Notices by Erin Bee (erinbee@mastodon.social)

LMAO - Loser Millennials, aioli ogres
WTF - White, tasty, fabulous
ICYMI - Identity condiments yuck my innards
MFW - Miracle Freakin' Whip
IMHO - Invited to My Hellman's Orgy

Yeah, sex is cool but have you tried laying in front of a fan and vowing to not touch another human being until October when everyone is less sweaty?

"An Indigenous opera singer is bringing back his community's traditions and songs...

The classically-trained tenor used wax cylinder recordings of his ancestors singing in the early 1900s, which had been locked away in the national archive for decades.

Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa — translated as "Songs of the River People" — is sung entirely in Wolastoqey, a language fewer than 100 people speak."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/polaris-prize-indigenous-1.4722297

Janelle Monáe at the BET awards. Happy Pride, y'all 😍

Janada: True jort strong and free

My Met Gala knock off zip tie halo. Super easy to make, like less than 5 minutes of sliding zip tying and then giving it a spray down with semi-matte spray paint. I was going to add flowers, but they were the wrong scale and those might look better as a second layered headband. Also, if I was going to try this again, I'd try to get shorter zip ties because these long ones are maybe a bit too long.

Bonus: My photo app glitching between camera and gallery into an overlap I had to screenshot.

Heavy metal and natural language processing: Finding the most and least metal words from a corpus of over 200000 songs
http://www.degeneratestate.org/posts/2016/Apr/20/heavy-metal-and-natural-language-processing-part-1/

"Look here Vita – throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have a bottle of wine and get tipsy, and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads – They won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river. Think of that. Throw over your man, I say, and come." - Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 1927.

Victorian mourning jewelry was often made of jet, but less expensive alternatives were glass beads; or vulcanite, a type of hard rubber. These chunky chains were made of vulcanite, and they've got a stark graphic quality that looks almost timeless.

@djsundog @derek_g Canadian Tourism: The Anime
https://youtu.be/qLxZqoBE_po

solitaire.exe Windows 98 playing cards by Evan Roth (2012). Card faces by Susan Kare, beach scene card backs by Leslie Kooy. http://www.evan-roth.com/work/solitaire-exe/

Is your child texting about plums in the icebox? Know the signs.

LOL - Letter of lament
GTFO - Got the fridge open
NP - Nice plums
IDC - Icebox deliciously cold
BTW - Breakfast totally wrecked
WCW - William Carlos Williams

@djsundog Not quite the same thing, but the Makermobile runs classes for kids and travels around British Columbia: http://www.makermobile.org

@djsundog has a New Year's 1997 playlist going, and it has both #1 Crush by Garbage and Lovefool by The Cardigans which reminded me of how much I've always genuinely liked the Romeo+Juliet soundtrack.

This article about the last of the polio survivors who still use iron lungs is a powerful look at history, and a strong case for vaccination and herd immunity. https://gizmodo.com/the-last-of-the-iron-lungs-1819079169

http://radiooooo.com is fantastic - choose a place and a decade, and it'll play randomized tracks for you. The world map interface is fun, too.