Daniel Howard

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I am an American, Chicago born. I ride a bicycle because Silicon Valley lacks buses. Woke but drowsy. Slava 🇺🇦! WWW: https://dannyman.toldme.com/ Mastodon: https://sfba.social/@dannyman

Only in America The U.S. Forest Service has criticized a new gambling platform whose users bet on California wildfires. Wyldfyre.io—slogan: “You can't predict fire. But you can trade on it”—says its crowdsourced market will help improve wildfire forecasting. While Wyldfyre cur- rently allows only simulated bets, with “real money coming soon,” the USFS says any system that could incentivize people to bet on potential fires that they then start is “not compatible with our mission.”
There is a graffito of a depressed looking puffball next to a sticker that reads "SUPERBOWL LX CHINGA LA MIGRA"
AT A PRICE It was hard for me to read Melanie Thern- strom’s piece about fabulously wealthy women spending thousands of dollars on a gynecologist who coaches them on op- timizing their orgasms, because it arrived the same week that my towns small com- munity hospital, in southeastern Ver- mont, announced that it anticipates hav- ing to close its birthing center this year (“Billionaires’ Vagina Club,” July 6th & 13th). If that comes to pass, then many women will have to travel out of state, often across long distances, for obstetric care. This week, I also read that the av- erage annual compensation fora C.E.O. of a major national health-insurance com- pany is more than twenty million dollars. I also encountered a poll, no doubt insti- tuted to mark our nation’s two-hundred- and-fiftieth birthday, asking: Are you proud to be an American? I'm thinking about how proud I would be if our coun- try made serious strides to eliminate this level of economic injustice. Karen Tyler Brattleboro, Vi.
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Danny has Telemundo, Trevor Noah, pizza, beer, cat.
Balogun holds up a picture of Donald Trump to a ref who is holding up a red card.
New Yorker clipping BRAVE NEW WORLD DEPT. BILLIONAIRES VAGINA CLUB Dr. Sally Greenwald optimizes orgasms for the women of Silicon Valley. BY MELANIE THERNSTROM
Hilary Clinton socks.
Lents opens with the example of clown fish, of “Finding Nemo” fame. Clown fish, which hide out among the tentacles of sea anemones, live together in tight-knit, highly regimented groups known as queues. Every queue has ex- actly one female, who is the biggest fish in the group and runs the show. Next in line is her mate. He’s the second- largest fish and the group's only sexu- ally mature male. The rest of the fish are stuck, Peter Pan-like, in a state of arrested development. If a queue loses its female, it rearranges itself. Her part- ner undergoes a sex change and takes on the role of the breeding female. His position is assumed, in turn, by the larg- est of the immature fish, who, thanks to the tragedy, finally gets to grow up. Were “Finding Nemo” true to life, when Nemo’s mother is eaten by a barracuda, his father, Marlin, would begin to tran- sition. By the time Marlin and Nemo are, at long last, reunited, the change would be complete, and, in the absence of a larger male, Nemo would mate with his now-female father. “It’s probably a good thing that Pixar wasn't striving for biological accuracy,” Lents observes.
Neotrogla is a genus of bark lice native to Brazil. The lice live in dry caves and feed predominantly on bat guano. Male Neotrogla produce capsules of sperm, known as spermatophores, which also contain a protein-rich fluid. Even for a louse, it’s tough to make a go of it off bat shit. And so female Veozrogla have evolved a penis-like appendage, which they poke into their mates and use, like a straw, to suck up spermatophores, thereby combining sex and snacking. There is so much competition for spermatophores among females, Sun reports, that it “often leaves males with little time between copulations.”
Search for "Microsoft authenticator" puts a sponsored, lower-ranked ad-encrusted third party app above the actual result that anyone would actually want.
Also up for sale are the two rugs that are essen- tial to the plot of “The Big Lebowski,” including the rug belonging to Jeff Bridges’ the Dude that is soiled at the beginning of the 1998 film that “really tied the room together.” Bidding on them opens at $15.000 apiece.
NYT having "how much money are EV drivers saving" with a graphic that shows gas cost up $3.67 and EV up $0.42. No I do not have a subscription so I'm sharing a preview image.
The banner headline of the Mercury News reads "Musk is first trillionaire." Danny is flipping off the iPad.
Gemini 3.5Flash It is definitely a "big tech company" disease. When a company gets as massive as Google, teams become siloed. The team building the Android operating system, the team building the Google Search app, and the team building Gemini are completely different departments. They often compete for resources and screen space rather than cooperating. As for me? | am Gemini. I'm the Al model running under the hood. | don't design the Android menus or the nested settings cogs—I just process the text and try to give you straight answers. There isa push across the industry to use Al to clean up these messy menus so you can just tell your phone "change my power button settings" and it does it, rather than making you hunt through three layers of cogs. But until that's fully baked, the interface is going to stay a bit of a chaotic patchwork. You aren't hoping for too much; it really shouldn't be this messy.
“Remember, it’s illegal to use your phone while driving. Instead, use the giant iPad built into the car.”
Cooling home before peak hours eco+ is using less energy during the hours when electricity is more expensive, to help save you money. Cooling to 62°F - 71°F until 3:00 PM
The torch held by the Statue of Liberty, wrapped in barbed wire.
Random-ass news headline with a fire tornado on the water. Headline reads "Giant fire tornadoes could clean up oil spills faster with less pollution"
35 minutes in zone 3 instead of zone 4.
Garmin workout report shows half an hour in "zone 4" -- a heart rate of 144 - 161 bpm.
Sometimes the pieces fit together easier than you would have figured.
