Erin Kane

Boston police officials dominate the list of highest-paid city workers in 2025 - The Boston Globe The top 10 highest-paid city employees were all Boston police lieutenants, captains, and sergeants, with each making more than $435,000 in 2025.

This is actually crazy:

"The 10 highest-paid city of Boston employees last year were all police who each took home more than $435,000, including their base salaries, overtime, education bonuses, and other pay. 193 BPD employees made more than $100,000 each in overtime alone."

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a circle made of hexagons, each with a small botanical design, surrounded by a wreath of leaves

Thank you!! The woman who runs The Steady Thread, which focuses on blackwork patterns, does this huge free stitchalong every year! I skipped it the last few years, but the 2023 one was also pretty wild.

the moon rising over Boston, lit by the sunset, with the frozen Charles River

There were some good moments this weekend.

This is terrible.

A piece of coral-coloree linen with a scalloped black embroidered square with a smaller square in the center and three turquoise and black embroidered squares on top

Making steady progress on my Steady Thread blackwork stitchalong, and hopefully soon it won't look quite so much like a horrified face!

🧶🧵🪡 #craftsky

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

back in 2011, i profiled a couple of soldiers who refused deployment to afghanistan, which is possible and comes at an incredibly high cost www.texasobserver.org/standing-down/

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

this might not help you, but it's perfect sundress with puffy coat weather.

Regime Change in Iran (Terms And Conditions Apply) The warmongers, once again, get the war they've sought for decades. Trump and Netanyahu leave the hard work to the people they're bombing

New from @attackerman.bsky.social on the long beginning of an illegal war:

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

This exact flavor of anger makes me feel like I'm 22 again!

The person sitting in their car outside my apartment who has been honking lengthily and intermittently is really making a difference right now.

Screenshot of statement. Full text linked in reply.

My statement on Trump's attack on Iran.

DO NOT LET ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS WALK AROUND THINKING THEIR CONSTITUENTS DON’T CARE

21 minutes ago Farnaz Fassihi The attacks have come on a Saturday morning, the first day of the week in Iran, with millions of people at work and children in school. Residents in Tehran described scenes of panic and chaos.

Tehran is a city of nine million people, with 17 million in the larger metropolitan area.

Saturday is the first day of the week for Iranians.

Millions of people are at work, and children are in school.

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

It's wild to feel like we had more power to put a stop to the escalation to war in Iraq in 2003 than we did right now. What the fuck.

I suppose thematically appropriate.

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III) - with intro - widescreen

So long, Mom! I'm off to drop the bomb, so don't wait up for me.

An affable looking enormous giant wolfhound stands with her tongue sticking out

A different giant Irish Wolfhounds stands in front of a whiteboard that says "Happy Birthday Chicken!" with several balloons

I was honored to be thwacked by the wagging tail of a celebrity (@ginormouschicken.bsky.social) who really wanted to eat my cupcake this evening

Trans New Yorkers Deserve Better Than Mamdani's Inaction On Trans Youth Care Closures The mayor has immediate steps he can take to ensure continuity of care for trans youth.

1. Its been a week since NYU Langone ended its trans youth care program.

Then Sinai followed a few days ago.

There are immediate steps Mamdani can take, and he refuses to do so. When asked about those steps, his office has chosen not to comment repeatedly.

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Unexpected crossover! Can't wait to listen to you and @cookieduh.xyz's chat!

Jewish Family Service of WMass, 6 refugees, sue DHS over new Trump policy Various agencies and refugees in Massachusetts are suing the Department of Homeland Security over Trump's “Refugee Detention Policy,” which states that refugees applying for green cards must return to...

The “Refugee Detention Policy” states “if a refugee does not submit an application for lawful permanent resident status and appear for an interview after one year in the United States, they can be detained for an unspecified amount of time.”

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

"He cannot use a phone. He doesn’t know his address, he doesn’t know phone numbers, he can’t communicate, he can’t see. And they just left him.”

I had to renegotiate my F99/K00 award twice in 6 months, and on both occasions I asked what specifically “DEI activities” means. I didn’t get clear answers, so I was hopeful the person that directive came from could specify (the NIH Director). I asked the on @whyshoulditrustyou.bsky.social podcast

I'm seeing an awful lot of baby-primates-as-pets content being shared by people who were briefly obsessed with Punch, and it's bizarre watching the primatology equivalent of the algorithm pushing people to watch far right propaganda videos because they liked hockey highlights or something.