Guess I shouldn't feel like too much of a bonehead for sticking with Gmail.
06.03.2026 18:12
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Guess I shouldn't feel like too much of a bonehead for sticking with Gmail.
I hope they're not teaching them that "incentivize" is a word. Will the lectures be "impactful"?
Is Hannah suing?
I suspect this chart omits digital startups, although it's also true that newspapers are eliminating jobs faster than startups are creating them.
“Unconditional surrender” was the Allies’ demand in WWII. They backed it up by occupying Germany, Italy and Japan.
Is Trump prepared to send hundreds of thousands of troops to occupy Iran, a nation of 93 million people, and to risk the resulting casualties? If not, this is simply bluster.
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I wouldn't get too excited about Kristi Noem. Trump and Miller are still there.
There is no solution to the local news crisis except to slog it out one community at a time. Anything can work, anything can fail. Whether for-profit, nonprofit, digital, print or broadcast, the key is committed local leadership. Yes, I am subtweeting. Don't ask. #journalism
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I also live a mile and a half from the Medford/Tufts Green Line Station, and sometimes I'll walk to that. Very little parking. I've seen people defend that decision, but it's never crowded, even during rush hour, because so few people can get there. Bus service to the station is sporadic at best.
There's a massive amount of housing at Alewife station, and those folks can walk to the Red Line. So it's not all bad. I'd rather see really good bus transportation than an emphasis on parking, because Route 2 is already jammed as it is. (Although the T needs to fix what's there.)
There was a time when Patch hired one reporter per community, and they actually went out and covered stories. This is an abomination. #journalism www.cjr.org/feature/hype...
On the rare occasions when we park at the Alewife garage, we always take the 19-year-old clunker in case it's wiped out by a falling concrete slab. And, of course, we cross our fingers that it won't happen while we're in the car. Fortunately we live a short walk from commuter rail.
Sure, if (1) there's a bus stop nearby that you can walk to and (2) steps are taken so that the bus isn't stuck in the same traffic as everyone else.
I assume you know about the Alewife garage — crumbling, a really terrifying experience, with no current plans to fix it. There should be an express bus from the new development to Alewife. mass.streetsblog.org/2026/01/12/m...
Are drones not killer robots?
I love the bike path, but extending the Red Line to Lexington — or Bedford! — would have been transformative.
No one is giving Kennedy any credit. I think we can talk about sugar without engaging in ritual chants of “RFK Jr. sucks!”
I’m not saying this housing shouldn’t be built, but it’s a stretch to claim that Lexington is served by the MBTA. No subway, no trolley, no train. Some bus lines. These people are all going to drive. #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/05/b...
I don’t want Kennedy anywhere near the levers of power, but since when has it not been acceptable for the government to regulate food safety? Although it’s pretty obvious that we can’t ban sugar.
What is that thing?
This is the truth. We buy it for the house from time to time, just to mix it up. Dunks coffee is not bad at all.
Dunks is *not* bad coffee. There's better, but there's a lot worse.
I don't think anyone likes him.
Iced coffee is good! Sugar is bad.
I know you're fully aware that the overwhelming majority of writers on Substack are liberal, including @hcrichardson.bsky.social.
So we should endorse sugar because RFK Jr. is against it?