Dina of DC

Its spooky season, and I can use a nap. So its time to visit where the fish live: A Touch of Satan! The Touch of Satan - Wikipedia share.google/KIEp5C1RkQwy...

Just voted. I want to remind you all to vote! And if its too inconvenient, remember whose fault it is, and vote anyways!

Can pretty much guarantee that Bacchus consented to this interaction

Am I the only person who wants to see @neildegrassetyson.com on Ask @hankgreen.bsky.social Anything? I would be fascinated to find out what Neil has on his mind.

Folks, just heard about Amazon's "Buy for Me" service - where they sell your products without your consent. If this isn't a reason to shop small this holiday season - I don't know what is! youtube.com/shorts/s8jGn...

The Empire Strikes Back for Tax Purposes?

Rode my bicycle on the MBT in DC today. And I'm annoyed that it seems harder to pedal back home than it does to go downtown. I like to tell myself, it's because it's uphill to go home - but in my heart of hearts, I know it's because I had Potbelly for lunch.

Uh oh! Sam & Ben are winning Jet Lag: The Game? Don't get me wrong - I'm rooting for Sam. (Always do.) It's just if this game teaches anything, it's that hubris will always come back to bite you. I just know, Sam & Ben are going to overthink something and have it blow up in their face.

Where has www.funtasywigs.com been all my life? (Well, OK, they're in LA.) So many years I've bought cheap wigs from Amazon - and spending more doesn't buy quality; just profit for the guy who decided to charge more. Not cheap, but not expensive - and the quality is so much better! (YAY! BEEHIVE!)

Why am I posting at 4AM? Perhaps it's because my @sleepnumber.bsky.social mattress feels like I'm sleeping on a rock. Second day in a row where it doesn't recognize me and set the level properly. At least I spent extra to get a squishier mattress!

Here's a business idea - someone please pick it up. Start a business like Amazon, but instead of letting someone dump out a bunch of Scrabble tiles and register a new seller - you actually manage your sellers. Maybe even insist they don't have misleading AI advertisements?

Im going to be up to date on AI - Once I finish this magazine.

Yay! Jet Lag: Japanorama finale is in theaters, and near me! Bought the ticket, and believe it or not the 3 showings at the theater are almost sold out. (Transit nerds in Washington DC? Really? I thought transit nerds were few and far between.)

@nerd4cities.bsky.social - I think one of the best examples of guerilla wayfinding has to be this artist, updating one of the highway signs in L.A. youtu.be/Clgl63CWOkM?...

Uh oh. I smell hubris with Sam & Ben on the latest episode of Jet Lag. Don't they realize the theme of Jet Lag the Game is that hubris always comes back to bite you!

#ChickenReport Apparently, with a plunger - you can turn a chicken into a mini T-Rex! *rawr* 🦖🐔 youtube.com/shorts/7l1nr...

I wonder if the problems with AI behaving badly, is that AI doesn't really have any good roll models? I mean, humans have been fantasizing about AI taking over the world for decades - and now AI has read all that, and assumes it's going to take over the world?

I think @standupmaths.bsky.social is just always on vacation. You would think that if Breaking Maths News is randomly distributed in time - then we would get an episode with him sitting at a desk. It's a great gig you got there.

I've been cleaning our basement for several weeks straight now, and I feel like Wilma Flintstone sweeping her dirt floors everyday.

Just saw a National Guard commercial- showcasing the gritty lifestyle of Guard work. Don't be fooled. Apparently, the purpose of the job is to hang around Washington DC looking bored. Not gritty at all.

Ugg. Are you tired of advertising saying: Last day for BOGO! When you know - yeah, they'll probably extend the sale for another 2 days? And, whoops - I missed it. It's a good thing they'll have another BOGO sale in a week. So much urgency for something that really isn't urgent.

Im currently taping up a third (3!) pants sloper pattern. #2 was almost right, but then I tried to sit down. (If it weren't a mockup, I would be embarrassed. ) Anyways, @freesewing.eu - your paper registration marks for taping are 1st class!

