100 years ago tonight, in the small town where we live, thousands of klan members came to march through the Irish catholic neighborhood. To get there they had to funnel over this bridge. When they got there it had been blocked by a truck. Which should have been a warning. They came from a huge Klan rally on a local rich guy's farm. There's a minigolf place there now bearing the family name. The march had been opposed in town but Carnegie lacked an ordinance stating that you needed permission to march. And the police chief was (surprise!) Klan.

if the sun is just about to rise wherever you are and you have a clear view of eastern skies you can see every planet in the solar system right now all in a row. although a few of them are pretty faint. but just saying: it's out there right now. I never sleep in much in June but hey at least you get to see every planet at once aside from saturn and uranus who got lost in the dawn.

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Every british show that pops up on streaming services over here is either a young urban detective in modern times battling their mental health drugs trauma as they hunt a killer under overcast skies or an old rural detective poking about sunny crime scenes in delightful places. Grytte Season 2: Detective Grytte follows the trail of a sex murderer while juggling family life and his mental health drugs.

Poppo Season 11: Mannered and sharp Inspector Poppo is back for series 11 and no killer is safe from his keen eye and west highland terrier Ronston.

Friends, I come to this question with no judgement: There is a familiar affect that is common to particular kind of generally liberal self-identified brainy nerd - a simmering theatricality mixed with hyper crisp pronunciation, like the nerd culture transatlantic accent. It's been around quite a while. What is the lineage here?

Was going through some very old things today and found this notebook where I was totally for real designing a Zelda game at age 11. This dungeon featured soon to be classic boss "BARR" and beloved npc "MARK". As the sun sets in the middle of the mountains, a sort of dragon thing glides towards this absolutely fucked castle

Abandoned church out in the hills in Greene county. Not much info about it available beyond mentions in obituaries. Built in 1870. Windows were all boarded from the inside. The doors were also boarded at one point but someone had knocked that in.

We drove up to Potter County, a remote region with the darkest skies in Pennsylvania, to look at stars. Down the road from where we were staying is a tiny town called Austin, notable for a disaster that happened there in 1911. Although tbh "happened" is far too passive a term. Austin was a small settlement in a valley between the heavily wooded hills, and it grew into a bustling town during the logging boom the region was undergoing during the late 19th century. It was also prone to an absurd number of complete disasters. A short list:

I can smell the interior of this car

https://twitter.com/slate_akita/status/1458822858122088452

car comes with complementary second hand smoke damage to your lungs

I will rename your poorly-named ska band for free. I am offering this service to ska bands.

It's my birthday. I am 40. Feels basically normal. This is the first year in a while where I'd love a party with friends but I guess there's a "pandemic" happening and most of my "friends" live "elsewhere"

Today is the 100th anniversary of the The Battle Of Blair Mountain, a huge moment in US history and one most people have never heard of, a shooting fight involving thousands of workers vs the forces of capital in the mountains of West Virginia. #Blair100 This is a good quick summary of things -> inthesetimes.com/article/labor-…
If you have 40 minutes this podcast is also great and contains a lot of great info-> empathymedialab.com/post/the-road-…

it was really funny watching these war-hungry dumbasses in media treating "forever war" like some simultaneously offensive and also undefinable term shades of "neoliberal"

Sunday night Sid is helping Bethany

In our worker co-op if I suddenly do some fucked up shit the other folks can get together and figure out what to do about it, and we have procedures in place for that, including booting me out. They still own the project, they still have access to the bank account, etc One of the big reasons we wanted to do this is because we'd all experienced how standard workplace structures or even looser teams lend themselves to abuse and exploitation and cultures of silence and excuses etc. Like straight up that was and is a huge motivator.

all solidarity to the staff of the infamous southside burger king

https://twitter.com/AnarchyWaltz/status/1419484256909266944

folks in the area know all about this particular spot but if you do not, this was once a false burger king

https://twitter.com/ohip13/status/1270010175697674241

I haven't posted music in a while, been too busy with work and other projects. I need to get back to the music stuff. I even opened up a SOUNDCLOUD and then got exactly one tiny track on it soundcloud.com/scott-benson-3… For awhile I was doing these one-minute-or-so jams with little animations. They were cool. This has some flashing stuff so heads up if that's a thing for you.

These little fluff things especially when they pop up when cops are under scrutiny are always kinda silly, as if the primary complaints about cops are that they give out an insufficient amount of toy gifts for the village children like really low quality elves.

https://twitter.com/NYPD77Pct/status/1418916809185677333

I mean it would be great if the role of cops was just to give out toys, sponsor little league teams, buy ice cream for people, and do TikTok meme dances but instead theres just a lot of murder and violence and sexual assault.

The Middle by Jimmy Eat World sounds a lot like it could be a Gin Blossoms song. Just observations for your saturday Like if you tweaked a few things it could go right between Day Job and Hey Jealousy in a set

It's been a very hectic and stressful few weeks and I am wide awake at 3am watching American Ninja Warrior Their pandemic setup for this really is very impressive

*squints* wait the Bush-era torture lady is an exec at Activision?

https://twitter.com/Megan_Nicolett/status/1418605675790413834

Just restating that people like Townsend and up are the real ones with power here. Until people up in those levels feel real consequences and workers have power as a group to push back, this will go on and on and on and on.