Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Check out how similar these two maquettes are: the one from the artnet story is Pope Clement XII by Pietro Bracci from the 18th C. The other is Pope Innocent X by Alessandro Algardi ca. 1640 at the Worcester Art Museum share.google/NAEfcJwy0sti... 020
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Big L for Worcester. As someone who is not generally library-oriented, I am amazed at all the WPL team under his leadership has done to raise the profile of this institution. 171
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As a resident of another city whose paper of record was acquired by USA Today: Boo! 000
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Is there some kind of AI photo picker tool that news sites are using? There is a local news source that has had similarly inexplicable and occasional disastrous photo choices. 031
Reposted by SkwiboAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 28/09/2026"These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence." –@michaeldweiss.bsky.social 14548164
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It was only tonight that I realized Senator Tammy Duckworth did not write the book "Grit" 110
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Looks like they're doing some work on the Worcester Auditorium. Any news on that place recently? 010
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If any artists out there are stuck for titles of abstract or postmodern work. Maybe even even work backwards from the titles. Or create a drawing a day for a month challenge with these. 010
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I appreciate Winston's homage to Eli, throwing the ball to absolutely no one, but Eli mixed some TD drives in there. 000
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 17/09/202620-year-old me would be disappointed, but 20-year-old me was kind of a douche. 010
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It took me nearly a half-century before I realized people in British TV shows were saying "ma'am" and not "mum" 110
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I've watched and read a lot of Hannibal Lecter stuff, not because I like crime or horror stories, but because I respect a real liberal arts guy. 100
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026* Worcester specific post * I think we have this whole car crash thing wrong. She was clearly preemptively formulating an argument against protected bike lanes on Harrington Way. 160
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I feel like Electric Feel by MGMT is weird commercial break music for an NFC football game. 000
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026When I was a kid there was an all big-band station in Worcester called WNEB. My great uncle had it on constantly in his Vernon Hill three-decker apartment. I also associate those memories with the refrigerated Lorna Doone cookies he gave me. At the time I was most excited because they had MTV. 100
Reposted by SkwiboWorcester Business Journal @wbjournal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"My 11-year tenure at WBJ has been a wild one, marked by so many fantastic stories from talented reporters. Yet, when I reflect on my time here, I remember one thing above all else: the people," writes WBJ Editor Brad Kane. buff.ly/tvG3hBOwbjournal.comFrom the Editor: Farewell, Central Mass. business communityThe Central Massachusetts economy has many strengths, but its true strength lies in its people. 011
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Four paintings by Renoir taken from a museum in France. Two were then abandoned by the thieves on the museum grounds. www.bbc.com/news/live/cm...bbc.comRenoir: Thieves who stole four paintings abandoned two in garden as they fled, says mayorTwo thieves broke into the museum on Tuesday morning - authorities initially said only one painting had been abandoned. 001
Reposted by SkwiboMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A thread devoted to Jacob Lawrence, one of most acclaimed American painters of the 20th century, born #OnThisDay in 1917. Fitting that today is Labor Day since work & labor were among his most enduring themes. First up: Home Chores, 1945, painted soon after he returned from military service in WWII 8358123
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026My gf: Are you going to vote today? Me: Probably not, Markey has it in the bag and we have no state rep race in our district. GF: Markey is leading by double digits in the polls. Me: Yeah but that doesn't mean anything because of low voter turnout....oh shoot...I guess I'm going to go vote! 130
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Does music become "oldies" or "classic rock" based on relative age? Like, are The Strokes classic rock and Nirvana are oldies? Or, is membership to "oldies" and "classic rock" frozen at the time we started calling music that? 220
Reposted by SkwiboErik Inglis @allthebeset.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The best Veronica out there, made by a student who took my saints and relics class. Silkscreen, not made by human hands. I really like most of the books in my office, but few of them are this satisfying. Let’s hear it for college students. 1154
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Ever have a really dated thought? I was just thinking that I'd stop by a news stand and see who is featured in the jazz magazines these days. 030
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I really hope that the MBTA doesn't use these Worcester line service cuts for necessary track repairs to permanently cut the schedule back. (As someone who wanted to take a non-rush hour train tomorrow) 120
