Randomly thinking about prion diseases tonight, as one does

Currently, probably a Potbelly sandwich bag with additional money hidden inside a jar of hot peppers (could the money even be cleaned from the juice the hot peppers are in?)

Update #49828 from FalconSAT-8 (L CLEARANCE) 1. Avocado Toast Incinerator 2. Comet Barracks 3. Unidentified Feedback

Something I have wondered about is whether certain car headlight shapes or configurations are more effective, or if it doesn't really matter that much

I also enjoy peering down into people's car windows when riding the bus

Some days you feel like the @rideonmct.bsky.social bus whose destination sign says ENTER NEW CODE WRONG CODE ENTERED

Even though I don't watch baseball, it was interesting to read about the average use of each baseball during games. They get replaced quite often and use so many baseballs per game! https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6637577/2025/09/18/mlb-baseball-lifespan-pitches-phillies-yankees/

How familiar would Dutch people be with Jon Stewart, whose mannerisms this guy appears to be borrowing? And does he always do that, or was it just for this bit?

#cookieparty made using a pumpkin spice cookie mix. I would use this mix again. The cookies turned out soft and chewy.

At least it was a relatively small alligator?

cc @heatherwgaona.bsky.social

Very sad news to learn today about Jeff Clabaugh. He really was beloved by listeners and his friends in the newsroom wtop.com/inside-wtop/...

something I’ve been thinking about is that all our content retrieval systems are biased towards recency rather than quality which makes it extremely hard to discover old good books, movies, blog posts, etc

I wonder where this satellite imagery is located

If anyone has a reptile as a pet, have you noticed the reptile having any moods? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/s...

This chart shows where wildfires most affected the air. I was in the Pacific Northwest in 2020 and ... it was not pleasant.

It seems like there's a decent amount of articles in the NYT about topics related to China, even stuff that's more features-type like this instead of hard news. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...

"The most radical act in this world is just making something shitty you care about. Just make a dumb thing you personally love. Even if it's shitty. ESPECIALLY if it's shitty."

cc @ad-mastro.bsky.social if you haven't seen this thread already

Something I was thinking about recently is how dancing in social contexts like bars, clubs, weddings, etc is different than the kind of dancing that is done as a performance (e.g. ballet), but what if it were more normal to do performance-style dancing in social contexts?

The other day, I was talking about RFK Jr and his father, whom I called "RFK original" because evidently I'd forgotten the term senior in that moment

Wonderful interview with a pair of young London shopkeepers about shop vs archive, working together, estate clearance, the value of STUFF, and the tragic march of capital in central London. By one of my favorite bloggers: woodencity.substack.com/p/perfect-li...

it’s useful sometimes to remember that there are old things, things that last, and that some of them are beautiful

I recognize the pattern of the crocheted blanket underneath the cat! I once made a blanket using that pattern

wow, when I came across this it was only 4 layers deep. anyways: battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. when the item(s) you want is in stock at trader joe's 2. touching something that has a nice texture 3. smelling something that has an interesting scent (cont'd in next post)

I wish you could still buy apps for a one time price. This subscription model, for kids apps especially, is just complete insanity. I'd be willing to consider, CONSIDER, paying $10 for an app if I get access to everything but maybe pay more in the future for add ons. But $10 a month?!? Hard pass.

I have seen my online sales dry up as Etsy and other platforms allowed the tide of AI slop to roll in. I don't even think that many people buy it, but it's harder for anyone to find your work when it's buried under thousands of listings of cheap printable images and clipart

Re: esoteric being one of my favorite words (both sonically and semantically), I probably use it multiple times a week, which maybe is more frequent than other people use an esoteric word like esoteric?

esoteric is one of my favorite words, but in any case, it is interesting to contemplate what different effects the different mediums of composing writing have on me, personally.

A lot of the general idea here resonates even though there are a few details I don't necessarily agree with (like the one about how people should be limited to 5 posts per day or something like that) herman.bearblog.dev/slow-social-...

A concrete planter that looks like a cooling tower https://www.lyon-beton.com/product/nuclear-plant-160-planter/

Oh, this one is so good. cc @jmings.bsky.social

Always so cool to learn about the things we used to have

figured I should update my profile bio a little bit to reflect my interest in linguistics, which I post about somewhat regularly here and there, although I doubt many of my followers are interested in esoteric linguistic content

Chinese is a very mysterious language when you cannot read or speak it, in a way that italic (descended from latin) or Germanic languages are not, relative to a native English speaker's perspective

When might the phrase "strange crow" come into fashion, perhaps?

More musings incoming! Wow, I'm really on a roll today! The following musings will use the screenshot below as a starting point (I don't want to subject some random guy with a torrent of musings he didn't ask for)

@ad-mastro.bsky.social you may be interested in this article. it's from a few years ago and I don't remember if I read it back then. www.vice.com/en/article/a...

does anyone know of restaurants (can be chains or not) that put down paper over the tables and leave crayons that you can draw/write with? Macaroni Grill (RIP) did this but all the locations nearby me closed and I'm still sad about it

is it possible (and if so, any examples?) for something to be appealing and easy to grasp for a casual consumer, while also being appealing to a connoisseur of the thing? how (or should?) can appealing to both types of audience be balanced?

I didn't know there was one of his sculptures at this airport. I wonder how many people walk through the center of the sculpture, compared to around the outside of it, or through the narrower side channels. www.torontopearson.com/en/while-you...

One of the reasons I'm recurrently [assonance & consonance!] complaining about instagram and podcasts is because there's often various content in those platforms/mediums that I am interested in subject-wise, but generally dislike the medium/format/platform it is being presented in (on?).

it me 😅 always looking on the underside of plates and bowls in restaurants, for example

3 to 4 a.m. eastern time may be an interesting time to post as it is late on the west coast but some night owls could be awake still, and it is morning in western Europe, but a pretty unusual time for a person on the east coast to be awake

it's mildly disappointing to me how "white flint" has been falling out of usage in other contexts* ever since the station was renamed. "white flint" is a more elegant and evocative name than "north bethesda" (I refuse to call it that)

I shouldn't go to REI too often or I'll want to buy all of the outdoor equipment and clothing (Patagonia!! Cotopaxi!! Teva!! etc!) Anyways, I did go recently to scope out the backpack selection in search of something on the smaller side but still adequately technical in features/design

It always intrigues me how many layers deep in quote-posts things like this are when I see them, so in this case it was 28 layers deep, and the original post starting it off was from 2023! At the 8th layer from the original post is when the most recent quotes-posts began.

First universalist church of Elgin, 1892. Built in the shape of a watch in honor of Elgin’s National Watch Company

I wonder where this island is

today is cloud appreciation day; go look at a cloud today ☁️