hotel check in isn't until 4pm and the coffee machines in the lobby are out of service. i'm going to do my classic "look extremely pathetic on the lobby couch for hours" so they take pity on me and let me check in at like 3:15

Rest in Power, Assata Shakur. Thank you to the Cuban communists who gave her asylum, never gave her up, and let her live in peace after she escaped the most brutal oppression of the Amerikan state.

Okay, except... 1) The #Leominster police weren't there when this supposedly happened, so the police chief backing ICE's account is meaningless. 2) This additional context, if true, doesn't actually change the meaning of what's depicted in the video. www.bostonherald.com/2025/09/24/m...

I would like the child sacrificed to stop, either by we stop doing them, or we acquire an orb with some kind of enchantment, I don't want to be too prescriptive about it, but an orb or other artifact with magical properties that causes them to stop.

The vast majority of people do not want any of this. Most of our lives are not animated by spite and revenge and a desire above all else to do harm. Most of us do not derive our sense of well-being from abusing our power over others. Most of us are normal. www.welcometohellworld.com/i-hear-the-g...

mostly i want to live someplace relatively walkable but i also hate to have my 15 minute back deck break watching the rain and birds and trees interrupted by my neighbor's coughing spell. so maybe i don't want to live anyplace walkable (video does not include coughing, it's just the pleasant bit)

niche tweet for new englanders but the lobby CO at this jail just had door dash drop off food from 99 Restaurant. he had a man hand deliver wings and fries that were cooked in the microwave 45 minutes ago at best. there is a rot in the soul of these people istg

it's always a more pleasant bail out when Willow the therapy dog is here

people who water the hell out of their lawns all through autumn are so strange to me. that is a summertime ground cover. i love when the grass starts turning a bit purple and red!

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it seems Vans Old Skools are ICE uniform shoes now?

ryan and i were aggressively recruited to a birding club last weekend. wednesday we got their little annual program in the mail, then today i got an email from a member saying she was very excited to meet us. if birders were all communists we'd be well into a successful revolution, clearly!

“ill see you in valhalla” is not something i would ever say in memory of a friend. its something i would say to a $28 Hamburger

From @binjreports.bsky.social comes the story of James Ware, a terminally ill incarcerated man serving a life without parole sentence he was handed at age 20. Eliza Dewey chronicles his efforts to secure his release for his final months on Earth: theshoestring.org/2025/09/19/p...

i am but a humble new englander with possibly shit taste, but for anyone else in a bagel desert: the Dave's Killer Bread bagels are perfectly chewy and really delicious.

working with europeans is very trying

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

the monthly work survey illustrations are so amusing. how distracted from making stews are you? a: your stew is burning and you're not even stirring it b: you're stirring the stew but not looking at it c: you're stirring the stew but feel stressed d: you're tasting the stew and it's really good

the jail i'm bailing from is refusing to do the paperwork for a $10 bail because they "just got a truckload in" so they "might not have time" the truckload is people! don't call them that you freaks!

so: what do we need you to do? two things. 1.call your D/I senators. find contact info here: reps.fyi what do we need you to say? try the call script below. adapt it; make it your own! there are bailout points written in, in case you get nervous. but please *call.* 🧵

when people are freed from jail, they leave with limited to no belongings and no layers for the weather. please help us keep our community members warm this winter through the Mass Bail Fund coat drive!

A man was arrested and charged with disturbing the peace for allegedly disrupting a Charlie Kirk vigil in Plymouth by yelling that Kirk was a racist and misogynist and that he deserved it. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/15/m...

adjusting the height of a flag and attaching a note is "vandalism" now?

we are sinking way too many labor hours into creating software to summarize zoom meetings and way too few into adding translation features to the Merlin app i KNOW that's a blue jay what is she HOLLERING ABOUT

Early morning #caturday with my son, Noodle.

we went to a Mass Audobon meetup to see some hawks and spotted a harrier and a broad-wing (not pictured, obv). we then got aggressively recruited into a birding group (we are joining, they were very nice). after we ended up at a Mennonite bakery and had the best donuts of our lives. lovely day!

here is a little website i would like someone to make: let me tell you all the albums i like, and you build a calendar of their release anniversaries. every september i'm like "oooh haven't listened to Heaven recently" and only this year did i think to look up when it came out.

35th anniversary of the release of Heaven or Las Vegas, wow m.youtube.com/watch?v=6KnY...

we're watching Intolerable Cruelty and i said "boy this sounds a lot like the Twilight score"

"A shocking death cannot retroactively transform a wicked man into a saint." Only take you need on the matter IMO from @andrewqmr.bsky.social andrewqmr.substack.com/p/no-boston-...

I'm not a big city police commissioner, but it seems to me that, if loitering is a criminal offense, and a band of loiterers disperses as you approach, then the problem is solved. They're no longer loitering. You can get back to Candy Crush, officer.

During a virtual press conference on Thursday, opponents of a state plan to invest $360 million into renovating MCI-Framingham — the state's only women's prison — called for that money to be invested elsewhere. Read the full article here: www.metrowestdailynews.com/story/news/l...

HEY!

i don't think i've ever seen my neighbor actually honor a half-mast order but would you look at that lmao (this isn't even the neighbor that i witnessed put down his weedwacker to salute his flag when the national anthem was played a mile away at the military base... we gotta move)

Charlie Kirk was a loathsome wretch who was paid handsomely to promote all of humanity's worst qualities—and the fact that he was murdered in a horrific way will never change that. A shocking death cannot retroactively transform a wicked man into a saint.

"transgender ideology" activists always be wearing american flag tshirts and oakleys

if they're calling it the Reichstag fire themselves doesn't that sort of give the game away

Everyone eulogizing Charlie Kirk considers him a peer and considers the people he threatened a nuisance at best. Kirk was real to them in a way that George Floyd, Black Americans, and trans kids are not. There's more to the class divide in American than this but it's a good barometer.

Honestly I think the people saying repeatedly and passionately that there will be retaliation for this are doing more to encourage the retaliation than people celebrating

They were also saying the exact same shit when one of their own assassinated a Dem politician and her husband, though. The very existence of fascists is political violence

one thing that would be nice would be to live in a world, online or off, that did not require you to harden your heart and adopt a full suit of cynicism just to move through life in relative peace

everybody has to stop saying "political violence" until someone tells me what the fuckin exchange rate is with "violence"

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

"they are going to use this against us." where you been, they are murdering black people in the streets for selling CDs, they are rounding up hispanic people for being at a home depot, they are sending people to foreign torture prisons for tweeting about Palestine. The terrain is SHIFTED

Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.

He’s not saying this because of anyone making jokes or celebrating on the internet. The fascists are gonna do what they want regardless of how you act. don’t make it worse by giving the Feds an excuse to knock on your door, but don’t pretend the fascists will respect your humanity and restraint.

you are a proud veteran of the US Military, are you fucking kidding me

i would like to add that "luggage" is a non-countable noun like "food" or "money". the plural of "luggage" is just "luggage". "luggageS" is not a thing, stop saying it. get that "s" outta there.

it’s hard to talk politics anymore because the natural response to everything is “oh they should be killed” but you’re not allowed to say it. it’s more illegal than open pedophilia