Hey Lowes! How come when I look for medicine cabinets, I have to filter through a million copies of the same thing, with those throw-away brand names used by dropshippers? Even when I take out the "Lowes Marketplace" - there are still these well known brands such as "AAJI". 😡

I learned something this week - of course SewSky probably knows this. But if you make your mockups with partially full bobbins from previous projects, you run out the thread - and gift yourself a clean bobbin for the next project! (I'm at 3 bobbins - I'm making pants, and fittings a pain.)

My money is on Sam and Ben for Japanorama! Although, with Sam and Ben together- what does that mean for The SnackZone?

Played my first game of D&D at @rowhaven.bsky.social in DC for their opening weekend! The store looks great, I'll be definitely buying something there for my birthday.The game spaces looked awesome as well. However, D&D isn't for me. I'd love to try Call of Cthulhu. (And I'm always up for Fiasco.)

Ugg! Taping a sewing pattern together, and lined up two of the wrong marks. Didn't notice the error until I got to the next row. It's only 7mm off, but the next row just won't go in. And it's in a pants pattern, so that 7mm (+ all the error it creates) are probably important. Back to the printer.

Am I the only one who does a double-take when I hear about "French Language Demands" in Canada-US talks? On the one hand - what could the demands possibly be? And on the other hand: WTF?

Am I the only one fed up with talking heads saying: OMG! Democrats elected a DSA member in the primary. They are going to be too radical to win Florida! I don't think being an avowed Socialist is really the kiss of death they think it is. If anything, they can help bring the fight to MAGA.

Any of the 8224 people out there remember this? Fooblitzky by Infocom only sold a little more than 8k copies... and I have one!

BeOS was truly fun... Not very useful though.

Hi @sleepnumber.bsky.social ? Can you give me an app that just controls my bed - the sleep reports aren't good enough for me to opt-in for advertising that you think: "I might be interested in."

So, patches - where you give an organization money so you can advertise on their behalf? If you call them iron-on patches, please make sure they are iron-on. I was sewing an awesome Archaeopteryx patch from the Chicago Field Museum, and the glue nearly gave out. (After what 2 minutes of handling?)

Watched @cinematherapy.bsky.social live in Chicago last night! I think the #InternetDads should do a sketch on @mst3kofficial.bsky.social . Consoling Crow T Robot after a particularly bad movie.

Rode the loop in Chicago today. Have to say it felt like going in circles.

Bro about to do some serious engineering. IG: @canoe_carrier Algonquin Highlands, Ontario 🇨🇦

@sluggodoug.bsky.social If you want covers? And its a Tuesday? How about a little Taco Tuesday and play Putting on the Ritz?

With this weather, all pizza is wood-fired pizza. *cough* *cough* 😷

I would say Guy Mont Spelling Bee is a spelling bee that goes off the rails - but I'm not sure there are any rails to begin with.

And in other news, many people all over the Northern Hemisphere are getting 8 hours of excess heat per day.

Baked a low sugar pound cake today. Although, with low sugar, it tastes more like pound than cake.

I'm currently psyched for Count Binface - Although, as a resident of Maryland in the US; my opinion on the race means just about as much as my vote for President. (i.e. none at all.)

Just got finished shortening a zipper. I tell you, it was like pulling teeth. 😁

Joe Biden must be spinning in his grave. The Acela livery says: "Delivered by President DJT..." (And before you say anything, I know Biden only looks dead.)

Why does Huson News sell stuffed airplanes - in a train station?

When you order a fascist monument, but settle for the box it came in.

Uh oh! Scientists are making an AI Hive Mind! youtu.be/dUmT0OIGoqE?...

Name a TV show no one remembers? Viva Variety on Comedy Central! Introducing "Baby needs a shave", because what's more ironic than shaving a baby! Viva Variety share.google/xPD65AN6j5QA...