Valle Grande from the Cabin District, Valles Caldera National Preserve #NPS #NationalParkService #VallesCalderaNationalPreserve
Phyllis
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our love is God. let's go get a slushie
There are still untold Beatles stories The one I wanted to know was how Liverpool fell out of love, and then back in again with The Beatles This is a lengthy Substack on Liverpool's attitude to them in the 70s and the rebirth of Mathew St as Beatle Street grantmcphee.substack.com/p/beatle-str...
Beatle Street: How Liverpool fell out of love, and then back in love again with The Beatles
a work in progress
grantmcphee.substack.com
#OtD 26 Aug 1919 Fannie Sellins, former garment worker who became an organiser with the United Mine Workers of America, was killed by company thugs and sheriff's deputies during a Pennsylvania coal strike as she tried to stop a miner from being beaten stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9803...
If you're reporting on the measles deaths in Lancaster County, Pa., a little bit of background. From 2021: lancasteronline.com/news/health/...
Lancaster County Commissioners disapprove of LGH staff COVID-19 vaccine requirement
Lancaster County’s two Republican commissioners waded into personnel issues outside their purview during Wednesday’s public meeting, taking Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health to task for its new e...
lancasteronline.com
Franklin Kury, who passed away last week, helped make Pennsylvania one of the first governments in the world to guarantee a healthy environment as a basic right. From @insideclimatenews.org
Remembering the ‘visionary’ author of Pennsylvania’s environmental rights amendment • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
A monumental figure in Pennsylvania’s environmental movement passed away last week.
penncapital-star.com
“On July 4, 1776, a cadre of ‘hardy pioneers’...gathered under the shade of an elm tree (nicknamed the ‘Tiadaghton Elm’)...and signed a document declaring ‘themselves and the country free and independent of Great Britain.’” Read “Becoming Patriots” in PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY. https://ow.ly/Ut9K50ZC4mv
Monday marks 20 years since Pluto was considered a full-fledged planet in our solar system. For some, the sting of that cosmic demotion has never gone away.
20 years after Pluto was made a dwarf planet, some still can’t let go
Two decades ago, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet, sparking an enduring debate. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says he wants to “make Pluto a planet again.”
nbcnews.to
Heard from a Nashville guy that the backing tracks for pop country is always indistinguishable from C-tier butt rock from ten years prior.
This happens over and over again, e.g. when Nickelback was fading from relevance (along with all of mainstream rock), their long-time producer Joey Moi moved to Nashville and became a huge country music producer. bsky.app/profile/bdon...
bdonnelly@bdonnelly.bsky.social · 3d agoA key piece was when grunge killed hair metal circa 1991, a good chunk of those former L.A. hair farming musicians and producers moved to Nashville and traded in the leather pants for pickup trucks and mullets
Oakland. Semple Street. Caller said that there is a moving truck that is on the crosswalk. Caller does not like this. Welcome back Pitt students.
New & Notable: The grooving sound of Madchester returns in the swirling grooves of Diary, wrapped up in cotton-candy guitars.
Spiral Bound, by Diary
10 track album
diarytheband.bandcamp.com
If people are going to be disappointed in you no matter what you do, then it's best to lean into it and really give them something to remember.
The opening chords and scream when the snare hits is one of the best of all time. We really had a glut of ass kicking women rockers in this era. L7, Elastica, Hole, Breeders, Garbage, PJ Harvey, the list goes on and on
Veruca Salt - Seether (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by VerucaSaltVEVO
youtu.be
"Chinese Vase with Fruits", 2018, Oil on canvas, 90 x 75 cm - Sergey Teplyakov, contemporary Russian painter (his exact birth year is not publicly specified) #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul History, and MAGA, repeating itself? Running on German ethnic pride, expelling immigrants, and of course stamping out "gender ideology" AfD poised to become the first far-right party to come to power in any German state [in this case Saxony-Anhalt] since WII.
Germany’s Far Right Has a New Enemy: The 100-Year-Old Bauhaus
The architecture and design school closed by the Nazis is battling a new culture war.
wsj.com
also yknow what i'm going to get dehydrated. stop telling me what to do
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
sometimes i think we're all riffing on something funny only to find out other people involved are sincerely, extremely mad
Madly charming portrait of Anne-Marie de Bricqueville de Laluserne, Marquise de Bezons, w/ her guitar in 1759. By J-B Greuze. It's his day.
The Philly Bookstore Crawl is this Saturday, all over the region, and it's the best: www.broadstreetreview.com/previews/the...
The Philly Bookstore Crawl is back for its fourth year on August 22
Back for a fourth year, the Philly Bookstore Crawl continues to grow, with participating stores in every corner of the city and throughout the Philly…
broadstreetreview.com
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 7d agohey people sorry if some of you breeze past this part but it’s Friday. We do AI discourse on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday is for stuff that rocks and is actually fun. It’s in the TOS & the packet you got at orientation. get it together please
#OtD 21 Aug 1831 Nat Turner's rebellion of enslaved Africans began in Southampton County, Virginia. Over the next two days, his band of rebels travelled to multiple plantations, freeing enslaved people and killing the enslavers until being repressed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9345...
I googled her name and she’s a health policy researcher who writes think tank reports about gambling harms, we have found the patron saint of UK Bluesky
Qagggy!@qagggy.bsky.social · 7d agoUK transit nerds are next level.
@sky.skymarchini.net And @bencollins.bsky.social Yell At Each Other - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,