Anyway, again, for those of us old enough to remember 2000 and who was on what side about Diebold machines and all that then, this continues to be quite a trip

Though there is overwhelming evidence that the Weather Underground's POPs make no mathematical sense, keeps the ol' cogitater in tip top form working out if it's this that day and that this it's what for both, what what ho ho jolly good (0.67 * (100-73) + 73 = 91.09 if you didn't know, now you do)

The Naxos Historical series (got like a couple dozen of these CDs at the York U. bookstore for cheap 20-odd years ago) is one of the low-key best things that ever happened to the world, listening to this right now youtu.be/erM1KnOEe4E

Stewart Manure

Pic of the week: Northern Crescent Butterfly Tongue birdsandbeesandblooms.com/2026/07/15/n...

The fact that bluesky has unnecessarily age-verification-blocked Texas may speak to why I was reluctant to move over here in the first place: bsky was not at all created for the same kind of reasons users migrated here from twitter; in fact it's never been clear what bsky was or is meant for...

Just spent a solid four or five seconds being thoroughly confused as to how it's America's 250th this year when (a) the bicentennial was before I was born and (b) I'm more than 50 years old (WHAT), then realized I was off on (a) as I had confused my birth year with the Blue Jays' first season

BEST STAR TREK CAPTAIN. WRONG ANSWERS ONLY.

Fields around are yellowing into harvest, nestling and fingerling are sky and water borne... weeks past the solstice, the year is well into its decline

So, bluesky has thrown up an age verification wall for users in Texas--prompted, but as far as I can tell in no way required, by a new law there--and it seems like there's nothing more than scattered grumblings on here about it? Seems not good?

Sympathies to whoever in the world just arrived at my photo site by image searching a squash vine borer moth I mean unless you like cool moths a lot more than you like growing your own squash

Interesting fact: if you were alive in the '90s there is a 37% chance you have that "never met a girl like you before" song in your head right now

Weather today reminding me of one of the very first things I said back at the old place It's raining, it's draining The old man's complaining It wasn't enough To water his stuff And now there's none remaining

Pic of the week: Katydid on Calendula birdsandbeesandblooms.com/2026/07/08/k...

You know, these bra store ads I keep seeing on the Jays games lately are starting to make me think they're right, I *do* deserve to wear a comfortable bra

Anyway would be nice if we'd quit mixing up Rough Dudes with The Working Class

I wonder how overrepresented the number seven is in metrical poetry This question brought to you by thinking about maybe working somebody once saying to me "I haven't had a crap in five days" into a poem "Seven" scans but I mean it's pushing it (Uh no pun intended)

The trouble with using the bird app on your phone to count birds is sometimes you mean to type "ovenbird" and then when you focus your brain you see you've typed "obama"

zero engagement a stylite sends up signals to the clear blue sky

Sometimes it strikes me as possibly strange that we let means for the frequent random production of barf just roam at large around the house

Pic of the week: Rose Chafers with Daisy birdsandbeesandblooms.com/2026/06/30/r...

Bluesky 3 weeks ago: the only thing dumber than boring soccerball is the Berlin 1936 World Cup of Greater America, look how hard we're not gonna watch it Bluesky now: the pace, creativity, & organization of the football has been superlative in this, one of the most magnificent World Cups in history

If, on an early summer's day, you find yourself seemingly inexplicably with the Roadrunner theme song in your head, you may have just heard an indigo bunting singing

Oh hey it's Post a Sonnet You Wrote When You Were Nineteen Day! Blessings to all who celebrate. This one of mine was probably about a magical potato I reckon

Seeing people write on here in full more or less grammatical sentences that VGJr should be sent to the minors reminds me, again, of Chomsky saying why can't we have reasoned discourse about politics like there is on the radio about sports

Pic of the week: My Daisy birdsandbeesandblooms.com/2026/06/23/m...

This reminds me of the time I was on a highschool trip to DC and the group of kids I was unleashed with wanted to go to the "mall" instead of all the monuments and stuff, and that's how I got to see all the monuments and stuff Many such cases I imagine

Guy says all he really wants for Father's Day, if there must be a Father's Day, is for his daughters to watch the Jays game with him--and the Jays game is rained out.

Post one photo you took with your very own hands of a painting... "Sunshine in the Drawing Room" (1910) by Vilhelm Hammershøi, National Gallery of Canada ...in case anyone was wondering, heh

Song for the day, with sympathies for those what need em 😬 youtu.be/JTTC_fD598A?...

Pic of the week: New Promethea Silkmoth birdsandbeesandblooms.com/2026/06/16/n...

These are the saddest of possible words: "Nets and Mets and Jets." Trio of ballclubs beloved by nerds, Nets and Mets and Jets. Ruthlessly cut from the New York team list-- Are they still there? Do they even exist? Words barely whispered through playoffs they missed: "Nets and Mets and Jets."

This here's a hell of a case of a persona poem

Don't know that I've seen an off-rhymed terza rima sonnet before. Off rhyme sets my teeth on edge when there's no good reason for it; a good reason is that, as here, something is off. Ultimately what really grabs me is "Irene" in the second-last line. Who the speaker in the poem is addressing...

Pic of the week: Hummingbird Moth Between Lilacs birdsandbeesandblooms.com/2026/06/09/h...

Surely there is no greater evidence that we live in a malevolent universe than the Las Vegas Golden Knights

A thing that's starting to nag at me: what's it going to do to people's ability to read if they grow up getting bots to do all their writing for them

The peculiar Canadianness of being annoyed for days on end by and about a guy running to be nominated for election to a seat in a legislature of a neighbouring country

What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 70s - Phantom of the Paradise 80s - Babette's Feast 90s - Eyes Wide Shut 00s - Punch-Drunk Love maybe? 10s - The Tree of Life 20s - Poor Things Really makes it evident to me how much my favourite movies are clustered in the 60s, 90s, & 10s

Hey here's a little thing by me, inspired by local bylaws and such, up at Asses of Parnassus, which is edited by Brooke Clark, who is as far as I know the most well-known poetry person who went to my highschool assesofparnassus.tumblr.com/post/8178616...

The thing about bugs is they were born ten minutes ago and they've got it all figured out, they see you coming a mile away and know exactly what you're up to Chipmunks on the other hand, dumb as rocks and ain't no helping em

There is nothing more soothing out here in The Desert East of Peterborough than seeing that the "percent chance of" before "showers" has disappeared in some part of the forecast

Nice one, bsky brain

Dispatch from another planet: Allen Ginsberg, BOTD 100 years ago, on the 31 year old Conan O'Brien's show in 1994 youtu.be/MITgcs_-rHU?...

Pic of the week: Hummingbird Moth with Lilac Blossoms birdsandbeesandblooms.com/2026/06/01/h...

Click here for tips on viewing tonight's ultra-rare second blue moon of the month, known as a bblluuee mmoooonn

Whoever decided quasi-fascist iconography (recalling the GQ photoshoot) was the way to go to illustrate this article deserves... some sort of recognition, for sure Anyway, interesting to see unreconstructed '90s-style difference feminism like this www.liberalcurrents.com/aoc-for-pres...

At some point I guess I'm going to have to think harder about whether it would be an improvement overall to replace every instance of "AI" with "a computer program" but it absolutely would make everything less irritating

Anti-AI internet: hurray the pope said AI is terrible, never use it, humanity is saved! Matthew Walther in the NYT: actually the pope didn't nearly say that and owing to his personality never was going to say nearly that Anti-AI internet: shhhhhhhhhh