— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) July 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM
(Best jersey in the tournament)(via @belgiumtouch.bsky.social) 🇧🇪
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) July 7, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Today's news and jokes
The audiobook for Jeff VanderMeer's "Authority" is great
I loved Annihilation (book and movie), but, until now, never got around to reading Authority, I think because I read a later sequel out of order and found it very boring.
But the Authority audiobook is great--the story's great, and the performance by Bronson Pinchot is great. It picks up right after the events of Annihilation and is about a failson CIA agent sent to the Southern Reach to figure out why their excursions keep ending in disaster. It reads like gothic horror, with the bureaucracy of the Southern Reach's headquarters serving as the decaying haunted mansion.
Available at Amazon, but I used the Libby app.
Monday, July 6, 2026
3D-printable Motoko Kusanagi figure
Today's news and jokes
I predict three months after the Tour de France all the tech bros will be icing their mouse arms just like this all across the Bay Area. pic.twitter.com/ORezJRg7JW
— Gregory Kennedy (@gregorykennedy) July 4, 2026
Always hyped for the new R̶u̶n̶n̶e̶r̶ ̶s̶h̶e̶l̶l̶s̶ Tour De France team gear & liveries to be revealed. pic.twitter.com/EOb45ufzgB
— Joseph Cross (@josephacross) July 5, 2026
Museums that have made their catalogs free downloads
Yes I know there are serious & important things happening in the world right now, but this is kind of great: just learned the Van Gogh Museum has made many of their publications, including collection catalogs, freely available on @archive.org. More museums should do this: archive.org/details/vang...
— Michael Lobel (@mlobelart.bsky.social) July 2, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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And while we're at it you should know the Met Museum has done this as well, on their own website www.metmuseum.org/met-publicat...
— Michael Lobel (@mlobelart.bsky.social) July 2, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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I didn't realize the Whitney has been consistently uploading their catalogs to @archive.org, so the list of available titles is much more extensive than when I last checked some time ago: archive.org/search?query...
— Michael Lobel (@mlobelart.bsky.social) July 2, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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Sunday, July 5, 2026
Hijinks from today's F1 Lego cart race
Not the LEGO minicars all getting beached immediately! ðŸ˜#F1 #BritishGP pic.twitter.com/uM7NFgtORu
— Formula 1 (@F1) July 5, 2026
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