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andrewduckerSophia has spent the last several weeks being very excited that she will, at some point in the near future, get to have her own bed in her own room.
This evening she suddenly realised that she would no longer be in her current bed and had a massive meltdown.
So we're currently reassuring her that she won't be rushed into anything. Fingers crossed for a better mood tomorrow.
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universal_hub_feedBoston Police report arresting a 16-year-old they say shot another teen at Brighton Avenue and Allston Street in Allston on Thursday.
The teen turned himself in at the D14 station in Brighton around 9:40 p.m. on Saturday, police say.
The teen, not named because of his age, will be arraigned as delinquent for assault with intent to murder, unlawful possession of a loaded firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm, attempted assault and battery with a firearm, using a firearm in a felony, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building and unlawful possession of ammunition, police say.
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universal_hub_feedAn MIT linguistics professor yesterday sued a Republican-led House committee that claims to be investigating campus antisemitism for violating his First Amendment rights by calling him an out-of-control antisemite - and MIT for too quickly handing over documents to the committee and for blocking him from teaching a seminar on the linguistics of Zionist colonialism and denying him a pay raise.
In his suit, filed in US District Court in Boston, Michel DeGraff says there's a fundamental difference between opposing Zionism as a political movement and Judaism as a religion, that the House Committee on Education and Workforce is attempting to ruin his life for speaking out against Israeli government actions and that MIT is doing much the same, and never mind that federal courts in Massachusetts have said that the First Amendment includes the right to speak out about the situation in Israel and Gaza.
DeGraff's more immediate ire focuses on a committee report, issued earlier this month, that specifically named him as a big antisemite and that MIT has done nothing to stop him from lashing out against Jews - in particular, one Jewish grad student who sued MIT last year and claims he had to drop out because of the professor's comments.
DeGraff's complaint asserts that, in fact, he is the one under attack and that his use of the phrase "Zionist mind infection" was coined by a Jewish Israeli professor, that many Jews object to what the Israeli government is doing and that some of the biggest US Zionists are actually apocalypse-aspiring Christians who only see Israel as a means to the Second Coming - after all the Jews who don't convert to Christianity are killed:
The Committee's project is a bigoted one, seeking to eliminate all Palestinian, Arab and Muslim students, and anyone supporting and associating with them, from MIT and from the academic world generally.
MIT is complicit in the Committee's project by turning over confidential files, and by giving in to the pressure to harass, surveil, jawbone and sanction students, staff and faculty.
MIT privileges one putative protected class, Jews who assert that Zionism is an aspect of their religion, over everyone else, including Jewish people who oppose the actions of Israel and the Zionist political philosophy.
DeGraff is seeking an injunction under the First Amendment against both the House committee and its chairman, Tim Walberg of Michigan, an Obama birther, 2020 truther, climate-change denier and fan of an Ugandan law to put gays to death who thinks the answer to Gaza is to replicate Hiroshima or Nagasaki there:
Plaintiff seeks declaratory and prospective injunctive relief against the Committee and Chairman Walberg in their official capacities to halt the Committee's ongoing and threatened future violations of Plaintiff's First Amendment rights, including the Committee's continuing demands for records that would identify and expose Plaintiff and chill his protected speech and associations. ...
When viewing the totality of these circumstances, it can be reasonably understood that the Committee's letters and reports, and its continued focus on MIT, and by proxy the Plaintiff, are intended to convey a threat of adverse government action. The harm is not merely retrospective. The Committee has already issued two letters over the course of this "investigation," has publicly stated its intention to continue oversight, and has not withdrawn or narrowed its demands. As a result, Plaintiff reasonably fears that - absent an injunction - the Committee will continue to send demands and public accusations aimed at compelling disclosure and facilitating doxing-style retaliation, thereby continuing to chill Plaintiff's speech and association going forward.
DeGraff also includes MIT in his formal First Amendment charge and says the school is also violating his rights under the Massachusetts civil-rights and anti-discrimination laws, by allegedly and meekly handing over even private records to Walberg and his crew and by refusing to let him teach a seminar on Zionist colonial linguistics, removing him from the MIT linguistics academic unit, denying him a pay raise and keeping one of his seminars off its OpenCourseware site.
By targeting Plaintiff to suppress his protected speech and creating a hostile environment, MIT failed to provide an environment free of discrimination or harassment based on Plaintiff's and other co-workers' and students' racial identity, national origin and association with Palestinian and pro-Palestinian students and co-workers.
