Last week the music streaming algorithm found a reason to throw in the Hoodoo Gurus song “Bittersweet” and it’s been an ear worm trapped in my noggin ever since. So here you go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=srrq...
Hoodoo Gurus - Bittersweet
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I’ve been bugged by the transformation of the term “late-stage capitalism” which first described a system in its final throes, its contradictions irresolvable, into today’s meaning, nearly the opposite, that describes a capitalism ever more pernicious in its ability to find resources to exploit.
I’m no @tamslick.bsky.social but here are a couple of automotive curiosities from the morning walk: a semi-restored early 60s Chevy Nova. (I drove a Nova wagon of this vintage, for a time, in a teal that matches this car’s primer.)
© Elena Wuest. 'An Afternoon Tea II.' Oil on canvas, 2026. 110 x 110 cm.
Same, Sam, except it’s F1 and a Scot droning on about tire selection.
Samuel Pepys@samuelpepys.bsky.social · 2mo agoTo church, and slept all the sermon, the Scot, to whose voice I am not to be reconciled, preaching.
Looked but didn’t notice the guy with the instruction sheet.
MachinePix@machinepix.bsky.social · 2mo agoTime-lapse of assembling a LW2800A tower crane.
According to the write up here, Sonja Shaw was a Covid-era anti-masker and a current era “protect our girl athletes” type so this result is discouraging.
The Sacramento Bee@sacbee.com · 3mo agoAs of 11.45 p.m. Tuesday, Chino Valley Unified trustee Sonja Shaw was the frontrunner with about 24.9% of votes tallied.
I sincerely hope Sam located the scoundrel responsible and got recompense!
Samuel Pepys@samuelpepys.bsky.social · 3mo agoI took occasion with the vintner’s man, who came to taste again my tierce of claret, to go down to the cellar with him to consult about the drawing of it; and there, to my great vexation, I find that the cellar door hath long been kept unlocked, and above half the wine drunk.
#nhl’s Goaltender interference standard as murky as the NFL’s defensive pass interference rule. 🤷♂️
#OnThisDay in 1769, while on Tahiti as part of Captain Cook’s first great voyage to the South Pacific, Joseph Banks gives us the first known written description of #surfing... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/extracts-from-the-endeavour-journal-of-joseph-banks-1769 #OTD
Monty Python, by and for arachnids:
🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦@joycomes.bsky.social · 3mo agoPeacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)
We seem to have this takeout/cook it yourself discussion every time a demographic cohort lands in its early-20s.
Sam Pepys proves that the sandwich generations have been getting squeezed since at least the 17th century.
Samuel Pepys@samuelpepys.bsky.social · 4mo agoBegun to look over my father’s accounts, and I find that he is not anything extravagant, and yet it do so far outdo his estate that he must either think of lessening his charge, or I must be forced to spare money out of my purse to help him through.
Great note by @bloomberg this morning on which part of the country is getting hit the hardest by the jump in gasoline prices. It’s the south.
After this season there’ll only be one player left in the NHL from the LA Kings’ Cup winning squads in ‘12 and ‘14: Drew Doughty. (They were awfully close in ‘13, too.)
NHL (Bot)@notnhl.bsky.social · 5mo agoHow cool is this 🤩 Every player on the /NYRangers is wearing a Jonathan Quick No. 32 jersey ahead of his final NHL game!
TFG is stealing “blockcade Hormuz” from the Iranians the same way he stole “fake news” from HRC. The man knows what plays.
#lakings. That ”LA LAW” line of Laughton, Armia, and Wright could do some damage in the post season, if the Kings can get there.
🚨: NASA just dropped a full disk image of Earth taken by Artemis II 🤯
We have spectacular new high-resolution images of our home planet, all of us looking back through the Orion capsule window at our Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon. Credit: NASA
Also, there is something absolutely hilarious about using the descriptor "very large" in this free pitcher giveaway
