Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

Big week for federal news, which means that as a person raised in Washington I have a continual headache from beaming powerful hate rays out of my forehead at people who refer to DC as Washington.

OAK, my local airport, wants to expand. I encourage other East Bay people to submit comments: https://www.oaklandairport.com/terminaldevelopment/

Here’s my draft (open to phrasing advice until I send it): https://gist.github.com/celoyd/e0d6fd9cd43d5b18517e8a62cea0f19f

My FYP was pretty rancid so I reset it and it turns out it could have been much worse all along.

Is Allosyncarpia a eucalypt, the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

This is the third draft and I will never post it: https://gist.github.com/celoyd/2f32a5a7e177f9935e130e5cb5f82ad0

Picked up some qvevri wine from the Eastern European supply store so the next bolognese is going to taste like it was fermented underground.

I think if your consumer product advertises an easily resealable package, you should have to post one video a month of each of the members of your company’s board of directors opening and resealing it.

I believe that if we want SI units to happen in the US, we need to use them (with conversions as necessary), but also, this is true. https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/110733195680813087

Avoiding thinking by mapping: an easy, sustainable mental health strategy.

Drafting and then deleting a talk page argument for why Wikipedia’s eucalypt articles are slightly mis-organized.

Toying with the idea of a linkblog – just web links with 0–3 paragraphs of commentary. Unsure what form this would take. Also not sure I would have the time to keep it going if I got a regular job again. Open to takes.

It’s such a classic MBA-and-no-sense thing for an exec to say. It’s beautiful. It’s ten thousand times more damning than “One former employee said he seemed to ‘drink a lot of his own Kool-Aid’” or whatever. It’s the perfect quote. Sometimes doing things experts disagree with works, but the guy who’s like “Did you know Einstein failed math?” is going to cause more harm than a supervillain could.