Some other good ones

One of the all-time greatest mystery chess covers

Ahhhh, Bill is a true Canadian Icon, so learning that at the age of 95, he has a heavy metal band called "the *uckers?" 😎😎😎 www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

William Shatner, 95, performing at Riot Fest with his heavy metal band | CBC News

Here's something that probably wasn't on your 2026 bingo card: 95-year-old Star Trek actor William Shatner has a new heavy metal band, and they're releasing an album that he plans to debut this summer...

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Is sampla eile é seo de Dhuibhlinn, cló a dhear @evertype.bsky.social i stíl chló Newman. Tá sé le feiceáil sa tSráidbhaile i gContae Phort Láirge.

I bet William Carlos Williams is a big fan of how James Bond introduces himself.

All of Elon Musk’s businesses would be bankrupt and shuttered without government handouts. Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” on the other hand, is a phenomenal success. Cry more, you obnoxious white supremacist dork. (And, PLEASE, like you ever read Homer . . .)

#Earthquake Update: A magnitude 1.71 earthquake took place 14 km W of Malibu, CA at 11:28:53 PM. #micro For details from the USGS:

🔥 A burning oil depot in the city of Noginsk, Moscow Region, after UAV attack.

Moscow region, now it's raining ash 👀☔️

Moscow 🤩🔥

#Earthquake Update: A magnitude 2.29 earthquake took place 4 km W of Santa Monica, CA at 12:35:02 AM. #micro For details from the USGS:

🇺🇸CIA Director John Ratcliffe: Right now, Russia occupies 20% of Ukraine. When I came in as CIA Director 18 months ago, Russia occupied 19% of Ukraine. The pace of their advance has stopped because Ukraine's mastery of drone warfare and asymmetric warfare is such a great equalizer.

🇺🇸CIA Director John Ratcliffe: Average life expectancy of a Russian recruit arriving on the battlefield in Ukraine now is estimated to be between 20 and 30 minutes. That's because AI-powered drones have become specialized, low-cost killing machines.

Moscow region now 🤯🤯🤯

🔥 A massive fire at Hvardiyske airfield in Crimea. Two fires located in the aircraft parking area and hangars, - Crimean Wind 🔥A new fire in the Black Sea near the entrance to the Kerch Strait. 🔥Two high-power electrical substations are burning on the Kerch Peninsula.

😈💥 Putin's "SVO" returned to Moscow!

Paul Seixas is the Tour de France’s youngest rider since WW2. He enters its final week in the midst of the podium fight. The teenager wears his nation’s hopes lightly, like an amulet around his neck. This is how he, and his team, deal with the burden of his own precociousness:

Being Paul Seixas, the boy king of the Tour de France (Gift Article)

With eight stages of the 2026 race remaining, the 19-year-old can still dream of a podium finish

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Update from Moscow region 😎🔥

#Cookingmusic tonight I’ve lined up some protest songs beginning with Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down

The Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down (Showbiz - 1986)

YouTube video by TheStyleCouncilVEVO

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For any other nation, this would be the very definition of the word "unsustainable". Russia is systematically pushing the fathers of the next generation through the meat grinder. It already had an historically low birth rate: it's doomed to be a nation of old people with no-one to support them.

Mitch McConnell's Quantum State: As long as nobody opens the box, the polling stays stable. Schrödinger's Mitch is both DEAD and ALIVE! #MitchMcConnell #GOP #Politics #USPolitics #PoliticalSatire

If you ever get the chance to watch this film, take it

Dean Spanley

YouTube video by New Zealand Film Commission

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#PrintTheLegend Everybody knows it's a lie. Everybody knows it's a journalist's invention. But it's a lie that makes Simpson's death somehow seem noble, when it was nothing of the sort. Cycling, the sport that seeks the comfort of lies, rather than face reality. #TdF2026

Het is koers@hetiskoers.bsky.social · 3w ago

13 juli en de Ventoux zijn voor altijd met elkaar verbonden, dankzij Tom Simpson. https://hetiskoers.nl/tom-simpson-mont-ventoux-tour-de-france-geschiedenis/

▪️ Car ferries "Eysk" and "Maria" at the ferry terminal "Krym" in Kerch; ▪️ Car ferries "Lavrentiy" and "Panagia"; ▪️ 3 tanks of the oil product transshipment complex in the port "Kavkaz"; ▪️ Railway depot with tanks at the Kavkaz freight station; ▪️ Tank farm of an oil depot in Stavropol Krai 2/2

You think coping with two rest days in a Tour is too much to ask of you? In the first Tour, in 1903, the riders had more rest days than they had race days. #TdF2026

📍Based on SAR imagery, I compared the number of Russian vessels in the Sea of ​​Azov before and after the operation, - Oko Gora 🟠Before (July 6) – 132 vessels; 🟠After (July 12) – 43 vessels (-67%). Currently, the waters are mostly occupied by small vessels, such as tugboats.

Mitch not appearing in public for weeks is nothing new. It’s just par for the corpse.

@causticcovercritic.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s...

Too Many Books?

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The tl;dr on how to opt out of being used for genAI via Instagram. No proof that you can actually prevent people from using your images/reels, but toggle it off as a way of showing dissent I guess?

WIRED@wired.com · 4w ago

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...