One of the most important sociological studies of our time: documenting the cat ladders of Switzerland brigitteschuster.com/swiss-cat-la...

I love mine. @heykidsshop.bsky.social is ace. Mine have fights all the time.

Hello Thursday. 🖼️ Gorey.

this is what being an oldhead here is like, my body wakes me up and once I address the reasons for that I have to futz around here before I can doze off again

Permanence by Sophie Mackintosh review – high-concept adultery fable

There's also Spirits in the Night that the Mann's covered Fire by the Pointer Sisters Because the Night - Patti Smith And then, a favourite of Bruce at live shows is Jimmy Cliff's, Trapped, that he first heard on a compilation cassette tape bought at an airport Jimmy, RIP, loved it apparently!

The *very very first* book should be SNAPS

I’m not necessarily against the principle of charging international visitors for museums – when I’m abroad, I don’t mind paying more to subsidise local access to heritage. But as this article says they can’t do it without ID cards, so really it’s just another argument about that contentious issue

"Why am I getting blocked? But also: why am I not getting more blocked?"

this is the very first book they made us read in history at uni and everyone saw it and went "aaawwww no" and then two weeks later realised it was FASCINATING

trimming a cut and pasted URL on an iPhone post like tending a bonsai

This might be the most perfectly grilled grilled cheese I’ve ever made.

I counted 17 different types of weather in Belfast this morning. My umbrella didn't make it 🖤

Morning

Yeah, let those UK dudes have that one: youtu.be/1MlBzPvCsMo?...

Trope of Decline was actually the third book in the triptych that Henry Miller never finished.

At this point I get just about all my analysis of news (and much of the news itself) from selected newsletters and podcasts. I‘m close to being able to just use email and Apple Podcasts to read what I need/want, and leave Google and social media entirely?

What do you think these buildings (a theater and an indoor mall) in Silver Spring, Maryland used to be? www.thedeletedscenes.com/p/silver-spr...

Next you’re gonna be telling me that I have to stop calling them Zed Zed Top.

Fact: The Hold Steady does not have a song lyric about Elizabeth Banks. It’s about Elizabeth Shue. However they do have several lyrics about the banks of the Mississippi River.

I love you, Minneapolis.

Nice hype video. Hoping the upcoming season has some similar highlights.

This is my stop

I spent the first half of my career doing digital collections stuff for museums, and I left that world completely convinced that future societies will have access to single-digit percentages of the digital parts of our culture

Continuing the phone number theme, this is the Time, with a funky song written by Prince. It's 777-9311. youtu.be/zioEaqjPAGI?... #80sMusic #80s #Funk #Soul #MusicSky #NowPlaying

Makes me love this sing so much youtu.be/eMYf4MlYEyk?...

Rebrand, Refresh, Remix, doesn’t matter. No Cap Space does Minnesota Basketball gear better. We even use local designers.

Name an unforgivably bad episode of an all-time favorite TV show.

Of course I’m an idealist. I schedule appointments, which implies that I think that this world will still exist in a recognizable form at 2:30 tomorrow. That’s idealistic.

First bead of sweat running down my forehead of the year!

Man I dunno

The Cato Institute should be where you go to get a guy to attack you when you least expect it to build up your self defense chops.

Dreams DO come true: my photo of the ICE teens spread so far divorced of context or credit that Snopes dot com had to write a whole story confirming that I didn't make it with AI. 🥲

But “cheers” coming out of any American’s mouth always sounds strange and is almost always used incorrectly.

Can tell gas prices are getting to people. Train hasn’t been this packed since pre-pandemic.

My unpopular opinion is that people in the United States should not say “full stop”

No baseball manager has ever said anything interesting or consequential during a mid-game interview and I don’t understand why anyone cares about them

hey guy I can’t even see who’s 3/4 of a block away, we get it you’re smoking a cigar

“Make it a season you’ll never forget when you bet on baseball”

<—- mailed a hockey puck to Chicago today

I am the guy in charge of writing the PSI on bike tires, I figure no one cares what the tire pressure is, so I will make it as difficult as possible to read.

I love how they snuck "Learning and Labor," Oberlin's motto (it's on the school seal) into their missive, especially as AI counts for neither. The kids are all right.

Upper Mississippi River

It's quite amazing how much MLB hates its fans. Opening night, two storied teams, only available on ... Netflix. What a giant fuck you to millions of people who love baseball but don't want/need/have Netflix.

I saw Trope of Decline open for Pasta Water at the Turf Club

Are there any loose-knit rural communities?

Excited about my very sad, slow cover of DEVO’s “Uncontrollable Urge,” which I call “Unconsolable Dirge”

On this day. March 24, 1998. Semisonic released their “Feeling Strangely Fine” LP two weeks after releasing the hit single “Closing Time.” The band’s post on FB today:

The weather today is just: air. Not cold, only slightly warm, blowing just enough to remind you that air exists. #mnwx