TIL that vanguard has a new ETF with ticker symbol VCHY, and it SHOULD be a fund of all the companies that donate to ballrooms and sponsor south lawn cage fights and whatnot

Delightfully absurd: A custom Eriksen titanium step-thru for $2k www.facebook.com/share/p/18x9...

This letter refreshingly reveals the fundamental conflict underlying every bike lane battle: “The world would be better if more people ride bikes more often” vs. “The world would be better if bikes weren’t on our streets.”

AI could never generate super-niche content like this (government RFP crafting that determines the future of my neighborhood) to earn my vote

Friends, my YIMBY angel wings are arriving next week! It’s the dream: Enabled by the new @cambridgemass.bsky.social base zoning, an adjoining lot to mine is going to redevelop two homes into five — by-right — and I will be joining the online meeting to welcome more neighbors to our neighborhood.

Solar panels mount far far more easily on top of the multifamily building that oughta occupy city surface parking lots

Amen. The worst parts of one-way grids are actually opportunities: Too fast? That’s too much capacity. We have *plenty* of things we can do with extra capacity. Confusing and indirect for drivers? donald_glover_good dot gif

Permissive left turns across multilane intersections kill. We need smaller intersections, but exclusive turn or ped phasing is needed as a standard for these in cities, and can generally be done in weeks.

Listening to third graders prankcalling each other in their tincan phones, it’s so dumb and wholesome

The @biketothesea.bsky.social Northern Strand Trail/Lynnway bike route to the free beaches of Nahant is gonna almost redeem Massachusetts’ privatized beach culture for me.

Friend shared photos from the top of the Washington Monument this morning. Looks like the administration tried to paint over the "8647" numbers that were burned into the grass last week (they're now clearer) & has left utter devastation on the South Lawn & the Ellipse following the UFC fight.

Bluesky nanobubbling up experts in microbiology and pool surface treatment chemistry is fun to watch.

This cutie fell off my radar and I assumed they had gone under. I don’t have $41k, but I want one of these.

Camberville is finally getting some legit trail-oriented retail! Fuck the NIMBYs. This place along the Community Path sounds awesome.

Travel advice from my mother in law

I naively felt unprepared for the thing about getting into your 40s and 50s, where so many people you love and care about start getting sick and dying

“69% of the 500 registered voters surveyed said they would not pay to drive in downtown Boston if there was less traffic.” Good! Draw that line in the sand! Take a train, a bus, a bike, telework! Despite what some MassLive copywriter thinks, you’re still a commuter even if you don’t drive!

Cambridge Redevelopment Authority doing outreach for a trail segment running north-south through various Rindge Ave properties that would connect the trail by McCrehan Pool to the eventual ped-bike bridge to Danehy www.cambridgeredevelopment.org/projects/rin...

levels of That’s My Guy unseen since Obama

damn I’ve hated the knicks for a lifetime and I loved this speech, damn

There’s a civil-service contracting officer’s signature on that $14M sole-source contract, and that person should be investigated.

Can’t believe they went full-Rossitano

👇👇👇

Still too cheap to just buy a tow monster

Al Roker is an NYC bike commuter, Billy Bush is… well we all know. Team Roker.

Breaking: Kevin Warsh to be investigated for mortgage fraud.

BTD staff cuts vetoed! Transferred the cut to BTD contracts, but still, good news.

Purely on form, the maturing Yuba Spicy Curry (this one belongs to my neighbors) still stands out to me as one that just Looks Right.

Riding around, spied a tree overflowing with peak-ripened juneberries, and stopped for a snack. The human speed and ease of stops when getting around by bike is so awesome.

One former DC reporter, now trans nightclub comedian's Pride Month story. wtop.com/local/2026/0...

Quick reminder that your Federal government is not allowed to talk about equity or environmental justice (by EO), and no longer recognizes disparate impacts as racism. So it’s extremely important to keep EJ and equity at the forefront, and to elect politicians who will do their best same.

Seems like most of Cambridge’s affordable housing action is happening west of Harvard Square. Come on in, Inman Square, the water’s fine.

if this story were about humans operating bikes, ebikes, or scooters on sidewalks, we'd see quotes aplenty about pedestrian safety and accessibility.

"most thrilling" for sickos like me bsky.app/profile/sage...

What he saying is that we are going to entirely reshape our social, political, economic, and physical landscape for AI the way we entirely reshaped it for cars instead of people — and eff the kids that inherit this world.

Good morning DC!!!

Ice cold, I love it

Good luck DC!

JFC, not this shit again. Hardening car infrastructure is not the solution to our sustainable future.

First in a series: Drivers of Cambridge doing their best and failing to stop at the stop sign immediately next to the playground.

Reminded of the tired old joke from the bike shop world: Q. How do you get to $1M in the bike biz? A. Start with $2M.

Neighborhood WFH dads have all paused their work to pay respect to the woodchipper

We spent forty-seven seconds photoshopping the social media art for this, but BlueSky cut it off, so here it is in all its fair-to-middling splendor.

We all need you to reach for some dutch bike facilities, it’s common sense

A rare old bird for the masochistic purists — an acoustic 1st Gen Urban Arrow with roller brakes in Bristol RI for $2250 www.facebook.com/share/18gduf...

The sidewalk immediately adjacent to an elementary school playground is for Amazon truck parking, obviously.

It is. If it wasn’t, then the monsters who take so many of the lives of others are right. They are not right.

i wanna design and print a small batch of t-shirts, any strongly-held recs?

NASDAQ is up nearly 3% today, nearing 52 week high. It’s a great day to consider profitably following your conscience (and lessen your exposure to an AI/SpaceX induced market crash) by getting your 401(k) or other investment account out of NASDAQ. Not investment advice! I’m just some guy.