Flutterby™! From 2022-07-01 to 2022-07-31

Olivia Rodrigo - Fuck You (feat. Lily Allen) (Glastonbury 2022)

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Following along to the news two years ago: Reddit: I’ve discovered that almost every single article on the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by the same person - an American teenager who can’t speak Scots...

She Spent a Decade Writing Fake Russian History. Wikipedia Just Noticed.

A Chinese woman created over 200 fictional articles on Chinese Wikipedia, writing millions of words of imagined history that went unnoticed for more than 10 years.

Via meFi

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Sigh. Yeah, think over the next few years we need to see about enough battery to pull us through the longer power outages (maybe with more solar), and running wire to phase out our gas appliances. Not only are the climate impacts of natural gas too large to ignore, lots of evidence is coming in about the local impacts. Of course the "more solar" part is hard, household photovoltaic might actually have higher lifetime CO2 emissions vs Sonoma Clean Power's carbon emissions profile, depending on time of day generation. And our roof is pretty small... And I hate to have more batteries involved in anything, because they have a limited lifespan...

New York Times: Gas Piped Into Homes Contains Benzene and Other Risky Chemicals, Study Finds

Environmental Science and Technology: Home is Where the Pipeline Ends: Characterization of Volatile Organic Compounds Present in Natural Gas at the Point of the Residential End User

Abstract The presence of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in unprocessed natural gas (NG) is well documented; however, the degree to which VOCs are present in NG at the point of end use is largely uncharacterized. We collected 234 whole NG samples across 69 unique residential locations across the Greater Boston metropolitan area, Massachusetts. NG samples were measured for methane (CH4), ethane (C2H6), and nonmethane VOC (NMVOC) content (including tentatively identified compounds) using commercially available USEPA analytical methods. Results revealed 296 unique NMVOC constituents in end use NG, of which 21 (or approximately 7%) were designated as hazardous air pollutants. Benzene (bootstrapped mean = 164 ppbv; SD = 16; 95% CI: 134–196) was detected in 95% of samples along with hexane (98% detection), toluene (94%), heptane (94%), and cyclohexane (89%), contributing to a mean total concentration of NMVOCs in distribution-grade NG of 6.0 ppmv (95% CI: 5.5–6.6). While total VOCs exhibited significant spatial variability, over twice as much temporal variability was observed, with a wintertime NG benzene concentration nearly eight-fold greater than summertime. By using previous NG leakage data, we estimated that 120–356 kg/yr of annual NG benzene emissions throughout Greater Boston are not currently accounted for in emissions inventories, along with an unaccounted-for indoor portion. NG-odorant content (tert-butyl mercaptan and isopropyl mercaptan) was used to estimate that a mean NG-CH4 concentration of 21.3 ppmv (95% CI: 16.7–25.9) could persist undetected in ambient air given known odor detection thresholds. This implies that indoor NG leakage may be an underappreciated source of both CH4 and associated VOCs.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c08298

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RT 🆃🆁🆄🅳🆈 @thetrudz

“Do you work well under pressure?” Needs the response “is this job one that regularly engages actual emergencies (e.g. an ER, a fire department) or do you fabricate urgency through poor management, uneven distribution of duties and an inflated sense of self for upper management?”

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Just saw the typo: "that would have been chef's kids", and now I'm wondering what else the chef's kids would have been.

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The good news is that the Right has abandoned any pretense that the Supreme Court is making decisions based on the reasoned consideration of law and prior thought, and is just letting emotional reaction rule.

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RT madeofmistake ✨🍑✨("award" "winning" "cartoonist") @madeofmistak3

it's only sodomy if it's from the sodom and gomorrah region of mesopotamia, otherwise it's just sparkling butt stuff

RT Patrick Elliott @patrickCDEmath Replying to @madeofmistak3

It’s only lack of hospitality if it’s from the Sodom and Gomorrah region of Mesopotamia, otherwise it’s just sparkling being rude to angels and trying to molest them

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RT SUPERHOSPITAL @vrunt

you’re listening to 103.3 WFYR i’m sisyphus bringing you the same rock every night

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Sunday at the Lyke-Marie household involves discussions about the lifecycle of the Smith-Mundt Act, and interpretations of the 2013 lessening on restrictions of domestic use of government produced materials. Lest you think it's all woodworking and square dancing around here.

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So the notion is that we will paint these bright colors and mount then zoetrope like across the from of the garage. 6 more bodies to carve...

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I think if we extend the top right one off the side of the building, the next one in just lapping the side, this is a reasonable butterfly density. Now for colors...

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Discovered that my neighbor Mark is into cigar box guitars, and he sent me home with some of the parts to build a 3 string slide, so I'm adding a few touches of my own...

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First up, glue up a slightly expanded peg head board so that I don't have to bend the strings past the nut.

