It’s so cute that there are expiration dates on boxes of Girl Scout cookies as if that information would ever be relevant to me.

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there who show up & raise their kids. Extra respect for the moms like mine who had to play both roles. And most of all, love to my son Ed. You've turned out to be a pretty terrific adult. You make your old punk of a dad proud. Love you son, you're the best.

SUMMER SOLSTICE AT STONEHENGE (Palindrome by Pairs) In past, lost lore (no "done rot"), Henge, a relic, stole sun — a June solstice, large, enthroned on ore; lost, lost pain.

#MusicHistory On this day, 1993, Verve released their brilliant debut album A Storm in Heaven. Before they became The Verve, they were simply Verve, four musicians from Wigan making huge, atmospheric, shoegazing & psychedelic rock. One of the great debut albums of the early ’90s British rock scene.

If a user is able/expected to interact with a layout, that layout should not change while it is displayed and the user may be trying to interact with it. I cannot believe it is 2026 and UI designers still do not understand this.

Breaking News from The Halfway Post: BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly furious that the annual ranking of US presidents by a committee of 50 top presidential historians was released today, and the committee almost unanimously ranked Trump’s second term as the worst in US history.

It’s always okay to make fun of flat earthers.

(Thread) This week, a friend of mine sent me something he wrote just for fun. He might never send it to a publisher or agent or anything. I enjoyed it so much that I was sad there was only 9,000 words of it. It was vulgar and indulgent and convoluted and imaginative and funny.

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

The women have won four World Cups, but absolutely congratulations to the men for making it to the knockout round. Yes, this is a reminder that the USA has, in fact, won a World Cup — four of them. In case you heard otherwise.

SOLSTICE (Aelindrome in Pi) 3141592653589 Solstice: new, it evokes old needs and raw senses. Sun rids us: what binds us bids us. What sunrise saw sends and reevokes. Old, new… it entices Sol.

"I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks." - John Lee Hooker The legendary blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist, John Lee Hooker, passed on this day, 2001. One of the greatest blues vocalists & guitarists of all time.

I'm not allowed to make my own breakfast, because the kids want to make me a surprise breakfast. The problem is, I think the kids got distracted and have moved on to other projects. ...Maybe if I sneak over I can make my own breakfast very quietly?

Nobody is making profits. It is going to burst and it is going to take all those data centers with it. Keep your skills. Practice your crafts. Hold on to your books. Stay sharp.

Cheers from yesterday's Edinburgh Pride. I was having too much fun to take or post any pics 🎉🌈🍻

Gunhild Carling is a Swedish jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist rockin'🎶'Bagpipe Swing' #bluesmusic

You wouldn’t want it to croak would you?

Most people writing rock or pop post 2000 have no familiarity with classical music…

Oh, in which did I hear that? I don't know the name. I should have asked the speaker what was playing but I didn't think to.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

The problem is not “work from home” as a concept — it’s managers and executives who don’t know how to build a strong team culture & enable people to build meaningful relationships (both laterally and vertically) in a remote/flexible environment.

In the 1980s and 1990s there were similar issues with showers in BnBs in Ireland….

When the person installing a bike rack has never used a bike rack.

Cobbled together but damn it’s good. Roast potatoes, fried chicken and spicy Srilankan curried spinach and peas. #food #foodsky #chicken #potatoes #cooking #curry

Mainstream rock radio formats are such a war crime for treating certain artists as one hit wonders. I appreciate Bang A Gong (Get It On) WAY more hearing it in the context of songs like Jeepster. I *get* T. Rex now in a way Big 105.9 never cared about.

It would be great to have a smarter tv that lets you switch between apps just by inputting a number. We could call them “channels.”

20 June 1906 Italian Jewish woman, Ulda Camerini, was born in Parma. She was deported to Auschwitz from Fossoli camp on 5 April 1944. She did not survive. #WW2 #History #HistoryMatters

working my last shift at this bookstore right now. just ran the numbers. since we opened in 2023 we've sold 14k books. no idea how that compares to other stores, but considering our first 2 years were in a shit location, I'm proud of that. 14k books that we put into readers' hands. hell of a thing.

A dickcissel singing its little heart out. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

My first Amtrak ride was on the Pacific Surfliner!! It serves my hometown Glendale, CA 🥹 LA to San Diego for $36, to Santa Barbara for $31, or San Luis Obispo for $54! 🤩🚆🌊

Which classical piece?

I read most rock a lot of rock and pop song melodies are ripped from classical pieces and I swear I just heard Somewhere Over The Rainbow in this classical cello piece I'm listening to. Not the whole thing, but the main part, and not exactly but totally recognizable.

Just moved here from X. Won't post much. Happy to listen to others.

For hundreds of years after its invention, calculus stood on a shaky foundation. Then in the late 19th century, grappling with a “monster” helped it bulk up. www.quantamagazine.org/the-jagged-m...

Paris tripled parking charges for SUVs in 2024 after a vote by residents. Transport for London is considering whether to impose extra charges for SUVs in the UK capital, in part because of the greater risks they pose to others. *End free parking in Port of Spain!* www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"The pedestrian/cyclist just came out of nowhere!" Babe, if you were doing 30mph, 30 seconds ago you were a quarter of a mile away - if anyone came out of nowhere, it's you.

i "grew up" listening to 90s rap & i love all that stuff but.. i hate the constant lifelong reprise-worship of those same albums over & over.. reminds me of boomers who ingest nothing much beyond the same ~500 monocultural "classic rock" songs their whole ass lives

I'm seriously pissed off at the lack of cinema etiquette these days😠 Every time I go, there's people on their phones watching tiktoks, chatting, and getting up and down CONSTANTLY Can you not just sit still and watch a film for a couple of hours? I have ADHD and I manage fine

In the 1960s, Saturday morning cartoons were so much better if watched on a television set like this!

🫪🤮 The more I learn about animal agriculture & animal products, the better tofu gets…

Very drinkable. Light, fruity and bitter, very nice. One of the last two stray dogs wandering round my beer stash. Boston Brewery Cheers 🍻

The reason artists write out scores for their music is in case they get audited, in which case they can prove with documentation that they’re compliant with music theory.

My son just asked why Netherlands has so many Black people on the team I told him we are everywhere.

Look at the size of these blueberries!

Remembering Brian Wilson on his birthday 💙🏄‍♂️🎹 In 2006, Carole King was invited by legendary songwriter / producer Brian Wilson to his recording studio. One of the songs they recorded that day is “I’m Into Something Good,” the Goffin/King song originally made famous in 1965 by Herman’s Hermits.

#MusicHistory On this day 1989, The B-52’s released “Love Shack,” backed with “Channel Z.” Released just before their comeback album Cosmic Thing, “Love Shack” became the song that pushed the Athens, GA new wave originals into the pop mainstream. It was a massive hit! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SOr...

1/ the greatest songs of all time... Under the Boardwalk Drifters Young & Resnick✍️🎹 20 Jun 1964 #MusicSky🎵 Fred's version👇 (w/ Buster & Fatty)

Near the Pultney Bridge, I crossed (probably a bit cheekily) in front of a turning bus. As he took the corner, the bus driver yelled out his window, "I'M BIGGER THAN YOU." "Beautiful synecdoche, my friend," I thought, but did not say.

Here's what I did today: 1) Copy information from one university management system 2) Paste it into a PDF 3) Send it to another office so they can copy it from the PDF and paste it into a different management system #HigherEd #ThisSeemsDumb #Enshitification