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Yes I made my World Cup Bracket in Google Slides no I don't recommend you do it this way

Successfully identified the right brand of toilet seat at Lowe's so that I didn't have to replace the slide on/off hardware, just the seat. 💪

I have a new appreciaton for taro fields after ten minutes of cat-and-mouse chase sequences under the giant leaves. From the 2026 cdrama The Devil Between us. #除恶

It is after 9:00. The box is still out for delivery. We have always been waiting for mangos.

When my grandma died in the early 2000s I was given some of her art supplies, but I also requested and was given her cheap stainless steel kitchen knives with white plastic handles that I had used so many times in her kitchen as a child. I am still using them in my kitchen, almost every day.

Bullitt County residents urged to evacuate homes due to 'serious and dangerous' dam failure

It was really just a matter of luck and good timing, but I'm glad I trimmed my huge backyard tree and replaced my falling down fence before this summer of wind and torrential rain.

I'm too tired to go to bed. It seems like a lot of work.

The wind/air pressure are doing some impressive things right now.

- posts primarily to be read by imaginary friends "Wow, did you catch "Chinese Club Mix at a Senior Center?" "Best thing that happened to my Friday night, how about you?"

Do you have screenshots of your website layouts (or links from the Internet Archice) of your 2000s era blogs/websites that you would want to share with me for a zine? I can redact any information you want, crop out domain names, etc

It would be a good time for some Democrats to demand that the stolen Venezuelan oil money be used for earthquake relief. Make Republicans show where the pirate loot has gone to.

I was reading 1880s-1920s Utah newspaper articles about immigration and one writer argued that the reason America was so good at attracting and assimilating immigrants is because America spends more on free public schools than on armies (like those backward countries in Europe). 🤔

First thing that came to mind

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched I had A Company Man (2012) mixed up with A Bittersweet Life (2005) which contributed to my mixed feelings here. Backrooms? Lured in by a McDonald's ad and zero lore, I found it soothingly familiar: Oh hi 1990s nostalgia plus my brain's endless maze dreams.

Being part of this community has been one of the most enriching experiences in my career, if you’re an early career researcher committed to radical histories I hope you’ll apply. Please share widely.

More things in life need to operate like the Pizza Hut Book-It challenge that used to give kids personal pizzas for reading books. If I read Brothers Karamazov, I think that should pay my mortgage for the month is all I’m saying

Go, chrysanthemum farm, go! (I think they are getting too much rain, though.)

I keep wondering what is even meant by "assimilating". Like, I moved to MN in 2010. I got a job, rented an apartment, bought stuff at stores and restaurants. That's what Somalis here are doing. If they aren't assimilating, I'm not either?

I've gone from flying Southwest airlines 5 to 10 times a year to zero times per year based on their seat/fare/rule changes over the past twelve months. Good job, new management.

*Whispers* Amazon doesn't need your money, but your local independent bookstore does.

I saw something last week I have been thinking of every day since. It brings joy into my darkest moments. I will tell it to you all now

I was very determined to get a photo of the blue fish last week

what a silly day! anyway here’s a rainbow shooting out of a volcano

Let my Chromebook update and now my pinyin input has stopped working. Maddening. I use it for silly things 10 times a day absentmindedly. I fiddled with the input and language settings for an hour. Gave up. Rebooted. And now my Chromebook says it is repairing itself...ominously.

Written in 1947, Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s account of the horrors of the atomic bomb attack will be published in August and is being made into a film

Are we protecting our public parks, our amazing lakefront, an incredible resource held in the public trust for all of us to enjoy? Or are we destroying it by driving and parking multi-ton vehicles all over it? And creating a hostile and unwelcoming environment for everyone?

I need a game plan for where to plant 18 mums. I really want them in the front yard, but don't know whether to commit to inserting one or more flowerbeds in my front lawn, taking over the curb strip, or covering part of my lawn with an exorbitant amount of containers.

June is #NationalCaribbeanAmericanHeritageMonth, so we thought we’d put together a short list of 42 books set in various Caribbean countries and regions to celebrate! 📚

Turned down a job opportunity. Might regret it later. Adulting is hard.

Dear cats, I also do not know why I am wide awake at 2am. Sorry to be confusing.

I have somehow managed to unpack my suitcase within two days of arriving home from vacation. And done my laundry. That might be a new record.

Watching Project Hail Mary but while jet lagged and with a Benadryl hangover (trying to clear a weird itchy rash from too many days in a row slathered in reef-safe sunscreen). This movie is kind of long. (Only at the half way point.)

are you still looking for a last-minute father's day gift? try bluesky. your dad will love bluesky.

BITCHING & MOURNING, my new grief grievances podcast with comedian Alison Zeidman, is out now—just in time for Father’s Day! Both our dads are dead so please like and subscribe out of pity wherever you listen to podcasts. Thanks!

Happy Father's Day to my dad, who is 72, but snorkels so hard and fast and solo that we kept losing track of him, causing me several times to swim out to random bald men floating in the distance to check on him. We couldn't find the guy who sold him a coconut in 2002, but we found another guy!

Twenty-seven hours after heading to the airport, I am home. Home is so nice.

Book 46 of 2026: On Earth as It Is on Television by Emily Jane This was fun. I was not expecting the multiple references to (and visits to) Red River Gorge. They had Miguel’s Pizza! And there were lots of cats.

Flight to LAX was delayed. Flight from LAX to Dallas was cancelled. They are going to put me on a flight from LAX to Philadelphia to get me to back to Louisville. It's going to be a long day.

In an alternate existence, I live on the island of Kaua'i, making crispy and flavorful snacks.

Pack and head to the airport? Whose terrible idea was that? I'm still vacationing over here.

I'm glad my family let me drag them to the Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge to look at birds. And a lighthouse! (But mostly birds.)

Duck duck chicken

The story of the Kennedy Center and reflecting pool are actually the same story. Step 1: take a thing in DC that's perfectly fine and declare it terrible Step 2: take it over to "fix it" Step 3: ruin it

Yes, we found the good place for drinks.

Vacation is great except for getting up sometime between 1am and 4am everyday because work isn't leaving me alone and being the only driver for seven people. Combination: I am very tired.

Two of my favorite photos from yesterday's Nā Pali Coast tour.

H*ck yeah peony!!!!!

I am having a good vacation.