cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The Boston Globe has spent the past two days absolutely gloating over the fact that Ted Cruz approves of the outlet’s relentlessly mocking coverage of the owners and patrons of a small, struggling lesbian bar that’s not even in metro Boston. 000
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The data you submit will be used to punish our lowest paid and least autonomous employees and will generate a higher rate of targeted advertising on all your devices. 031
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The only way to say it. www.youtube.com/shorts/oBJ3y...youtube.comThe only way to say itYouTube video by Swag on the Beat 0120
Reposted by cables617cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A Boston Globe article purporting to explain a “’Wildly Dysfunctional’ Congress” does not include the word “Republican” until the 21st paragraph. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/28/n...bostonglobe.com‘Wildly dysfunctional’: Congress is in a historically bad place, and it’s actually worse than you think - The Boston GlobeCongress has sunk to historic levels of non-productivity, partisan fighting, and general dysfunction. 1121
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The 1st named individual is former Dem Rep Donna Edwards in the 8th paragraph. Mike Johnson and Trump first appear (with no party ID!!!) in the 10th paragraph. Chris Coons is the 2nd named Dem; Murkowski is the first named Republican... in the 24th paragraph. And of course the article praises her. 060
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A Boston Globe article purporting to explain a “’Wildly Dysfunctional’ Congress” does not include the word “Republican” until the 21st paragraph. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/28/n...bostonglobe.com‘Wildly dysfunctional’: Congress is in a historically bad place, and it’s actually worse than you think - The Boston GlobeCongress has sunk to historic levels of non-productivity, partisan fighting, and general dysfunction. 1121
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This mentality reminds me of Ginni Thomas's deranged 2010 voice mail for Anita Hill, "extending an olive branch" for what Hill "did with [Thomas's] husband" in 1991. 010
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 18/08/2026If it's any consolation, think of how long it's been since you gave over any of your mental bandwidth to Mike Pompeo and his political aspirations. 060
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 16/08/2026You’re looking for audio equipment in Watertown, MA? That’s a long way from the Uniqlo in SF. 000
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Hey @darthbluesky.bsky.social - new fam just dropped. nbcmontana.com/news/local/z...nbcmontana.comZooMontana welcomes red panda cubs to the worldZooMontana in Billings is celebrating the arrival of two red panda cubs born July 11.The cubs, Pavitra and Pab, are just shy of one month old and are beginning 010
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I read the first phish line and assumed that this was a Ross Douthat subskeet. 000
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 08/08/2026It’s even crazier! Governor Judy Martz picked Hedges up at the hospital in the middle of the night and washed Hedges’s bloody clothes before the police could get them. Afterward, she tried to say that it was nothing nefarious, simply the sort of thing a parent would do for a child. 1162
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Filling Station in Bozeman, MT. 11/21/95 according to the archives. Place was packed to the gills. 010
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 01/08/2026"There's another dead bishop on the landing, Vicar Sergeant!" "Uh, Detective Parson, madam." 010
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Critical Mass ride for Louisa Gag takes over Kosciusko Circle. We still had a huge group nearly 15 miles in. 192
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The default editorial tone with just about all reporting around Obergefell was really something. It was just a straight up victory dance... for everything. Full on Francis Fukuyama End of History shit, all but stating outright there were no wrongs left on this earth to address. 000
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Seven Mary Three convinced me that literally anyone could get a song on the radio. 001
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 25/07/2026And real reporting on injustice is hard enough without getting relentlessly vilified or outright murdered by those who carry out or benefit from the injustice. 000
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Joan V understood the assignment. If the Globe wanted a fact-based column on local politics and making streets safer for all users, they easily could have asked Shirley Leung to do it. Her 10/1/22 piece on biking from Milton to downtown was worlds more constructive than Joan’s rant. 020
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This ad looks exactly like the ones polluting up Reddit, and oh man did the demons in me brew up before I saw who made the post. 000
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 22/07/2026What’s the problem? Craig Kilborn remembers. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1p...m.youtube.comBear TrampolineYouTube video by Mr Button 0130
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The Young Ones predicted this over 40 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VGl...youtube.comi've got a porscheYouTube video by MsMalvinaReynolds 140
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Last time I heard someone use the term was Michael Savage frothing away on talk radio in the 90’s. My immediate, visceral response was “OK, boomer.” 010
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 21/07/2026He tried suing them for the shame of getting mercilessly teased by kids while riding the H2WHOA! 000
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 20/07/2026It’s a drop in the bucket of decades of copganda, but I had ”fun” with an in flight rewatch of Die Hard, in which a cop who had previously shot a boy fully redeemed himself by shooting a suspect. 111
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 20/07/2026He’s 0 for 9 himself on his precious Dale Carnegie civility scorecard, and it's not even close. 010
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 20/07/2026This is Keller's meal ticket; he’s responsible for that awful 3/9/25 Boston Magazine hit piece on bike lanes. As ridiculously bad faith as that article was in tone and substance, this one is worse. The “we own the streets…we do what we want quote” is completely made up. 080
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Maybe someday you and his loved ones can travel to Iran together and tell the locals all about his sense of humor and negotiating skills. 000
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The Globe shamelessly inserts this blatant editorializing as objective reporting . By constantly repeating these distortions, the Globe uses its editorializing to frame – and deliberately limit – the discussion of how to make our cities safer and more livable for all communities. 000
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Who on earth are the “many” who look at bunched buses stuck in gridlock in Mattapan Square – or the cars screaming downhill past Franklin Park towards ALH at 50 mph – and say, “thank goodness there aren’t any bus or bike lanes here, or this would really be an apocalypse!!!” 110
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The 6/24 article on Blue Hill Ave redesign was infuriating for blatant editorializing. "[T]he latest version of the plan also includes bike lanes — which to many represent the first, galloping horseman of the gentrification apocalypse." 100
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Larry - your distant cousins showed up for the occasion. 2291
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Michelle Wu, Dr. Imari Paris Jeffries, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Dr. Nathaniel Sheidley at the Independence Day Oration at Faneuil Hall 010
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I just sat through three hours of 95 degree heat at Fenway watching a preposterously toothless Sox team lose 10-2 to the Nationals just to come home to find out the Celts want in on the salary dumping party as well. 0593
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Obligatory: www.youtube.com/shorts/oBJ3y...youtube.comThe only way to say itYouTube video by Swag on the Beat 020
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 27/06/2026So true - especially at both ends of the spectrum. So many wealthy neighborhoods deliberately have no sidewalks so that carless plebes (or "worse") will instantly feel unwelcome. 020
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Don't doubt the power of those brain worms! I love how when RFK got welcomed aboard the Trump campaign, Trump et al hazed him by making him pose for pictures on AF1 eating McD's. Now the worm has turned, and he's got the oval office swimming in a soup of sauerkraut, milk, and blackberry farts. 030
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 26/06/2026What kind of “split” are we talking about here - 50/50 or 90/10? Even the latter breakdown might be too generous. 010
cables617 @cables617.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Genuinely curious- given a prior situation you describe as “miserable” (I get it!!!), what do you do in the current situation once the protected lane ends at High Street and you don’t even have a painted lane? 100
