Eric Schiller

Just as a reminder: enough people will share that video clip of the degenerate saying degenerate things. There’s no obligation for YOU to share it again to add commentary. It’s out there, everyone saw it, lets vote and get them exiled from polite society.

Oh look my results are masquerading as the intersection of Quaker/Braddock/King alxwhere #39 · 1,190/3,000 🟥🟩🟥 1. 119 pts · 1.75 mi off 2. 1000 pts · 33 ft off 3. 71 pts · 2.17 mi off alxwhere.com

I’m 30 minutes outside DC and we’re actually hiring in my department lol. DMs open if you have an urban planning background

Send this to all your family outside DC who assume it’s just peachy. Seen this repeated over and over with so many people, including ones who aren’t even specialized or former Feds/contractors.

I lost the prompt but you know what else has improved in the last few decades? Heat pumps are cheaper and more accessible. Game changer for heating and cooling residences cheaper and more efficiently so we don’t make climate change worse by using more energy to adjust to it.

I at least knew what the last one was and am happy about that. alxwhere #38 · 1,534/3,000 🟥🟧🟨 1. 175 pts · 1.44 mi off 2. 522 pts · 0.56 mi off 3. 837 pts · 925 ft off alxwhere.com

[crying in the Criterion Closet because they don’t have ERNEST SCARED STUPID]

I mean, when’s the last time we discussed the architecture of Five Guys? It would be better if Five Guys was full of bejeweled columns and bas-reliefs depicting monstrous serpents. We should fear the Five Guys are five heads on one chthonic entity

Cheesecake Factory made a bold artistic choice and provoked a genuine emotion in the viewer. Love it or hate it, decorating a cheesecake restaurant to look like a pre-Sumerian ziggurat worshipping a cosmic squid is the core of what it means to be human

Cheesecake Factory Architect: The vibe I’m going for is “insane sultan sorcerer who keeps murdering his wives and constructs an enchanted palace designed to forever trap their souls”

It’s good that cheesecake factory is decorated like an occult temple to an eldritch deity. Any restaurant can feed you cheesecake, only Cheesecake Factory makes it feel like part of a ritual

Sociologists refer to this week as “The Nightmare Before Christmas Week”

Maryland is everywhere if you know where to look

It’s the Aquefort Adventuring Academy Owlbear! Hoot growl! Hoot growl!

your yearly PSA: want to do something positive wrt the ecosystem while saving yourself a bunch of time and effort? skip the bagging and just rake leaves into a pile wherever convenient (bonus points if you do it under a tree). www.nps.gov/articles/000...

There is a kid at this party dressed as Barf from Spaceballs. The kids are alright.

The world right now feels like when I went down to LA to deal with my childhood bedroom after the earthquake. Everything formerly meaningful is in a pile on the floor and it's, OK, what's neither shameful nor broken beyond repair, and worth taking into the future, except it's every institution.

the guy she tells you not to worry about

🤷 alxwhere #37 · 2,181/3,000 🟩🟩🟥 1. 930 pts · 472 ft off 2. 1000 pts · 0 ft off 3. 251 pts · 1.15 mi off alxwhere.com

Lo Flo always on the right side of the issues

Also bless this town where a couple showed up at a party dressed as the local 311 system and a nosy complaining neighbor. I was here for it.

Let me congratulate infosec for really stepping up, this cyber awareness month has been going gangbusters! Let's not let up now, there's still a week of awareness to deliver!

Pwn day is a meme gift that keeps on memeing

A bunch of physical health stuff too. There’s a chicken pox vaccine now. HIV exploded and now is treatable in my lifetime.

Mandatory seat belts, car seats, and unleaded gas. Handling food allergies, neurodivergence, and all the other “we didn’t have so many X in my day” things. Yeah they either died or self medicated poorly. Access to mental health resources. Vegetarian food options.

Honestly this but with the grocery store not helping either. My dad shipped basic ingredients for Mexican food from south Phoenix to Michigan so I could cook it in college. “Ethnic” food was Old El Paso and La Choy if you weren’t in a city.

The Midwesterner in me is drooling. The fact that the Midwestern part of my childhood was in Michigan also makes me hate it on principal because Wisconsin. The fact that my local stadiums don’t have cheese curd stands… rage inducing.

after statehood we'll have to rename the airport after someone who isn't awful and while duke ellington is probably the most sensible pick i think "fugazi international" really rolls off the tongue

Ludacrisp. I will fight you.

Hear me out… we find all hundred or so variations of that one person who is in the XKCD comic keeping modern tech running and give them a different hobby. It has to be easier than making that hobby less exploitable, taxing billionaires, or anything else systemic and gives us time to reset.

Again with the varporware! Don’t make me tap the sign!

If I had a nickel for every time I was aware of a bit involving explosive gourds, I’d only have ten cents but it’s weird that it happened twice. (Other time was a throwaway joke on the before it’s time sitcom “Better Off Ted”)

The economics of AI & AI data centers gives lie to the assertion that economics is about “rational actors.”

Obligatory modified xkcd.