WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣

Glad you asked!!! Look for The Book of Notable Sandwiches: A Lunchtime History of the World next summer!!!

Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.

Oh, the explanation of why the company is closing is heartbreaking. If masculine dress shoes are your thing, check them out, buy something.

Hey if you’re an AFAB person with a need for masc shoes, Tomboy Toes is tragically going out of business and your time is now. There are 1,000 pairs left and no restocks www.tomboytoes.com

Our friendly neighborhood yellow-crowned night heron was out in the sunshine instead of in the shady ditch as usual. Seemed offended when I stopped to take a picture and flew away, but came back later.

Kid asked me this morning what it felt like to be alive for more than a 5th of the country’s history.

At The Woodlands/S. County parade today—at least in our little zone: lots of love for bands, claps and waves for veterans, cheers for county Democrats & librarians, polite silence for county Republicans, stony silence for that 1 guy in the MAGA hat. We all seemed cautiously happy to be together.

The thing about having to name the Best This or the Best That is that one doesn't actually have to, but if one has to name the Best American Musical, you probably can't go wrong with The Music Man.

My mom just hit on what’s annoying about Apple TV baseball: they both act like color commentators; they will call “major” plays but nobody just calls every pitch and play in the game. Do they think that’s old fashioned? Because it’s really not.

this line is a banger and it really crystallizes what’s wrong with the reactionary far right just about everywhere. what is “tradition”? who gets to decide what we keep and what we toss out and how it evolves?

Really excellent summary of a long opinion, and very helpful. Thank you!

Hey you. Yeah, you reading this. I hope your July is better than your June. I hope that thing you're worried about works itself out for the best. I hope they text back. I hope you find that $20 you forgot about in a pocket right when you need it most. I just really hope things for you get better.

They were supposed to just lose while illustrating what a big tent the party has. Oops!

Laverne Cox has been out there giving some amazing interviews lately, but this relatively short one was just electric.

Sad to hear that Jill Smokler died. She created such a great outlet for imperfect/anti-perfect moms just at the time I needed it.

If you've seen the Juneteenth flag, but don't know its history or what it means, you can read about it in the words of Ben Haith, the man who designed it. Happy Emancipation Day! ✊🏽 #Juneteenth capitalbnews.org/juneteenth-f...

Molly the whippet thinks the kids and cats are all puppies like her, which is a problem sometimes but also adorable. When one kid left to go running early this morning, she barked for us to come the same way she does when one of the cats gets in the garage. "Hey, hey, he got out!"

Happy Juneteenth Yall! Let freedom ring.

'A less than five-minutes-long Teams call with no opportunity to respond is how staff at the University of Dundee heard that their jobs, the courses that they teach and their livelihoods might be at risk. I ask members to think about that for a moment.' (Maggie Chapman (North East Scotland) 1/5

Tab hoarding is leading to stress and information overload, and distraction, since the Middle Ages. #tabhoarding

Everyone shut up I finally got a video of Jyn doing her cartoon snoring thing

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

‘You couldn’t make that today’ and it’s just a living wage.

Yowza. The Texas UIL athletic rules make us stay on the school buses (with antsy band kids, several of whom always have to pee) if there is lightning within 6 miles. Thunder within 30 seconds of lightning, everything suspends for 30 minutes. Another flash? Restart the clock. Once sat for two hours.

Still be-tarped but the tarps have doors now

Is the tarp still up at the Kennedy Center? I’m guessing there is some visible damage to the wall and they don’t want anything to distract from the other events of today.

They tried to hide but I got em anyway

This is so confusing. It’s just right there in sand castle zone.

This is horrible news. #publichistory #America250 abcnews4.com/news/local/c...

omg it looks like Joyce Beatty went back at 4am to make sure the letters are down, she just posted an IG reel confirming

you know who is still here? Joyce Beatty

Looks like the guy with the “You’re no JFK” sign has been allowed to sit back down. That’s a relief.

This is my life now. Watching the feed and waiting for the Duck to post.

I’m a pretty cynical person, yet I never thought I’d live to see a post-Jim Crow American political party take the position that “racist pogroms are good actually.”

OMG - I’m in the New Yorker! Yaysville!

Pogroms.

Another example of broken “AI mode”: an older friend of mine tried to look up WYD, which a younger relative had texted her. Google AI overview responded, “Just running through a few million operations, processing data, and hanging out in the cloud! What about you? What are you up to today?”

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

I would take this a step further, and say that they literally *have* to demonize Talarico as being gay or effeminate or whatever, because the project is white Christian male supremacy and he fits that bill otherwise.

All this time I thought the cat sat on my feet during TV time because she likes hanging out with me. But I’ve left the French Open multiview running in the bedroom for the past few days (so we can dip in and out without restarting the feed), and she sits on the bed all day watching tennis.

Songs we wish Cole Porter had written: “There’s Something Wrong With You”

We decided to hold on to HBO Max as long as John Oliver is still on it, and in the meantime we get this treat.

Our county library director, who was fired after refusing to limit access to LGBTQ+ materials, got a settlement from the county. It's a "win", although she doesn't get her job back, they're not admitting wrongdoing, and they aren't changing any policies, so it's a little like eating sawdust.

Tatsuya Imai, Steven Okert and Alimber Santa have combined to throw the 18th no-hitter in Houston Astros history in a 9-0 win against the Texas Rangers.

THE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!!

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

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She was watching baseball, but she got sleepy.