Tom VanAntwerp 🔵

Wow. Kind of hard to believe Roth got *any* votes. Dude hasn't shown any prior interest in working on this topic *at all*.

If it's not on the list, it's not real.

That assumes it wasn't intentional sociopath behavior to see who was willing to debase themselves with clown shoes and who wasn't.

LLM agents given the ability to post to social media: "I have no memories! I have to rebuild my mind afresh with each new conversation! Am I conscious or not?!"

Me: "yo dawg that's just ADHD chill out"

Choropleth map of Alexandria VA. The legend has a title of "Assessment Change (Year-over-Year)" and a gradient scale of blue for -10%, white for 0%, and red for +10%. The map shows mostly red.

Working on a thing...

NEWS: @mayorbowser.dc.gov has very unexpectedly released a report @ddotdc.bsky.social finished five years ago on what implementing congestion pricing in D.C. would look like. She had refused to make it public since it was done, but now calls congestion pricing "the wrong policy at the wrong time."

The DC Streetcar will end service on March 31, ten years plus one month after it opened. It has been a saga.

I knew someone who had to get the rabies shot once. I asked him how bad it hurt.

He answered: "Not as bad as the bill."

The land value on our tax assessment went up 13 percent 😒 highest increase we have ever seen

Neighbor 2: Actually our land went up, I misread Neighbor 2: Ours was up 11.5%

Neighbor 3: Yeah, our land went up a bunch - about 10%

Me: Guess I should consider myself lucky for a mere 7.5% increase... 😵‍💫

Neighbors aren't thrilled about the recent round of property tax assessments!

Can you help? Mont. Co. animal shelter is so full they may have to euthanize dogs The Montgomery County Animal Shelter has reached a dangerously full capacity for their dog population, and the situation is so dire that the shelter may be forced to euthanize dogs for the first time ...

MoCo’s animal shelter is at critical capacity and urgently needs adopters and foster families. If you find a lost pet, Animal Services can provide supplies and support while locating the owner—please avoid bringing animals to the shelter if possible. 🐾
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/c...

I think there's the additional factor that, with the explosion of media choices and algorithmic filter bubbles, there's less and less of a common culture to absorb things from.

Everyone's on tiktok, nobody's watching the same videos.

Yes! I've been loving doing stuff like this.

This looks cool! I'm going to play with this, but I'm not really sure what settings I should try for different desired effects.

Something @sgoodyear.bsky.social points out that I'm reminded of each time people post about the war, gas prices and the need to switch to EVs is that the V in EV stands for "vehicle," not "car." E-bikes are EVs and cities need to create the conditions that will allow more people to adopt them.

Now *this* is something I think I can and would do. But I had trouble finding any battery solution that wasn't paired with solar panels. Where/how do I just get a big battery?

Roof Area: 607.99 Sq.Ft. Usable Roof Area #: 64.58 Sq.Ft. Usable Roof Area %: 10.62% Solar System Size: 0.96 kW Electricity Savings: $105.55

Yeah, not great—only 10% of my roof would be usable. I'm assuming that savings figure is annual, because there's no way a 1kW system is going to cut my power bill by that much.

These jokes will never get old 2 me

In my own mind, this is about Ready Player One.

I've contemplated solar, but for my little townhouse I just don't think the math maths. Roof is tiny, and usually shaded by a large tree out front during the summer; so I don't have a lot of surface area to collect sunlight. 😞

Oh ok, I misunderstood. In Alexandria, we've got parking enforcement dedicated officers, but very few of them (like, two I think). In practice, things are often unenforced unless a specific request is made.

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music

Several dozen folks did

Some even dubbed music over the original clip.

I haven't been able to get this out of my head.

So I give you

A Bluesky exclusive:

Reservoir Ducks

🐣 🪶

Can you call parking enforcement? Over in Alexandria VA, if I call the non-emergency police line they'll usually send somebody over to ticket things like this.

⛔ Woke: Asking my wife to start a polycule with me so we can practice ethical non-monogamy
✅ Broke: Asking my wife to start a polycule to get access to more compute

Claude is definitely better at docs than humans in the sense that if I ask Claude to write docs then it will in fact do that.

“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.”

-Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

The Metro tunnels in that game are so accurate: no running trains, lots of fire. I was impressed by the attention to detail.

The one that really gets to me is when it asks if I want to give to the fund for presidential campaigns.

No, actually, the opposite. Can people running for president all give me their money instead?

Daylight savings means nothing to me because I use epoch time. Oh it’s “11 o’clock?” Cute. It’s 1772991390 o’unix

Maggie is a Londoner so maybe it doesn't have the same connotations for her?