tempest67 @tempest67

Same handle in Bluesky and Threads. I draw things. Hélène Grimaud and Saul Steinberg fan account. Recovering after 15 years as a Googler SWE. Born Quad Citian. NYC for now Joined April 2007

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Paul Novosad @paulnovosad

5 months ago

I love this story

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Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris

5 months ago

"It's a little embarrassing that after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to one another." —Aldous Huxley Yehan Wang art

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owen cyclops @owenbroadcast

5 months ago

when driving around i often think about the paintings of charles sheeler (1883 - 1965). many of the things we presently see as visual noise, he found beautiful and dedicated his life to capturing:

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I love how people increasingly write about this stuff as though it were some great Happening whose mysterious effects we have to endure instead of, like, the most deliberately racist public policies of all time

Dion @2024dion

6 months ago

I do think one of the reasons America abandoned her cities is that the default way of entering them went from stunning neoclassical portals to bleak freeway decks. They lost their aura of grandeur and civilization. Spiritually enervating.

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Adrian @blagojevism

6 months ago

A city of natural-born chevaliers. Every man a true knight.

Block Club Chicago @BlockClubCHI

6 months ago

A Chicago man jumped into Lake Michigan to save a baby after a stroller blew into the water: "I guess I’m going in." blockclubchi.co/46jQHD5

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tempest67 @tempest67

6 months ago

I gave up and took away my mom's telephone a couple years ago, after she was nearly victimized by a medicare scam. She now has a cell phone that only allows a short list of people to call her. All others are blocked.

Nancy Rommelmann @NancyRomm

6 months ago

Phone scammers who promised my mother she'd won a Mercedes, home health aides who padded their hours, people forging my mother’s signature, and a relative who had her sign over her car. It's been a trip - and still is. Read and share; hope it helps realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/…

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Aaron Lubeck @aaron_lubeck

6 months ago

In my opinion, more than 75% of every urban planning, architecture, and landscape architecture program today should focus on “SPRAWL REPAIR”. The work is endless. And virtually nobody is teaching it.

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tempest67 @tempest67

7 months ago

@XLonewolfx21 @BurgerLab12 @RenzTom While fewer people died, the number of people getting sick stayed the same. Almost every child in the U.S. (3 to 4 million per year) still caught measles.

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tempest67 @tempest67

7 months ago

@XLonewolfx21 @BurgerLab12 @RenzTom Not only did I read the entire paper , I looked up the other work of the authors and investigated their approach to vaccines in the entire body of their work, not one sentence. Not only are they not anti-vax, they show how their zinc intervention IMPROVES vaccine effectiveness.

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tempest67 @tempest67

7 months ago

@XLonewolfx21 @BurgerLab12 @RenzTom This is a complete misunderstanding of this paper, which argues for the importance of zinc and sanitation, not against vaccines. Look at their other work and ask AI to summarize. Note also that your highlighted sentence says "and antibiotics." Are you against those, too?

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Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic

7 months ago

"This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable." ~ Hunter S. Thompson

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Dion @2024dion

7 months ago

I know this has been posted a thousand times but I want you to really zoom in and look at the top photo. The ornate facades, the crowds on the sidewalks, the pleasant mid-rise density. If this street were still around today people would find Kansas City downright picturesque

Frederico @FC9999

7 months ago

@2024dion “irreplaceable urban fabric” in KC???? I don’t think so.

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derek guy @dieworkwear

7 months ago

don't need to imagine, sinatra had something to say about liberal multicultural societies

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Boris Dralyuk @BorisDralyuk

7 months ago

Just heard Duke Ellington use a magnificent phrase in a 1974 BBC interview with Stanley Dance. Asked whether he regrets never having received a grant to sit at a university somewhere and compose in peace, he says he has no interest in such a stretch of “ornamental stagnation.”

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Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard

7 months ago

As you are breaking down Amazon boxes in your garage, think about the dignity and humanity of walking to a brick-and-mortar store, chatting with friends and neighbors you meet on the way, patronizing a local business and interacting with a well-compensated employee, and the wonderful convenience of gift wrapping service

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tempest67 @tempest67

8 months ago

Hahaha! I did this around the same age (long before Google, so I just kind of asked around) with Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. I ... did not finish. 😅