Milwaukee has had a Blind Melon summer (no rain, then lots of bees)

Milwaukee this week

Milwaukee's claim to fame was it was, for a period of time, the worldwide leader in homes with indoor plumbing.

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 4d ago

my go to truth nuke is that one in three American houses lacked indoor plumbing in 1950 modernity is *very* recent

wrote about dolly’s consistent support for queer and trans people for the last four decades (both publicly and privately)

Flaming Hydra@flaminghydra.com · 6d ago

TODAY: DOLLY WEEK continues! with @supremenothing.myatproto.social on Dolly as a lifelong, outspoken, no-foolin' queer ally. "I got a huge gay following and some really macho-looking women. To me, people are people." flaminghydra.com/dolly-parton...

We came, we saw, we had some pets

Jeramey Jannene@jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · last wk.

Record crowd for the Riverwest Cat Tour

i'm selling a rare and unusual instrument that means a lot to me and i would love for it to go to someone who it'll also mean a lot to. gimme a shout if you need a special lil guy or if you have questions

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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Final: Brewers 2, Braves 1 Trevor Megill strikes out Ronald Acuna Jr. in the final act of a great matinee drama. In a battle of Cy Young contenders, the frontrunner was better. The Brewers were too -- by a hair. 80 wins on August 21. The record: 80-49

god how i forgot how good (and funny) Sleepaway Camp is

Shroud of Clownin

Jason Kirk@jasonkirk.fyi · 3w ago

Antiquing find

Let’s all revisit and celebrate Absolutely’s debut LP, the perfect cross of post-hardcore/crust punk/Midwest emo. Every time I play it it feels like the first time absolutely.bandcamp.com/album/learns...

Learns to Love Mistakes, by Absolutely

10 track album

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Personal heuristic: If the lead story on the NY Times website is about the bond market, things are not going well with the economy.

from left to right, marius from barnehage gil o'neill father john manson steven 'gold soundz' malcom

Let’s have discourse. /mutes notifications/ www.jsonline.com/story/sports...

By not trading Logan Henderson for Skubal, the Brewers were 100% right

The Brewers held onto Logan Henderson rather than give him away for Tarik Skubal. He showed why that was the correct call.

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We’ve been living in the post-indie era for a while but Lost Weekend really cements it. It’s the ultimate post-indie album.

loved talking to Jess Williamson about her new record, partying with Taylor Swift and her dual Texas/LA life

Jess Williamson Is Caught Between Texas and L.A., and She's Learning to Love It

Jess Williamson is splitting her time between L.A. and Texas. She tells us about her great new album and partying with Taylor Swift at the Grammys

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IG is trolling me

Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social · last mo.

Mike Myers’ original Cat in the Hat costume from ‘CAT IN THE HAT’ is being auctioned by Propstore. #CatInTheHat #MikeMyers #Propstore

GOP Aaliyah: “we need a continuing resolution”

Song of the year maybe youtu.be/DHMBMzT3QdU?...

suckrball alone prod act

YouTube video by overly

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Since the Brewers and Cubs last played on June 28: Brewers: 22–12 Cubs: 21–11 Brewers’ lead after June 28: 5½ games Brewers’ lead today: 5½ games Two lockstep teams.

The degree to which this show got Chance The Rapper-ed

The Onion@theonion.com · last mo.

At this point in the story, Ted’s positive attitude and heart-warming antics have taught the audience that it’s important to be yourself, and now we’re building on that by introducing basic geometric shapes,” said Jason Sudeikis

Me: [cooks with bacon] Chopped judge: I love that you brought bacon to the party.

ARMY OF DARKNESS is 81 minutes long. It retells EVIL DEAD II in about 3 minutes. Still has time for a whole slapstick Gulliver's Travels thing. Baby, this is efficiency

Drop the top on the Porsche, that’s a headless horse

Opposition to AI data centers is uniting Wisconsinites across the political spectrum. I’ve been on the side of the people since day one. As governor, I’ll call a special session of the Legislature for a moratorium on new construction. We won’t get Foxconned again.

It has never been more over. If LinkedIn, the number one app for posting brain dead slop is finally letting users flag this, sell everything.

Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · last mo.

Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts

Here's a photograph of Shirley Manson at the Scottish Owl Centre that was posted to the official Garbage Facebook page.