Earlier this evening I was driving along a dark and rainy back road in New Hampshire when I heard a train whistle close by. Soon the lights from an Amtrak train appeared in the woods just across a field. We traveled side-by-side for almost a minute until the road ducked under a railroad bridge.

It feels weird to recognize a bottle of Bass Ale in a famous 1882 painting by Manet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bar_a...

When taking a selfie there's a fine line between not smiling enough and looking like The Joker.

Racing across the house to leave a webinar that's ending and prove I was actively listening to it the entire time honest

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I love those graceful fleeting moments when a bird torpedos across my path with its wings tucked against its sides. If I was a bird I would do that all the time just to show off.

I never thought seeing the sunrise would become a regular occurrence.

This is not how science works. At all. If you disagree with it, you actually have to do the work of *showing why, with actual data* that supports your alternative hypothesis. Simply criticizing it may mean you have opinions, but they wouldn’t be informed opinions—or scientific ones.

Quick — someone tell the New York Times that the situation in early October, when the shutdown began, was not “normal.”

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

The Epstein Files must be video evidence of grooming and other inappropriate behavior at multiple pool parties. These people were too confident there would never be consequences to not take home videos and pass them around to each other.

The closer we get to the proof the greater the chance he's going to attack Venezuela.

I want to believe we have finally, at long last, reached the beginning of the end. But I know better.

Gradient.

Funniest moment of the day: When a friend misread the name "Team Love Wins" on a bed race trophy as "Team Love Wine."

It looks like this is the best view I'm going to get of tonight's aurora from my well-lit neighborhood. The vibes are more dirty bomb than ion storm. Living near a cemetery sometimes comes in handy.

I just read a short story that evaded all my defenses and achingly reminded me of everything I've tried to forget I still want.

I can no longer find humor in Trump parodies. The man has caused too much unforgivable harm for me to willingly listen to him in any form, even comedic impressions.

The government shutdown began on January 20th.

I'm… going to stare into space for a while.

So that happened.

OBAMA: “We had a good night on Tuesday… the American people are paying attention — when young people are engaged and involved, we win.” @barackobama.bsky.social was a surprise drop-in at the @podsaveamerica.crooked.com live taping to open #CrookedCon in D.C.

All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Shopping mall "newsstand" sells only three types of products: energy drinks, candy, and scratch tickets. I'm surprised they still bother with the vestigial term in their name.

It's difficult to find a plaid shirt that doesn't make me look like ugly wrapping paper.

Pedestrians who hug the oncoming part of the sidewalk and expect the other 99.9% of people to move out of their way are the worst.

Aurora watch this evening.

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias

On a night when I was following the New York City mayoral race I met Berry, the former mayor of the Davis Square bike path. Our encounter was brief but friendly. I'm sure she had places to be.

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

Politicians who appeal to the best in us don't come around very often. After listening to Mamdani speak for several months I like and trust him. That's not something I do lightly for members of that profession.

An ice cream shop that closes at 2am is dangerous (for my health).

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse

Woke up today to the news

It seems fitting that a prominent member of the old guard dies as a popular local movement levels up. As this video says, it's important to encourage idealism and keep taking big swings in the face of so much greed and malice. It's still possible for the world to improve, one casket at a time.

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag. Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

This is a great time of year for people who go to bed at 5:00

This song keeps coming to mind while I'm doomscrolling.

It's adorable to come across a Little Free Library that someone has submitted as a local attraction on Google Maps.

Patterns emerge everywhere.

I try to jaywalk once a day to preserve my Massachusetts resident status.

I've been learning a bit of Danish recently, and it really is a crazy language

We now resume your regularly scheduled dystopia, already in progress.

The documentary about this World Series is going to be twelve hours long.

This is cruel and unusual even for baseball.