Lars @lpeds.com · 27/09/2026Hey @governor.ca.gov: Any plans to sign the “Balcony Solar” bill (SB 868) into law before the 9/30 deadline? It’s been on your desk for weeks. CA renters should have an opportunity to cut ⚡️costs, reduce carbon emissions, and help the grid during peak usage. What’s the holdup? 130
Lars @lpeds.com · 27/09/2026Seems like the National Weather Service’s Area Forecast Discussion has gotten sloppy and less informative over the past several months. More typos. Less meteorologist’s reasoning behind the forecast. The AFD is a valuable resource and it’d be a real loss if it were to go away. @nws.noaa.gov 300
Lars @lpeds.com · 22/09/2026Somehow singular “they” snuck up and lodged itself in the part of brain that says ”this sounds right.” Now whenever generic “he” turns up in older texts I give it a sidelong glance. It sounds anachronistic, but more, it sounds off, and the colonization of my ear is complete. 010
Lars @lpeds.com · 20/09/2026AI Force? An AI Tsar? I thought they had given that job to a tech-bro? (Asks chat.) They did: David Sacks was the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto Tsar. But it was a limited-time appointment, so when his term ended, he joined the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. 000
Lars @lpeds.com · 11/09/2026The talk about ai-authored human extinction seems premature. Surely the machines will need some of us to stoke the fires, for a while. And those people will need homes and food and all the rest, produced by other humans. We might call the transition to machine-servitude “the latest capitalism”. 100
Lars @lpeds.com · 10/09/2026The nesting dependent clauses stuffed into this sentence leave us waiting all afternoon for the speaker to announce his point. No wonder the cook quit. 000
Lars @lpeds.com · 10/09/2026If the $5k is coming out of his pocket, then yeah. It won’t change my vote, but thumbs up, sure, good plan. 000
Lars @lpeds.com · 10/09/2026My fantasy baseball team in the last week of the season as injuries mount. 000
Lars @lpeds.com · 02/09/2026This leaves the current broken system in place, which means ultimately the utilities and ratepayers will be forced to cover wildfire costs. Here’s an idea: The state should take the IOUs public. But not until the ongoing lack of resolution drives the share price closer to $0.calmatters.orgWildfire liability bill dies without a vote on final day of sessionThe measure, which was opposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state's public utiliites, never came to a vote in the Assembly. 000
Lars @lpeds.com · 24/08/2026Last week the music streaming algorithm found a reason to throw in the Hoodoo Gurus song “Bittersweet” and it’s been an ear worm trapped in my noggin ever since. So here you go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=srrq...youtube.comHoodoo Gurus - BittersweetYouTube video by HoodooGurusVEVO 020
Lars @lpeds.com · 23/08/2026I’ve been bugged by the transformation of the term “late-stage capitalism” which first described a system in its final throes, its contradictions irresolvable, into today’s meaning, nearly the opposite, that describes a capitalism ever more pernicious in its ability to find resources to exploit. 100
Lars @lpeds.com · 07/08/2026www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stag...investopedia.comWhat Is Stagflation, What Causes It, and Why Is It Bad?Stagflation is an economic condition marked by slow growth, high inflation, and rising unemployment. Learn what causes stagflation and why it’s harmful to the economy. 000
Lars @lpeds.com · 25/07/2026I’m no @tamslick.bsky.social but here are a couple of automotive curiosities from the morning walk: a semi-restored early 60s Chevy Nova. (I drove a Nova wagon of this vintage, for a time, in a teal that matches this car’s primer.) 1121
Reposted by LarsGary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026© Elena Wuest. 'An Afternoon Tea II.' Oil on canvas, 2026. 110 x 110 cm. 412053256
Lars @lpeds.com · 21/06/2026Same, Sam, except it’s F1 and a Scot droning on about tire selection. 110
Lars @lpeds.com · 13/06/2026This site really shows its best self on sports or scaffolding nights. 010
Lars @lpeds.com · 03/06/2026According to the write up here, Sonja Shaw was a Covid-era anti-masker and a current era “protect our girl athletes” type so this result is discouraging. 010
Lars @lpeds.com · 02/06/2026I sincerely hope Sam located the scoundrel responsible and got recompense! 031
Lars @lpeds.com · 30/05/2026#nhl’s Goaltender interference standard as murky as the NFL’s defensive pass interference rule. 🤷♂️ 010
Reposted by LarsThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 29/05/2026#OnThisDay in 1769, while on Tahiti as part of Captain Cook’s first great voyage to the South Pacific, Joseph Banks gives us the first known written description of #surfing... publicdomainreview.org/collection/e… #OTD 04415
Reposted by LarsThe Story of Writing @sownow.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Monty Python, by and for arachnids: 1113
Lars @lpeds.com · 20/05/2026We seem to have this takeout/cook it yourself discussion every time a demographic cohort lands in its early-20s. 000
Lars @lpeds.com · 20/04/2026Sam Pepys proves that the sandwich generations have been getting squeezed since at least the 17th century. 000
Reposted by LarsJoe Brusuelas @joebrusuelas.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Great note by @bloomberg this morning on which part of the country is getting hit the hardest by the jump in gasoline prices. It’s the south. 23812
Lars @lpeds.com · 14/04/2026After this season there’ll only be one player left in the NHL from the LA Kings’ Cup winning squads in ‘12 and ‘14: Drew Doughty. (They were awfully close in ‘13, too.) 100
Lars @lpeds.com · 13/04/2026TFG is stealing “blockcade Hormuz” from the Iranians the same way he stole “fake news” from HRC. The man knows what plays. 010
Lars @lpeds.com · 07/04/2026#lakings. That ”LA LAW” line of Laughton, Armia, and Wright could do some damage in the post season, if the Kings can get there. 110
Reposted by LarsAstronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026🚨: NASA just dropped a full disk image of Earth taken by Artemis II 🤯 1975086934
Reposted by LarsAstronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026We have spectacular new high-resolution images of our home planet, all of us looking back through the Orion capsule window at our Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon. Credit: NASA 110025
Reposted by LarsDiscontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Also, there is something absolutely hilarious about using the descriptor "very large" in this free pitcher giveaway 2629114
Lars @lpeds.com · 23/03/2026You know how time travel stories always show how the butterfly wings fucked up our real timeline? What if instead this one is the one that happens when time travelers have messed around with the butterflies. 110
Lars @lpeds.com · 12/03/2026This looks like a great option for renters. Let’s not let the utilities keep us trapped in their business model.npr.orgEasy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay themUtilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity. 000