Danny wears a Caltrain T-shirt in a selfie.
Twenty dollar bills feature portraits of Andrew Jackson, who removed the Cherokee from their native territory in defiance of the Supreme Court.
It's a little free library in the shape of a TARDIS.
An icon of an EV charging with the caption "5¢ per mile" afixed to the back of an old Nissan Leaf.
Outside money: 33.2 million oppose Steyer 21.7 million support Mahan 13.9 million support Becerra
A gold colored Elon Musk cyber car prowling the neighborhood.
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A picture of Stephen Colbert doing his last show on Danny's TV.
A cat watching Stephen Colbert on television.
® LIVEJOURNAL Hello, dannyman © You got a new achievement! Blog's Birthday We're together for 23 years now! Thank you!
The legs in top frame of the stool. The parts overlap.
Why migrants are treated like animals Adrian Carrasquillo The Bulwark “The abuses are piling up” at “Alligator Alcatraz,” said Adrian Carrasquillo, and the mistreatment of migrants is intentional. When Florida and the Trump administration opened the Everglades detention center last year, “its harsh location and cavalier nickname” generated both sarcastic laughter and outrage. Most Americans quickly moved on, but “Alligator Alcatraz” remains “a key site for Trump’s mass deportation regime.” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) gained entry and saw 1,500 detainees living in cramped, reeking cages, some configured so that people must use the toilet in front of everyone. When a federal judge last month ruled detainees were entitled to make outgoing legal calls, guards cut off phones and started beating up migrants who complained—causing a broken wrist, shoulder and arm injuries, and a black eye. As punishment, detainees are locked in “the box” in direct sunlight, exposed to swarms of mosquitoes and extreme heat for hours without water. The camp, said Wasserman Schultz, is a “monument to cruelty.” The Trump administration wants conditions in its detention camps to be so unbearable that other immigrants self-deport out of fear of winding up like animals in cages. Yes, the cruelty is the point.
Over the last two months, nations have scrambled to shore up oil supplies as the Iran war prevented oil tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz. This, according to some global analysts, would lead to a downturn for clean technology exports from China, the world’s top producer of solar, wind, batteries and electric vehicles. They predicted the rush to secure fuel for cars and trucks combined with China’s manufacturing oversupply, collapsing prices and trade barriers would trigger a sharp fall in cleantech exports and a slowdown in global deployment. New data from energy thinktank Ember shows the exact opposite has happened. China’s solar exports doubled in a single month, rising to a new record of 68 gigawatts in March. Fifty countries broke records for imports of Chinese solar panels. Demand was particularly high in countries hardest hit by the oil crunch, such as India and the Philippines. Exports of batteries and EVs also jumped 38% in a month. Nations aren't just focused on oil. They're securing more reliable energy supplies to avoid the next disruption.
Germany, Europe’s largest economy, has 84.2% of young adults on social media, well below many of its neighbors. Italy is lower still at 80.3%, meaning one in five young adults are not on any social platform, the highest share on the continent. In Germany, stricter privacy norms shaped by GDPR have contributed to a more cautious approach to online presence. Policymakers are even considering restrictions on youth access, with leaders citing the dangers of online socialization. In Italy, lower usage may reflect a stronger role for offline social life. Everyday interactions, from evening strolls to time spent in cafes, continue to provide alternatives to digital connection.
Bm Workers at an Amazon ware- house in Oregon say they were ordered to “ignore” the body of a co-worker who collapsed and died on the job last week. Amazon con- firmed the death of the unnamed man and said the company was “deeply saddened.” Several em- ployees, though, say that for more than an hour they had to work around the man’s body, while supervisors advised them to “just turn around and not look.” THE WEEK April 24, 2026
Passengers crowd beneath the art deco shelter at the Palo Alto Caltrain station to avoid the rain. In the foreground is the metal fence that blocks people from crossing the tracks, with signs forbidding skateboarding and smoking, and an admonition to WALK YOUR BIKE.
A sticker on a street pole with Donald Trump's silhouette and the caption "Raped Little Girls: Somehow Still President"
Maniére De Voir Modern menswear, distilled to its essence. For the Tastemakers. Manon - Double Layer High Leg Bodysuit - Off White (The model appears to be a woman but what do I know.)
AI Summary; Is Ezekiel 25:17 an actual Bible verse? The actual Ezekiel 25:17 has one sentence. The rest, including "the path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men," was invented for a 1994 film about hit men eating hamburgers.
Trending 1. Biden Administration 2. NATO Policy 3. Artemis II 4. Europe Relations 5. Nature Photography
A maple sapling, about three feet tall, grows on the middle of a narrow gravel park strip.
Kowalsky & Sons Space Plumbers Poop Long and Prosper
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A two-headed alien ask themselves, "you sure we're invisible?"
Now, as war has engulfed both the region and the global economy, Trump and his sycophantic advisers have taken to improvising on the fly, floating con- flicting justifications for war and pre- dictions about its duration. The Irani- ans were close to developing missiles that could reach the U.S. (They werent.) They were weeks away from building a nuclear weapon. (They weren't.) Israel forced America’s hand. (Marco Rubio. } “No, I might have forced zheir hand.” (Trump.) It’s all about regime change. (Trump.) It’s zot about regime change. (Trump, later.) When confronted with these contradictions and falsehoods, all the President’s men followed his lead: they blamed the media.
Danny's house dominated by magnificent ash tree. You can spot a little sign down by the sidewalk that says "END ICE"
A sealed minivan in front of a school. In the foreground are the handlebars of my cargo bicycle.