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Linda Lowenthal

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Bostonian, copy chief at MIT Technology Review, lover of other people’s dogs.

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I believe I speak for many when I say: Where did Rama get that coat?!?

01.01.2026 20:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Title: The street tom waits grew up on. 
Image: a shabby, broken down old timey American street. 
Caption:
Buildings (left to right): vern's all-nite pizza 'n' tattoo, accordion players' graveyard, abandoned clown-shoe factory, divorced salesmen's polka club, tomb of the unknown cabbie, bootleg ice-cream warehouse, saint frank's hobo orphanage, illegal umbrella incinerator.

Title: The street tom waits grew up on. Image: a shabby, broken down old timey American street. Caption: Buildings (left to right): vern's all-nite pizza 'n' tattoo, accordion players' graveyard, abandoned clown-shoe factory, divorced salesmen's polka club, tomb of the unknown cabbie, bootleg ice-cream warehouse, saint frank's hobo orphanage, illegal umbrella incinerator.

Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

07.12.2025 15:10 👍 1811 🔁 611 💬 32 📌 21

I honestly don’t care what happens to him as long as he leaves the scene one way or another, but part of me is semi-sincerely worried he will live forever.

12.11.2025 15:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I cannot stop laughing at this.

09.09.2025 00:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.

The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

19.08.2025 14:01 👍 21732 🔁 6377 💬 751 📌 797

“It’s embarrassing for me to be up here” … finally a true statement.

11.08.2025 14:57 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Charity Girl Details about the novel CHARITY GIRL, by Michael Lowenthal.

My brother wrote a novel based on this michaellowenthal.com/charity-girl...

02.08.2025 21:22 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sandal-clad feet, astroturf, and two furry beasts

Sandal-clad feet, astroturf, and two furry beasts

Life is sweet (and photography skills minimal) at the neighborhood dog bar.

13.07.2025 20:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m so sorry, Josh!! He was truly a legend and I assumed he would live forever.

13.07.2025 19:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As a person who really really likes tomatoes, blueberries, and hearing people speak Spanish I find the original comment super baffling, but on the other hand I guess I would pay $100 for non-breathable underwear if it would make this charmer go away, so maybe I get the concept.

05.07.2025 15:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This whole thread was making me laugh so hard I finally had to explain.

18.06.2025 02:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Historians discover one of North America's oldest living apple trees in Maine The Drap D'Or de Bretagna is one of a few historic apples that are the genetic ancestors of many of the common varieties we eat today. And the Verona Island tree is the only known living specimen in N...

Lalalala, hell in a handbasket, here’s some vital apple news. www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...

04.06.2025 17:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“I love the affordabile kare act but I hate Obamacare!”

17.04.2025 21:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So is this guy “Elie” hitting up all Jewish-looking people in Boston for 35 bucks or was he legit? (I did give it to him.)

17.04.2025 19:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dry socks after coming in from the rain = unchallenged as one of life’s top pleasures.

05.04.2025 20:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just burst into applause in my empty living room.

02.04.2025 00:06 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh wow! Thank you! So weird they seem to have put just “Monique” on only a very few designs.

28.03.2025 23:53 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I guess?? In a weird script?

28.03.2025 22:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hive mind of Bluesky: Does the signature or logo on this silk scarf ring any bells with anyone? I cannot make it out. I found one on eBay that interprets it as “Moniohie” but I’m not convinced.

28.03.2025 21:43 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0

Instead of “dividing Americans based on race,” we must affirm that human beings are inherently divided into distinct races? Do these people listen to themselves?

28.03.2025 13:16 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Amazing!! Congratulations!

26.03.2025 16:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Can’t believe I was in Wilmington and failed to go to the Baldwin apple monument.

23.03.2025 19:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

I keep saying this!!!

13.03.2025 02:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love this painting!

04.03.2025 18:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Nobody willingly buys a Russian airplane.”

26.02.2025 19:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Women are not qualified to serve someone coffee, according to the new right-wing view? This is breaking my brain.

14.02.2025 21:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have finally read this entire gross story and still have no idea what these people actually want out of life or government besides being able to call people retarded faggots without fear that it might create a bad impression.

08.02.2025 19:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

But I was just told that the tech CEOs were driven into the arms of MAGA by their insufferably woke work force?

06.02.2025 01:00 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

What!!! Absolutely not.

27.01.2025 22:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Still trying to adjust to the breakdown of consensus that Nazis are the bad guys, but I THOUGHT we were still united as a nation in lack of enthusiasm for plane crashes and cancer? Wrong again?

25.01.2025 21:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0