"Being an AsAm artist in country music isn't something I saw much growing up, so all my experiences have influenced the stories I tell and the perspective I bring to my music." —Travis Yee in print in the Sunday @chicagotribune.com 🔗 store.chicagotribune.com/product/7QAM...

Hello friends! We still are in Internet outage. CenturyLink didn't do a damned thing all weekend. Joke is on them in the end, we have an appt tomorrow to install new fiber service. And then we'll dump them. Signed, cranky in Colorado

"Photos taken by Taehyung" 🔗 www.instagram.com/p/Da-P3IUAauF/ #Jin

"Nolan seems to agree with Zeus, who proclaims, in the first book of the Odyssey, that people 'themselves, with their own reckless ways, compound their pains beyond their proper share.' And you know what? Maybe we do." @sonnybunch.bsky.social reviews 'The Odyssey':

#mutualaid update!! 🥲 our refrigerator broke down and it looks like we're going to need a new one. 🫠 i'm still on bed rest, so i upped the goal a bit to reflect this. 😔 donating/sharing would really help me and my fam right now! 🥺💜🙏 🔗 ko-fi.com/formerlyunkn... if kofi fails: paypal.me/mayef2

i *do* think it'd be helpful if indivisible got moving on mobilizing protests in october as a show of force and defiance, because i think it would settle a lot of jittery nerves to see millions on the streets before election day and show just how impossible the task of pacification actually is

My takeaway from that speech is that we are headed down the road of Trump trying to outright rig elections. It probably won't work, but he's going for it.

I think this should be understood as the sequel to the generational right-wing takeover of the judiciary. If the only people who can make a sustainable career in the military or civil service are pale, male, and belong in jail, you eventually end up with a far-right deep state. That's very bad.

Cyburn was right to insist Biden make a black general SECDEF. All the white intellectual types were clutching our pearls because muh civ-mil, but he was right to want to create an institutional memory of a black man in authority before all this happened.

GMA disappointed me by having a couple of clips of the song, no more. I was hoping for an hour of BTS news.

A piece of the intersection of technology and culture: Actors like Valentino wore makeup because the silents were all about visuals and you needed to accentuate the eyes and mouth to make facial expressions read in the crappy projection available at the time.

Seriously? V even begged you not to do it less than 2 weeks ago, so let's try again for the braindead: STAY AWAY FROM THEIR HOTEL. LET THEM GO OUT IN PEACE. YOU DO NOT OWN THEIR PRIVATE LIFE. It's not rocket science, folks. Shame on those "fans!" Do better, Europe! 🤬 kpoptop.com/the-shameful...

Oops. That's not an appearance on GMA, just opening with BTS news about the new video and the FIFA appearance.

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Yeah~ we call this shit normal indeed. 😆 🔗 www.instagram.com/reel/Da65Gx0...

The formation of a government center to attack political activists on the left, using the full power of the government with all of the threat of violence behind it. And to wield that power domestically and internationally.

Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.

#오늘의방탄 260717 BTS WORLD TOUR 'ARIRANG' IN PARIS #방탄소년단 #BTS #BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG #BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG_EUROPE #BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG_PARIS

I dont have too many pics/vids bc i was busy looking at the tannies with my eyeballs but here's a few

ICE contractor apparently got mad at protestor outside ICE facility he worked at and opened fire with personal firearm. Arrested, facing charges of assault and attempted murder. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

🚨ATTENTION🚨 These are the same showtimes for both days in Paris!

Really wish I could go viral on BlueSky. I created an app that merges Mutual Aid with Black Businesses: on the app, you can shop Black Businesses on 1 app, all Black Owned conveniently under 1 roof. On the same app you can see people struggling with overdue bills/rent/evictions etc & give them aid.

In other words, state officials who refuse to comply with Trump’s election lies are subject to imprisonment.

on this day in 1995, scientists discovered bisexuality. happy 31st birthday to all my fellow bs

In all seriousness, they've been doing this for years (remember Roger Stone saying that if Trump wasn't POTUS in 2016 there'd be a "bloodbath") and the real question is why officials refused to enforce accountability and still refuse to do so. But that requires having a memory and doing research.

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Casually threatening mass rapes

I have to say that watching TV over the air feels anachronistic. Tossed back some decades.

This is the fascist end game. They are probably too stupid to pull it off but if they can get the armed forces to fall in line their stupidity won't matter. Remember there is a permanent occupation of 5000 troops and 3000 paramilitary law enforcement officers (many masked and/or plainclothes) in DC

So the brand name you need to be wary of until the recall is complete is Taylor Farms.

I went in deep into Kamala Harris's disability policy in my first book (Second one out next year). But she was the first candidate to have a disability policy. And her plan to have Medicare pay for in-home care would have been transformative. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I am watching TV over the air through our digital antenna. It doesn't need wifi 🥰. NBC locally is ignoring Trump so far and playing a nature documentary.

Here is an unpaywalled article re replies with confusion of where the outbreaks have occurred vs the farm location. Giant corporate producers like this ship elsewhere as most their business. Part of how the corporate food systems work is we don’t know where our food came from and it isn’t local

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Yeah, this is NORMAL

Well, CenturyLink has blown past two deadlines and now say tomorrow. Is this why they keep ratcheting up their prices?

you can bypass bluesky's age gate with a ublock origin filter, among other methods detailed here

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I'm sure other local ARMY will have input, but if you're going to be in Baltimore for the shows next month, may I recommend some places to pop in?

NORMAL Promotion Schedule Spotify: 07.17 01PM KST 07.17 00AM ET 'NORMAL' Official MV Release 07.17 01PM KST 07.17 00AM ET NORMAL Digital Single Album Release

For anyone in the huge smoke plume (MN to the East Coast), I'm intrigued by this DIY Corsi Rosenthal "wedge". I'd seen the CR boxes since the SF Bay area fires, but this seems more space efficient, uses the fan in the expected vertical orientation, and needs 2 v. 4 of the moderately spendy MERV 13s.

It's okay. You can apply Freezes for any days you missed once those days are over and your streak will be restored. I've once applied it for a day that was months in the past

Guess I should have known we'd have an Internet outage today!

Is there no way on B-CD to freeze today? Only future days?

Internet still down. Very annoying esp. for hubby who needs to work. Blah.

📊 Part 2 of the Last FM analysis, on the social side of the exodus, is almost ready. “The social architecture of the Last FM exodus – racism, routine, and corporate capitulation.” I will place it in about 8 hours. Part 1: bsky.app/profile/dbyd... #BTS #방탄소년단 #LastFM

The view of the Northern Ontario forest fire haze engulfing the Toronto Skyline from Humber Bay Park West. #ForestFire #TorontoHaze #TheBigSmoke #Toronto