I have this anxiety. Like, what if I'm a big deal someday, and haters comb through the tweets I drunk-posted or depressed-posted 20 years ago Thankfully(?) I'm not really on a trajectory to be a big deal, so it's likely no one will bother. Somehow that also feels bad.

don’t worry guys, bluesky can be perfect so long as we all get along. first things first, we just need to agree to wake in the morning and step outside and take deep breath and get real high and scream from the top of our lungs WHAT'S GOING ON???

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

CHOTINER: So you ate the plums. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: I ate the plums. CHOTINER: ... CHOTINER: Okay.

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#Boston to offer free vaccines at series of clinics www.boston.gov/government/c...

This blog post mirrors my observations of the encampment at MIT. I wish I had been as effective in a debate with a group of my erstwhile friends. That whole email thread *still* pisses me off, like it was a betrayal of values I thought we shared. Like, idk, it changed my views of society.

if you can look at it without catching poster’s madness, the list of who actually gets engagement here is pretty interesting. somewhat dire at the top but quickly it’s real and high quality posters. bluefacts.app/top-reach

Falling asleep on the couch? Try this one simple hack to wake yourself up instantly: go to bed

Very, very disappointed that my rep, Katherine Clark, is among them @whipkclark.bsky.social

I don't know, but I have a dentist appointment because I knocked out a filling while flossing over the weekend. So

they should invent a potato peeler you can find

Goddammit, I was sure Trump had never heard of Seth Meyers, but I guess someone told him that if he stayed up past midnight there was another show for him to hate watch as a loser who'll never be able to take a joke. What even is life if you can't laugh at yourself. What a miserable existence

My hot take is that there's a consumer market people who want to use AI to write essays for school, make art for ads, write novels to put on Amazon, etc. But there's not really a market for the products made by the people who use AI

definitely Profiles in Courage here

Maybe I should be glad that my favorite late night host is not popular enough for Trump to notice him? And this despite the fact that he seems to speak truth to power more than Kimmel and Colbert.

There is no conspiracy to pin this on. There’s just a boy, who loved a girl, who got sick of someone’s hateful fucking bullshit and decided to punch him in the neck with a rifle. If I were one of the people who’s profited off this awful bullshit for the past forever, I’d be shitting .30-06 bricks.

This debate reminds me of an anecdote in the book The Wedding Complex. A gay activist is talking about a conspiracy theory about the government creating AIDS to target gay men, and the author answers something like "Do you really need this conspiracy to be true to know the government is homophobic?"

How the hell does he look so good under fluorescent lighting??? Fucking hell

I'm seeing some people post this and not realize this is PART of the radicalization. Building an audience from reasonable sounding videos and converting them into the pipeline. Weiss is doing this now as I get The Free Press ads about things like "low tech parenting" and workout fads.

From Rachel Hurley's page

I've been laughing at this for several minutes now. I love it

If either of these fools shows up in Valhalla my Viking ancestors will kick their asses every single night

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

TIL GEICO stands for Government Employees Insurance Company I don't know what I expected, but not that

They have not kicked me out yet

I trimmed my rabbit's fur around her eyes because she's a long-haired angora mix, and if I don't trim it back, she won't be able to see. Let's just say, based on the result, I have much more sympathy for my mom for that one time she cut my sister's hair too short

Massachusetts, let's do it!

See, this is what we need for our new Massachusetts state flag: a design so iconic that people in Belgium could recognize it

Can New England band together to cover the costs to finish this?

I am intrigued github.com/samhenrigold...

My Chemical Romance at Fenway We got here in time to catch the end of the opener

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

"Chipocalypse" sounds like what happens when a kid who's too young to read and wants only one flavor of chip goes through a cabinet searching for that one flavor by ripping all the bags open

NEW: Massachusetts becomes first state to impose its own vaccine coverage rules

I wish there were a commuter rail or similar across Massachusetts. I used to have to take a bus to visit home in the Springfield area when I was a student in the Boston area. A train would have been much nicer. I would rather take a train than drive, even.

Are we buying vaccines in bulk for Massachusetts? We should follow Pritzker's lead here if we aren't already stocking up @massgovernor.bsky.social

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

In lieu of making alumni donations, I'll support student causes directly. I haven't been donating to MIT since they closed Senior House, anyway. Zahrat Alhanun Mutual Aid --- Survival Fund For Families in Gaza chuffed.org/project/1201...

So, today is August 29, but my car was just towed because someone needs the spot for a van on August 30?? I'm wicked pissed, @cambridgemass.bsky.social Do you not know what day it is? If cars must be moved a day before, the sign should say that! Now I have to go pay $108 just to get it back 😡😡😡😡

Here is a rare specimen: a former athlete whomst is good politically

It’s crazy that America just like. Destroyed science. Just looked at its golden goose and went “wow should we kill this? And not for the gold, but just because we fucking hate this thing” And if you tell random people about it they go “no, that doesn’t seem true” and just refuse to believe you

I love Ms. Rachel! Ms. Rachel >>> Cocomelon > AI-generated garbage on YT

Massachusetts state flag suggestions reactions thread! You can see the full list of submissions at this link. I'm not going to react to all of them, because there are 1147 pages of suggested flags, mottos, or both. www.mass.gov/doc/massachu...

Massachusetts state flag submissions! Some of these are hilarious. I might do a thread later with my favorites and comments on them, because as a Baystater, I Have Opinions. www.mass.gov/doc/massachu...

hypothetically, if fucking a dog meant that there would definitely be 2026 elections, i would ask how you know the causality of that relationship, because if you can't explain how it verifiably does+will work, i gotta be real with you, it just sounds like you're looking for permission to fuck a dog.

This is good advice in general and not just in the context of this thread