Notices by 🥥 We Built This City 🌴 (webuiltthiscity@sutrofan.com)

Can you please give me a like if you can see this? I'm wondering if I can't see everyone else because they can't see me either.

Things I didn’t expect to see in the Olympics opening ceremony:

Snoop Dogg
A gender-fluid threesome
Minions
BMX bike tricks
Torch carried by a Ring Wraith
A robot horse

@ryanhoulihan @dmnelson I’ve had it explained to me multiple times and I still just cannot understand how they work,but I trust the science.

I don’t live near Texas, but I subscribe to the @TexasObserver because they produce excellent reporting on stories with national impact that are worth reading anywhere in the US — not just TX. This investigative piece on prison labor is a great example: https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-prison-plantations/

If you want to let #TraderJoes know how you feel about anti-union activities, a very easy way to do so is go to the URL below (a feedback form). I entered my name, local store (search my zipcode) and the message, “I love my local Trader Joe’s! And I will personally help organize a customer boycott if TJ’s continues to suppress union-related activities.” Took me 30 seconds. https://www.traderjoes.com/home/contact-us/local-tjs-feedback

Hey #SanFrancisco, SF Animal Care & Control desperately needs your towels and (non-fitted) sheets right now. To donate: https://www.glenparkassociation.org/towel-donations-for-shelter-animals/

@tchambers @lisamelton @activitypubblueskybridge I use both and like both for different reasons.

@ryanhoulihan Language usage changes over time. I’m still working on having it not feel awkward to use “they” for a single person, but my brain’s internal objections about grammar are much less important than addressing actual human beings in a way that makes them feel seen and acknowledged

Today's #whippets blog post: Enzo and Cricket waiting by the door for a their dog walker to arrive (2023) 🐕❤️ #DogsOfMastodon
https://rocketsnacks.tumblr.com/post/732907800277155840

Stolen from Alec Muffett on Threads, since nobody uses Threads. I really only use Bluesky and Mastodon, I like both for different reasons. Anyone who says Mastodon is “boring” hasn’t found the right people to follow, but I agree that can be challenging. https://www.threads.net/@alecmuffett/post/CwXFwq9IXnu/

I’m not sure why this is in the London Review of Books (or maybe I don’t understand what the LRB is for), but if you love the writing of #PatriciaLockwood As much as I do, this piece is just a hilarious, lovely, gem: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n04/patricia-lockwood/diary