Chuck Darrow

@bronzeagemantis Tandjung Sari in Bali.

I drink strong rum; my favorite hotels: Capella and Raffles in Singapore, Ritz in Nikko, Mandarin Oriental and Upper House in Hong Kong, Raffles in Bali, Waldorf Astoria in Osaka, the now-closed Sinner Hotel in Paris--I will write happy reviews soon ^_^

@Tigga594 @RDPHistory He was too busy pretending to be Neil Kinnock when he was younger.

@RDPHistory He was always on the side of right. He would have been another Obama had he been younger when he became POTUS 🙏🇺🇸

April 27th 1982: US Senator Joe Biden proposes a resolution to US Senate which: “Declares that the United States cannot remain neutral towards the enforcement of the Security Council Resolution calling for the withdrawal of Argentine troops from the Falkland Islands..." 1/2

@wrathofgnon Fiji still uses narrow gauge rail for sugar and civil transport.

The last remaining active sugar train in Taiwan belongs to the Huwei Sugar Factory. Sugar was once the main commodity of Taiwan and from its start in 1907 to its peak in 1945 over 3,000km of rail existed on the island. Until 1982 they doubled as a rural passenger train service. Sugar trains were necessary because once cut from the field the cane needs to be quickly transported to a sugar mill for processing. At 762mm narrown gauge they are effectively half sized compared to regular trains. In this time of fuel crises, we should look into reviving the narrow gauge railways: more fuel efficient, more labor efficienr and less polluting. We can even do last mile transport if we combine narrow gauge cargo rail with trams and even pushcart rail.

@dieworkwear Who made the Black Smooth Penny Wholecuts?

Secondly, I assume you know that smooth calfskin is more formal than suede or pebble grain, and black is more formal than dark brown or mid-brown, which in turn are more formal than tan. These are among the most important elements in how a shoe "reads."

Summer is around the corner and soon you'll read a bunch of tweets about how every man should have a pair of loafers. I don't think anyone needs anything, but if you're shopping for a pair, let me show you how to think about loafers. This applies to any wardrobe item. 🧵

@dieworkwear OK - who made the “Grained, but dressy leather” loafers?

Every pair of loafers will be made from a set of design decisions, which creates a certain "word" that's best used in a certain "sentence" (outfit). Leather, apron, stitching, coloring, vamp, sole, etc all combine towards this effect. Pictured below: dressy, casual, in-between.

@AustinTunnell @JohnJBlatchford What are the areas that cause delays?

@JohnJBlatchford Takes a little longer to build, maybe 3 more months on a 14-month build, but considering the span of multi-century architecture, that 3 months is nothing!

I’ve helped renovate ~50 historic buildings from the 1800s. They were all built with brick walls and stone lintels like Austin is building here. The dopest part of building like this, instead of using wood walls like every other building, is that these will be around in 150 years, as I’ve witnessed. Building a multi-generational legacy one row of brick at a time. So awesome.

@janecoaston 4:38/ mile is sick.

Averaging a 4:38 per mile pace, obscene

@theseoguy_ What would you recommend for companies that are regional?

Every time I audit a local business I find the same mistakes over and over. Meta title says Home. Change it to your keyword plus city. Took me 30 seconds to fix this for a plastic surgeon and their rankings shot up overnight. No address in the website footer. Google wants to see where you are located on your actual site. Add it. Watch what happens. H1 tag says Welcome to Our Company. Nobody searches welcome to our company. Put your service plus your city in there. AC Repair San Diego. Roofer Fort Worth. Plumber Gilbert. GBP category is wrong. You are a kitchen remodeler but your category says contractor. Search your keyword. Match what the top 3 have. This alone can double your calls. No photos uploaded in 6 months. Google thinks you are dead. Upload weekly. Job site photos. Team photos. Truck photos. Anything that shows you have a pulse. Review responses are generic. "Thank you for your review." That does nothing. Put keywords in your responses. "We love serving customers in the Austin area for all their plumbing needs." Feed the algorithm. Citations have wrong phone number. Your old number is still on YellowPages and Yelp and 40 other sites. Inconsistent NAP is killing you. Fix it everywhere. No location pages. You serve 15 cities but have one homepage. Build a page for each city. Each page targets that city plus your service. Stop making Google guess. Blogs about topics nobody searches. The history of air conditioning is not getting you leads. Build pages that target buyers. Not asking employees to use Google Maps directions when they drive to work. Engagement signals matter. Every time someone navigates to your address Google notices. No GBP posts in 3 months. Weekly updates with photos and keywords. Takes 5 minutes. Shows Google you exist. Only one GBP when you could have three. Get offices in different parts of your metro. Triple your coverage. Relying on a service area business when every competitor has a physical pin. You cannot win that fight. Get a real address. Not tracking calls. You have no idea how many leads you get or where they come from. Install call tracking today. Stop guessing. Website loads in 8 seconds on mobile. People bounce before they see anything. Fix your page speed or your rankings mean nothing. No schema markup telling Google your business name address and hours. Easy win that most people skip. Backlinks from the same garbage sites as everyone else. Get local links. Sponsor a little league team. Join the chamber. Guest on a local podcast. Ignoring Reddit. Your city subreddit has people asking for recommendations every day. Be helpful. Build trust. Not listed on niche directories for your industry. Plumbers need plumber directories. HVAC needs HVAC directories.

