A couple of years ago I was giving a lecture on WWII and referenced Charles Lindbergh--none of my students knew who he was. Scrambling to find a parallel, I blurted out before I could even think it over, "You know Aaron Rodgers? Same type of guy."

Defector@defector.com · 9h ago

We're just going to keep doing 2020 again until all the wrong stuff is true: defector.com/were-just-go...

legendary job opening available

this magazine cover goes hard

this poster goes hard

i put an entire bag of lentils i'd had since the deep pandemic out for the birds to deal with like two months ago. they haven't touched it. it's just been sitting there outside this whole time. but i think they're starting to come around. gettin hungry. gettin curious.

there's gotta be some guy or girl somewhere straight up named Taylor Farms

I told y'all that @maldensafestreets.bsky.social did a great job with this forum and now you can see it with your very eyes!

Malden Safe Streets@maldensafestreets.bsky.social · 2w ago

We were joined by candidates for the 5th Middlesex Senate seat to discuss street safety. Thank you to the candidates and groups like Melrose Bike/Ped (represented by @walktalks.bsky.social ) and everyone else who came out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOhh...

was about to make a wishbone odyssey adaptation joke so i searched if it had been done and oh my god it has been done and yes we are all the same age here on the bluesky

what if disney's shareholders like sports

Just want to say that @maldensafestreets.bsky.social did a fantastic job hosting this candidate forum. What a beautiful evening in every sense--this is how we get safer streets.

Malden Safe Streets@maldensafestreets.bsky.social · last mo.

We're hosting the candidates running for the 5th Middlesex District's Senate seat for a Q&A. Join us on July 20th at Bay State Cohousing to ask your questions! Please use the link to register. There will be 🍕and 🥗 givebutter.com/candidate-qa...

doing archival research well means uncovering fresh perspectives

kanye has a line that accidentally explains it all: "i keep it 300, like the romans"

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2w ago

they're not obsessed with sparta really. It's like fight club. They don't read books. They're obsessed with the cinematic adaptations (in this case 300. They're really into abs)

luguentz forever

can't believe these people taking shortcuts to getting diarrhea at taco bell. put in the work!

real impressed by how good the new infowars is doing producing material my wife doesn't want me to show her

InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social · 3w ago

Those who share this will be taken to jail with no court date set in the immediate future.

Homer Sandwich, which also describes what will probably happen when the top of the order comes around a second time

kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social · 3w ago

your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals

Melrosians, Melroseans, Melorussians of bluesky...the Melrose Pedestrian & Bicyclist Committee's monthly meeting is TONIGHT. Come watch me take notes. pedbikemelrose.org

look i've long said that the department of defense needs to start taking cues from commercial breaks on sports talk radio. our warfighters need the t, they need lap-band surgery and ozempic, they need divorce attorneys they can rely on, they need to get on out to diffee motors

Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting

which mass brewery is going to get their "wildfire sky" hazy ipa out first

not the first time the french have failed in dallas: www.tshaonline.org/handbook/ent...

The History of La Réunion: A Failed Utopian Colony in Texas

Discover the story of La Réunion, a 19th-century communal colony in Texas founded by Victor Prosper Considerant, its challenges, and its legacy in Dallas.

tshaonline.org

SCOOP: In 2023-24, @mayorwu.boston.gov's streets cabinet IDed hazards and prepared safety improvement plans for the intersection where a driver killed Louisa Gag last week. But under her new second-term administration, those plans never got built. mass.streetsblog.org/2026/07/14/w...

Wu Administration Shelved Safety Plans For Mission Hill Streets Where Driver Killed Louisa Gag - Streetsblog Massachusetts

"We knew there were dangers. We had a plan to make it safer. It is blatantly irresponsible for the city to make a deliberate decision to not follow through."

mass.streetsblog.org

swing state diarrhea voters

Every cyclist death is heartbreaking, but it hits even harder when it's an advocate like this. It's infuriating and saddening. These deaths, especially on roads that are known to be dangerous, are simply policy choices.

The Boston Globe@bostonglobe.com · 4w ago

A cycling advocate and transportation planner for the city of Boston was identified as the cyclist who was struck and killed in a crash near Roxbury Crossing this morning.

thinking for no reason of Vincent Sheean's description of Abd el-Krim firing guns at French/Spanish bombers in the Rif War

noah kahan is the only man that was ever from vermont

when man fell in the garden of eden, it was a trip. var must go all the way back, all the way back to the original pen. every goal since must be disallowed.

someday i'm going to buy my favorite sports team and bring their payroll under control

love this 1917 passage from John Huston Finley discussing the democracy of walking public roads -- and the growing threat of "flying automobiles, whose occupants so often make the pedestrian feel that even these strips have ceased to be democratic."

lukaku is going to eat our pommes frites

this freese performance is an awesome tribute to tim howard