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umadoshiscruloose and I decanted some spices from bags into jars (including the cinnamons and chai spice baking blend replenished from Silk Road* since the last time we batch-prepped for banana bread) and then did a round of bagging up dry ingredients for nine quadruple batches of my breakfast banana bread while actually baking a tenth batch. It's only the second time we've done it, and having the dry ingredients bagged and ready makes such a difference, but the prospect was more exhausting than it had any right to be. (Actually doing it was fine. This time we [reversing how we did it last time] went with me reading off the amounts for each ingredient and rotating the bags while scruloose did the actual measuring and dumping ingredients in.)
oursinLast week's bread held out pretty well, though got rather dry.
Enough left - though perhaps a bit too much on the dry side - to include in frittata for Friday night supper along with a yellow bell pepper and eggs also getting used up.
Saturday breakfast rolls: adaptable soft rolls recipe, Marriage's Light Spelt flour, maple syrup, ground ginger: turned out a little on the dense side.
Today's lunch: the Mediterranean roasted vegetable thing: garlic cloves, red onion, fennel, baby courgettes, green bell pepper, red, yellow and orange baby peppers, aubergine; served with couscous - this time I tried M&S, and while the packet instructions are a bit misleading, turned out a lot better than Waitrose.
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jesse_the_kThe musician explains:
In 2018, I recorded and filmed a cover of "Yellow" by Coldplay under my former name, Lots Holloway. In 2026, I returned to the exact same place to film it again, this time as Dylan Holloway (Dylan And The Moon). What you're watching is both versions, woven together.
Lyrics at the band’s page: https://www.coldplay.com/song/yellow/
Watch on YouTube or ( stream it here )
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sanguinitylanguage_escapes' birthday: kid fic for an obscure Holmes and Watson adaptation. It was just for the two of us; no one else would ever care.Five Times They Didn’t Share A Bed, and One Time They Did
Sherlock Holmes & Doctor Watson (1980 Whitehead & Pickering)
Holmes/Watson, Mycroft
5+1 Things, Developing Relationship, Injury Recovery, Kid Fic, Only One Bed
Part 2 of Baker Street Papas
Mature; No Warnings Apply
To kiss a man in the heat of the moment is one thing. To cold-bloodedly change the entire basis of your relationship is another.
Holmes' wound festers. Watson blames himself.
universal_hub_feedNortheastern University Police report a student was stabbed outside the Marino Center, 369 Huntington Ave., around 10:30 p.m. on Friday.
The victim, a Northeastern student, reported that a black male suspect had assaulted him. Based on video evidence, the male suspect has fled the area. The student was transported to the hospital for treatment of a non-life-threatening injury.
The victim was stabbed in the back.
Stanley Staco reports the suspect ran towards the Fens, in a black jacket with a BMW logo on it.
Police say they have stepped up patrols around the campus, and that Boston Police have joined the investigation.
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Later, it puts him in a corner and forgets about him for six months.
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ruugerHe'd posted a joke on social media. That was the reason why he was here. Ever since the elections, he'd been more careful with his words. No naming names, no directly calling out the Regime. But he'd still managed to trigger some invisible tripwire and came home from a gig to find the men in black waiting for him.
Welcome to Taskmaster. A show where a broken funny bone isn't just a metaphor.
smartbitches_feedWelcome back!
Most of today’s edition comes with new releases! I think these are all 2026 release, if memory serves from when I put them in the SBTB repo. There are two romances and two non-fiction titles.
Want to pass along any recommendations? Leave them in the comments!
If you are at all interested in the history of midwifery or how pregnancy has evolved over time, this is the book for you. I will not that “mothering” is a bit of a misclassification, as the content skews more toward birthing rather than parenthood.
From the author of Unwell Women comes a powerful and groundbreaking new narrative history of motherhood and mothering.
Mothers make history. But what it has meant for mothers to do the physical and emotional work of mothering has, for centuries, been neglected in the stories of the past. Patriarchal control of motherhood has relegated the acts of growing, birthing, nurturing, and loving to the sidelines, and deemed it unimportant, women’s work. Now, through the voices of women themselves, Elinor Cleghorn reclaims and retells the history of motherhood, showcasing the mothers, othermothers, midwives, activists, community leaders, and more who have shaped the course of history.
Beginning in the ancient world, we encounter a figurine made for a childbirth ritual over three thousand years ago. We meet extraordinary writers and poets, like Anne Bradstreet and Elizabeth Jocelin, who were expressing their innermost feelings about motherhood. During the seventeenth century, in the streets of London, we encounter unmarried mothers struggling against stigma and shame, and the women who strove to help them. Later, pioneers like Mary Wollstonecraft laid the intellectual foundation for the liberation of motherhood from male control, and the abhorrent treatment of enslaved mothers was brought to public attention by courageous activists like Sojourner Truth. These and many other brave characters lobbied for mothers of all classes and circumstances to be valued, respected, and supported–not as reproductive vessels, but as people.
I was hunting around for some new dark romances and I came across this novella. I immediately added it to my TBR pile. It’s showing up as $2.99 right now, so I may just buy a digital copy because it sounds wild.
