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@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-11-06 17:52:12

37 yrs ago #OTD my band played the #Subterranean Records Showcase at The Oasis at 11th & Folsom in #SF
There were Tupper Upper drink specials named after the reclusive label head Steve at a club that had a swimming pool and I rec…

@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-11-05 22:35:06

#WhereIWuz
37 years ago #OTD I saw:
Tooth And Nail / Eskimo
at Klub Komotion
in San Francisco
all ages gig
$5 at the door.
flyer image courtesy Aaron Cometbus Punk and Underground Press Collection, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Eskimo flyer from 1988
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2025-10-31 12:20:50

De compagnie van Frans Banninck Cocq
🎗️
📷 #OTD 2024

De Nachtwacht van Rembrandt van Rijn (figuren van een schutterscompagnie met sjerpen) op de achtergrond, op de voorgrond op de rug gezien bezoekers met schuine banden van tassen over hun rug.
@Defiance@sfba.social
2025-09-30 03:36:21

Brigitte Bardot was born on this day in 1934. She’s 91!
Here she is singing a duet with Serge Gainsbourg in a comic strip setting with words of the song written on balloons. Very French. Very 60s.
#music #otd

Mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck was born #OTD in 1942.
She is known for her work on PDEs, calculus of variations, topology, and gauge theory, and was the second woman (after Emmy Noether!) to give the plenary lecture to the International Congress of Mathematicians.

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-10-28 01:24:38

60 years ago #OTD (or tomorrow) #comet #IkeyaSeki showed a dramatic tail: solarviews.com/cap/comet/ikeya - and this chemical 'raw' picture proves it beyond doubt ... while nowadays creepy 'astrophotographers' past high-end stacks of the faint tails of comet Lemmon into landscape pictures creating similar "photographs" which then get likes galore. Sigh ...

63 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962,
Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published.
It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT
and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry.
Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy.
#otd #history 🗃️

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-08-26 01:15:40

35 years ago #OTD the #Hubble Space Telescope with its mishappen optics took this image of #Saturn - which could be sharpened a lot mathematically (as the paper articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/fu later described) since the object was so bright. It's being said that this one image was used by NASA to convince key U.S. politicians that the broken satellite still had some life in it ... and so it was, for 35 years now!

@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2025-08-25 15:06:38

#OTD in 2007 op de Domtoren, richting station #Utrecht CS. Ter vergelijking een latere foto (2 juni 2022 ter gelegenheid van 900 jaar stadsrechten)

Zicht op gebouwen vanaf een hoog punt (Domtoren)
Zicht op gebouwen vanaf een hoog punt (Domtoren). Zelfde kant als andere foto, nu duidelijk meer hoogbouw.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-10-24 16:35:41

30 years ago #OTD I was in #India to observe a Total #SolarEclipse lasting under a minute in Neem Ka Thana, Rajasthan: my report on the whole trip to this amazing country - written originally for an English magazine - can be found at geocities.restorativland.org/C while the picture here was taken by Voyto Rušin at the same observing camp and processed by Miloslav Druckmüller: zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/eclips

@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2025-08-24 10:23:22

#OTD 2014: spending the night at the #Bauhaus in Dessau

Light shines from inside through a glass facade. Each room has a different light color. The text “bauhaus” is written on the facade.
@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-10-26 17:42:18

Fifty Fgn Yrs Ago Twas 2nd of 2 BIG nights with #EltonJohn added by popular demand at #DodgerStadium #OTD in 1975

Brown Dirt Cowboys Need Not Apply as


IN CONCERT
Elton John
Joe Walsh
Dan Fogelberg 
Saturday 25,1975 —— and —— Sunday, October 26, 1975
Dodger Stadium
Elton in Dodger Blues plus ticket stub scan
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-10-20 22:47:45

60 years ago #OTD #comet #IkeyaSeki reached perihelion, -10 mag., was visible in daylight and showed a spectacular tail in the following weeks: groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/ and astronomy.com/today-in-the-his and noirlab.edu/public/images/noao

@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-10-24 18:21:49

Where I Wuz 41 Years Ago #OTD Tonight:
#BigBlack at #DCSpace
Oct 24, 1984: Washington, DC
Probably my first time seeing the scrawny yet still freakishly imposing Albini backed by his drum machine "Roland" , wi…

[From chicago |
BIG BLACK 
DC SPACE 

WEDS OCT 24
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-09-14 13:47:50

Ten years (!) ago #OTD the first - and shockingly clear - #GravitationalWave signal was seen by the two LIGO detectors ... rumors flew immediately but the official announcement came only in February 2016: telescoper.blog/2025/09/14/a-d and a lot more in ligo.org/wp-content/uploads/20 plus a long article from back then in cplberry.com/2016/02/11/gw1509 and a 1-1/2-hour documentary at youtube.com/watch?v=dX4vCNi544w

@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2025-10-10 07:14:30

#OTD: 13 years ago, I visited the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart.
It is one of Germany's temples to “das Auto”. Architectural gems, this one is by UN Studio.

