my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Hosted a fun game of #OPR Grimdark Future yesterday! Matched up Galactic Empire + Fantasy Saurians against Tau + Chaos Daemons #Nerdlings #OnePageRules #Wargaming

Finally ready to call these bloodletters done after having some fun getting their swords painted up! #OPR #Nerdlings #Warhammer #minipainting

As I never tire of reminding people, the two plausible alternatives to automated traffic enforcement are that we either rely on the discretion of individual police officers or we simply don't enforce traffic laws at all. We have been trying both alternatives now and they are failing us.

A squad of 10 Imperial Scout Troopers painted up for stealth in the Endor jungle from #StarWarsLegion. I'll be running them in my #OPR army as Human Defense Force Veterans like my Stormtroopers #Nerdlings #minipainting

Death Guard #Mandalorians I'm adding to my #OPR Dark Brothers army as Veteran Assault Brothers #StarWars #Legion #Nerdlings

I stayed up waaayy too late finishing Isles of the Emberdark last night so today is going to be a slow quiet day of painting and listening to Crying in H Mart #booksky #cosmere

It's that time of year in #Denver where everyone forgets to shovel their sidewalk. If only we could just make this another function of the city to maintain its infrastructure like we do our roads.

Big news! We’re excited to announce that @wesmars.bsky.social, author of “Killed By a Traffic Engineer,” will be joining us for our live show in Denver on Friday, December 12th. Get tickets: www.yimbydenver.org/events/war-o...

Been dipping my toe into writing initial startup code for an nRF51 and wow is this header file barebones. You get register structs and macros for casting from the base address, but no fields or masking. STMicro sure has spoiled me! I ended up writing my own vector table struct even 😬

If you are going to a No Kings protest this weekend, be sure to review our Surveillance Self Defense guide for attending a protest and bring Rayhunter along for the ride! ssd.eff.org/module/atte.... eff.org/rayhunter.

It’s pronounced cyclist.

Anyone experience this issue with #Garmin sleep score where it thinks I slept for 32 hours? (but has the right time range though certainly not the right stages). I have a 3 year old Garmin Instinct 2. I've seen this happen about once per week for the last month

Poking around with embedded #Rust on the #Arduino Uno R4 Mínima tonight and observing something strange. I can flash a simple sketch from Arduino IDE just fine and I can grab the command it's running with dfu-util and run that separately in a shell. But if I try to use the binary from my

After a bit of a break I managed to get some paint on models! Still very WIP, but I love these Nightstalker Reaper sculpts! #Nerdlings #OPR

Managed to get a Catalan copy of Mistborn book 1 and my brain is fried after 4 pages. Probably should've picked something easier but this is the hockey stick part of language learning I guess 😅

In 2023, we won the Build Public Renewables Act — a groundbreaking law empowering NYS to speed up the clean energy transition and lower your bills with publicly-owned power. Today is the deadline to tell the New York Power Authority that we need a plan for 15 GW by 2030. Take urgent action below.

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Sick CEO Theoden with the McKinsey Grima Wormtongue whispering in his ear

I am so sorry. Sometimes I hate myself.

Boost 1.73 (released April 2020!) not properly supporting C++17 has been killing me today. Seems to get papered over by gcc not removing things from the standard library that were supposed to be but clang being more strict.

I know these things weren't meant to be based individually, but maybe Mantic could've narrowed the stance just a teensy bit... Building some more units for my #OPR Daemon army #Nerdlings

As soon as I added the gold trim, I understood why people like chaos armies. Just have to top the base and Karnak is done! #Nerdlings #Warhammer #40k #Daemon

Not the best Giancarlo Esposito has ever looked (turns out I'm over 100 minis deep and only just painted my first human face), but happy with a quick evening paint job fit around run club. Moff Gideon on the hunt for the child with his Dark Troopers #Nerdlings #StarWarsLegion #Minipainting #StarWars

No decals on the helmets, but I'm going to call these 5 Inferno Squad minis done for now! Running them as Dark Battle Brothers in #OnePageRules #minipainting #StarWars #Nerdlings

Denver alphabetizes the N-S street names in the western half of the city and that makes navigating very easy. E-W are numbered.