@smod4real This is true. But grunge also took away a lot of the fun that was in rock - when was the last time a good new band had a sax player?

One cannot understand the concept of grunge, without first understanding the concepts of hair metal and glam rock.

@Michael19196858 @EdMorrissey Maybe the best female rock voice of all time…

@EdMorrissey Yes, every once in a while we revisit Linda Ronstadt. One of the greatest voices of all time . . . could sing ANYTHING: rock, ballads, Country, Bluegrass, light opera, show tunes, Latin, Cajun. A spectacular duet voice, e.g. with Aaron Neville, James Ingram, Anne Savoy, etc.

Later in the day, the radio played a song I hadn't heard in decades: "Long Long Time" by Linda Rondstadt. I recalled the lyrics almost perfectly, and it's a great fit for my modest range. Not that this matters when I sing in my car. :-) Lovely song, too. Maybe her best.

@shipwreckedcrew Some of this is inter service rivalry. The A-10 is very effective against fast boats, and I would imagine an Apache with a Longbow would be as well - but those are Air Force and Army vehicles platforms. @cdrsalamander , thoughts?

Seems like an effective strategy would be to simply hit the location where they launch from while they are at sea. I would think we could track that by satellite. Hitting the boats is great. Giving boats no where to return to is even better.

@shipwreckedcrew A lot of those are kind of insiders beaches, tho. Most tourists are going to go to the main beaches right in front of Waikiki (and never realize, for instance, how nice Kaimana Beach is) or Hanuama Bay. They miss a lot.

Because there are 20+ beaches in the islands better than Laguna.

@blueprintsmb22 I thought “hello” got you to 70% of your session limit?

You're in the top 1% of the world if you understand this tweet. If I walked around my industrial park and showed this tweet to other businesses owners, they would politely say 1) they don't get it 2) ask who the fak i am and 3) please leave immediately x.com/cgtwts/status/…

@JohnJHarwood Newk

Tony Conigliaro

@InquisitiveUrsa @SeanTrende @JillFilipovic You already have the full time resident, and the part time. You would lose the part time. That is the net loss. You are not trading a part time for a new full time (from outside the area). Net migration is negative.

@acd_4 @SeanTrende @JillFilipovic No, as I've noted they are worth less to the city than a full time resident.

What exactly is the argument against a pied-a-terre tax for second (or third / fourth / fifth) homes worth more than $5 million owned by people who do not even live in the city? It just seems like such a glaringly obvious common-sense policy.

@InquisitiveUrsa @SeanTrende @JillFilipovic So you think the money they are taking is Monopoly money?

@acd_4 @SeanTrende @JillFilipovic This doesn't count toward it as the people leaving aren't New York residents.

@JohnJHarwood Campy.

Bench

@mnolangray Adjusted for inflation and population growth, net CA tax revenues are higher than 1977-78.

As a general rule, if you see something weird in California governance, the explanation is nearly always Proposition 13. 🧵

@InquisitiveUrsa @SeanTrende @JillFilipovic New York has net negative migration so far for 2026. This just accelerates it.

@acd_4 @SeanTrende @JillFilipovic The replacement isn't necessarily someone already there. And non-resident income taxes are limited to income earned in NY. So the full time resident will, all else being equal, pay more

@SeanTrende @InquisitiveUrsa @JillFilipovic Why couldn’t a non resident leave - or just put a “for sale” sign up?

Well, that's the clever part about targeting apartments owned by non-residents. You can't leave. As for sales taxes etc. when you get into second- and third- order effects it just gets too hard to game out. Reducing the competition here lowers sales values and property tax receipts. It's just really hard to game out.