Rounded building with aluminum facade and glass. In front of the building, maple trees with red autumn leaves.
Rounded building with aluminum facade and glass. In front of the building, maple trees with red autumn leaves.
Rounded building with aluminum facade and glass. In front of the building, maple trees with red autumn leaves.
Interior view: various vehicles on display, including a delivery van with the text ‘zero emission’
@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-10-15 13:44:48

#OTD in 1988 (37 yrs ago!) in the peace sign shaped park / traffic circle at the center of sleepy #Cotati #California, a free outdoor show featured Sam Andrew of Big Brother & The Holding Co with two upstart bands opening :

a review...

The Bedlam Rovers, a seven-picce, sometimes
Irish sounding rock and roll band, open the show at La
Plaza under the sun’s warm rays and the Cotati police
department's watchful eyes.

The grass has dried out completely since the latest
rain. This free outdoor concert on Saturday, Oct. 15, is
plut on by Xcntrex.

Were it not for the mandolin, flute and violin com-
plementing the band’s sound, the Bedlam Rovers
would present an ordingary line-up as rock bands go:
drums, bass, guitar an…
Primus, Bedlam Rovers & Sam Andrew Quartet in Cotati Oct 15 1988
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2025-10-08 07:14:44

#OTD 4 years ago.

Flower garden in front of a yellow castle. Cloudy sky with an orange glow.
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2025-09-08 14:38:10

This is a picture I took on this exact day 14 years ago. It shows compact electric vehicles for shared mobility in Berlin, Germany. The future was here — where did it go?
#OTD #EV

Two Citroën C-Zero compact electric vehicles (rebranded Mitsubishi i-MiEVs) from the Deutsche Bahn car-sharing scheme are parked next to a blue charging station. In the background is a view of a Berlin street.
@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-10-14 00:34:00

#ClevelandRocks
#OTD in 1973 For $6 At The Door with Mott The Hoople & #Aerosmith at the 2,000 capacity John Carroll Jesuit college gym . If I'm not mistaken, school alum and future




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@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-10-28 00:34:01

#OTD in 1992, I was at a free lunchtime gig on #SproulPlaza at #UCBerkeley diggin #Devo .
I was down in the pit just below the stage with my …

@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-09-27 06:16:37

44 Years Ago Tonight
#TheWaitresses from Ohio
#BerkeleySquare on University
#BerkeleyCA #OTD 1981
1st Ever Sho…

@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-10-23 18:20:53

Where I Wuz #OTD 1993
32 years ago
#Rancid / #MachineHead
#BerkeleySquare

RANCIID
MACHINE HEAD 
voodoo GLOW SKULLS
SAT. OCT 23
1333 UNIVERSITY AVE.
@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-10-20 22:08:19

Where Wuz #OTD Oct 20, 1988
Boner Records Showcase
Bomb / #SteelpoleBathtub
at #CoveredWagon #SanFrancisco

@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-10-19 20:46:25

Where I Wuz #OTD 1990
putting on a #ShredOfDignity Skate Rock show at SF Women's Building with #MTX and teenage opening band from #LeastBay

SAN FRANcISCO
WOMEN'S BLDG,
= UPCOMING SHows =

FRIDAY, OCT, 19+,

MR. T EXPERIENCE 5

CREAMERS |3

BAD TowN BOYS |=
...GREENDAY
-------------------------------
FRIDAY , NOV. 2N0

MudwiIMN

SAT Howby

VALERIE  STADLER
TBA.

"3543 18 th ST,
BTwN, VALENCGIA € GUERRERD
@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-09-22 03:46:00

#FrankSinatra #Junior #ShowBiz #WaltWhitman Theater #OTD


 IN PERSON

* STAGE-SCREEN SHOW



SAT SUN. SEPT. 21.22 WALT WHITMAN :


x ON SCREEN 
DEAN MARTIN-ROCK HUDSON 
 in “SHOW DOWN"
@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-10-17 12:09:02

#OTD #LAWeekly's #NewWave Music Album Chart for this week in 1981...
Early 80's faves including #BowWowWow at #1, U2 's

The following are the best-selling New Wave
records in the L.A. area other than those LPs
which have made the Top 30 chart. (Compiled
by the L.A. Weekly staff)
1. See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your
Gang, Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape
Crazy! (LP)
Bow Wow Wow (RCA)
2. Still (LP)
Joy Dwision (Factory Import
3. October (LP)
U-2 (Island)
4. Mony Mony (45)
Billy Idol [Chrysahs)
5. Absolute Beginners (45)
Jam (Polydor)
6. Louie Louie (45)
Black Flag 1SST/Posh Boy)
7. Joan of Arc (EP)
Orchestral Manoeu…
@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-10-12 21:41:53

#WhereIWuz #OTD 30 yrs ago today
#Warfield in SF
#SoulAsylum let their played their

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12
DOORS 7/ SHOW 8