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Okay, I can dig it

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he’s gonna give a speech in front of an AI generated banner that says, “ŃMIMMS1ØN ACĞŒMPLISSHEP”

Yesterday is literally my favorite day of the year.

I am as passionately in favor of daylight saving time as other people are against it. My reasoning is that I don't care if it's dark when I'm going to work because I'm going to work. I want the daylight after work, when I'm potentially enjoying myself. I find it to be excellent for my mental health.

When I watch soccer, I usually root for whichever team is not benefitting from ridiculous calls by the ref.

Yes!

Energetically painted figure shouting and waving small flags, riding a hobby horse on wheels, detail of a larger painting.

Prophetic detail in a June Leaf painting from 1966

I guess I should check to see if I still have that Gas Buddy account someone got me to sign up for once.

I hope after I die, I can ask any questions of some all-knowing being so I find out how much foil I've consumed in my lifetime from candy and burritos.

4-channel video: a camera on each of the vessels and one on each of the holes in the ceiling. I am sorry that you are going through this

I figured it out! It means that because I'm on a Thursday schedule, there will be garbage all over my street for the remainder of the winter.

Not just in Worcester!

If I read the website correctly, they had an RFP for a coffee shop in 2025 that I don't think went anywhere.

WRRB has long analyzed data on elections and voting in Worcester. This dashboard continues this trend by analyzing Worcester's municipal election results from November 2025.

Interact the Data: www.wrrb.org/reports/2026... #WorcPoli

Francis Bacon's Painting 'Study After Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X'

NYTimes: Trump Wants Smithsonian to Create a Different Official Portrait

Food Bourne Illness (FBI)

Culinary Institute of America (CIA)
Institute of Culinary Education (ICE)
Is the food world doing this on purpose?

Watching a cooking reality show while heating up some canned soup for lunch. My inner dialogue: "Risky choice waiting for the break to check on your soup" "Yes chef"
"Now it's a little burnt on the bottom What are you going to do with that?" "Scrape it with a silicone spatula and eat it"
"Excellent"

A crumbling roadway reveals a metal rail.

The nice thing about crumbling infrastructure is that it's a window into local history. Here is a rail, revealed by road degradation, in downtown Worcester Mass. Is it an old trolley rail? Should we just let these roads rot until we can run trolleys downtown again?

timeline cleanse, tardigrade edition

If a law-enforcement agency does not adhere to the law, then it ceases to be a law-enforcement agency, right?

some of the key findings: biking in Cambridge has increased by 250% between 2004 and 2024, with a 283% increase in the number of kids biking between 2014 and 2024. But the bike network has only increased 128% in size.

for all the Worcester bike lane Opponents: build it and they will come

Same in Worcester

A painting of a street corner in New York City. There is a one-story deli in the foreground with buildings getting taller further back in the picture.

Posting paintings here seems like "hey, read the room" these days, but nonetheless, here's my latest:

Northwestern DA to prosecute Worcester ICE protesters After pledging to prosecute illegal ICE activity in his district, David Sullivan is moving forward with assault charges brought by Worcester police against two civilian rapid responders.

A troubling story of abuse of power against a Worcester City Councilor @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social who was trying to hold the WPD to account for a devastating DOJ report and found herself arrested as ICE tore apart a family without cause. By @billshaner.bsky.social

theshoestring.org/2026/02/03/n...

I've never read Infinite Jest, but I think I've now read so much about Infinite Jest that I should have just read it.

I will listen to this classics scholar rather than idiot faux philosopher "western civ" enthusiasts.

Try to go see the “I Declare” exhibit at the Worcester Center for Crafts during Feb, Black History Month. Is is quite moving. Here are some samples. We have very talented artists in our community. ❤️