Missourians, yesterday we TROUNCED the income tax repeal (which was actually an increase on regressive sales/service taxes)—83% voted NO on Amendment 5! Urging you to contact Governor Kehoe today and tell him to drop this loser idea forever—cuz you know how these bastards sneak this stuff back.

Jimi Hendrix, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA, May 25 1969.

I thought I had posted this earlier but perhaps not. This is a beautiful book @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social . And, yes, I wept on my front porch when it was done. 🥹 It also pairs beautifully with the @olafurarnalds.bsky.social channel on SiriusXM as a reading companion. Well done, Tom. 💛

St. Louis City needs thousands of units of affordable housing. Alders should be ashamed of themselves for handing out tax abatement (making public school kids for developments) for luxury living.

Contemporary Luxe (c.2026) Home For Sale Tour - 2731 Lafayette Ave, St Louis, MO 63104

YouTube video by Archway Abodes Home Tours

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STLrainbow@stlrainbow.bsky.social · 3d ago

Elsewhere in The Gate District, here's a 2026 completion of modern design on sale at $819K. It comes with 5 yr./50% tax abatement. This tempered abatement level would've been more appropriate for the new homes by SLU Medical that were granted excessive tax abatement. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

5 Tickets remaining Fun for the whole family 10 am Tuesday, August 4th, Missouri Conservation Department event at Forest Park Hatchery Pond and Wetland Explorers 🔍 Register mdc-event-web.s3licensing.com/Event/EventD... nets, containers, magnifier provided

Frog Frog Meme

Alt: Frog jumping up to camera

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"My throat like a hummingbird's, mistaken for a jewel." Resharing this favourite by Traci Brimhall, "The End Of Girlhood" — first published in EcoTheo Review @ecotheo.bsky.social 🤍 #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #poetry

Georgia O’Keeffe Oriental Poppies, 1927 oil on canvas Museum-Bildrecht, Vienna

Channel 5 has a very interesting article up on Data Center noise. "I've studied noise for 25 years. It's hard to understand exactly how bad this is." - Dr. Kasey Fowler-Finn, a professor of biology at Saint Louis University who has studied sound for 25 years. www.ksdk.com/article/news...

Microsoft Office had an update and now I no longer have a little icon in preferences where I can disable Copilot. Any answers out there?

Tom E Jerry: Jerry's Angry Face

Alt: Tom E Jerry: Jerry's Angry Face with smoke coming out of his ears, which is how I feel about Microsoft Copilot. In a the way constantly.

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youtube.com/watch?v=pg97... 🤣😁 I love this guy. ‘Under’ the oven. Take a break from the doom and watch Ian for a few happy moments.

The Secret to Authentic Salsa

YouTube video by Ian Fujimoto

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Absolutely! Godspeed @doorisajarmag.bsky.social 💙

Cable Street@cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social · 4d ago

Thank YOU @doorisajarmag.bsky.social 💙 It takes a lot of work and dedication to produce a lit mag—we know! You gave the world of literature a tremendous gift these last eleven years—remembering vividly seeing your great journal for the first time at AWP. Onward to your next adventures.

US photographer Diane Arbus, Two Ladies at the Automat, NYC,1966 #WomensArt #Saturday

I made a caramel cheesecake with a graham cracker and toffee crust, a layer of chocolate ganache at the bottom, a layer of caramel sauce and toffee bits on top, and whipped cream.

I used to love Emeril’s show! Fellow New Englander cooking real food! A quote from an interviewee in this article is like, Yeah, no shit! “Watching stuff like this online feels really good. It’s camaraderie around loving the same thing delivered by a real person.” We can get back to that. We can.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6d ago

"Bam! Emeril is trending. And no one is more surprised than Emeril Lagasse himself."

i have yet to finish a whole month of sealey challenges but i came close once... poems —

upfromsumdirt@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 2y ago

1/30 first up on my #DaysLate #DollarsShort #SealeyChallenge is perhaps my favorite poem of all time, Lucille Clifton's non-titled poem, If I Stand In My Window

#ThrowbackThursday Recording Tapestry A & M Studios 📷: Jim McCrary

Went to this book chat last night. It was great, and i've bought the book. A truly bizarre, racist, classist, sexist chunk of St. Louis history, unveiled.

