Avalon Zoe (A.Z.) Madonna
@knitandlisten.bsky.social
Your friendly neighborhood music writer. I lost on Jeopardy.
zohran | potus
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
zohran | potus
Fun game for any folkies watching the Ken Burns American Revolution documentary: any time you hear "Over the Water to Charlie" on the soundtrack, take a drink*
*of water, or you'll be sloshed before the end of episode 1
*of water, or you'll be sloshed before the end of episode 1
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Fun game for any folkies watching the Ken Burns American Revolution documentary: any time you hear "Over the Water to Charlie" on the soundtrack, take a drink*
*of water, or you'll be sloshed before the end of episode 1
*of water, or you'll be sloshed before the end of episode 1
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I do honestly try to get more excited about the right hand side of my thorax, but my heart's not in it
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I do honestly try to get more excited about the right hand side of my thorax, but my heart's not in it
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The president of the Boston University College Republicans recently posted on X that he had been “calling ICE for months on end” to raid an Allston car wash and “detain these criminals.”
President of BU College Republicans said he called ICE about Allston car wash for ‘months on end’ - The Boston Globe
“This week they finally responded to my request,” Zac Segal wrote on Nov. 8. “As someone who lives in the neighborhood, I’ve seen how American jobs are being given away to those with no right to be here.”
trib.al
November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The president of the Boston University College Republicans recently posted on X that he had been “calling ICE for months on end” to raid an Allston car wash and “detain these criminals.”
it's a new skating season; let's see who has the most delightful (or unhinged) hobbies in their ISU bio!
as a brief respite from, *waves hands*, here's a thread of uniquely delightful hobbies that skaters at #worldfigure have in their official ISU bios!
This thread inspired by ice dancer Yuka Orihara, who skates for Team Finland.
This thread inspired by ice dancer Yuka Orihara, who skates for Team Finland.
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
it's a new skating season; let's see who has the most delightful (or unhinged) hobbies in their ISU bio!
this is "Not Like Us" intensity of scorched earth and just as poetic
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 AM
this is "Not Like Us" intensity of scorched earth and just as poetic
Been bumping this all morning youtu.be/2uUmHTgT65I?...
Dhoom Machale Song | DHOOM, Esha Deol, John Abraham, Abhishek, Uday, Sunidhi Chauhan, Pritam, Sameer
YouTube video by YRF
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Been bumping this all morning youtu.be/2uUmHTgT65I?...
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I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
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hello darkness my old friend
it's not even 5 p.m.
it's not even 5 p.m.
November 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
hello darkness my old friend
it's not even 5 p.m.
it's not even 5 p.m.
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Absolutely awful news. Lex and the other writers at Teen Vogue have been doing incredible and courageous work.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Absolutely awful news. Lex and the other writers at Teen Vogue have been doing incredible and courageous work.
Walked into the Central Square indie bookstore/tarot shop (Seven Stars) because I spotted RF Kuang's KATABASIS in the window; unexpectedly left with this instead
October 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Walked into the Central Square indie bookstore/tarot shop (Seven Stars) because I spotted RF Kuang's KATABASIS in the window; unexpectedly left with this instead
beat chronos for the first time in Hades 2 so here's the "can you buy me pads" meme with Hades 2 characters 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
beat chronos for the first time in Hades 2 so here's the "can you buy me pads" meme with Hades 2 characters 🧵
swap the sewing kit for current knitting project, lose the ear picks and corkscrews, and this is an accurate representation of what's in my bag
(I oughta get a Leatherman)
(I oughta get a Leatherman)
The Lady's Companion, a series of small kits containing things a Victorian woman would have carried in the mid-19th century: sewing kit, notions, small notebook, scent bottle, corkscrews, and ear picks. Currently on display at the Tatter Library in Brooklyn
IG tatterbluelibrary
IG tatterbluelibrary
September 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
swap the sewing kit for current knitting project, lose the ear picks and corkscrews, and this is an accurate representation of what's in my bag
(I oughta get a Leatherman)
(I oughta get a Leatherman)
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A federal judge blocks the Trump administration's attempt to subpoena medical records of transgender patients who received gender-affirming care at Boston Children's Hospital.
Judge blocks Trump admin's subpoena of trans kids' medical records from Boston hospital
The judge said the Department of Justice's administrative subpoena was improper and "motivated only by bad faith."
nbcnews.to
September 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
A federal judge blocks the Trump administration's attempt to subpoena medical records of transgender patients who received gender-affirming care at Boston Children's Hospital.
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Today the internet lost Maru, cat of legend, so I'm putting out an empty cardboard box for him.
September 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Today the internet lost Maru, cat of legend, so I'm putting out an empty cardboard box for him.
Is there a word for "the feeling of early-30s existential vertigo that results from realizing just how many of one's high
school classmates are either pregnant or new parents"
school classmates are either pregnant or new parents"
August 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Is there a word for "the feeling of early-30s existential vertigo that results from realizing just how many of one's high
school classmates are either pregnant or new parents"
school classmates are either pregnant or new parents"
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Left my GoPro in with the Puffins while I went and did a Shorewatch yesterday and this was the result! Such curious little birds! @fairislebirdobs.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Left my GoPro in with the Puffins while I went and did a Shorewatch yesterday and this was the result! Such curious little birds! @fairislebirdobs.bsky.social
Dies irae, dies illa
@tanglewoodma.bsky.social 7-20-25, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra with Andris Nelsons
@tanglewoodma.bsky.social 7-20-25, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra with Andris Nelsons
July 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Dies irae, dies illa
@tanglewoodma.bsky.social 7-20-25, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra with Andris Nelsons
@tanglewoodma.bsky.social 7-20-25, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra with Andris Nelsons
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
Apparently I turned 32 and my brain suddenly decided we want to construct crosswords
Here's my best one so far
crosshare.org/crosswords/W...
Here's my best one so far
crosshare.org/crosswords/W...
Can't Get You Out of My Head
How to address the Queen after first calling her "Your Majesty"; It might be false; Sweetener with prickly origin; West Point inits.; Emperor number two in Roman Year of Four Emperors; Some trading ca...
crosshare.org
July 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Apparently I turned 32 and my brain suddenly decided we want to construct crosswords
Here's my best one so far
crosshare.org/crosswords/W...
Here's my best one so far
crosshare.org/crosswords/W...
How about a #cryptic #crossword clue for your Sunday?
Transport witch with praise, loan loose teas for senatorial refrain (8, 7, 3) #crosswordclue #crypticclue
Transport witch with praise, loan loose teas for senatorial refrain (8, 7, 3) #crosswordclue #crypticclue
July 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
How about a #cryptic #crossword clue for your Sunday?
Transport witch with praise, loan loose teas for senatorial refrain (8, 7, 3) #crosswordclue #crypticclue
Transport witch with praise, loan loose teas for senatorial refrain (8, 7, 3) #crosswordclue #crypticclue