Greg Smith

Greg Smith

@notthatgreg.bsky.social

Engineer, Dad @notthatgreg@masto.ai

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What makes Canadian national treasure Michael deAdder more than a superb political artist is his ability to penetrate language to find deeply insightful analogies, metaphors, or wordplay!

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If Jared Kushner paid €110m to buy an island in Albania that has no fresh water from a guy who did not own it, it would help explain why his negotiations with Iran on behalf of the US have not been entirely successful

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🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

It's fairly difficult to screw up the design of something as simple as a garden hose washer. But a good way to do it, is to completely disregard the entire purpose of the thing, and put your raised logo on not just one but BOTH of the sealing surfaces. #Yardworks

On both of the washers I have, each logo is diametrically opposite the logo on the other side; this at least keeps the thing from being wedge-shaped. But this is evidence that the designers knew the logo would degrade sealing, and did what they could to mitigate that. Other than, you know, no logo.

Any word on the carbon footprint to freeze all that ice, and then have the fire department come and melt it all? Dumbass stunt

Stereogum@stereogum.com

Drake is rolling out ‘Iceman’ again. The other day he spooked Torontonians with an explosion for a music video, and now he’s hidden the album’s release date in a giant ice structure. stereogum.com/2496426/drak...

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From The Rocket: A Ladybird ‘How It Works’ Book series ‘654.’ Originally published in 1967. Illustrated by B.H. Robinson. #artemis

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Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

CBC trying to put up key points from the speech in text. This is pointless. It's all BS. "Gas price as low as 2.20" "No wait gas as low as 1.90 in some places" "Magnets will be destroyed by water" "Everything is going amazingly well, because of me, but it's all terrible and that's not my fault"

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Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, passed away today from cancer. Despite what he later became, he was an enormous inspiration to me, and I think a lot of the comedic flow I do still derives from him.

Short Track Racer, early concept model

Global Museum@globalmuseum.bsky.social

Archaeologists have uncovered a toy that offers a glimpse into the daily life of people from the Chalcolithic Period. This simple object, created between 5500-3000 BC, shows that even ancient societies valued play and imagination. #globalmuseum #Toys