Don Harper: “We need more parks. But what we really need is more PARKING.”

This year a bit less exciting, but some small wins so far:

⛵️ Took part in my first sailing races
🗣️ Ordered+paid entirely in Spanish and German at restaurants
🇫🇷 J'ai appris un peu de français
🧠 Addressed some old brain stuff
🧗🏻‍♀️ Got more than 2ft off the ground (probably 8ft?)
🎮 Reached Baldur's Gate

Hannah’s Backyard
Gouache on paper

Every time I click on the CA.org link by accident it gets worse!

Sally Ride’s 1977 letter to NASA fits in a single post:

"To whom it may concern,

I am a PhD candidate in astrophysics at Stanford University, and am interested in the space shuttle program. Please send me the forms necessary to apply as a 'mission specialist' candidate.

Thank you,
Sally Ride”

omg congrats!!

This ad is actually viscerally repulsive

@spavel.bsky.social

Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85 His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced.

Being totally not plugged into art world/history means flipping through NYT obits only to discover someone already did the sculptures I dream of doing ha

(gift article)

ugh, I really want one (it hurts sitting all day! but also taking moving breaks is boring!) but I work in a shared office

wait, the bevel matters?

I need to move 200GB of pics out of my academic drive in the next 3 weeks and just ughhhh

i need it

Wow, how heavy is your bike? That looks very nice! I don't have any major hills here in the routes I usually do, and I feel like having a throttle would be fun, but then if I have a throttle then that's basically a scooter I want, not a bike...storage is my primary concern (carrying up/down stairs).

relevant: bsky.app/profile/jess...

when are you gonna get an extra helmet

girl i just turned 30 i'm ready

Recently, I learned that men can sometimes be nurses and secretaries, but women can never be doctors or presidents. I also learned that Black people are more likely to owe money than to have it owed to them. And I learned that if you need disability assistance, you’ll get more of it if you live in a facility than if you receive care at home. At least, that is what I would believe if I accepted the sexist, racist, and misleading ableist pronouncements from today’s new artificial intelligence systems. …

Proud to present my article "Bias Optimizers" in American Scientist Magazine, on the ethical, epistemological, and social implications of of GPT-type tools "A.I." writ large. (I'm (Particularly proud of these intro grafs.) Hope you enjoy it:
www.americanscientist.org/article/bias-optimizers

I (current analogue biker) fear that if I get an e-bike I too will go down the e-bike to motorcycle pipeline

most people don't know, my brain is just filled with too much useless information :)

shh, Inditex is going to hear you!

hey, you can resell that stuff on eBay as "distressed"...

That said, I also saw this post today🤦🏻‍♀️...so I'm really out of touch with how low standards have become for even fast fashion.

www.reddit.com/r/fashion/co...

I'm always surprised when people post about their clothes falling apart because I've only had that happen once - sometimes I almost wish they would disintegrate faster so I can feel less guilty about getting new clothes! I also mend minor issues so I'm resigned to all my clothing lasting forever :/

This is the first one I've been able to keep alive after like 3 failed starts that all turned brown after a week :)

Ok to be fair I would purchase a warehouse of mangosteen

Evading moth damage for that long is a feat!