Tipping Is Everywhere and Consumers Are Fed Up. — WSJ https://www.wsj.com/business/hospitality/tipping-is-everywhere-and-consumers-are-fed-up-heres-how-some-are-coping-c8a8943e?st=XSYUWg&mod=1440&user_id=67d655ff90d9d0f0140c929e

The theory and history of time travel — I’ll remind myself tomorrow to read this yesterday. https://join1440.com/topics/time-travel

Shot from the hip! A street level view of 1970s New York – in pictures — Inspires me to take a lot more random, sloppy street photos and sort them out later. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/apr/24/shot-from-the-hip-a-street-level-view-of-1970s-new-york-in-pictures

Trump and his Repubican supporters are openly taking bribes, arresting judges whose actions they don’t like, building registries of Jews and autistic people, threatening to deport American citizens, some born here, putting people in concentration camps, dismantling America’s scientific and economic leadership, rewriting American history to erase Black contributions, and that’s just some damage done in their first three months. Gosh, I can’t wait to see what they get up to in May!

Mitchellaneous Vol. LI: Eight things I found on the Internet.: https://mitchw.blog/2025/04/25/mitchellaneous-vol-li-eight-things.html

Here’s something I saw walking the dog this morning. The flowers are coming in at the park. The goslings are not far behind.

Responding to Trump, America’s allies are rushing to cut deals with China and remilitarizing, says Ian Welsh. “Even Japan, the most loyal of vassals, has noted that you can’t make a deal with Trump, because blackmailers always come back for more.” The outcome will be ugly for the U.S. and for Americans. https://www.ianwelsh.net/trump-has-made-it-impossible-for-america-to-resist-china/