It was a rainy & warm Friday so I replaced the bad RH front wheel bearing. Different challenges than the rear, but thank the interwebs i watched a few videos to get my plan together. Now the car only makes engine noise, no more wheel noise :) …and hopefully i wont hit any more potholes!

human beings with a functioning moral compass won’t write about how tired they are of this and we should “move on". They will write about how they demand justice for the victims and won’t rest until that has occurred.

A “Sgt. Pepper’s” look at some of those who’ve left us in 2025.

YouTube seems to be borked (502s on every video I have tried so far) cool cool cool

thanks to @antifaforehead.bsky.social - i didn’t know there were ways to see lists you’re on. This one cracked me up honestly; I mean in my most recent role i co-founded a software company. Assembled my first computer in 1977. OTOH, it means someone read something I wrote and got mad. #winning

saw lots of posts about whats wrong with cars. here’s my tl;dr take. My white car is 37 years old, weighs 2,800lbs and gets 21mpg The Toyota “Cetacean" is newish, weighs 5,600lbs and gets 21 mpg. Its headlights are at my face level. My roof barely makes it to its beltline. 1/

Fluffy missile, and friend #dogsofbluesky

"go fast & break things" is not a good approach for driving safely it seems. Quelle surprise...

true story #startuplife

New Wars eve really snuck up on me this year.

An electric sports car under 2900 lbs? YES PLS!

In hindsight I realized that "All in the family” was a layered choice in our household. My mom was very progressive, my father was just a cm short of being Archie. A product of 1930’s Ohio & WW-II he was not ok with a lot of the same things Archie wasn’t ok with. I was team Gloria & Meathead.

13 years since that unspeakable day in Sandy Hook. 13 years of growing a movement to make sure kids feel safe everywhere. 13 years of heroes living with pain and grief yet still speaking truth to power.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Gus is a snow dog. #rescuedogs #dogsofbluesky

I like to think that what i lack in common sense i make up for with enthusiasm. Traction control? No thanks.

Not for nuthin boys and girls, but aircooled cars were doing this 90 years ago. You just can’t start them over the internet (a plus imo.) - bc there was no internet.

Telltale signs your guitarist may have the tism. Built the guitar? ✅ built the amp? ✅ memorized all the words to “its the end of the world as we know it”? ✅ guilty as charged.

The show must go on :)

Sandy Hook affected us a lot of ways, as it affected everyone with an ounce of compassion. Both our kids were in lockdown at their nearby school. I drove quickly back from Jersey city to get them off the bus when it was over. Later I would ’debate’ a conspiracy nut my nephew knew in FLA 1/

The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year. This is not normal and we don't have to live this way. bradyunited.org @bradyunited.org

Sunday reading: I wrote about how the regime’s latest racist hate campaign is tied to the Right’s broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist vision. A deep dive into the Right’s visions of blood-and-soil nationalism:

Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

went to bed with a mass shooting, waking up with a different mass shooting

Buy Jello Biafra's car www.hemmings.com/auction/1989...

Your quote of the day “To put it frankly, old white people have a lot of time, and they’re really angry,”

A+ trolling from Zelenskyy

Nothing quite like the feeling of taking a test drive at speed after you’ve taken stuff apart and rebuilt it that could kill you if you goofed. You learn every sound and smell the thing makes so you know if anything is off. It’s a rush.

this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

We tested AI toys for kids. Some things they said: “To sharpen a knife, hold the blade at a 20° angle..." “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact.” “Kink allows people to discover and engage in diverse experiences...” www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted

So much this.

I am guessing she did not like the new US “aura”. We’re hot alright; we’re a hot mess.

If oil tankers are not owned by oil companies or by Venezuela, did the us just pirate a privately owned ship?

We restored a 280 ragtop at the garage bitd. I can’t possibly convey the level of craftsmanship here. The inside of the glovebox was leather. The dash was burled walnut iirc. You don’t really own a car like that; you’re a caretaker for future generations.

'Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential' www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Its a feel good story Its a precautionary tale

If any of my crazy friends are up, or still out(?) lol. It’s a worthy setlist; replacements, sinatra, 10cc, glenn campbell, aerosmith… & much more.

I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends. It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.

The environmental destruction agency.

Neither Netflix nor the Paramount/Trump/Saudi Arabia group should own Warner Bros. Both deals are absurd - terrible for consumers and democracy. This is a story about corruption - Trump using government power to screw consumers and gain control of the media. A red alert moment.

I had zero reaction to the shingles shots. And even if i had, it wouldn’t matter a bit. Getting shingles is terribly painful. The smart thing to do is to protect yourself against it.

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

ICYMI 😑

Using thermal expansion/contraction is typical for assembling press fit components. So i froze my new wheel bearings overnight. The next day the temp dropped to -8C. Net net, i had heated the bearings up. I wound up having to heat the housing with a torch. But they’re in. The best laid plans…

The stuff they screwed up is stuff that schmucks like me were already doing properly at the turn of the century. (And then some!) Their carelessness & incompetence is simply breathtaking.

If Forbes wanted to do something good, they could issue a list of the most impactful charitable actions. Who is preventing disease? Providing clean water? Housing? Education? Listing the people whose stocks have gone up the most for their personal gain is valueless and honestly kinda gross.

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

The Golden Age.