@bglarkin

Here by accident. Left-handed by choice.

 Los Angeles, CA
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Joined December 2012
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"My New Year’s Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envys, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.” — Patricia Highsmith nytimes.com/2021/11/08/books… nytimes.com/2021/04/19/t-mag…
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Terrific thread, ICYMI.
Randall Munroe
@xkcd22 Jan 2023
My mom sent me some papers that belonged to my grandfather, Darwin Randall Crum, which included a collection of “Disfrustrating Puzzles” he created
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The consummate singer. youtu.be/rPOlakkBlj8
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#VisionZero Canada@VisionZeroCA5 Aug 2022
"The goal of the #BanCars movement is not to render cars obsolete. It’s to give ppl the choice to live a life where car ownership, & dependence are unnecessary — regardless of socioeconomic status or physical ability to operate an automobile." 😎 MUST-READ jalopnik.com/what-i-mean-whe…

What I Mean When I Say 'Ban Cars' - Jalopnik

Perhaps you’ve seen the slogan float by on social media. Maybe you’ve spotted it on a sticker on someone’s bike. It has even flashed up on a hacked traffic alert sign:

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Google N-gram showing the frequency of usage of the word “terroir” in books published between 1980 and 2008 in American English. SOURCE: ediblegeography.com/land-lan…
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slow ottawa@slowottawa1 Jul 2022
Presiding over City Hall Square on the Richshuset building in Copenhagen, 'The Weather Girls' sculpture will help launch this year's Tour de France.
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Nothing says Made in Japan like ...
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youtu.be/GnLvIXqVBqw

she done already done had herses!

Rupaul explain what she done already done had herses means

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slow ottawa@slowottawa4 May 2022
Two cheers for hopeful pessimism ... aeon.co/essays/in-these-dark…

In these dark times, the virtue we need is hopeful pessimism | Aeon Essays

We must keep the flame of pessimism burning: it is a virtue for our deeply troubled times, when crude optimism is a vice

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Cycling in Los Angeles today. Which I mostly do on sidewalks. Google sez to take official bike route (complete with apotropaic #sharrows) to left. Think I'll pass. #bikinginLA #noboddybikesinLA
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Another day, another Vergangenheitsbewältigung.
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Oh, the joys ...
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#VisionZero Canada@VisionZeroCA19 Jan 2022
Replying to @tomflood1
👆Well said (as usual) Tom. People are often mystified when they meet safety campaigners who don't promote protective & reflective gear for people walking & cycling. We have our reasons ...👇 xitter.cf/VisionZeroCA/status/10… #pedestrianblame #bikehelmets
#VisionZero Canada@VisionZeroCA26 May 2018
Replying to @VisionZeroCA
If #cycling #helmets mitigate injury then we should promote them & even mandate them, right? Wrong, sez Dr. @HarryRutter. Cycling is benign, helmet protection is meagre, & we need to focus on eliminating the cause. (@peterwalker99, How Cycling can Save the World, p. 163.)
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Small Museums Canada@smallmuseumsca17 Jan 2022
"For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?" bbc.com/future/article/20220… #speeping #history #sleephistory

The forgotten medieval habit of 'two sleeps'

For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?

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in short, they are the same thing. 😐
Happy Birthday Hawk Man. youtube.com/watch?v=r9hN0RO5…
Best Xmas present ever. Painting for a Mexican pulp novel, purchased some years ago in Baltimore.
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Last week I devoured Labatut’s When We Cease To Understand the World, a book about crazy-making modern science. Felt like I'd experienced nothing like it until I watched Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg 2 days later. Both should be at the top of the @weirdstudies reading/viewing list.
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