Robb Hare

Slightly diminish a band:

The Novemberists

April Spritzer

William and Mary Chain

Wheezer

it is raining outside of a window with a bird flying in the distance . ALT: it is raining outside of a window with a bird flying in the distance .

It’s raining. Finally.

a man with a mohawk and feathers on his shoulder screams ALT: a man with a mohawk and feathers on his shoulder screams

Ah yes, the lawless wastes of Ottawa.

Help I have Gerry Rafferty stuck in my head.

We’ve got some Costco people in the family. It’s weird. Who needs that big a ketchup bottle? Or a pallet of paper towel? Do you have your order delivered by rail?

From Heatwaves to Price Waves – Climate Change’s Growing Grip on Our Food System - Climate Fact Checks Global food systems are feeling the heat. A study in Environmental Research Letters maps 16 extreme climate events between 2022 and 2024 across 18 countries, showing how heatwaves, droughts, and heavy...

“…unusually high temperatures directly translate to higher food costs. Heatwaves and prolonged droughts cut yields, reduce supply, and push up prices, often within weeks of an event.”

climatefactchecks.org/from-heatwav...

Well, I haven’t thought about model trains for 40 years. Then I stumbled across some issues of Model Railroader at the library, and here we are.

Everyone here seems to be posting screenshots of whatever Tr*mp is up to, so here’s something nicer: a model train layout, left behind by its owner who passed away years ago, now quietly gathering dust in a 300‑year‑old house somewhere…

Here’s my buddy Clas in the middle of it.

1/5

Deeply absorbed lately with the notion of building a model railroad

I would like to know who in their right mind would want to drive through a tunnel under the 401 for any length of time.

#toronto #ontario

I had no idea. Sixteen, eh? Well done, kid.

Reminds me of my big brown ‘76 Thunderbird.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Marchetti's Constant - Futility Closet Here’s a depressing idea: In 1994, Italian physicist Cesare Marchetti suggested that people have always endured commutes of an hour a day, half an hour each way, on average. Improvements in urban plan...

"In 1994 Italian physicist Cesare Marchetti suggested people have always endured commutes of 1 hour/day, 1/2 hour each way, on avg. Improvements in urban planning and transport haven’t shortened travel time; they’ve just permitted us to live further afield."
www.futilitycloset.com/2025/07/31/m...

I discovered @premeemohamed.com on Bsky and have since bought a number of her books. And I’ve found and followed a number of other writers who are on my to-buy-when-budget-permits list.

‘Everybody was fondling underwater!’: an oral history of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50 Mick Jagger wanted to play Frank-N-Furter, Susan Sarandon got pneumonia, and the cast were wet and half-naked most of the time. Richard O’Brien, Barry Bostwick, Patricia Quinn and Nell Campbell tell t...

Today’s reminder that the touchstones of my youth were eons ago

That’s a fun game. Deep enough to keep your interest without drowning you in the usual complexities of Paradox grand strategy games.

Looking at you, Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron.

Deadly 'Wet-Bulb' Temperatures Are Smothering the Eastern U.S. That’s bad news for human health.

Hey, remember how Kim Stanley Robinson's "Ministry for the Future" opens with a deadly heat event?

<applauds>

The number of times I fire up a news site and think "please let him be dead please let him be dead" as the page loads

We get busy and fall behind on our yard work and I walk out to find there’s, like, a dozen black locust saplings growing back there.

Black locusts are amazing trees, but not sure I should grow a small forest back there.

You know I think that was the very article I read. Quite the feat!

Funny, I found myself browsing some back issues of Model Railroader last weekend and idly dreaming of building a little layout.

Also stumbled across an article about Rod Stewart’s massive setup and wow that’s impressive.

Interstellar Visitor Zipping Through Our Solar System Could Be a Hostile Probe, Alien-Hyping Scientists Warn 3I/ATLAS is likely a comet from a faraway place. Or is it?

Oh hell, at this point: bring it on.

Aw not Chuck (plays air trumpet)

The Great Canadian Rights Grab To keep the US happy, Mark Carney’s Liberal government is pushing Bill C-2 — expanding surveillance, limiting refugee protections, and eroding privacy in the name of national security. It’s Canada’s o...

Canada’s border bill is a dangerous rights grab that must be defeated!

jacobin.com/2025/07/carn...

Still have work to finish but am distracted by otter content. 🦦

Agreed. Bauhaus had maybe three good songs—and one of them was a Bowie cover.

I mean, a *fantastic* Bowie cover, but still.

I know this is an old complaint, but seriously, Apple: why would you put the charging port on the bottom of the mouse?

Seems like a job for some orcas. But the police will have to do I guess.