@bryan She has already endorsed Kamala.

Here we go, this is it. EVERY SINGLE DAY:

@amerpie yeah sometimes I think to myself “Do I quoteblog Joan too often?” and then I realize no, the posts are always just that good!

@gregmoore YES.

For “Dress Funky Friday” at summer camp, the 14yo has last-minute decided upon corpse paint, so guess what I am figuring out how to do at 7 in the morning.

I don’t remember this chapter from any of the parenting books.

I am watching Larry Cohen’s 1976 film God Told Me To and I can’t help but think that Christopher Nolan lifted the police funeral shooting scene in The Dark Knight nearly directly from the St. Patrick’s Day parade in this movie.

While I dearly loved The West Wing as television drama, I feel like it has so warped people’s understanding of how US politics work and what is possible that it might be better had the show never existed.

@jtr I’m no expert and could have this very wrong, but my understanding is that while Macron is to the left of the National Rally creeps, he is basically a centrist, while “the Left” is much farther down the spectrum from him. So it’s a little bit like Biden et al. in the States versus the progressives.

@maique lol it took my brain a few seconds to process what exactly is going on in this photo

@iChris Weird! I’m that parent in my town! What are the odds?

On a seven-and-a-half-hour flight yesterday, a person in the row in front of me watched Big Bang Theory the entire time. I do not understand the appeal of that show and have never been able to stand more than about three minutes of it.

@danalcantara @ChrisJWilson the arrival of kids makes finding time to do anythingnot directly related to kids a tricky proposition.

JESUS H. CHRIST why do I even look at the news anymore.

PLAY FREE BIRD!

@ReaderJohn Indeed.

@jsonbecker @pratik Oh, don’t worry—you guys don’t have to sell me on any of that. I’m fully on board with policy solutions and not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, especially at the national/federal level.

@jsonbecker @pratik I say why not both? 😃

Holy shit! If you have a chance, don’t walk, RUN to go see DakhaBrakha live. They are fantastic.

Umbrellas and clouds at the Green River Festival

@gregmoore Just got back from their closing set tonight and they were great!

🔗 @Westenberg | The $375m slice:

Robot-enabled pizza logistics are (presumably) hard. But that’s not why Zume failed. They failed because, unlike New Jersey’s first Pizzeria, neither Zume nor their investors actually understood food. In their rush to disrupt, to prove that they were the future, Zume’s leaders and funders either lost sight of the humbler realities of running a food service business - the myriad tiny details and unforgiving margins that can make or break a kitchen - or were too arrogant and blind to see it in the first damn place.

@jsonbecker Talking Points Memo and PopMatters are the two that come immediately to mind for me.

@darby3 I am 100% with you on this.

@odd @goblingumbo That album is 1) awesome and 2) pretty much a pure, 100% uncut nostalgia injection for me. Great stuff!

@joshuapsteele some bogus crap

@amerpie Book1 (3).xlsDONOT_DELETE

@anniegreens See, I thought that same thing and then I got a bag of the rye-chips-only, and it was too much. I think part of what makes the rye chips so great is that they’re a special treat mixed in with all the other stuff.

@jsonbecker Yeah, I’ve become a pretty big fan since starting to use it regularly a few months ago. My use case is basically the same as yours. When I do find myself getting annoyed, it is about the torrent of clickbait headlines but that is the publications’ fault, not that of the app itself.

@frankm Oh wow—that’s fantastic! It’s great to see that building coming back to life after so many decades of neglect.

@withers It was so soothing and satisfying watching those little white and yellow blocks and dots move around.

@bjhess here it is: https://songwhip.com/faq/sunset

@bjhess somewhere on Mastodon over the weekend? Of course, now I can’t find the link to whatever I was reading.

@bjhess Yeah, Album Whale was actually the first thing ("Oh no!") that came to my mind when I read the Songwhip news the other day. Sounds like their whole operation is shutting down, not just the API.

@JohnBrady Thx btw for your posts about the book—they prompted me to pick it back up again after starting it many years ago and I am really enjoying it.

@JohnBrady I feel the same way and have also never made it more than halfway through that book, despite several attempts over the course of my adult life.