Anti-solar NIMBYs aren't beating the accusations of being pretty dim bulbs. "Extracting from the sky" is a good one

I remember live-chatting on IRC with friends. Analogue OTA was consistently like 5-10 seconds ahead of cable and 10-15 seconds ahead of satellite. HD OTA has a slightly smaller margin IIRC.

It's always somewhat annoying when you get in a food truck line in the rain and nobody gets behind you for a looong time...

A true bsky poster below. I do endeavor to see the new Knives Out in a theater if I can. Of course.

Apparently Rocklands on S. Quaker also has them...

5 best movie genres - librarian saves the day by being good at their job - quirky unusual things happen in library - all characters are kind and somehow also there is a plot about something - dancing movie - all villains dispatched by the end, no possible sequel, this is the end, goodbye.

5 best movie genres - John Candy helps an ad exec get home for Turkey day - John Candy helps a mom get home for Christmas - John Candy helps a group of runners into the Olympics - John Candy helps golf balls find an abuser - John Candy helps protect family members while cabin camping

Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor? Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark? Now available for free! Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room! Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!

Seeing the local Annie Jr production put on by Momentum Collective at the Lee rec center and they're delaying the start by ten minutes since Duke St and rt 1 are the worst they've been in months... 🙃 I assume bc feds back at work and multiple accidents on the Beltway.

the simpsons should take the elon musk episode off of disney plus and replace it with the michael jackson episode

Word is Mark Warner and Tim Kaine may be on Team Cave, which is completely unsurprising but still fucking stupid. Give them a call now. Oh and sorry for the Warner staffer who has to listen to my sweary voicemail. I'm sure you've heard worse but you do work for a dumbass.

Trying to fly from Chi to NYC. My first flight on AA at 6 was canceled. Along with every other AA flight. Rebooked onto UA flight at 5:30. Delayed till 11. I manage to grab the last seat on a 2:30 UA flight that had been delayed until 6:30. Just got delayed another hour. Sit down to have a drink…

FSA's are ways to allow rich people to reduce their taxes *and* scam other people. HSA's are only like an over complicated nanny state thing.

very lovely day in alexandria, va. this morning

It's weird to me that to get any sort of acceptable picture of the Moon you have to go like full manual on a pixel phone. It used to work pretty well? Sigh everything. (Happy 99.6% Beaver Moon.)

I... Hopefully...

Congratulations, Governor-Elect @abigailspanberger.com!

VA polls close in 8 minutes!! If you haven't voted for the Dems, go vote if you can get in line before it closes!n!one!!

Breaking news: The Trump administration is sending messages to federal staff suggesting only those who are working during the government shutdown will be paid when it ends, despite a 2019 law that guarantees pay to furloughed employees, too.

Huh, I had missed that Philadelphia Cheesesteak Factory on Duke St closed and the building is for sale. I remember visiting their original(?) Georgetown location back in the 00s before thy opened the Duke St one and then closed the Gtown one? It stayed decent but not amazing. A bit sad.

My Space Quest site, Roger Wilco's Virtual Broomcloset, launched 30 years ago this month. That makes it one of the oldest video game fan sites on the web. To celebrate the milestone, I've updated the site for the first time in ages with tons of new content. Check it out! wiw.org/~jess/roger.html

Happy Halloween.

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers.

I came across a couple of newspaper letters complaining about "Calvin and Hobbes" in its early years (1985 and 1988, respectfully). The first one makes a Tip O'Neill joke and the second one is next to a letter complaining about a lack of safety and "vulgarity" at a Whitesnake concert! :)

Inspired by @josephfray.bsky.social, I think I'll occasionally listen to album released on this day. Today I picked "Ocean to Ocean" by Tori Amos, on this day in 2021. Despite being a big Tori fan in the 90s and 00s, I drifted away and never listened to it before.

i hope that a governor spanberger and a democratic general assembly uses its authority to discipline the university for its capitulation and to remove these BOV members who have decided that they work for donald trump and not the people of the commonwealth

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

Huh. Dagwood apparently was left behind at the Louvre heist...

Proud to join 22 elected officials and 44 organizations and congregations at the packed house for VOICE’s Housing Forum. #homesforall

We happened to be at the Newseum (RIP) during their "big" march in DC and it was much smaller than No Kings or other similar liberal matches. And they left more trash than most marches. And some attendee vandalized our car that was parked at the Huntington Metro station.

I HAVE STARTED A PACK!!! IT IS POKEY!!!! go.bsky.app/7qw7B9v

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

"The Martian" is depressingly optimistic now. Its optimism of space travel and how there can be politics and conflict between nations but everyone is working toward a common goal. And (spoilers) the crew mutinies but everyone on earth is scrupulous at following the law and admitting fault.

It was both a huge movie at the time in terms of marketing and overall a pretty decent box office success. But also everybody knew as soon as it came out that they weren't going to be making any more Tracy movies, so it was a failure in that regard.

This is just fundamentally broken (and I've seen similar things from Apple). Like how can some a place (a walled gardened app store) justify ever showing an ad for an app, with an intentionally similar icon, with just a million installs over _WhatsApp_ when someone exactly searched for WhatsApp.

This map isn't a great projection (I think it's Miller cylindrical projection, which is a modified Mercator) but it has one of the better ways of indicating the islands in the Caribbean that I've seen.

TIL if you long press a hashtag here it gives you an option to mute it (on the app at least).

If people think speed limits are bad, they should own that and argue to raise or eliminate them, not just neuter them by eliminating enforcement. I hate that we post rules and then don’t treat them as real. Either enforce or change the rules. Same with stop signs. Enforce them or make them yields.

for every 100 likes I will increase the size of Homer's hat

As near as I can tell, @kairyssdal.bsky.social's Market Place is the only good public radio news program left?

Huntley Meadows Park today.

Where's Joint Base Pearl Harbor.

At least we can add Bluey to this now.

Sounds like a way to say a "clear and present danger" but avoiding drawing attention to the novel/movie about doing the illegal thing.

Lol "The Dragon Prince" S3E2 have a likely reference to "The West Wing" when new child king Ezran questions the logic of a "proportional" response to attacks.

Walking back to our car after a good day at the Maryland Renaissance Festival.

I'm still a bit dazed by the fact that the trailer for the upcoming "Cat In The Hat" movie has the kids pepper spraying the Cat in his eyes for several seconds.