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It's bike weather again! I went out for a short ride and got hot chocolate from my local ice cream stand

Massachusetts' first data center moratorium just passed (unanimously!!).
Leaders with Honest Future for Lowell have been organizing against the Markley Group's unchecked expansion in their neighborhood.

Anyways confusing people (including yourself) with terms feels extremely on brand for bisexuals and pansexuals

I struggled with the distinction for a bit before I read 'oh people over 40 just prefer the term bisexual since that was what they grew up with, you don't need to overthink it, just use the term you like more'

also I like the bi pride colors more, they're so good 🩷💜💙

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

Went for a walk around town this morning. Ruminated on job, self, family, world, humanity. Went to the greasy spoon diner and had biscuits and gravy. Visited my neighbor. Came home. Wrote some scattered rambling thoughts...

Laying back and listening to an audiobook with my wife now.

I made it to my sabbatical. Finished getting a rough draft of a paper ready and submitted, handed off tasks to other folks, and headed out. I now have 8 weeks off and... not much planned!

It's both exciting and terrifying... stay tuned!

Congrats!

fair! Drop me a dm if you ever want to make it 4 different ex-cohost groups

(On a completely different topic, did you ever get the info on the Boston based former cohost discord that popped up after the meetup in 2024? It's not super active but they're good folks.)

I sorta feel this (well not all of it, but some.) I've been at my job long enough where I can take a sabbatical, so... that's what I'm doing. But just going into to the office these days leaves me fried...

New glasses today!

(I am color coordinated with my bathroom, apparently...)

Fun fact, it was filmed at a summer camp near where my wife grew up in the Poconos (Northeast Pennsylvania)

She knew some kids who played extras from her high school, and apparently the owners of the summer camp had no idea what the movie was and were a bit horrified when it came out

Tonight was the final push rally at Cobblestones in Lowell for Rep. Vanna Howard in the First Middlesex State Senate special election race! Next week, on Tuesday March 3rd, voters of Dracut, Dunstable, Lowell, Pepperell and Tyngsborough will go to the polls to pick our next state senator! #mapoli

BREAKING:
The @cambridgemass.bsky.social City Council just voted unanimously to discontinue using X. Thank you @councilloralzubi.bsky.social for putting this forward!

Highlight was the fire sculptures, which included an electric drum kit hooked into a propane controller that kids could use. Teaching small children to play with fire; heartwarming!

Went to Winterfest in Lowell, MA today -- they're celebrating the city's 200th birthday and it was nice to vibe with!

FLEET WIN IN OT SHOOTOUT! 💚💚💚

Your opposition to war can just be that war is evil. it doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.

The charge just got two goals on Frankel in 2 minutes... I cursed it :(

Watchin @thepwhl.com @bostonfleet.com vs @pwhlcharge.bsky.social -- go Frankel!

screenshot of a tv user guide, showing two channels under Tue 8PM: MSNOW - State of the union TCM East- Gaslight

Masterful Troll, TCM.

Survived the snowstorm yesterday. Took a trip downtown this morning before work to get some coffee. Tried to make myself look cute.

Need to really get in gear and write my paper; 9 days left until SABBATICAL!

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

Twitter screenshot: "bisexuality is just being attracted to all women and 4 very specific types of men"

I struggled with identifying as bi for a long time because I felt similarly. I definitely had types but I think the fact that a lot of masculine culture is steeped in garbage left me more confused since dudes in general were just gross. It's definitely a thing tho -- hence the memes

"A photo of a burst tree trunk against a snowy landscape lies behind a vertical black text block with white letters saying: "i remember how meticulously he took care of plants the window frames lined with shot glasses of succulent cuttings that he gave to his friends the clay paw print impression of @ross_hrnndza cat named juice that he kept on top of the living room hutch alex pretti and i were good friends and then we weren't and then we were again over the decade that i knew him these days i have been thinking about him making breakfast: two poached eggs on two hard pieces of toast how his favorite pavement album was brighten the corners how i thought that was nuts, but it's my favorite now, too the siege on the state i grew up in does not end with ice leaving don't forget the lessons of 2020 keep pushing and refuse every deal, as another one of our dead would say may we set fire to the fire and type slowly"

Something from from Ross Hernández
for his friend, Alex Pretti

and for Daniel, Luis, Silverio, Gabriela, Thuy, Cristian, Conejo, Mahmoud, Renee...

Ross Hernández
@/ross_hrnndz on X
@dispoems.bsky.social on bsky

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it