my hot take is that this is the actual america 250. just a ton of different people coming together, showing people what makes America weird and fun. people being welcoming. and yeah there’s some bullshit too, which is also very true to America! but the good and community far outweighs it rn.

The poor little heartbroken Brazilian boys crying their eyes out in the stands... 😭

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Well, I seem to have turned on the Norway-Brazil game at a particularly exciting moment... 😏

I've read Piranesi three times, and could easily read it three more. This piece really adds to my understanding of why I love it so much, especially after nearly four years of cancer treatments. Clarke is a treasure.

We chose to stay in and watch America Made in Virginia: 250 Years Together from Williamsburg on PBS, and it was lovely - the antithesis of all the D.C. mess. And I admit to getting a bit teary when Judy Collins sang Amazing Grace. 🥹 Happy birthday and better days, America! 🎇🎉

I feel like the only Bag of Bones fan, lol. It's one of my favorite books, not just King books. I guess my other four would be: Lisey's Story Duma Key The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon The Regulators

More good news! 🎇🎉

Spoke too soon about rain ending: a hellacious thunderstorm just blew through, complete with pea-sized hail and driving rain. Power keeps blipping off and on, and the poor people behind us were just setting up for their party this evening. Maybe it will stop in time for fireworks in a few hours... 😒

We're having a sunshower. 🌦😄

Not true. In their list of grievances, the Founding Fathers complained that King George III was blocking colonial laws that would promote immigration and make it easier for foreign settlers to become citizens.

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Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time

Genuinely, whatever happens in the next 15+ minutes, Cabo Verde's 2026 World Cup debut will be remembered for decades to come.

Well, rats.

Well, that didn't take long... 🙄

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I have the sweetest friends! A completely unexpected delivery this afternoon. 😍💐

We've not so reluctantly decided to forego the Tucker fireworks tonight, and eat our homemade muffalettas and chocolate pudding dessert at home, in light of the already 100+ heat index. My dear men were willing to go if I had insisted, but even I am not (that much!) of a monster. 😏

Mamdani: "Therein lies the work of America -- a striving, a bettering, the reaching toward perfection. What a privilege each of us has to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What a responsibility each of us possesses to prove ourselves worthy of all those who came before."

When the #WorldCup is over, I'm going to miss just being able to turn on the TV and there it is, the same as after the Olympic games end. I was skeptical before it started, so it's been a nice surprise to feel that way. "To the world!" ⚽️🎉

Tucker GA current weather screen: 91F feels like 102. Still, I'm sitting under the ceiling fan on the #BirdPorch for as long as I can stand it, because it's dark smothery inside.

I first learned about Mary Reeser from the Frank Edwards paperback, Stranger Than Science (1959), which I bought at our elementary school book fair when I was maybe 11. He also wrote about frogs raining from the sky, which a coworker in 1981 claimed to have seen happen on a Mobile, AL beach. 👀

Hahaha, we missed the end of the game... but congrats, USA! 🤷‍♀️

Our power just flipped and we lost the TV signal... 🤯

how u gonna give a red card to the fifa peace prize winning country

Folarin Balogun, who is a US citizen because he was born here, scores a go-ahead goal for the US team in a knockout game. Score one for birthright citizenship.

In honor of the anniversary of famed author William Gibson's multi-award-winning science fiction novel, Apple TV released a new teaser for Neuromancer. / #Neuromancer #WilliamGibson #AppleTV

Took a stroll at Tucker Town Green after coffee at The Corner Cup this morning and saw them setting up for the US vs. Bosnia-Herzegovina World Cup watch party tonight. If only it were going to be about 20 degrees cooler, we might be tempted to go... Bonus: kids' chalk drawings on the sidewalk.

Happy #CanadaDay to all my folks either there or from there. You make the world, and my world in particular, a better place! 🥰

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On Damnatio Memoriae and de-Trumpification. (Gift link) Been waiting for this one to go up. Please read and share.

When our son played middle school soccer we hated shootouts, but what an exciting game this was! #WorldCup #GermanyParaguay

If you like this thread, you really need to read Tom's books!

This is why physical media is still so important.

Some good news! 🎉

On top of a head cold, 95F temps, and the relentlessly bonkers news, I am reminded today that I am older than the US Interstate Highway System. 🙄😂

This sort of political confidence is so appealing.

Surprised and very pleased to receive this lovely #BookPost from @alwayscoffee.bsky.social much earlier than expected!

The photographer is my cousin! If you're in the Cincinnati area, check it out. 📷 local12.com/news/good-mo...

I have become addicted to Wyler's Italian Ice freezer pops...

Mayor Mamdani took the mayor's Inaugural Swim in east Harlem this morning to open the city's pool season. (Look out for sea hags, Zohran!) Naturally, he wore his swimsuit.

and some problems get solved by degrees, not all at once! if you are busting your ass to push through a 10% change in something because that’s what you can make happen right now and then do the next 10% tomorrow, that’s exponentially more useful than posting about how anything less than 100% is 0%

Our regular morning visitor these days. He's letting me get closer than usual, but with the same baleful eye. The mister has named him Greystoke. 😏

Farewell to Ann Blyth.

Please read and call. Flood the zone.

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

I'm going to want to rewatch the entire series again after reading this, aren't I?... 🙃 #BookPost

This is such good news! I didn't need a reason to watch Season 1 again, but I will happily do so soon! 😍

"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done" Alan Turing, born on this day in 1912. His genius helped to save hundreds of thousands of lives during WWII and led to the creation of the device you're using to read this message.