it's sonic the clayhog

Six years ago, I brought this little sweet potato home. Happy #GotchaDay Miss Sammy!

I love this. Using #Civictech to help the public follow and influence policy. #Democracy thrives when government is transparent and accountable. We should strive for this at every level, from local to global and everything in between.

While being as spoiler-free as possible, I’m just going to say that if I were in the Pluribus universe I would definitely be asking for a list of all of the people who ever had a crush on me.

Sweet girl Sammy waiting for the bus with me earlier (we went to Polkadog, so she was doubly happy).

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

I moved back here thinking Sammy would love getting to play in the snow more days than she got to in Seattle and… it really hasn’t been snowing

I’ve been getting a huge influx of spam the past couple of weeks, which is annoying enough on its own, but it’s infuriating me how many of these calls, texts, and emails are imitating government benefits including SNAP and heating payment relief. Just preying on people who already can’t afford it.

Is the FIFA thing in part because he kept stealing teams’ trophies and they wanted to stop that from happening again?

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991. From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

this is... well, I mean, I guess I'm glad the Ellisons aren't getting it, but woof the entertainment landscape is getting bleak

When you're startled awake by the wind knocking over the recycling bins.

Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

I think we just need a picture of puppy Sammy with a nose full of dirt right now

Trump may have accidentally pardoned the pipe bomb guy?

The "R" word is a revived slur for the newly shameless. My pitch for not using it ever. A quick and dirty thread: 🧵

Gov. Healey signs new law placing eviction moratorium on Mass. federal employees for nonpayment through Jan. 2026. Read more here: https://loom.ly/tlEWn1s #evictionmoratorium #governmentshutdown #actsof2025 #mapoli

Was going to watch Pluribus and then realized to my disappointment that the episode doesn't come out until tomorrow night

I think we just need a picture of puppy Sammy with a nose full of dirt right now

I was right he did need a top hat.

I'm at the combination

I love when the commentators are like "How are they gonna solve Frankel??" #PWHL

“Delaying the first hepatitis B vaccine dose beyond the newborn period introduces risks that have lifelong detrimental consequences and no measurable health benefit.” Important and timely piece by an amazing team - Mike Abers, Angela Ulrich, & Rochelle Walensky. 👏👏 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Seattle has the 4th largest Somali population of any city in the world-- behind Mogadishu, Minneapolis/St Paul, & somewhere in Michigan (Dearborn?). My neighborhood has a big Somali community. Think I'm gonna go stand on a street corner with the sign "I ❤️ my Somali neighbors"

LinkedIn, you’re grounded from sending me push notifications

The boomers taught the girls feminism but not the boys and here we are and now shitty people say the answer is to roll back feminism. I hate it so much.

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

I live by the end of the Orange Line, and for the first time ever, the lights that indicate which of the two parked trains will leave next lied to me. Waited on the other (with other people) as the other train left, then waited some more. I think this calls for an extension of the holiday weekend.

In high school I had a grocery store job that had a 45 minute Christmas playlist. On one of my longer Saturday shifts, I had to hear this cursed song 10-11 times. I still have a Pavlovian-esque response to it of rage.

In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime." n.pr/4pFYoun

I feel nuts every day that the Trump administration has decided "It's not a war crime if you do it to a boat!" and so far there have been no consequences for that decision.

This was a great example and also the callout that the wonky way it was trying at first may have had accessibility challenges (even if it rendered appropriately to a sighted viewer) is worth emphasizing.

Adopts “Your Song” as party anthem

Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates. Thread [1/9]

I understand that some people think Pluribus is too slow (honestly, welcome to Vince Gilligan) but I cannot overstate how much I am enjoying the detective adventures of the world's grouchiest lesbian

Me Too Me Furious

Both the Boston Fleet and Boston Bruins won today. Good day for Boston hockey. #PWHL #NHL

Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce" Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI

The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

My cousin brought this board game (Magical Athlete) to Thanksgiving and it was quite fun! Easy for people to pick up/understand, fairly quick gameplay, and quirky art boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45...

For context: Jack served as head of the Office of Legal Counsel during the Bush administration. He’s widely regarded—especially in conservative legal circles—as a leading authority on executive power. The fact that he’s expressing this view in such stark terms is significant.

We live in a time when you can be blown up because you “might” be carrying drugs… But if you’ve been convicted of trafficking drugs you get a full Presidential pardon.

A massive popular gathering is taking place in Martyrs’ Square in #Latakia, affirming the unity of the #Syrian people in all their components and rejecting all calls for partition or separation.

Beyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."

Cards Against Humanity is doing this crazy thing again www.99percentoffsale.com

One of my favorite Wikipedia tables documents how each year's Gävlebock met its maker en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A4...

Happy Gävlebocken season! Every year since 1966, Gävle, Sweden, has erected a massive version of Scandinavia's traditional straw Yule goat. It is so attractive to vandals—particularly arsonists—that in the previous 59 years, only 17 goats have survived fully intact. Good luck in 2025, Gävlebocken!

Plate picture plus pup who wanted my plate picture (she did get some turkey…)