MrTinMD
@mrtinmd.bsky.social
Maryland, USA. Cyclist, photographer, birdwatcher, trains & transit fan, YIMBY, boats/ships/planes lover, cat dad, gardener, married to an expert knitter (@jerdlngr.bsky.social). Gen X, he/him.
I asked ChatGPT to compare the size of Chesapeake Bay to the Great Lakes, and to overlay a map of it onto the Great Lakes region. This is the result. Yikes!
October 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I asked ChatGPT to compare the size of Chesapeake Bay to the Great Lakes, and to overlay a map of it onto the Great Lakes region. This is the result. Yikes!
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RELEASE: The Maryland Department of Health protects broad vaccine access for Marylanders - makes recommendations rooted in science. State issues guidance for clinicians, consumers and a statewide standing order for COVID-19 vaccines. Learn more: bit.ly/3Kct7jt.
September 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
RELEASE: The Maryland Department of Health protects broad vaccine access for Marylanders - makes recommendations rooted in science. State issues guidance for clinicians, consumers and a statewide standing order for COVID-19 vaccines. Learn more: bit.ly/3Kct7jt.
@govwesmoore.bsky.social Can Maryland please join this?!
IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.
The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
September 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
@govwesmoore.bsky.social Can Maryland please join this?!
Hard agree.
Wish organizations (including mine) had gone with a more flexible approach instead of the one size fits all thing. www.salon.com/2024/11/25/r...
Return to office policies: What makes them work?
Why some companies insist on employees returning and how data-driven strategies make it beneficial.
www.salon.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hard agree.
Thank you, vaccines!
The death rate in the United States returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2024 as Covid-19 fell out of the top 10 leading causes of death, according to a report published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://cnn.it/3JVkbib
September 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Thank you, vaccines!
There were two Space Force personnel in Mt. Vernon Square Metro station this morning, and I wondered if they were thinking "this isn't what I signed up for when I became a missile technician".
I feel embarrassed for these guys. Trump took them from their homes and sent them to DC to pick up trash
August 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
There were two Space Force personnel in Mt. Vernon Square Metro station this morning, and I wondered if they were thinking "this isn't what I signed up for when I became a missile technician".
@jerdlngr.bsky.social I think you'll ace this test, right?
Do you know your Thomas Cromwell from your Thomas Wolsey, your Thomas Cranmer from your Thomas More?
This time on MY LIFE IN THE PAST - take my Tudor test!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
This time on MY LIFE IN THE PAST - take my Tudor test!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
August 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
@jerdlngr.bsky.social I think you'll ace this test, right?
Love these cute mushroom-runners.
August 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Love these cute mushroom-runners.
Just 15 for me. I don't like flying, and it's terrible for the environment. Many of the car trips I've avoided over the years could be cancelled out by a few cross-country flights, I believe. If only we had more high-speed rail in the US!
July 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Just 15 for me. I don't like flying, and it's terrible for the environment. Many of the car trips I've avoided over the years could be cancelled out by a few cross-country flights, I believe. If only we had more high-speed rail in the US!
As a child, I sat in the front seat of the car (seatbelt off) and "helped" my dad drive, by shifting, adjusting the AM radio, second pair of eyes on the road, as he gave me driving tips. Seatbelt aside, I think this made me a better/safer driver as an adult.
What’s a real thing from your childhood that kids these days would find completely foreign?
Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight.
Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight.
Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
July 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
As a child, I sat in the front seat of the car (seatbelt off) and "helped" my dad drive, by shifting, adjusting the AM radio, second pair of eyes on the road, as he gave me driving tips. Seatbelt aside, I think this made me a better/safer driver as an adult.
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How much energy does it take to generate one ChatGPT request? What about water use and the broader climate impact of generative AI? UCS’s José Pablo Ortiz breaks it down, and explains why we need smart policy to guide this tech. Read the blog:
What Are the Environmental Impacts of Artificial Intelligence?
A single AI-focused data center can use as much electricity as a small city and as much water as a large neighborhood.
blog.ucs.org
July 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
How much energy does it take to generate one ChatGPT request? What about water use and the broader climate impact of generative AI? UCS’s José Pablo Ortiz breaks it down, and explains why we need smart policy to guide this tech. Read the blog:
My plans include displaying a Union Jack, binge-watching Midsomer Murders, and complaining about the noisy, stressful, and environmentally awful fireworks.
July 4, 2026, is the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Here's how the United States of America is planning to party.
America has a major birthday coming up — here's what to expect for the big 2-5-0
It's the nation's semiquincentennial! July 4, 2026, is the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Here's how the United States of America is planning to party.
n.pr
July 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
My plans include displaying a Union Jack, binge-watching Midsomer Murders, and complaining about the noisy, stressful, and environmentally awful fireworks.
