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RIP Flaco and also general Les Blank plug. Every one of his movies is a joyful ride featuring some eclectic combination of music food and women. I think they're all on Criterion.

I bought a little packet of gold stars and I stick one on my phone every time someone spells something wrong in the gc and I don't passive-aggressively correct them.

Saw the band "Hurray for the Riff Raff" a few days ago. Very good. Recommended. A+. The name is still a D+, at best.

Hotel in Yorkshire, young scouse lad brings our wine. 'Rioja? Be Spanish or Italian that I reckon?' Anyway, chat about how he ended up here and I say 'one more question?' and he said 'BLUE'. Get in.

Today I let my kid who is not a kid but is in any case home for a month pick a place for lunch. The weather was nice but she picked a noodles place in Chinatown (#6 on the menu: Cattle entrails) and let me tell you: with a quart of hot noodle soup in ya belly you'll feel unpleasantly warm.

Yesterday we got off the elevator in our building and a pretty young 20-something (never seen her before in my life except in my dreams?) smiled at me very enthusiastically. Wife: "Was that for you? Did you see this Coldplay video?"

Stuck between a rock (uninstalling teams from my phone so I don’t work more than I should) and a hard place (having teams on my phone so I can seem like I’m working when I’m not).

Sorry for making butthole jokes. It’s how I’m coping.

One Love/People Get Ready. Tomorrow is a big day.

Microsoft reported nearly $26 billion in net revenue - profit - during the first three months of the year. It remains one of the most profitable companies in the S&P 500 index. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/m...

The lesser known later recordings.

Watching Wimbledon and a guy is getting SMOKED. [break in play] “my knee hurts.”

One of the most crucial upgrades I think Fairmount Park should make is installing a safe / legal way to cross Kelly Drive by the Girard bridge. Decades ago there there was a pedestrian bridge here and to this day people routinely risk their life crossing. A thread with a few of the benefits:

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

Sorry does England have a player named Elliott Anderson? Isn’t that Neo?

My dad’s mother was a great seamstress, and made clothes for extended family, including things like maternity bathing suits. She was also a terrible procrastinator, and one time did alterations to the bride’s dress in the car on the way to the wedding.

What I think about every time I’m on a train.

Uncanny resemblance to his ancestors

New tool launch! Make our streets and sidewalks safer and more accessible with LASER VISION: our new tool that makes it easy to report blocked sidewalks, crosswalks, and bike lanes to the Philadelphia Parking Authority. bikeaction.org/laser 📽️⬇️

Love it when the NBA players moms are far younger than me.

@wholesome-jarf.bsky.social but wait. I know you

Very hoping that the Sixers pick Ace Bailey because he is the most chaotic.

The rent is too damn high guy would have won it in a walk.

Went to Syracuse yesterday with friends to see Dad Rock. Bit of a haul if I'm honest.

Things you usually hear before Game 7: “they have got to find a way to slow down TJ McConnell.”

Exchange between two coworkers: Tom: “Are you married? Girlfriend?” Sean: “Actually I’m getting a divorce.” Tom: “You gotta learn to hit that shit correctly!” 25 years ago. Can still hear it.

A friend's dog got bitten by "possums under the back porch," which is a great euphemism but I'm not sure for what.

Happy fathers day not to the bad dads or the mad dads but exspecially the rad dads and most of all the sad dads.

Philly showin' up today

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

Very glad that my gut instinct about Doechii (she is good) proves correct.

Another Palestinian account apparently deleted by the racists at @bsky.app

this picture exactly represents the correct opinion on transit

Ezra Klein and Yglesias should have gotten swirlies 15 years ago.

Yeah! Here are some examples of modal filters in Montreal, starting with a more urban context.

Daisy daisy give me you answer do

The protected bike lane on market in old city is pretty cool (I took these pics a half hour apart and had no idea they were at the same spot).

Absolute dem shit

Do they still tell kids to wait a half hour after eating before they go swimming? Do kids still go swimming? Or are they on their damn phones?

I have been the main cook in my house for more than 20 years and when someone else cooks for me it makes me almost cry.

what sucks about "Abundance" discourse is that the movement is a trojan horse - a way to smuggle bad ideas about tech, anti-labor, crypto etc into Dem politics by wrapping them inside normal and fine ideas about housing, green energy, transit etc.

The other night I took a late night taxi from the airport & my driver was from Sudan. We got to talking, & he asked what I do - he is a sports journalist who writes about soccer & has been to many World Cups - so I explained what I write...

One thing they don’t have on the menu at a fancy restaurant is tuna casserole.

One of the best things about guerrilla interventions like this is that they prove that cities can act fast *when they want to.* A man used spray chalk to mark a crosswalk on a street. The city responded almost immediately and covered it up with black paint to restore the status quo.

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

The Philadelphia Union have a German sporting director, white South African manager and Israeli striker. Impressive commitment to the bit.

Not sure how to mute all baseball. But if people could tag those posts with #baseball that would help.

A fancy Mexican place around the corner serves the vegan Yucatán appetizer Sikil P’aak as an appetizer. I just followed (halved) this recipe and it’s great. Instead of chips use sliced crunchy veggies like cucumber, green apple, and robust lettuce, sprinkled with lime juice and tajin).

Inter, Chiefs much?