I didn’t eat people. Just men. First of all, I’d like to set the record straight. I wasn’t a cannibal, ʼkay?
I didn’t eat people. Just men. I ate their hearts out before they ever saw me coming. Figuratively, of course. Most of the time.
Sometimes a girl had to do what a girl had to do. And sometimes what I had to do was fry those suckers up with a little bit of buttermilk and enough shortening to give ya coronary.
I wouldn’t ever apologize for it.
Which was something else you should know about me. I was unapologetic. Then again, so was he. Else the hotshot with a blade bigger than his d*ck wouldn’t have barged his way into my little apartment without so much as a “my bad, sorry for disturbing you, ma’am.”
And I wouldn’t have been forced to tie him to a chair and teach him some manners. But here we are, ain’t we?
Just a sweet little Southern girl and the big bad pickle-diddler who thought he was about to get his rocks off.
Guess it wasn’t his lucky day. Sure was mine, though.
Eat Your Heart Out is a dark standalone novella with a HEA. Please heed the trigger warnings at the beginning of the book.
Big shoutout to C and Deborah, whose discussion on a previous Whatcha Reading, made me add this to my personal TBR pile. I love finding new reads from y’all!
Clara
Invisibility has been my go-to survival skill since childhood. So I hide behind my thick glasses and heavy fringe, working as a teaching assistant at the exclusive Molton Prep, happy with my seven-year-old pupils and studiously avoiding their posh parents. My one secret indulgence? Watching the gorgeous but wildly intimidating Lord Sterling sweep into school to collect his son.
I’m ridiculous. Not only is Rafe completely terrifying, but he’s a high-profile barrister destined to be the UK’s youngest ever judge. A girl with a background like mine should stay out of his way.
Rafe
How dare the school insist that I can’t meet the Miss Clara, who told my son his brain “works differently”? Nobody refuses a meeting with me. But when I bulldoze my way past the school rules to confront her, I’m shocked by how much this shy woman affects me. She might be too scared to make eye contact, but when it comes to defending my son, she’s surprisingly fierce. And after I convince her to work as my son’s tutor and she gradually stops flinching in my presence, my obsession with her only grows.
As a rule, I get what I want, and after seeing glimpses of her humour, kind heart and surprising strength, I want Clara Morris with an intensity I’ve never felt before. But I should be careful what I wish for, because Clara Morris is not who she says she is.
In my arrogance, I push her away, not realising that her fear runs deeper than simple shyness, not seeing the danger she’s in until it’s too late…
LAW MAKER is an opposites attract, billionaire, single father, contemporary romance, perfect for fans of intense, protective heroes and heroines overcoming trauma to find their happily ever after.
Content warning: this book features scenes of domestic violence.
I’ve enjoyed Foster’s Vulgar History Podcast, and I’m so happy to see she got herself a book deal from all of her hard and very entertaining work!
The dramatic, absolutely outrageous story of Caroline of Brunswick, a beloved icon of the Regency era, who uplifted the voice of the public and unabashedly defied society’s expectations, yet was shockingly robbed of her crown, from the host of the Vulgar History podcast.
Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Princess of Brunswick, was born in the northern German town of Braunschweig. Her mother and father, the duke and duchess, instantly knew one there was something irrefutably untamable about their daughter. She grew up a wild child, sequestered from others to protect her family’s reputation—a Regency-era Rapunzel.
She was freed from this gilded cage by an unexpected marriage proposal from George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales and the eldest son of George III and Queen Charlotte. Caroline was entirely unprepared for the backstabbing mean girls of the royal court. Always staying true to herself, she stepped into her role of queen-to-be without compromising her character, showing off her affinity for fashion, her many eccentric hobbies, and ultimately, her infallible spirit, despite being ostracized as an outsider by her in-laws.
And so Caroline became the unlikely figurehead of the anti-monarchists, aided by the just-emerging tabloid press. Yet, despite her status as a revolutionary heroine, Caroline’s name faded away following her death. Until now.
For fans of Normal Women, Ann Foster brings us the riveting story of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s uncrowned queen, through an empowering examination of womanhood and autonomy that feels just as relevant today.
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viridian5Some of Yoji’s missing memories have been returning, and he’s on the run. Tired of it all, isolated, drifting, Yoji returns to Aya in London for help....
post_secret_feedVisit the online exhibition of audio secrets to hear a collection of voicemails from friends, parents, brothers, sisters, partners, loved ones. Some are funny, many are brief and heartfelt.
Listen here. Or upload your own voicemail, story, and photos.
Our profound gratitude to everyone who contributed their emotional voicemail, photos, and soulful story. Special thanks to exhibition curator, Savannah Morin, and the team at WordPress. This exhibition was made possible with the generous support of the PostSecret Patreons.
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