Aaron Parecki

The cat who was completely obsessed with my bump when I was pregnant is quite uninterested in the baby now that she's out. It's a weird way to find out that my cat is a Republican.

Um. Has anyone stopped to consider that we aren’t very good at things and this will just cause a whole new set of terrible problems

In 12 days we're going to try and deflect an asteroid by ramming it - to prove a way to protect Earth. The dinosaurs wished they had @NASA.
Details: https://dart.jhuapl.edu/

definitely seems like an enormous green light falling from the sky as the queen lies in state and a new king is crowned is the kind of thing that would have led to bloodshed in ancient times

Ever wondered how a QR code works?
No, me neither but it's low-key fascinating.

(Warning, there is some extremely nerdy shit here.👇 )

My rule is I'll only promote a product if it's something I like, would actually use, and would be willing to purchase with my own money. Which excludes 99% of companies doing sponsor deals

Have your own email list.
Have your own website.
Have an off platform membership.
Have your own platform.
Have multiple payment processors.
Have multiple income streams.
Have your own intellectual property.

City will meet with neighbors about planned removal of tree and traffic circle on NE 7th and Tillamook

https://bikeportland.org/2022/09/13/city-will-meet-with-neighbors-about-planned-removal-of-tree-and-traffic-circle-363418

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

This concept from The Verge also aligns with the @indiewebcamp philosophy of building and maintaining your presence online from your own site and only syndicating it elsewhere: https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Touch screen UI’s in cars are going to kill someone. It forces me to look at the screen instead of the road. Physical knobs and sliders allowed you to use your sense of touch to replace your eyes.

This made me smile to an unreasonable degree 😂

We received an email asking why Sunday's single lightning bolt over the Portland's West Hills was so incredibly loud. Thanks Bix for asking! It's an ~10x stronger "positive"polarity bolt than the far more frequent "negative" ones. Here's the details: https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/positive #ORwx

really weird that the english language doesn't have a common word for one of this kind of animal

ok so in the uk the republicans (lowercase) are the good guys and also the left uses red as their color and this is all very confusing

So there's a particular quirk of English grammar that I've always found quite endearing: the exocentric verb-noun compound agent noun.

It appears in a definite, remarkably narrow period - not more than 150, 200 years - before dying out, leaving loads of legacy words in its wake.

Beat me to it! @E_Briannica has gone deep on what she calls "cutthroat compounds" -- check out links on her site. http://www.encyclopediabriannica.com/?p=57

Accurate

condolences to all the blockchain people who thought they were building the future but were actually just building a different starbucks loyalty program. what an indictment

We miss you!!