every few months, i go looking for newly digitized items about the hampton grease band & came up with one last night: an ad for 3 nights at phineaus in springfield, #massachusetts in march 1970, usually known as the woodrose ballroom, the original lineup's only shows in the northeast. (the velvet underground played there a few weeks later, inspiring "train 'round the bend"; someone taped that one!) added to my always-in-progress hampton grease band chronology, 1967-1973: https://jessejarnow.com/2020/05/hampton-grease-band-1967-1973/

Latest photo-shoot this week at National Press Club: Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, former president and prime minister of Mongolia.

He guided Mongolia to a parliamentary democracy in 1990 after the USSR collapsed, and now campaigns for democracy, women's rights, climate change, and press freedom.

More photos: https://technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/National-Press-Club-events/Conversation-with-Tsakhiagiin-Elbegdorj

#Photography #NewsPhotography #Mongolia #PressFreedom
#Democracy #NationalPressClub #WashingtonDC

Content warning: Rolling Stone on “you won’t have to vote” Click to open/close

The absolutely most wild lost technology that I can think of is the CRT. We no longer have the technology to create new CRTs. In 2013, they were still the most widely produced color display available. By 2016, you couldn't buy one new for any price, only old stock or used and Earth no longer has the means to manufacture a CRT.

Greek food is underrated

Petition to replace all newspaper opinion writers with peaceful silence and designated touching-grass time

🚨NEWS: FTC chair Lina Khan responds to pushback against her work: “Monopolies not only have economic power, but use that power to buy political power,” she told The Lever.

Dems’ billionaire Microsoft megadonor Reid Hoffman called for her ouster.

https://www.levernews.com/ftc-chair-lina-khan-responds-to-calls-for-her-firing/

⚠️⛔️Russian Terror Strikes Target Ukraine's Southern Kherson Region; Civilian Ambulance Hit By Drone In Latest War Crime (more) http://www.rferl.org/a/33052877.html #Ukraine #ICC #ICRC #ICJ #Hague #ECHR #OSCE #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow

The reason Kamala Harris doesn’t have any biological children is because it’s none of your fucking business.

There is something calming and lullaby like about the #Katydids call I think.

Nachts in Kyoto
#photography #night #street #kyoto #japan #ishootfilm #analogphotography #filmphotography #orwo #orwonc500 #pentax #pentaxk2

One year gone now.

"She was a woman who was failed again and again and again, by men, by her own health, by religion, by the music industry."

https://www.welcometohellworld.com/the-fury-of-sinead-oconnor-2/

July 27 marks 20 years since charges were filed against the Holy Land Foundation and the organization's five founders' homes were raided. The case against the HLF5 is an attack on all who care about Palestine, we must not stop until they are free.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/07/20-years-of-struggle-renewing-our-commitment-to-liberation-for-the-holy-land-5/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

Stumbled upon this while aimlessly wandering around Santa Cruz, CA.

Today was a pesce fritto and Verdicchio di Jesi spumante pas dosé type of day.

📣 Final Legislative Candidate Filing Update: Dems running in 78.4% of State Legislative districts across all states:

https://blue24.org/24/07/27/final-legislative-candidate-filing-update-dems-running-in-784-of-state-legislative

My dog is upset that his favorite bed is gone (pile of dirty laundry). I assured him it will be back soon enough.

Keiner kann wirklich etwas gegen Ausländer haben. Denn sobald wir eine Grenze überschreiten, sind wir ebenfalls Ausländer. 😉

Ich gebe zu, mit etwas Schadenfreude habe ich den Artikel gelesen:

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/us-grenzbeamte-verweigern-bayerischem-afd-politiker-die-einreise,UJe1XGy?UTM_Name=Web-Share&UTM_Medium=Link&UTM_Source=Link

Yesterday I gave you a heads up about all the new fake Elon Musk accounts (how stupid ARE these trolls??).

Please report/block every one of them. This is my 6th.

I woke up to this DM:

Elon Musk
@elonmusk21 @mastodon.social :

@GottaLaff
Greetings my dear. I know you'll be amazed getting a text from me. Well, don't be surprised. I usually do this to reach out to some of my fans Who finds it difficult in reaching me? How are you doing? Hope you are well.

Got car tax online. Was asked how they could improve the service...

