shit about your kids. They send cops into your schools to arrest the people who care for them. They love the cops, not your kids.

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

I had a feeling this was coming. I'd been recently involved in some design work for the JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health, and all the NIH cuts really worried me. Not sure how this will affect anything specific I or my office had worked on, but it's certainly not good.

God what a shameful display. I remember starting to question the idea of "America is the greatest country in the world" back when Bush II invaded Iraq, but now there's just no question at all. Maybe there is no greatest, but if there was, it sure as shit ain't US.

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

Probably preaching to the choir here, but this is a good video to watch and share if you're concerned about how social media and news feeds are making honest connection and truthfulness harder. youtu.be/QEJpZjg8GuA?...

Listening to @petebuttigieg.bsky.social talking on @99pi.org Power Broker episode 7 about trying to stitch divided communities back together. It makes me so sad and mad about what is currently being done completely lawlessly with / to federal spending.

The level of wide open corruption in this new Trump administration is truly astounding, though not at all surprising. It may take time for the graft to start hitting folks not already working directly with the fed govt, but I have to imagine it's coming for all of us at some point.

Looks like CORE Studio is starting to upload the recordings from 2024's AEC Tech to their YouTube channel! I really enjoyed the conference in person, and have been wanting to rewatch some of the talks, so this is great! #aectech2024 #corestudio #thortontomasetti

I need a new non-fiction book to read. Non-technical, but if it involves math or science or computers or something about the history or development or ideas behind those things, that would be great. Any recs?

@techconnectify.bsky.social Hey, just wanted to say thank you for the content you put out on YouTube and also being a good and decent person here on bsky. I've learned a lot from you, and I appreciate you for trying to encourage nuance and understanding, but also responsibility and personal action.

Aw yeah, new Mogwai album 'The Bad Fire' out today! For some reason I thought it was out next week, so this made my morning! So excited to go see these guys when they swing through Philly in April! <3's @mogwai.scot

@benkates.com Hi Ben, I attended my first Philly Data Viz meetup last night & really enjoyed your presentation. Thank you so much for sharing that! I'm not sure if/where slides from meetups are shared publicly, but I'd appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction or share with me? Thx!

Attempting to meet a new type of nerd tonight - I'm attending my first Philly Data Visualization Meetup!

AEC Tech nerds - are you involved in managing your firm's sustainability data? We're developing systems to track data like EPD, HPD, Declare labels, C2C compliance, VOC certs, etc for the materials in our office library / spec'd on our projects, and I'm wondering what solutions others have found.

Does anybody in the AEC Computational Design / AI / generally tech savvy space have any opinions on the "Advancing Computational Design" conference (advancing-computational-design.com) in Texas at the end of the month?

If you're up for a goofy genius slapstick low budget movie, I just watched Hundreds of Beavers on Amazon Prime the other night. I can't recommend it enough! Its also free on YouTube right now. @hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social #hundredsofbeavers #genius