How Boston rolls

Seriously, today is a good day to flip through your 1953 volumes of Nature and read the two papers by Franklin and Gosling, and the two papers by Watson and Crick. Where's Wilkins in all of this?

BLUESKY LOVES ROSALIND FRANKLIN!

Arrests have been made. Press conference at 1 pm. www.wcvb.com

For the commute home

It's perfect quips like this one that keep me on social media.

For anyone inclined to take a swing at Harvard these days: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

Still the best halloween performance ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q45y...

What if Trump asked all his corporate pals to chip in to feed people?

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

The squeaker of the house.

With SNAP benefits running out your local food bank is going to need support now more than ever. If you live in the Boston area you can donate at the link below.

“Starting on Day One, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.” —Donald Trump, August 2024

Sickening

So great getting to learn more about - and from - Senator Kim! Thanks, @hcrichardson.bsky.social!

Sun over Kenmore @radiofreetom.bsky.social

I love Rick's writing, and am grateful that this one is free. (My monthly journalism subscriptions are running about $50, which is a ceiling for me.) I'm sharing to read later, as it's a little too early for heartbreak.

Even if you aren't the sort to subscribe to someone's block list, this provides excellent fodder for individual accounts to block. I opened up one and found the first several posts to be nothing but lies and smears - easy block.

Boston

Mothman, in Harper’s Ferry, WV.

@markey.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov can you help? @thebulwark.com can you help?

A Nashville Warbler working along a branch looking for insects to eat. The name comes from ornithologist Alexander Wilson, who first encountered this bird in Nashville, Tennessee.

LET THE GOURDS HEAL YOUR PAIN.

My daughter when she said she wanted to be a Transformer for Halloween.

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New Yorker cartoons nail it again.

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work on immune systems.

🌸 Ancient genes helping plants face climate change Researchers found that alpine carnations use ancient 'warm' alleles to adapt to rising temperatures, echoing survival patterns from the last Ice Age. 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scie... #SciComm #ClimateCrisis #Evolution 🧪

Made me cry, and gives me hope.

Wow. Listen.

Same. Hard to regulate but so necessary.

Another great one goes. RIP Jane Goodall 💚

@thebulwark.com Lisa Cook has NOT been fired.

FRANK BURNS EATS WORMS

< planning to read the demands on the bus commute home - expect poison pills >

Florida man.

Delighted to have this distillation! I think I would fling myself off the parapet if I listened to more than 30 seconds of Trump's cavilling and menacing.

It's really not much more complicated than this. Picking a fight via autism is just icing on Trump's crap cake.

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