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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 12/12/2025
“When a news organization recognizes you’re cognitively depleted and serves you digestible audio instead of demanding you parse 1,500 words, that’s institutional empathy at scale.”
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News gets reshaped to match the way your brain works
"When a news organization recognizes you're cognitively depleted and serves you digestible audio instead of demanding you parse 1,500 words, that's institutional empathy at scale."
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
there’s going to be a lot of people going as labubus for halloween
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
“No one can hear what you’re saying,” me to my sister, who is trying to talk through a snorkle. “You sound like a droid.” *A laugh is heard from the top of the snorkle.
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I woke up exactly like this to that super loud crackling thunder a few minutes ago in Boston. Got so scared I felt like a cartoon for a second
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a cartoon of donald duck is sleeping in a bed
ALT: a cartoon of donald duck is sleeping in a bed
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Print still hits.
A Sunday Boston Globe cover titled “‘I Feel That Nowhere Is Safe’” about ICE.
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
very invested in the race for somerville bike path cat mayor @bostonglobe.com
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A cat was dubbed Somerville’s ‘bike path mayor.’ Now neighborhood pets are vying to unseat her. - The Boston Globe
According to a growing collection of lawn signs in Somerville, the race is on.
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
me, watching Severance and also making a contemporary reference: what the helly
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Five MBTA employees federally charged with falsifying track inspection records
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Five MBTA employees federally charged with falsifying track inspection records - The Boston Globe
The employees all worked at Cabot Yard, the South Boston facility that came under scrutiny last October when a number of employees were placed on leave for allegedly working on private vehicles during...
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Wearing a Dunqueens tracksuit in public teaches u things about yourself
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
“You’d probably be the first band in history to play a green Egg and Haim.” One of my favorite moments from Djo’s Boston show was this literal dad joke.
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Review & Setlist: And when Djo is back in Boston, we feel it
Dad jokes, an “Egg” debut, and an intimate night with friends and family on the Back on You tour? Stranger things have happened.
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
new life just dropped
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Astronomers detect a possible signature of life on a distant planet - The Boston Globe
The search for life beyond Earth has led scientists to explore many suggestive mysteries, from plumes of methane on Mars to clouds of phosphine gas on Venus.
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
i'm actually locked OUT and crashing IN. built different
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Boston.com @boston.com · 29/03/2025
“She seemed a little annoyed with us that we were keeping her awake."
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Owl rescued after flying into N.H. casino
The owl spent the night at the casino before it was rescued the following morning.
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Canon event my first tweet in 2011 was lyrics to Iris - The Goo Goo Dolls. So, yes, I’ve been like this the whole time
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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 26/03/2025
The Tufts graduate student detained by federal authorities in Somerville has been sent to a Louisiana detention facility, despite a federal judge’s order telling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to remove her from Massachusetts without notice.
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Tufts graduate student detained by federal authorities sent to Louisiana - The Boston Globe
Masked plainclothes officers arrested Rumeysa Ozturk outside a Somerville home Tuesday evening.
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I searched “small round bed” online shopping for furniture and I don’t know how I didn’t anticipate this, but, it was all dog beds.
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I don’t know, I just feel like, I could really use a wish right now. (Wish right now.)
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A true New England sense of humor trait that I do possess is that I can appreciate a good read. Like sometimes I’ll check the comments and see they’ve hilariously clocked me ways I couldn’t have guessed. W to them, you know.
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I’m rising to grind. I’m locking in. I’m crashing out. I’m doing all the action verbs simultaneously
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Ready to shred. 🏂 Caught up with professional snowboarder Zeb Powell ahead of Red Bull’s Heavy Metal snowboarding competition at Boston City Hall Plaza on Saturday. Watch on @boston.com’s Instagram. www.instagram.com/reel/DGW4UyJ...
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Howie, the beloved Internet Crab (6/4/2015 - 2/18/2025) ☁️ I mentioned Howie, back in this @bostonglobe.com profile of another Internet figure: Guy Kicking Rock. (UConn's Luke Lorraine) Read it here if you'd like. www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/23/l...
A few weeks ago, Luke Lorraine was on his way to class at the University of Connecticut when he spotted a small rock. In his red Converse sneakers, he kicked the rock over and over again, all the way to class, filming as he went.

Lorraine, 22, quickly joined the ranks of other social media stars who track mundane but strangely compelling daily happenings. Sweet pug Noodle (RIP) earned a huge following based on whether he stood up or slumped down in his dog bed each morning. One guy eats a rotisserie chicken every day. Thousands check in on a crab some worried wouldn’t molt in time (she did!).

Now Lorraine, a Connecticut native determined to shape a rock into a sphere one kick at a time, has more than 18 million viewers. He’s known on TikTok as @GuyKickingRock.
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Banned for life after discovery of his secret mall apartment, artist invited back to Providence Place for film screening - The Boston Globe
Michael Townsend will make his long-awaited return to the mall next month when the critically acclaimed “Secret Mall Apartment” documentary opens at the scene of the crime.
