swap the sewing kit for current knitting project, lose the ear picks and corkscrews, and this is an accurate representation of what's in my bag (I oughta get a Leatherman)

A federal judge blocks the Trump administration's attempt to subpoena medical records of transgender patients who received gender-affirming care at Boston Children's Hospital.

Today the internet lost Maru, cat of legend, so I'm putting out an empty cardboard box for him.

Is there a word for "the feeling of early-30s existential vertigo that results from realizing just how many of one's high school classmates are either pregnant or new parents"

Left my GoPro in with the Puffins while I went and did a Shorewatch yesterday and this was the result! Such curious little birds! @fairislebirdobs.bsky.social

Dies irae, dies illa @tanglewoodma.bsky.social 7-20-25, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra with Andris Nelsons

#opera thought: Puccini was *obsessed* with tragic heroines who also a. Are sincerely pious and b. have/had sex out of wedlock

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Apparently I turned 32 and my brain suddenly decided we want to construct crosswords Here's my best one so far crosshare.org/crosswords/W...

Meow.

How about a #cryptic #crossword clue for your Sunday? Transport witch with praise, loan loose teas for senatorial refrain (8, 7, 3) #crosswordclue #crypticclue

“Water is the messenger that’s delivering the bad news about climate change to your city, to your front door.”

USA! USA! USA!

ATSUUUUUIっ

@carsnbikelane.bsky.social they're learning from the worst 💀

My colleague Julian Sorapuru was reading about the Pope Leo's Creole roots when a picture of Leo's family gravestone appeared -- and it bore Julian's family name. He wondered, were they related? What came next was a winding tale mixed up in the muddiness of race. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/22/n...

every day I see some sort of news that is deeply unmooring, then I have to try to compartmentalize it and go back to the paragraph factory or doing laundry or whatever

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist 🔗 www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

yes.

Per NBC News: Rumeysa Ozturk has been released!

when an editor asks where my story is

habla español y saluda a Perú, y no habla inglés ni saluda gringos 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

they're singing the "Ole" football chant in St. Peter's Square

The rats have chosen a new pope.

filling time on air until the new pope is announced is known as "pontiffication"

UPDATE: white smoke has *also* been spotted in the city center of Avignon,,, bad news folks!!!

if the conclave doesn't pick him, we riot

"All of our self-worth was linked to what he thought about us." I was only in All-Stars with Paul Green for a few months, and he gave me the impression that if he had his way I'd never try to sing in public again. I didn't know this was coming, but none of these details surprise me at all.

Standing ovation for Mayor Michelle Wu (and baby) at @bostonlyricopera.bsky.social &co's "Noah's Flood" as she appears on stage with BLO and BSO leaders pre show.

God I am so tired of seeing this same weirdo pronatalist couple in the media all the time

as soon as I heard the ominous slow ornamented intro to "Rocky Road to Dublin" in Sinners I immediately thought it was sean-nos sage Iarla O'Lionaird singing, was very impressed to learn it was actually actor Jack O'Connell, aaaaand...there it is. well played, @olionaird.bsky.social

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

This is US greencard holder Mohsen Mahdawi. He was called in for an interview in relation to his application for US citizenship. Instead, he was arrested by immigration authorities. Here is Mohsen on @60minutes.bsky.social in Dec 2023: "To be anti-semitic is unjust." www.youtube.com/watch?v=grj3...

For a picture of who Rümeysa is, @propublica interviewed attorneys & a close friend who speaks to her in detention. Here's how a quiet children’s advocate ended up in a crowded ICE cell in Louisiana www.propublica.org/article/rume...

The stories we tell ourselves are powerful. On Passover, Jewish people around the world tell the story of liberation, of an escape from servitude to freedom, from bitter darkness to the light. (1/7)

Boston weather in the past week

Yes. This is not the end of the story.

Wow. This is the full document submitted by Rubio against Mr. Khalil invoking INA 237(a)(4)(C). The standard in immigration court is extremely deferential; a judge must accept this so long as it is “facially reasonable and bona fide.” But this is so threadbare that it might not even satisfy that.

NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...

Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth." No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

Everything you wanted to know about tariffs and the supply chains they’re scrambling, in one convenient video: youtu.be/uDGkkqllQa8

Judge Denise Casper is beginning her hearing over the habeas petition brought on behalf of Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts student grabbed off the street. I am listening in, although some of the voices are very quiet.

NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

I dunno about you all but I'm sick and tired of feeling like an NPC in someone's first 4X game