Brooklyn-Miramar Transit @bmt@wandering.shop

On this beautiful 4th of July I wish you these blessings:

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
THE FASCIST REGIME!
THERE IS NO FUTURE
IN 'MURKA'S DREAMIN'!

This has been brought to you as a public service you YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD ICE GESTAPO. Or else.

One of my fellow transit authorities has a sense of humor; check out this deliberately incorrect URL:

https://www.sdmts.com/sites/all/themes/mts/templates/sdg/pdf/xyzzy

Well! Thank goodness! that the N.Y. Times is now covering something called a "beef" between something called a "Drake" and something called a "Pusha T."

I guess this means that all this family separation and capitalism and other worldwide evils are now all over. Whew.

Oh, wait, that's "Firefox," not "Chrome." Mea maxima culpa!

"Google Chrome" tells me that "Pocket" wants me to read an article on "TechCrunch" titled "Instagram plans to launch Snapchat Discover-style video hub."

So they're going to git a hub? I thought Microsoft was going to git the hub. I'm so confused.

Um, does anybody have any postage stamps I could buy? And maybe a pencil?

Also, you damn kids get off my lawn. I know I don't have a lawn. Get off it anyway.

(I did NOT come weeth heem to ze casbah.)

🎶Skunk butt in the city,
Runnin' wild and lookin' pretty 🎶

Och, Dundee, now THAT'S a sporran!

@auntiekiki Been away awhile; I just saw your new avatar and intro, including the line from the Deor poem, which gave me a bittersweet laugh. My parents, who are now both gone, used to tell me about the various obsessions of the English Dept grad students of their generation (including making fun of their own predilections); one other student's obsession was his dissertation on uses of "swa" in some medieval text. Just saying "swa" in my family could cause a wave of LOLs.

Happy Primary Day, Golden Staters! Cue the Katy Perry Band and let's sing along:

♫ I voted for a self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist
And I liked it! ♫

(Gayle McLaughlin for Lt. Gov. of California)

Today I started going to a group treatment program for geriatric patients with depression.

If two of the people in the group decide to get married, the planning should be pretty easy. They'll only need to get something new and something borrowed, because by definition we already have the other two things.

The tantalizing view from my new condo (towards the roof of the AT&T building).

HAAAAAAAAXXXX!!!!!!!!!1!!!

1950: Space-age computers will make our lives easier!

1960: IF YOU DO NOT PAY $0.00 BY FRIDAY YOUR ELECTRICITY WILL BE TURNED OFF. DO NOT FOLD, SPINDLE, OR MUTILATE.

[Intermission for a few wars with Vietnam, Grenada, etc.]

1995: Tech-age computers will make our lives easier! Make sure to use a password.

2000: ....a password that contains capital letters and digits.

2005: ...and some other stuff, plus read Bruce's blog every Friday for squid information.

2018: Papers, please.

I think we need a new verse to that old #TomLehrer ballad:

We will all go together when we go,
The U.S., Iran, and North and Southern Ko'.
With the wars started by Bolton
We will pretty soon be molten
Thanks to him and his absurd moustachio.

I've long suspected that #journalists have a macro key on their computers that generates the phrase "A tornado ripped through a mobile-home park in...."

I now suspect there's a new one that creates the phrase "Trump reportedly furious about...."

Today it's the fact that somebody leaked the DO NOT CONGRATULATE STALIN memo. Tomorrow it'll be about #RandyRainbow singing that Stormy has better hair than 45 has. (Yeah, you KNOW he binge-watches Randy!)

Headline in "Quartz":

If you want to stay successful, learn to think like Leonardo da Vinci.

In other breaking news: Also learn how to skate like Adam Rippon, how to pwn like Chinggis Khan, and how to sing like Kiri Te Kanawa.

No prob! I'll get right on that!