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My relationship with the Red Sox? It’s complicated I’ve always had a weakness for Fenway in September, writes Roberto Scalese, whose relationship with the Red Sox went south after they traded Mookie Betts. When I heard you may even make the playoffs t...

For everyone with a love/hate/love/hate/dammit! Why?!/ relationship with the Sox, this essay by my friend @bertoscalese.bsky.social is for you: ⚾️ www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

My relationship with the Red Sox? It’s complicated I’ve always had a weakness for Fenway in September, writes Roberto Scalese, whose relationship with the Red Sox went south after they traded Mookie Betts. When I heard you may even make the playoffs t...

A relationship with the Red Sox ... it's complicated. Amazing piece via @bertoscalese.bsky.social @wbur.org www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

WBUR Presents: The 2025 Makers The natural world has been a powerful muse for artists across the ages, and in our present era, engaging with our environment is more urgent than ever. Meet 10 local artists of color who are foregroun...

Meet the @wbur.org 2025 Makers, 10 artists of color foregrounding the environment — its beauty and its fragility — in their work.

My relationship with the Red Sox? It’s complicated I’ve always had a weakness for Fenway in September, writes Roberto Scalese, whose relationship with the Red Sox went south after they traded Mookie Betts. When I heard you may even make the playoffs t...

I quit on the Red Sox after they traded Mookie Betts. Now I’m getting that old feeling again, but getting back together with the Sox is harder than it seems. So I wrote the team a letter:

Hundreds were detained in ICE's Burlington office for multiple days, data shows ICE has said it's rare for people to be detained inside its Burlington field office for more than a few hours, but a new WBUR analysis finds that hundreds were detained for more than a day this past s...

Hundreds of people have been held at the Burlington ICE field office - a place not meant for overnight stays @wbur.org @miriamwasser.bsky.social and data crunched by @twallack.bsky.social @bertoscalese.bsky.social www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...

Poster for the film Charade, which shows Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn running while surrounded by swirling red arrows

OH MY GOD

Unbelievably chaotic combination of fonts here

Boston City Hall is officially a landmark Love it or hate it, Boston City Hall is historic. There's now paperwork to that effect.

Whether you are among the people who hate it or you're among the people who are wrong, Boston's brutalist City Hall is now a historic landmark. Check this out from @bertoscalese.bsky.social:

www.wbur.org/news/2025/01...

A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Me: I will just relax for a few minutes by playing a mindless game on my phone

Phone: Cool, every 90 seconds you will just need to watch a little animated snuff film featuring a mother and child freezing to death, or a king slowly being crushed against a spiky wall by piles of falling rubble

I gave up after the Mookie trade and have been waiting for them to pull me back ever since. Haven’t felt a tug.

NBC News implying Luigi was violent bc he played Among Us

Begging the legacy media to hire journalists who have logged on just once in their life

I gave up on the Red Sox after the Mookie trade. In their place, I started watching the Premiere League and ended up following Tottenham. It’s like the part of my brain that interprets pain must always be fed.

Water your real Christmas tree.

5 things to know about Councilor Fernandes Anderson's arrest If you're catching up on Friday's news in Boston, you've missed a lot. Here are five things to know about the arrest and charges filed against Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson.

Here are five things to know about the arrest and charges filed against Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson.

I once took a flight to DC that had to fly around a storm, which added like 90 minutes of in-air time. So I pretty much know what these two are going through

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I've updated the Boston News and Journalists Starter Pack again; we're close to maxing this pack out! And if you would rather follow a list, I've made on of those too!

Starter park: go.bsky.app/DcD4DaT

Boston Journos list: bsky.app/profile/bert...

Mass. senator who blocked Boston property tax bill saw flood of real estate donations South Boston Sen. Nick Collins’ campaign committee collected $17,200 in contributions from real estate interests in November, state campaign finance records show, representing more than three-quarters...

The lone state senator to block a vote this week on a compromise bill that would raise taxes on Boston commercial property owners received a rush of campaign donations from real estate interests over the past two months, public records show.

Massive away win for the little fella.

With Trump, New Bedford's fishermen hope for better times Trump made big gains in New Bedford in the recent election, a storied working-class city which overwhelmingly supported Biden just four years ago. Fishermen say they feel the Democratic party has forg...

Trump made big gains in New Bedford in the recent election, a storied working-class city which overwhelmingly supported Biden just four years ago. Fishermen say they feel the Democratic party has forgotten them.

The sole reason Gen-Xers will live to be 100…

Sleep well Darth we will remember the doggos are innocent of all crimes until you return. And after you return.

Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots.

To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.

The First Black Friday, by William Bradford And after the feaste, which did consist of water-fowl, and cod and bass and other fishes, and a great many wylde turkeys, the people of Plymouth di...

"Shoes of sturdy leather were to be had for the low, low sum of a single raccoon’s pelt, and milking cow discounts did flood with joye anyone able to parse the true meaning of 'half-off.'"

Bears blow time management before firing guy infamous for blowing time management

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A line chart showing the number of trips per bike per day. There is a black line for e-bikes and a blue line for "classic" (non electric assist) bikes. The black line ranges from ~3 trips/bike/day in January to almost 10 trips/bike/day in October. The blue line ranges from ~1 trip/bike/day in January to almost 4 trips/bike/day in September.

A bar chart comparing the median trip distance of e-bikes and classic bikes (non-electric) by month. It shows that e-bike trips are 20-30% longer in distance each month compared to classic bikes. E-bike trip distances range from 1.3mi (January) to 1.57mi (June). Classic bike trip distances range from 1.09mi (February) to 1.24mi (June).

Reviewing our first year of data about e-bikes in the Bluebikes public bike share system. e-bikes get used much more frequently and people travel farther on them. Those things are workhorses.

Literally won’t rewatch Neverending Story nearly 40 years after seeing it