Better watch out! The pinball wizards are on the prowl!

104F in Paris today, a friend just texted me.

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

*Believe it or not, I've installed shade, done fire clearing, and own absurd numbers of air cleaners *And that's just in freakin' Ibiza

*I blame a lack of imagination of utterly discontinuous but ongoing futures *Which are distinct from "science fiction dystopias," since they're utterly discontinuous

Uh oh. They finally legalized pinball for youth in South Carolina @ladytutsiama.bsky.social @n8man.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/scal...

True facts! Lol! @n8man.bsky.social @psychicwhoosh.bsky.social

People in South Carolina are living in the fucking Music Man

The Xenon pinball soundtrack by synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani is available on Bandcamp! suzanneciani.bandcamp.com/album/xenon

It’s funny, because I had one of the seminal pinball experiences of my life when we stopped at South of the Border in 1981. Machines that TALKED! Xenon! The Black Knight!!

The community productions of 'Tommy' are gonna be lit this year.

And thus South Carolina begins its descent into licentiousness and anarchy scdailygazette.com/2026/06/17/s...

Summer Solstice Sunset. I think the fact that Glastonbury Tor was so busy for sunrise and it has been very hot today it was relatively quiet up there for sunset tonight. Now it isn't often I do both sunrise and sunset especially at this time of year so I might have to miss sunrise tomorrow 😂

This is a fascinating discovery. For the first time, a study has shown that older mice given a transplant of gut microbiomes from younger animals boost their brain plasticity. This means their brains are better able to adapt to changes. 🧪 #health #microbiomes www.newscientist.com/article/2531...

We have a disused garden water feature with a little slimy green algae in it. I’ll get some out as soon as I can decide what I want to deface.

Wondering what my 13-year-old sf-geek self would have thought of the AI hub now being built 16 miles from Main Street in Wytheville VA? Sheer delight, probably. (Does anyone know of a possible plan for another one, actually ON Main Street, or is that a baseless rumor?)

Co-sign.

So the peace deal lasted about as long as the American blue paint job?

Future generations won’t ask what happened. They’ll ask who allowed this.

For the first time ever, stepped out of the kennel. He approached me all on his own to request pets and I am just very emotional about this, y’all.

I need y’all to remember this: Trump gets to keep Air Force One. It cost taxpayers nearly $1 billion to upgrade, and before he leaves office, ownership transfers to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation, which he himself said is “most likely going to be a hotel.”

One of my coworkers today said 'I don't see why today is a national holiday' and its like damn woman all you have to do is read why its called Juneteenth and if you question that and not Columbus you have some things you need to work on.

It's recurring question now whether any Strait opening is permanent, will Iran be able to close again in the future, etc. Why wait? We now have a closure basically at EVERY negotiation rough patch, even every missed meeting. It's now Iran's pepper spray if the US or ISR looks at them the wrong way.

So cool that they're screening THE ELEPHANT MAN and THE FLY in this series -- two career-defining classics by emerging directors that only exist because Brooks was able to protect them from studio interference.

We, as a nation, are collectively missing a great opportunity to get RFK Jr to drink from the reflecting pool.

Q. “Establishing a human colony on Mars is fraught with risk. Why are so many people obsessed with achieving it?” A. White flight.

Getting settled on my chest for a purring session

The purring kicks in

An existentialist dog. Consider Sartre's point in Being and Nothingess about going into a cafe to look for his friend Pierre, who is not there. The absence of Pierre takes on being, since his absence has its own presence in the world. Obviously the dog barks in French. Le chien aboie véritablement.

@ladytutsiama.bsky.social @psychicwhoosh.bsky.social LoL,

The 80s saw the horror of AIDS. Science Magazine recognized Lenacapavir as the 2024 Breakthrough of the Year. These type of breakthroughs, w/ humble beginnings in academic labs, would not see the light of day if it weren’t for #NIH funding. 🧪 www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/lena...

Holy shit he’s trying to build his support base by splitting from the Zionist right

This man believes in nothing. He's just trying to position himself for 2028.

I mean, this is a WILD shift in a very short period. The US was deporting and jailing college students for saying less very recently.

someone should tell hegseth that disease has taken out more soldiers than any armament

Term that helps immeasurably in understanding what AI is and does: repertoire

🤣🤣🤣

Get him up to his room.

Stephen Colbert wore a tan suit to the Obama Presidential Center opening ceremony 😂 REUTERS/Octavio Jones

Stephen Colbert, David Letterman and the Obama Foundation board chairman, Martin Nesbitt, paid winking homage to President Obama’s notorious tan suit at the opening of his presidential library in Chicago on Thursday. nyti.ms/4a8I28z

Get ready…

The Reflecting Pool is becoming a better metaphor for the Trump administration as time goes on; it's a combination of personal obsession, corruption, and incompetence.

Four Seasons Total Pond and Pool repair.

The chunks of blue paint peeling off the bottom of the pool is too much. I can’t. How is this real?

The pool was the color of television, tuned to a dead democracy. h/t @greatdismal.bsky.social

We are living in a golden age of ostensible super powers shooting their own dicks off

“Roses are red, violets are blue. I’m schizophrenic, and so am I.” —Oscar Levant

“A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Uber & Lyft are using AI to maximize profits, resulting in different customers paying more for roughly the exact same ride, a @consumerreports.org investigation found. Tell the FTC and state AGs to investigate these pricing tactics CR.org/ridesharepricing

this is the result of antifascist resistance, in Minneapolis, Newark, and other cities and to protests against these facilities across the country. as Marisa says, it's a huge victory.