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Did you know there was once a HUGE stone reservoir right behind the statehouse in Beacon Hill? đźšżđźš° Map: Boston : bird's-eye view from the north (1877) Images: Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library #bpl #LMEC #maps #bostonmaps #localhistory #bostonhistory #bostonmuseum #thingstodoinboston

I don't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested

4Chan was hacked, its source code was leaked, admin emails were leaked, AND a lot of registered users used their real names and .edu email addresses. Lotta CHUDs getting exposed to sunlight today.

smoking that shit that makes you eat buttered plain bread like tom from tom and jerry cartoon

the ship restaurant, route 1, saugus, massachusetts, 1984

pretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

It looks very much like the Department of Homeland Security memo seeking to revoke Ozturk's visa copied language directly from the Canary Mission website. Is DHS just following the "deport list" from an anonymous website? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

forget cloning wolves and mammoths, resurrect something society actually needs: the Conversation Pit

happy ten year anniversary to this post

Our government feels like when Scar took over after Mufasa died. Just a bunch of ecological damage and hyenas running around this mf.

this level of frothing misogyny makes me feel weirdly zen—if men hate women enough to justify nuking the entire economy in order to take them down a peg, well, there wasn't really anything that anyone could have done to stop it

Bernie’s kinda with it

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

Spreading this = <3

ever wanted to know what's happening on bluesky, but you're in some weird predicament where you can only make voice calls? i gotchu covered. call 518-777-BSKY (2759) for the latest. non-american? terrified of using the phone app? listen on the web here: 777bsky.fly.dev/landing

*maintaining eye contact with the security guard as i take 23 cans of la croix out of my pockets*

tech bro is short for technically broken

as a result of dems passing CARES and ARPA if you lost a minimum wage job during the pandemic you were eligible for ~$1k+ weekly UI for 9 months, when it expired march 2021 they extended it 6 months but reduced by ~$200. The only reason its not permanent is a piece of shit racist who left the party

food chain from adventure time

happy friday

BREAKING: NC Supreme Court issues a mixed order for Griffin/Riggs. SupCo says 60,273 ballots / incomplete registration should be counted. Military/overseas voters must be given 30 days to cure ballots. And 273 "Never Residents" need to be removed from count. Story to come. #ncpol

PANTHEON MACRO: “.. Consumers have spiraled from anxious to petrified. The expectations index, which dropped to 47.2 — its lowest level since May 1980 — from 54.2, now is consistent with zero growth in households’ real expenditure in Q2.”

Inside of you there are two princes. One has diamonds in his pockets. This one said he wants to buy you rockets.

www.employamerica.org/blog/the-dre... New from me @employamerica.bsky.social. A follow up to my series on the 1990s productivity growth and lessons for today. Taking stock of everything that's happened in the past 90 days through the lens of full employment, investment, and supply-side stability.

if I could be anything I would be asleep