pabloniusmonk

pabloniusmonk, 1 day ago to random

Happy Towel Day to all who celebrate! ✨

Towel Day - Celebrating the life and work of Douglas Adams https://towelday.org/

#DouglasAdams #H2G2 #Hitchhikers

pabloniusmonk, 8 days ago to Texas

Texas made the wrong decision on toll roads

Lawmakers turned to toll roads to boost the TX economy & address population growth without raising taxes, but the consequences spiraled.

Some state leaders rightly regret the policies & laws that drove the toll road construction boom. “We were sold a bill of goods. We were just looking for how to find money. We now know that this was the wrong way to do it.”

🆓🔗
https://archive.is/8uXOe

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2024/05/19/texas-made-the-wrong-decision-on-toll-roads/

@dallasnews #Texas #TollRoads

pabloniusmonk, 8 days ago to Dallas

Goodnight, Moon. 🌙 Goodnight, Fediverse. :mastodon:

"It's still a photo and timelapse of Dallas, even if it's taken all the way outside of Dallas County."

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7Av7hKo74R/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

#DisasterFilm #Dallas #CrescentMoon #Skyline #LakeRayHubbard #Texas #MoonRise #Moon

Gorgeous time lapse video of the crescent moon rising over the colorful downtown Dallas skyline. In the foreground are the still waters of Lake Ray Hubbard with the moonrise and city lights reflecting and shimmering on the water.

pabloniusmonk, 9 days ago to Kera

France to name Dallas publisher a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters 🇫🇷 📚

Will Evans started Deep Vellum Press in Dallas 11 years ago — and has been a tireless advocate for books in translation, North Texas authors, North Texas bookstores and the local literary scene in general.

https://www.keranews.org/arts-culture/2024-05-17/france-to-name-dallas-publisher-a-knight-of-the-order-of-arts-and-letters

#JeromeWeeks #DazeAndWeex #KERA #WildDetectives #DeepVellum #Bookstores #Dallas #Chevalier #France #Translation

pabloniusmonk, 12 days ago to random

It upsets me that I played even a minute part in this by having used FB.

Mark Zuckerberg turns 40 aboard his new megayacht.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24156199/mark-zuckerberg-turns-40-aboard-his-new-megayacht

pabloniusmonk, 12 days ago to tesla

Whatever happened to @Chron on :mastodon: ‽ Why isn't the great Houston Chronicle 📰 tooting anymore‽

SpaceX isn’t paying its Texas bills, report says

A Reuters analysis found that the rocket and spacecraft company has racked up more than 70 liens.

"Brian Rozelle, an owner with Houston-based Hydroz Energy Services, told Reuters that if SpaceX called today, “I’d tell them to f--k off.”

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/spacex-overdue-bills-texas-19454904.php

#Tesla #Texas #Deadbeat @Chron @dsilverman #DreuhMarie #SpaceX

pabloniusmonk, 18 days ago to sustainability

Blue Texas doing its darnedest in Red Texas

Dallas moving forward with plan to entice residents to switch from gas-powered lawn tools 🏡🍃 🥕

"Proposal [to outlaw gas-powered mowers & blowers] was scrapped after state legislators passed a law last year that blocks cities from restricting the use, sale or lease of an engine based on its fuel source."

🆓🔗 https://archive.is/bBcfB

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2024/05/08/dallas-moving-forward-with-plans-to-entice-residents-to-switch-from-gas-powered-lawn-tools/

#EvertonBailey @dallasnews #LeafBlowers #LawnMowers #Sustainability #ClimateChange #Lawncare

pabloniusmonk, 20 days ago to tesla

First sighting of a Wankpanzer here in Dallas. It's not doing this otherwise lovely Spanish colonial home any favors junking up the driveway.

Can't believe it's the first one we've seen in town. We see so many Rivian trucks here.

#Tesla #CyberTruck #Wankpanzer #Dallas #IncelCamino

pabloniusmonk, 23 days ago to music

An FAQ About Your New Birth Control: The Music of Rush - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency 🎸

"No one has ever gotten pregnant while listening to Rush. Clinical studies show that when combined with watching a male sexual partner play air bass along to the extended solo in 'Freewill,' the contraceptive efficacy of Rush approaches 100 percent."

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-faq-about-your-new-birth-control-the-music-of-rush

#Music #Humor #BirthControl #FreeWill #Rush

pabloniusmonk, 24 days ago to Humor

"Tommy Lee Jones always looks like his son just told him he cooled a ribeye steak in an air fryer."

#Humor

pabloniusmonk, 26 days ago to genealogy

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Searched His Own Past and Made a Surprising Discovery

The ‘Finding Your Roots’ host talks about his family tree, giving up on med school and buying the house his mother once cleaned

🎁🔗:
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/henry-louis-gates-jr-finding-your-roots-pbs-fd59959d?st=3fb5a734omsp7j0&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

#FindingYourRoots #HenryLouisGates #Genealogy

pabloniusmonk, 27 days ago to Texas

Happy 91st birthday, Willie!

