A friend writes: I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI" instead of "I don't believe you." Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight." Kid: "That's AI."

"When all of the clocks have run down, All over the world. We'll be the lovers that never were." www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9JB...

Grudging support for unchecked totalitarianism = total support.

New phrases dropped: To be the what Think outside the honest At the end of the box It is is it day

In fact, the tomato isn’t a New World crop, either. Tomatoes were discovered on Earth’s moon by NASA astronauts in 1969! Since then the tomato has grown in importance in many world cuisines to the extent that its introduction is assumed to be far in the past. [add AI slop image here]

Some commentators I’m rarely impressed by are speaking out about free speech, actual free speech unconstrained or coerced by the government, and those are American values and voices I will always defend.

Time to watch Sneakers (always is). Or any of the other amazing Robert Redford performances.

A word or title that should exist: need-a-logism premowordition

I'm a sappy guy, so listening to this on Fridays is a tonic. Any version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=deeb...

It is incredibly simple to acknowledge that violence in any form is awful and erodes society.

I’m certainly against shooting pundits and commentators, whatever their opinions. I hope people disturbed by gun violence will wake up to the need for gun control.

Baseball Stadium Walk On Tunes All Apparently Steely Dan, And Not The Hits Or Anything

Mousea - state of confusion and dismay when an on-screen cursor can’t be found even by vigorously moving a computer mouse.

The Waterhouse Stipulation The DeBardelaben Consensus The Big Friendly Llama And Josie's Best Summer Ever Ornithopter! Ornithopter! A Hollowtree Canyon Adventure The Flixborough Marginalia #spareRobertLudlumTitles

“In the midst of AIAI, I found there AI was, within me, AI! an invincible summer of AI” -AlbAIert CAImus

small truck friends

truly baffling that a culture obsessed with machismo and swimming in semi-automatics would struggle with gun violence

MISSING QR CODE Have you seen it? Beloved part of our family! REWARD

Hearts begin to change slowly and then more slowly until grief relents

"Down through the ribbon highway I will go Searching for a brighter spotlight a brighter sun I am out on the open road" -Katzenjammer www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KK7...

13 Year Old ICE Recruit Enjoys Guns, Playing Switch 2, And Arresting His Citizen Parents Repeatedly

Tired: Netflix and chill Wired: Physical media and capybara* *calm, quiet vibing near each other and any other animals in the area

The Onion has almost 54,000 subscribers in all 50 states and over 50 countries. This week last year, we had zero. It’s been a Herculean task by The Onion staff, designers, and even the printing press in northwest Chicago to pull this off. But people love it, thank god. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Anne Sexton

Do we talk enough about the ZZ Top Extended Universe as seen through their lyrics? "She don't like other women She likes whips and chains She likes cocaine and flippin' out with Great Danes She's about all I can handle It's too much for my brain"

BREAKING: Trump Agrees To Supply Russia With More Than 3,000 Subway Footlongs - Ukraine To Get Only 250 Jimmy John's

Have a friend, I can't really say where. Super into computers, great at electronics troubleshooting. Worth millions, cutting edge sort of guy. A pilot, traveled farther than anyone. Likes to sing and play games, can even read lips. Can't get a date, Earth women show zero interest.

SCIENCE SHOCK: Squirrels Learning Carnivorous Habits From AI

Summer drive around town while the sportsball team battles it out over AM radio. Somewhere above rock bottom, we can say with confidence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLik...

Another beautiful 100% WindWaterSolar day in California 153rd of 196 days (78%) in '25 with >100% WWS, for an avg of 4.8h among all days 57.2% of demand in '25 met by WWS Demand down 0.3% v '24; 0.4% v '23 Gas down 20% v '24; 39% v '23 Batteries up 64% v '24; 213% v '23 PV up 18% v '24; 47% v '23

"Secretly, the Scotchman hated bookdealers, and as he sold to them, he exacted a terrible revenge. He razored out, with unusual care, one page from the middle of the text, so delicately, it was never noticed." -Iain Sinclair

LOG FRAGMENT - ASCII/UNICODE FORMAT - FOUND IN PERSONAL TECH DEVICE, FORMER WASHINGTON STATE METRO AREA 3 - “War started after third or so reboot of Superman. Several sides at first. 1/2

“If your boss demands loyalty, give him integrity. But if he demands integrity, then give him loyalty.” -USAF Col. John Boyd

Every element threatens to swerve into a risible abyss of twee: lyrics, harmonies, sweetness. But the synthesis soars. youtu.be/OFy-j7XF0dc

“We are occulted: seeing the future by flashes of lightning, seeing the present from underneath.” -Iain Sinclair

If a colossally rich billionaire gave his new bride a friendship bracelet and a cereal box ring, following up a non-ceremony with a bicycle ride to Dick's Drive-in for a nice summer meal, I might - maybe - think he was cool.

Clips for a soundboard for summer: - screaming red tailed hawk - Wilhelm scream - 70s city bus accelerating & belching diesel exhaust - beeping french fry machine - random 2 seconds of The B-52s' "Planet Claire" 1/2

Time for some light, twee curses: puffle-waffle sundered snouts glockenspiel (my/your) withering rhizomes And for Andor fans: deep substrate foliated kalkite

“Everyone I know is acting weird Or way too cool They hang out by the pool So I just read a lot and ride my bike Around the school” -Aimee Mann

Why do the characters in JAWS not simply defeat the shark in the marketplace of ideas?

Trouble matching with salty enough people? Try DATEMYRAGE.

Silhouette hour twilight resonance options closing plans stabled goals tethered with relief seeking shelter under the horizon

Visiting 2 old friends. A shockingly timely book. @bruces.bsky.social @greatdismal.bsky.social

1: "In the ideal relationship, how much is text and how much is subtext?" 2: (to waiter) "We'll just get the large pizza. Two boxes, please."

This IS a nice parade.

I’m convinced that kei trucks would sell like hotcakes if Americans could buy them easily and drive them legally. Government just needs to get out of the way.

Rashly Deployed National Guard Turning Into Crabs Faster Than Expected

No kings of America Lots of TACOs

Weird tapping sound high up on one of the walls of my apartment makes me think the walls are actually chalkboards people are writing on from the outside. Do I live inside a set of giant chalkboards? I hope the subjects being taught out there are interesting ones.