i am watching a bad show for dummies (my mom watches it and we talk about it sometimes); one of the characters suggested they "unalive" someone, seemingly with full sincerity, not played for laughs, and in the very next scene a guy is killed by a stab to the neck what are we doing here

apples are getting too big

i gave gh the crumbs from my toast one morning and now he moans and moans from 6:30 AM until I have breakfast (often 9/9:30) for a plate to lick. it is precisely 2 calories of food he is begging for. the most obstinate man to have ever lived!

the people in my (western massachusetts) neighborhood who used to fly the confederate flag now have America 250 stickers on their big ass truck, can you believe it?

A male Baltimore Oriole checks out Black Walnut leaves for tasty insects. He seemed to be finding quite a few and was singing and bopping around the tree for quite awhile.

silly to say the people of this site are in a bubble as if we're not some of the most terminally In The Know cranks online. the hooting jackals of bluesky have read every take and all critiques of every take within moments of posting like it's a professional sport!

thanks everyone for sending those emails to your councilors! this guy stinks heheheheheheh bye bitch

A man tried to record a hyper-aggressive #Boston cop, so the cop tackled him, arrested him, and filed a false police report accusing him of assault. After he beat the false charges, ICE agents grabbed him and detained him for four months.

i'm doing another livestream on youtube for a work conference, but this year they wanted the marketing team to write some of the questions for our VIP guests. i welcomed the help because we have 43 guests total. they sent the questions, 100% written by google gemini. and it's really fucking obvious.

i recorded it

i ate too many cookies while listening to half a dozen wood thrush sing about the sun setting in the woods behind my house tonight. in my opinion that's gotta be one of the top ways to spend an hour on this earth.

my company's ceo sent out a survey that was like "you guys seem really fucking stressed. what would be most helpful? 1. money 2. more time off 3. a different form of money" i don't want to hand it to a ceo but at least he's aware of what motivates workers.

i caved. nothing for me in the divine. (i do still have blankets on the south facing windows to reduce energy needs but i don't think that will help, divinitively speaking)

bluesky is a little machine that drains hope from me like a vampire whispering bad news in my ear. i post videos of bunnies taking a snooze and all i get in return is dread? doesn't seem like a fair trade

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

seems high, rmv

I think the problem is people wanting Maura Healey to be someone she's not. Healey is not a typical Democratic voter. Healey fundamentally believes that ICE is good and that lots of people need to be deported.

This is not what you should say when you're the Governor of Massachusetts and your base is filled with people righteously angry about ICE and its abuses.

A male Indigo Bunting sings over a field of yellow flowers.

it's above 91° right now, yuck. time for cave mode! we use boot hanger clips to hang blankets, quilts, and towels over our south- and west-facing windows during the hours the sun is coming in and it reduces our need for A/C significantly. no need for special curtains, just buy these for $5:

thanks to #nomowmay we have a bunny attempting to nap in our backyard (the birds keep waking her up)

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

it's the spring of yearning, thank christ

Join us on Saturday, June 13, 6:00 to 8:30 pm at the opening of Window Into Solitary, a photography exhibition that puts a human face on that reality through portraits and testimony of 17 men and women who have experienced long-term solitary confinement.

built out a complex spreadsheet to manage a 4-hour youtube livestream for work i'm hosting and i've just noticed half the c-suite is in there poking around. they're having a meeting about my beautiful spreadsheet without me! hey! you're fucking up the time formulas! get out!

there's a B&BW in by my physical therapist so i go in to sniff regularly, mostly it's all too saccharine for my tastes. they just added a Mandalorian line and the "Bounty Hunter" scent is incredible. i don't want to ever utter "thanks! it's B&BW Mandalorian lotion," though, so i can't do it.

does my coffee taste bad because there's something wrong with it or because i just inhaled a bag of sour cream and onion chips

this is happening everywhere. Here in western Massachusetts, a neighboring city lost $20M+ that had been awarded from EPA for upgrading wastewater treatment plant and cuting hazardous trees because these DOGE deemed these “woke.”

snack report: as a passionate Famous Amos fan, these might be better. they are crumb machines though; don't bring them on a work trip for the plane. i was covered in cookie dust in seconds.

the crabapple trees in my neighborhood are absolutely exploding with blooms this year, and wouldn't you know it, we're seeing record numbers of orioles. you can hear one or two singing at almost every minute during the day. wonderful!!

vancouver 👍

Shocked to hear that ICE-loving Democrat “Maura Healey is backing Barney Frank's dying message to the Democratic Party to focus primarily on the economy over social issues.” #Massachusetts #mapoli

i have been to a bunch of international airports the past few years, mostly for work, and what has stood out to me is that every one has a customs line for "international and USA passports" it's embarrassing every time i see it, we're so fucking stupid.

air canada is serving canadian knockoff dot's 😒 (pretty good though)

this seems like a secret service social media honey trap

they should invent edibles for those of us that cut gummies into quarters. 100mg would kill me

new massachusetts flag just dropped

this calculator is a bummer for two reasons: one, housing is too expensive; two, the estimate it gave me is nearly double the amount we're willing to spend. maybe i'm budgeting too strictly but with the cost of healthcare, insurance, retirement, food, gas, there is just no way.

he plopped onto the first shady grass we came to, about 6 minutes into the walk

everybody at physical therapy is sooooo excited about taco tuesday meanwhile my hip hurts and i didn't get a damn invite? interesting

"being against AI data centers is nimbyism" the other yimbys are going to dis-invite you from the wework happy hour event for being to obvious about the construction industry astroturfing, roland

he's dressed as the Janome / Bridgerton collab

So glad that the rotting corpse of Joe Biden could rise up from the grave to endorse this local hack as a reward for helping him tell Palestinian-Americans that he'd really like their votes even though he was in the process of helping Israel kill their families.

When I asked Healey's office for data, I was directed to the DOC. When I asked the DOC, they ignored my records request until I appealed and then provided aggregate numbers without any info on convictions. Does Healey actually know what crimes these people were convicted of? Does she even care?

Join us June 13, 6:00-8:30 pm at 60 Dudley St, Chelsea, MA for the opening reception and panel discussion for Window Into Solitary, a photography exhibition that puts a human face on solitary confinement. PLS's Bonnie Tenneriello will be among the panelists: www.socialdocumentary.net/cms/Window-I...

i am feeling an intense urge to kick

my company's HR is doing a mental health campaign and today's message is about how the ecological crisis is causing us all stress. they made a video using AI art and narration to explain it.

now watching Relay (2025), which features three leads struggling to maintain american accents

“The status quo is allowing & enabling hundreds & hundreds of people in Massachusetts to be arrested & detained directly by ICE —directly from police departments, & our courts,” said Joshua Dankoff, report author. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

An Eastern Chipmunk about to tuck into an acorn.