Picked up some locally published zines at the local specialty food shop. Love the title.

I don't watch college football often, but when I do one of my favorite parts is seeing the camera pan to the sad fans of the losing team

Below is a link to the great article by Phil Klay that Tom Nichols and Alex Witt are discussing. @philklay.bsky.social @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

The number of convicted criminals in immigration detention is about 1.8x what it was when Trump took office. The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x** open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)

One of the best city perks is regular walkable wine shop wine tastings

Let's check in on Mt. Washington tonight...

Punt stevia into the sun

If you haven’t read this yet, you should.

My go-to credit card charged me a late fee. The benefits were meh. I asked them to waive the fee, and they wouldn't. I waited a month and asked again. Apparently this type of thing is going around the industry: www.reddit.com/r/amex/comme...

NIL inequities creates the need for a college sports luxury tax. Every kid who doesn’t get recruited to their choice schools is going to look for down-market playing opportunities and then transfer out. That’s not college. That mini-pro.

I think the people most likely to complain about snow removal almost never pick up a shovel.

Feels strange to not have Jimmy Wales in my inbox this year.

Fastastic when the school district has a snow day and the local indoor arena that everyone drives to has a "drop-in" kids day.

Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

It's hard to comprehend a $660M high school for 2400 students.

Keene, NH has been replacing their stop-lighted intersections with roundabouts, resulting in big reductions in pollution, accidents & injuries, and costs. “Slowly moving is better than waiting at a light any day.” [nytimes.com]

Tonight's NYG (2-10) at NE (10-2) is more of a tossup than next week's PIT (6-6) vs BAL (6-6) according to ESPN analytics.

The only way I can make sense of the Rs cruel ICE strategy is that they think the public will rejoice when they claim it helped lower real estate prices

Garbage Soup. Unfortunate name for a potentially delicious meal.

Just caught this OTA tonight. Fascinating. Also André Rieu is quite an entertainer.

It's amazing how so many billionaires - who have WAY more money than they could possibly need in 500 lifetimes - REALLY want to avoid paying small slivers of tax money to benefit a common good like social safety services for less fortunate countrymen within the society that made them billionaires.

Watch the video on this page

They’re hiding cameras in traffic barrels to track and monitor us

1770s barn that went up on Thanksgiving in Sandisfield

Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and the SS Peleus. Fascinating history.

Oy

We have these amazingly taxable completely selfish transportation methods but no one politically adept enough to appropriately tax them.

Hot tickets! lol

I'm kinda surprised (and disappointed) that there doesn't appear to be a design-and-serve-custom-map-tiles as a service option out there.

Age distribution for the last 3 census years. I find this fascinating because 1. Our olds are the fastest growing segment of the population 2. Our olds distribution still decreases at the same rate, just later.

Fire Departments should be renamed to Medical Aid departments.

It is crazy that the B-52 bomber was last built in 1963 (62 years ago!), and the military is still actively using them in missions and plans to continue using them for the next 25 years.

The problem isn't the _ideals_ of communism or socialism, it's that checks and balances did not prevent the funneling of power and resources to a select few. Democracy can have the same problem.

Ds need to be repeating simple shit: "Rs are cutting medical research that benefits us all to give the top 1% a tax break." “Rs are cutting food assistance so the top 1% can have a tax break.” “Rs are cutting public transit investment so the top 1% can have a tax break.”

I find myself liking Reddit less since they let people hide their comment histories

One of my favorite things is hearing the faint sound of geese, looking up and seeing hundreds of geese flying super high in the sky.

THE INTERNET WOULD BE SO MUCH BETTER IF EVERYONE HOSTED THEIR OWN RSS AND ICALENDARs

Made a giant mistake and upgraded my iPhone SE (2020) to iOS26. Dumb dumb dumb. Battery stuck perpetually at 1%. Phone restarts every 5 minutes.

Possibly the best motto to live by: Don't cheat. Just get better.

There's a UmassHoops forum I occasionally check out to see how the "MA Football fans" are trying to spin a winless season. Tonight one guy talking about how UMass just needs to invest in a stadium that will be the "premier venue in western Mass for outdoor concerts going forward". 🤡

I think there might be only one thing you can’t get away with lying about in politics: the prices people are paying for goods and services. The public knows what they pay.

Misguided to design our roads to fit fire trucks instead of designing our fire trucks to fit our roads.

Jamelle Bouie: “I’m gonna make a case to you that no matter what you’ve heard about the filibuster, you should want the filibuster to be sent to the ash bin of history.” [youtube.com]

In terms of Halloween candy, it drives me nuts how much extra plastic is used to make a 2-pack of wrapped Starburst and a 4-bear-pack of Haribo Gold Bears.

They should rename Facebook to ConspiracyTheoristBook

Judge rules that police images taken by Flock’s AI license plate-scanning cameras are public records that can be requested as part of normal public records requests

"'In mobility more than elsewhere, the central issue is supply rather than demand,' says the elected official, who assures that the municipality has 'massively amplified the supply in infrastructure.'"

I look at nytimes.com "above the fold" often to see the gist of their editorial mindset. Always interesting to see what floats to the top on the right side (culture?).

i am not anti-AI but i think people need to be clear eyed about what it means when we spend orders of magnitude more capital on orders of magnitude more applications that are obviously anti-social if not explicitly evil compared to the pro-social, liberatory, FALGSC style pitches