Att: job-seeking transit planners/managers
Just looking through state job openings and found this:
www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/directo...
Not my area but it sounds like a very interesting job.
www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/directo...
Not my area but it sounds like a very interesting job.
Director of NOVA Transit Programs - Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Title: Director of NOVA Transit Programs
State Role Title: Program Admin Specialist III
Hiring Range: Up to $170,000
Pay Band: 6
Agency: Dept of Rail & Public Trans
Location: Northern VA
Agency We...
www.jobs.virginia.gov
July 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Att: job-seeking transit planners/managers
Saw Karl Rove driving a Ridgeline into the Honda dealership in Bethesda at the end of the Cap. Crescent Trail. Saw Donald Rumsfeld in Potbelly on CT Ave, Ralph Nader in Woodley Park, and Maureen Dowd in Barnes & Noble - lots of "famous for DC" people.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Saw Karl Rove driving a Ridgeline into the Honda dealership in Bethesda at the end of the Cap. Crescent Trail. Saw Donald Rumsfeld in Potbelly on CT Ave, Ralph Nader in Woodley Park, and Maureen Dowd in Barnes & Noble - lots of "famous for DC" people.
u have been kidnapped and the characters from the last tv show u watched are trying to rescue u who is coming to save u
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
u have been kidnapped and the characters from the last tv show u watched are trying to rescue u who is coming to save u
Or on the train, bus, in a park, on a bike trail. 😒
Bose’s New Bluetooth Speaker Looks Like a Solid Way to Annoy Everybody at the Beach https://gizmodo.com/boses-new-bluetooth-speaker-looks-like-a-solid-way-to-annoy-everybody-at-the-beach-2000614613
Bose’s New Bluetooth Speaker Looks Like a Solid Way to Annoy Everybody at the Beach
The SoundLink Plus comes just in time for crowded-ass beach season.
gizmodo.com
June 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Or on the train, bus, in a park, on a bike trail. 😒
@wmata.com One of the advertising display screens on the platform level, at the West Hyattsville Metro Station, heading to Branch Ave side, is smashed and broken.
May 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
@wmata.com One of the advertising display screens on the platform level, at the West Hyattsville Metro Station, heading to Branch Ave side, is smashed and broken.
Dramatic sunset tonight! Photo by @jerdlngr.bsky.social in Hyattsville MD.
May 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Dramatic sunset tonight! Photo by @jerdlngr.bsky.social in Hyattsville MD.
Well, the silver lining is that if everything goes as planned at the RFK stadium site, Northwest stadium and parking acreage can be redeveloped to bring more badly-needed housing units to the region, inside the Beltway and close to 2 Metro stations.
April 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Well, the silver lining is that if everything goes as planned at the RFK stadium site, Northwest stadium and parking acreage can be redeveloped to bring more badly-needed housing units to the region, inside the Beltway and close to 2 Metro stations.
Bald eagle (older juvenile) just hanging out in Hyattsville MD, across the street from our house.
April 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Bald eagle (older juvenile) just hanging out in Hyattsville MD, across the street from our house.
Hey Virginia Senators @kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social why are you voting with the Republicans? I'm glad your Maryland counterparts voted no.
The Senate just voted 66 to 32 to confirm Trump's investment banker, COVID conspiracy peddler ambassador to Japan.
Trump is eviscerating the constitution, and they are pretending like everything is normal.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Trump is eviscerating the constitution, and they are pretending like everything is normal.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
April 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Hey Virginia Senators @kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social why are you voting with the Republicans? I'm glad your Maryland counterparts voted no.
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DC friends! I haven’t been on Amtrak in a couple of years - how early are we lining up for trains at Union Station these days?
April 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
DC friends! I haven’t been on Amtrak in a couple of years - how early are we lining up for trains at Union Station these days?
Due to aging knees/too many bikes, I’m selling my 2017 All-City Nature Boy 853 Single Speed Disc, 46 cm frame, 650b wheels, Reynolds 853 tubing, hydro disc brakes, i9 hubs, new bar tape, immaculate; light & fast. Fits 5’2”-5’5”? In Hyattsville, MD. Asking $550. DM me if interested!
March 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Due to aging knees/too many bikes, I’m selling my 2017 All-City Nature Boy 853 Single Speed Disc, 46 cm frame, 650b wheels, Reynolds 853 tubing, hydro disc brakes, i9 hubs, new bar tape, immaculate; light & fast. Fits 5’2”-5’5”? In Hyattsville, MD. Asking $550. DM me if interested!