🐹 Before viral videos on TikTok or YouTube, there was Hampsterdance. Full of dancing hamster GIFs & a sped-up tune, it became one of the internet’s first viral hits. You can still dance to it on the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19991222... #Wayback1T 🧵

If he ends up actually getting a Nobel Peace Prize I just don’t even know how to feel about it.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

When the temperature is still summer but the sun is setting in autumn.

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

Really never thought ostriches would be in the news so much. In Canada.

Call Me Maybe Mashed Up With NIN's Head Like a Hole kottke.org/13/03/call-m...

Boy Golden Details New Album 'Best of Our Possible Lives,' Shares Lead Single "Suffer"

Now this is a kind of subversion I can really get behind.

I pass an elementary school on my way to work, and I'm always pleased to see that the decades-old practice of "trying to make cars honk by pumping your arms" is still going strong.

Trying to bring more attention to awareness.

Harry Styles ran the Berlin Marathon in under three hours. He registered for the race under the pseudonym Sted Sarandos.

Zohran Mamdani, currently, and he better still be around to be elected afterwards.

“Drat,” said Toad.

Measureless liar

Banning Kneecap from Canada is bullshit.

Ready to sign up for the Kimmel/Colbert YouTube channel.

Can you just make it possible to buy stuff *inside* the Bandcamp app? Come on now.

this is how they think

Maximum amount of sitting on the patio time accomplished today. I am very grateful for unions, but I did not labour much today.

Love this energy of Trump trying to fire people and them just saying, "Um, actually, no."

Please let Zohran Mamdani get elected so that I can continue my unreasonably large crush on the *actual* mayor of New York instead of just some guy who wants to be that (I’ll still love him anyway who am I kidding)

tiktok shop really gets me

Not to be all like that, but I figured they were going to get married. It’s like an American royal wedding, how could it not happen?

This is a damn manifesto and I am here for it. The defense against slop and brainrot open.substack.com/pub/pauljun/...

I have what is apparently the worst song ever stuck in my head so today’s going to be GREAT.

They should call them Little Free Bookstores because nobody’s returning those things.

Some drinks only taste right in certain mugs I will not explain further

An extremely complicated story handled with grace, intelligence, and force by the great @epcalabro.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

August doesn’t even feel like summer. It’s more like the green room for fall.

If I could have a leisurely coffee on my patio every day in some kind of perpetual summer, I feel like I could face almost anything in the world.

Just referred to my backyard as “backstage,” so I’m telling you that theatre kid energy never goes away.

I wish I could buy a subscription to a TV show to ensure it would continue. Like, I would buy a subscription to Severance. Could we adopt the Substack model for prestige TV?

I do NOT want to see or hear the words “summer clearance” anywhere near this month.

Breaking: can we get an article posted on Trump’s latest tariff threat before he backs down yet again?

Just as many people are harmed by the shock of the Emergency Alert sound than by the actual emergency. TRUE FACT

Canada tried sending a letter to the wildfires to make them stop but no response as of yet.

Perpetually annoyed by how important I'm supposed to think Amazon Prime Days are.

At least three times already this week I have cursed the fact that Bookshop.org does not deliver to Canada.

Grand Budapest Hotel forever

I was fishing around under appliances for lost cat toys and accidentally unplugged the fridge. Luckily I discovered it after about an hour, but that is a hazard of pet ownership that I have not previously encountered.

I’ll tell you what’s a bad idea and that’s going to the grocery store on a Friday afternoon in the summer when people are stocking up to go to The Lake.

Sufjan Stevens' landmark 'Illinois' was released 20 years ago today. 🐐 What’s your favorite track? www.stereogum.com/2313191/sufj...

I feel for you today if you are trying to celebrate living in a country that just passed a bunch of laws designed to hurt you.

Uber drivers in Victoria, B.C. are believed to be the first app-based gig workers in Canada to unionize, and among the first in the world www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It’s a perfect morning here in the middle of this great country. Happy Effing Canada Day.

Deerhoof are leaving Spotify over CEO Daniel Ek's investment in an AI military startup: "We don’t want our music killing people. We don’t want our success being tied to AI battle tech."

Impossible to take this seriously as a work week.