Everyone, you're invited to a Boston Backgammon Players Meetup, at Aeronaut Brewing in Somerville! Whether you want to learn, want a challenge, or just want to play some low-key games, YOU are who this event is for! Weds Nov 11 (Veterans' Day), 6:30pm-8:30pm! Free! www.meetup.com/boston-backg...

Come play Backgammon and hang out -- any level of experience welcome!, Wed, Nov 11, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

All are welcome to come join us to play (or, learn to play!) the world's greatest boardgame -- backgammon! We've done an astounding THIRTY-THREE of these, and each one has

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One life lesson we should all teach our children 100 times: in situations where you feel interpersonal pressure to conform to others' demands or expectations...

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

Jack Kirby's "Glorious Godfrey" demagogue is an eerily good distillation of fascism and predictor of Trumpism "Power for only US to use"

It's bizarre to me how ready to sneer and spit at someone we are. I'm no fan of Lucky, but it's clear in this clip he's talking about entirely voluntary drug-assisted therapy -- something progressives already champion for all sorts of other purposes

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · last wk.

Shit. He really did say this. www.youtube.com/shorts/ca3C4...

The bravado blusterers get real mealy-mouthed real fast when asked about actual corruption and fraud by powerful people instead of like, a 22 year-old Chilean research biology intern

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Q: Do you have any reaction to a US ambassador asking someone to pay off debt in exchange for access to other government officials? VANCE: Well, so -- with that hypothetical, obviously I don't love that, but I, you know, I don't know exactly who you're talking about, I don't know the full details

“Many of us have been separated from our families,” reads the letter, which was signed by 45 detained immigrants, as dozens joined in to stage the hunger strike. “We have missed births, funerals, years of our lives while sitting behind fences without having committed any crime.” #AbuseofPowerWatch

Abuse of Power Watch@abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · last wk.

📍 𝐆𝐄𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐈𝐀: A group of people detained inside a privately run ICE jail in Georgia have launched a mass hunger strike this week to protest against their prolonged detention and the facility’s conditions, according to advocates and family members. #AbuseofPowerWatch

I'm reminded today of Anthony Fauci's essay on his relationship with activist/playwright Larry Kramer, a relationship that was both extraordinarily combative and extraordinarily loving www.nytimes.com/2023/07/04/o...

Opinion | Anthony Fauci on Larry Kramer and Loving Difficult People (Published 2023)

He remembers his friend the AIDS activist Larry Kramer.

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It was first reported a week or two ago, but it’s getting a little wider coverage today that Trump has not invited OSCE to observe the midterm elections, as has been the norm since 2002. My hunch is OSCE folks and others tried to stay quiet while negotiating to be let in, but are now giving that up.

One of the differences between a movement that is focused on internal congratulation vs. effective impact on the world is whether we can tell the truth when it's not what would make us most gleeful and activated

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is being passed around as a total misrepresentation of what he said. Trump was saying - as he often does - that costs for Americans are a small price to pay for preventing Iran from getting nuclear missiles. He was saying ‘let them take out LA or SD’ as an example of what could happen then…

In MAGA world you can either believe Jan 6 was A) a violent outrage, or B) completely valid and peaceful; and you can either believe C) it was the proud work of Trump and MAGA people, or D) orchestrated by the Democrats and deep state as a false flag con... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

Proud Boys Convicted Over Jan. 6 Go From Prosecutions to Pardons to Premiere

The gala screening of the documentary “American Martyrs” was the latest effort by Trump supporters to rewrite the history of the Capitol attack.

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Hate it when you see what you think is a cool bird and you look it up later and it’s called like the Common Dumb Asshole. “Birders throughout history have hated its guts. It can’t even fly right.” I thought I saw an interesting guy.

When you think about it, men having to face social and personal consequences for their actions is almost exactly like that time we mob murdered a bunch of women

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Skydance -- like that soaring playful airborne lad of legend, Icarus!!

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2w ago

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

Sturgeon's Law - Ninety percent of everything is crap Theodore Sturgeon, writer of Shore Leave and Amok Time.

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2w ago

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

Amazing visualization of the many lighthouses of MA and RI, shown at the real speeds that they rotate, and the real length of their visible beams. Made with AI. mapped.earth/lighthouses/...

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

My god, everything this administration does is stupid.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2w ago

I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

This is a common pattern in so many fields -- people doing the same work just don't talk to each other. Years ago a friend was a middle school principal in Brooklyn, and admitted that he had never contacted the administration of the middle school literally four blocks away

Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · 2w ago

We surveyed 210 of the most active climate communicators across the US and Canada. Only one pair reported both collaborating with each other AND sharing information with each other. Key results below. Read the full report here: talkingclimate.com/landscape-as...

In an age when the Peter Thiels of the world are smiling and saying evil does good because it is competent, we are entering a time when we will need to be aggressively "pro-human." Or at the very least, Pro-Good. And we have to build power, unapologetically.

We should let people dream of something besides labor

My 9 games #My9Games my9games.net/en/share/d0c...

This @nytimes.com piece on former Alaska congress rep Mary Peltola really brings home how hard it is to assemble a portrait of a working environment from scattered moments www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...

Mary Peltola’s Campaign in Alaska Senate Race Is Rocked by Tumult, With Angry Outbursts and Slurs

Democrats hope that Mary Peltola can flip a Republican Senate seat in Alaska. Former aides describe a campaign and congressional office marked by chaos.

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Over and over, ICE has shot people and then lied about what happened. We can see the lies with our own eyes. We will demand truth, transparency and accountability.

The reporters and the press association should all do the logical things in response to Trump's ban on Politico, CNN, MSNOW. Everyone else's response should be to laugh at Trump for being a little bitch. CNN is too much for him? 🤣 A president crying out No Mas, No Mas. Low Energy. Sad.

This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price

Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · 4w ago

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...