it’s really just the worst stuff
former software engineer at twitter before the apartheid kid took over. denver. mostly post about my native landscape project and ska
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it’s really just the worst stuff
i have a plan and it’s called offering a bunch of high school kids on my street cash to move it for me
i’m 18 months into converting 1700sqft of lawn into a native prairie landscape and definitely underestimated how much work that is. i mean look at this pile of mulch i just got killing off kentucky bluegrass is way harder than i thought it’d be
Denver now has two purebred herds of its own and is using those to repopulate bison across the plains in partnership with native tribes. www.kunc.org/regional-new...
I shared it with the conservationists who run the reserve and they were thrilled :)
Not gene editing but check out what CSU Fort Collins is doing to ensure the health of bison that have not been crossbred with cattle. source.colostate.edu/northern-col...
I happened to be at the right place right time to capture one of the first photos of takahē mating in captivity at Zealandia in Wellington!
By the time I graduated high school in 2008 I'd already been through two shootings. This isn't exactly new. Which is ofc not to belittle what students today are going through, just to say this country's been failing kids for a long time.
he wasn’t on tv ten hours a week before
chucky kirk was a shit human being and i refuse to mourn his death
and some of us are forever grateful that we totally bombed the gre
that guy who pushed a peanut up pikes peak with his nose
i’d rather see aoc rise to speaker personally. more powerful than veep anyways
not sure any blue state has more disappointing senators than colorado okay okay new york
i am in the same boat. the class was helpful.
i took a firearms course earlier this year and a lot of the other attendees were trans people looking to protect themselves
i swear, the corporate counsel i work with did more due diligence in picking between the mit and apache2.0 licenses for a project we're open sourcing than the pentagon did in killing these people
21st century frank burns
has any state moved more to the left during trump years than CO? pretty sure we already hate him here plenty
Yeah this was the period in the mid 90s between the first gulf war and its move to Pearl.
I grew up driving by the Missouri all the time when it was in the mothball fleet in Benicia, CA. Visiting it in person in Honolulu was incredible.
what the hell kind of shrooms do you need to come up with this
it's not a tj's but there's a liquor store in boulder with a vought f4u corsair suspended from the ceiling
i believe that's called austin powers
repeal the… fifth amendment?
costco has good prices on champagne fyi
removing a bunch of tree of heaven from my backyard rn (following the psu guide, don't worry) and i would like to mail the smell to the author of this paper
I live in Denver and I’m thinking about getting a pair of big wheeled tree planters and putting Chicago Hardy Figs in them. I’ve got space in the garage to stash them in winter.
i've been keeping a bottle of veuve cliquot chilled ever since inauguration day waiting for the moment it finally happens
times like these one answer calls out from the deep: peach crumble
I swear Polis got kicked in the head last fall or something. His bridge-to-nowhere debacle was just sad.
that’s why i asked if 20kwh is necessary. depends on what you’re trying to do.
plus my hyundai has a 77kwh battery and supports v2l so i can top off the home backup from that if needed
do you need 20kwh? i installed a 5kwh jackery system with grid tie-in (no solar panels) for under $5k enough to back up critical utilities (sump pump, lift station, gas furnace blower, internet) and both kitchen fridge and garage freezer for days
rockies fans at least have fun
that's from logan lucky, which came out between spectre and no time to die great movie, underrated.
the software engineering equivalent of farting in the elevator
i’m a software engineer my employer pushes the AI coding assistant very heavily. last few weeks it has increasingly suggested not just bad code but outright syntactically invalid code yeah i’m not too worried about job security and LLMs
national guardspeople signed up to pay for college and help out with natural disasters, not do any of this. they aren’t ice
colorado and new mexico can set aside our petty differences over chile so they can join us with the pnw alliance. bonus: reborn nafta route we will enjoy friendly relations with our california comrades and the great khan of the plains while fortifying the borders with greater texas and the csa
having all my daily needs within walking distance
have you ever read about the HR department at bank of america? apparently they’re like an internal secret police because that’s what the execs want
also my experience with anxiety meds is that they also reduce anger and irritability time for basic universal lexapro
we’re gonna aim bill kristol and the neocons squarely at el salvador
I went to a singles cooking class and it was like ten women and two dudes. My fellow dudes, go where the numbers are in your favor
worlds most expensive smash therapy
colorado had to pass a state law clarifying that letting kids walk to school or play outside is legal! it’s not just helicopter parents, but people calling the cops on parents who _aren’t_ paranoid
go back to highlands ranch
also, 600 troops? that is... not enough to do much of anything
meanwhile costco keeps boringly catering to a diverse set of customers and customers are rewarding them with money a strategy so simple that the rest of america’s executive class refuses to see it
letterkenny did an episode about charlottesville (without ever naming it) and the nazi said almost exactly that to the indigenous characters. then they kicked his ass. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JObn...