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Childhood me who struggled in Math and Science but loved English and History would be so upset to know how many numbers I look at and aspect ratios I have to calculate in pixels... I went to Emerson College for journalism but also so I didn't have to take math classes! Brutal out here. 🙃
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I thought #SNL50 was kind of a blast. I got • to hear Meryl Streep make “Devil Wears Prada” and “Into The Woods” jokes. • to learn a new Cher line. • to see Keke Palmer and Miley Cyrus reunite. • to hear Paul McCartney sing “Carry That Weight.” Read @kslane.bsky.social’s full SNL recap here.
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'SNL 50' recap: Best moments from the 50th anniversary of 'Saturday Night Live'
SNL 50 recap: The best moments from the "Saturday Night Live" 50th anniversary special and a full list of celebrity cameos.
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
There’s a steal happening over on #FacebookMarketplace…
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I can’t hear Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso without thinking of the Dunkin’ Lounge at Boston Calling and I think that’s probably normal and fine, right?
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Wrote this 1 year ago today. #EmotionalWellBeing "We've been better, Elmo."
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‘How is everybody doing?’ Elmo checked in emotionally. The Internet reacted as you’d expect. - The Boston Globe
The question “How are you?” carries a certain weight in 2024.
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
If you know anything about me you know this is crazy for me of all people to say: I may have found an even better content tool than Canva. I know. Take a second to process that. 🤯
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Love Letters @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Are we truly different in certain places or is that just what we tell ourselves? Today’s episode of The @bostonglobe.com's Love Letters podcast is a meditation on whether geography can change us. Hear from Kelly on how sometimes location can be everything. Listen here. link.chtbl.com/zLLpSgsm
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I was literally shook.
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Earthquake off Maine coast rocks New England - The Boston Globe
A 3.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Maine rocked New England on Monday morning, shaking homes from Boston to Cranston, R.I.
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Like we heard Timothee Chalamet say “Lowell, Massachusetts.”
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
#SNL has been good good lately. Last night’s was genuinely hilarious and I had just finished laughing from Sarah Sherman’s Original Noseferatu bit last week.
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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A 2012 tweet from @horse_ebooks that’s in the Internet Hall of Fame: “Everything happens so much.”
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Ocean Spray Cranberry juice guy in 2025. Seems like just yesterday we first saw him in 2020. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2dNq6cN/
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One more for the road 🥹 🖖🏼🪶🤙🏼 it’s been real TikTok #happyhippie
TikTok video by doggface208
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Love Letters @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
You mean you listen to OTHER podcasts!? 😅 Funmi Adejobi admits to listening to other podcasts (We see you @thisamericanlife.org) while talking to @bostonglobe.com Love Letters host @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social about finding joy through clown... by literally clowning around. 🎧 pod.link/1354140820
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
💌 This week, season 10 of the @bostonglobe.com’s Love Letters podcast premiered. 💌 A huge congrats to @meredithgoldstein.bsky.social and the audio team! In ‘My Clown Era,’ you’ll laugh, or cry, or both. Listen to @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social here. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/66d1...
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My Clown Era
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The "slow breathing to convince your body that you are not actually in physical danger" thing actually kinda works, y'all.
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Ice cream while freezing outside at 9 p.m. A true New England delight
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I couldn’t sleep so I decided to watch The Substance for the first time
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Me, talking about my Animal Crossing town: I don’t mean to be like this but I’m kind of a big deal virtually
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
say sike rn 🥶
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Boston.com @boston.com · 20/12/2024
Light rain and snow could lead to ‘slick’ conditions for holiday travel, according to Boston meteorologists. 🌨️
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What Boston meteorologists are saying about the timing and impacts of Friday's snowfall
Boston meteorologists are predicting light snow in parts of the region on Friday and Saturday, with wind chills ahead.
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
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a woman with a surprised look on her face is wearing a red shirt and earrings .
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Christopher Gavin @chrisgavin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe has reclaimed nearly 40 acres of its ancestral land in Rhode Island. “It’s a new day from the past, and that’s where I want to go,” Chief George Spring Buffalo told me. More here: www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/18/m...
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Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe reclaims nearly 40 acres of ancestral land in Rhode Island - The Boston Globe
The forested site in Tiverton, R.I., “was kind of our beginning as a people and a tribe,” Chief George Spring Buffalo said
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I decided to make a holiday simmer pot in the kitchen while doing Sunday chores and I feel like I leveled up
A simmering pot of fresh cranberries, pine, oranges, nutmeg, and cinnamon bubbles on a stovetop.
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Was Djo in your top songs this year? Back in March, I had a blast speaking with Joe Keery about End of Beginning, Stranger Things, and his Spotify daylist. www.boston.com/culture/musi...
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Newburyport native DJO (Joe Keery) takes us back to the beginning
If you've been living under a rock or in the Upside Down, it's possible you haven't heard of DJO. Spoiler alert: It's Joe Keery.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Alright but this is two words
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Local Woman Not Ignoring Your Texts, She’s Just Seeing Wicked (2 hours, 40 mins)
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maddie 🦢 @maddiemortell.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
#Audience folks! Like this so I can find and follow you ✨
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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 19/11/2024
look at all those turkeys
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The wild turkey population has exploded in Mass. Here’s expert advice for living peacefully among them. - The Boston Globe
The rebirth of wild turkeys in Massachusetts has sparked numerous complaints about the aggressive birds. But they are not out to get you: “Approach every interaction with a turkey as if you are the bi...
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