Greg
@elgreg.bsky.social
It’s me. @elgreg from the dead bird site. VP of tech at Slate. I like bikes.
Agreed. I have never not conflated the two of them in my mind. There must be a reason and this logic is good enough.
November 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Agreed. I have never not conflated the two of them in my mind. There must be a reason and this logic is good enough.
Depends on the pump. Portable ones can be tough. My little hand lyzene takes a few minutes and is really hard to get it over 80 psi. Definitely wouldn’t use this to replace a floor pump. I’d probably end up carrying both if I had an electric one just because of battery fear.
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Depends on the pump. Portable ones can be tough. My little hand lyzene takes a few minutes and is really hard to get it over 80 psi. Definitely wouldn’t use this to replace a floor pump. I’d probably end up carrying both if I had an electric one just because of battery fear.
I ride with folks that have them and agree. Fantastic. On my list of $$ bike stuff I want. One word of warning: they can get really hot so use that extender/shield thing if you inflate a TPU tube that has a plastic valve stem or it will melt!
October 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I ride with folks that have them and agree. Fantastic. On my list of $$ bike stuff I want. One word of warning: they can get really hot so use that extender/shield thing if you inflate a TPU tube that has a plastic valve stem or it will melt!
It’s great when someone has it on the group ride though!
October 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
It’s great when someone has it on the group ride though!
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Some things I've learned in my first few weeks:
1) There is a grey market candy swapping racket between janitors, TSA agents, CSRs, and everyone else who has to stand someplace all day at the airport.
Hi-chews, sour candies, and gummy anything are in highest demand.
1) There is a grey market candy swapping racket between janitors, TSA agents, CSRs, and everyone else who has to stand someplace all day at the airport.
Hi-chews, sour candies, and gummy anything are in highest demand.
October 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Some things I've learned in my first few weeks:
1) There is a grey market candy swapping racket between janitors, TSA agents, CSRs, and everyone else who has to stand someplace all day at the airport.
Hi-chews, sour candies, and gummy anything are in highest demand.
1) There is a grey market candy swapping racket between janitors, TSA agents, CSRs, and everyone else who has to stand someplace all day at the airport.
Hi-chews, sour candies, and gummy anything are in highest demand.
“Demonstration of knowledge” is amazing.
September 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
“Demonstration of knowledge” is amazing.
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![“Our corporations and, increasingly, our algorithms, also resemble these kinds of people,” he says. “They’re basically amplifying the worst of us.”
Kemp points to these “agents of doom” as the source of the current trajectory towards societal collapse. “These are the large, psychopathic corporations and groups which produce global catastrophic risk,” he says. “Nuclear weapons, climate change, AI, are only produced by a very small number of secretive, highly wealthy, powerful groups, like the military-industrial complex, big tech and the fossil fuel industry.
“The key thing is this is not about all of humanity creating these threats. It is not about human nature. It is about small groups who bring out the worst in us, competing for profit and power and covering all [the risks] up.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:474ldquxwzrlcvjhhbbk2wte/bafkreid6um3jug6z2ycpkfnr6u2f45ez66gxxzhdmvito2zwwn2smbtg4m@jpeg)
September 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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BREAKING: Inflation rose 0.4 percent in August and 2.9 percent in the past 12 months according the BLS CPI numbers. That's... bad news for Trump.
September 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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