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Leester
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Day -Head of Analytics, Night - Trying to find good Italian Pizza in a complex world. Foodie, Sports, Wellness, Renovator of 300 yo house, Arts, Travel
Somerville #openstudios, 400 artists throughout the city. These are from the reception at Somerville Museum. #art #openstudios #community
May 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This weekend is the kick-off of Somerville Open Studios. It is city wide with 400 artists. Here some amazing pieces from the reception.🎨🖌️ Support local artists this weekend!!
#bskyart #somervilleopenstudios @davis.social @wanderlingworld.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Thank you #BostonCollege and Marty Walsh for a terrific evening at the new hotspot🔥#EqualMeasure🍸 celebrating with #WCAS alums. #education #WoodsSchool
May 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
How did AI start so wrong? Its everywhere from refrigerators to airports. The public is fearful. Does AI need regulation? What would that regulation look like? If you are in Boston:
June 4, 2025 - 6:30pm -Karen Hao - Empire of AI
May 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
You know that feeling when a book is over 550 pages? Well... Just started book "Free Food for Millionaires" by Min Jin Lee - I AM HOOKED.
The writing - chef level - each sentence seasoned perfectly with the zest of cultural friction and bold flavor of family. #booksky 💙📚@minjinlee.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This is a really really important thing to do. 🙏 If you are struggling with how to add descriptions, this skeet will walk you thru.
Please use alt-text on your images, and if you need reminders, you can go into your settings & activate the option to have it automatically require you to add alt-text before it'll let you post.

Let's keep this place meaningfully accessible.
And if you have trouble with descriptions, just ask yourself a simple question: what's important to know in and about this picture? What does the image contains (&, if it's yours, what senses did you want to convey)? Write that down. It's easiest with text, but you can learn the knack elsewise too
November 14, 2024 at 12:14 AM
How is BlueSky different from those other platforms? Hope this is helpful for the new friends to Bluesky its really simple and clear.
The way they created this is really next level under the hood. On the front-end, it looks the same as twitter. Twitter is a regular centralized website. Bluesky is decentralized and uses crytopgraphic functions (e.g. merkle trees) to propagate your data with assurance it was you.

It's pretty cool!
November 13, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Great reminder no matter how we are summing life rn.
"...whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world."

— The Princess of Pure Reason, from The Phantom Tollbooth
November 13, 2024 at 12:56 PM
What a great find 📚🩵
Goodreads is owned by Amazon & there is an AMAZING alternative‼️

The StoryGraph is a black women-owned competitor to GoodReads with better UI in my opinion.
When you sign up you can even transfer your data from Goodreads to StoryGraph!
November 13, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Needed some comfort food and a Gin&Tonic. I may be eating a lot of comfort food for the foreseeable future.
November 13, 2024 at 4:48 AM
Sometimes you have to chill where you can.
The cat found the perfect cozy spot.. 😊
November 13, 2024 at 4:40 AM
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November 5, 2024 at 10:50 PM
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 2 #booksky #bookchallenge
November 5, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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🚀 We’re hiring! Join us as a Technical Project Lead to advance open science in the cloud and help drive impactful NASA projects. Are you a proactive, independent leader with PM experience? Apply today: grnh.se/a8e8f7443us
October 29, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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Remember, remember the 5th of November takes on a different significance this year. But once again it’s about democracy and political violence.
Coincidentally I am in Athens, the cradle of democracy.
I hope Harris supporters will turn out today & avert the threat to democracy of a Trump presidency
November 5, 2024 at 6:58 AM
Let's GO America!!!
November 5, 2024 at 12:07 PM
@nickfleisher.bsky.social Howdy! Glad to see Wisconsinites on BlueSky #Whitefishbay bred East Coast living😃
November 5, 2024 at 12:37 AM
@tzed250.bsky.social I am here for the smoke paprika. Lov it. How do you use it?
November 5, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Great breakdown of early voting. Interesting to see more than 15m additional voters cast votes in 2020 election than in 2016.

source: election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...
November 4, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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If you're looking for a different place to play games while the New York Times Tech Guild is on strike, may I suggest Scientific American's fun quizzes, jigsaws, spellements & math puzzles 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/games/
Play Games from Scientific American
Science-inspired games, puzzles and quizzes
www.scientificamerican.com
November 4, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Hilarious and because we all need this rn.
"Mundane Halloween" returns!

It's that time of year again, when Japanese website
@dailyportalz holds its annual contest to dress up as something super ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2024 contest!
November 4, 2024 at 4:26 PM
In the US, there are less younger drivers due to soaring rent and education debt.
The reason? As insurance costs soar and tests get harder, young people are driving much less than they used to.

Young drivers may yet face new curbs on freedoms. But they are driving less anyway — and making roads safer as a result!

www.thetimes.com/article/3d3e...
November 4, 2024 at 2:34 PM
When the few freedoms of older people are in jeopardy perhaps a look over the shoulder is warranted.
The thing is, while they are more deadly, there aren’t actually that many old drivers, and they don’t drive that many miles.

Young people, because of the sheer number of them, cause much more overall damage…
November 4, 2024 at 2:32 PM