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siobhan @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 7h

may i present: food for the birds, a meal inspired by my wife and my favorite board game, wingspan

Food for the Birds
STARTER
Baguette with mozzarella pearls, basil, olive oil
MAIN COURSE
Rat-shaped chicken parmesan over bucatini
DESSERT
Raspberry sorbet with fish gummies
DRINK
Limoncello spritz

menu has wingspan iconography throughout and floral motif

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 1h

I just hope both teams have fun

Cambridge, MA's 2023 Municipal Ballots @cambma2023ballots.bsky.social · 1h

Precinct: 2-1
7 candidates ranked.
Rankings: Azeem, Toner, Totten, McGovern, Simmons, Nolan, Siddiqui
Vote was counted for: Azeem
This ballot is unique; 7 ranked the same candidates.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

"I think the Democratic base feels like there is a disconnect. We hear you, when you did your 25-hour speech, I was like go Cory, I love this, that is amazing.

And then there's a photo shoot with you with Benjamin Netanyahu, and I was just like, what in the actual fuck? It was heartbreaking."

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3h

People are calling it “the most significant attempt to stop people from being horny since the guy who invented graham crackers”

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 3h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 3h

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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mcc @dryad.technology · 3h

A grim speculation mastodon.social/@mcc/1153752...

mcc (@[email protected])

A thing I think about. Premises: - Many people in "AI" believe (or claim to) that if you simply upscale the existing neural network models by one more order of magnitude there will be a phase change...

mastodon.social

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 3h

Luisa is great! Planning to vote her #1

Cambridge Day @cambridgeday.com · 3h

Santos, a labor organizer and paraprofessional, seeks to be part of School Committee reforms

A labor organizer and paraprofessional is making a ﬁrst bid for Cambridge School Committee to make education policy more democratic.

dlvr.it

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Cambridge Day @cambridgeday.com · 4h

Bike safety my voting priority

Cambridge’s Department of Transportation knows where the most dangerous intersections are. I believe the staff wants to implement safety interventions, but are being held back by an unfriendly City Council.

dlvr.it

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Boston DSA @bostondsa.org · 5h

This Saturday, October 18, is Boston DSA’s General Organizing Meeting! This meeting will be held from 11 AM - 1 PM in Somerville with a virtual option. RSVP at bdsa.us/oct25gm

Boston Democratic Socialists of America General Organizing Meeting

Learn how to organize with your neighbors with BDSA!

October 18, 2025 11 AM to 1 PM
Warehouse XI Somerville, MA

RSVP here! bdsa.us/Oct25GOM

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 10h

This Thursday, October 16!

Join us for a virtual screening of No Other Land, the Oscar-winning documentary chronicling the residents of Masafer Yatta.

RSVP: innmvmt.org/virtualscree...

NO OTHER LAND
Special Virtual Screening for IfNotNow members
Thursday October 16, 8pm ET Zoom

innmvmt.org/virtualscreening

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 11h

I hope all my yimby friends vote Jivan #1 so we have the best chance to get 2 socialists on the council! (no shade on Burhan but he's gonna win easily)

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 13h

wow talk about a dark ux pattern - clicked "changed my mind" unconsciously as if it was an option to select.
fuck off vecteezy.com

cancelation screen saying "we're sorry to see you go" and asking for the reason for your cancellation. at the bottom are two options, continue and "changed my mind"

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 13h

it's funny I started out being mad at Microsoft and now they're in 3rd place

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 13h

oh ffs, is it google or reddit I should be mad at about this

google search (not ai mode) where the top result is from reddit, but the description is an AI summary:

Reddit • r/excel
50+ comments • 4 years ago :

subject: Who thought that doing undo across open documents is a ...

description: "The discussion focuses on the annoyance of Excel's undo feature across open documents. The
majority agree that it's frustrating and inconvenient, especially when working with unrelated workbooks.
Some offer alternative solutions like opening a new Excel session or using Ctrl+ Y to redo actions.
Others suggest that ..."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

If you live in Everett, Mass. and have any information about the 13-year-old boy abducted by ICE, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04

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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 1d

It was undermined by atrocious @nytimes.com coverage, among other things

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 1d

or a politics student for that matter

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Let’s Change Cambridge @letschangecambridge.us · 1d

Who should you vote for in the School Committee election? Not the incumbents!

This is very long, I know less about School Committee, and I may've made some mistakes, so please let me know if I got something wrong or why you disagree.

letschangecambridge.us/articles/sch...

#CambMA #CambridgeMA

Our shitshow of a School Committee, and who to vote for instead

We need a completely new School Committee.

letschangecambridge.us

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine suggesting, even in jest, that you have “ptsd” from trying and failing to take away healthcare from millions of folks.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
Reply
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Jesse @misctakes.com · 1d

It's amazing how writing can be so immediately obvious as AI

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 1d

screenshot 3 is incredible

amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 1d

inspiring 💗💖

LinkedIn post about how a guy got a job interview at Strava by running a route that spelled HIRE ME on the map

HIRE ME written on the map (looking more like HIRE NE tbh)

commenter asks if the guy got the job and OP says “I don't think so. But his effort got him noticed and a foot in the door when so many others didn't”

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1d

On this """Columbus Day,""" please remember that Christopher Columbus was as dumb as he was sleazy

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Dec 12

TIL Christopher Columbus didn’t think the world was round, he thought it was a ball with one part rising to Christian Heaven, “like a woman’s nipple”

www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/212/...

Columbus speculated that the earth had a bulge, having the form of a pear (de la forma de una pera) or of a ball with a bulge like a woman's nipple (una teta de muger alli puesta; Textos 215). The world's
"nipple (peçón) was in the East, where he thought he was, along the equator (215). Because of its height, it was the part of the world closest to heaven.

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 1d

that's @votealzubi.com in the foreground of course but also @willieburnleyjr.bsky.social carrying the big Palestine flag in the background. Shout out to some real ones

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 1d

Nice thing about Honk, you never know when you're gonna run into a friend

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