A watch frozen forever at 8:15am, the moment an atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on Monday August 6th 1945. #Hiroshima #August6th #HiroshimaPeaceMemorialMuseum #広島 #HiroshimaDay

Wasn't sure how I felt at first, but the new Stones album is really growing on me. Amusing (to me) side note: when spouse 1st heard Keith sing "some of us are on our knees" she heard "on our knees" as "o-na-ni" (オナニー), one of myriad ways of saying 'masturbation' in Japanese. She still giggles.

"Trump's officials went on to tear down a mural with Fauci's face," says Katherine Wu. "Former colleagues have said it seems like essentially everything Tony Fauci touched, they have attempted to dismantle, destroy, or obliterate so that there is no legacy left." https://to.pbs.org/4wuWu3E

The campaign against Fauci and what brought him back before Congress

Dr. Anthony Fauci helped lead the White House pandemic response for Presidents Trump and Biden and is now retired from government service. He appeared under congressional subpoena and invoked his Fift...

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Weirdest thing just happened. I reached into a bag to get one of my wife's homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and when I pulled it out I had two more stuck to my fingers.

Phew, just normal diarrhea.

To make up for the extra 15 minutes allocated for the World Cup final halftime show, there will be no halftime break for today's England-France third-place match.

The Irish Times is asking concert-goers to share their Slane Castle concert memories--including your experience at the band's historic 1995 show during the Monster Tour—feel free to leave them in the comments below as well! www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

Slane Castle memories: Did you rock out to David Bowie, R.E.M. or Harry Styles?

Share your story: What are your best memories of the Co Meath venue?

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Watching the live stream of the 2026 Seismic Design Competition "Shake Day" (son is on one of the teams). Not my usual fare.

Scientists claim to have found "sugar" in the Milky Way, but no sugar tonight in my coffee, no sugar tonight in my tea.

Roger Ebert knew how to cut: "Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how, on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. 1/2

How poignant that Lindsey was able to spend one of his final days at Disney World alone, walking around with a bubble wand.

Flipping through the radio stations today and I hear "your sex is on fire" and immediately think "penicillin, stat."

"Janie's Got Gub" (Aerosmith, ft. Virgil Starkwell)

"Dad, what's 'The Odyssey' about?" "It's about our trips in our Honda Mini-van." "Sounds kinda boring." "Boring? We've had epic adventures. Remember the time I got explosive diarrhea between Ithaca and Syracuse?"

Somehow stumbled on a Japanese YT short of a guy comparing guitar effects compression pedals. The MXR Dyna Comp is (ダイナコンプ) daina konpu, but in comments it's shortened to daikon. I kinda love that.

And in the "small win" column: unlikely to be invited to the *White* House.

#Mexico #World_Cup At a time when I was a grad student at IU-B'ton and the men's team was in the top five, I took my young kids to an IU vs. Mexico U-20 exhibition game at Armstrong. Fans for the U-20 came from NJ, Chicago--vastly outnumbered locals; even had a mariachi band. They show up.

The best commentators for Fox's coverage of the World Cup speak English with an accent, and yes, I'm including Rebecca.

Word on the street (r/newhampshire) is that the Eephus team is working on a new movie set in an old-style pin bowling place in north Concord. Eephus crew: I'm a 60-something loser perfect for a side character. Look me up.

I vaguely remember a description from Kurt Vonnegut's "Jailbird" where "A fighter plane leaped up from the tip of a nearby runway, tore the sky to shreds." RIP to DC skies tomorrow

Schisms schmisms.

Kathleen Edwards should be more famous. (Great musical collaborators/band, too.)

Run - Kathleen Edwards

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Unfortunately, I saw a couple of clips of the couple on the antenna platform before I could avert my eyes. I'm definitely having a falling dream tonight.

When we first moved to northern New England my 12yo played rec soccer; we couldn't afford travel soccer. One day after a game an adult guy approached my son and asked him to play pick-up with him and his mates later. They were all Moroccan immigrants.

On the list this morning for shopping at Market Basket: I was told to get 'single carrots.' Were-Rabbit bait. The photo can't do it justice: all at least 2" diameter.

Sent to me by son recently. At Ōshika, Nagano. 息子が送ってくれた夕焼けの写真です。長野県の大鹿村にて。

I was driving down a road in Dracut, MA and smelled something like skunk and thought "oh no, someone's run over a bag of dank."

Japan vs Sweden. Sentimental support for Japan. Wish Japanese fans would give their chant a rest. Commentator keeps calling Sugawara "Shugawara" and I kind of like it. Ganbare!

This is known as a ‘Shini-e (death print)’. These ukiyo-e prints were primarily published upon the death of a Kabuki actor, serving both to announce the news of their passing and to honour their memory. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shini-e

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