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Last year at Ohana Fest I was fortunate to catch an intimate unannounced Eddie Vedder set with Glen Hansard joining for a few songs, including this rendition of Glen’s beautiful “Song of Good Hope.” The afternoon festival crowd fell silent; we knew we were witnessing something special. RIP Glen 🖤
It continues to fuck me up that we stay thinking about 9/11 but want to memory hole Covid so bad we're destroying the entire concept of public health in the US.
![In the United States, there have been 103,436,829[3] confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,238,563[3] confirmed deaths, the most of any country, and the 17th highest per capita worldwide.[43] The COVID-19 pandemic ranks as the deadliest disaster in the country's history.[44] It was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer.[45] From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy dropped by three years for Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for White Americans.[46] In 2021, U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 rose,[47] and life expectancy fell.[48]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ty2kxmxjmtealqi2kc7f4pww/bafkreiej6o22cdapxm6lj3rgrrznhhijzm5kpcjmvscemg2g7vg4tzm7na)
Here are some of the songs I've been listening to this summer. It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our hearts go out to his family.
"Raise your hopeful voice. You have a choice." RIP Glen Hansard www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8mt...
Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly (Official Video)
YouTube video by GlenHansardVEVO
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Film you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Enemy Almost Famous
ALT: Enemy Almost Famous
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Chad Young@chadyoung.bsky.social · 6d agoFilm you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Star Trek Thought 🖖 One of the most radical ideas in Star Trek isn't warp drive. It's cooperation.
I feel the compulsive need to find out if everyone who liked Data in The Next Generation are neurodivergent.
Star Trek TNG Data Shrugs
Alt: Star Trek TNG Data Shrugs
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Ok, it's time for Finally Read The Longread Tabs I Have Open Sunday! This one's a LONG one...the edcuation select committee report on reading for pleasure. publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5902/cm...
Reading for Pleasure
Report of the Education Committee
publications.parliament.uk
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Jeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies@diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Anyone up for reading a #medieval symbol (or two)? Here's the rete of an astrolabe at HSM Oxford (hsm.ox.ac.uk/collections-...) - with the circle of zodiac signs for the sun's place in the ecliptic and a selection of star pointers. It's been variously dated to c. 1360 and c. 1400. 1/4
Day 17 | MISFIT #cdccreativechallenge26 Misfit or neurodivergent? I thought I was one for most of my life but it turns out I’m the other. Handspun yarns with supplementary tresses. • #australiantapestry #handwoven #dissent
But the top layer of peat, where exposed, is also dry. And now the fire has made its way into the peat, and is spreading underground.
Never thought this was literally about climate change.
This Is Fine Dog Meme in Burning House
Alt: This Is Fine Dog Meme in Burning House
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My privilege to share some lovely stories from the science community about what Sam Neill's timeless performance as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park meant to them—and why it will continue to inspire kids to chase their own discoveries for years to come.
Sam Neill Inspired a Generation of Scientists
The actor, who died at age 78 on Monday, embodied a passionate approach to research and positive masculinity in his role as paleontologist Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park.
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"Civilization was a mistake" — me when I stay up too late playing Civilization
Staring at this face and sitting through endless BS daily just to extract the highlights is literal hazard duty. Huge appreciation for @atrupar.com’s work. Please go subscribe to Public Notice at publicnotice.co and send him some coffee money on Venmo (@atrupar)!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoBetween a number of high-profile hearings and Trump being on camera for hours a day, this was a crazy week. If you appreciate my efforts to chronicle it for you, reminder that the best way to support what I do is with a subscription to PN, which I think you'll enjoy. Paid subs make my work possible.
We've reached 72% of our fundraiser goal — if you haven't donated, please consider contributing to help keep TrekCore running ad-free into 2027. This is a volunteer project, and every dollar goes right to required costs for managing our #StarTrek content library. blog.trekcore.com/2026/07/trek...
#SDCC comic con: our daughter left her 3D printed black dragon in the restroom near E/Starbucks. She printed it herself and is devastated. We checked the restroom and lost and found which means someone picked it up. If you bring it to 5552 I will give you a signed comic as reward
These microgrants have been designed to have a super simple application process (brief personal statement, bio, writing sample!), because we want to give you money, we don't want to make you jump through hoops. Be queer, write about plants and get $$$!!!
ALOCASIA@alocasiamag.bsky.social · 2w agoAbout two weeks to apply! ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers! Two recipients will receive $500 each to help incubate their future creative endeavors. Deadline: July 31st, 2026. alocasia.org/alocasias-mi...
It's really not rocket science... Just do John Wick but Blade instead of JW, vampires instead of assassins, and teeth/claws/knives/swords instead of guns (also guns). They could've banged out a trilogy and a million cameos by now. Ryan Coogler could've executive produced. He's RIGHT THERE.
Libraries need a better PR team. If people understood them as "stepping into the internet" (aka: EVERYTHING'S HERE) rather than just *book storage*, their value would resonate more deeply. Books, movies, music, internet, temp control, LIBRARIANS... It's a modern miracle, and few people care.
Holy shit, we're actually getting there. "UCLA researchers develop low-cost blood test to detect multiple cancers and other diseases from a single sample [—] In tests, MethylScan detected about 63% of cancers across all stages and roughly 55% of early-stage cancers." (from April) #ShareGoodNewsToo
UCLA researchers develop low-cost blood test to detect multiple cancers and other diseases from a single sample
The test could offer a more affordable approach to early disease detection.
newsroom.ucla.edu
CDs don’t make you listen to 10 minutes of gambling ads before playing 3 songs.
The Verge@theverge.com · 3w ago16.3 million CDs were sold in the first half of 2026 in the US, a 16 percent increase year-over-year.
Me when I say I’ll be there in 5 minutes:
Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct@erindwyer.bsky.social · 2w agoTime keeping is my passion.
