This may help save lives in areas affected by the smoke from wildfires: If you can, make a Corsi-Rosenthal box. It is made with four MERV13 20” furnace filters and a 20” box fan. The assembly is done with duck tape. Also look for N95 masks! Stay safe out there! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E...

garage sale

I wish I could go to this 😭

For no reason whatsoever, I checked my voter registration today, and if you are a US citizen I encourage you to do the same/update that voter registration if necessary/register to vote if you have not already done so: www.vote.org

Free KN95 masks will continue to be available at hundreds of locations citywide: on.nyc.gov/freemask. For air quality guidance, visit on.nyc.gov/firesmoke.

Also, if you’re sick of this air and this heat, you’ve gotta vote Democrat and/or Dem-Soc. You’ve gotta do it. It’s not optional.

We went through the heat dome-wildfire hell in 2020/21, and my best advice is to keep your windows closed (would put towels along the edges if possible), your shades drawn, and make sure to keep hydrating. N95 & KN94 masks helped make what air I encountered more breathable. I’m sorry, friends.

A very cool opportunity for folx headed to SDCC!

the portland pickles are fucking unhinged and it fucking rules. kings of lents

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

Late to work this morning because this beauty had died on our driveway, and I had to look at it for awhile

Customer was shitty towards me this AM over something beyond my control, and my diaphragm has been high and tight with it all day. Deep breathing hasn’t helped and I’m not sure how to get it to relax, and it’s starting to hurt a lot; anyone have any tips?

Boosting for my Austin buddies

Beavs in the All Stars! (Originally posted by the Orioles account on the bird site. They didn’t list the photographer, unfortunately)

I suppose anyone can just be a senator now 🙃

In other news, I saw the Mary Oliver documentary in a sold-out auditorium at our local indie theater last night. The people yearn for words to make us cry.

The @effinbirds.com shirt I WOULD be wearing today if I didn’t have to go to work.

A good time to remind everyone that it’s never too late to be your full self. Be free.

gf: you must live your life in a way that people don't post crab rave after you die

You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.

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I actually can’t stand people singing more loudly than the performer. I didn’t come to hear you karaoke this artists entire catalog, Cheryl/Greg. I am a singer, but I don’t even hum when I see I show unless explicitly invited to do so by the artist because no one is paying to hear ME in that moment.

Segura, too. About 90 picks higher than predicted, because the Beavs produce solid players. Great job, Eric!

Mac ‘n Cheese to Miami

When is Johnny Flynn gonna get off that fuckass rowling nonsense and get back to making albums that reduce me to a sobbing mess?

On a lighter note, watching network tv is fun because of product placement. Please explain to me why the law firm of Crane, Poole, and Schmidt requires two full jars of Prego pasta sauce in their breakroom refrigerator. Denny Craine hosting a lot of spaghetti dinners after hours, is he?

I can’t decide what warms my cockles more, the idea that he’s dead, or that they’re torturing his vacant body by keeping it on life support while his spirit wastes away watching as no one—not his wife, not his children, not his colleagues—mourn him beyond his lost political usefulness.

Women’s weight naturally fluctuates based on many factors, and I think it’s good practice not to speak about other people’s bodies. That said, there’s something alarming about seeing famous/visible women who were already thin start losing musculature in their arms and any roundness to their faces.

Feeling pretty vindicated in my decision to never get one of these things and for scrubbing and binning my facebook in 2009.

When I am walking in an unfamiliar place, I will pull up directions on my phone before I head out, and study the map. Then I stick my phone in my pocket and only reference it in emergencies. Driving is another story, but I do try not to use gps anywhere even remotely familiar.

If there’s one thing I know, it’s that Dan Rayfield’s office is ready for this fight.

Josh Ritter’s “I Believe in You My Honeydew” on the stereo, let’s do this Wednesday

2026 Beaver infield squinting at this and trying to understand how it even happened.

Yeah yeah, the Edison Spirit Phone, we’ve all heard of it.

The universe hates a cheater

There's been so much misogyny embedded in defenses and celebrations of Platner, and now we're seeing that ugliness hit its pointless, embarrassing climax, as some liberal men publicly argue that credible rape allegations should be shrugged off.

If not needing Daddy to fight your battles for you & you win 4 World Cup championship’s was a picture

Whoah: someone dumped three BINS of Longarms at this thrift store. Buying a few. These are that western Tolly’s reading in Teenage Slasher.

Biggest wins of Nolan’s career are 1). casting the most beautiful woman alive to play the most beautiful woman of myth, followed by 2). Heath Ledger Joker.

I don't think Platner is a plant. he's just your run-of-the-mill misogynistic, racist leftish dudebro.

A Banded Alder Borer Beetle just landed in me and went for a ride. I didn’t notice for a bit because I am wearing a black and white polka dot top.

The Portents..... the Omens

Roving gangs of red white and blue bedecked teenagers on electric bicycles zooming up and down the street outside my window. Love having to get up at 5:30am for work tomorrow; it’s all going great.

Please, no fireworks this weekend Terrible for wildlife. Cannon Beach has banned them. Laser pointers also--no. Last year at Haystack Rock an endangered oystercatcher chick died due to such "celebrations." This year, two chicks may make it if we can all just do... nothing. That's all you have to do.

I hope they fry in their getups. Heat stroke for the lot of these jokers.

2nd worst holiday (right after NYE). Gonna clean the bathroom and do my other household chores and go to bed before the nonsense starts.

44 Don’t let Big Family lie to you; being middle-aged and childfree is fucking RAD 🤘

I will not be able to hear their scolding over the block party I will be throwing

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

I’m never leaving this state