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Personal account for personal comments, which are solely my responsibility and no one else’s. Argentina-born American, transport infrastructure professional. Started the very empty @evalpavement.bsky.social.

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and using the Windows Character Map just halts the flow.

I ended up buying a bluetooth number pad.

12.03.2026 02:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

and then I get no help and I don’t want the Spanish keyboard layout and also I don’t have a mumber pad… +

12.03.2026 02:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I tried that on deepl and it works too.
I’ve been typing in Spanish a lot over the past month-month and a half, and the issue I’m having is a small laptop and no ability to alt+164/130/129,etc,
for accents and stuff, and the software tries, but there are many ambiguous situations… +

12.03.2026 02:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

this guy, but more destructive.

youtu.be/F42qmFHNM-M?...

12.03.2026 02:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There is also Messina

11.03.2026 19:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This thread, skeeps: hope across the millennia.

11.03.2026 03:29 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Puerto Rico!

11.03.2026 03:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the Jacket
(I contributed Oresund and Bosphorus)

11.03.2026 03:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Bosphorus, Oresund

11.03.2026 02:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
S. Prokofiev : Sonata no. 7 op. 83 in B flat Major - 3rd mov. 'Precipitato' (Sokolov)
S. Prokofiev : Sonata no. 7 op. 83 in B flat Major - 3rd mov. 'Precipitato' (Sokolov) YouTube video by Romantic and Modern Music Channel

mood

youtube.com/watch?v=Zwji...

11.03.2026 02:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know, it’s not open to debate, apologies.

10.03.2026 23:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

well I was going to qualify the first claim because it’s the first 70+ day of the year, with sun, that has no equal, and it’s def the vibes.

10.03.2026 23:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
10.03.2026 01:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Brooke, I end up deep cleaning our window AC units weekly, including running a toothbrush over the panel and sticking my hand (Sometimes with a wire inside a tube sock to extend reach) and alcohol back where the fan is.
No mold, clean air. cleaning the filter is not enough.
(I use window units.)

09.03.2026 22:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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El pensamiento del General Don José de San Martín en 150 frases documentadas. | Instituto Nacional Sanmartiniano El Instituto Nacional Sanmartiniano fue creado en 1933. Entre sus principales objetivos, se destacan la investigación histórica y la difusión del pensamiento del Libertador General Don José de San Mar...

too many phrases to translate, I guess, and I should probably stop the posting because I won’t translate much from the Spanish, but it’s a worthwhile exercise, if you can read it, to focus on where there is some “balancing” and where there is not

sanmartiniano.cultura.gob.ar/noticia/el-l...

09.03.2026 21:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Here are quotes from General San Martin, conservative in my view (not in the eyes of, say, the Bourbons), but notice where he takes the middle road and where he doesn’t… 2/n+

09.03.2026 21:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Struggling to define a centrist. To me it is actually a word for a conservative, small c, someone who wants to maintain a consensus and move slowly.
It is definitely not “halfway between left and right” inasmuch as some political issues are binary on nature (eg the presumption of innocence). …1+

09.03.2026 21:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Maybe for different reasons I mean, Guyana already has 30x the production

09.03.2026 12:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

last night at midnight the DJIA futures were down 2% and this morning they are up 1-1/3% and late morning the Dow will reflect the weekend news and by close it will reflect the fears about tomorrow

09.03.2026 12:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just like the tacos, I’m going to take a little while from all these posts

Thanks for coming along on the taco tour of SantaCruz

09.03.2026 02:28 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I've only visited Glasgow in 2024 for Worldcon (a lovely city) and like many (most?) arrived and departed via the central station. So devastating.

09.03.2026 02:00 👍 186 🔁 45 💬 6 📌 1

🚲 🌮 🚲 🌮 🚲 🌮 🚲 🌮 🥛 🚲 🌮 🚲 🌮 🚲 🌮 🍻

7/10 tacos ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ experience

As we dug into the later taco spots, the group was slowing down and we were loosing folks.

We called an audible and rerouted to the last spot but the taco truck was missing!

Our group peaked at 20 people. Super full of life! (& tacos!)

09.03.2026 02:07 👍 36 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

In case someone doesn’t know abbreviation: this is the Korean stock exchange

09.03.2026 01:51 👍 27 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

endorse

09.03.2026 01:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
sunset with much orange and relatively dark shapes of cars and trees below

sunset with much orange and relatively dark shapes of cars and trees below

it was striking

09.03.2026 01:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rhoda Scott - Molybdenum
Rhoda Scott - Molybdenum YouTube video by ebonitelondon

youtu.be/N0ABtx7FyN8?...

09.03.2026 01:02 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Sunset with bright orange colors and dark solhouettes of a suburban landscape (trees and at least one utility pole)

Sunset with bright orange colors and dark solhouettes of a suburban landscape (trees and at least one utility pole)

Ah yes, the sunset reassuring us rhat there’s at least a 95% chance that we’ll still be here tomorrow

08.03.2026 23:17 👍 27 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

more tanking than thinking

08.03.2026 20:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A bouquet of three daffodils plus a spray of weed seeds sits on a kitchen counter next to a bowk of red tomatoes.

A bouquet of three daffodils plus a spray of weed seeds sits on a kitchen counter next to a bowk of red tomatoes.

Knocked over by the rain

08.03.2026 18:09 👍 481 🔁 35 💬 5 📌 1

yes but on a date do you set the time?

08.03.2026 17:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0