Thanks; will add it to the list…

What did you think of it?

Healey moves to limit time teens can spend on social media, saying platforms are ‘hurting kids’ - The Boston Globe Governor Maura Healey said Tuesday that she wants "to take the power away from social media platforms and Big Tech companies and put it back in the hands of our young people and our families.”

I told the Globe “incredibly disappointing to hear the governor say that she supports the social media ‘ban’ legislation that just passed the House, which is completely unworkable, unconstitutional, and lets Big Tech off the hook while punishing parents and teens”
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/14/m...

"20 Percent Say Al Has Taken Over Parts of Their Job"
"Al is the Boss at This Retail Store; What Could Go Wrong?"
"Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About Al?"
"More Americans Turn to Al for Financial Advice"
"Detectives Test Out a Potential Crime-Fighting Partner: Al"

So to bring it back around: last time we needed Eversource to do underground work as part of a City project, they cost us an extra $1.5 MILLION in project delays, which makes staff understandably leery of incorporating undergrounding into projects.

To be fair, these days they scan it and keep it on file for marketing purposes indefinitely. I’d like to see that banned too!

My hobby: reading every news headline about AI as if it's talking about Weird Al Yankovic.

"Why Al's Most Important Work Won't Make Headlines This Year"
"How to Create Humble Al"
"Al Overly Affirms Users Asking for Personal Advice"
"Google is Using Al to Modify Search Headlines"

Where?

Was just a prompt; I like the first idea.

What do you call this act?

You should make them stay in the basement.

(They clearly have a different definition of "annual" than the rest of the industry.)

My ophthalmologist (OCB Boston), due to their schedule change, just moved my annual check-up from two weeks from now to June... 2027.

I wonder if I can use this at work. "Oh, our meeting Tuesday? Yeah, I'm going to need to move that to Thursday.... next May. Does that work for you?"

FWIW he’s ramping up the “why is all our space policy so dumb” long form posts, if you’re interested:

idlewords.com/2026/03/arte...

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Oh for sure, I went with the FdC 7 because I wanted more depth than I’d expect from a younger rum, but it wasn’t the right pick. I’ll try again after I get more orange bitters. I’m also thinking this could be fun with a different cane liquor, like cachaça.

I made your 2:1 with Flor de Cana 7 and find it a bit too cloying. With the OJ it would remind me of the 80s dinner party Fuzzy Navel.

Now I’m tempted to try Death & Co.’s Julius Orange with a healthy dose of Apricot Liqueur, though!

In trying to find your recipe variant, I found that the IBA Paradise is gin-based, so this is almost definitionally a martini (as long as it’s in the right glassware)! That’s 2:1:1 with OJ, and is Snoop Dogg’s “Gin and Juice”.

That’s the most surprising part for you? Not the alternating generations that reproduce asexually then sexually as sequentially hermaphroditic colonies?

Holy shit, it’s a wheel shahk, Jay!

So much of the aquatic world is so weird! I just spent the week in Coiba National Park, Panama and saw all of the life stages of the salp, which is bizarre: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salp

I also got a very close encounter with the world’s largest fish. Well, not this specific one, but…

I had some amazing knafeh in Abu Dhabi. My friend points out that this is semolina rather than kadaif, and thus is heresy.

Picture of Chuck Norris smiling with feet up. Overlay text: "Chuck Norris fought gay marriage. Gay marriage won."

B2C companies, I beg you: do not start sending me daily marketing emails as soon as I’ve ordered something from you but before I’ve received it. Instant transition from “will like this brand?” to “no”.

Actually, I could have stopped before “as soon as”….

So, like, a block party, but evil?

I get very mad it’s only available for one day a year. IT’S SO GOOD.

This looks like almost ever bar menu in Thailand 🤦‍♂️

Public Toilets in Somerville In March of 2021, City Councilor Ben Ewen-Campen submitted a resolution: “That the Administration create clean, safe, and permanent public…

Cambridge has public toilets. Somerville doesn't. Here's why.

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Thanks. How stupifyingly idiotic, but not at all surprising that the problem is Somerville ISD. Many contracting firms that work in Boston and Cambridge refuse to work in Somerville for similar reasons.

I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore.

If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.

Unfortunately now we get Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne. Not clear this will be an improvement.

Having slept on this, I sadly think this is a PR stunt to get us talking about the new “product” and he’s intentionally hamming it up as hating the food.