Ratafia - Wikipedia

I think they might be used in making liqueurs like ratafia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratafia

Calgary Wandrers hoping to cycle every road, pathway in the city Members of a local group called the Calgary Wanders are competing to see who can cycle the most city streets and pathways.

well this is lovely www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

are they actually assisting people with evacuation?

Your largest connected component is 1,945 miles, and grew by 23.4 miles in 2025.

In 2025, you completed 130 dead-end streets for an all-time total of 2054 dead-end streets.

Franklin County Road Cycling (most new roads @ 177.7 miles) Your total distance in 2025 was 6,446 miles, of which 615 miles were unique.

New for you in 2025 6.3 new miles per activity 1 new country 1 new state/province 65 new achievements Total miles completed: 6446.9 New miles completed: 615.4

Feels like at the very least I need to post my own...

Is this in atl? I didn’t know we had piano bars

Its possible to like more than one thing! 😉

I think my point is that the extensive accommodations that cities make to cars is subsidizing rural residents at the expense of the people that live in the city

Thats exactly the framing I take issue with: rural residents get to live their pristine natural lifestyle without spoil, while city dwellers must accommodate them and their preferences in the name of GDP.

My neighborhood was cut in half by a 12 lane motorway several decades, and folks that live there now have to deal with living next to that. Why shouldn’t we be able to advocate for reducing the lane count or slowing traffic or prioritizing other transit options here?

Sure, and good for them. To me these discussion often revolve ultimately around “who is a place for?” And in cities this is often tipped unfairly in favor of accommodating folks from away over those that actually live there

The US seems like a weird example though because we very often have no other transit options here. Using them feels like it’s confusing cause and effect: “people prefer cars because they’re amazing“ versus “people prefer cars because the system was designed to make all other options miserable”

There’s a huge amount of wiggle room in what should be considered “paying your fair share” here, especially mentioning externalities, that I thought by definition weren’t easily priced.

But cities are better for the people that live there when they don’t have a ton of high speed traffic and parking garages

in 2007, steve jobs promised an all-in-one device that would serve as a cell phone, an ipod, and an internet device. what he introduced next was the Mac Pack: a 135-pound backpack with a pull-over steel dome housing a computer monitor, a 14-foot aerial antenna, and a 900-foot retractable power cable

an unfortunate irony of computer is real things are fake and fake things, well, they’re real

R-RATED MR BEAN flees to a Midway Chicago bathroom
 as AMERICAN MR BEAN (Ken Marino) gives lumbering chase, destroying an einstein bros in his path



BEAN: hruUU

 (hiding in stall)



BEAN (US): rraaagh (checking stalls) aaAAAGH



frantically but quietly getting batteries out of his butt hole,

Sir!! You can’t do that!! Aaaah!!

Even even though the former childhood star is usually able to get away from his famous past in France, Culkin did share a funny story about a Parisian cafe that was using his name as its Wi-Fi password. The actor explained that when he walked into the cafe, a woman handed him a "Home Alone"-era photo of himself on a card. “A waitress just gave it to me and walked away -- their Wi-Fi code was 'Macaulay Culkin,"' the actor said. "When she came back, I said, 'I like your Wi-Fi code.' She goes, 'Thank you,' and I say, 'C'est moi.' She turned white and brought over the owner of the place, who said, 'I knew you'd come here someday.'"

Once again thinking about Macaulay Culkin walking into the Parisian café where the wifi password was “Macaulay Culkin” and the owner saying “I knew you’d come here someday”

An anime-looking girl that represents a Spanish train. She is dressing like a bishop with a long red and silver dress. The dress has the old RENFE logo in the low parts and the tippets. A silver thick string is tied in the hips. There's silver trimming and a CAF logo in the middle. Black boots, white long gloves. A red miter with a silver "RENFE" word and the old logo in yellow. A red pantograph behind her head. A wooden crosier with a shining sphere representing the old RENFE logo. She has pale skin, white long hair, glasses and red eyes. The background is a train for the 1970s resembling the girl's outfit: red, with silver roof and trim. There's basic data about the train, Renfe series 432, the nickname "Obispos" and the girl's name, Eleazar. Photo is copyright P. Cvikevic.

Introducing ELEAZAR! #Renfe 432 was the starting point of "electrotrains" in Spain, first covering mostly the northern part of the country, then the rest of it with excellent results. Its red livery gained them the nickname "obispos" ("bishops").

#鉄道擬人化 #擬人化 #trains #gijinka

here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road

A life-sized bronze statue has been unveiled on the island of Papa Westray, Orkney, in memory of the last known Great Auk Pinguinus impennis killed there in 1813. The statue is an exact replica of the preserved remains of the bird, which are held by the Natural History Museum.

Due to a bizarre code interdepency in Super Mario Sunshine, Mario can gain permanent aggression to durians. While normally, he can handle them gently, if Mario enters a sewer and jumps once, he will become incapable of kicking them with anything except full force.

Chances With Wolves

if this is your thing may i recommend www.chanceswithwolves.com

Mothbox - Wildlabs Award 2024 YouTube video by Digital Naturalism Laboratories (Andrew Quitmeyer)

Here's a super cool documentary about the Mothbox!

Learn about the development and use of this fun #openscience #opensource tool for DIY biodiversity monitoring!

youtu.be/1LGz3aWpeVE?...

well it's not about the camera per se, but who is controlling the camera. if it's a passive security camera that's always recording that's different from software deciding when to produce an image. who audits the software? who decides if it's fair? can the accused see the source code?

also, you're probably the perfect person to weigh in on this issue: what about the concept of being able to confront your accuser? i'm generally pro traffic camera, but when you get a ticket from one you are ultimately getting penalized by an opaque piece of software

whoa where is this? in town for the next week if you wanna grab a coffee!

It's not quite as online as something like Today in Tabs, but kind of a deeper dive in to broader cultural issues, almost all of which are internet related

Telling the Bees | Tell the Bees | Substack Exploring the intersection of books, sociology, and culture + the home of the TtB book club. Click to read Telling the Bees, by Tell the Bees, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscrib...

I like tellthebeees.substack.com

hell yeah i love when you make these