I can still remember working in news at a local commercial TV station in DC and some corporate big wigs & consultants came in around 2008-2010 and kept talking about our journalism on air & on line as "content" and you could feel the fire of a thousand suns growing in us newsroom folks.

A happy start to Pride Month to all my fellow members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Whether you’re celebrating quietly in your mind, loudly in the streets, or any way you want: let us be proud, let us be strong, let us stand up for each other, and let us be the people we needed when we were younger.

Lousy Smay weather!

Family trip to Bear Brook State Park!

Support your favorite local NPR station: The WBUR auction is now live! Auction page: wburfest2026.virtualauction.bid A few highlights:  • $11,000 Road Scholar gift certificate  • Formaggio Cheese Cave Tour + tasting  • $20,000 custom solar installation

Great story here from @wbur.org’s Simón Rios about the excitement from Massachusetts’ large & vibrant Haitian community for the country’s men’s team playing in the World Cup in Foxboro next month (first 🇭🇹 men’s WC trip since 1974) tempered by the high ticket prices. www.wbur.org/news/2026/05...

Do not miss this lovely and incredibly thought-provoking essay from @miriamwasser.bsky.social about her breastfeeding journey and early motherhood

Great stuff from Bijan C. Bayne in today’s Globe about the disservice done to Boston & everyone else when only the White Irish Catholic tropes are used for Boston-set stories. This city has so many communities which never get associated w/Boston and they should! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/10/o...

Our dog was so proud of himself for picking up this baseball on our walk and carrying it like this for about a mile. He is unhappy I made him leave it in the backyard. Hopefully some treats will remedy the situation.

Rest easy, Rob Base 🕊💙🙏🏾 I'll forever love this flowchart

Life imitating art next to the Public Garden in Boston. (Officer Mike’s uni’s at the cleaners) 🦆 @universalhub.com

I don't need to click on this. There is no way this @chris-muther.bsky.social story in the Boston Globe can live up to the headline.

@rygraham.bsky.social Hello there! Not going to talk about the Nationals/Mets series. Just want to say you were shooting straight fire, even for the high bar you've set, in your newsletter today. Thanks for it.

........ THE HATERS SAID WE COULDN'T DO IT. THEY SAID WE COULDN'T MAKE IT TO .500 A SECOND TIME. HORRIBLE CALL FROM THE HATERS

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

Just go to wbur.org/donate. You can even get some swag with certain memberships. Show everyone you’re one of the cool kids.

Along with Blake Butera’s comments thanking fans for filling Nationals Park, it’s cool to see Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol recognize the Tarps Off section Friday in St Louis and then encourage it the next day. THAT is how you organically grow fun stuff in baseball. www.mlb.com/news/oliver-...

The Nats’ BlueSky posting team is truly killing it.

now repeat after me: aaron earned an iron urn

Ken Griffey Jr. did not get over his case of nerve tonic induced gigantism and do other wonderful things to wind up in this bottled water commercial that MLB TV forces upon us at least 216 times a game.

In 2013, after announcing that he would be the first openly gay player in a major sport, Jason Collins then announced he would march in the Boston Pride parade. It's impossible to describe how big a deal this was, especially for those of us handling media for the parade. I hope he rests in peace.

Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly gay player who has served as a global ambassador for the sport, has died from brain cancer, his family said. He was 47 www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

Happy Mother’s Day to all you mommas out there. You rock!

There are 25 whole people on this flight. This is weird.

It's become common enough for Americans to talk to AI chatbots about their mental health and relationship stresses that therapists are factoring that into treatment. And some researchers are trying to make AI better as a mental health tool. Read/listen to my story here: www.wbur.org/news/2026/05...

Homer lived in Boston while in college, you people, read once in a while

A local Ted Turner tidbit via @dgquovadimus.bsky.social: In the 1970s, Turner "donated" $50,000 to MIT's campus radio station in order to acquire their call letters: TBS wmbr.org/www/history

A good look here from @wbur.org on the middle class in Massachusetts. What does that even mean anymore? And why do 1/3 of people of say they're worse off than their parents? www.wbur.org/news/2026/05...

So I tried Instagram’s AI photo enhancement tool - and the Caucasity! Hey Meta - don’t fix my face. Fix your structural racism

Personally, I don’t think you should get a gala if you’re the worst team in the National League

A happy day to this, one of my favorite relatively harmless trolls ever:

“You only live once but if you do it right once is enough.” -Mae West

Fenway Park has a bunch of new menu items this year. Are they delicious or not? Public media's got you covered on this one. Check out some of my amazing @wbur.org colleagues giving a taste test to "Lobstah Poutine" and more. www.youtube.com/shorts/8gq33...

Buried deep in your monthly utility bill, there's a charge for the consulting and legal fees your utility racks up when it goes before state regulators and asks to raise your rates. My latest story on how a proposed law in Mass seeks to change that @wbur.org www.wbur.org/news/2026/04...

A happy International Transgender Day of Visibility to everyone who is trans or loves someone who is. You are worthy of respect, you are worthy of dignity, you are worthy of protection, you are worthy of autonomy, you are worthy of love, and you are worthy of living a long life.

@josius.bsky.social Hey Joe! Happy belated Opening Day. How’s the recovery going?

Watching my first Nats game of the season (from the couch). Spring is here (it’s 28° outside).

The 15 teams opening at home for the season should all play on the same day and start at roughly the same time - the same way the last game of the regular season is played.

I am late to this. The Dodgers renamed their stadium what?

STOP THE COUNT! ⚾

Glad to see the Nationals above 500 for the first time in what feels like at least 32 years. Let's Go Nats!!!

A happy Opening Day to all who celebrate! Let’s go Nationals!!!

Happy Maryland Day to the state with the most spectacular beauty, the most delicious food, and the most talented people 💛❤️🖤

A very happy Maryland Day to everyone who hails from the Free State, loves someone from there, or just enjoys the amazing state & its flag.

But...why?

We let Gen Z write the @wbur.org fundraising script for this video and here are the results. Great work from everyone being a good sport on this! ➡️ wbur.org/donate www.youtube.com/shorts/6pPT5...

Happy International Puppy Day from Bear!

I have grown tired of media which degrades us all. Here's my essay on how The Bachelorette scandal - which may force ABC to scrap an entire season costing $30 million - also shows how so-called reality TV series have corroded media...and us viewers. READ: https://loom.ly/ALpqWOo

A fascinating bit of Massachusetts history from @universalhub.com and worth your time to read.

Millennials get your ironic jokes out now THIS IS NOT A DRILL post them all