You're looking at a 200 year-old wisteria vine at Byakugou-ji Temple in Tamba, Hyogo, Japan. The delicate pink/purple blossoms create an otherworldly place where magic can happen. But here's an interesting fact: wisteria are in the legume family (Fabaceae). This is a magic beanstalk.

here's an artistic genius at the top of her game making possibly the best album of her career and dropping the whole thing on youtube for free www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-UN...

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Going to a club, getting a little too drunk, crushing a joint in the parking lot then coming back inside to this song starting to play would fix me youtu.be/c18441Eh_WE?...

Me and the boys heading to our Friday meeting with Mitch McConnell

You could definitely give these people a Trojan Horse and they’d be like “wow a big horse thank you” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

Altman always has an expression on his face like he just saw some cops in the doorway while the maître d’ is pointing out where he is

I truly don’t see how this country can go on if we don’t ban online sports betting. This story is stomach-turning.

The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.

He's got a regular gig at the McKeesport Croatian club: www.mikeydeeband.com/recordings

This proves my long-standing theory that you can do communism in America as long as you call it something other than communism

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

hold on, about to chat with mcconnell

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

𝗢'𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.

me before every post

I think about this a lot with regards to concert ticket pricing for DIY musicians

I’d make one of those “I spoke to Mitch McConnell on the phone for 20 minutes” meme posts but c’mon who are we kidding: you and I both know I treat the phone like a millennial: I avoid it like the plague

This is 100% a problem — Democrats expect the media to make their arguments for them: "Well, we'll just put the facts out there, and people can make up their own minds — we don't have to persuade them." That's not how it works. Can't anybody here play this game?

Pittsburgh folks, if you've never been to a hounds game, go do it. Sit in the supporters section the first time and go nuts, tons of fun.

Hey, is he dead yet? No. Not him. The other guy. What a country. Oy.

"If you’re worried about population collapse, then I have two solutions for you: attract many more immigrants, and figure out how to loosen the patriarchal bargain’s grip on the masculine imagination." more and more people are saying! (now with charts!)

Ozzie was simply built different

imagine these as casual fielding drills. Ozzie Smith was an absolute freak.

That's sorcery,

Born 4 Jul 1938, Bill Withers, US singer-songwriter who had the 1972 US No.1 single 'Lean On Me', & the 1972 UK No.4 single 'Lovely Day'. Toward the end of that song, he holds a note for 18 seconds which is believed to be the 2nd-longest note ever in UK chart history. He died in 2020. #BillWithers

KG STOLE HOME! 🫨

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

Have a safe 4th.

I went back in time to ask the Foubding Fatherz what they think of America at 250. Ben Franklin said, "Gads! You have all those tiddies on your image brick." Then I tried to show him the calculator and he hissed at me

Happy Fourth of July

incredible pull. truly the greatest wedding ever to happen at Madison Square Garden

The effective way the clarinet player does a musical call and response to the singer is just mesmerizing. "Tu vuo' fa' l'americano" by Renato Carosone: cover by Hetty and the Jazzato Band, an Anglo-Italian jazz quintet. @Rainmaker1973 #globalmuseum #music #jazz

Don't do any of this.

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

Today, at @therumpus.net we're launching a series we're calling What is Freedom, where we ask a range of creative people to define freedom in whatever way they choose. This afternoon, we'll share the first answer, from artist Vincent Valdez. therumpus.net/2026/07/01/w...

July is a full month of new singles, EPs and albums on the way from a range of local musicians. Here’s a quick look at those new local releases scheduled for the Pittsburgh region in July:

Beating "12" for the top Google result for"4x3" is possibly the greatest achievement of my life.

Has someone checked on Butler?

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

like at this point it is quite obvious that the republicans on the court will make up anything they like to kneecap literally anything democrats try to do you cannot have a republic that runs this way so you have to break this court specifically

here's my scotustake: you need a plan to both break this court specifically, and also a plan to arrive at a new and functional court system, *and also* to recognize that political contestation never ends but that's no excuse for doing nothing

Happy P00P series to all who celebrate