New book chronicles the history of Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic

https://www.keranews.org/arts-culture/2024-04-29/new-book-chronicles-the-history-of-willie-nelsons-fourth-of-july-picnic

#WillieNelson #Texas #KERA #WilliePicnic #Music

pabloniusmonk, 29 days ago to music

Anyone know of any Public Radio music stations here stateside that have a Mastodon presence? 📻🎵

(Open to Community Radio Music stations as well.)

Please boost for reach.

#Radio #Music

pabloniusmonk, 1 month ago to email

Help Keep Thunderbird Alive! 📫 📩

I donated to @thunderbird today to #freetheinbox. Join me to support communication privacy. (They need to add a Mastodon share intent on their donation page)

https://www.thunderbird.net/donate via @mozthunderbird https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/115.0/holidayeoy/?form=support&utm_content=cta&utm_source=thunderbird-client&utm_medium=fru&utm_campaign=holiday_eoy_appeal_2023&ref=modal_thankyou

#Thunderbird #Email #FreeYourEmail

pabloniusmonk, 1 month ago to Humor

"It's dead today."

"Elon must be posting on X."

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2024/04/22/editorial-cartoon-posting-on-x/

#Humor #EditorialCartoon #PoliticalCartoon #Cartoon #Tesla #ElonMusk #Xitter @dallasnews #MikeBogartSmith #SmithToons #LasVegasSun

pabloniusmonk, 1 month ago to random

Fairphone’s repairable wireless earbuds put the industry on notice

Fairphone’s impact here should be to lay down a challenge to its bigger rivals to use their vast resources to build an earbud that isn’t condemned to live in the trash from the moment it was born.

https://www.engadget.com/fairphones-repairable-wireless-earbuds-put-the-industry-on-notice-080033940.html

pabloniusmonk, 1 month ago to android

Fairphone wants to finally break out of its eco niche 📱

The brand is going global with better phones at lower prices

"Fairphone has plunged head first into its latest campaign by expanding into regions like Austria, Switzerland, and even Great Britain."

https://www.androidpolice.com/fairphone-big-changes-global-goals/

#Fairphone #Android #TimiCant #Technology #Sustainability @androidpolice @Handelsblatt

pabloniusmonk, 1 month ago to random

Amazon made it sound like there were real technological advances powering these cashier-less stores. 🥕🛒

The reality, as it turned out, was like an episode of Black Mirror

Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

"Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped."

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

pabloniusmonk, 2 months ago to random

My Mother Was the Keeper of Our Memories. Then She Got Dementia.

I always resented her fretting over me. But when she stopped worrying, I realized how much it meant to me.

🎁🔗
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/mother-dementia-memories-d01e809e?st=dwqb7mv33ikvgku&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

#AlzheimersCaregivers #Dementia #Alzheimers #SherryMendelson

pabloniusmonk, 2 months ago to movies

Tired of Streaming? Free Blockbuster Libraries Offer an Alternative. 📀 🍿 🎬

The neighborhood lending libraries have popped up around North America, offering a nostalgic return to DVDs.

Shortly after Free Blockbuster was launched, a lawyer for DISH Network, which now owns the Blockbuster brand, sent Mr. Morrison a letter asking he stop using the company’s logo and name.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/arts/free-blockbuster-dvd-movies-box.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eU0.8jUF.IUP74EA8vB-d&smid=url-share

#DVD #PhysicalMedia #Blockbuster #FreeBlockbuster #Movies #TV #BeKindPleaseRewind

pabloniusmonk, 2 months ago to Health

"Sweetheart, I've got good news & bad news..."

"In conclusion, didgeridoo playing improved daytime sleepiness in patients with moderate snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea and reduced sleep disturbance in their partners."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360393/#:~:text=In%20conclusion%2C%20didgeridoo%20playing%20improved,sleep%20disturbance%20in%20their%20partners.

#SleepApnea #Didgeridoo #SleepHealth #Health #Humor

pabloniusmonk, 2 months ago to music

Knew about his health issues. But this one hits hard. He was so very talented.

Karl Wallinger (World Party, The Waterboys) Dead At 66

https://www.stereogum.com/2255269/karl-wallinger-world-party-the-waterboys-dead-at-66/news/

#TheAlarm #TheWaterboys #WorldParty #Music

pabloniusmonk, 2 months ago to NFL

Some Kansas City Chiefs fans needed amputations after frigid playoff game, hospital confirms

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar/09/kc-chiefs-fans-amputations-playoff-game

#NFL

pabloniusmonk, 2 months ago to Humor

POV: You've just been thrown to your death by The Beatles. ☠️

#Humor #TheBeatles #Music #NoContextBrits

pabloniusmonk, 2 months ago to music

How 3 shades of jazz swirled together in 1959 to make 'Kind of Blue'

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, & Bill Evans & the Lost Empire of Cool

“Jazz today, when it isn’t utterly ignored, is widely disliked for different reasons: because it is old, or anodyne, or hard to understand. Jazz is passé. Jazz is niche. Jazz is the smooth soundtrack to polite brunches in restaurants w/ potted ferns & bananas Foster & clever young servers.”

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-08/james-kaplan-3-shades-of-blue-miles-davis

#Music @chrisvognar