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Boston-area working parent, tech nerd, knitter, avid reader. Watched women’s sports before it was cool. Cat person. Pronouns: they/them. 🏳️‍🌈✡️🇺🇸🧶
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NY Times recipe for buffalo white beans, with a few mods suggested by the comments section. My wife is skeptical but it smells really good.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Microsoft Teams recently updated its calendar to look more like the Outlook calendar. Neat. Pop-up in my Teams app this morning: Enjoying Calendar? Me: It's Friday and I have 10 meetings, so...not especially?

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Great article from @404media.co about how Hoopla is making it impossible to keep crappy AI content out of library catalogs. www.404media.co/email/7a1109...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

This exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston was a good antidote for the last week. Highly recommended if you can make it there.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Happy last day of the darkest weeks of the year!

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

Today’s NYT crossword features two separate Spice Girls themed clues, which seems excessive somehow.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

It’s an excellent night for making soup. (Hat tip to Clover Food Labs for sharing their coconut lentil soup recipe)

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

This has to be ordered online and comes with a can of real soup, suggesting that Progresso isn’t totally sure if it’s a real product or an early April Fools joke.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

If you were wondering how AI art is doing at respecting intellectual property rights, I spent some time asking Google to make chess sets (a thread)

submitted 87 days ago • 5 comments

Sharing so I can remember to tell the kids not to be such librocubicularists on school days.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

This is amazing, even if you don’t do embroidery

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

You homophobe like that in Texas, I send $ to your opponent’s campaign. (His name is Colin Allred, look him up and help him out.)

submitted 138 days ago • 0 comments

This. The transition from “betting on sports is the worst” to “all the sports broadcasters never shut up about DraftKings” is not progress.

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments