Took my kid with me to see John Mulaney in Boston tonight. (Kid is 24.)

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

Alphabetical ballots do make me chuckle.

Whenever people talk about "luxury housing," I remember there are literal mansions in Hartford, CT that are now selling for less than it costs to buy a starter home in Silicon Valley. If we judge luxury by market value, there is no housing that is intrinsically, permanently "luxury housing."

This is a kinda weird set of 3 to pick.

Genuinely interesting to me how many ABC-friendly ballots Totten was included in, given that he believes that those who support building market rate housing suffer from a “disease”. Like, if it built a candidate grouping algorithm based on ballots, pretty sure Totten is a shoe-in ABC candidate.

I know it’s not the point, but trump’s choice to revel in a $16M bribe when he has substantial influence over literally trillions of dollars is so short sighted. Like, my dude, you don’t live in a trailer anymore. You have so much more opportunity for grift than this penny ante shit!!

58 of the 186 bullet votes for Siddiqui are in 11-2. (It contains Rindge Towers, which is a significant Siddiqui base.)

Today is 2 months since I got my new cargo bike (Haul ST), and I just crossed 300 miles ridden on it. I continue to like it a lot for my needs.

296 ballots ranked exactly the CCC slate candidates and nothing else. 6 of them did so alphabetically, like this ballot did.

375 ballots ranked exactly the ABC candidates and nothing else.

CCC slate minus Wang and Wilson, which is better known as aka "CCC slate, but just the Whites."

I added a counter for how many combinations of the same set of three are in the ballots, which provides an interesting additional datapoint to me.

Missed opportunity for better Totten/ Al-Zubi partnership here; Al-Zubi was effectively “first runner up”, and most ideologically aligned with Totten. This year, Totten has been campaigning on behalf of Al-Zubi, which should help with ballots like this one.

Genuinely curious what the order was on the ballots for 6-1, given the lack of any ideological coherence to this ballot and the fact that they voted for the maximum number of candidates. There's a lot of ballots that make no sense to me, but this one has no discernible order at all.

Cambridge Bike Safety list, with incumbents other than Nolan at the top. (imo, Nolan didn't and doesn't deserve CBS's endorsement, so this seems like a reasonable choice to me.)

In the 2023 election, Pasquarello was included on fewer ballots (3844) than any candidate other than perennial oddball Gregg Moree (1079).

So, this ballot was: Anti-bike, anti-bike, anti-bike, anti-bike... McGovern (who is aggressively pro-bike!) When you look at Cambridge municipal ballots, it's so interesting to see a little insight into how people's minds work.

Some people ask questions about using a bike like, "But what if you need to deliver 105 pounds of campaign lit to 3 different locations throughout town?" But it turns out that there's a right bike for many many use cases. In this case, I loaded up an older Aventon Abound. (Picture after stop 1.)

Cheyenne in Superstore.

but i wanted a peanut :(

I never thought I knew what the result was going to be, but in the Mayoral race, I thought I knew what it *wasn't* going to be, and I would have taken 9:1 odds against this happening. Genuinely shocked at Ballantyne not making it out of the primary.

Let me know if you'd like to help out with this event! We need extra hands for manning our sign-in table, as well as standing next to bikes to read from a script I'll give you :)

From @familybikeride.bsky.social Are you cargo bike curious? Join us this weekend in Cambridge to try out dozens of them in a safe, kid-friendly environment. We’ll have volunteers to share their life changing stories and help familiarize you with the various features of each bike.

For everyone cargo-bike curious or Cargo-bike loving, join us this Sunday, Sep 21st, from 3pm-5pm, for our Cargo Bike Test Drive! Cargo Bike Test Drive is a community-led event with more than a dozen cargo bikes offered by community members to test ride for free! www.familybikeride.org/testdrive

New sculpture on the Freedom Trail by Harmonia Rosales commemorates 219 known people who, we now know, were enslaved by members and ministers of King's Chapel (founded 1686). Dedicated today on the corner of Tremont & School Streets. @universalhub.com

Some of the bikes we loaned out from the library today.

it is so weird that he comes here with these little taunts, as if users on this website think we are engaged in a great game of discourse. like yeah dude, nothing here matters. when i want my thoughts to be widely read, i post them in the new york times.

I have a question about whether these instructions are accurate for my September 2025 primary ballot that I received them with.

Voting is a thing.

You know what they say, Sometimes tooth is stranger than fiction.

Bicycles provide to many the freedom that auto ads promise to few. (Peabody School / Ringe Ave Upper School Bike Bus, Friday, Sep 12, 2025.)

Giving a friend a ride home before I head to my pinball league night. (I scored a 109 in Fast Break; 84 on the first ball. It was incredible.)

Bicycles provide the freedom that auto ads promise. (Beacon St, Somerville, MA.)

Finally got a good one: Bicycles Deliver The Freedom that Auto Ads Promise: Jamaica Plain edition

Bicycles Deliver The Freedom that Auto Ads Promise.

For #somerville #somerpoli City Council At-Large candidate Holly Simione suggests stopping building new protected bike lanes and thinks cyclists should pay a fee to register their bikes.

The Mass Central Rail Trail has been steadily growing and filling in gaps, including an absolutely critical one that just finished. It is expected to be 100+ miles when complete.

A beautiful day to loan some bikes.

Unfortunate lack of urgency; they haven't even sent out an RFP yet to collect bids yet. I know it's hard to do too many things at once, but this feels like an obvious win for safety and also one that could pay for itself in fines.

i guess they should have tried to indict the sandwich instead, since i hear that works better. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

blockclubchicago.org/2022/05/05/e... on the plus side, someone did write the story

I feel that people who ignore the decades of legal precedent that people under 18 have an independent legal right to speak and access others' speech all in the name of "child protection" are censorious thugs who view children as property, thanks for asking!

A very cool thing about e-bikes, is that even a big cargo bike, riding hard, with the motor assist turned all the way up, gets in the neighborhood of 1350MPGe. 10x the energy efficiency of an EV for less than 1/10th the purchase price. (And 50x the energy efficiency of a gas car/SUV)

Congratulations @burhanazeem.bsky.social !!

Today’s hike in the Cairngorms. Absolutely amazing 7 mile hike with 1200’ off elevation gain.

Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.

I’ve been in 6 cities in Europe in the past 2 months—Geneva, Reykjavík, Östersund, Stockholm, Edinburgh—and one thing they all have in common is that they all have pedestrianized some portion of their core commercial district. The fact that Boston has no such thing is a real shame.

just saw the edinburgh military tattoo. it was an amazing show of pagentry. i don't think i've ever experienced so many bagpipes in one place. (The Tattoo is basically a 1.5 hour long marching band performance, in this case including representation from a half dozen different countries.)