Don’t worry, be happy (that you don’t work in the sign shop)

When you return to a place you lived for so long, everything you do and everyplace you go is like a walk through a gallery of your own life and memories.

Tonight’s fun thing: The Wombats at the Roxian Theatre in McKees Rocks PA. First time here! First up: Red Rum Club

Tabletop voting booth? Sounds like the most boring game ever

When you see a Tasso Katselas building, you know you are looking at a Tasso Katselas building

What can I see out the window? Oh.

Tonight’s fun thing: Saintseneca with opener Radiator Hospital at Bottlerocket Social Club in Allentown (Pittsburgh) First up: Radiator Hospital.

Love to show up somewhere right as the pouring rain arrives

Faux-Italian accent: “Sorry, yellow Curtis”

Teenie Harris took this photo of a billboard in Pittsburgh in 1949 and it’s wild to think how little has changed

Someday I'll have more to say, but for now it suffices that no queer person alive will be surprised by this. www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...

Anyway we rewatched Bladerunner tonight

Playing the Arkham Horror card game with the rest of the house tonight

My aunt worked for Martha Stewart for years, with little recognition, but was proud today to see her photo in an article in the NYTimes about Martha Stewart’s impact on dinner-as-entertainment. She’s just to Martha’s left (our right) in this photo, with the bowtie. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/d...

It is officially “cold(tm)” and you can tell this because the fleece-lined tights have come out.

Surprisingly, Nip is dealing well with the time change. He waited until “human 8 o’clock” to start nagging about the empty food dish.

POV: you have been banished from the room for barfing on the bed

I’m happy RIFC is advancing but a single player elimination playoff decided by penalty kicks is … could be better!

At the RIFC watch party for the playoff game against Charleston at The Guild in Pawtucket. The party really starts when Chip arrives!

Sunday zen today is Cumberland Monastery

Somehow I don’t post often enough to make the “you post too much” labeler call me out.

Baseball ceased to be a thing for me on October 14, 1992, and I don’t have video going, but I’m refreshing so yinz can tell me what’s going on and even that way it’s exciting

Anyway, SNAP should be universal. Just like school lunches in NYC. Not everyone needs it to survive but everybody gets it, no means testing. There should also be a lot fewer regulations on what you can buy with SNAP and discounts, not bans, on hot prepared foods.

Tide’s in

Bike 14 mostly coastal miles, see a troll, a bridge RIDOT has already broken multiple promises on, and drink cider. Fall in Rhode Island.

More trolling

Wish I knew someone in/near Boyertown PA to go and basically take a 3d scan of the car so we could 3d print models of it, honestly. Like, a decent cell phone and Polycam might well do it.

Yelling this at my housemates

The real “problem” is that Helly R’s wardrobe is one I would probably just wear anyway 😂

Carding people gotta be a real chore on Halloween

At some point someone’s gonna start posting AI generated “Fox News clips” and I wonder if they’ll still pretend to not know what’s an AI clip or not.

@talcotts.bsky.social saw this, thought of you.

A day where it feels like sub-40°F is a little rough to be wearing Helly R’s in-the-office apparel. I’ve donned a jacket while we hand out candy

I don’t envy @dylancgiles.bsky.social bicycling across the city carrying a train of multiple banner-equipped bike trailers on an exceedingly windy day! But @pvdstreets.bsky.social is at the Brown Street Park Halloween party!

Love to live in a place that already features inadequate access to healthcare and see this news drop 🙃

Cover songs weekend on the radio, and I regret not doing the legwork to push them to have this song in their system already. Maybe next year.

It’s Halloween, can you guess who I’m going to be?

To the point of my comment about not being able to easily search the Internet Archive: I remember discussion about Panera being an early “third space” if you specifically wanted to take a laptop somewhere and work. Couldn’t find it easily until I remembered the phrase “Panera technorati”

Tonight, Machinal by Sophie Treadwell presented by Brown’s department of Theater Arts and Performance Studies

Of course, the Internet Archive isn’t easily searchable, so the card catalog basically already burned.

Just met a neighbor in person at the local coffee shop who asked if i'd been a "neighborhood twitter celebrity" and like, not wrong but also I'm just a cranky woman who shitposts through her distress about how things could be better, especially politically.

Just learned that former Rhode Island Transit Riders co-director Patricia Raub has passed away. She was also heavily in the Friends of the Wanskuck Library group. I enjoyed every opportunity to work with her, and her loss will be felt heavily around here.

So when they say Nations wood floor supply, is this a “strategic reserve” situation or…

There are people who assume that greenways are only for leisure, but that is not true. Which of these would you rather be riding on?

“Service workers can’t attend a million community meetings to advocate for their own housing.” I swear I’ll be saying this on my death bed.

tl;dr: the employee-owned restaurant model rocks, and land use and transportation policy have huge equity implications for kids' access to opportunity #SchoolTravel

I’ve seen this parochial mentality so many places. It actually seems to be less bad in places where the population is heavily transient or has turned over because people don’t necessarily feel as empowered to be shirty about the place being *theirs* and not *yours* cuz they were here longer.

In a webinar and as I’m looking at data sets with building permit data (for the state in this case but it’s got national data) and notice also data about foot traffic, I hear @mxcatnap.bsky.social asking about examples of cross-data set linking. 😅

Some ass decided to gift my recycling wheelie bin their recyclables (okay) but could not be arsed to follow the local recycling rules (not ok)