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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 13/07/2026

Shedd Aquarium plans to bring up to 10 beluga whales to Chicago in the next few weeks as part of a rescue operation that will remove 30 belugas from a closed marine park in Canada.

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Shedd Aquarium takes part in effort to rescue 30 beluga whales from troubled Canadian marine park

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 25/01/2026

Real tell of life with two kids during snowstorm is the happiness with which I pick up the shovel to go outside for a few minutes of me time while clearing the sidewalk.

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 17/01/2026

Been reading charlottes web at bedtime to the five year and we are three chapters from the end. Thoughts and prayers appreciated.

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 23/01/2025

To the dad belting “we are the world” to his kids on the back of his e-bike this morning on Hamilton St, I salute you 🫡 #bikedc

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 06/01/2025

I know people from the mid Atlantic have no chill but I’m sorry this shit excites me. I used to love turning on the radio and waiting to hear if they called my school’s number.

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 06/01/2025

Took the red line with my family yesterday and completely did not notice the new/old automatic train operation. Totally seamless. Congrats @wmata.com

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fakesharrows @fakesharrows.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

happy unproductive WFH to all who celebrate

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 05/01/2025

Oh yeah here’s the final product of the rehabilitated hat. The remaining bits of the glove who gave the ultimate sacrifice have been put out of their misery. #knitting

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 03/01/2025

I just discovered my neighborhood library has a weekly knitting group and I am so stoked.

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 29/12/2024

I don’t know how to take it when my 4yo says “pretend we’re grownups”

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 29/12/2024

New/old project. Gonna cannibalize the glove to finish the hat I started this summer but ran out of yarn. I want a hat more and it’s the last of this yarn #knitting #wip

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 21/12/2024

All done! (With the #knitting part, but still have to do blocking and tassel)

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 21/12/2024

Every year I watch Home Alone and my soul is tormented by the memory of Frito-Lay Crunch Gators, gone before their time. What a cruel world.

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 16/12/2024

Just doing some wrapping and it hit me like a brick in the face

Photo of a toy car set waiting to be wrapped

Same photo as before but zoomed in on the word “unassembled”

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 14/12/2024

This heel is TURNT. Now it’s toe time! #wip #knitting

A white Christmas stocking that is almost done being knitted except for the toe

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 12/12/2024

New wheels. Can’t wait to get the kids seat on #bikedc

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 12/12/2024

Let me get this straight. Anyone someone wants a runabout on DS9 they have to ask the commander IN PERSON? They don’t have google calendar in the 24th century?

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 11/12/2024

Heel flap is done! Time to turn the heel #wip #knitting

Photo of a white Christmas stocking partially knitted

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 11/12/2024

As a DC resident, I’m used to encountering web forms where the designer forgets to include us in a location selector since we’re not a state. Never expected the Washington Post to do it though: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

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Analysis | No daylight saving time? See how early or late you would be in the dark.

Would you be okay if the sun rose before 4 a.m., or after 10? Not changing clocks is a popular idea, but we’d have to live with the extremes.

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 11/12/2024

I have discovered that if I drink tea instead of coffee I’m allowed to hold more warm mugs in my day

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 10/12/2024

Progress check. Think I can make it by Christmas Eve #wip #knitting

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 04/12/2024

If any of you think your wrapped is embarrassing I guarantee I’ve got you beat.

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 04/12/2024

Started a new Christmas stocking for my mother in law. Let’s see if I can finish by the 24th!

Circular knitting needles (US size 8) with a few rows knitted on them. White worsted yarn from Kmart, originally 97 cents.

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 04/12/2024

Meanwhile baba (aka me) is running on the fumes of the fumes it took to get through thanksgiving.

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 04/12/2024

Day three of RSV mania with the four year old. So far we’ve done a five hour Bluey marathon and started working through Ghibli catalog. We’ve done Totoro, Kiki, Ponyo. What else is age appropriate?

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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes

A TNG scene. We're in the Enterprise conference room, where Picard is holding a meeting with Data, Troi, and Dr Crusher. Barclay is also there, for unknown reasons. Maybe he wandered into the meeting and just sat down, and everyone was too polite to mention it. That happened to me once. I was visiting an office location I didn't normally go to and I wasn't quite sure which conference room I was supposed to be in. I walked into one and sat down and it took me five minutes to realize I was in the wrong meeting. From the perspective of the people in that room, halfway through that meeting, a stranger walked in, sat next to the boss, took notes for five minutes, then walked out without saying a word.

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 03/12/2024

Welp, just found out four year has RSV. Been nice knowing you all.

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 30/11/2024

Does this work? If so I have a half dozen other places I’d try it, starting with Hamilton and North Capitol

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This wrecks me—every single time.

Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road?

Don't fill up on bread
I say absent-mindedly
The servings here are huge

My son, whose hair may be
receding a bit, says
Did you really just
say that to me?

What he doesn't know
is that when we're walking
together, when we get
to the curb
I sometimes start to reach
for his hand

—Robert Hershon

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 29/11/2024

From yesterday’s post turkey walk

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 28/11/2024

Three kids at Thanksgiving this year makes everything more fun. Four year old is sharing toys with her one year old cousin.

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 27/11/2024

This really hit home for me. I wrote about some of the same sentiments when I recently revamped my own website.

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 22/11/2024

Holy cow folks it is SNOWING in Petworth, DC. This is not a drill!

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 14/11/2024

Wouldn’t “live long and prosper” make more sense as a Ferengi ethos?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/11/2024

i would happily pay a few dollars a month to keep this place viable.

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 13/11/2024

Sesame Street’s first feature film in 1985 (Follow That Bird) was the first thing I saw in a cinema and I loved it so much. Still do. Just tried to show it to my four year old and it could not have been a bigger flop.

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 01/11/2024

Just set up the new hearing aid function with my AirPods and it is amazing. Just as good as my actual (much more expensive) hearing aid, but it doesn’t get jammed or squawky.

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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

More holidays where people sit out front and walk around and share treats

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Ben Harris @benharris1.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

I haven’t seen spaces in downtown DC boarded up since…January 2021.

A series of boarded up storefronts in central DC.

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Duncan Watson @duncanwatson.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

The best thing to do is not drive tonight because the dangerous driver is you.

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Richard Iserman @richardiserman.com · 30/10/2024

My favorite part about newborns is the four hour feedings that have to be done every three hours.

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🚲insert into haunted select uid from partisans where party = "R" @db-user.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

typical pro-transit advocate: "you need to rescind free parking and institute congestion pricing and put up signs that say drivers kill and..." me: JUST BUILD MOAR TRAINS

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