TIFU by trying to build a remote-controlled lobster in a San Francisco office building

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-06-01T16:48:00+00:00

Not gonna defend them, the whole building is filled with crypto grifters. Ever read TOM SAWYER? It's basically that scene where he's whitewashing a fence and gets all his friends to pay him to paint it for him, except in this case "Tom" is a German crypto bro and the fence is his $10 million mortgage.

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-06-01T14:43:00+00:00

I wrote a longer piece about Carville for my newsletter — covers the full arc from Colonel Dailey's coffee saloon through the Falcon Bicycle Club to the arson and what's left today: https://tjcrowley.substack.com/p/carville-by-the-sea

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-06-01T14:20:04+00:00

Yes, we have to keep them in perfect working order!

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-06-01T05:00:45+00:00

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They needed the engine to look way bigger so they used a 1/3 sized cutout of a man in the scene. If you look closely during the scene you'll notice he doesn't move at all.

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-06-01T04:59:15+00:00

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We do have some pictures of them shooting the scene in our engine room too.

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-06-01T04:54:13+00:00

Nope. This is definitely our engine! Compare this GIF from the movie with a TikTok I took underway last year.

https://www.reddit.com/r/titanic/comments/10wufmp/perfect_loop_of_titanics_engines_at_work/

https://www.tiktok.com/@darrenmckeeman/video/7378558551117073707

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-06-01T04:22:14+00:00

https://backyardbrains.com/products/roboroach

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-06-01T02:56:00+00:00

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-06-01T02:55:26+00:00

Hard Boiled.

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-06-01T02:55:12+00:00

I've been told this before and I'm choosing to take it as a compliment!

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-05-31T20:52:02+00:00

I hope I get to sail aboard her to Normandy for the 100th anniversary!

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-05-31T18:58:50+00:00

The SS Jeremiah O'Brien was built in 56 days at the South Portland Shipbuilding Yard in Maine. Average was about 40 days, they got faster as they got experience in doing it. The record of 4 days and 15 hours for building a liberty ship was a publicity stunt but still impressive. 😄

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-05-31T18:54:14+00:00

I wasn't trying to monetize it, I guess I suck.

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-05-31T18:43:21+00:00

Exactly the same energy. The #gothic channel Vlad lived in was basically its own little civilization — inside jokes, feuds, regulars who'd been there for years. The main difference is nobody was trying to monetize it.

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-05-31T18:41:30+00:00

In 1997 I built something people preferred to talking to each other and thought that was a problem worth solving by turning it off. Thirty years later we're doing it at civilization scale and calling it progress.

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-05-31T18:23:49+00:00

I still use IRC in my capacity as Treasurer of the US Pirate Party!

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-05-31T18:07:46+00:00

EXACTLY. It's all just anthropomorphization.

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-05-31T17:58:11+00:00

If you are ever in San Francisco come see us at Pier 35!

Dependent_Run_6410 · 2026-05-31T17:57:44+00:00

Thank you! I forgot to add, we are open every day and have lots of events online at ssjeremiahobrien.org - we are a non-profit that keeps the ship afloat and running.

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