History nerds would like to remind you that independence from Great Britain was actually voted on and approved on July 2nd. John Adams would approve of this post.

If Taylor Swift really wanted a private wedding venue she should’ve considered the National Mall.

Sure, let's keep driving past the stop line when you have a red light and people are turning in front of you. The lines are just there for decoration, after all.

Also, if you tell them you're a software engineer, please stop immediately asking them to fix the problems you're having with your laptop.

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We have a bunch of bucket trucks, a massive auger truck, a crawler with a couple of new poles to be installed... probably a dozen trucks total so far, on our street. And now they have to install them on a literal cliff.

Thank goodness for social media. Otherwise I wouldn't have learned that the power outages from the violent storm last night are actually a false flag operation to convince people we need more renewable energy resources. Or something like that. I need a babelfish at moments like these.

Every religion has a food rule that sounds like somebody got diarrhea once and made it everyone’s problem.

The neighbor five houses away has a whole house generator ( which are normally quieter than portables ) that's somehow far louder than our relatively small 25 year old Home Depot generator.

Out of an abundance of caution, the City has decided to cancel this evening's ride. Stay cool & we'll see you next Wednesday. reconnectrochester.org/our-weekly-r...

Kinda wish I too could disappear from my job for weeks or even months without my employers having any idea where I am, and have a job when I get back.

Fond memories of when I was designing and building gadgets in the early 2000s, including one that showed the weather at my house, and how far away from home @kayteeem.bsky.social and I were. The distance was based on position reports we broadcast from amateur radio transmitters in our cars.

There's nothing like a /rochester subreddit thread about cars that will give you the opportunity to block a lot of people in a very short time. The belief that if you're not driving you're less than human is fascinating.

It's fascinating how conservatives will swerve from "The founders said this and we must never apply modern norms and interpretations to it" to "This is a dried husk that no longer applies to the modern world" depending on whether they support or abhor a law, and they don't even get whiplash.

Kudos to the Highland Park Neighborhood Association for sweeping the South Ave cycle track tonight!

Sure you might be 59 in two weeks but that doesn't mean you won't still be having stress dreams about getting your suit ready for your high school prom

Saw a Polaris Slingshot parked by the canal in Fairport last night and then a different one at Fairfield's a few minutes later so I guess there are a lot of guys having a midlife crisis in town

Watched My Cousin Vinny with Bea and am pleased to report it's still a delight.

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Thanks for defining myriad for me. It means a lot.

Online company security/harassment/etc training that tries to be cute and engaging is infuriating. I'm an adult. I can read. You don't need to have actors dressed up as the Terminator to educate me.

When our kids were growing up here 20 years ago, they were pretty much the only ones riding their bikes regularly on our street. Now there's kids doing that all the time. It's adorable!

The sadness of seeing someone make the perfect dad joke but then you look at their post history to see what other gems are hiding there and it's almost nothing but creepy comments on women a third his age.

No, YOU bought several pounds of homemade pirogis from the Ukrainian ladies

That's probably not a good sign

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Sometimes I forget that my laptop has a touch screen and I'll go to wipe something off it and move a window and then I remember how much I hate touchscreens on laptops

Technically, they’re Remains now.

Owner/Developer of a formerly super popular bike touring site often writes walls of text complaining that his user base dropped into the toilet a few years ago. I wonder why...

Business partner : We're going to be sending a massive set of orders this week. We suggest you appoint extra IT staff to cover your night shifts and weekends. Me, to fellow IT guy : Ooooo, yes, we'll just unfreeze the spare IT staff we have in cryogenic storage for this .001% increase in work.

This is your reminder that Logan's Run got a lot right

Sure chocolate is great but have you ever had a greater thrill than doing a live deployment to prod of web services that get called millions of times a day across hundreds of machines?

The number of people who post in the film photography subreddits who buy expensive film cameras and film but don't realize that you have to have the film developed to actually see the images says a lot about people who just follow tiktok trends mindlessly.

Maybe I'm easily amused but hear me out

The downside of a 24/7 internal dialogue: when someone speaks slowly, you've already mentally covered the Roman Empire, fainting goats, next week's to-do list, and several existential crises. When they finally respond two seconds later, it feels like picking up a conversation from a week ago.

I'm a prominent figure, y'all

It's the Mileage of the Beast

Found a Vespa owner also possibly thinking about those storm clouds

This was perhaps not the best day to go motorcycling

So thankful about all of the social media postings that are warning us we're having a wind storm, and that we should be careful. Never would have been able to figure out why the trees are coming down, otherwise.

It's a day in which I keep looking out the window of my home office to see how many trees the neighbors lose

Putting nearly all of the middle of Fairport, NY as "high stress" for biking is absolutely insane, and doesn't come even remotely close to reflecting what it's actually like to ride there.

Someone asked if I wanted them to take a photo with me in the display as well, and seemed a little confused when I said no.

MAGA : *prattles constantly for a month about the reflecting pool and how it will be perfect* Everyone else : Seems there's an algae problem MAGA : OMG why are you guys constantly talking about the reflecting pool, there are more important things you could be doing. Get a job!

Oh no, I'd better stop. Good thing I was warned in time.

Me *Looking up something on her phone* : We need to talk Her : Uh oh. About what? Me : The fact that you have 38 open tabs Her : How many open tabs do you have? Me : Don't change the subject

Join us tonight in Maplewood for our 4th of 20 Wednesday rides! Gather at 107 Bridge View Drive beginning at 6:30pm for a prompt 7pm departure. We’ll ride 6.5 miles at a 9mph pace. This ride highlights the Genesee Riverway Trail, Lower Falls, St Paul bike lanes, & bike boulevards.

Lucy Darling at the Kodak theater tonight was a delight!