Hot dog coat-of-arms, created for the 50th anniversary of the invention of the hot dog, at Coney Island in 1939. Shows a hot dog being knighted, flanked by two wiener dogs, crowned by mustard. (They took some liberties with the Latin, but do you expect a hot dog place to have an in-house Latinist?)

Worcester: Pedestrian hit at Park and Chandler. Looks bad. Partial road closures.

My ladyfriend told me to eat some leftover cauliflower soup so it wouldn't go bad and I thought she meant ALL the leftover soup and now I think I ate an entire cauliflower in soup form.

Whatever High School is playing at Foley Stadium right now: kudos to their band

I like to watch old music videos and tonight I was watching We are Young by Fun and there is blatant product placement for a Windows Phone which reminded me that the maps function on those was so bad that I almost missed a first date that kicked off a great too year relationship.

From 1952: John Berger ponders the plight of professional painters but who, for economic or personal reasons, have little actual time to work artreview.com/john-berger-...

the hero we need

This guy and his company are pretty interesting!

You know, people are looking for third spaces, there are a lot of vacant storefronts out there, maybe it's time to bring back social clubs.

professor x looking into wolverines mind and seeing that he has eaten 12,000 hot dogs in his life and going oh my god

Open Studios today at 75 Webster! Parking is across the street behind the small brick building.

Tonight I learned that I can walk to Bancroft Tower in 20 minutes (it's a workout), that a good view of the city can change in 25-30 years (the last time I was there), and that there are functioning gas lamps on the way up there.

Many on this Council spit the word "renter" like a slur so often you might be surprised that they're on a CITY Council. They've made it clear they have no interest in protecting those who live in apartments if it means telling their friends to do better.

Done!

I am grateful to all the Bluesky people I follow who take the time to put together great threads like this so often. I don't know how you all do it.

"Earthapfelroom" [Potato Chip Room] (2007) 🏛️ Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main

I think topical art history reference is my favorite genre of Bluesky content.

It’s important to pay for local journalism but not like this. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

I can tell you from personal experience that critics who claim @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social isn't focused on local issues are lying to get their candidate elected.

The settlement does not impose a monetary penalty on Greystar and does not provide relief to renters impacted by price fixing. www.wbjournal.com/article/doj-...

I was thinking about subscribing to a Tucson news source to keep tabs on what's happening in that city that I enjoy so much. I have been idly trying to decide whether to subscribe to Tucson dot Com or the Arizona Daily Star before realizing this morning that they are in fact the same news source.

Hey Worcester, Check out this new local visual arts calendar out for visual arts stuff by Nikki Erskine who you may have heard of from the Worcester Cultural Coalition, stART on the Street, or on WICN. www.easelsupport.com/wet-paint/20...

🧵Park Avenue- Webster Square economic development. Economic development along Park Avenue to Webster Square has been a significant focus for District 5, a topic I have consistently addressed in Council meetings, discussions with the City Manager, and conversations with local residents.

Just me and the cat watching a little David Attenborough.

I've been really dialed-in painting for the past couple of hours, listening to a Meet-Me-in-the-Barhroom era Pandora station, and my idle brain was actually briefly convinced I was going to go to my 2004 Greenpoint local bar after I'm done.

Let's say that I want to avoid the situation in this picture from the Boston Globe. Where's a good place to go to the seashore in New England (but not Maine) to stare purposefully out at the ocean and get some seafood? Like a scenic rocky beach that people wouldn't want to lie on.

So we're building a $140 billion national police force filled with the sort of morally compromised people who want to beat up and arrest immigrants and people who would stand in their way of doing so. I have a feeling that when it's time to disband this abomination, they're not going to go quietly.

blackstone isnt why we have a housing crisis, its mostly your sweet old t ball coach who owns six properties and is very active in local politics

I just saw an anti-antiquities trafficking organization post on LinkedIn saying that Andor is an example of how illegal antiquities trade funds terrorism. While I get their point, that it shows the mechanics, I think they maybe could have left the example of people fighting space-fascists alone.

I already thought this pencil portrait Jack Kirby did of his wife Roz was great but then I read the caption: "A drawing of Mrs. Kirby done, from memory, on the back of a piece of German stationery picked up off a dead enemy soldier." DAAAAMMMMNNN!

Just found out that there is a movie out called Opus (2025). Disappointed it is not a Bloom County movie.

I've seen things you people outside Worcester wouldn't believe. An SUV taking a left into the Washington Square rotary. People jogging on the shoulder on 290. A truck with 3 wheels taking the right onto Pleasant from Park Ave. at 30 mph with sparks flying from its front axel...

The Metaverse should have been started by Roku. All I wanted was to be able to walk around Roku City.

This is STRAIGHT from project 25 section on homelessness. We won't have this here.

Hey Worcester, we saw what happened on Eureka Street. Our local officials are going to be all too happy to comply with this order and "totally not help" the feds rounding up even more of our neighbors.

I kind of wish Bluesky had a bookmark function so when someone says something for which they're going to get excoriated, I can go back easily and watch them get excoriated.

Hey Worcester, does anyone know where to buy a paper copy of the Boston Globe in town?

This is just to say I have eaten the Strawberry Pop Tart Ice Cream Sandwiches that were in the icebox and which you surely were not saving for breakfast. ftr they were fine, thinner and crispier than cutting a regular poptart in half and putting ice cream in it, also? As expensive as Magnum bars

Hold my calls! I need to cut a poptart in half and put regular ice cream in between the halves!

Okay, here's another new one

New painting! Mesquite Tree, Catalina State Park Oil on Canvas 14" x 11"

Last night was the end of a great show of Worcester artists at the Cantor Gallery at The College of the Holy Cross. It's great to see so much local talent on display. Curator: Birgit Straehle, Co-owner of The White Room in Worcester Note: This building was designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

I'm looking forward to giving Henry my money:

Several "experts" on liberal media (NPR) have said that today is Thursday, but I know a lot of people (myself and my cat roommate) who don't feel that is right and that it is actually Friday. I think we need a study staffed by the National Institute of Weekend Lovers to get to the bottom of this.

Did anybody watch the first episode of the “Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty” series on PBS? On a scale of one to “Federico Zuccaro heard somebody say something negative about him and so he’s putting up an allegorical wall hanging at San Luca,” how annoyed should I expect to be about it?

Just saw a C-130 flying low into Worcester that wasn't on the flight tracker app. I hope it's a lot of saved dogs. (or just the Air National Guard doing training)

Earlier, I heard a plane flying over and I looked at an app to see what it was. Its origin was Virginia, so I assumed it was something nefarious. Upon further investigation, I found it was an organization called 'Pilots to the Rescue' that saves dogs from euthanasia! It was a dog getting saved!

In case you, like I, are breathlessly waiting to see what is moving in at Park and Chandler, where BT's was. Reporting by @ericcasey.bsky.social

Politicians think they can out awkward journalists? You merely adopted the awkwardness. We were born in it, molded by it. I didn't see a normal human conversation until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding. I can sit here in awkward silence all day.