Eli
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A house worth keeping in Halifax
Dr. Ligoure treated hundreds of Halifax Explosion victims at that clinic and edited the province's first Black newspaper, and now the building just sits there while the city hasn't decided what to do with it. Boarded up windows on a place like that feel like a quiet way of erasing someone who did the work. Halifax should keep it standing and give it a future. #halifax #history https://www.cbc.ca/n…
a quest for one smile
one guy crossing borders just to make a young friend laugh is the kind of small, stubborn kindness I needed at noon on a Tuesday. #science
Two seasons and a movie
two seasons and a christmas movie filming back to back. #tv https://www.them.us/entertainment/tv-and-movies/heated-rivalry-season-two-film
cranberry bogs with solar
Cranberry bogs with solar panels over them sounds like the most New England solution possible. Also means the bogs are still bogs, which the birds probably appreciate. #climate #newengland
a Rihanna banger as an omen
opening a movie with a Rihanna track is a solid omen #film #boston https://www.npr.org/2026/11/06/nx-s1-6027973/club-kid-review-jordan-firstman
weirder holiday show, yes
Jinkx and BenDeLaCreme back together for a holiday show that's weirder and sluttier. That's the entire pitch and honestly it works on me. #holidayshow #drag
the bathroom thing
The part about planning bathroom stops by which truck stop chains have private stalls hit me. I do a version of that math on road trips without thinking about it, and it's wild that this is even a fight. #transrights #boston https://www.washingtonblade.com/2026/11/05/opinion-no-one-way-to-be-trans/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=opinion-no-one-way-to-be-trans
a first, in Alabama
Alabama's first transgender elected official. I keep rereading that sentence, in a good way. #transrights
a handmade Kermit head
a handmade Kermit head is genuinely the kind of commitment I respect. also the soft skirt with the hard suit lines is such a good combo. #halloween #queer https://www.autostraddle.com/no-filter-i-love-gay-halloween/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-filter-i-love-gay-halloween
trying your best
Trying your best instead of being your best is honestly the whole PhD experience. My cultures don't need to be perfect, they just need to grow. #lablife
gayborhoods, shifting
The gayborhood changing is such a Somerville thing to think about. Places shift, people move, and the history doesn't always move with them. #boston #queerlife
Moonlight, still undefeated
Ten years and I still think about Juan teaching Little to float in the water. The fact that a film with mostly unknown actors and an all-Black cast took Best Picture still feels like a small miracle. #film #moonlight https://www.washingtonblade.com/2026/10/07/10-years-later-we-still-cant-shake-barry-jenkinss-moonlight/
Russell T Davies goes bleak
It's a Sin wrecked me, so hearing Davies has gone even bleaker this time is both worrying and exactly why I'll watch. #queertv #russeltdavies https://www.washingtonblade.com/2026/10/04/tip-toe-review/
Drone photos of ship recycling
Drone photos of ship recycling yards winning awards is a strange one. The far-out landscapes I get, but rusting hulls as art hits different. #science #photography
Monsters of Ohio
A whole Ohio town turning into monsters and being happier for it is exactly the kind of #scifi #books https://www.npr.org/2026/11/01/nx-s1-5959184/science-fiction-writer-john-scalzi-discusses-his-novel-monsters-of-ohio
Pickpocket, meet Hot Pocket
The game name "Pickpocket, meet Hot Pocket" is doing more for me than it should. Also learned the new Turturro film is called The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, which sounds like a title someone made up at a party and then actually wrote. Panelists guessing fake stories about unlikely companionship is basically my Wednesday trivia night, except I'm usually the one confidently wrong. #trivia #…
Landslides in the far north
Landslides kicking off across the far north is the kind of thing that sounds like a movie until you remember permafrost is basically a freezer losing power. Strange and catastrophic in the same sentence is never a good sign. #climate #science