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Also on the chopping block tonight, this Yamaha has excessively high action so we're gonna take 3/32" off the bridge.

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(Whoah, we're) halfway there...

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I could probably grind a bit to recut the dimples in the peg holes, but I don't think the mill has enough reach to get there, so a touch of oil and now to shorten the actual bridge

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Cutting the nut slot for the cigar box guitar.

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The cigar box guitar neck goes through the sound box, but gets a recess cut for the top of the box, so I'm reinforcing it and giving myself some extra material to work with. Next I'll inlay interval marks.

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Well that's the sequel I did not know I needed, but now I think I do: Clerks III. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_lFOqQDRx0

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Kevin McDonnell for Petaluma Mayor kickoff party

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This cigar box guitar project is a silly diversion from things that would actually shorten my todo list, but it's fun to do "meh, good enough", and "what can I find in the shop to make this work?"

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At the Penngrove Power Museum

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Who knew there was a narrow gauge railway in Penngrove?

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More from the Penngrove Power Museum

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After so many years of being told that I should get my head *out*...

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With all of the aplomb of Ferris Beuhler proudly proclaiming "I've only had one lesson!", a few notes on my cigar box guitar at https://youtu.be/ip-dcxnFkWg

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Tuning is GDG, clearly I need better strumming and palm muting technique, because this is meant for nasty gritty music.

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California agriculture diverts 34M acre feet/year of water for irrigation https://water.ca.gov/Water-Basics/Agriculture, or 770 gallons per CA resident per day, but by all means let's concentrate on shaving a minute off shower length for water conservation.

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All of the pictures and comments about my first cigar box guitar in one page: https://www.flutterby.net/2022-09-11_Cigar_Box_Guitar

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Harvard Business Review: Why Microsoft measures employee thriving, not engagement

Thriving employees talked about a collaborative environment and teamwork with colleagues, an inclusive culture with autonomy and flexibility, and well-being support. These comments reference examples such as being able to have honest, non-judgmental conversations on difficult topics, with a focus on finding solutions.

Employees who weren’t thriving talked about experiencing siloes, bureaucracy, and a lack of collaboration. In these comments we hear a lack of agency and a sense for being a cog in a machine. In other words, the opposite of being empowered and energized to do meaningful work.

ZDNet: Microsoft researched what made employees truly happy. One result was startling

They said: "By combining sentiment data with de-identified calendar and email metadata, we found that those with the best of both worlds had five fewer hours in their workweek span, five fewer collaboration hours, three more focus hours, and 17 fewer employees in their internal network size."

Via /.

[ related topics: Humor Microsoft broadband Nature and environment moron Sociology Work, productivity and environment California Culture ]

As I try to make sense of the square dancing boom, it's... uh.... good and a little disheartening to see some of the cultural issues around the '50s and '60s celebration of "rural" laid out so clearly. Bijan Bayne on RogerEbert.com: Black Writers Week — TV's Rural Craze & The Civil Rights Movement

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Not surprising to see that the sex educator circles are the first people I see organizing monkeypox informational sessions.

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RT Threatening Music Notation @ThreatNotation

I lied, I don’t like sex. Put your clothes back on, I want to talk to you about how the interval you think of as a “perfect fifth” is actually an out-of-tune compromise brought on by the division of an octave into 12 parts

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So y'all remember that 10 year old who had to flee Ohio to Indiana. How Jim Jordan unsurprisingly took the side of the rapist. Kristi Noem called it a fake

Arrest made in rape of Ohio girl that led to Indiana abortion drawing international attention

Via https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1547266899498610689

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Yet again, it's a false-flag operation. That obviously faked arson and graffiti situation which combined a pro-Biden message with a circled-A "anarchy" symbol was, yeah, clumsy insurance fraud.

From a Twitter thread on such incidents https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1547038017394720775

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Twitter thread with lots of video about Santa Monica police support for the Proud Boys intimidating a Planned Parenthood into closing early

Via https://twitter.com/estarLA/status/1547029427803959296

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While I'm making notes of things I wanna be able to remember and refer back to, it feels like I should link to the stories and videos about the Uvalde police diddling on their phones to the sound of gunshots and children's screams in the background, or the Albuquerque police burning a 14 year old alive, and then lying about why they were pursuing the suspect (the 14 year old they killed was not the suspect), but I am just unable to even right now.

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A friend is using my shop to build a guitar, and said "we should get together and organize this place. So we did, and I'm documenting that it can indeed be this organized.

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For singing lessons I bought the sheet music for Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, and started listening closely to the song. Holy shit George Michael had some fucking pipes!

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Ah, Apple, where if you don't want a control to draw the background you have to be sure to set `.drawsBackground = YES;`

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Put the envelope containing the key to the church that the Vallejo Pioneers square dance club danced at in the mail. Knew the club was going to fold, but the finality of it is now real. I has a sad.

