Jonathan Bohan

Today In 2004: The Boston #RedSox finally break "The Curse Of The Bambino" and win their first #WorldSeries title since 1918, sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals in 4 games! #MLB #Baseball #History #Postseason

We are not a serious country

4 out of 50 new sequences from Syracuse, NY, USA, are PJ.2.1 #PJ21 Patients are in age groups 0-9 and 65+

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I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents" The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family

Yeah, that apparently was the league office. blacksportsonline.com/2026/10/poli...

Yay @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social !

Overheard in the politics section at the last weekend of the Ithaca library booksale, from a high schooler or college undergrad, "Ooh, Henry Kissinger, I think he's famous." Reader, I laughed out loud.

the wildest result: Consciousness starts at incorporation. Claude is *NOT* conscious, but Anthropic PBC is, and the IPO is technically human trafficking

Hawks kettling near Cornell

Nancy 10/13/26

not to ask an insane question but if the median age for school shooters is 16 aren't active shooter drills just training for potential school shooters

Ah, an oldie but a goodie

The Franklin Park Zoo reports the death of Dinari the lion, at 17. www.facebook.com/100064875243... #Boston

The opportunity to argue about observable reality with someone actively demonstrating their unwillingness to observe it is not as attractive a proposition or as necessary an activity as many people seem to believe.

so we learned the russians and the dutch hacked jared kushners phone i am sure we have heard the end of this

Farewell to Tom Skerritt.

Lolol

Illuminations by Evrard d'Espinque for a circa 1480 French translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus' 13th-century De Proprietatibus Rerum. More marvellous maps from the manuscript here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/despinque-anglicus-illuminations

this is a thing

Something is off with Trump tonight. The gaffes, the glitches, the confusion are well beyond his usual. "They gave the wonderful peace prize, right? Does anybody know the name of that peace prize? They gave the Pulitzer Prize to a young lady."

You have GOT to be kidding me.

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@robertbohan.bsky.social I have a strong suspicion these are my Bohan relatives. Still can't find a definite link. Apparently, Harry is quite well known in Ireland? www.clare.fm/news/deep-sa...

Still can't get over how cool this is. The Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA, is probably the best Futuro out there, as well as a listed property, and up for sale. That interior is so clever and stylish, as well as practical. bit.ly/4sjyOy0

@librarything.com I'm getting this Cloudflare error and clicking on the sign in button doesn't do anything.

Friends, I have some urgent and very timely information for you: Here is how to install an app on your Commodore 64. www.anildash.com/2026/10/08/i...

Leaked audio: Michigan Republican Mike Rogers asking for officers at polling stations to intimidate voters "We called the RNC early and said hey... Let's put police officers, retired or off-duty police officers as our poll watchers in Detroit because go ahead, try to intimidate them. Please."

aeon.co/essays/does-... Sharing so I'll hopefully remember to read later.

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*Browne debunked the belief that a kingfisher swinging on a thread makes a good weathervane (e.g. in King Lear, Kent says they ‘renege, affirm and turn their halcyon beaks / With every gale and vary of their masters’. More about Browne’s experiment here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-best...

Looking for 125 researchers to participate in virtual forensic AI games! We will give you an AI report that documents irregularities in sports/exercise related articles. Also releasing our open source new I4R AI Audit Protocol. Details in this 🧵. Join us!

Do normies know about this?

Might as well give it to Rubio

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Sticking with Hugh Grant films: Four Weddings and a Funeral for Tax Purposes

oh man

this news bummed me out very hard. The article did however include this sentence: "Oncologists said prior to the operation that even if the nodule turned out to be cancerous, Leo’s prognosis is “excellent” since it will have been removed at an early stage."

OMG weather app is showing snow Friday night into Saturday morning

Breaking news: Cornell University has banned its fraternity houses from hosting social events for the remainder of the school year as the institution grapples with allegations that a female student was gang raped at a fraternity house in 2024.

I didn’t think the apocalypse would be this dumb