Great. Local branch of the Barcelona mega chain gets busted for underage service and simultaneously manages to get porróns nuked for all of Boston because you know restaurants are going to have to consider themselves on notice.

Universal Hub@universalhub.com · 3h ago

Spanish restaurant in the South End agrees to keep bartenders from standing on the bar, pouring wine down patrons' throats - and to do better keeping underage drinkers from getting alcohol www.universalhub.com/2026/spanish... #Boston #licensing

A friend planned a vacation around this and I both actually respect it and think this is the funniest possible result (I'm guessing he was aware this was going to be the case, but it's a lot funnier if he thought it was going to sound good)

ℳatt@matttomic.bsky.social · 3h ago

let me break out the iPad piano and see

My wife is in remote grad school at Oxford so only gets blips of news while she finishes her research. She just texted me to make sure the Tasting History guy we watch didn't hurt his daughter or wife and isn't he married to a man? (He didn't, and he is, babe. We can still make his Parthian chicken)

I've conveniently balled up all my anxieties about the world and my health and have placed them into a cat-shaped container; we are fostering a friend's cat because she lost her job and has to move and I'm basically consumed with the fear my donkey of a cat is going to be a brute and hurt him.

anyway, if anyone has a lead on jobs for a science journalist/writer who has been a planetarium director (meaning I can talk to the public), please let me know. I am *awfully* broke.

An analysis finds that New Mexico's measles outbreak cost $5.4 million last year. NM had 100 cases. AZ outbreak is more than 3x larger; Utah's is more than 7x larger. TX and SC are each 10x larger. Welcoming back measles is going to be very expensive. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Economic Impact of the 2025 New Mexico Measles Outbreak: Highlighting the Cost of Efforts to Prevent Future Outbreaks | Annals of Internal Medicine

Background: In 2025, the United States experienced its highest measles case count since 1992. In New Mexico, 100 confirmed measles cases (99 outbreak-related cases), including 1 death, occurred across...

acpjournals.org

This is from the account activity labeler here. A lot of engagement/follow farmers have gotten wise to the fact that lots of people instinctively block new followers who follows 10s of thousands of accounts, so they do mass followings and unfollowings. This blows their cover.

Andrew Janjigian@wordloaf.org · 5h ago

This label is so useful for knowing who to block on sight

Well, this sucks. Assistant was great for doing what you told it to do without it making guesses. I don't want my computers to make guesses when I'm telling them what to do

The Verge@theverge.com · 8h ago

It’ll be Gemini or nothing on Android from September 4th. www.theverge.com/tech/975516/...

it's only possible bc their constituency populations are so strong but i genuinely think the UK does it right by not announcing any results until they've counted everything

Anchorage Man@sethpartnow.bsky.social · 17h ago

Regardless of how it turns out NO HE DIDN’T. It’s like saying I have more fingers on my left hand after counting 8 digits from left to right with a ring finger and a pinky still to report.

Red Sox

Red Sox

You can see the entire thought process, straight line from someone in Boston complaining that they want their own Mamdani to the Wu PR team being like "what's a quirky little policy we can do ?" and "everyone loves dogs..."

I hit play on this and my wife instantly yelled from across the condo "are you watching the Sesame Street crayon video without me?"

Alex Fernie@ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · yesterday

Just thinkin' about the best film ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_M...

Safe answer: Old Overholt is better than most ryes. Controversial answer: Beefeater is better than most gins. Ragebait answer: Jack Daniels is better than most whiskeys.

Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social · 2d ago

What is your favorite example of when the cheap version of a product is legit better than the expensive one?

We finally have the plot for an American update of "Slings and Arrows."

WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston@wcvb5.bsky.social · yesterday

'Rocky Horror Picture Show' musical director made fake threats, police say | Click on the image to read the full story

Fascinating hire. Two very different beer portfolios

Brewbound.com@brewbound.com · yesterday

Pabst Brewing has hired former Firestone Walker brand director Hannah Barnett as brand director, tasking her with guiding PBR, Pabst Light and innovation projects as the company builds out its marketing team. 🍺

Once again, your regular reminder that Alt NPS is a grifter account that is not worth your time or respect.

AltWatcher@altwatcher.bsky.social · 2d ago

After a few months of mostly sticking to banal news updates, the Alt National Park Service is going back to their conspiracy LARPer roots.

There are 3 women I put "Iris" on mixes for: my wife, the friend who sang the first dance song at our wedding, and another still good friend. I'm thankful all have the good grace to not bring up my "'I just want you to know who I am' but need John Rzeznik to tell you because I'm 18 and stupid" era.

Drew Starr@thedrewstarr.bsky.social · yesterday

If hearing "And all I can taste is this moment And all I can breathe is your life And sooner or later, it's over I just don't wanna miss you tonight," doesn't make you think "I should call her," we have not had the same life.

This sucks!

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

this seems good actually! more sports, more animals, more art, more books, more fashion, more movies, more poetry, more birds, more science, more museums, more obscure little hobbies. just because my job is politics doesn’t mean it’s the thing I want out of this kind of platform.

Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 2d ago

Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.

This whole album ("Has Been") was produced by and largely co-written with Ben Folds and is really good! Pitchfork hated it, so it's worth a listen.

Scott Edelman@scottedelman.bsky.social · 3d ago

I find it hard to believe this music video of "Common People" made entirely of clips from Star Trek: The Original Series has been around for 15 years, and yet I only stumbled across it tonight. How is that possible? But — nicely done! youtu.be/zI3UfxyIdgs

This is a real shame.

John Hawkinson@johnhawkinson.bsky.social · 2d ago

And the vote on the PO as-amended passes 6-3, ShotSpotter is to be turned back on in Cambridge for 90 days. AAZ n BA y TF y MM y PN n EDS y JSW n CZ y SS y

TIL JCPenney's still has at least 117 properties

NBC10 Boston@nbcboston.com · 2d ago

Needham’s Onyx Properties is trying again to buy part of JCPenney’s portfolio of retail stores, this time offering $934 million. on.nbcboston.com/6KPU9Er

A genocidal act by the US

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2d ago

Cuba’s electricity grid collapses, the state-owned grid operator says, plunging the island of about 10 million people into darkness as blackouts become more frequent.

Disappointing to see a reporter I like from an outlet I like post this as ragebait with context stripped. This article was explicitly about screenings for families with significantly reduced volume levels and all patrons fully aware this was a showing for families

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 2d ago

is there some future competitive advantage with college admissions if you deafened your child to Ludwig Göransson

If the inexplicable (to me) yacht rock love thing that has been happening to middle aged men shifts to jam bands, I am so fucking set.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d ago

It’s taken me 47 years, but some kind of switch flipped this year and I’ve gotten really into the Grateful Dead. www.npr.org/2026/08/03/n...

Give this guy and Tolle a show on NESN and I'll stop watching pirate game feeds

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2d ago

Orioles told Adley Rutschman i think you should leave, and he said I Think You Should Leave quotes

Enjoltaire #iykk #ImNotReallySureHowIKnow

Kyle Thomas@kylehemingway.com · 2d ago

Is it - The Mizzicle Ball - Jamie Lloyd - Loaf of Bread: the Diane Paulus immersive experience

It's time for a new senior Senator from Massachusetts is what it's time for. I hate that she's become a self-parody

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 2d ago

Do you use Instagram or Gmail? You could be helping to train AI. Big Tech has turned what all of us helped create into a trillion-dollar industry. It’s time to tax AI so you can share in its success.

I framed the stickers I got for getting vaccinated and voting at Fenway

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12mo ago

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was