Reposted by SkwiboElon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026years ago me and Ms. Moreno talked about how this came together and it was the greatest www.newyorker.com/culture/cult... 112462632
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It is somehow very funny to me that the fridge in the employee area at the museum is filled with lunches and Gatorade bottles from the operations and security staff and Ione bottle of champagne labeled "curatorial" 040
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Artists that people think aren't deserving of the limelight have a huge advantage because when they get some attention from galleries or institutions, there are a lot of viral articles about them being undeserving, and I'm unsure that there is such a thing as bad publicity. 010
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I was working at the Worcester Art Museum today and this 8-year old walked up to me and asked where the Impressionists were, specifically Monet. I mentioned I was impressed because I didn't know who Monet was until I was like 15 or 16. "Winchendon public schools" he said. So hats off to Winchendon! 050
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Worcester post: A lot of bikes out today on Chandler and Pleasant Streets inside Park Ave. (Positive) Does Chandler being a State route make it hard to put bike lanes there? Note: I am not a cyclist and will never be. I just think we need to adapt the roads so all modes can use them safely. 240
Reposted by SkwiboEric Casey @ericcasey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Train derailment right near Union Station in #Worcester tonight. (video courtesy Railside Live on YouTube) 264
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Going through my contacts and deleting old ones like I'm defusing a bomb so I don't accidentally call someone I went on a Tinder date with 10 years ago. 000
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026What if we took defunct malls and turned them into public service places where different functions could be kept separate but all under the same air conditioned roof? Day shelter, library, public health care, food distribution, museum, playground, social work, job hunting, mental health, etc. 030
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026It's crazy to think how much writing I skimmed over before I had the ability to pull out my phone and look up a reference. I've developed a pet peeve for when an author mentions a person or artwork, without any explanation, assuming that every reader knows who or what it is. 000
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I was leaving for work this morning with a book about art history and my partner said people might find me pretentious. I said "Maybe if it was theory, it would be pretentious, but not history." It was then, explaining what is and is not pretentious, that I realized I'm the worst. 120
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026When my friend hears someone ask how I'm able to eat a cookie despite having type 1 Diabetes. 020
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The only video game moment I've ever been proud of was like 12 years ago I was playing Midnight Club for the first time after a trip to LA and I realized that I could win the race if I took Little Santa Monica because it had less traffic. 000
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I have a twinge of regret that I never lived in Los Angeles, but now that it's sunny and 83 with low humidity in Worcester, Mass. everyday, I feel like I'm getting a taste. 150
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Just found out 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' isn't on the AFI 100. 100
Reposted by SkwiboHagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him 138126302819
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I got a part-time gig as a museum guard at the Worcester Art Museum! Here's me doing that and a similar gig at the Guggenheim 10(!) years ago! 0100
Skwibo @skwibo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I really like accounts that make taking public transit look fun. I think it's more effective than the (correct) argument that it's better for society. It provides a different way of looking at what is potentially a longer or less convenient trip rather than "take your medicine" 130
Reposted by SkwiboAlex @saintsopossums.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Sing to me of the terminally online man, Muse, the man of Internet brainworms 021
![Screenshot of a quote-tweet by @michaeldweiss dated 27 Sep 2026. The original tweet is from "Sigal Chattah" (@Chattah4Nevada), and reads "Love is in the air [two heart emojis] Congrats [champagne emoji] to our amazing @AlinaHabba & @turhanmildoin [three emojis showing the Hamsa, a blue hand with an eye in it]." That text appears above a picture showing Kash Patel, Alina Habba, and others at a wedding ceremony. In his quote-tweet, Michael Weiss writes: "Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u27cygy2ortpq65lvdxe5rlc/bafkreieg7ly23rqije5bfbr6qktzgmtpf4bl6haer3yhzpfl5kyiiku3he)
![“The contrast is outrageous! There’s this sex bomb in front, and this, this creature—I don’t know what else to call him—this fuzzy, violent, nasty creature in back who only got pleasure out of making people and other Muppets unhappy. A creature of impulse, let’s put it that way. And when I watch myself—’cause I’m usually so critical—but when I watch myself, I just laugh at me. What I love about it is that my character’s trying so hard to be sexy and sultry. And this horrible creature in back of me is acting up. [Laughter] See? I can’t stop laughing. It tickles me to death.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zijpzw75j26esk5z2oilexan/bafkreiftmihi2643qz3l4h2dwggjulxsnbmyrmthxo4lqu5cvowep2hxta)
