@darthbluesky.bsky.social It’s apple season

Food inflation definitely happening, Costco has pirate corn for the first time I’ve ever seen. Pirate corn- It’s a buck an ear.

Got a decent peloton on Mass Ave this evening.

The guy whose job is to abuse the prototype robots with a hockey stick is so screwed once they take over. www.boston.com/news/technol...

My kid thought I should use Elon’s dumpster site to complain to a company that’s not on here to get a response, so I said fine, and within 10 minutes a scam account was created and trying to steal my info. Completely useless trash fire.

Looking for problem solving: Air France abandoned our bag in CDG airport, never loaded it. It has an AirTag and looks like it’s been sitting at the baggage counters for two days. We filed a claim and sent them the AirTag link but they won’t take the five minutes to track it down and ship it. 1/2

I don’t need this any more, I’ve memorized the commands

My kid taught me about what you can do now that iPhones are waterproof

Learned this week that it’s not very hard to bike to the airport. Ferry from downtown, east Boston greenway to airport station, service road to terminal E. Last half mile isn’t very bike friendly but there were almost no cars.

Hey I’m a big Costco fan but come the f—- on.

What a day

Foxy rat control at Fresh Pond @universalhub.com

Lately gotten several variations of a phishing scam getting through spam filters at least daily, and l don’t know, I thought coding and text classification were like the two strong use cases for machine learning models, but Google/Gmail seems pretty bad at it!

Rube from Boston gaping at a system with parallel express and local tracks with two minute midday headways.

While biking past Bowdoin saw a dollar bill lying in road at a red light and looked all around as I picked it up because I figured it must be an economics experiment or some transportation study about bikers stopping at red lights. Driver in the car next to me gave a thumbs up.

Love to model the stock market as a harmonic oscillator

Don’t forget that Republican governments have previously argued that using “view source” on a public website is a crime. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

Tragic accident at Costco

For when you like your coffee highly enriched

A brand new type of travel hell at Logan: airline gives you meal vouchers for a canceled flight, but when you try to redeem it restaurants tell you they only take card and don’t have a cashier to redeem. So kids bought $60 of candy and soda at the only place that would accept it, a snack kiosk.

Just had some Turkish delight and I’m once again cursing CS Lewis for my reaction always being, “ooh Turkish delight, I bet that tastes really good!” followed by deep disappointment.

Anyone sell a PCR block with egg-sized wells?

Other bike lanes generally cleared, but is there a reason the bike lanes on Moakley bridge are often horrible? Is it a jurisdictional thing because it’s between downtown and Seaport and over a channel, so it’s no one’s job?

Tom Brady is only a 3 volt system?

Don’t panic, everyone, I’m sure once we resolve this whole problem of Elon stealing everyone’s personal information we’ll be offered 24 months of free credit monitoring.

Well sure am glad I prevented that Comcast email account from being closed, really valuable stuff in there.

Trump signing executive orders like

Zeno’s paradox with the tush push encroachments and half the distance to the goal penalties.

If you’re going to do this in daylight at least wear skates so you can escape the Staties. @universalhub.com

Since I have a few followers on the city council- I’m a long time Cambridge resident/owner who would love maximum density. Pass the highest density proposal you can! Drive down the value of my home! Heck, try building a Euro block on the former BB&N field in my neighborhood!

Facebook is essentially depersonalized crap now. My current feed: Memory from 6 years ago Reels Ad A friend’s memory Community group post 5 repeats of: ( Ad Promoted account Promoted account ) An actual new post from a friend 3x more ad/promo/promo How can a platform exist with 13:2 ads:content?

@universalhub.com Came across this in my FB feed, some new community activity at Fresh Pond that’s launching over the holidays. www.instagram.com/freshpondfuz... docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Americans: Why do British people lose their accent when they sing? Brits: Why do Americans always sound like they’re singing?

Nice view of Beacon Hill I’m sure, but… nope. Nope. @universalhub.com

They called this version of the chip Willow, but at some point they’ve got to go with Setec Astronomy.

I’m not sure why they expect first or second year college students to be able to develop novel synthetic routes. They’ve maybe just learned to understand published versions. #chemsky 🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/w...

One of the saddest holiday scenes

I think it’s only temporary because of construction, but there’s a block of fully protected two way cycle track in Kendall (not just flex posts or curb blocks)

Yup, although surprised the one C. albicans project I worked on is so visible.

Lots of bad or distracted drivers in Boston, but today was only the third time I had a dead eyed mfer look straight at me while stopped in traffic and then try to hit me with his car. Oddly enough all three have been in the same quarter mile stretch of Cambridge St. from Bowdoin to Charles.

What is the thin right angle spinning around in the middle of Boston.com? Some kind of spyware?

You know how people forget how to drive in the snow during the first winter storm each year? Exactly that tonight but with rain. Full 10/10 on the Masshole alert system. Be careful out there bikers.

The first time I tried to do an amide coupling I ran it in tris buffer.

I have a kid singing about calculus based physics at the breakfast table. (Tune of Schuyler Sisters) Work, work The integral Work work Of power

Haven’t gotten that message before.

A lot of confusion between language policing and people rightly being told their interpretation of the election results is garbage.

Biden should resign so that Harris is still the first woman president because it doesn’t look like we’ll ever have one with the electorate in this country.

Smoky morning on the harbor. Wind shifted around noon and things cleared up but can still see smoke rising in the north. @universalhub.com

A real life Simpsons joke: I assume you can’t bring outside alcohol into this restaurant?