Does anyone know if these prohibitions apply to the whole route, or just the crowd at the finish line? If the whole route, does anyone know how far from Beacon Street we will be allowed to carry a shopping bag? Is the edge of the store parking lot ok?

Hey, @charlesschumer.bsky.social and the rest of the senate! We are not even asking you to take a life-threatening head injury for the sake of liberty, but could you please remember that some things are more important than collegiality?

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

Is it a new marketing strategy to (even notionally) pitch surveillance systems to people who will be surveilled? Rather than to those who want to do the stalking? I can’t imagine an ad, “Ladies! Is your husband paranoid? Our detectives will follow you everywhere and reassure him of your fidelity.”

Heard through the ceiling of my apartment tonight: (cat wailing) Person: No!! (cat wails some more) Person: You do not want that! Spit it out! (even louder wailing) Person: That is a potato! You are an obligate carnivore!! #ahcats #lifeinapartments

Nice to see somebody making sensible suggestions for the US government

Is there some kind of shortage of dried apricots in the world this year, or is it the tariff and trucking situation keeping them out of local stores?

Love this!

They made bee vitamins!

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

Images of women getting punched are disturbing for a lot of feminists. But we’re talking about boxing, here.

That was an easy parallel for me to understand, because I also deal with chronic pain, and I regularly injure myself because I have so much “noise” pain that I don’t notice “signal” pain. That’s the physical version, distress tolerance is sort of the emotional equivalent.

Celebrating Pi Day with a deviled egg pie from The Enchanted Broccoli Forest. I’m not sure the white sauce was perfectly successful, but the pie smells good.

Somehow in all this plain language and clarity, the notion that all “Muslims” are “Islamists” suddenly goes without saying. I almost missed that palmed card

Poe: well, mary, in all fairness Shelley: you better not fuckin say it, edgar Shelley: this is getting real john barthy Poe: Poe: i withdraw the statement Shelley: good

There is so much wrong here, but also it’s so deeply wrong that a person can commit a violent assault in public, and face no consequences unless the victim knows his name and presses charges against him personally. It was a crime, FFS!

I thought Republican foreign policy was horrifying WITH Henry Kissinger.

It's like he's the only human male who understands how to attract a female and the rest of them are all pandas

I want to be clear that this is intended as high praise: That video reminds me of some Attenborough documentary about an extremely elaborate courtship ritual of some tropical bird, caught on camera for the first time in this film

that they have kept their relationship intensely private to the point that this is how we find out is probably the best sign they might actually make it anyway, rules are rules, here is the exact moment she fell in love

Does anyone know of a New Orleans restaurant with outdoor seating and vegan food? Not an entirely vegan restaurant! But it must be possible to get a meal without pork, dairy, or shellfish, beer, or wine, and a restaurant with 2+ vegan options is the best way to find that.

I’m counting materials change in technology change, ie steel knives are different than bronze ones. And it’s not “outdated” until an alternative is invented. I’m not getting rid of Bound paper books. Candles. Silk base layers. (I like my gas stove but will change to electric one of these days.)

New at Velveteen Rabbi: one of my pieces from "In Times Like These," Bayit: Building Jewish's new Purim offering (illustrated by Steve Silbert), and a link to the whole collection so y'all can see every amazing piece that's part of this collaboration.

The “AI” we’re being peddled is really just the infinite monkey writing Shakespeare theorem, but now we’re forced to ask “how much is it going to cost to feed and clean up after that infinite monkey?” And in both cases, the amount of shit being flung is truly staggering.

The Gen X urge to come to my window

That looks like an amazingly distracting

I don't think there's any real legal incentive, but it'd be great if Prince Andrew decided to incriminate one of his co-conspirators now.

Can’t, I’m saying to mountains “be ye removed,” and saying to lesser floods, “be dry.”

He’s so grateful to Ferdinand and Isabella for their noble work in 1492. Nobody was saying “Judeo-Christian” in Alhambra.

Or cosy mystery? She was exhausted after a long day planning another overseas prison. But she couldn’t relax without her blanket, and she just couldn’t find it! She ordered her private plane to make an unscheduled landing in the little village of St. Mary Cider to consult the famous detective…

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Americans will really use anything but the metric system (complimentary)

Calling history professors! This is a seriously good idea, even leaving #4 off the table

Some of these Minnesotans have Girl Scout Cookie level logistics skills, which are beyond anything Eagleton can imagine. (Bree has great links for helping out.)

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence. “Making the soup several hours in advance will allow the flavors to meld.” (Quick Vegetarian Pleasures, Jeanne Lemlin)

This shocks the conscience.

I am suddenly *delighted* by advertising at a movie theater. This is brilliant.

If a Minnesotan says to you, "I don't plan to let you do that," run.

Good morning. I read this dispatch from a comrade in Minneapolis this morning and thought that some of you might appreciate it too.

Is anyone I know going to Arisia? Which day? I’m not up for a whole weekend these days. Even one long day is hard, but I’d really like to see people.

The entire thread is horrifying. ICE needs to be abolished and prosecuted/impeached. But they don’t want us to “sit there and witness.” Much of the federal government wants us to stay home and NOT witness.

If you came out of school with and identity rooted in “being smart”, you were kind hosed, because building a replacement for that is FUCKING HARD. Easier to double down on the sense of superiority and the trappings of intellect. Adams showed us the full length of that road.

This administration, in an extremely literal sense, does not value human life

I would write a poem about what it makes you if you look Good in the face and fire your gun But she was the poet who wrote about making room for wonder And you are the one who took her words

I just went to a vigil mourning Renee Good. It was so peaceful there wasn’t even yelling. It felt inadequate, even wrong. How could we just stand there? But it should not be “Don’t mourn. Organize.” Needing to do everything includes needing to mourn.

One bright spot today was the rest of the country getting to see how awesome @danielsuitor.com is.

If you're on the Death Star, nobody cares that you only did it for the college money