If there is one thing Americans know, navigating our healthcare system and dealing with insurance companies is an absolute nightmare. Trying to compare it to normal shopping in a grocery store is not going to work.

If you pick the wrong shampoo, you're gonna have a bad hair day. If you pick the wrong health insurance, you're fucked. The two are not the same.

Mr Bone Spur and Mr Bone Saw stage love-in....

Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy

First day as a backend engineer at #cloudflare today. Found a minor bug and fixed it using ChatGPT. Let's see where the journey takes me.

cloudflare is having issues this morning

Rocky Mountain oysters.

I remember when we could barely get a radio tag on a large seabird. A 60 mg solar powered radio tag is ridiculous. Tech can be so amazing when we use it to understand the world, instead of just to sell ads.

ROYVAL: “.. To fight in front of them just seems like some f***ing Hunger Games-type of f***ing s***. I don’t give a f*** to fight in front of a bunch of f***ing billionaires and rich people that f***ing could give a s*** less about me. .. F*** you guys.” @si.com www.si.com/fannation/mm...

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there. 💩🧊🧪 By @chazhutton.com

This is a remarkable post. Not only did it make me asexual, it also made me more than slightly nauseated. Excellent work!

Sometimes the easiest part is the hardest and @bikerglen.bsky.social just watches #fridayfail #mtb #fail #cramp

aurora selfie

Fort Collins

Fort Collins, Colorado. Pixel 9 Pro Night Sight

I guess six weeks of doing nothing but drinking beer paid off. Follow me for more fitness advice.

GitHub repo for CircuitPython rubber band launcher. Cheap nylon servos jitter lots, but I cut off the servo by setting .angle to None in between detected movements. If you've got other ideas on improving, LMK. Still lots of jitter on tilt that holds heavier platform: github.com/gallaugher/j...

✔️ fat grip ✔️ buddy tape ✔️ ride raw

the conversation in my head every time i do a solo night ride on mill creek

While we're on the subject of political campaigns and graphic design, may I present the unabomber manifesto of campaign yard signs. They lost.

I broke my hand for this video.

It took me way longer to make this edit than it took @bikerglen.bsky.social to break his hand. Twice #enduromtb #orthopedics #brokenbones #mtb

10 years ago almost to the day, Fort Collins voted out of SB152 so they could study municipal broadband. 8 years ago, Fort Collins voted to start their municipal broadband network. Today, Fort Collins Connexion has over 23,000 customers with symmetric gigabit or faster fiber Internet connections!

The only correct answer for California and New York is to walk away from BEAD.

What a great bike trip!

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

170+ trick-or-treaters this year. Went through 120 Airheads and 50 Haribo gummy bear packs then started handing out snack packs of Doritos and Fritos and neighbors' leftover candy before calling it a night.

#lookatmydog #dog #chowchow

It bears repeating: the opioid epidemic, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of American lives, was sparked by the activities of U.S.-based pharmaceutical companies and distributors. It was a homegrown, man-made plague.

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ya know giving people directions from the paved bike path to your house is pretty freaking cool.

Who owns the robot? Who do we empower when we interact with a robot? Our paper at #AIES 2025 conference interrogates these questions: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI... Wonderful to meet others from the #AIethics community!

Even my little flip dot board got hit by the AWS outage so I couldn't update my status to WFH today!

Inspired by the post-credits scene in Pixar’s Elio, Glen Akins built this single-button soundboard that just plays “lizard” over and over.

My phone doesn't say “lizard” every time you push the lizard button so I built a single-purpose box that does! Build your own using @adafruit.com QT Py and Audio BFF boards, #3DPrinting, and @circuitpython.org! bikerglen.com/blog/lizard-... @hackadayofficial.bsky.social @hacksterio.bsky.social

I've been building my own Neopixel controller boards with Xiao modules and 5V level translation logic. Yesterday, I discovered the @adafruit.com Sparkle Motion Mini. I ordered one and am eagerly anticipating using it my next 3D-printed Neopixel project! www.adafruit.com/product/6160

My phone doesn't say “lizard” every time you push the lizard button so I built a single-purpose box that does! Build your own using @adafruit.com QT Py and Audio BFF boards, #3DPrinting, and @circuitpython.org! bikerglen.com/blog/lizard-... @hackadayofficial.bsky.social @hacksterio.bsky.social

How to Train Your Light Leak

Any engineer worth their ring knows the correct application of pressure using duct tape over MBA Bro’s slop hole will drastically reduce if not completely inhibit “slop through” given enough time.

Engineering: we're all out of ideas! MBA Bro: have you tried making it shittier?

my neighbor has legit carpentry skills

it's so skinny!

ethernet switch on a stick in a bag in my front yard

Finally got around to installing some software on the Framework Desktop. I'm astounded at how much faster it is than my old PC. Fusion orbits are silky smooth and the Bambu Studio slicer is super snappy. Next step is moving it upstairs to my desk and beginning the migration of everything else to it.

welp insurance company paid my hand x-ray claim but not my index finger x-ray claim because apparently they're too stupid to know the difference between what is visible in each series.

left hand down for a few more weeks so getting ready to buy a metric shit ton of Duplo blocks to play with because that's the level of motor skill i have right now. 😂