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what are you reading?

eichin ,
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@gbhnews Similarly appropriate to the poll, I'm about halfway through https://books.rsc.org/books/monograph/2162/SteepedThe-Chemistry-of-Tea Steeped, a fascinating book on how tea "works", both because and despite the author's background in Quantum Chemistry https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside/people/michelle-francl

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Hello ! This is GBH News bringing you the world from . It's 69F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10 mi.

An indigenous leader in has convinced the city of Guajara-Mirim to grant its river personhood...which comes with legal rights.

An independent arbitrator says the Mass. State Police must reinstate 7 troopers who refused to get a COVID vaccination.

Freight trucking company Yellow is declaring bankruptcy. 30K jobs will be eliminated.

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Huh, Yellow Trucking was related to Yellow Cab way back in its history. (And was not a Penske spinoff :)

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@gbhnews I remember first seeing them on the roads decades ago, and thinking it was an interesting branding hack - the big yellow trucks you saw all the time were penske, but if you looked up yellow truck, you'd get Yellow Truck. It wasn't until looking in wikipedia, inspired by this post, that I learned of the Yellow Cab connection (and that they're vastly older than penske, and apparently neither of them had anything to do with each other :-)

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🌞 Good morning ! This is GBH News bringing you the world from . It's 71F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10 miles.

The U.S. is expanding curfews for asylum seekers. Curfews will extend to 13 new cities including Boston and today.

The US added 187K jobs in June. The unemployment rate dipped to 3.5%.

Mass. voters may see as many as 4 ballot questions: psychedelic legalization, removing MCAS as a HS grad requirement, rent control & more.

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Poll: neither, ever. Long form text.

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FANCAM!!!!

The day has arrived! We are 10,000 strong!!!!!

I guess this means I have to walk to the top of Great Blue Hill?

Does anyone know when I can do this at a time where I won't be hit with a torrential downpour and/or lightning? Say in the next week or so? I will say hi at the top.

[Backstory: GBH's radio call letters stand for "Great Blue Hill," a hill in Milton. Our transmitter is at the top of this hill].

A mastodon logo with the excited exclamation of "10,000!!!!!!" floats across CGI animation of woolly mammoths trekking across a snowy plain

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@gbhnews Congratulations! I grew up in Western CT watching PBS 13 out of New York, and I saw a lot of great shows with the WGBH tag - wasn't until I moved back to the Boston area after college that it clicked that the "magic studio in the sky" was a Real TV Station that I could tune in to :-)

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