Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Keep checking those spam folders!

No longer on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register! Excellent news. I haven’t seen them for decades, but they hold a special place in my heart

never gonna read USMNT and not think 🎶 US Mutant Ninja Turtles 🎶

a thousand ships seems low

I told my girl Hilary Knight I would make sure ALL the women get to go to the ESPYs. Imma take care of all travel glam wardrobe. But if any companies want to support,,, here’s another chance to Do The Right Thing 👍🏾

Our official 32 auctions total!

The site is maybe up again and PLEASE do not go there unless you absolutely need to for bidding reasons

I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off

30 mins left to outbid me for democracy!

This is so fucking funny

The security guard at the door:

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

There’s a heat advisory in Atlanta and it says “temperatures will be highest between noon and 8 PM”, like no, really?

there are three kinds of people: 1) “five minutes!” “thank you, five!” 2) “five minutes!” “heard!” 3) everyone else

New York Times "Vows" section, but it's about people who vow to destroy their enemies, and whether or not they succeeded.

I I was telling my mom that Taylor Swift’s wedding is totally gonna overshadow anything Trump does for the fourth and how mad that’s gonna make him, and now she is a complete Swiftie.

The funniest part about Romancing the Vote is getting the “congrats you’re the highest bidder” email followed 90 seconds later by “oh no! you’ve been outbid!” Anyway, go bid for a good cause, but not on the stuff I want: www.32auctions.com/romancingthe...

All of my spam emails lately have been addressed to “Kristine” which, considering my name is right there in the email address, is pretty lazy even by scammer standards.

He seems very funny, bless his heart

If you've never owned a pet, the amount of time spent trying to stop them from doing something potentially lethal would astound you.

You either die recruiting Carl Reiner at a sporting event or you live long enough to become Carl Reiner at a sporting event

Storytime for Chicago library kids with LeVar Burton at the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Library 🤯✨📚 @obamafoundation.bsky.social

No one has more experience.

"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

I dreamt last night that Huckleberry on The Pitt was secretly a serial killer. I’ve decided to add it to my understanding of the character. It’s never gonna be acknowledged by the show, but yeah, in about a decade they’re going to dig up a lot of bodies on Amy’s farm.

I’m at the bread and circuses. I’m at the damnatio memoriae. I’m at the combination bread and circuses damnatio memoriae

They tried to hide but I got em anyway

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The Berlin Zoo named their baby Hippo Brötchen. :) (Bread roll 🥖)

At the airport and there’s lots of very Scottish dudes clearly traveling for the World Cup. Half of them are in traditional kilts with sporrans and the other half are wearing Scottish flag cowboy hats.

Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD

They're banning the under 16-year-olds from social media in the UK and the teens are not the most annoying people on social media. Let the teens have it and ban the rest of us. We'll see world peace the likes of Pokémon Go.

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

YOU THERE BOY WHAT DAY IS IT

Become a writer and quickly realize you only know three names.

#JoyScrolling - a large ball of dryer lint with some pink bits

Another good cockchafer fact: as a result of studies by 1800s entomologists, the cockchafer was one of the first animals to be discovered to have a strong preference towards homosexuality. A lot of Victorians found this very upsetting and refused to believe it.

Can't wait for this scene in the new movie

Pour one out tonight

I know they mean M/F, but everytime I see someone leave off the / and talk about “MF romance” I hear it like:

Guess who did NOT help chase and kill the giant water bug in the tv room. Useless animal.

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

A neighbor just texted me asking to borrow a literal cup of sugar, leading to a 5 minute discussion about how delighted we both were with the chance to live out the cliche. She repaid the loan with a cupcake made using the sugar, which was even better.

"A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam." -- Frederik Pohl

Last week I got some junk mail addressed to my sister-in-law who lives in another country. Today I got some addressed to my grandfather who’s been dead 15 years. What list are these scammers working from?

‘The Red Ghost’ This piece is based on a legend from Arizona that is both fantastic and partly factual. It’s too long to post here, but I absolutely recommend looking up the history of the US camel corps in the 1800s and The Red Ghost. I wanted to show both aspects of the story in this piece!