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Boston councilors back Encore strikers
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Photo by Greg Cook.
#Boston #Everett #strikes

Encore workers walk picket line during weekend storm

September 16, 2026 at 9:17 PM

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AdorkaBows 🎀🔜 GSCC

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I know the likelihood of this being found is really low, but one of my clients lost this bow this morning probably on the T somewhere near Dorchester, Roxbury, Ruggles in the Boston MA area. 🥹

September 15, 2026 at 1:36 AM

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Prem Thakker ツ

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New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran.

Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

September 14, 2026 at 4:04 PM

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Raskol is the new Nasty Pig, prove me wrong

July 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM

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Dylan Pynk

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George Bush, one of the dumbest men in modern history, picked up that paintbrush one day and learned.
So if you need AI to do that for you, what does that say about you?

September 13, 2026 at 4:09 PM

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Thank god Physical Italy doesn’t have those really annoying repetitive replay edits that the Korean version did

September 13, 2026 at 3:24 PM

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TikTok I am not a military wife (yet) so plz stop asking

September 12, 2026 at 10:49 PM

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Drew Starr

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Day 2 of Fenway Health being down. Their pharmacy is unable to fill medications. Patients are being sent to on-call providers with the hopes the patient knows the correct dosage so they can issue an emergency fill request elsewhere. A disaster I haven't seen anything about @universalhub.com

Drew Starr @thedrewstarr.bsky.social · 6d

Fenway Health is having unspecified computer issues that are moving all appointments to virtual and I can't help but wonder if this is the same thing happening in Springfield. Enjoy my health records, Iranian hackers. Feel free to knock out my balance on my payment plan

September 12, 2026 at 4:43 PM

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But no this is my actual boyfriend

Andrea Invernizzi, strongman, another Physical Italy contestant

September 12, 2026 at 3:29 PM

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OH HAI

Filippo Pici, contestant on Physical: Italy

September 12, 2026 at 3:05 PM

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Someone break up with me so I can go crank 2 on someone’s ass

September 10, 2026 at 4:37 PM

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Steve K 🎃

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Ummm

Elizabeth Holmes in the Nathan Fielder doc with a creepy smile

September 10, 2026 at 2:14 PM

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Justin (He/Them)

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Of course it makes sense that Grindr would crash in Dallas. Republicans love inferior, outdated solutions just because it's what they're familiar with.

September 10, 2026 at 2:59 AM

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Love how the Business Integrity work trainings provides specific examples and methods of how to conduct money laundering

September 9, 2026 at 7:51 PM

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Watching the pharm tech in a flow state handling pill bottles like Anna Kendrick with Cups

September 8, 2026 at 11:00 PM

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WERS DJ just now: if you’re ever thinking of starting the film school here, just know it isn’t just watching movies. (Incredulously) It’s a lot of reading and writing too!

September 8, 2026 at 10:15 PM

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tante

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The EFF comes out in favor of the "AI" companies (just as they supported the cryptocurrency industry).

The EFF is probably not on your side. Find better organizations to support.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 12d

Training AI models on copyrighted works is "squarely what transformative use is," EFF’s Tori Noble told @reason.com - these are "general purpose tools" and "exactly the kind of creation that copyright is designed to foster."

DOJ says barring AI training on copyrighted material could 'severely hamper' tech progress

Training a model on copyrighted work is the same transformative use exception that protects The New York Times' journalism.

reason.com

September 5, 2026 at 8:43 AM

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Ok finally listened to the new Rebecca Black and that whole album is a speeding ticket waiting to happen

September 4, 2026 at 11:01 PM

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John Walton

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this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 13d

‘DUNGEONS & DRAGONS 2’ isn’t fully dead yet.

• Script is complete

• Hasbro remains committed

• A new studio partner is being sought after Paramount passed for financial reasons

#DungeonsAndDragons #Hasbro

September 4, 2026 at 4:10 PM

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Screaming crying throwing up

September 4, 2026 at 3:40 PM

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Not ready for Rebecca black yet, still emotionally reeling from Robyn performing Hang with Me last night

September 4, 2026 at 3:25 PM

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lauren

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i delved too deeply looking for audiobooks and found a litRPG title called "sword of boston" and most reviews are judging it on genre specific stuff like power scaling and tropes but one critic did answer all of my questions with a 3 star review noting "there's not a lot of boston in this at all"

September 3, 2026 at 11:04 AM