my newish hyundai reads speed limit signs from its own cameras
cutting off japanese oil supplies from indonesia was essentially the beginning of the end towards the end, japanese naval commanders were hijacking german subs and forcing them to transport barrels of oil to the home islands. they were _desperate_
did he get kicked in the head last fall or what
embrace calvin fischoeder thought
this is like a deleted scene from sorry to bother you
amazing how much you can impress people with doing basic shit like this i assume nobody will do pre-reads so i open meetings with a silent read, followed by comments in the doc, then using the rest of the time to address the comments. also helps quiet people not get steamrolled in live meetings
one of the catchphrases on letterkenny was “sounds like your old man shoulda kicked your ass another time or two” and i don’t want to endorse parental violence but also… yes
for those in the area: denvertoollibrary.org
I’ve been taking woodworking and home improvement classes and have found those are also great places to meet women. Plus taking eg a plumbing class is a good sign you’re not suffering from peter pan syndrome
anyways now it’s a bank
eventually he stated his throwing concepts at the wall. because who doesn’t love a raw bar run on the basis of “sure why not”
the food was avant-garde in the extreme. and also just bad.
he had the highest rent of any restaurant in town and reportedly never paid a dime
he brought in famous chefs and bartenders from los angeles. i used to be a cocktail snob but when i read the drinks menu i had no idea wtf was going on
the son of the kaplan test prep fortune tried to open a restaurant in boulder it was a shit show of legendary proportions
an audience member at the comedy club where i do improv once filed a complaint because someone did a set about divorce the theater told him to kick rocks
we’re all thinking it
i’m 35 and haven’t gotten laid in a decade and a half (for a litany of mental health reasons) and i think about this a lot
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the only remotely healthy space i’ve found for this online is reddit’s r/datingoverthirty because the mods strictly ban manosphere content i haven’t gotten laid in 15 years and you gotta put in the work to find help that isn’t misogynistic trash
we can’t do a mid-decade redistricting here without a state constitutional amendment. doable but not a slam dunk
death of stalin was not a documentary but it was also not not a documentary
restricting my bike to parks will definitely help me get to work on time. great idea.
wait did something happen
but consider: boobs
did they see what we did to target? do they think changing the channel is somehow harder than changing our shopping habits?
i mean, are we sure that cash pile exists? or isn't being used to prop up the rest of his companies? i worked at twitter before the takeover, i know the business there. he's burning billions keeping it running, esp with the opex required for xai. that capital's gotta come from somewhere.
i met him at a conference once. three weeks tops.
i started doing improv about a year and a half ago and i cannot overemphasize the joy of an activity that is completely offline
the denver mayor knew what he was talking about when he said the wine moms would rise up against ice
I tried last year with all seeds but the weeds got out of control and I couldn't get ahead of it (also didn't cut deep enough with the sod cutter so the lawn came back). Now I'm solarizing and starting over with plugs in September. Also building a wildlife hedge! Native roses and currants mostly.
I planted some native penstemons and coneflowers last fall in unamended but fertile soil. They took off this year to the point I had to put in supports so they don't flop over. Anecdotally I've heard this can lead to weaker plants when it comes to native but I dunno if that's true.
I recently ripped out 1700sqft of lawn to turn it into short grass prairie. (Denver) Buffalograss and blue grama will be the bulk of it.
I wasn't at Meta but I did work at Twitter for seven years and at least in my circles at the company, people were pretty aware that we were lucky as hell to be riding the tech wave.
Denver has this too! Needs to add street sweeping notifications, but at least you can get those by sms.
Sold out crowd of 2000! Mostly funny stories about stuff behind the scenes like Cary busting his foot on the first day of shooting and being afraid to tell Rob Reiner
a few years ago i went to a screening of the princess bride with a live q&a with cary elwes, who spent most of it talking about how andre the giant was the nicest guy ever
suzy eddie izzard and weird al?
have i thought about secretly drilling holes in the ailanthus in my neighborhood and injecting a little gly? maybe maybe not
cutting ailanthus without first treating with glyphosate or triclopyr makes the problem worse. the tree thinks it's under attack and sends out shoots everywhere, and the root system from 1 tree can be 100 ft wide
colbert/lamar 2028
honestly shocked they’re net positive about denver. colorado republicans shit on this city all day long and love to claim it’s a hellscape
Homan was on MSNBC yesterday.
our large adult governor
just say he’s a pedo, barack, this is taking forever
Once had a work trip to Houston, mostly SF people, and they were blown away by both the quality and value of the Houston food scene. We did the 10 course prix fixe at Underbelly (RIP) for like $70pp with drinks! Food is the one thing I miss about living there.
