Petition to make Thanksgiving through New Year's an extended holiday so you don't have to work.

Getting back to Work Schedule tomorrow morning is going to be brutal.

It's 5:05PM. Sunset was at 4:13PM. One of my neighbors is currently leaf blowing.

Welcome to the time of year when I listen *exclusively* to Christmas music.

Got his towel already for the cookout Hopes the show ends soon He wants his plate

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This year's dog show makes me feel like I'm watching Best in Show or Pitch Perfect if it were about dogs. "Like I say, if the judge picks through all that hair and only finds on eye they've got the wrong end of the dog"

just use the fucking library.

Congrats fellas. (But seriously, it's been a rough fall for UMass.)

Hot take: Petsi Pies isn't/aren't that good.

*lookin' at tonight's City Council agenda* Oh. Uh, yeah, I think I'll skip tonight's meeting live and just catch the video at some point. I'm reading a good book anyway.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Wanna play a fun Black Friday game? Put some stuff you want or are planning to buy from Amazon in your cart now and watch the prices go up a bit before Friday. (It's more fun when you start doing this earlier in November but I've been busy and forgot to tell you you should play too.)

This makes me so damn glad I canceled my subscription*. *Full disclosure: I canceled it in 2022 because they were giving a platform to anti-mask, anti-COVID protection measure think pieces.

I'd probably use StoryGraph more if it would let me tag books I listen to as "audiobooks."

And the federal contractors. And the federally-funded researchers.

Just quick holiday shopping tip: DO IT NOW & if you can during a store's off hours. You'll get better service & have more selection than when it gets crazy later AND making the crazy times a little less crazy means better service then too!

So that's 25% off masks and test kits with code BFM25 through 11/28. bonafidemasks.com

Mark Niedergang would be so disappointed if he could hear how many leaf blowers have been going in my neighborhood throughout the day today. (But seriously, why do we even have a leaf blower ordinance?)

16 NOVEMBER 1775, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: Henry Knox, new head of the Continental Army’s artillery, departs Continental headquarters with his brother William on the mission that will take him to Fort Ticonderoga, to retrieve the cannon captured from the garrison there.

I'm so excited for Mayor Jake Wilson. Curtatone leading Transition Team 💪. And this quote: “...I’m a data guy. Everyone likes to say they love data. I really love data and I love centering data when we’re going about looking at how best to attack a problem.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/16/m...

I miss the days when the nastiness in Somerville politics was about if someone did cocaine with someone's sister and that the FBI was about to arrest the mayor or something.

This article makes me want to be The Best Recycler I Can Be.

Best. Art. Crime. Costume. (from Hailey Fuqua, a Boston coloratura soprano: www.instagram.com/p/DQhrnW9kpx...)

Healthcare is a human right. Democratic Senators should fight for it like lives depend on it because they do.

I am SO happy about this.

Word from Willie Burnley Jr.'s party at the Crystal Ballroom in Davis Square: The councilor has conceded his run for Somerville mayor to Jake Wilson, who has 52.2 percent of the vote to Burnley's 46 percent in the latest figures from election officials. #Somerville

Here are the latest incomplete initial results of tonight's election. 3 precincts are still outstanding and delayed- full results to come as soon as available.

Our team is here to help - if you need a ride to the rolls, send us a DM or head to jakeforsomerville.org/voting and we’ll will be happy to help you out

I try not to rejoice at any death, but…there are exceptions to every rule.

I turned on the heat.

There's such a fascinating, frustrating tension around suing over your work being used in LLMs and how the settlements in these things normalize the idea that companies can do this anyway and just get a slap on the wrist for it.

Incredibly honored to have received the endorsement of the Boston Globe Editorial Board @bostonglobe.com

Sports are meant to be endured, never enjoyed.

Top 3 after 2 listens: The Fate of Ophelia, Actually Romantic, Wood.

I have a lot of stuff to do outside so I need it to be less humid. When is it going to be less humid?

Thats it?!

It must suck to assume that everyone (literally *everyone*) is acting in bad faith. (Ed. note: This is a response to a post on a community Discord server that I check in on but absolutely refuse to participate in. Because...well, ⬆️)

What's your favorite Taylor Swift song right now? Mine is Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince. That little piano contribution just tickles my brain in the right way.

So far, Jake has picked up Ben Ewen-Campen (I think?) and Matt McLaughlin since last night.

Oh man, I can't wait for the new round of endorsements to drop. 🤓

👍

Y’know, it feels really good to get a politics win.

Pretty loud statement from the city that over 75% of voters said "not the current mayor" even before the general election.

Here are the rest of those unofficial results.

Unofficial results in Somerville suggest mayor Katjana Ballantyne has been outvoted by her two challengers in a preliminary election – and the November race may well be among two councilors. #Somerville

(Can I come back to BSky and just have it be all local politics? I think I’m missing that.)

The lack of intermittent election results as the night progresses is something that will always really, really annoy me about Somerville.

So I'm just, like, taking a peek at the headlines today and...can someone fucking DO something!?

Here's a brief post sharing my picks in tomorrow's preliminary election. In case you don't feel like reading all those words, I recommend Jake Wilson for Mayor, and Will Mbah, Holly Simione, and Marianne Walles for at-large. medium.com/@fdmts/somer...