can't wait to klatsch with Cheryl Fair about her new novel, TALK TEENY, this Thursday at 7pm at @greedyreads.bsky.social in Remington!

Good morning. Sweet, sweet keyboards and guitar on this 1975 midtempo funky instrumental gem buried on side 2 of the first Rufus with Chaka Khan album: m.youtube.com/watch?v=nPTO...

taylor farms: the olestra of the 21st century

don’t urinate on my family and tell me that it’s raining!

"(I have zero evidence for this, but I bet the pisser is from Glen Burnie.)" PAGING BARRY GLAZER stereogum.com/2505873/poli...

today's first song of the day is "radio on" by ex hex www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoO1...

oh hell yeah

We don't have a just world, but Nathan's book is wonderful and I'm back at the lake where I read it last year, thinking of his depth of scholarship on the history of environmental thinking via literature and art.

go to art college with a 70/30 women/men split. five of your boy classmates will be straight and fifteen years later you'll find out they're actually trans lesbians and everyone else is a straight trans woman and a different group of five straight boys will exist and they're all trans masc

performed my ballmur accent for my therapist who identified it as an edgemere accent

remember when Santoni's closed and claimed the soda tax lost him MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in business and the local media just repeated it?

I learned so much talking with Patrick McKelvey about the history of service dogs Did you know that the "Seeing-Eye Dog" was a 20th century development? And that PT Barnum got involved with popularizing them? Check it out

Want to make sure everyone who has engaged here also sees our companion video: bsky.app/profile/spor...

In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

you're washed, chopped, and cooked because your produce was not and now you have cyclosporiasis

bell hooks is in the news again, and Callaloo editor Kyla Kupferstein Torres shares a timely reminder of the riches in the prescient writer's work Read Callaloo's guest blog + a selected reading list from Hopkins Press journals and elsewhere: tiny.one/4e98jz4m

The new issue of @callaloojournal.bsky.social includes a pair of poems from Baltimore-born literary pioneer Quandra Prettyman: Carousel, and: Late Crape for My Mother Read free thru 31 July @ProjectMUSE tiny.one/3cme2ks6 #LitFriday

Avengers: Bloomsday

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Thrilled to receive ATHE's 2026 Outstanding Article Award for this piece! (This is the first writing toward what I hope to be book 3, a history of the performance cultures surrounding service dogs in the 20th-21st century US) doi.org/10.1353/tj.2...

They hail you as their morning star because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, they'll try to make you different

today's first song of the day is "the masses are asses" by l7 www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5mi...

This is fantastic and the rest of the world should have jumped on this two years ago

I think we can all agree that the biggest event of the summer was Electric Mayhem played at some soccer game today.

my favorite part of the world cup is when all they all hop up and down together in a little row

between bieber and the electric mayhem i think all the musicians on the pitch were lefties

it's been fun watching the men's world cup, getting us hype for the real world cup next year

whenever i see drivers posting about how much they hate bike lines and barriers and bollards all i hear is "i'm a bad driver"

today's first song of the day is "smoke gets in your eyes" by the platters www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4m...

Climate change has dried out Canada’s forests so dramatically over the past decade, Gray said, that once an arboreal fire starts, it creates its own weather system and generates lightning within it. Fire crews can’t even get close to the source of these fires b/c they’re too hot. Terrifying stuff.

Tuesday, we are back, baby!! Mystery Date returns to the Gutsy Radio waves and this time we're bringing you two hours of our favorite Canadian content!! Tuesday evening, 7-9 pm, gutsyradio.org and archived at mixcloud.com/gutsyradio

Tomorrow may be the most important day in Seattle history

ok i'm mad that france lost to terf island but that was a half

brb starting a new international soccer organization called FOFUM

Content warning: suicide After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her? “A lot of America,” her mother answered. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

when you shut down the collaborative software to just do the project yourself, that's called a scrumspringe

fartificial fintelligence

the weekend, famously brought to you by the valiant visionary steve weekend

Mutual aid request: Tiffany Willoughby-Herard continues to be cruelly punished by her uni for standing up on behalf of students and Palestinians. The Chancellor has now taken away her (and hence her kids’) health insurance. Please give if/as you can. Thank you, friends. chuffed.org/project/1562...

this cyclosporiasis thing brings an unexpected new dimension to salad tossing

terrifying and heartbreaking thread. tempting to ask how a guy with this kind of history gets a job in law enforcement but frankly I think we all know.

The doors are closed on another hazy day, but we are OPEN at both stores! AC is working overtime and we are cool as cucumbers, snug as bugs, ready and waiting to help you find your next favorite read 💨📚

I'm excited to TALK TEENY with Cheryl Fair next Thursday at Greedy Reads in Remington!!

if ai is so great why do the people on everyone's flyers look like they jumped off a cracked magazine cover

today's first song of the day is "g.o.d. and the broken ribs" by jack white www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCVe...

Your daily Dorothy Parker

My favorite musician is doing a concert with a symphony orchestra IN MY TOWN and I didn't know about it... WTF ARE ALGORITHMS EVEN FOR?!?! How is every app gonna hoover up all my data and then not even use it to sell me something that I WANT?!

“Nobody knows for certain what might trigger the corrections. But we can see plenty of opportunities for destabilising shocks in which a stock market plunge is just one part.” www.ft.com/content/de29...

His full name is Jimothy Jalamet

Eating at Taco Bell right now and this is proof it's fine. No bacteria is surviving. This lunch could remove carbon build up in an engine