The last anecdote is an excellent reminder that when someone asks you to do something bonkers, you can always say, "No, I won't be doing that." www.askamanager.org/2026/04/the-...

Taken from 8 miles away, but I kind of love how Flo & the witch choir look like crypids.

I keep buying things I can barely afford and going, "I'm supporting small businesses! I'm a patron of the arts!"

It's giving unfrozen caveman lawyer.

Things they don't tell you about volunteering at the food pantry: 1) You will lift something heavy and think about complaining, but then an 80-year-old woman will easily lift the same thing and you will vow not to talk anymore shit about boomers. 2) They will give you so much food.

The people in the comments being like "it's your responsibility to be 100% at your job at all times" must be aliens, right? www.askamanager.org/2026/04/how-...

I clicked on a promo email from a small business I like to see a new product, didn't even put it in my cart, and they've sent me TWO follow up emails in 24 hours about it. That's an "unsubscribe," even though I really like this store. Bummer.

@universalhub.com the ICA is getting fresh paint.

Anyway, look at these pretty matchbox shadow boxes I made this weekend.

Update: we are at “can I ask for our money back?” Levels of incompetence over here.

This man is going to set the conversion-to-excommunication land speed record.

Putting a positive spin on my day so far, the vendor I’m dealing with right now is really making me appreciate my many competent coworkers. Good reminder not to take them for granted.

Took to the sea.

My daughter spent WEEKS telling me what a disaster her school musical was going to be, and then we went last night and it was absolutely delightful. Not even grading on a curve; I would have enjoyed it even if my child wasn't in it.

Sometimes when I’m figuring out logistics for feeding 250 people lunch or planning a reception where everyone needs security clearance, I remember that “event planning” is not in my job description at all and have a little giggle.

DUDES! HERE'S AN EASY WAY TO BE AN ALLY: TELL US WHAT YOU MAKE (anonymously, for a survey, she's legit)

Feeling very "go home, weather, you're drunk" about the forecast.

I didn't realize Emily had broken containment!

These were much more sincere than I was expecting and now I’m teary at my desk. Love you, friends. 💜

Who wants to give me a pep talk? General competence, worth as a human, etc.

"Vow" by Garbage. I'd never heard a woman sound that murderous before, and I immediately fell in love.

Thank Christ G is almost done with BPS.

I just signed up for this and I am excited to Do Some Art. eliotschool.org/classes/matc...

G went to Anime Boston yesterday and among the list of things the voice actors wouldn't sign was "No AI art." Love that solidarity.

H*ck yeah bees!!!!!

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

If you're wondering how things are going at my place of work, this morning I walked in and thought "Another day in the crab bucket."

Fun fact, most catholics get yelled at by the pope exactly zero times in their whole lives but Censures Georg here has managed it like five times in six years

Recent Martha's Vineyard baby names: Dennis, Oliver, Matheus, Gael, Samuel, Robert, Valentina, Nathan, and twins Lincoln and Logan. Lotta boys!

Sagittarius: You will become the hero your city neither deserves nor needs.

@stefapie.bsky.social Another one for your "you cannot parody Boston" file:

I saw you at the NIN show with your earplugs and your orthotics, you can’t fool me

“I was punk once” Brother so were we all, Father Time spares no one

Packing a picnic for a day at the guillotine.

Delightful evening seeing @tkingfisher.com and hearing the extremely unexpected phrase “naked mole rat Borg.”

We are at an event with my daughters former school nemesis (they have since buried the hatchet) which has reminded me of the funniest thing she ever said: “I’m not gonna take being called a dweeb by someone who owns a button maker.”

“We formed here a year ago. If our messages can’t be put on the news, then we can put them on a bridge. It lets people know who are maybe with us that someone is speaking up and they’re not alone…I think we were the first group in Boston doing this, but there are others now.”- Kathleen Schnaidt

There is A LOT of ugly fashion here, whew. Also a lot of people I did not recognize even though I know who they are. Feels very bleak. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/ph...

That whale memory is so surreal that I was just like, "Wait did that really happen?" Thank you, Vineyard Gazette: "A 40-foot humpback whale washed up on South Beach in 1992." vineyardgazette.com/news/1999/01...

And when I say "go look at," what I mean is, "run around, screeching like banshees, and occasionally slapping the poor late whale's belly."

When I was about 10, a deceased whale washed up and we all got on the bus in the middle of the school day to go look at the dead whale.

The memory of this meme has kept me from eating 30 to 40 olives for dinner so many times. (I just stopped at 8.)

"We're having corned beef & cabbage for dinner tomorrow because it's St. Patrick's Day." "No it's not. It's the Ides of March." "Fine, we'll stick a knife in the corned beef."

Walked into South Station at 4:30, saw that every train on the board said "delayed," immediately walked down to the red line which (thank god) was running fine.

Please help grow support for Rep. Pressley’s discharge petition. Script & numbers ➡️

I don't think parents of teens say this enough, so: I love my daughter. She's so cool.

I've been joking that my company has reinvented feudalism for awhile, and today I was like, "Wait, does that make me a scheming vassal?" Then I realized what my actual role would be: That lady in a whimple who has keys to every closet and storeroom in the castle.

I'm the king of Boggle/There is none higher/I gets eleven points off the word "quagmire."

G's school is doing a well-being assessment when, in the next 2.5 months, she has the SATs, 3 AP tests, the school musical, her weekend volunteer gig, and summer job interviews. Pretty sure she's just going to write "go fuck yourself" on the assessment.