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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈
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CHECKMATE, HETEROS | Boston Dyke March | Dyke Patrol | 🇱🇧 | pronoun indifferent | nonbinary transmasc butch
saw a headline that said Bad Bunny avoided politics during his halftime show and I have to ask if we watched the same thing.
February 10, 2026 at 5:21 PM
patching together my ancient, disintigrating flannel from target with flexible fusing fabric because I have a problem with throwing out things I like.
February 10, 2026 at 5:19 PM
!!!!
An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University
Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk
The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.
on.wsj.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:16 AM
age verification?

I used to look up the streets using the index in the giant book of maps to help my mom navigate in the car.
Age verification?

My first means of mobile communication was a beeper/pager
age verification?

will a long list of abandoned livejournal accounts that haven’t been accessed since 2010 or so suffice?
February 10, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Really hoping we see her come out and win something at the next Olympics. I personally think she's good enough.
February 9, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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@massgovernor.bsky.social remains not only a disappointment and embarrassment, but someone who continues to actively betray the values of her base. I am committed to supporting whomever is willing to challenge her from the left, for the rest of time.
NEW: Of all the states that voted for Harris over Trump in 2024, there's only one where a Dem governor is overseeing an ICE's 287(g) program:

Massachusetts.

Other blue states have quit, or even outright banned it. My colleague on what's happening: boltsmag.org/massachusett...
Inside ICE’s Only Contract with a Blue State - Bolts
As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.
boltsmag.org
February 9, 2026 at 10:16 PM
starting my taxes only for turbotax to tell me they haven't finished updating the software so even if I finish, I have to wait
February 9, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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Healey has truly been a disappointment.
NEW: Of all the states that voted for Harris over Trump in 2024, there's only one where a Dem governor is overseeing an ICE's 287(g) program:

Massachusetts.

Other blue states have quit, or even outright banned it. My colleague on what's happening: boltsmag.org/massachusett...
Inside ICE’s Only Contract with a Blue State - Bolts
As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.
boltsmag.org
February 9, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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an incredible close reading of the performance last night
First shot: sugarcane

The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times

Still used to make rum of course!
February 9, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Omg this is so good I missed this! VERY intentional shot lingering on two men grinding on each other

Throughout his career Benito has been an ally to the LGBTQ community and has tried to push back against the machismo prevalent in Latin music
February 9, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Heartbreaking when the ski pops off during a slopestyle takeoff.
February 8, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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If you are too young to remember Surya, she was a fucking ICON. The only person in history to do a BACKFLIP with a SPLIT ON THE AIR, which she’d land ON ONE FOOT

Of course she wasn’t properly appreciated in her time because racism.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=pAhy...
February 8, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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This is just factually correct. The humans who appeared on the Muppet show weekly were guest stars, not hosts.
humans do not host the Muppet Show, Kermit the Frog hosts the Muppet Show! there i said it, i got it off my chest
February 7, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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Letting someone merge is a sign of weakness. Waiting to be let to merge doubly so
February 7, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I grew up 30 miles north of the city and this left turn the second it goes green thing is just how we learned to drive.

Also: eye contact is 100% how things are negotiated between drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists here.
I moved to Boston and was shocked to discover that left turns are mostly taken by whipping in front of traffic the second the light turns green.

But! Biking was quite possible there because nobody is going anywhere fast, so you just looked drivers in the eyes and dared them to pay your tuition.
February 8, 2026 at 1:39 AM
this is my opinion.

leave a car-sized space between you and the car in front? expect someone to cut you off to fill it.
I find that Boston driving is predictable aggressiveness, as opposed to, say, Florida, where you never know when a lifted Ram will cut across 5 lanes of traffic at 90 mph.
February 8, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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City wouldn't clear a Comm Ave. bike lane, so some bicyclists showed up today with shovels
www.universalhub.com/2026/city-wo...

#Boston #snow
February 7, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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Hey everyone! The location for today’s March for Trans Futures has changed to the Brewster Fountain!

Dress warm and mask up! We’ll be out there despite the weather!
February 7, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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/ MARCH 4 TRANS FUTURES
/ PROTECT TRANS FUTURES | DYKE MARCH | ACT UP BOSTON
/ TODAY
/ FEBRUARY 7TH
/ 1 PM
/ *LOCATION CHANGE*
/ BREWER FOUNTAIN AT THE BOSTON COMMON
/ FROM www.instagram.com/p/DUcOT62DvAy/
February 7, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Humans: we like dumplings, bbq, and telling people about neat animals we saw in the woods one time.
February 7, 2026 at 1:06 PM
This is equivalent to spending 2.8% of the city of Boston's Operating budget for 2026, which is 4.8 billion.

The 2026-2030 Capital Plan is slightly lower than the operating budget at 4.6 billion, so this is about 3% of that budget.

idk, I think it's good to put large numbers like this in context.
February 6, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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February 6, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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When the foot comes out you understand instinctively that this is a dinosaur.
If you know me and you’ve got two minutes and 12 seconds.. well, then you get to watch a baby emu be physically hatched
February 6, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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honestly feels unbelievable: Lindsay Vonn attempted and completed her training run today, a week after tearing her ACL, hitting a top speed of 74 mph.
They haven't fixed her ACL, it's just flopping around in there. And her other knee is made out of titanium. Very literally built different
February 6, 2026 at 12:47 PM
people at work pitching AI to ingest all your docs so you can just query the agent to find something but nothing is going to solve the problem of bad documentation other than actually investing in and being strict about documentation
February 5, 2026 at 10:54 PM