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Boston/Cambridge
Joined June 2009
Great night for the Rays. Brutal night for Derek. (via @DaniWex)
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A bear family piled into a parked car in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, on Friday, after the adult bear skillfully opened one of the vehicle's doors. The bears snatched items from the car which they later discarded in the parking lot. abcnews.visitlink.me/vP3yYe
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📚 Au Japon, des gens vont désormais en boîte de nuit… pour s’asseoir silencieusement et lire un livre pendant qu’un DJ joue de la musique d'ambience. Le concept s’appelle JUCY BOOK RAVE et se déroule notamment dans un club souterrain de Shimokitazawa, à Tokyo. Ici, pas besoin de danser ni de hurler pour parler à la personne située à 30 centimètres de vous. Les participants viennent avec un livre, s’installent dans la pénombre et lisent pendant que la musique accompagne leur soirée.
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The nor’easter lashing Nantucket with wind and rain this weekend has uncovered the remains of a shipwreck along the island’s south shore. The fragment is likely from the 19th century schooner Warren Sawyer, a wooden ship that wrecked near Miacomet Beach on December 22, 1884.
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I feel seen
On paper, I’m in my 50’s & it’s really confusing… In my head, I’m 35. At a concert, I’m 25 After 10pm, I’m 72. Getting up off the floor, I’m 93. When someone makes me mad, I’m 2 BUT- When an 80’s song comes on, I’m 17, drunk in a field, & my mom thinks I’m at a sleepover 🤪
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Blink and you'll miss it 👀 An outstanding catch by the Red Sox ball girl!
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49 years ago today, Fonzie, clad in leather jacket and cut off jeans, "jumped the shark" on Happy Days.
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A Seaport apartment building is hosting a pool party for its resident dogs today before its outdoor deck is closed for the season. 🤍
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An 88-year-old dad is reunited with his 53-year-old down syndrome son after spending a week apart for the first time ever. 🫶
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Once in a while, you have to listen to “Take Five” by Brubeck just to appreciate how damn good it is.
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Los aficionados de los Kansas City Royals tenían 30 segundos para conseguir juntar el pan con la salchicha y si lo lograban, todo el estadio ganaba hot dogs gratis. 🌭
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And yet it seems perfectly reasonable
Does anyone remember this amazing story? On July 2, 1982, a truck driver from California flew 16,000 feet into the sky in a lawn chair. Larry Walters, 33, from San Pedro, had dreamed of flying his whole life. He bought 42 eight-foot helium weather balloons, tied them to a regular Sears lawn chair, strapped on a parachute, packed a BB gun to pop balloons to descend, a CB radio, sandwiches, and a six-pack of beer. He expected to float a few hundred feet above his backyard. He cut the rope and shot up like a rocket — to 16,000 feet. He drifted directly into the main approach path for LAX. Two airline pilots radioed the tower: they had just passed a man in a lawn chair holding a gun at 16,000 feet. For 45 minutes, he floated over Los Angeles, freezing cold, too scared to shoot balloons because he might fall. Finally, he started popping balloons one by one and slowly descended. He landed tangled in power lines in Long Beach, California, causing a blackout. When police arrested him, they asked why he did it. He said, "A man can't just sit around." The FAA fined him $4,000. He became a national folk hero — Lawnchair Larry — and inspired the movie Up.
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NASA has released one of the most detailed visualizations ever created of Earth’s ocean currents.
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NASA has not recently released a new detailed visualization of Earth’s ocean currents; the latest similar ones were published in February 2025. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14745 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5425
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Aaaaaaand…. NEXT
MLB's No. 3 prospect Franklin Arias is tearing up Triple-A 🔥 In his 15 G with the Worcester Red Sox: .313/.384/.563 4 2B, 4 HR 17 RBI
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The Devil Horns Solar Eclipse Is one of the rarest sunrise ever photographed and was stunning.
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The is an AI-generated video based on a photo by photographer Elias Chasiotis during the eclipse in December, 2019. boredpanda.com/sunrise-red-ho… indiatvnews.com/science/solar-…
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Nothing like a little irony here in Iowa. In a game built, in part, around the story of Shoeless Joe Jackson and his second chance after being banned as part of the Black Sox scandal, there are gambling ads in each outfield corner.
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arguably the best Boston post ever
This is the Chipotle where Thomas Paine wrote common sense
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True, true
Michael Morse has his single overturned into a grand slam and is told to go back up to bat, and pretend to hit a HR without a bat and then run around the bases. Imagine someone tuning in at the exact moment he fake swings and the announcer calls the homer. They would be like wtf is this.
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A los 40 años, Vozinha pasó de ser la gran historia del Mundial a firmar el mejor contrato de su carrera con Colo Colo. El portero de Cabo Verde ganará 11 veces más que en su anterior club, el Chaves de Portugal. Vozinha se vistió de gala y lloró a mares. Maravillosa historia.
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Vozinha ha llegado a un acuerdo con Colo Colo, pero aún no ha firmado el contrato ya que debe viajar a Chile y aprobar exámenes médicos. bbc.co.uk/sport/football… ourmidland.com/sports/article…
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32/35 students failed this professor's midterm using AI because he secretly hid some white font in his text.
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