Celebrating

My two pre-orders just showed up! One is going to my kid’s favorite teacher (who teaches your poetry to his 6th graders) tomorrow morning. Can’t wait to read it.

The recipe is best (and written for) Italian prune plums, some of the last seasonal produce in grocery shops. They are the perfect harbinger of fall.
Yes, wedge them in, they will settle and be perfect.

I thought we got rid of international aid?

Only the best people

Oh wow, we’ve got Yoo on record questioning legality of executive actions huh?

Today, September 16, is Primary Election Day. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Vote-by-mail ballots must be placed in a dropbox before 6 p.m. or hand-delivered to Elections at City Hall (93 Highland Ave.) before 8 p.m.

Learn more and check your polling location at somervillema.gov/elections.

Only the best people, and apparently the best words.

For some reason the acronym AUMF is stuck in my head, what was it again? An Unauthorized Mistaken Folly? Absolutely the Ugliest Messed-up Foolishness?

No thank you. All full up with terrible news right now.

Trying to get lists of other resources so people who need them know about them and people who can support them can start/keep doing so.

Trump Administration Will End L.G.B.T.Q. Suicide Prevention Service

Truly disgusting. Can people please publicize other respurces so we can support them?
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...

12 months ago I didn’t mind checking on my investments and rather enjoyed reading the domestic news. Something’s changed…

Ugh, if only there had been a carefully-negotiated multi-lat agreement that could have regulated Iran’s nuclear development in a rational and monitored way.

I’ve been charged by police horses while protesting peacefully in a thick crowd-one of the more terrifying experiences of my life. Hoping everyone in LA stays safe-we are all watching thanks to people like @jeremotographs.bsky.social

Oh thank god

Ooh, ooh, do Robert F. Kennedy next!!!

“…or a combination of both”

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

There’s something about this guy and landscaping company parking lots. #neverforgetFourSeasonsTotalLandscaping

…and then Weird Al does a send-up of the Tay Tay song. Here for it.

Wikipedia definition of "idiot plot": In literary criticism, an idiot plot is one which is "kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot",[1]: 26  and where the story would quickly end, or possibly not even happen, if this were not the case.

I was unaware of this literary device and I LOVE IT

Evergreen gif, adeptly deployed

Retweet AND an endorsement

Jessie's running for school committee in Somerville, Ward 3! After being married to her for approximately 100 years, I'm certain she will be a wonderful addition to the committee. She is far more competent and professional than me and has worked in and around education policy for much of her career.

This was really fun to watch

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Nah, just look at our froggy friends in Hungary, Turkey, El Salvador, etc: they seem just fine with their pools’ temps.

Sometimes I like to remember the good old days when most people couldn’t tell you the difference between emollients and emoluments. Like “damn, those founding fathers must have really been into skincare”