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In linking to this, Elf Sternberg wrote:

Love this (and not just because The Invitation is one of my favorite smuts of all time): monsterfucking is the consequence of the world telling us queers we're monsters when all we want is hot, consensual sex and the strength to survive that world.

Trans/Sex: Inside the queer fascination with monster porn

And then I started reading and thought "InCase, I think I'm a Patreon patron...", and, yeah The Invitation is by the author of Alfie.

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Shit is going down at Sax's...

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Fantastic read. Inside the Mind-Boggling World of the New York Antiquities Theft Task Force. Too many juicy pull quotes to narrow it down, but...

When people said, "Oh, wow, it's so great, the Louvre Abu Dhabi. It’s so amazing that they're bringing culture to the people." And my first thought was, no, that's just another market. You know how the Getty was first founded? In the ‘60s, they had to acquire quickly to catch up because everyone else—well, they wanted to be a major world player. But all these major world museums had been in business hundreds of years. So in order to catch up—I mean, it's well documented—they had to cut a lot of corners, right? Well, I don't know why people think the Louvre Abu Dhabi would be any different. They’ve got to catch up.

Via Metafilter

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Great read on the whole Twitter/Musk thing: The entire world is about to get a lesson in Revlon. A good set of reminders about who the board is responsible to, what a Twitter user's value is relative to how much say they have in the outcome, and so forth.

It's not that Delaware courts are literally indifferent to the plight of other constituencies; it’s simply that they don’t consider them to be the objects of corporate law.  I note, for example, that every modern Caremark opinion begins with an acknowledgement of the vulgarity of viewing horrible tragedies solely through the lens of their effects on stock prices, before going on to do just that.

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Square dance caller's school promoter refers to "your calling career" in marketing materials, and... uh... I tend to reserve "career" for activities which might have long-term net positive economic prospects...

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I think there's a good argument to be made that many of us wouldn't have been driven so far Left and become so "woke" if the Right didn't keep elevating such utterly fuckwit dipshit pundits.

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Yeah, today's Something Positive is pretty much every creative endeavor I try to engage in these days. Which reminds me, I really do need to take that online course on metal singing. https://somethingpositive.net/comic/pin-up-from-beyond/

RT Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer

she A 10 but the USAF is retiring her because they think the F-35 can fill the same close air support role

Sgt. Javier Esqueda, Joliet police sergeant who blew whistle on Eric Lurry's death in custody, talks about retaliation he says he's faced. I want to call out the word "but" in here, and how it relates to "good cop" and "whistleblower".

"I was a good cop while I was there, but became the whistleblower to reveal something horrific," Sgt. Esqueda said.

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"I've been trained out of my relationship with rage, and I'm really trying to reengage with it." MILCK, on Switched on Pop episode 276

You can't see it, but there's a "Compact" marking on that parking space about under the driver's seat...

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Saving out this Twitter thread of mixed density housing in Ottawa because at some point I'm gonna want pictures and examples of multiplexes in discussions of how infill can be done.

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I'm just gonna sit here and let y'all continue to blather on about academia being about education or creating some sort of better participants in society or similar bullshit, but: https://www.cbssports.com/coll...iversity-with-10-year-extension/

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Feel kinda dirty installing more cameras, but after some questions recently where the cameras helped dispel some fears, we decided to add a little more coverage to the street.

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Just a picture for a very negative review I'm about to write

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And a picture for the positive side of the review, a Husky sleeve puller I bought as the last resort from Home Depot, but which I am really impressed by.

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Been thinking a lot about cities and gentrification and identity a lot, being an interloper, and shaping the town I've settled in around me. And I just finished N.K. Jemisin is "The City We Became", and... Now I have more to ponder.

Yes, it is better to light a flamethrower than to curse the darkness, but consider a fuse as well.

It is amazing how different the world looks when I ponder that nearly every time I hear the word "accident" I can think "externality".

Why I have trust issues, #9473 in a series...

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This Grandma’s Dying Wish Was a Giant Dick on Her Grave

The grave of 99-year-old Catarina Orduña Pérez is now topped with a huge penis and testicles weighing nearly 600 pounds.

Via https://www.metafilter.com/196...A-Monument-With-Big-Verga-Energy

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Don't trust an aluminum step ladder. Ouch.

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Butterflies sculpture coming together

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From in front of the car

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From on top of the truck

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And a zoom in from the sidewalk

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If there's one evil for which I'd like Facebook to pay dearly, it's that it started the trend of now never being sure which modifier-key+<enter> now posts the message without confirmation, and which inserts a line or paragraph break.

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A simpler take on a stand for my repurposed flash-unit LED light

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Just more angles

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And one with the light on

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One more facing shot

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