Happy birthday, Edgar Allan Poe! Born January 19, 1809 in #Boston, MA, #Poe is considered a pioneer of detective fiction and master of macabre literature. Join us March 25 - April 5, 2026 for the return of Killing an Evening with Edgar Allan Poe! Link in bio. #theater #theatre #NYC

Happy 217th birthday to Edgar Allan Poe, born on this date in 1809 in Boston. Though there was no love lost between Poe and Boston literary rivals, the city ultimately memorialized him with a sculpture not far from Boston Common. #Poe #Boston #history #OTD #Frongpondia

Happy 13th birthday to the most essential artwork of the current era, @kcg.bsky.social ‘s “This is fine,” to all those who celebrate.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

Listening to @thomasjrennie.bsky.social on the @siriusxmfc.bsky.social app on replay. So is the top of show the Big John's Big Package?

@molassacregame.bsky.social sorry I couldn't join you today, hope the anniversary event went well

#onthisday in 1919 2.3 million gallons of molasses flooded the North End when the Purity Distilling Company's tank ruptured. View more photos of the flood at: ow.ly/xx2Y50XS8aV Image 1: Molasses tank from the elevated rail Image 2: Molasses flood, destruction Image 3: Molasses flood, tank section

Got to tell a student about little Bobby Tables today. 🤗 #MathSky #Cybersecurity @xkcd.com xkcd.com/327

Thank you @natebukaty.bsky.social for being a reasonable pro-Gunners voice on this channel @siriusxmfc.bsky.social @davisjason.bsky.social . FWIW, Victor G earns his keep whenever he draws 2+ defenders away to give the others room. Odegard & Rice have said as much. xG focused pundits miss that.

☢️THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR LIFE—E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution. the EPA plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives. Gift🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

@mrburkemath.net FYI/FWIW

You should go read my whole thread about Bottle #126: Dark Eyes Vodka, which dives deep into vodka history during and after World War II. But one of my favorite bits of research was this amusing essay, which I liked so much I transcribed it for my Patreon (membership not required).

"Bills filed by Rep. Homar Gomez and Sen. Jo Comerford would make asparagus — often known as "Hadley grass" in recognition of the Hampshire County farm town that gained a global reputation for its crop — the state’s official vegetable." www.wbur.org/news/2026/01...

Senators Nick Collins & Will Brownsberger, in league w/the dark money group Boston Policy Institute, have blocked property tax relief for homeowners. Let’s be transparent about this @dotnews.bsky.social #mapoli

@siriusxmfc.bsky.social is this account monitored ever, to stay in touch with listeners who've fled Xhitter? cc: @timhorsey.bsky.social (i know Jason, Jack, Tom are here, actually alive here, they react. But I'm not going to send a note for next week content to Tom while he's live 🏟🎙 right now.)

7. [November 30th, 1775] Sergeant Levi Gassett engraved his powder horn with the inscription: “Levi Gaschet, His Horn, Novr Ye 30, 1775, Maid in Dorchester in Gage's War”. bsky.app/profile/200y...

@thomasjrennie.bsky.social Fun interaction between you and Shaun for the game on #SXMFC

@jackjcollins.bsky.social Happy Christmas to SXMFC. Re Own Goals. Unlike failed backpass to the keeper OG, when a Defender intercepts a cross into their own net, the opportunity was created by the team on offense, and defender has ineffectually cheated the striker or winger that he stole it from.

#Flu surges in #Boston; still not too late to get vaccinated, city says www.universalhub.com/2025/flu-sur...

Apples xkcd.com/3180/

Today marks the 252nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party! Members of the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea overboard to protest “taxation without representation.”

Fragments: Illustrated guide to mainframe modernization, what the second value of code reviews means for LLMs, LLMs write and then port an HTML parser martinfowler.com/fragments/20...

