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Micro-post #47: International Yoga Day
Yoga is one of those things I have a passing interest in so to acknowledge it being International Yoga Day , here are some fun things to...

Alex Bemish
Jun 211 min read
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Micro-post #46: A video about the humble Graham cracker (TEDEd)
Kudos to those Girl Scouts who re-configured that psycho Sylvester Graham 's bland crackers into s'mores ...

Alex Bemish
Jun 181 min read
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![Micro-post #45: The Homophile Movement in the USA before Stonewall [Pride Month 2025 #6]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LP33o5IoqWw/maxresdefault.jpg)
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Micro-post #45: The Homophile Movement in the USA before Stonewall [Pride Month 2025 #6]
A thing to always remember about Pride Month is that while Stonewall is often the "ground zero" for queer rights, it fits in a much...

Alex Bemish
Jun 181 min read
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Micro-post #44: International Sushi Day
In a bright spot amongst all the shit , today's International Sushi Day ! So grab your favorite maki rolls and/or nigiri (eating mine...

Alex Bemish
Jun 181 min read
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Micro-post #43: A video about the long-lost P-Funk cartoons
Overton Loyd's art is always distinct and wild , which helped make the P-Funk mythos all the more memorable. I watched this video from...

Alex Bemish
Jun 171 min read
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Micro-post #42: Quote from Stanley Kubrick on chess
"You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is...

Alex Bemish
Jun 131 min read
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Micro-post #41: A video essay about a creepy pioneering work of stop-motion animation
Fun things I learned from this Nerd With Microphone video about animator Ladislas Starevich 's 1937 movie The Tale of the Fox : 1.) The...

Alex Bemish
Jun 121 min read
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![Micro-post #40: Drag in the U.S. Military during WWII [Pride Month 2025 #5]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oNmm0MqnNHM/maxresdefault.jpg)
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Micro-post #40: Drag in the U.S. Military during WWII [Pride Month 2025 #5]
Drag has a long history with how soldiers blow off steam while waiting for the fighting to start. It's also been long-tied to queer...

Alex Bemish
Jun 121 min read
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Micro-post #39: Brian Wilson (1942-2025)
I grew up with The Beach Boys on the radio during car rides to Virginia Beach in the 1990s, so finding out about Brian Wilson's death is...

Alex Bemish
Jun 111 min read
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![Micro-post #38: The Imagist Amy Lowell [Pride Month 2025 #4]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/25f89c_608e6308fc154310b38cfa079cd4a04f~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/25f89c_608e6308fc154310b38cfa079cd4a04f~mv2.webp)
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Micro-post #38: The Imagist Amy Lowell [Pride Month 2025 #4]
A poet I've known about for a while, Amy Lowell is both well-known and not known enough. Since she's famous for drawing from her...

Alex Bemish
Jun 111 min read
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Micro-post #37: The weird and wonderful platypus (SciShow)
How can anyone not like platypuses? They lay eggs even though they're mammals, they can fend for themselves with huge spurs, and their...

Alex Bemish
Jun 101 min read
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Micro-post #36: My favorite Steely Dan albums
While I shared Aja (1977) as my Album of the Day for this morning's journal entry , I also mentioned it's not my absolute favorite....

Alex Bemish
Jun 101 min read
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Micro-post #35: Sly Stone (1943-2025)
Sly Stone died today at 82. All the Sly & The Family Stone albums are fantastic but their Woodstock performance is my favorite (they...

Alex Bemish
Jun 91 min read
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Micro-post #34: "The Hell of the North" (the Paris-Roubaix race)
Cycling is one of those sports up there with cricket and F1 that the rest of the world goes crazy for but is generally ignored by us...

Alex Bemish
Jun 91 min read
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Micro-post #33: National Geographic video about D-Day
While I've been more focused on other things, I also want to take a moment to acknowledge that today is the 81st anniversary of D-Day (...

Alex Bemish
Jun 61 min read
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![Micro-post #32: Julie d' Aubigny, queer icon [Pride Month 2025 #3]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r0XFug0yc2A/maxresdefault.jpg)
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Micro-post #32: Julie d' Aubigny, queer icon [Pride Month 2025 #3]
For some good ol' queer swashbuckling fun, here's a few videos about one of the coolest women in history, the French opera singer Julie...

Alex Bemish
Jun 61 min read
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Micro-post #31: The Mysteries of Chess Boxing
Chess boxing is one of those weird things I've come across here and there throughout the years, so I finally looked into some videos and...

Alex Bemish
Jun 51 min read
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Micro-post #30: National Cheese Day!
Today was apparently National Cheese Day but also only one of many cheese days . Regardless of whether this was the superior Cheese Day,...

Alex Bemish
Jun 41 min read
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![Micro-post #29: Videos about Nathan Lane's Broadway career [Pride Month 2025 #1]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IfiqWKM2npU/hqdefault.jpg)
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Micro-post #29: Videos about Nathan Lane's Broadway career [Pride Month 2025 #1]
I asked my spouse - a Queer both personally and professionally - what some good post topics for Pride Month could include. They...

Alex Bemish
Jun 41 min read
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Micro-post #28: The original tale of Stede Bonnett, the Gentleman Pirate
One of the best aspects about public domain is that people find ways to gather cool things and spruce them up to showcase them in...

Alex Bemish
Jun 424 min read
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