All I'm saying is the Boston pops fireworks spectacular (tm) is going off without a hitch besides the storm delay; Michelle wu has the mandate of heaven

Boston Pops 4th starting off with the Massachusetts poet laureate, this app would love the mood ("Massachusetts: A Song of Itself" by Regie Gibson)

The Globe is gimmick posting today (laudatory) apps.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/stor...

Now we appeal the Balogun suspension in the Northern District of Texas

I'm still not prepared for a good usmnt wtf

Lol that would've been the like third silliest goal this cup

Happy wet bulb temp reaching day

Mexico is not playing around damn

When I was young, my family moved in with friends/family, across state lines, every time my dad lost his job. These were people they knew back in Vietnam, hence the dispersion after the war

Tartan Army takeover of Boston is now complete

I'm also 5'8" and how this intersects with race is wild (CDC puts it well over the 95th percentile for asian women under 40, see stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/100...) Men sometimes get angry at my height, like I've violated some cosmic law by taking up space

I lucked out just yesterday with TSA, had a bunch of homemade vietnamese sa tế (sort of a chili oil). the officer went through my bag after it went through the scanner, found the jar (as well as actual chilis), swirled it around a bit, and went uh you can keep it I guess. Completely arbitrary lmao

I'm at San Diego airport and found out the Knicks won thanks to the new york bound flight area next to mine going wild, grats all

Happy May Day, happy AAPI heritage month, happy baseball season

We just about remember life before Phone, didn't go insane on 9/11, had a more or less fully developed brain when covid hit, and came into political consciousness with Obama.

I love the Boston Globe's travel section, the writers are all insane in a good way (he went in March!)

This is fake (on purpose, happy April fool's!), they're actually "short winged birds", which, I think they'd prefer to be ice ducks

Fellow Maldonians, today is the special election for the Prop 2.5 override! For a less than $30/month property tax increase for the average condo (and that's on the larger 1b number), we can maintain existing services. Polls close at 8 www.cityofmalden.org/1227/Proposi...

I came at this from the other direction, the only Protestants I knew growing up in socal/Oklahoma/Texas were the "Catholics aren't Christian" sort, which seemed wrong to me even as a Buddhist, but then I got to new england and there was none of that

The universe is smiling on me, I'm 2/2 on trains with new red line cars today

As a Buddhist who also doesn't drink this took me scrolling through all the replies and quotes to get lol My realtor gave me a bottle of...champagne? when I bought my condo and it's been sitting there to be used for something, eventually

As a lowly peon in industry in NLP with a background in linguistics and CS (and a masters in computational linguistics), one thing I’ve noticed with a lot of my cohort is that many started off thinking that statistical approaches to language were useful in conjunction with generative grammar…

Back in undergrad, I was on the board of our asian american student association and we were planning a food night and trying to theme it. I suggested rice and everyone was like surely there's something else we can do for the whole continent (it ended up being rice)

the single greatest demonstration of AI in human history is the fuzzy logic rice cooker

Are, are we back?

Not exactly my clusters lol but zooming out the closest big cluster is "machine learning researchers and AI scientists", think it's bc I follow so many "academic economists and development researchers" and authors/writers that I'm being pulled in those directions a bit too

Winning with exactly one touchdown is incredible shit lmao. At least half time was good and I got my taxes done

Siiiigh. At least I'm gonna get my taxes done

Only one who got the ball into the end zone was Bad Bunny

Awww yeah

You're supposed to catch it 😩

Okay this is an absurd number of draft kings ads already

Every year during the super bowl, I start on my taxes during the boring bits, I highly recommend because you get to be productive and watch the game/half time show/capitalism's greatest hits

Yes, a bit late perhaps, but we've gone to 5 Slices / Severe. No, won't be a blizzard, but the NWS is now predicting 18-20 for Boston, the very heart of the Greater French Toast Region. And the governor is heading to The Bunker! At least for a 12:30 p.m. press conference. bostonfrenchtoast.com

I’m seeking info on immigration lawyers in Boston - a friend of a friend was abducted by ICE in the area.

A decade ago for a linguistic typology class in undergrad, I did a deep dive on West Greenlandic/Kalaallisut. If anyone cares for some light reading describing its morphophonology in the context of other Inuit languages, you can read my final paper for the class here: 1drv.ms/b/c/65e01cf8...

Further proof that I'm too nerdy to live, my first thought was "Greenspan is still around?"

Someone decided to feed the Canada geese and ducks in the Fens, the reign of the birds begins now in Boston

what the fuck did I just wake up to

I couldn't fall asleep, checked a group chat, and well, not a fan

Not bad, 31 books in 2025 (titles in alt text). Like a third are book club books, bonus points if anyone can guess which lol From this set, I’ll rec Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, it’s a retelling of the end of Trujillo; if you like complicated lesbians, I’ll rec all of Baltasar’s novels

My friend's boiler went out yesterday evening on Christmas and she's across the country so I've been catsitting. I'll take any Xmas disaster stories while I wait for the boiler guy 😅

I feel like multiple PhD theses could be written on a) why are there so many covers of Last Christmas vs any other Christmas song specifically b) why that song seems disproportionately popular to play (in the US) in Asian establishments vs others

this is where being a non white new englander rules because I get to be a j crew wearing, education loving, emotionally avoidant reprobate while still getting my due culinary respect

I gather that the wokening is here

Lol mookie betts just gently shaded miguel rojas in the post game interview, "I wasn't expecting a homer!"

I don't think miguel rojas is gonna be able to enter Canada again safely after this

Condolences to Canada, congrats dodgers fans* and all who didn't have a heart attack, baseball is a wild ride, what a great series, mvp Yamamoto please *I'll cop to not being totally displeased since I was born in socal