Managed to pull out a win tonight in a game of #OnePageRules Grimdark Future. The Galactic Empire managed to out-gun the regeneration of the Necrons, maintaining a sweep of three quarters of the field. #Nerdlings #OPR #StarWars #Necrons

Since it's been about a year since getting into the miniature painting hobby based on my picture metadata a little retrospective is in order! In that time I've painted 102(!) minis from GW, OPR, Star Wars, and a couple others! Here are some of my favorites. #Nerdlings #Minipainting #Wargaming #40k

Picked these Stormtroopers up on Friday, which makes them the quickest sprue to tabletop ready box I've picked up to date! #Nerdlings #OPR #OnePageRules #minipainting #wargaming #StarWars #Legion

Do folks walking around #Denver not get thirsty? Walked from Highland through downtown on 16th and the first place I could stop to get a cold drink to go was a 7/11. 1.5 mi to get to something resembling a NYC bodega in some of the most pedestrianized part of the city seems absurd

I also got my flight stands today and have begun trying to figure out how to feasibly put this thing on the table while keeping base, body, and wings separate for transport (magnets and wire 😬) Any tips? #Nerdlings #OPR #StarWars #Legion

Tiny bit of paint on my printed Imperial Troop Transport to get it nice enough to put on the tabletop for a game of #OPR. Zenithal primed and a splash of color and it looks nice enough I think! #Nerdlings #StarWars #Legion #minipainting

Painted up an escort for Vader: a retinue of HK-87 assassin droids which I'm running as Dark Destroyers with Energy Swords in OnePageRules #Nerdlings #OPR #StarWars #Minipainting

Painted up some wargaming terrain from @corvusgamesterrain.bsky.social that I saw featured on Eons of Battle. Not super happy with the red I chose (wanted Craftsman toolbox look) but everything else came out great! #Nerdlings #OPR #StarWarsLegion

Every 4th of July, I take the time to read "What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July." Let us begin: "I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us."

Since it's the Empire's birthday today I built two TIE fighter kits which will go in my OnePageRules Dark Brothers list. I even magnetized the wings for transport. #wip #nerdlings #StarWars #Legion #OnePageRules

Sorry my normal wargaming posts are going to be NYC politics for a bit. I'm actually overcome with emotion to see a candidate win a big election who wants to use their office to help people instead of harassing my trans and Latino friends and neighbors.

If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.

Seems significant somehow that the thing that would most energize the Democratic base is if approximately 90-99% of currently elected Democrats were to be primaried into retirement.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? The high voltage capacitors in a solid state dimmer will hold charge for months and can electrocute you even after being unplugged for a long time. Too literal?

Packing some boxes for my move and discarding some junk and what do I find but sprues of tyranids and Eldar that I bought back in 2019 and lost. Shouted "it's Christmas!" to myself as my past self apparently bought $80 of 40k for my present self lol

Managed to sneak an important vote in before I move!

@msnbc.com reporter at the 1:15 mark. “The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings

I love getting to the part where the army is painted to tabletop standard and I can start polishing small details like the nearby grass clumps starting to light from a hover jet #Nerdlings #StarWarsLegion

They're still in need of highlights, but happy how little work is required to get a brick of these ready for the table #OPR #Nerdlings #StarWars #Legion

In-progress birthday gift for a friend! Last step is to add some orange lines for all of his Strava runs which I'll not post so as not to dox him #Nerdlings

Test model stormtrooper before I paint both squads. Process felt very messy, but came out nice enough for infantry in the end. #Nerdlings #StarWars #Legion

The #Oblivion remaster just doesn't hit the same in a world where your health and stamina bars don't end up permanently burned into your parents new plasma screen