Evil Cylon

Evil Cylon

@evilcylon.bsky.social

Yes, THAT Evil Cylon. I'm hunting BEANZ.

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This is why I've been getting up at 5am to go cycling before the sun comes up because that's the only time the temperature is below 80⁰ fucking heat dome.

I feel influenced by this statement.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com

Re: that poll here that's got people a bit worked up: I am not, nor am I interested in becoming, a "Bluesky influencer." That feels like work. I'm on Bluesky for the hang.

I spent so much effort trying to get an adjustable conical burr coffee grinder. Okay, go to Target: none in stock. Best Buy, no luck. Fine 🙄 Amazon. So I order one, then they cancelled my order and jacked up the price. Nope. Order a different one: lost in transit. FINALLY got one at Walmart.

Okay so I love coffee. A LOT. Just about any way of making coffee, I have it, except for one of those cool Japanese cold brewers. The point is, they all use different grind sizes, and some methods can get damaged/clogged with too fine a grind. So now I have one, and I'm happy.

Well that's a disappointing lunar eclipse. Stupid tropical storm sending clouds up here, it's completely blocked AND it feels like Florida outside. I hate Florida.

I often get unsolicited emails from random factory reps who are trying to get me to look at the latest weird thing they are producing and they want my company to buy and brand, and sometimes I see something... I don't know, but it's some thing.

I should have been a sailor, except for the whole "I get violently seasick" thing. Post-Tropical Cyclone Iselle. Also explains the big ass thunderheads I can see out over the desert to the North, which look deceptively fluffy and cool.

Me two months ago: the buyer should probably buy 6 months of supply now. Memory and storage prices are skyrocketing. The next order will probably cost them 20% more. Me on Friday: Okay so the price predictably went up 20% Sales rep: WHAT WHAT WHAT WE CAN'T DO THAT

This is Captain Butthole. Captain Butthole is an invasive pin-tailed whydah. Captain Butthole attacks any birds that go near HIS bird feeder, and is of a species of brood parasites. Captain Butthole is a flying butthole, and I'm hoping that Lieutenant Cooper's Hawk comes and visits.

This is Eddie Lizard, a Western Fence Lizard (a bitty baby one). Eddie snuck into our warehouse but I caught him before he could get stepped on or run over by a forklift. Eddie is now living in front of the office amongst the shrubs, living The Good Lizard Life.

Getting exercise by biking gets me a lot of cheerful encouragement from men driving by in pickup trucks such as "(something something something) PETTING ZOO AAAAAAAAHAHAHA".

Fun quotes from Lauren Boebert: "What an adult chooses to do in their lives, that's fine. Just leave our children out of it." "the sexualization of our children"

🚨 BREAKING: Tyler Boebert, 21, son of Rep. Lauren Boebert, charged in new Garfield County felony case. 5 counts incl. sexual exploitation of a child. Bond $10K, released Aug 9. He is presumed innocent. Court records + full story: muckrakers.today

Anyone ever try a slackboard? I'm just thinking about it to help work on my core/balance as part of my Middle Age Health Revitalization. Biking 5 days a week, weights three days a week, martial arts class once a week. I mean yeah I don't want to be fat, but I want to get fit.

Canadians: I want to go to Canada next winter. I need a local that's posh, has good food and shopping in all price ranges, and (the most important) has good skiing. Already looking at Whistler, but where else?

If course the one interaction I get is a fake Palestinian bot.

Evil Cylon@evilcylon.bsky.social

Fun fact: there are possibly 100m wandering "rogue" black holes traveling through the Milky Way Galaxy. But don't worry, we'd be fried in seconds as soon as we were close enough to experience the gravitational effects.

I love northern OC. "Omg I saw a Hispanic on a bike he must be up to no good". Or he's... You know, riding a bike? Yorba Linda 🙄 incidentally that's where Richard Nixon was born.

Neighbors were probably creeped out by the weird lady taking pictures of their front wall at 10pm, BUT a cute gecko ran/wiggled across my path and I had to take a picture.

I can confirm, after spending a few hours paddleboarding, that Sephardic Jews suck at tanning every bit as much as Ashkenazi Jews. Your move, Mizrahim. I have the lamest looking sunburn.

Now summer has legit started, when you see the cumulonimbus over the SBO and SG mountains, but you can't tell if they're normal clouds or pyrocumulonimbus from the start of Fire Season.

Holy crap, are MAGA really this gullible that they would click the link thinking they would get a $5,000 check? I'm just kidding, I already know the answer.