Spotted in Trenton, NJ: MARC trains have escaped containment

Sunset! Rainbow! Lightning! @capitalweather.bsky.social

Love to go from desk to giant stinky flower to commute home in under 30 minutes!

Ad from the July 1, 1950 edition of Australian Women's Weekly.

Time for a thrilling round of Name! That! Amtrak! Station!using only this twee weather vane that you can see from the tracks:

Are the i's on all Red Line trains so cute? Am I just noticing this?

From A Handbook for Travelers in Japan from 1891: (archive.org/details/hand...)

(Drawing from Printing Times and Lithographer, May 15, 1887) Available at @archive.org

Do three dragons qualify for HOV...?

And they say corporations don't respect privacy these days. (Google street view, 2012)

Metro track lights are just giant forbidden hard candies

Big night on Flight Aware: I found a balloon.

This is perhaps the most Monty Python-esque way to declare a legitimate injustice. (from "The Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants War" by Lyndal Roper)

The Apotheosis of Walgreens

This is my personal reminder to go back to making bad photoshops in Word.

The elder Oddish

In February 1963, Crested Butte, Colorado, blew up a furniture store with 150 lbs of black powder to put out a fire after the pipes to the hydrants froze. (from Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies, R. Brown, 1973)

Saw an orchid today that looks like a bird sitting in a chair.

Subterranean beavers are an unlikely, but not impossible, mining hazard. (from Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies, R. Brown, 1973)

*world's loudest groan* (The Saint Paul Globe, August 8, 1880)

Is one often unsure of one's mayonnaise? (Spokane Chronicle, June 21, 1926)

A thread of predictions for 2026 from 1926: "Machines will care for [man's] personal needs...flashing him radio-movies of the day's news as it happens" (Montana Record-Herald, July 28, 1926) (1/?)

I'm at the make-quince-jam-for-the-first-time-on-a-whim stage of furlough.

Currently on page 53. Will I finish this 918-page book before the shutdown ends?

Part of the reason I haven't been able to post much: I have been sans personal computer for many months. Behold, my new baby!!

Sometimes the big boss walks into your office randomly and you have to pretend you're working and not reading the wikipedia page list of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990

When's the last time you had a Chum Chip, a Wisecrack or a Party Poop? (1950)

Weird! House! History!!! history.house.gov/Blog/2025/Se...

Continuing to New England (as a verb)

New England Things I Saw Today A sign outside a diner that said: BUFFALO CHICKEN OMELET HELP WANTED And now I'm going to think about that forever.

Saw this neon sign lit up at night in NH and it cured what ails me. (Photo and story from indepthnh.org/2016/01/09/t...)

The joy of collecting stickers is only second to the joy of finally having a perfect use for said stickers.

(ad from the 1945 Colorado Springs Telephone Directory, Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company)

DC isn't ready for the 1970s bowling shirt flair that I'm about to bring.

Did you know you can get REGULAR HOME DELIVERY SERVICE from S&M Egg Ranch? (1940s city directory ad)

Would anyone be interested in viewing a photo archive of greeting cards from the 1930s-1980s? Asking as someone who has just inherited literally hundreds of my great-grandmother's cards...

Minnesota State Fair: the quackening

if none of the pasta shapes get a majority, it's first pasta post

Good moon alert!!

Perhaps biking 17 miles in one day is too much for someone who just got a bike a month ago.

Recent stress relief: Reading the Largest Prehistoric Animals article on Wikipedia, opening the entries for random animals and going, "Wow, that sure is a big, huh." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest...

Soda Water Time Soda Water Place (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, August 3, 1905)

Old ads that make you go hmmm: Clown croquet cookie campaign?

House: motion to adjourn for 9 years Senate: motion to adjourn for −20 years

Highly recommend Shark: the Illustrated Biography. You get to learn about how many weird sharks there are/ were and it's great.

Left to right: architects A. Stewart Walker, Leonard Schultze, Ely Jacques Kahn, William Van Alen, Ralph Walker, D.E.Ward and Joseph H. Freelander dressed as the buildings they designed at the 1931 Beaux Arts ball.

*pops up out of the grass* ... hello?

I have some really excellent 1931 newspaper stuff to share if I can just stand to be online for any length of time

Just saw the @dropouttv.bsky.social live improv show, and it was so so so good! Thank you to the cast for making this terrible week in DC a little better!!

THE CHAPEAU DE CORN (Puck Magazine, September 15, 1886)