I’m not a soloist. I have no interest in being a soloist. (I’ve been there and done that.) My first love has always been playing in the orchestra. Give me an interesting overture, concerto, and symphony for the evening’s program and I’m happy.

Wow even the TMBG bot is doing air conditioner discourse

Can't do better on the subject than the great Ruth Franklin!

Have some HDD ASMR www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGdI...

#FridayFunDays #FridayFunnies

My domestic policy preferences are closer to those of Democratic centrists than they are to Mamdani and the DSA. But my sympathy is pretty low for complaining centrists who decided to support Andrew Fricking Cuomo as their alternative to Mamdani.

“I must not [read Politico or The Hill]. [Reading Politico or The Hill] is the mind-killer. [Reading Politico or The Hill] is the little-death that brings total obliteration." -The Litany Against Rat-Fuckery

TODAY ON @thisguysucked.com: The excellent @catherinefletcher.info on Renaissance arms dealers and the centuries-old question of gun control.

Look, I don't wish anybody ill. (OK, yeah, *almost* anybody.) I just have a list of people whom I want to enjoy a quiet retirement OUT OF THE PUBLIC EYE.

So this means they're going to stop asking him what he thinks on TV shows, right? Right????

You could have asked any landscaping expert for a comment. Respect to the reporter who went to Four Seasons Total Landscaping. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

academic labor conditions are an academic freedom issue and vice versa

Chef's kiss, salute, tears, all of it

Neo-fascism is not a materialist response to anything. It is a revolt of the privileged, so bored by their prosperity that they are reigniting world-historical ideological struggle just to feel something for once in their miserable, empty lives.

If we had a crime rate trajectory like this motor vehicle fatality chart there would be calls for cops on every corner. tc.canada.ca/en/road-tran...

Britain about to get its seventh Prime Minister in ten years. I can’t say I’m surprised. As a people they’re often wonderful of course—very musical, for example, many charming customs, and always joking around in their quirky way—but they just don’t have the temperament for stable self-government.

I haven't seen anyone post a link to this on my feed, so here it is: youtu.be/0gt7QXwYpZo?...

Mowed the grass, bought some shorts, and cooked a new dish for dinner.

Where Love On The Spectrum helps autistic adults who are looking for love, Leave finds autists whose partners are ableist and intolerant of their neurodivergent traits. Their goal? Divorce…on the spectrum. thesqueakywheel.org/new-netflix-...

my actual professional opinion right now is that this has all gotten out of hand and that what we should be focused on is that OUR NATION'S CAPITAL IS UNDER OCCUPATION.

A lot of “preppers” just stick weird shit between the strings in their piano to make them sound funny, and that’s important work too.

happy father’s day to all the dads who don’t listen to manosphere podcasts

Years and years ago at an AHA, a reporter at the Chronicle asked me what I'd like to see from them in the coming year and I said "Try to go a week without quoting a professor from an Ivy league school." I am re-upping that request but I'd like to broaden the publications it applies to.

Pretty much as intended

"it doesn't look good" then print it out and run the printout through a copy machine until it does, jesus

If any universities survive this there’s going to be a good opportunity for an interdisciplinary PhD on late American masculinity and eating disorders

It’s time once again to bring out your Solstice fudge.

what to announce when you first enter the Acela quiet car

"Welcome to Kansas City, where Ecuador has struggled to score against Curaçao." Meanwhile, across town, Samantha was also struggling with curaçao, and she, too, was trying to score

I watched it & thought it was great!

People are discussing “death of the author” vs “death of the audience” but I’m just glad we all agree that anyone who can read or write should die, disgusting habit

Post one (1) photo of a painting that you took with your very own hands. The photo, that is, not the painting.

Blu Ray (2006) is now as old as SCSI (1986) was when Blu Ray came out.

For Space Cutaway Saturday: Two uncredited illustrations from "Space Horizons" #1

I’m not too embarrassed that we are losing to Iran. It’s a big boy country with missiles and drones and so forth ran by stone cold killers. That’s NFL ball for you. I am a little embarrassed we are also losing to algae.

Butter-Cups Cereal (1965-circa 1967): Puffed, light, crispy, flower-shaped corn cereal pieces from General Mills. A commercial featured children picking and eating real-life buttercups (which are poisonous), which led to parental complaints of copycat behavior and ultimately its discontinuation

Week 24 (plus an extra day) of my stitch-the-news daily news diary included: A very big number A UFC claw A classic Knicks logo A bathroom sign A pen A G7 logo A bottle of ranch dressing A paintbrush with blue paint

Charles Coburn in "The Lady Eve" (with William Demarest, Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck) - BOTD

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint

Broke: midsommar is a movie about bad relationships Woke: midsommar is a movie about white supremacists Bespoke: midsommar is a movie about how grad students should be killed

Philadelphia's little-known statue of the extraordinarily influential German naturalist and thinker Alexander von Humboldt, author of the remarkable treatise, "Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe." #histstm #science #sciencesky @rhiggitt.bsky.social @patrickmccray.bsky.social

”Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation” by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Harper’s Bazaar. An oral history, as told by members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of The Black Panther Party. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

Chotiner: You’re positive everyone fighting was using the ancient Chinese martial art of Kung Fu? Me: Yeah, I mean, the speed of those kicks— Chotiner: Fast as lightning. Yes, you mentioned that. Me: Look, everything happened so suddenly. Chotiner: I’m sure it was a little bit frightening.