Heat Exhaustion vs. Heat Stroke

I bet Dostoyevsky never bit into a scalding McDonald’s Hot Apple Pie.

Mom would “treat” us to a McD’s dinner once in a while. I could take the time to eat my whole Big Mac AND large fries and STILL burn the fuck out of my mouth by biting into one of these.

James Baldwin, via @kyla.bsky.social “You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important.”

I say it often but once again: By granting them borrowing privileges and protecting their privacy, public libraries afford children a form of civic standing and respect that has few parallels in our “free” society, which mostly treats children as chattel. Vociferously defend public libraries. 📚

Am I the only cyclist who hears “CAR BACK!” in a group ride and takes it as meaning “SINGLE UP!” ? So tired of riding with people who blithely ignore this warning and seem to fine with the driving competence–and demeanor–of complete strangers.

Trump v. Barbera shows just how radical the Roberts Court and the modern conservative legal movement are

The 3 traffic calming concepts. youtube.com/shorts/2U9BX...

Hmmm, I probably won’t order this one.

Ishmael u dog

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

Take the time to watch this.

So that’s 90 miles in two days. ( feel pretty good having hauled my lumpy carcass around ME and MA this weekend. I don’t how many “comebacks” I have left in me, but I’m so grateful for the one currently in progress. And I’m deeply humbled by the support my friends have been giving me in doing so.

Today was ANOTHER #goodDayOnTheBike! 50 miles around Topsfield, Ipswich, and who knows where else in northeastern Massachusetts.

Yesterday was a #goodDayOnTheBike

Google street view reveals a Tyrell-ified Toyota? Acura? 4016 S. Pine St. Tacoma, WA maps.app.goo.gl/K7hpHV62kcr2...

Steve Jobs predicted cities would be designed around this device, which was "as big a deal as the PC." Jeff Bezos called it "one of the most famous and anticipated product introductions of all time." don't let our tech lords fool you into believing they can predict the future.

Google street view reveals a Tyrell-ified Toyota? Acura? 4016 S. Pine St. Tacoma, WA maps.app.goo.gl/K7hpHV62kcr2...

There's a dreary, iron rule of Capitalism: If a corporation can get away with ripping off its customers with impunity, it is guaranteed that it will do so. Our oligarchs are salivating at unleashing the pure Scam Economy.

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

*werner herzog voice* now it is /I/ who must wrestle mania.

There is no serious argument to be made that the president’s own criminal defense attorney—who is clearly still representing the president’s personal interests—should run the DOJ. Conflict of interest doesn’t even begin to cover it

Level 3 water ban in effect here in Maynard, MA and across the street neighbor has had a pressure washing company blasting away at who knows what in his backyard for the last hour plus…

Trump is desperately trying to get this picture removed from social media! You know what to do! 🤣

A shining example of Betteridge's law of headlines. "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

I think the US has proven it will manage its hegemonic decline by sinking into ferocious insanity that will only get worse over time.

Seeing a lot of coverage about the TPS ruling being a "win" for Trump's "immigration agenda" and what the story really should be is that this ruling paves the way for an expansion of ethnic cleansing. Because that's what has been happening and will occur moving forward.

The best carbon capture is when you find carbon captured in the oil and gas and you don't release it by burning it.

Imagine being this proud of having no moral compass.

This is the correct way to defend against a Trump law suit instead of capitulating: discovery and deposition. Trump always has something to hide, so much so, he's forgotten many of these skeletons. Result, if this is a card game: keep calling, Trump aways folds with a bad hand.

I think it's taken me like 20 years to truly internalize why creativity thrives under constraints I used to conflate creativity with some notion of competence and the ability to realize your vision, but creativity is more about being able to find a meaningful artistic path in spite of constraints

Because the only thing liberals actually resist is movement to the left.

Wow where was this energy toward Republicans at literally any point these past two presidencies

When the photo editor decides it’s time to get fired

It takes 1.28 seconds for a message to reach us from the Moon. It takes as little as 35 minutes from Jupiter. It takes as little as 4.5 hours from Pluto. It takes at least 6-12 months from NYT reporters, plus $35 for the book containing it.

Hello, I am a life-long Democrat and I’m voting for these Democratic Socialist folks. It’s not the destruction of the Democratic Party, it’s an evolution into voting for people who will get done what we’ve always believed the Democratic Party would get done, and never has. Thanks for your time!

The AI boom is going to be the greatest transfer of wealth to the toilet!

Curing sickle cell disease is legitimately one of the absolute top miracles of the entire 21st century

NEW: Eight protesters who the DOJ accused of having connections to antifa were sentenced to decades in prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center that left one police officer wounded. Activists who didn’t plan the protest and left when asked still received 50-year terms.

Surely I can’t be the first person to think, “Let’s see you pull a tarp over THAT, Donnie!” ie., the Reflecting Pool.

Good day for some bike pics.

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Pops on top (of Pleasant Mountain, ME). #fathersday

That gust of wind a moment before you snap the picture. 😫

It’s only a USB port if it’s on the left side of your device, otherwise it’s a USB starboard.

So far at least, “trillionaire“ is just a subset of “nazi”.

A Leica M6, with a 28mm, 50mm, and 90mm lens…