And now Joe Grafton is gone. A founder of Somerville Local First and Together Boston music festival, Joe helped a lot of local businesses and brought so much good electronic music to the city. Truly one of those smiles you see across a crowded room. I will miss bullshitting with him about the Pats.

You know how they treat women and gay people there right? That’s what this here bomb is going to solve.

Before D.C. Airport Collision, Lawmakers Brushed Off Warnings And Boosted Flights Despite midflight near-misses and dire pleas, airline-bankrolled lawmakers recently expanded flight traffic at Washington’s busy airport.

🚨BREAKING: Months before tonight's fatal DC plane crash, lawmakers brushed off dire safety warnings & passed an industry-backed bill adding more flight traffic at the airport.

"Increasing slots at this airport undermines safety," an opponent pleaded.

i’m sure there’s a message behind my pattern of only coming on here once every two months

hello again

Libraries are precious and beautiful and must be defended

hello and welcome to the 1M people that have joined Bluesky in the last week!!!

welcome, fellow maniacs

Congressional Staffers Instructed To Smash Any Phone That Receives Calls About Palestine WASHINGTON—With a clear majority of their constituents demanding a ceasefire, members of Congress instructed staffers on Monday to smash any phone that received a call about Palestine. “Should vot...

"Should voters attempt to reach you to express their opposition to hostilities in Gaza, please make sure the device on which they contact you is shattered into thousands of little pieces."

Opinion | Israel and Hamas close in on a deal to free dozens of hostages The Qatari-mediated agreement could include a humanitarian pause in fighting and the release of some Palestinian women and young people from Israeli prisons.

New from WaPo: “Israel and Hamas are close to a hostage deal that would free most of the Israeli women and children who were kidnapped Oct. 7, according to a high-ranking Israeli official. The agreement could be announced within days if final details are resolved, he said.”

resurfacing the shaun king episode of scam goddess so everyone remembers what a giant grifter he is spotify.link/VQ0Gx3qt5Db

I would like to thank Bushwick for being just small enough that I can take an Uber for $10 anywhere in the neighborhood 🙏

We haven’t even fully reconciled with the millions of lives lost globally from Covid. We’ve collectively pushed so hard to “get back to normal” when those numbers are so so huge. We are all still traumatized from that, but can’t recover before yet another disaster. Wars, guns, climate change. Ugh

Jfc. This is going to be mass murder right before our eyes. Where are they supposed to go??

Gaza faces humanitarian catastrophe as power plant remains without fuel Israeli forces continue pounding the Gaza Strip, killing at least 1,100 Palestinians.

“Israel’s decision to deprive Palestinian civilians living in Gaza of access to basic needs violates international law, former Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth said.”

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

A golden horseshoe crab scuttling along a muddy sea floor at night with three golden travellie fish following along.

AND HERE IT IS!!

This year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year has been awarded to this *gorgeous* picture of a tri-spine horseshoe crab taken by Laurent Ballesta!

Absolutely obsessed with how much it looks like some sort of alien spaceship 🎉🌿🧪
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.

People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.
www.wired.com/story/x-isra...

abolish the infographic industrial complex

an innate leo 💅🏼

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I really, really hate removing headlines for link cards. It’s seriously hard enough to get people to click and read through stories as is

going to japan tomorrow. vote for your boy Colin Domigan for dance/electronic artist of the year at the Boston music awards

bostonmusicawards.com/vote/

don’t worry everyone, we’ve got it handled! 🫠

The ’Once Daily Jardiance’ Commercials Are Making Me Lose My Mind WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?

THE JARDIANCE COMMERCIALS ARE MAKING ME INSANE

I WROTE ABOUT IT INSTEAD OF GOING TO THERAPY

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Plan a horror fest using only your first name:

Scream
Annabelle
Rosemary's Baby
Annihilation
Hellraiser

I have arrived.