why isn’t the future the way we thought it would be
Meredith 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
@smoemeth.bsky.social
Tour Mistress Of The Darkness, helping make live music happen since the last century. mpressrecords.com #UglyDogs #COYS New Haven, CT Avatar: “YOU WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH ME” in trans flag colors. Cover: brown tabby's floofy white belly.
Officially graduated from PT! May my knee never misbehave like that again.
SPACEX PLANS CYBERNETIC CITIES RUN BY SENTIENT FUNGUS ON TREADMILLS
SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
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NEW: Cyberattacks on U.S. water supply now being reported in 12+ states and 100+ municipalities, though some may be unrelated to wave of suspected Iranian attempts. The nationwide threat follows years of ignored warnings and neglect to water systems. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Today is the last day our most awesomest City Council rep will be in office - she & her wife-to-be bought a house that's 1 block outside our Ward, so she has to step down. I haz a sad. I hope her replacement is even half as good as she's been.
Apropos of nothing, for CT denizens Bishop's Orchards had a large amount of homegrown peaches (including donut peaches) in their farm shop as of yesterday evening. (Just off Exit 57, if you're passing by on I-95.)
BREAKING: Diarrhea Peaches to open for Diarrhea Lettuce, Diarrhea Planet, Dismemberment Band. www.thehealthy.com/news/peach-r...
I can smell this photo. Can't believe it's already been 20 years.
CBGB's being dismantled after the closing 2006
“Ride Or Die” is great fun as advertised, but I really can’t get with the AI de-aging in so many scenes. 🤮
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Yes Brooklyn, come on out to the Art Haus on Marcy next Wednesday evening! It'll be an early night, we're old folkies LOL #livemusic #nyc
Brooklyn, I can't wait to see u! I'm so excited to be making my Folkus-Nyc & Brooklyn Art Haus debut on Wed, Aug 12! 💙 If you're in NYC, I'd love for you to join me! you will also have the opportunity to buy my upcoming album, Under My Canopy, before its official fall release!!
No cheating post your lock screen
No cheating post your lock screen
Whoever usually puts the Freak Zone up on Mixcloud every week hasn't done it for Sunday's episode yet, and this should not be affecting me as deeply as it is. (In related news, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD BBC, LET ME PAY YOU TO SUBSCRIBE TO BBC SOUNDS)
"A.i." is bullshit. "A.i." detection tools are bullshit. "A.i." in education is bullshit. "A.i." in the arts is bullshit. "A.i." in business and government is bullshit.
Last week I sang Kate Bush bangers with incredible pianist Michael Mayell and it was great.
My theory: survival stories and true crime are actually photo negatives of each other, because in true crime, someone's dead who should be alive, and in survival, someone's alive who should be dead, and in both cases you're trying to figure out why
One more thing on What to Carry, What to Burn: Podcasting's devolution into chat /true crime has depressed me as listener & writer. It's labeled--wrongly--as latter, & at first seems to be @blairbraverman.bsky.social "just" talking. But it's so arfully structured! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
Hwæt! A new edition of the Electronic Beowulf has been released by Kevin Kiernan (University of Kentucky). You can explore it here: ebeowulf.uky.edu Beowulf is one of our greatest literary treasures, and the unique manuscript is held at the British Library.
Electronic Beowulf 5th ed
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Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
David Squires on … Gianni Infantino clinging to power as his Fifa empire crumbles
Our resident cartoon imagines some of the crisis talks at Fifa as its president scrambles for support after a botched World Cup plan
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The brilliant EC Comics adaptation from 1953 (Weird Fantasy 17) of Ray Bradbury's 1950 sci-fi short story "There Will Come Soft Rains," set on today's date, August 4, 2026. A date that at that time probably seemed in an impossibly distant future. Illustrated by the comics legend Wally Wood.
"There Will Come Soft Rains"
I first read this story when I was very young, and constantly plowing through stuff that went way over my head. I didn't get it at all, to be honest. Years later, I picked up a copy of THE MARTIAN CHR...
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Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Wow, it sure would be nice to actually have the benefit of his services!
Reported new #RedSox Adley Rutschman: · 100th #MLB percentile for caught stealing above average · 96th percentile for Fielding Run Value · 91st percentile for whiff rate · 82nd percentile for expected AVG
News: Red Sox acquire All-Star catcher from Orioles ... Me: 👍 News: ... who is currently on the IL. Me: Who do the Red Sox think they are, Tottenham Hotspur?!?
hey kids it's a quick look at the news www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Headline news 2026
A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.
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I'd love to see the breakdown of music PR to music journalists, bc I bet that ratio is waaaaaaaaaay worse
There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
I was so disappointed when I learned that Keats, Yeats, and Wilde are not, in fact, buried in the same cemetery. I suppose it was preparation for subsequent Morrissey disappointments.
Give a big bonus to whomever at NBC came up with the idea to borrow each team’s color commentator for Sunday Night Baseball.
Just because you don’t remember the episode of Baywatch where an orangutan in overalls helps the gang find a missing child doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist