So glad I paid my taxes 🫣

This is a big bummer I'm trying to come to terms with. I love nature videos, real ones are amazing enough. Fake ones just make me sad.

Lenin's got World Cup fever

Oh yeeeeah!

I've always been in the vanguard.

Wow, perfect timing

I do sort of enjoy how AI is this sort of all-purpose proposed solution for everything. "We're going to use AI to make Fribbles even thicker!" No you're no. That's not a thing.

Not just a funny picture, some words, too, I promise!

BREAKING: Federal court rules Alabama's nitrogen gas execution protocol unconstitutional. Judge Emily Marks on Tuesday barred Alabama from using nitrogen gas to suffocate Jeffery Lee to death Thursday. Tonight, at Law Dork:

@samreich.bsky.social @vicmmic.bsky.social please, I'm begging, make a full episode of Chomp'd.

I whine about not knowing how to do stuff I used to know how to do. mo-neek-a.org/wordsx3/f/it...

"Cars and American notions of 'freedom' seem to go hand-in-tailpipe." michaelianblack.substack.com/p/you-got-a-...

fiction premise rejected as too on-the-nose: Center for visual arts demolished to make way for data center (originally reported by Puget Sound Business Journal; linking Geekwire because of PSBJ paywall) www.geekwire.com/2026/data-ce...

When the whistle blows at the end of a long day, you know I'm reaching for a frothy, cold Barley Drink.

Hoo-chan, the mascot for Yamano musical instruments, is a musical fairy who dresses in a bird costume because both music and birds can fly freely across borders.

Hello everyone! After much debate regarding the term “celebrity,” I was invited to appear on an episode of Celebrity Wheel of Fortune! Competing for @trevorproject.bsky.social. Watch me June 12 on Disney+ or Hulu!

thank to @helply.bsky.social

Even if you've filled out the KCLS AI usage survey, consider dropping by an in person session: kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/events?q=... While it's easy to ignore surveys it's hard to ignore people when we show up in person!

I feel like I could benefit from an artichoke-eating apprenticeship. I think maybe I am too amateurish in my artichoke-eating.

Zuckerberg Docks Annual Salary of 1,400 Laid-Off Meta Workers in Seattle: tinyurl.com/yc8kwpu9

Zuckerberg’s superyacht lands in Seattle as Meta announces big local layoff "Hours after news of Meta’s 1,400 job cuts in King County broke Tuesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s 390-foot megayacht quietly floated into Seattle. " www.seattletimes.com/business/zuc...

from NY Times morning bulletin. I was just talking about cigarettes being $7/pack last time I was aware of such things, and lamenting the fact people still pick up the habit.

An article lamenting a lack of knowledge, referencing "vaginal wellness", with an image of a uterus.

Insidious. Log in to FB(ugh) see a notification "we've merged your account profiles, now your Threads acct info is here". I don't have a threads acct. Let me cancel it. 'sure, you can cancel it, but create a password first' Wtf?

Words! I got 'em! mo-neek-a.org/wordsx3/f/se...

Words! I got 'em! mo-neek-a.org/wordsx3/f/se...

Happy 100th birthday, SIFF Cinema Uptown! The Uptown opened in 1926 with THE SEA BEAST, starring John Barrymore, and today you can catch screenings of I LOVE BOOSTERS, MĀRAMA, and SILENT FRIEND. More to come later this year! Historic photos & doc from Cinema Treasures. #SIFF2026 photo by Eric Luck.

We can enjoy the day off, or we can be sad we have to work again tomorrow.

"retitled to satiate the commander-in-chief’s addiction to aggrandizement"

Via @clairegiangrave.bsky.social in Rome: Silicon Valley turns to Rome as Pope Leo XIV prepares AI encyclical —> religionnews.com/2026/05/22/s...

Honestly amazing that: 1. The head of the FBI cannot protect his own merch store. 2. The head of the FBI has a merch store.

Look I don't like the guy, but he says "a person I've known for a long time" he's referring to the fiancee. It's just that he's slurring and skipping words so it _sounds_ like he means his son.

Abolish the death penalty.

may have to update my banner

Related to our recent SIFF viewing, Starbucks flubbed in South Korea. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/w...

Yes, keep laying people off until noone wants to work there anymore. Shut it down. Bleh. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...