The amount of drunken nights after giving tours of the trails with other NPS staff here...trivia (we might still have a gift card?)...going after a friend's City Hall marriage. Ugh, this one is going to hurt. No one else has Dublin fries afaik.

Whoops forgot these 🗃️📚📜 #genealogy

The 1926 Irish census is up and searchable! I've already found my Hegarty's exactly where I expected them so that is always nice. Wish I could figure out more about them, but that is an "after I finish my homework" problem to solve nationalarchives.ie/collections/...

The Celtics AND Bruins will both be playing playoff games on April 19th, 21st AND 26th. The Bruins play Game 3 on the 23rd & the Celtics play Game 3 on the 24th. Red Sox vs. Yankees at Fenway Park April 21st through 23rd. Oh. And the marathons: 26.TRUE & the Boston Marathon on the 18th & 20th

I just really love living near a city whose library has some amazing artifacts and puts them on display for free. I mean, who else will put 8 different copies of the Declaration of Independence on display in their map room? Loved the exhibits, @bpl.boston.gov.

And with my final discussion boards for Labor, Capital, and Democracy submitted, I say once again: Fuck Ronald Reagan.

TMZ and People Magazine is doing better work than the old guard.

no one likes historians because every time someone says “oh this is unheard of” historians are all like “well actually” and fundamentally it just doesn’t sound as impressive if you have to say “in these slightly precedented times”

Meh weather out there so I'm going to PEM another day. Instead, I'm going to try and get near completion for my Labor project so that I can go on vacation without any worries. And at least my discussion board posts and maybe a reply. Plus laundry, making salad, and start packing. And maybe a nap.

Hey Boston Kids! Are you signed up for #BostonFamilyDays? We are offering free admission to participants in the program throughout #AprilVacation, starting on Saturday 4/18 and going through Sunday 4/26. Bring your two guests & visit us! bit.ly/4tbTyY4 @boston.gov

“In 2025, 31 people died in the custody of ICE. In 2026, the count has already reached fifteen—and it is only April. Nearly every one of those deaths, as with nearly every death in ICE custody, would have been prevented with adequate medical care and humane treatment.”

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

Against my better judgement, I've gotten into an argument with someone who thinks Quincy Market was the site of a slave auction at some point even though it was water up to and beyond the time that slavery was legal in Massachusetts.

I got a lovely Molasses Flood Zine from @janineveazue.bsky.social‬ and will be sharing it with my teen librarian once I get back to work

Me too

Begrudgingly and with conditions.

Came down this morning to some random car halfway in my driveway, halfway blocking the sidewalk (that a ton of people use). Took entirely too long for them to understand that I didn't want them there and their backup even longer. Why would you park in a driveway of someone you don't know?

Plans right now are to go to a library exhibit tomorrow, another on Edmonia Lewis on Friday, Nick Offerman on Saturday, and Montreal on Sunday. Class is almost over and I've got a month off until they start again. Time to start living my best nerdy life again

Just had someone who was already planning on spending $200 so their kid could play ultimate Frisbee balk at paying 20 cents to print up the sign up form. People are strange where their pinch points are.

A bit of fog over the Back Bay and downtown. #Boston #TheAhbs #PetersHill

Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono names the people who have been pardoned by Donald Trump after they have donated to support his campaign and PACs in the Senate hearing on fraud. "I call it corruption." 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than: Tesla Southwest Disney Live Nation HP United PayPal CVS Health Palantir Citigroup PG&E 3M That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax. It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

Millions of lapsed Catholics realizing that they have become realigned with the Pope against their will

13 years ago was one of the worst days and weeks I've experienced. Waiting for everyone to check in, bomb threats almost every day at work, having 7 coworkers and friends around the final shootout. The community response was amazing &helped restore a lot of hope. We'll need that again in the future

One Boston Day honors lives lost 13 years after Boston Marathon bombings

Converts. Cradle Catholics (even ridiculously lapsed ones like me) know.😏

If you can't be bothered to go to CCD (do adult converts need to? Cause they really should...and then confirmation class and all that jazz cause the process is part of what makes us who we are) then STFU. The Pope is God's voice on Earth. He literally is getting his stuff from the original source

JD Vance only converted to Catholicism in 2019. He's been Catholic just as long as a class of second graders who just took their First Communion. If Vance disagrees with the actual pope, he's free to fuck off and find a yet another faith he can cynically exploit for his own political career.

“The dawn of the Twentieth Century found BTU No 13 a tree of lusty growth” Writers in 1923 sure were weird.

Fuck ICE now. Fuck ICE forever. A lot of white citizens may be acting like they don't exist anymore because they're not killing them right now, but I haven't forgotten.

Did you know: There's HD video of Here Comes The Pizza?

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

Today is the first day of our excavation at the former Boston Consumptives Hospital in Mattapan! We’re starting a new archaeological survey in Mattapan ahead of a planned urban farm project. 1/4

@adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social did you send a friend one of your mini coffins?

If not friend, then why friend shaped? 😍

I blame Reagan for everything.

Why are people so stupid? And why are they obsessed with abortion? I honestly don't think about it all that much, but these idiots obviously obsessed about it every fucking day.

BREAKING: Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales just announced he will file his "retirement from office" tomorrow.

1/4 union profiles written (New England Telephone Operators Union). Somehow I always end up over the page requirement. Still up are the Boston Typographical Union #13 (which existed until at least 2003), Cigar Makers' Union #97, and a small piece on the National Guard/State Militia in Faneuil Hall

When I was a child, teachers sat the best girl students next to disruptive boy students. The girls were responsible for keeping the boys calm so that the teacher could continue teaching. This sort of emotional regulation by proxy, using girls and women to calm boys and men, still happens.

Cultural traditions like hospitality and home-based festival celebrations run on the thankless physical, emotional, and spiritual efforts of girls and women.

BREAKING: The Trump administration has agreed to keep flying a rainbow Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument in New York.

it'd be great if you could get off Substack

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE custody, per required notification to Congress, marking 16 deaths in detention this year.

Italian government to Trump…

Magnolias are here! 🌸These early spring standouts are starting to bloom across the city, bringing big blossoms to our parks and streets. Common magnolia species in Boston: 🌟Saucer magnolia (Magnolia × soulangeana) 🌟Star magnolia (Magnolia stellata) 🌟Loebner magnolia (Magnolia × loebneri)

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

Utterly bizarre how war policy is being decided and announced by an addled, deeply unqualified ignoramus from his bed at 4 in the morning on a social media platform he made up himself and everyone acts like it's normal.