ram ranch really rocks!

Sunday's Globe today: I chatted with Boston Ballet's Chenxin Liu, who just danced through "Nutcracker" season while five months pregnant, and learned about what dancers might need if they're going to balance a baby bump at the ballet barre. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/09/a...

loved @blakemanorgame.bsky.social so much that I convinced my fiance to play it so I could experience it for the first time again; only historical quibble was the fact that one character first pulled out a Smith-Waite tarot deck (game set in 1894, deck didn't exist till 1909)...(1/)

abandoning my journalistic objectivity to say that the U.S. should not be bombing Venezuela

people have FOMO about parties but i have FOMO about homeownership

A message for you all to carry through the year

last day you can use this image yall

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

NEW: Statements from Mustapha Kharbouch, the Brown University student falsely accused online of being the campus shooter, and their legal team. "The past few days have been an unimaginable nightmare," Kharbouch says. "I received non-stop death threats and hate speech."

@littledrummerboychallenge.com And I'm out, but I'm not mad to have been taken down by Grace Jones.

Anyone know who's playing that solo cello "Simple Gifts" near the end of WAKE UP DEAD MAN? Did @rianjohnson.bsky.social call his buddy Yo-Yo Ma for another KNIVES OUT series cameo?

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Liza Tuktamysheva announces her formal retirement from competitive figure skating at age 28, having (it seems) outlasted at least four generations of Eteri's fragile jumping beans with her pride, her health, and her triple axel intact. brava empress fs-gossips.com/14825/

zohran | potus

Fun game for any folkies watching the Ken Burns American Revolution documentary: any time you hear "Over the Water to Charlie" on the soundtrack, take a drink* *of water, or you'll be sloshed before the end of episode 1

I do honestly try to get more excited about the right hand side of my thorax, but my heart's not in it

The president of the Boston University College Republicans recently posted on X that he had been “calling ICE for months on end” to raid an Allston car wash and “detain these criminals.”

it's a new skating season; let's see who has the most delightful (or unhinged) hobbies in their ISU bio!

this is "Not Like Us" intensity of scorched earth and just as poetic

Been bumping this all morning youtu.be/2uUmHTgT65I?...

I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.

florida man

hello darkness my old friend it's not even 5 p.m.

Absolutely awful news. Lex and the other writers at Teen Vogue have been doing incredible and courageous work.

Walked into the Central Square indie bookstore/tarot shop (Seven Stars) because I spotted RF Kuang's KATABASIS in the window; unexpectedly left with this instead

beat chronos for the first time in Hades 2 so here's the "can you buy me pads" meme with Hades 2 characters 🧵

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!

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@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!