Mass market paperback is the ideal format. Fits anywhere, weighs nothing, easy to hold and read in any setting.

Bluesky is so small that I muted one account on a local feed and half the posts disappeared.

Truly struggling to imagine a single less surprising revelation.

@chardsard.bsky.social now quick go find all the meme accounts so I can skip it and just engage with you

It is a beautiful fall day in Camberville today! Which means it's a great day to walk around adding banned books to Little Free Libraries for #BannedBooksWeek (It's probably nice enough where are you too!) Find ones near you here: littlefreelibrary.org/map/

I don't know how old this is, but I love that someone wanted to troll a ubiquitous local shitheel slumlord hard enough to pay for weather resistant stickers. Also, if you see this where you get them done? I'm in a shitty band and we need more merch. #somerville #mapoli

Welcome to America

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

We worked late tonight coming up with this handy pocket guide to send to NPR. It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Okay. Look. It's nowhere near the game-changer it was hyped as, but James Gunn's Superman is a) the most similar to reading a comic book a "comic book" movie has ever been, it's only missing the "see issue 19! -ed" bubbles. And b) the CG on that dog is better than all the CG in the entire MCU.

Also, they have Space Marine 2 for the PS5 at the library. You don't have to be smart to go to the library. You can be stoned as shit looking for colorful pew pew BOOM bullshit too.

An ICE agent unholstered his gun at a protest this morning. Please don't let yourself become numb to this.

imagining a pod save type guy huffily showing this article to a dealer in a dive bar bathroom at 1:56 AM to try and bring down the price of a bag

Oh no. Not the NYT. They've had such a good record recently. Oh dear. I wonder if they'll settle. Gosh what a pickle. 😐

hi, my guitar has gone missing, and i’m 100% sure i didn’t leave it behind. checked everywhere, no sign of it. it was briefly left unattended in shared storage so it may have been stolen if you see this guitar for sale in the somerville / boston area, pls notify me so i can get it back tysm

Least unpleasant thing I can post right now, blessedly unrelated to current events. Saved it from a container that was being thrown out.

this is bullshit. i am a jewish democrat. kirk was a white christian nationalist. it is not normal to lower the flag in pennsylvania for some random member of the political opposition who was raised in illinois, lived in arizona, and died in utah. stop making shit up

I'm honestly terrified of what the right will use this as justification for. They're itching to engage in violence against their enemies and this will give them the excuse to do so. This is why political violence is never acceptable. It just descends into uncontrollable chaos and more violence.

The Heights, the student paper at BC, published this yesterday:

🚨🚨🚨 Massachusetts…you’ve made it to the retribution map 😡 ICE Has Begun Immigration Crackdown in Massachusetts The operation includes Boston, whose mayor has drawn the administration’s ire for speaking out against the growing scale of its immigration actions. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u...

Last year, @willieburnleyjr.bsky.social and @votejivan.bsky.social passed home rule petitions in Somerville & Cambridge and, collaborating with other municipal & statewide electeds, pushed our legislature and governor to ban forced brokers’ fees-Now tthey’re working to lift the ban on rent control.

Thanks? They needed drones, helicopters, K9 units, state troopers, city cops, SWAT, feds and ATF to do what? Not find a teenager with a toy for over 24 hours? #lowell

#linkedin for me now consists entirely of chatbots asking me to apply to ghost job listings. So, you know, as useful as ever.

Just learned that when filming The Expanse, the script pages were color coded by the "G" that the scene took place in so the actors would have that as extra reinforcement and context for how they needed to *physically* act during the scene. That fucking RULES.

Hello, I'm a real life metaphor.

Thx @terrigerstein.bsky.social for quote & support “This ordinance is a great example of a local government stepping up to protect workers from extreme heat. Boston has shown great leadership in taking today’s action; other cities and states should follow

If you live in Medford MA just know that Clerkin, who is running for City Council here, worked on RFK’s presidential campaign ☠️ and that is why we all need to vote in 2025. Early voting starts in my city next week- do you know who is running and when to vote where you live?

Leaked Israeli intelligence confirms one of the highest civilian tolls in modern conflicts.

Incredible achievement, but the Boston Globe hasn't been doing itself any favors. Every other local news source(even the Herald) called our homegrown Nazis "far right" or "white nationalist" for years while the globe called them "free speech activists" until fairly recently.

Also, not for nothing but 9 days is a pretty small time span to come up with a big reduction in crime. It's like standing on a scale after dropping a deuce and immediately telling everyone you lost weight.

Here's a thread about how trans people can approach remaining informed of the news in a way that prioritizes pragmatism, self-care, and building resistance. It's based on what I'm doing personally. So, fyi, I'm more anxious than usual, but holding up substantially.

"I've been hilariously wrong about everything for a decade, anyway here's another banger that'll age great when RFK Jr gets his hands on the lancet"

In two years, 192 journalists have been killed in Palestine. Compare to the Iraq war from 2003-2011 in which 285 were killed over 7 years. That's just under 100 a year in Palestine vs 40 a year in Iraq. You can kinda tell when journalists are being targeted is all I'm saying.

"outside two things most of us lived through? This never happens except for this one year most of us lived through."

Man, the early 2000s was so dumb. Why is there a record scratch in Avril Lavigne's "Complicated?"

FEDERAL AGENT PULLED FROM THE FINAL STAGES OF A TEN YEAR INVESTIGATION TO CAPTURE THE KILLER RESPONSIBLE FOR THE "HOUSTON HATCHETMAN" SERIAL MURDERS TO PATROL TOURISTS ON THE NATIONAL MALL: hey. you can't vape there

These chuds don't even have the foresight to make sure their AI agrees with them ahead of time, so you can probably guess where "make sure nobody goes crazy or feeds themselves poison" falls on their priority list.

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

Thank fuck my dad's dead.

Sometimes a photo stops you in your tracks. Taken yesterday, Congressional Republicans sit smiling with the key architect of what major international agencies conclude is a genocide. To answer future generations’ question: this is how it was allowed to happen. (📸 Kobi Gideon, GPO)

I feel like the mayor is the only person from Somerville on bluesky who gets zero likes, comments, or reposts. Can you get ratioed by silence? Lol

Been saying for years, they don't wear the shit for themselves. They're wearing it *at* somebody.

Boston used to have a "Mount Whoredom" Mount Whoredom was torn down to fill in the area that is now Charles Street This is what they took from us RETVRN

I'm going to say this over and over: the Republic can survive, or the GOP can survive, but not both. There is no way the public can trust the GOP to respect the Bill of Rights after this administration.

And you can say, like I did, "well that's not me, I always scroll down and find an actual source" but...99% of your co-workers aren't. It's leading to the further enshittification of Bryce from sales support, who already sucks on wheels and won't shut up about crypto.

My mom is the biggest Hulk Hogan hater of us all. She just chimed in.

Wow they always go in threes: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Ozzy Osbourne, and Chuck Mangione and absolutely no one else

And how dare Israelis who commit genocide still claim to worry about the legacy of the Holocaust? You are the Nazis in this scenario. That you’ve betrayed the memory of your ancestors is your problem, your curse, your haunting. You did this to yourselves.