One cat in a box inevitably leads to two cats in a box.

#caturday #cats

I want Buttigig, and I think I’m going to get stuck with Shapiro. ☹️

As much as I hate it, he’s got some very attractive numbers. Dude led Trump among independents 2:1. And PA is important. .…Sigh

#Harris2024 #uspol

TIL there is a one hole golf course in the Korean DMZ that is surrounded on 3 sides by minefields.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Camp_Bonifas
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1edhzzn/til_there_is_a_one_hole_golf_course_in_the_korean/

Just an unusual #wildfire pic from 2016 that I don't remember seeing at the time:

"A partially melted thermometer is seen on a house that survived after a fire tore through Lower Lake, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016." (AP Photo/Josh Edelson)

DOUBLE YOLKS!! WHATDO I DO? WHATDO I DO?

WTAF.

“we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”

WaPo this morning: wapo.st/3Wl3eAf (free link).

The fuck you will, you bloated shrieking coward.

#USPolitics

Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Made Simple Once and For All https://towardsdatascience.com/markov-chain-monte-carlo-made-simple-once-and-for-all-e86e8384186c

Surprising element found in traces of Tyco Brahe’s alchemy lab confounds scientists | CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/27/science/tycho-brahe-alchemy-lab-tungsten/index.html

I'm trying to identify this Pentium 3 board on The Retro Web, it's going to need a cleanup and recap, but has AGP, PCI and ISA! 👍

#Project2025, the right-wing plan for a new Trump term, is dangerous, but it’s also dense—900+ pages of policy in technical language. We read it so you don’t have to. Every week, I’m looking #InsideProject2025, explaining its aims for the disbanding of gov’t agencies. #Velshi

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IPLku8IoSD8&si=xuXMDLlkbOP507TZ
^——Use This Hyperlink
⛔️Youtube shortcuts blocked⛔️
⚡️🇺🇦Nightly Address by President Volodymyr Zelensky on Day 884 of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine |Day 3810 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (July 26) dubbed into English (UATV News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow
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Are Canadians still considering getting rid of their #CarbonTax or are they now thinking of doubling it?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp68rz0zrrwo

Lady Gaga at the Olympics Opening ceremony today.

Here is a description in her own words of the song, its history and her preparation for the sensational performance.
👏
1/n

⚠️🇷🇺3 Russian helicopters damaged in Ukrainian sabotage operations, source says (more) https://kyivindependent.com/3-russian-helicopters-damaged-in-ukrainian-sabotage-operations-source-says/ #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #Russia #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow

⚠️🇺🇦Ukraine's presidential couple make visit to Okhmatdyt children's cancer hospital (PHOTOS, VIDEO, and more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3889524-ukraines-presidential-couple-visits-okhmatdyt-childrens-hospital.html #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow

Things spotted on market day in Aotearoa #newzealand :

A small human with his face and hands covered in chocolate ice-cream being told by his mum "Fin, keep your hands to yourself." He spreads his hands as wide as possible, grins cheekily and roars "NO!"

A guy with bare feet (20s?) and a British accent talking to a stall owner. He says "I came here six months ago. I only meant to stay for two weeks but I can't bring myself to leave yet." Stall owner nods in sympathy.

A small human and his grandma walking along. Grandma on small human's heels as he instructs her how to ONLY step on the shadows because stepping in the sun is bad luck. Both seem to be thoroughly enjoying the game. Later seen in line for a crepe. (Standing on shadows.)

The owner of a pottery stall explaining to a woman (80s?) with arthritically bent hands that he makes sure his cups have handles that anyone can hold. She makes a delighted noise when he shows her a cup that she can grip easily.

A macaron vendor explaining to three small humans (8 and younger?) how he makes his macarons. They are all completely focussed. He says "The trick is, don't sift the almond meal. They all tell ya to do it, but don't believe them!" All three small humans nod solemnly.

Any typos spotted in this post are not typos, they are poetry. Or at least that's what this author is claiming and I am totally prepared to do an interpretive dance to any typo poetry to back it up. (With kazoo accompaniment. Because poetry.)

Hi. First post on this account. Very recent late Dx #ActuallyAutistic here. Special interests in my bio. Probably should include Autism as a special interest because I'm still in that phase. Nice to meet you. 👋