First appearance of the Luker Amendment at tonight’s planning board meeting! Our historical commission can apply a 21-month demo delay, but if the project will produce multi-family housing it’s reduced to 12 months.

PUB DAY

I really hope no one's reading these stupid commit messages

I wrote something about our absurdly expensive proposed new high school, and how new multi-family housing development will help us pay for it. lexobserver.org/2025/11/05/l...

1 in 93. angieschmitt.substack.com/p/one-in-93

Oh ffs just make the buses run. You know what counters urban heat islands? Buses that don’t need huge parking lots!

The governor’s office number is (617) 725-4005 if you would like to call and register your fury and disgust as I just did.

Happening this Sunday, 8/24! First Sunday MBTA bus service in Lexington EVER. I'll be on the first run around 6am with a bunch of other local bus nerds.

My janky, hand-me-down grill is too big and dirty to try fitting in the car so I’m wheeling it through the neighborhood to the temp rental house. The closer I get to the end the steeper it gets.

IMO simplest answer is that many people who advocate for IZ are either not thinking in an evidence based way or not motivated by Barbara's noble goals. That is backed up by evidence in Boston & many other places. Attitude towards IZ should be guided not by theory but by what happens on the ground.

Increase a band: Yo Los Tengo

This is the best thing I have ever seen on Bluesky

Number of horses per square mile in the US. More horse maps: brilliantmaps.com/horses-usa/

My Tsunami t-shirt came with a sticker! 🦞

Dungeon Master from behind the screen: “You fall…” [rolls a d8] “… onto an arrow …” [rolls a d12] “… that pierces your brain. CON save, please.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

God bless

100% of this went straight into the compost bin because I found it impossible to get it to come off the roller except in shreds.

New England land-use policy has a sort of primal evilness that is unmatched anywhere else in the US. A toxic combination of "I got mine" selfishness, xenophobic stupidity, and presumptuous "I should have a say in everything" busybody culture. www.newstimes.com/news/article...

Just walkmogged some waitcucks at a traffic light’s pedestrian crossing. Enjoy the cold, dears - I’ll be over here, fifteen steps ahead of you and in touch with my city’s heartbeat

I can’t believe they made all the other little child test dummies watch while this was happening. Monsters.

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It's back! Just doing my part to boost those bsky.app metrics! 📈📈📈

The most beautiful sight: A school bus stopped in front of an apartment building

God it is just absurd to think you have a right to “avoid surveillance” when driving, an activity you need to be licensed to perform and do in a machine that is legally required to display a clear ID number at all times

What an absolute embarrassment for the city of Waltham walthamtimes.org/2025/05/18/n... I’ve always been baffled by the lack of new housing planned for this site. I guess I’ll stay baffled.

Here's the kind of ass-backwards, offensive garbage this PAC is putting out now. Fuck this. Sorry, kids. I threw all your New Balance sneakers in the trash.

Kelly Reichardt’s Blazing Saddles

The Internet Roadtrip stopping to pick up some road pops at a Bar Harbor market neal.fun/internet-roa...

You’re investing it bitcoin. I’m putting all my money into financing a Broadway musical of Tom Waits’ 1976 album, Small Change. We are not the same.

“Ideally, legal restrictions on building height would be just strict enough to properly account for the negative impacts of excess building height. But evidence suggests current legal restrictions are often far in excess of that.” www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-skyscr...

I believe they call this industry capture.

“abundance-pilled”! Lots of info and inspiration from @burhanazeem.bsky.social

He's out here making claims that the Baker admin, of which he was a part, did not support the MBTA Communities law? Hey, Mike, this you? lexobserver.org/2023/04/06/l...

The JP vibe: "honoring the working class" by making the homes they used to live in cost a million dollars and preventing anything else from being built. www.wickedlocal.com/story/region...

A movie I've watched more than six times. (Gifs only, with Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

Y’all I just did a family outing into the city via Wellington/Orange Line instead of the usual Alewife/Red Line and I feel like I’ve unlocked a skip code.

I will forever plug this excellent report detailing the relevant history: www.bostonindicators.org/reports/repo...

I’m starting to wonder if the level of school enrollment analysis and projection modeling towns do when it comes to new housing development should just made be illegal. “bUt We haVe tO do It sO WE cAn pLaN…” Ok, but have you considered not doing it?

We did it, everyone. We can all go home now.

Here's #LexingtonMA demonstrating the "Progressive in the Streets; NIMBY in the Sheets" adage. A (partly estimated) breakdown of voting preferences (D vs R) for the certified signatures collected to force a Special Town Meeting, the goal of which is to roll back our MBTA Communities zoning.

Correction, it was only 100 signatures needed, but they got 423. I've asked a few people I know what motivated them to sign and it's not a pretty picture. There's a lot of FUD out there with nothing to counter it.

this is my kind of asmr

They should call it New Year’s Eepy and we all go to bed early.

Y’all I found a tv show about a private investigator that rides around on an e-bike? And it’s kinda good?!

Very interesting! The “demand discontinuity at zero” effect reminds me of @shanedphillips.bsky.social finding how even a 1% IZ requirement caused a sharp drop off in housing production.