Eli Balin

LFG!!!

Bored with repeatedly reinventing the bus, the techbros pivot to reinventing the puppy mill.

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Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a picture of a boat you like.

This made my eye start to twitch uncontrollably.

This has been my position since five minutes after the initial law was announced. The "homeland" thing made me uneasy from the start.

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

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This is basically the second half of Neuromancer.

🎵Nobody loves them, everybody hates them...🎵

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

9/21/26

The original Mr. Peanut! 🥜 At first glance, this Moche ceramic stirrup-spout bottle looks like a figure wearing a hooded cloak. Amazing details and color. THEN you look at the back … he’s a peanut! Peanuts are native to South America and have been used in their cuisine for millennia. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

"the assessment did not consider the crocodiles" is my new metaphor for people choosing to just ignore the data point that doesn't agree with them

wizard boy transatlantic neurohazard

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The Greek god Zeus is now working as the mascot for Macy pachinko parlors in Japan.

9/9/26

Spending my precious evening time getting peeved at co-workers in spreadsheet comments because they a) didn't bother with column headers and b) used data that aren't useful for the current task, which I would've known in advance had there been headers identifying it.

what a time to be alive (derogatory)

There is a thing which I am supposed to have working tomorrow (which I did not know until Monday), and the thing underlying it is glitching in a way which makes no sense.

Just a reminder that there's a Will Shakespeare miniseries from the heyday of BBC historicals starring Tim Curry as Shakespeare and Ian McShane as Marlowe, and it's on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpxC...

Eli Balin [13.5 Stone]

I entirely forgot that I made this anti-ASMR video (Sound warning headphones users)

Now watching. I'm starting to get the idea that this is not the most accurate of biopics.

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Half-seriously considering having this done.

There were several Terran missions in single-player Starcraft where I spent more time gathering resources and building than actual fighting (modulo fixed defenses holding off zergling rushes). Being able to move buildings was such a boon to capturing new resource sites.

yeah boss, I made the spreadsheet people real fucking sexy, just like you asked

Too much Alf hog.

Less unusual than it sounds if you know that one of the largest deepwater ports in the western US is in Idaho.

Napoleon was born #onthisday in 1769. After the collapse of his empire in 1815, “le petit caporal” was imprisoned on St Helena, and while there started learning English. One resident of the island called his English “the oddest in the world” — publicdomainreview.org/collection/n... #otd

Harbour-kun, a friendly ship, is the mascot for Yokohama Harbour chestnut sponge cakes, which are shaped like ships.

8/10/26

THE STORM IS SAFE THE STORM IS GOOD BASK IN THE PEACE AND GLORY OF THE MANY

I find it fascinating that in the 1990s, the US managed to re-create early twentieth-century Vienna café culture only to have it gradually decay over the first quarter of the twenty-first century such that now most coffee shops are closed by six PM.

8/5/26