Why didn’t the U.S. build a canal through Nicaragua? ☑️ Geopolitics ☑️ Rainforest ☑️ Rival New Yorkers ☑️ Sharks (yes, really) This week's episode explores an almost-history you’ve never heard. 🎧 www.benfranklinsworld.com/428 #Skystorians #HistoryPodcasts #CanalDreamers

A+++++ economy my A++

Absolutely having a blast seeing folks sending in their own photos playing our game. Want to grab your own copy? Click the link in my bio to get your copy of Molassacre, the first card game based on the 1919 Boston Molasses Flood! #molassesflood #molassacre #cardgame #kickstarter #boston #mass

@hooverdam.bsky.social , look, he got the Alt Text right!

@thomasjrennie.bsky.social nice game, nice call on the @siriusxmfc.bsky.social .

Go get your copy of Molassacre: Escape the Flood today! #molasses #molassesflood #bostonhistory #history #historynews #boston #bostonhistory #mahistory #newengland

“Did you like that necklace I got you? You don’t remember? I gave it to you last week. You said you loved it. You really forgot that quickly?”

Okay, this is a Deep Nerd question. A cartoon drawn by a fan specifically for a fanzine or other fannish publication--think Rotsler, Mayhew, or Gilliland--is called what? A fan cartoon? A fannish cartoon? This is such a minor point that it must have been hashed out in furious detail long ago.

@batsinthebrittfry.bsky.social , are you following? Sounds more like your than than mine.

It's not just cutting traffic, it’s cleaning the air. A new Cornell study found that in the first six months of NYC's congestion pricing: 💨 Air pollution dropped by 22% in the core Manhattan zone. 🌳 The benefits spread to all five boroughs AND the suburbs! news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Nineteen years ago, Karen Joy Fowler (who better?) wrote an introduction to the collected novels of Jane Austen. I read it for the first time today. Calmly, serenely, she made the case for Austen, noted criticisms, summarized the life and works, and ended with a sentence worthy of Aunt Jane herself.

hey my Boston folks (and the rest of MA, too) call your state rep and state senator to say you support residential property tax relief for Boston. I did but my state sen is Nick Collins who blocked it last time

@batsinthebrittfry.bsky.social , I'd meant to forward this a week ago. From that other site, someone got a-hold of a copy of WBCN's 1991 Xmas Top 20 playlist souvenir cassette ➿ and reconstructed it as a YT Playlist www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Great visualization about how warming in the Arctic (like we're having right now) is leading to colder winters with more snowfall 👇

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

#onthisday in 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Here is Mayor Tobin's address at a city-wide meeting after the attack. Image 1: Mayor Tobin's address after the attack on Pearl Harbor printed in the City Record. Image 2: Page 2 of Mayor Tobin's address printed in the City Record.

While I like Verstappen, I think it’s good for him and the sport if his margin losing the world championship is smaller than what he lost by throwing away points hitting Russell earlier this season. #F1

“Haiti is playing a World Cup game at Gillette. Some Boston locals are thrilled.” — The Boston Globe #BostonNews #Boston #BostonMA

🗣️ Boston: Your voice is needed! On Dec 9 at 2 PM, the City Council is holding a hearing on removing parking minimums for new housing. This is your chance to weigh in on Boston’s future. 🏙️ More info 👉 www.abundanthousingma.org/action-alert... #bospoli #mapoli #housing #Boston

@briandunseth.bsky.social MapQuest ?!

if you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

Everyone on Threads is so mad about Soulless Landlord White being the Pantone color of the year that an abundance of people independently chose phthalo green as their alternate color of the year. I support this.

The draw for the USMNT, in Simpsons form:

@jackjcollins.bsky.social I know we absolutely do not call R of I 🇮🇪 "S̶o̶u̶t̶h̶ ̶I̶r̶e̶l̶a̶n̶d̶" (as it conceptually & eventually again includes the whole isle, Ulstermen are eligible for either team, etc.) *but* if they qualify, Group A is the Group of Four South of Somethings.

Y’know… we don’t hate it… Rose’s Tornado Dagger Defense Against Spear 😂💙😅 🌪️⚜️⚔️ #bostonfencing #boston #historicalfencing

I’m still chugging away on sending out copies of Molassacre, but think I’ll be entirely caught up tomorrow. Want to force me to keep on packing up boxes? Grab a copy for a friend. Molassacre makes a wonderful Christmas gift! #molassesflood #molasses #games #game #cardgame #boardgame #kickstarter