it was a good day in Ocean-sighting
- 3% in the bag
- a new contributor, thanks dadmag.substack.com !
- successful submissions by SMS from people other than me!

Oh man, they got 17 new ones into service since yesterday. Our denominator is racing ahead!

@mccue.bsky.social I bet this is the kind of priceless original content you've been trying to discover on bsky

So then I started collecting pictures

and then I had to make a little Friday project out of it.

Follow @oceansofnyc.bsky.social to see how long it takes to collect all 2,053 of them!

You had me doubting myself on the current year. Or maybe we should all think of desks aspirationally with 12 month goals.

Here's one in Chennai, India. Could be a different wing of the one you posted

I think the parents (e.g. me) are just saying they also love Blueys parent characters and wish they were that cool and nice and creative.

Seems the same as wishing I was as articulate as West Wing people or as good at jumping out of windows as Bourne

Ride Brooklyn (formerly on Bergen, now on 4th) has been my favorite for normal bike work on e-bikes. They were chill about it even a few years ago when many wouldn't touch them. When I had issues with the e- parts of my Lectric though, I did self-serve replacements

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the post title is a shout-out to @chrislhayes.bsky.social 's Siren's Call which felt like a great intersectional point between my building tech job and my parenting humans job

Have you seen @galbeckerman.bsky.social's The Quiet Before? It makes this observation about social movements across a wide range of historical periods, contrasting with recent Internet-enabled flops

It is courteous to put the "Ready to Clean" sign on the outside of the door so that they know they can turn it over though, right?

I love this and also hate it for undermining any claim I've ever made about needing better tools to do my best work.