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Amid unsettled times in Washington, Mass. collects $2b more in tax revenue than expected thanks to millionaires tax - The Boston Globe Healey administration officials said Friday that Massachusetts collected $2 billion more in tax revenue than officials originally projected in the fiscal year that ended last month.

Fair Share continues to outperform. #mapoli

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/08/m...

So good, but tbh my heart is with my short-legged and sweaty comrade Brad Lander on this one.

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

A.J. Spears Funeral Home plans to close in 2026, six stories of homes possible under new zoning - Cambridge Day A.J. Spears Funeral Home is expected to close operations at 124 Western Ave., Riverside, starting next year, 62 years after its founding in 1964.

I'm remote attending to the Cambridge Historical Commission meeting today, as the A.J. Spears Funeral Home (124 &132 Western Ave) is up for demo review.

These two properties will be sold to developer DND Homes to become a 6 story bldg w/50-60 homes, 20% affordable, contingent on demo permits.

the thing that trans people ask of the world is so tiny, really. just to be able to exist as the person they are, without the rest of us being weird or cruel about it. it's a deep shame on our society that we are unable to deliver on so small a thing.

Thanks so much for reporting on this! I can’t believe how selfish people are being—a year delay is not insignificant for someone who’s 90+ years old

We had to separate the cats because Basil starting going into my room in order to track Oscar down and bully him, rather than just bullying him if she happened upon him, and she is crying so sadly from cat jail (the kitchen) right now.

The GHF-run food distributions in Gaza, Palestine, have become sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation”, not humanitarian aid. A new MSF report documents the horrors witnessed by MSF staff at two clinics that regularly received mass influxes of casualties following violence at sites run by the GHF. MSF calls for the immediate dismantling of the GHF scheme and the restoration of the UN-coordinated aid delivery mechanism.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF):

GHF-run ‘aid’ sites are sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation.”

“In MSF’s nearly 54 years of operations, rarely have we seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilians.”

www.msf.org/ghf-run-food...

A Case of Bromism Influenced by Use of Artificial Intelligence | Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases Ingestion of bromide can lead to a toxidrome known as bromism. While this condition is less common than it was in the early 20th century, it remains important to describe the associated symptoms and r...

I think I’ll be referencing this case study in my classes this fall: ChatGPT poisoned somebody by telling him to swap in sodium bromide as a substitute for table salt. “For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT”

AI nowhere near human level at making up fake Massachusetts town names

Standing and walking! Somehow still underrated, even though I was rating them pretty highly already!

What’s rude is that moving around right now—whether it’s on my crutches or scooter or peg leg—requires so much fucking effort and yet my leg muscles have visibly atrophied on the surgery side because I’m not standing or walking normally

Sorry to my friends

If I were the manager or GM of the Mets, I'd make it mandatory that the whole team goes to a screening of The Naked Gun once they get to Milwaukee and then have dinner together afterward to butcher all of their favorite jokes from said film.

It’s ok if it’s made from beef tallow. I wish I were kidding

*finger on monkeys paw curls*
ME: wait what? i didn't wish for anything. uncurl right now, I didnt wish for shit.
*other finger on monkeys paw curls*
ME: hey come on! cut it out! i'm not wishing! *trying to uncurl one of the fingers while another starts curling up* god damn it i'm not WISHING

And we’ve apparently run out of names for things. Tlooto. Tloooooooooto

Jfc they really keep finding new and innovative ways to make hiring as demoralizing as possible

We saw this in Massachusetts with fear-mongering over the millionaire's tax, and yet...

www.masslive.com/politics/202...

I feel pretty smart if it turns out that they also publish the numbers the way I naively thought they should, even though reading about them will inevitably explain why my way is less useful

If you don’t mind subtitles (or understand Welsh), Fferm Ffactor is a farm-based game show. Last I saw, S4C had a bunch of seasons available for international viewers.

Good intel, thanks!

Oh damn, I keep meaning to go there but now I’m extra motivated. I hope they still have the cold ramen when I can walk down stairs again

Yeah he really needed someone else to pick the books. The whole timeline changes if he reads like, Moby Dick instead of airport self-help.

You know you’re in too deep when you BYO clipboard

tweet from Cambridge Police "Incident Update- CPD Peacefully Resolves 18-Hour Standoff - Broadway at Windsor St. Read more in this incident: camb.ma/4fkqrMc" images of militarized cops, cop cars, and an apartment building

The Cambridge Police (still exclusively on X, naturally) are furiously spinning this debacle. After hours of antagonizing community members, they teargassed a low-income apartment building with NO WARNING. An elderly resident & a baby were sent to the hospital, and dozens suffered while CPD watched.

Fact: You can identify a copy editor in the wild by checking them for staple scars

That the modern manosphere is heavily shaped by now divorced Gen X/Xennial guys angry specifically because it became socially unacceptable to behave how they did in the 90's without consequence should be example enough regarding what the culture was actually like back then.

Is Werewolf Gimmick by The Mountain Goats a little too on the nose?

Elderly driver charged in crash that killed Gloucester teenager - The Boston Globe The man allegedly drove his car on Route 128 in the wrong direction for five miles before the crash.

This entire story is awful, but I'd urge you to read it because the details of this crash are a powerful argument that we absolutely need to do something regarding the licensing of older drivers.