Erin Alberty

My kid just caught me dancing to Primus & ran away from me out of embarrassment as she described my style as: "Kangaroo break dancing plus irish jig." And, yes, she is 100 percent correct.

A fellow Salt Lake County haunter gave me this real-life scythe for my Halloween display!

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Centipede button cover IG: @vesperto Żaneta Fellmann, Kilmarnock, UK

Six months ago:

The problem with society is nobody wants to be a ham for Halloween anymore

Photography by Elliot McGucken

I can't even trust AI to tell a decent photo from a terrible one. My phone thinks it can, but it keeps choosing pictures where one person's eyes are closed and the other's mouth is half-open — while burying the one where everyone looks lovely!

I saw 2 rhinos fight at Etosha, and there was NOTHING like this anger. They even had rules, with a pausa de hidratacion, and a clear submission & departure. No attempt to injure; just shoving. I guess they can tell when it's just business & when it's time for the horn. youtube.com/shorts/qjDWF...

The jokes write themselves tbh

"He only did this because people protested." Yes. Exactly. Proving protest works AND people can evolve.

I’m just saying Billie Joe MacAllister should’ve survived that jump.

This is the face of a man who knows he is about to become a meme.

THE 1998 CADILLAC GOPHEARSE IS FOR SALE ONLY 3,000 BUCKS

We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.

HELLO MY BABY HELLO MY DARLIN HELLO MY RAGTIME GAAAL

Sunrise over the Faroe Islands.

Neither Trump nor his wife are in attendance at this year’s ceremony, notwithstanding the AP photo editor’s bullshit.

The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.

When Gemini sounds like Fox News. By the way I don’t use this crap. I entered the question on Google and now the default is this AI nonsense

YAY DADA ZADDY

Utah software engineer/influencer/recent Pentagon hire DataRepublican says her socialist tracker is a "personal project." Critics are skeptical that her undisclosed Defense role is actually separate from her personal projects. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

you can always tell when all the Harvard/Yale/Princeton guys in the media have decided to talk about something

As Utah's late sunsets slowly come earlier, it's worth weighing whether they'll keep their appeal as summer temps get hotter. Daylight Saving Time puts us about about 90 minutes out of whack with a "normal" day, based on solar noon. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

it is incredibly noticeable here that the pretty much explicit position of cottle is “black people’s opinions don’t count, they need to accept what Real America says”

Monte, whose gourmet tasting menus are served next to a fire extinguisher store on an industrial street in South Salt Lake, has earned Utah's first Michelin star. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

Holy shit.

I am very glad I ignored my reflex of “79 posts in a thread? Nooo…” and read this. I hope you also do that.

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

Dolly broke me in early to her raucous self deprecating sense of humor when we began steel magnolias rehearsals  i asked her - how long does it take to do a hair do like yours? Dolly - no idea, i’m never there when they do it! i started taking Dolly-isms notes on the back of my script after that

It feels scary hot outside right now.

I once worked at a university that gutted an entire (very popular and useful) learning center and replaced it with two guys who would teach you how to host blogs. every student had to have a blog. Every single one. Our syllabus had to mention blogs. We had to teach WITH blogs.

More Utah parents are refusing vaccines, with kindergarten exemptions spiking again as kids returned to school last year amid a measles outbreak In some parts of the state, kindergarteners' polio vaccine coverage has also fallen below herd immunity levels. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

While not part of their usual behaviour, bats can swim, especially in stressful situations if the need arises. And they are indeed surprisingly good at it. Original post

Is AI convincing seniors to stop taking their meds? Worrying deep dive by Cody Sumter, who monitored a slopiverse of 150 medical advice YouTube channels for months as they put out daily videos of dangerous advice, with millions of views. cc @mantzarlis.com codysumter.substack.com/p/this-is-me...