I feel like crap... And a car passed me with a kid about 9 years old sitting unbuckled, backwards... She, yes, she looks at me and does the airhorn arm pump with a smile. But I feel like crap from whatever stomach issue and poor sleep. I'm too slow to blow my horn. I watch them drive away, little pre-pubesent hand out the window now giving me the finger.

No matter what kind of day you're having (this is day 2 of some mild food poisoning and "mild" still sucks)... Remember this happened:

If anyone asks you if what you said was a lie, and you make these faces while that's being asked... You definitely lied. (Taken from Carney's bullshit conference today)

Being an adult means having a beer full of fridge on a Monday night.

If you don't think there's a difference between the meat and the cook and whatever else... You don't know. Wagyu Ribeye 1.25" thick.

If you don't think there's a difference between the meat and the cook and whatever else... You don't know. Wagyu Ribeye 1.25" thick. https://blossom.primal.net/e61a08ff7947459f404fdc54754032df1823cab5b53ed7e571b3ff9a89a4765f https://blossom.primal.net/f6fb33d76569a0a39acc8e4574fdb633dca25239586b5422ebabfdc3d2e71689 https://blossom.primal.net/3052a36fdc349e8a32874888f2c308d5577155781ae62fcd9314d6a382f15572

I saw a peak of blue sky through the smoke for the first time in days! Mind you, I'm just West of Dayton... And heading north later.

This wildfire smoke is nuts! Visibility less than 1mile. View from top of Blue Water Bridge Sarnia/Port Huron:

Ok... Had to go back because it's HOT and milkshakes can be for breakfast. Also picked up some wagyu tallow.

Finally got back to a Steak n Shake. It's been years and it's hard to find one where I can park a truck. No, I didn't have the Bitcoin shake... Nor did I pay in sats. Sorry. I trade my dirty fiat. Maybe next bullrun I'll pay in sats.

I finally got around to @Lyn Alden's first work of fiction "The Stolgard Incident"... Ironically during the period of questionable incidences surrounding Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham. If you've read the book or listened to the highly entertaining deliveries of @walker and @CARLA⚡️ then that last sentence makes a lot of sense. I really enjoyed this book, going into it completely blind as to what it was about. It was thoroughly entertaining without demanding too much from me. Lyn delivers on the tech space ethos of "You can just do things" in breaking out of her Macro Economic/investment space and taking all the tech/cyberpunk inspirations in this work that she just owns (including the publishing?). I picked out Philip K Dick, Aldous Huxley, heck even "The Lawnmower Man" which was originally a screenplay titled "Cyber God", as well the all too obvious namedropped Matrix, and there are nods to Akira and Marvel comic reference material... Plus maybe a smattering of YA Divergent or Roswell. I could easily see this book get licensed for a series on Netflix. It's so darn accessible without going too far off into William Gibson territory that may scare off those not immersed in cyberpunk. I loved the treatment of social media "core realms" and "edge realms" and the use of keys tied to identity. Without giving too much away, there seemed a bit of Black Mirror episodes as inspiration, too. All this to say that it really is a well crafted story with a plot that flows and follows the hero's journey as it should while developing upon a world we live in today and doesn't seem so far away in the future. It is frankly, very relatable. Perhaps that's the scariest thing about it. I mean, look, I writing this review on an "edge realm" knowing that the production of the audiobook brought three people together from an originally psudonymous space. And when it comes to Walker and Carla... Wow! Y'all need an agent. You should narrate more books. I don't know what Carla has more of: voices or wigs? Too many audio books I've heard are read by one actor without the range and envelopment of the characters that Walker and Carla deliver on here. If there's an audiobook awards then this performance should be submitted. Recommended

I know it's hard to believe but there was a man born in 1761 who went on to flight in the revolutionary war and then after help establish the county of Lowville, NY. His name? Freedom Wright. A man who fought for freedom and independence literally named Freedom Wright. You just gotta figure his parents were "radicals".

Argentina doesn't deserve to win this game. How the fuck are you struggling vs Switzerland when they're down a player? This game should be over by now.

I really wonder how much Sia and David Guetta make from licensing "Titanium", a song from 2011, to FIFA for the start of every game. All the other songs used this year are new.

Someone I follow got hacked on X (he was very critical of the Canadian government). Now, I know it's a small sample size but I can't recall anyone being hacked on NOSTR.

Lolz... Canadian Fear Media is warning Canadians to avoid travel to the US because of Cyclospora Parasite infecting fruits and vegetables. It's from contaminated water sprayed on crops and can result in "explosive diarrhea". Gimme a fucking break! What's not covered I the story is that the majority of fruits and vegetables sold in Canadian grocers originate from the US (or Mexico because climate); from the same industrial farms, even.

This past week I've wondered if @walker and @CARLA⚡️ still carry on conversations in the voice of Claire and Damion (just cuz they're very different from their normal voice)... Like do they hang in the kitchen baking an apple pie with those voices? And was Jade just Carla's "unamused" voice that Walker hears when he won't come in from the garden?