Ivan Kowalenko
@ivkowalenko.bsky.social
Video gopher. Mega nerd. Cat enthusiast. Dogs are cool too. I speak children's cartoons. Ask me about my SDR.
Here in Minnesota we don't even have overflow parking. We just commandeer parking lots from shopping centers all around the metro and run shuttles from there. Jerks who tried to manufacture their own overflow parking in the surrounding residential neighborhood made the city install parking meters.
October 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Here in Minnesota we don't even have overflow parking. We just commandeer parking lots from shopping centers all around the metro and run shuttles from there. Jerks who tried to manufacture their own overflow parking in the surrounding residential neighborhood made the city install parking meters.
It'll probably be inaccurate though. We had protests out in suburbs like Eagan and South Saint Paul. I'm going to wager they may slip through the cracks when people make estimates.
October 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It'll probably be inaccurate though. We had protests out in suburbs like Eagan and South Saint Paul. I'm going to wager they may slip through the cracks when people make estimates.
Vega is 25ly from Earth. Assuming a trip to Mars is a “reasonable” travel time (9mo), we need to travel at >33c. At that velocity wouldn't dust be an issue?
September 14, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Vega is 25ly from Earth. Assuming a trip to Mars is a “reasonable” travel time (9mo), we need to travel at >33c. At that velocity wouldn't dust be an issue?
Wanna take a ride‽
September 14, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Wanna take a ride‽
IMHO, the first was weak. Poor staging and writing, but the second was fantastic, and kicked off Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s best plots.
September 13, 2025 at 4:16 AM
IMHO, the first was weak. Poor staging and writing, but the second was fantastic, and kicked off Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s best plots.
Captain America certainly was. Closest he got to a moral gray zone was stopping to think about a situation before making a judgement. His biggest personal failing was not returning to the present, as planned. He was a moral North Star for everyone else's questionable motives and beliefs.
September 13, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Captain America certainly was. Closest he got to a moral gray zone was stopping to think about a situation before making a judgement. His biggest personal failing was not returning to the present, as planned. He was a moral North Star for everyone else's questionable motives and beliefs.
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
September 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
“You know,” Cap announces, “last time I was in Germany, and saw a man standing above everybody else we ended up disagreeing.”
Marvel had some intestinal fortitude and a spine back in the day.
Marvel had some intestinal fortitude and a spine back in the day.
September 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
“You know,” Cap announces, “last time I was in Germany, and saw a man standing above everybody else we ended up disagreeing.”
Marvel had some intestinal fortitude and a spine back in the day.
Marvel had some intestinal fortitude and a spine back in the day.
An old man rises from the crowd, and looks to Loki, “not to men like you.”
“There are no men like me.”
“There are ALWAYS men like you.”
“Look to your elder, let him be an example,” as Loki charges the scepter. The old man stands firm, resolved, then Cap drops from the sky and blocks the blast.
“There are no men like me.”
“There are ALWAYS men like you.”
“Look to your elder, let him be an example,” as Loki charges the scepter. The old man stands firm, resolved, then Cap drops from the sky and blocks the blast.
September 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
An old man rises from the crowd, and looks to Loki, “not to men like you.”
“There are no men like me.”
“There are ALWAYS men like you.”
“Look to your elder, let him be an example,” as Loki charges the scepter. The old man stands firm, resolved, then Cap drops from the sky and blocks the blast.
“There are no men like me.”
“There are ALWAYS men like you.”
“Look to your elder, let him be an example,” as Loki charges the scepter. The old man stands firm, resolved, then Cap drops from the sky and blocks the blast.
Rewatched the original Avengers (2012), Loki takes on a crowd in Stuttgart, commands them to kneel (they do, in fear) and monologues that this is humanity's preferred state, that freedom diminishes joy in a scramble for power and identity. “In the end you will always kneel.”
September 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Rewatched the original Avengers (2012), Loki takes on a crowd in Stuttgart, commands them to kneel (they do, in fear) and monologues that this is humanity's preferred state, that freedom diminishes joy in a scramble for power and identity. “In the end you will always kneel.”
