New England in almost-June.

Y'all if you think that the reason we don't have universal healthcare is that it costs too much, I don't know what to say to you. We would get better healthcare for less money with universal healthcare. The cost is not the issue. There are many reasons we don't have universal healthcare.

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Another Blake’s 7 alum has passed. One of my favorite most underrated shows. Goodbye Vila.

Congratulations to my amazing spouse (who is not on Bluesky but is on Mastodon) on the opening of his new exhibition, War of Words. If you’re in the Boston/Cambridge area this summer, come check it out! library.harvard.edu/exhibits/war...

Hay eveybodie, They Might Be Giants is giving away a free download of Flood in America, a collection of songs from Flood as performed on live tours, for today and tomorrow only! Here: tmbgshop.com/collections/...

The main problem with America is that there are too many jobs that should pay $100K a year that pay $1 million a year and too many jobs that should pay $100k a year and pay $30K

Been kind of a not-great day but am still excited for @marthawells.com at the @thecoolidge.bsky.social and @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social this evening. The real question is—can I keep myself from devouring the new Murderbot all in one sitting?

Giving my cat pills feels like this

PEEEEEEPS! (From Made in America @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy )

Got my ticket for Monday in Boston!

I’ve got two turntables, but no microphone.

This is just gorgeous, 1947 Rock-Ola jukebox (Art of Noise, @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy )

Enjoying the Art of Noise exhibition @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy. Also, we totally had those Harmon Kardon sound sticks!

I’m about to watch a documentary about competitive cheesemonger. Because cheese.

If there are any Democrats who are thinking of running for the presidency on 2028 on anything less than a clear agenda of widespread prosecution for this administration's corruption and fundamental structural changes to ensure it can't happen again, they should just stop right there.

“Dear America, We are the federal workers who protect America from discrimination. The federal government is dismantling YOUR right to safe housing and essential services—and silencing us to hide it from you…stand with us, before it’s too late.” dearamericaletters.org/home#take-ac...

Doing my best with aidirtylist.info! Feel free to send tips

Breaking news: Tufts University graduate Rümeysa Öztürk, who was arrested by masked immigration agents last year, has returned to her home country of Turkey, citing the "state-imposed violence and hostility" she said she experienced in the United States. trib.al/7GKyEiz

Sign of gentrification? Are the Brookline and Cambridge turkeys invading #MedfordMA?

Heartbreaking news! I was an exchange student at Hampshire College for a year and it’s the only place I’ve ever been were everyone was deeply excited by what they were doing, whether researching animal behavior in shelters, analyzing the Suez Crisis, or choreagraphing masques. Everyone had a 1/2

Sapphic romance novel idea: Two women fall in love while competing against each other in a reality TV knitting competition show. You can call it — Heated Ravelry. 🧶

Cries in April 😭

My beautiful Penny has been battling a UTI for almost a month (stupid resistant E. coli) and now is getting chest X-rays for wheezing 😢 Here she is from right before JoCo Cruise, taking advantage of my standing desk.

I have the remainder of today to get my brain back into shape after vacation so I can work tomorrow, and boy howdy it is not working.

Tonight's performances to close out the 2026 edition of @jococruise.bsky.social were absolutely wonderful.

Highlights from #JoCoCruise part 1: Cabo San Lucas

Welp. After the 2 hr 15 min gauntlet that was the security line at SAN, and making our flight with maybe 3 min to spare, we have made it back to Boston. #JoCoCruise I miss you already. Hope to see you again in 2028!

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

#NoKings #Boston

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Boston!!! #NoKings since 1776! @mass50501.bsky.social @maindivisible.bsky.social @indivisiblelab.bsky.social @angrystaffer.bsky.social @altnps.bsky.social

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

BOAT! We are on you!! #JoCoCruise

Catching up on some romance reader discords and somebody is reviewing a book and mentions a scene where the MCs have sex on a printing press installed on a pirate ship. Which I had to immediately read to my rare book librarian spouse. And then he immediately started trying to figure the logistics.

San Diego, I am in you! It’s very warm here. But Boat! tomorrow! #JoCoCruise

Like 12 or so more hours to pack and get my other tasks done before leaving for San Diego and then BOAT!! #JoCoCruise

Our virtual "Using AI to Advance Translational Science: Methods, Tools, and Ethics" symposium is 1 month away! Dr. Brian Anderson, President & CEO of the Coalition for Health AI, will deliver the keynote address. airtable.com/appXKhOBkj4j... #CTSAProgram #healthcareai @ccos-ctsa.bsky.social

The thing is, it is extremely *easy* to be normal to trans people. It takes zero effort. Being normal is the easy, lazy option. You have to actually expend effort and go out of your way to not be normal to trans people. It actively requires effort.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

ICE abducted someone in Roslindale today. Just yanked from their car and disappeared because that's what the Gestapo does. Thankfully people were there and hopefully this person will be identified and located.

All women are punished for being women: young, old, gorgeous, fat, gender-non conforming, too loud, too quiet, annoying laugh, bad haircut, wears flats, no makeup, too much makeup, smiling, not smiling. We can’t win. Ever.

incredible and maddening and bleakly hilarious thread

Harvard’s solving its financial challenges on the backs of low-wage, likely largely minority custodial workers would be wrong in any case. But when one considers how Harvard’s diversity bureaucracy has exploded, their treatment looks cruelly hypocritical. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The AI hype feels so much worse (and terrifying effective) than the MOOC bubble of ~2012-13. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Extremely Boston