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Wu-Tang's gonna beat Bob Dylan like he's Hattie Carroll.

Why Your Lamp Sucks Don't search the web for mid-century lighting until you listen to this week's episode.

There's been no innovation in lighting in 50 years. The top sellers are all Modeline knock-offs, made to be disposable with no ingenuity or craftsmanship. The art came out and the spreadsheets went in.
All this is explained in the episode by Nick Ferrell, writer and dealer in modern lamps.

Probably doesn't want Trump to see him in brown shoes.

A photo of a lesser Madagascar hedgehog tenrec enrolled into a ball. The animal is grayish in color, with white spikes on its back and a long snout.

Did you know? The lesser Madagascar hedgehog tenrec is more closely related to elephants than true hedgehogs! Weighing ~0.25 lb (0.2 kg), this small mammal inhabits western Madagascar. It can roll up into a spiky ball to defend itself from foes.
Photo: Nigel Voaden, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist

Good thing they listed their credentials and qualifications--otherwise, they might come off as a bit of a crank.

Hudson seems like a top-ten. Juan de Fuca's on the bubble.

@tuphlos.bsky.social

The Brat Pack (literary edition)

Are there any 'easy' ones left?

I'm here for some low-hanging fruit.

Photo of a kid on a banana seat bike with a tall sissy bar and a crazily long brake cable. In the upper left there's an upper- and lower-case "G" and at the bottom it says, "G is for groovy."

"G is for Groovy"
Flashcard from the "Black ABCs" by the Society for Visual Education, 1970

Need some comfort films to put on in the background and Im struggling to think of any.

They cant be any bit violent
They cant be sad
If you wouldnt show it to a traumatized 11 year old, its too much for me

90s media, kids movies, cozy feels fantastic magic, heartwarming stuff seems more safe?

TRUMP: Should I back JD Vance or Marco Rubio for president?

DONORS: You should not.

I’ve been talking to @amylittlefield.bsky.social about this book for years and today it’s out. Killers of Roe, available here (or your local bookstore): bookshop.org/p/books/kill...

If memory serves, that Billy-Joel-as-composer classical album is from 2001 (can't remember the name offhand, have too much mental space devoted to BJ already)

Can I have two of the easy ones?

"Little Rock Central High School chapter of Turning Point USA" is the most Sarah Huckabee Sanders phrase ever written.

Hank Scorpio successfully purchased an NFL team.

I'll take 9 if possible, please.

exterior shot of the pavilion Chehel Sotun, Isfahan

decorated ceilings of Chehel Sotun

image of destruction

image of destruction

More destruction of the cultural heritage in Iran. Chehel Sotun in Isfahan, dating back to the 17th c, a UNESCO World Heritage site sustained damage in the war.

We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)

What's so funny, wrong guesses only:

The top five seeds are all metal albums.

Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?

They look so cool!

beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Julie K. Brown is a hero.

In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles — but sometimes those roles were fluid.

Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

we need more places where he can exist in public without being expected to buy anything, not fewer

A short list:

1. Imminent threat
2. Iranian nukes two weeks away
3. Halt the terrorist militias
4. Regime change/47 year war
5. Iran interfering in US elections
6. WORLD PEACE
7. For our grandchildren
8. Preemptive assassination
9. Some Left Behind Rapture shit
10. Israel made him do it

The Near Destruction of the Family Unit Why Fargo isn't necessarily about what most people think it's about

well, i did it. i finally wrote about Fargo. specifically i wrote about how Marge's marriage is in extreme turmoil, even if it doesn't seem that way

goodones.beehiiv.com/p/the-near-d...