Reaching into the ether in the hopes of current or former @washingtonpost.com staffers somehow see this and can give input.
I've been a subscriber since my first year of university. I grew up in MD but haven't lived there in years. 1/

I decided to be nice to my neighbour and knock down the massive icicles on their porch.
It seems that indeed no good deed goes unpunished because one of the icicles smacked into my pocket and shattered my phone screen.

In August, very early in the morning at a German train station and functioning on no sleep, I sent my dad a message to ask if the US was invading Venezuela because my brain wasn't processing the German news correctly.
Apparently my brain was a few months early.

And this is why you shouldn't buy Poland Springs water.
www.mainepublic.org/2025-12-23/w...

I had to take a break from reading This Way Up because I am laughing uproariously at @jayforeman.bsky.social and @markcooperjones.bsky.social making a sentence go one for 2 and a third pages.
There is some possibility my neighbours are concerned....

"you need a degree for that?"

I love having to see what the US government has done now that merits the publisher of children's books releasing statements 🙄

I'm waiting for someone to blame Netflix's Lupin for the Louvre heist (article gifted)
wapo.st/4oiTT9b

Same guy who declared bankruptcy 6 times shut down the U.S. government 4 times in 5 years of being President. They wanted him to run the government like his businesses and that’s exactly what he’s doing.

Heads up to me everywhere: when a woman keeps rapidly saying "so" (or your linguistic equivalent) to everything you say, it means she wants you to shut up.
Brought to you by the very annoyed Russian woman walking past me who kept saying "так" to the man she was with.

Is there nowhere in the world that I can sit on the ground/a stone bench and NOT have a Russian woman tell me off?

Are you mad/concerned about CBS cancelling The Late Show for seemingly political reasons? Are you mad/concerned about Congress pulling back funding for public broadcasting? Do you subscribe to Paramount+?
Why not take the money you use for Paramount+ and get PBS Passport instead?
#CBS #PBS

I know I live in a tourism dependent area, but is it too much to ask for the tourists to recognize that people do in fact live in the area year round?
This is brought to you by questions like "why are there houses not by the lake" & "why does this farm have apple trees if they don't grow in summer"

One of the nicest things about yesterday’s No Kings march was how many people looked awkward and shy about being there. These were not perpetual activists and certainly not paid participants. They were introverted New England weirdos who felt like they HAD to say something

I have angered my cats. How? By finally getting rid of my recycling (aka their box kingdom). Please send happy thoughts to my cats

😡
www.concordmonitor.com/Gov-Ayotte-e...

Not once have I decided to buy something because the company was an NPR or PBS underwriter. Not Juicy Juice, an Ebsco product, a lawyer, a car, Meta, Amazon, or anything else. Also, what are the NSF and various foundations supposed to be selling?
#SupportPublicMedia
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

Could someone please explain how inauguration day was less than a week ago and not at least a month ago? This week has been far too long....

I think I qualify as a super mega nerd given the level of joy I felt to see that @civics101pod.bsky.social is following me.
Public radio and civics 😍