(I know you meant Oliver but) The Minions and the Light

Expanding through the stars forever, devouring everything along the way in order to just produce more of ourselves. There isn’t even the fun fluff of the Shadow in the Warp, lictors, or the genestealers. Depressing!

I’m reading this book "More Everything Forever" and it’s remarkable how in Ray Kurzweil's vision of the future, humanity just turns into the Tyranids

H1-B discourse is absolutely rancid on Blind and HN, it’s deeply discouraging

Gongoozler - Wikipedia

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1) what on earth is going on in the UK that they’re calling it this
2) is this only for canals there or can you be this for the Erie Canal or C&O

Have you read “Europe’s tragedy” about the 30 years war? Might soon be more relevant than you’d hope!

This exact phenomenon drove a huge fraction of the people I graduated university with to spend their peak earning years in the US. Obviously that is changing now but it's a decade+ of productivity Canada missed out on because building a fourplex in Toronto was anathema.

That's right. Any bike lane that can't accommodate the Thursday Night Social Ride is too narrow.

I don’t really get why the women’s course is always shorter, either. They’re all definitely capable of doing the men’s and it seems like laziness/“this isn’t the REAL race”

The “theory” is that more people will watch if it’s the same day because they already have the TV on and sat down to watch the men’s, and it’s less costly to close the roads for only one day. But everything else around how the women’s races are presented shows how much they are valued…

Back to consistently doing 120 miles a week on my bike!

The hubris was also waiting way too long to top up my sealant 🫣

The tubeless gods have punished me for my hubris by giving me a flat the one day I forgot to bring my pump.

I’ve done this with a lemon seltzer and an espresso tonic and it ruled

This also worked on a DB regional train I was on (after the fifth attempt)

We’re living in the ruins of a greater civilization

It’s a 2026 grey Renault Clio courtesy of Wikipedia

Bring these little dudes to America (54mpg for the non hybrid).

go to an academic conference

Any similar EU option? 🥺

Transportation Alternatives

transalt.org

This one rocks. He’s saying the time it can run without human supervision has been doubling every hundred days, so therefore email jobs are over. It’s the my baby will weigh 2 trillion pounds if current trends continue post.

I’m fascinated by the psychology of people who are willing to put their real name and likeness in the newspaper saying half a mil is “middle class.” The interviewees for “Uneasy Street” insisted on anonymity!

Clameur de haro - Wikipedia

In Jersey (the original one) you can still do a hue and cry to try to stop land sales or restrain people from removing derelict autos en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clameur...

Every time I see this kind of take I'm tempted to lean in to it. Yeah man, this week I'm using the dang computer to simulate Yang-Mills gauge theory. It's completely useless for anything in the real world and I'm glad of it.

People aren’t talking enough about finishing a bag of sour gummy worms on a long bike ride then slowly getting all the sour crystals once home

Quantum entertainment dynamics

The spirit of nonstop will never be conquered

Satellite view of the southwestern approach to Bruxelles-Midi/Brussel-Zuid

Regular Google maps view of the southwestern approach to Bruxelles-Midi/Brussel-Zuid, it's a bit zoomed out so you can see the yard a bit further away.

Check out the southwestern side of Bruxelles-Midi/Brussel-Zuid, Belgium's busiest station. It's kind of infamous for taking forever to actually get to your platform once you hit the final few hundred meters of approach (lots of nail biting about whether you'll make the Eurostar).

More people need to read Robert Caro, someone who can really make a Single sentence paragraph hit because he knows when to use them (rarely)

Multiple countries banned driving on Sundays!