🎶Look at the sky And how it smells for you, Burns everything you do. Yeah, it was all yellow 🎶 :-/
One benefit of a simultaneous wildfire smoke and heatwave situation is that the smoke may slightly mitigate high temperatures. And one benefit of living in hell is that you get to write unique sentences like the one before this.
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)
Seems kinda irresponsible to start another week like right after that last one. Borderline reckless.
It's telling that every homeless person, even sober, is automatically a sign of "the drug problem." But belligerently intoxicated tourists — a far worse danger to those of us living and working downtown — somehow never are.
When enough rain falls in Maltahöhe, Namibia, millions of desert lilies bloom across the landscape for just a few days each year. This natural phenomenon briefly transforms the arid desert into a sea of flowers almost overnight. IG: @ earthpix
just sharing something a friend sent me for no reason
I agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit.
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 3d agoCovid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
I'm sure the US is fully prepared for this, though. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
China’s EV problem: What happens when millions of batteries die?
After spending the past decade building the world’s largest electric vehicle market, China is confronting one consequence of its success: a growing wave of batteries nearing the end of their service…
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The Seattle keeper looks like the kid in high school who sold pills he stole from his mom.
Just heard a little kid outside my house slowly sounding out my yard signs with their grownup. “Black…lives….matter.” “Yep, they do, bud. What about this one?” “No…human…being…is…il-legal.” “Good job.”
25 years ago we had Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, Steve Jobs, and Vincent Pastore. Now we have no Cash, no Hope, no Jobs, and no Pussy. RIP Big Pussy.
Vincent Pastore, actor most known for his role as Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on HBO’s The Sopranos, has died at 80
Vincent Pastore Dies: 'The Sopranos' Star Was 80
Vincent Pastore, known for playing mobsters in film and TV, most notably Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on HBO's The Sopranos, has died. He was 80.
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