5yo singing Herbie Hancock's Chameleon as he's winding down in bed. It's stuck in his head because 10yo has been playing it on the piano all evening. Parenting win.

Sun Reis Project playing at Audio for the Arts

Early bus doesn't make sense. Actually going to miss the bus because of this.

Design consultants were 5 and 10yo. One of these is scary (or at least very annoying) to parents.

The Bad Plus

From an animal welfare point of view, the dairy industry feels more sinister than the beef industry.

I've been listening to @marcmaron.bsky.social's podcast for at least 12 years. Bye imaginary friend! I'll miss you!

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

I wasn't nervous about going to Chicago until the government decided to pretend there was a problem to be solved on Chicago. The fact that I'm considering bringing passports just in case is not a symptom of a healthy nation.

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

My wife thinks is sooo funny that my g string keeps binding because my nut is a little busted.

Another example of the real problem being that people like Cruz live in an alternate reality bubble. Pretty much anyone accusing orgs like Wikipedia, NPR, or PBS of liberal bias is really just showing they don't live in the objective reality.

Starting to think that even if the files get released and despite the horrifying reality they expose, truth and facts in this age have been so corrupted that it won’t even matter, feel like we’ve already crossed a terrifying threshold we can never come back from.

This is great. It'd have been so cool to see this iteration of this group play. Music and silliness? Yes please. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gdw...

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

What can we do?

Hiromi's Sonicwonder. She played a solo piano piece (seemingly Keith Jarrett style improvised) that was probably the most mind-blowing piano playing I've ever witnessed.

#KavanughStop bsky.app/profile/anja...

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

A civil war and a world war? In this economy?

If we impeached Nixon... (I promise I was at a full stop when I took this)

Traffic lights are car infrastructure.

Ok now I've driven my family crazy by spending all day learning to play this on guitar.

This is a great performance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWjG...

This album is really great. tidal.com/browse/album...

Time for the daily debate with 5yo about whether "Getting Better" was written by the Beatles or the Cat in the Hat.

Bumble

Pollinator frenzy

I still think he thinks that asylum seekers are shopping around for a new asylum in which to reside

Nothing like figuring out the bug that's been stumping you for a couple days 15 minutes before the weekend starts.

They're not being installed in parking spaces. They're being installed in space on the street.

Kinda Pythagorean triple day today

John Medeski, Todd Clouser & Jorge Servin. This was very good.

30 minute improvisational jam (piano/guitar) with the 10 yo just made my weekend.

Homeownership: discovering the previous owners constructed part of the bathroom out of cardboard to save $8 in their remodel.

Computer madness

So we have no idea who the shooter was. All we know is that he is the guy in that grainy picture. Oh, yeah. Also we know he was a radical leftist. But we have no idea who he is.

Price Is Right with horse contestants, The Horse Is Right. They clomp their hooves to bid

A common cycling experience: riding somewhere unfamiliar in a bike lane or path. The plan is to keep going the same direction, but the bike lane ends and the road looks intimidating for cycling. There's a sign pointing in a direction you don't want to go that simply says "bike route". What now?

This. 👇👇👇 JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”

Hey does anybody know what to do

Wow! arxiv.org/pdf/2506.24088

Worth noting that we spend the weekend wandering around Chicago, riding the el, etc and didn't see a single person get murdered or any crime of note. They seem to have things under control.

Suspiciously my wife didn't point this out until we were checking out.

Day and night from the 29th floor.

Why do college football team busses have massive police escorts through town? Why can't they just drive the bus to the stadium regularly?

this is what courage and goodness looks like.

Wow, hate this. Computers were a mistake. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9M...

Don't forget: only 42% of registered voters voted for this garbage. Only 28% of Americans 18+ voted for this garbage. This is not popular.