Devin Thomas O’Shea@devintoshea.bsky.social · 3w ago

ST. CHARLES — in 2 weeks — come out to the Spencer Road Branch Library for a convo about THE VEILED PROPHET with @kyle-g-olson.bsky.social RSVP: mainstreetbooks.indielite.org/event/2026-0...

Hey, St. Louis area gardeners 🌱 6:30 pm Thursday, July 30th, St. Louis County Library Plant & Seed Swap at Prairie Commons Branch, Hazelwood 🌱 9 am to 5 pm Saturday-Sunday, August 1st-2nd, Greater St. Louis Iris Society Plant Sale at Missouri Botanical Garden See blog for details

St. Louis Area Plant and Seed Swaps and Sales

Now thru July 31st. Spend $25 get 2 FREE seed packets at The Garden Shop on Hampton. Tell cashier you’re using code SEEDS at check out. Going on now- Brightside St. Louis Blooming Soon! Bulb …

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A cute little eastern bluebird checking out the scene.❤️ #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

Poems by Dan Berick in Cable Street are so lovely: “If there were something simple I could say/ to lift from empty air and knit/ a canopy of reassuring stars/ beneath which sleep could find you” cablestreet.org/issue-12-tab...

There's a video of the machine cutting open books, including clearly old and rare books, and it feels so violent. We do not have to accept this shit.

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Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

Some #windows show you what's on the other side, and some show you what's #inside you Where were you looking lately? post your #window 😊 𝗺𝘆 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 bsky.app/profile/did:... #storytelling #luiscordobapharchive #eastcoastkin #art #picoftheday #design #abstract #photography

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

📣 New This Week in Gardening & Nature 🌱 Heavy on St Louis area (MO & IL) but lots suitable for Zones 6a, 6b, 7a 🌱 Events & Classes (many virtual), Advice, News 🌱 Veggie Gardening, Flowers, Native Plants, Indoor Plants 🌱 Wildlife, Environment, Hikes, Rides, Outdoor Volunteer Opportunities

This Week in Gardening & Nature

Plant of the Week: native, pollinator magnet Blazing Stars, Gayfeathers (Liatris) Plan your garden with 2026 Seed St. Louis Planting Calendar, good for Zones 6a, 6b, 7a, maybe more. This week: plan…

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I made habanero jelly with the habaneros I grew and I am prouder of this than any writing I have ever done.

Terrific essay — a must if you’ve read any philosophy translated from German, and even more so if you’ve translated, or think you might soon translate, philosophy from any language at all — thinking about how different languages treat language differently wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Translating Philosophy: The Case of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus - Words Without Borders

Damion Searls considers his new translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus and argues for a literary approach to translating rigorous philosophical texts.

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Imagine how great it would be if we turned all street lights off at night, In fact all of the lights, and admired the night sky.

Inspired by @zamirarahim.bsky.social & by #TheOdyssey season, here’s my recording of CP Cavafy’s Ithaca. A different translation so you can compare and contrast. #poetrycommunity #poemsaloud #Ithaca #Cavafy

Zamira Rahim@zamirarahim.bsky.social · 2w ago

A very good time to read Cavafy's poem Ithaca (this version translated by the great Daniel Mendelsohn)

This short essay by @samfarhi.bsky.social packs a lot into a few words. Stay for the last paragraph—because we all need what’s there.

Cable Street@cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sam Farhi @samfarhi.bsky.social has written a bittersweet lyric essay on Ithaca, New York. But we promise, it will take you back to your old town, too. In the new issue of Cable Street. #essay #creativenonfiction 📚✍️

Repost from @sound_odyssey3 • James Taylor & Carole King — You’ve Got a Friend BBC In Concert · 1971 "Pure comfort in song form. Written by Carole King and shared here with James Taylor, You’ve Got a Friend feels less like a performance and more like a promise. (Cont'd in comments)