Until 2023, this is how it was commemorated. This is why monuments matter. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

Three things you can do to reduce fatal pedestrian and cyclist crashes in Connecticut: www.realhartford.org/2026/04/16/s...

You actually don't need a car when there's the People's Limo. Here's how to use CTfastrak to reach coffee shops www.realhartford.org/2026/04/12/b...

Emerging The fiddlehead ferns are making an appearance in the backyard #spring #wisconsin #nativeplants #nature #EastCoastKin #ECK #photography #bloomscrolling #macrophotography

Three things you can do to reduce fatal pedestrian and cyclist crashes in Connecticut: www.realhartford.org/2026/04/16/s...

Weakened version of bill expected to pass CT Senate ctnewsjunkie.com/2026/04/14/b...

Stand Up for Science is organizing a Virtual & Accessible Earth Day 2026 Rally! Wednesday, April 22, 8PM ET. Hear from lawmakers, scientists, advocates, activists, and diverse intersectional voices as we fight to defend our planet and save our science. Register at zurl.co/PLSj5 #EarthDay

Creative grievances against AI art aren’t just “AI Art Bad”. It’s the social, personal, political, and aesthetic costs of substituting human creativity with algorithms trained on stolen work - while imposing these tools and content on us without consent.

You actually don't need a car when there's the People's Limo. Here's how to use CTfastrak to reach coffee shops www.realhartford.org/2026/04/12/b...

This ad where the Secretary of Transportation, who could regulate touch screens in cars in a way that would make driving safer, instead tells people to pay more attention. Woo. It's some shit.

A John Wick style movie but it's just a driver getting revenge on every bicyclist who passed them in traffic

New coffee shop: - by BRT - in an existing building - that uses real mugs and cups - and is good

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

So when you see stuff like severely over-written Andy Masley substack posts about how GenAI is like 10 seconds of Netflix, remember that the comparison is never to *what its replacing*. Everyone in the world replacing the timer app with ChatGPT = a HUGE net increase in energy consumption.....

The fact that he did it yesterday and everyone on here spent the whole day begging someone to do it is an indictment of this media ecosystem too I guess.

Holy shit Larson did it? Even if it’s just to survive the primary challenge, I’ll take it. #nutmegsky

But not assault charges? patch.com/connecticut/...

Kenai Fjords, Alaska, USA 🇺🇸

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Remember when on Bluesky people were much more aggressive about boundaries, like not posting screenshots of shit that landed on Twitter? Because we all left Twitter for a fucking reason and didn't need that noise. Remember that?

Trans friends, thank you for being you, and for, when you can, sharing yourselves with a world that is so frequently undeserving of the light you bring to it. I love and support you, always. 🏳️‍⚧️🫂🫶

Your reminder that it's possible to critique the leadership of Israel without veering into the antisemitic bullshit that makes conditions unsafe for Jews in general, including this one.

Libraries, like post offices, like schools, like the fire department, are not businesses and should not be run like one. Also businesses should not be run as they are.

Event and civic action calendar for April is up! www.realhartford.org/2026/03/29/a... #HartfordEvents #HartfordCT #ActivistCalendar

Bike Parking at No Kings Protest in Boston - March 2026

Hartford rejects kings. Photos and thoughts about protest here: www.realhartford.org/2026/03/28/h... #NoKingsHartfordCT #NoKings #NoKingsDay

I love the idea of using technology to fight against the Tech Bros in the White House www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Event and civic action calendar for April is up! www.realhartford.org/2026/03/29/a... #HartfordEvents #HartfordCT #ActivistCalendar

"he has been living on his own and separated from his family since his younger sister, Sara, who is also a U.S. citizen, was removed to Mexico after being detained while on her way to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston to seek treatment for a medical condition" ctnewsjunkie.com/2026/03/30/y...

“While protest works as a way to let elected politicians know what their constituents want, increasingly, I believe it is more for us than for them.” Essential, and heartening reading (as always) from @kerriana.bsky.social

Hartford rejects kings. Photos and thoughts about protest here: www.realhartford.org/2026/03/28/h... #NoKingsHartfordCT #NoKings #NoKingsDay

The mall has its own tiniest (and adorable) street sweeper. Perfect for larger sidewalks. Why am I not seeing this used on Sigourney Street bridge, for instance?

CTfastrak After Dark

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

This may be the first and only time I've agreed with Rob Sampson about anything. It feels like, unless the language was made extremely specific in order to quantify what counts as 'vexatious', something that could be used to ignore or silence the public. ctnewsjunkie.com/2026/03/25/b...

You can buy strange gardening stuff without a car.

Gas prices are still too cheap. I'll feel differently when people stop squandering resources by idling their cars.

When a dude at a 1776 conference just casually uses outdated language to describe Black and Indigenous people. Into the microphone.

It's been a week since the attack on Temple Israel. I haven't said anything about it publicly yet. So: A lot of people I love who've been good at steering clear of antisemitism are tiptoeing over the edge. AND A lot of people I love who've been good at nuance are starting to slip. 👉

Until everyone stops idling their cars, the price of gasoline isn't nearly high enough

Props to Joe for working into this interview that he walks to his own business. www.courant.com/2026/03/19/a...

"Many climate policies focus on the role of women in environmental stewardship. While this is a crucial step, these approaches often reinforce rigid gender binaries, reducing complex identities and experiences into a simplistic 'women vs. men' narrative." Amen.

Gas prices are crazy. You should invest in a solar powered lawn mower.

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What if we simply didn't send police everywhere?

love me a vernal pool