If you follow me, you know we've been looking for a new place. We recently decided to switch gears and start looking to buy instead of rent. (Related: two gently used kidneys for sale. Great price.) Today I learned my husband has never heard of a Pittsburgh Toilet. And I got to explain it.

Two Hundred And Forty Seven

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I've been in a relationship with intimate partner violence that was never as direct as like, punching me in the face, but did involve physical intimidation & force. I am old and healed enough now to know all of that was real abuse, but that took time. When you downplay that shit victims see it.

RANK ALL THREE OF THEM IN WHICHEVER ORDER YOU PREFER (make sure to write Andrea LaFlamme in the Write-in field).

Platner told everyone who he was so early on. How many times do we need to learn this lesson that when people tell you who they are, believe them.

They dropped Unitarians? I guess the Pentagon no longer recognizes Boston as a place either...

I recently took a history walk through Beacon Hill that involved a lot of the Black history of the neighborhood. This tiny neighborhood was at the center of Black abolitionist Boston, according to the historian who guided us. I hope they find this racist coward.

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Hey, that's me!

In which my reporter turns the tables on me and interviews me and then I have to let go and let someone else edit the article and not touch a damn thing — not even a comma — before publication. *twitch* editor control issues *twitch*

New! Our staff brings talks to an advocate on how news must work better for audiences who are deafblind during Deafblind Awareness Month. the-word.news/2026/0604/de...

New! From @akinyelemichael.bsky.social, how Global Accessibility Awareness Day made him take a close look at news accessibility at home. the-word.news/2026/0604/gl...

New! From @thewritestuff0.bsky.social, a profile of American Sign Language news outlet The Daily Moth. the-word.news/2026/0604/da...

I made it through last-week-of-the-month-first-week-of-the-month in which all of my deadlines and work seen to fall in a two week period and at the end of it I and my team produce you all a magazine. Woohoo! (I sleep now.)

I have such a busy summer ahead of me. But it is so worth it.

For me, this is so exciting. It's been a long-time coming. It was something we couldn't focus until we (thanks to some accidental downtime) we finally had the time to do. 1/

“We remain focused on bringing accessibility to the journalism industry and to public-facing news products across the industry.”

Ok. We've made you wait long enough. It's time to finally tell you. equalaccesspublicmedia.org/press-releas...

Up is down. www.chronicle.com/article/vyin...

[Voiceover guy] In a state... Where being more progressive matters to voters... One Democrat challenges a progressive stalwart from his right flank with wish-washy positions... And comes out with a quarter of the support of the state party... And calls it a win...

(2:11 p.m. *Boom!!!*) Mr. Kess: What was that? Me: Probably upstairs neighbor dropping something. Mr. Kess: Yeah. You’re right. …So anyway, as I was saying… Meanwhile…

United States of America! Let me offer you an alternative to the mealy-mouthed whatever the hell this is. 1. Protect the diversity that are the people of this country! 2. Tax millionaires and billionaires! 3. Make quality healthcare, childcare, and education universal and a right! 1/many

The insistence of people not directly harmed by a prejudice to refer to that prejudice as ‘opinion’, and to paint the people being harmed as just unwilling to agree to disagree like grownups do, is a fucking plague on society.

Alternate headline: I-95 outside Boston, always a fucking disaster, will be more fucking ridiculous during World Cup thanks to Uber

Me, three hours ago: Look at me being all ahead of schedule on all my things! Me, now: Well, I'm behind, I'm screwed, I may as well just give up now. Something something best laid plans and all...

Me, attempting to reach about an apartment. AI email #1: gives me info on an apartment in a completely different city My reply: link to ad AI reply: address is just a meeting place, but apartment is in a different neighborhood My reply: Is this a bait and switch? AI reply: How can I help you?

Go kids of Eastie! (And I've yes, I've tried to cross Orleans as a pedestrian, and I thought I was gonna die.)

"Trump's lawsuit said the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper tarnished his reputation..." Oh, honey. This is far from the thing that tarnished your reputation.

Extremely sad news everyone: The Wegmans grape fizzy water tastes like children's chewable grape flavored medicine in the worst possible way.

Texas voters failing to understand how the Senate functions. Delightful. Read on, friends.

The highlighted sentence in which we erase a disabled Asian woman, mother, and veteran who has time and time again stood up for disability rights in the Senate. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Where do I sign up to volunteer for the Phase I trials?

...but ...but she "dated a Jewish guy," so apparently her anti-Semitic statements of "elections are controlled by Jewish money" and ICE detention camps should be used to detain and castrate people she deems "Zionists" can't be anti-Semitic! *screams*

"This mass denial of care (and, in many cases, forceable detransition) was accompanied, predictably, by an explosion in the suicide rate amoung trans young people." Transphobia is deadly. I just hope cis people still possess hearts and souls sufficient enough to wake up at last and stop this evil.

When people start talking about bathroom laws, it turns to politics very quickly. The former nurse in me immediately starts thinking about UTIs (which can lead to worse infections) and bladder damage. Just read Sandy's Cosmo piece. He confirmed my fears for my trans siblings. 1/

Hey folks, new accessibility-enhanced Bsky DM option just dropped.

Imagine a world where more people invite random strangers to dinner for taco night...

As is often said, the cruelty is the point.

I hate this timeline.

Every time I ask my friend if he and fam plan to stay in the U.S. or move back (considering the state of shit in the U.S. right now), he brings up Danielle Smith. He literally would rather deal with our fucked-up anti-immigrant issues than Albertan separatists issues.

We hope you'll join us in recognizing Global Accessibility Awareness Day. EAPM is focused on improving accessibility in the field of journalism and in public-facing news. Join us in our mission. www.equalaccesspublicmedia.org #GAAD #GAAD15 #MakeItAccessible #NewsForAll

"A burly security guard" Really WaPo? Because the words I've heard applied to Amin Abdullah are: • Hero • Shining light • Martyr • Dedicated community member • Father of eight beloved children But, yeah, burly security guard. Just...

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Hey Boston area friends! My occupational therapist and I are custom building a mobility device for me. We've prototyped a part. We now need it fabricated. Could be fabricated out of lightweight metal or on a 3D printer (plastic). Are you able to make it? Do you know someone? Reply!

I've told this story before. I was at a journalism conference in 1999, and in a small round table, some of the elders looked into the crystal balls and said, the internet will save news! /sad trombone

A thread. A couple of weeks ago, my husband and i attended an evening Episcopal service and book talk. It was open to the public. (Neither of us are Christian.) They didn't have security guard. 1/

I don't even remember how long ago I first came across Alex and his work. But @thexylom.com — his project, his baby — is fiscally sponsored by ANF, the same fiscal sponsor as @equalaccesspublicmedia.org. Which means we're nonprofit family. And now I'm pissed. Go support @alexip718.com.