Time to replace Tim Apple with Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social)
September 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Time to replace Tim Apple with Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social)
Alright. Ruling out the ice capes melting, meteors becoming crashed into us, the ozone layer leaving, and the Sun exploding, we're definitely going to blow ourselves up.
September 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Alright. Ruling out the ice capes melting, meteors becoming crashed into us, the ozone layer leaving, and the Sun exploding, we're definitely going to blow ourselves up.
Like the Annunciation shooter. Kinda just picked and chose from groups to hate, with little consistency, fueled by online radicalism playing stuff off for fun.
September 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Like the Annunciation shooter. Kinda just picked and chose from groups to hate, with little consistency, fueled by online radicalism playing stuff off for fun.
With a companion book that had YOUR name, number, and address in it, too!
September 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
With a companion book that had YOUR name, number, and address in it, too!
But part of the problem is The Algorithm™. Twitter has been inserting posts from accounts people aren't following into their feeds.
September 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
But part of the problem is The Algorithm™. Twitter has been inserting posts from accounts people aren't following into their feeds.
Isn't “wild” just Tumblr’s default state? The site has always verged on feral.
September 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Isn't “wild” just Tumblr’s default state? The site has always verged on feral.
Pretty much my experience too. The most vitriolic things said in connection to Kirk’s death have been his own words. bsky.app/profile/park...
September 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Pretty much my experience too. The most vitriolic things said in connection to Kirk’s death have been his own words. bsky.app/profile/park...
One thing that I'm not upset about is how this whole sequence of events is casting a spotlight on some of Charlie's worst and most offensive opinions.
September 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
One thing that I'm not upset about is how this whole sequence of events is casting a spotlight on some of Charlie's worst and most offensive opinions.
To Australia?
a cartoon drawing of a blue dog standing next to a purple dog
Alt: A GIF from the children's animated series Bluey. Bluey, a adolescent blue heeler, hides behind a big rock with Jean Luc, an adolescent black lab. The two of them speak over each other (as neither speak the same language), gesticulating, explaining their plans on how to capture Bluey's father, Bandit, who is sleepily filling a bucket from a creek in the distance behind them.
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September 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
To Australia?
It's a tuxedo thing for sure, but the thrill of being ungovernable is just a cat thing. In high school my tiger kitty snuck out a window on to our porch. I came in from taking a midnight pee and saw him staring at me through the window with that same expression.
September 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
It's a tuxedo thing for sure, but the thrill of being ungovernable is just a cat thing. In high school my tiger kitty snuck out a window on to our porch. I came in from taking a midnight pee and saw him staring at me through the window with that same expression.
Vanging my head on a wall trying to find a GPU I can use to test whether that's been blow’d up too, I hate these parts so much because the documentation on these diagnostic lights sucks and I hate the cooler and oh God why won't it just work, but hey, I got like a thin terminal working miracles. 👍
a man is laying his head on a desk with his hands on the desk .
Alt: A GIF from The West Wing. President Bartlett (played by Martin Sheen) sits at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, and with both hands planted up on its surface, repeatedly bangs his forehead against it in frustration.
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September 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Vanging my head on a wall trying to find a GPU I can use to test whether that's been blow’d up too, I hate these parts so much because the documentation on these diagnostic lights sucks and I hate the cooler and oh God why won't it just work, but hey, I got like a thin terminal working miracles. 👍
100GB to install… well, now I just need a working computer…
September 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
100GB to install… well, now I just need a working computer…
Florence and the Machine were in a Final Fantasy? I kinda dropped off the map after Ⅺ, but now I need to know which one, and it'll be the first thing I install after Ninite (assuming it isn't like 200GB and blowing the ass out of the household data cap).
September 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Florence and the Machine were in a Final Fantasy? I kinda dropped off the map after Ⅺ, but now I need to know which one, and it'll be the first thing I install after Ninite (assuming it isn't like 200GB and blowing the ass out of the household data cap).