Don't miss this gem of a primer by @bertoscalese.bsky.social! "In plain English, the Head of the Charles Regatta means "the three-mile boat race on the Charles River." www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

For everyone with a love/hate/love/hate/dammit! Why?!/ relationship with the Sox, this essay by my friend @bertoscalese.bsky.social is for you: ⚾️ www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

A relationship with the Red Sox ... it's complicated. Amazing piece via @bertoscalese.bsky.social @wbur.org www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

Meet the @wbur.org 2025 Makers, 10 artists of color foregrounding the environment — its beauty and its fragility — in their work.

I quit on the Red Sox after they traded Mookie Betts. Now I’m getting that old feeling again, but getting back together with the Sox is harder than it seems. So I wrote the team a letter:

Hundreds of people have been held at the Burlington ICE field office - a place not meant for overnight stays @wbur.org @miriamwasser.bsky.social and data crunched by @twallack.bsky.social @bertoscalese.bsky.social www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...

Unbelievably chaotic combination of fonts here

Whether you are among the people who hate it or you're among the people who are wrong, Boston's brutalist City Hall is now a historic landmark. Check this out from @bertoscalese.bsky.social: www.wbur.org/news/2025/01...

Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Me: I will just relax for a few minutes by playing a mindless game on my phone Phone: Cool, every 90 seconds you will just need to watch a little animated snuff film featuring a mother and child freezing to death, or a king slowly being crushed against a spiky wall by piles of falling rubble

Begging the legacy media to hire journalists who have logged on just once in their life

I gave up on the Red Sox after the Mookie trade. In their place, I started watching the Premiere League and ended up following Tottenham. It’s like the part of my brain that interprets pain must always be fed.

Water your real Christmas tree.

Here are five things to know about the arrest and charges filed against Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson.

I once took a flight to DC that had to fly around a storm, which added like 90 minutes of in-air time. So I pretty much know what these two are going through

I've updated the Boston News and Journalists Starter Pack again; we're close to maxing this pack out! And if you would rather follow a list, I've made on of those too! Starter park: go.bsky.app/DcD4DaT Boston Journos list: bsky.app/profile/bert...

The lone state senator to block a vote this week on a compromise bill that would raise taxes on Boston commercial property owners received a rush of campaign donations from real estate interests over the past two months, public records show.

Massive away win for the little fella.

Trump made big gains in New Bedford in the recent election, a storied working-class city which overwhelmingly supported Biden just four years ago. Fishermen say they feel the Democratic party has forgotten them.

The sole reason Gen-Xers will live to be 100…

Sleep well Darth we will remember the doggos are innocent of all crimes until you return. And after you return.

Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots. To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.

"Shoes of sturdy leather were to be had for the low, low sum of a single raccoon’s pelt, and milking cow discounts did flood with joye anyone able to parse the true meaning of 'half-off.'"

Bears blow time management before firing guy infamous for blowing time management

Reviewing our first year of data about e-bikes in the Bluebikes public bike share system. e-bikes get used much more frequently and people travel farther on them. Those things are workhorses.

Try to play the role and the whole turkey crew will act up

Almost 150,000 fewer people voted in this year's presidential election in Massachusetts compared to 2020's race.

this does raise some very interesting questions

BlueSky is a Necco chamber.

“Sports ball” and “I don’t even own a TV” are virtue signaling for virtues that suck

Harvard Square in the 90s

This is one of those videos that you could work on forever, but suddenly it felt very important to make it, so I finally did: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Pn...

A chart done right brings so much value to a reader. This thread is great, and it even comes with a bonus thread about maps!

If you’re an undercover cop let me know in the replies so I can add you to the undercover cops starter pack 👮👮‍♂️🕵️‍♂️

Captain: I'm really nervous about giving this speech. Sun, rubbing his shoulders: Don't worry, big guy. You got this.

The champs and the President.

Gosh, you mean a very bad single algorithm that was basically suppressing links and news wasn't such a good idea? Who knew?

When I say Massachusetts State Police, what do you think?' The latest “Commonwealth Confidential” Has the Karen Read trial & death of Enrique Delgado-Garcia impacted how the public views the MSP? I hit the streets to find out. @NBC10Boston youtu.be/FheOQACdsPw?...

I paid for one of the tweet deleting services, and my tweets are slowly disappearing from oldest to newest. It's like my own private Eternal Sunshine

POV: You are Frodo approaching Sauron

This comes 51 years after the terrible Great Fire of Chelsea in 1973. I remember my parents talking about it any time they toted me and my sister to the Mystic Mall (now Market Basket), which was built in the burned area.

Man walks into an ancient Greek tailors with a pair of ripped trousers. Tailor says, "Euripides?" Man says, "Yeah. Eumenides?"

I’ve added dozens of new profiles to the Boston news and journalists starter pack just in the past week. Check it out and let me know if I’ve missed anyone (which I almost certainly have!)

I get to edit @miriamwasser.bsky.social pretty often, and I always learn something when I do. Give her explainer on the new Mass. environmental bill a read.

Pleased to announce I have taught a major international artist about the great Boston pastime of “Storrowing.” He is fascinated. “Why don’t you fix the bridges?” He asked. Then there would be no more Storrowing,”I explained.

Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

Hi good people of Bluesky! Just made a starter pack of our staffers, and a list. Both still growing as more people in the newsroom sign up. Starter pack: go.bsky.app/Q3Ai8Za List: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Reminder for corporate folks: It’s oh-crap-I-haven’t-spent-my-annual-learning-stipend season — and most companies allow you to use your learning budget on newspaper/newsletter subscriptions. Good opportunity to support (and expand your access to) independent journalism.