Please enjoy our very first silent film explaining why Gracie’s doesn’t support bring your own cone.

My brother is up visiting Marblehead this week and rented a Jeep Grand Wagoneer which is such a wildly impractical car if you're spending a week in a tiny, dense New England town. He pulled up to dinner and I was like...why do you need a vehicle this big on vacation???

Every single person who said to make yourself feel better about the world, start paying attention more locally was right.

Another feel good story: Today I submitted a 311 request to the city of Rochester to put in a protected bike like on the divided highway next to our development. The city immediately emailed back saying the county was in charge of the road and they were forwarding me off to them.

God they are truly such nakedly pathetic people

Yet another cursed collection of words about the terror ICE is inflicting on people every day www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/24/m...

this is literally the truck that 1 in 5 guys at my high school drove 25 years ago. We all were fine. This will have more safety features and no gas bill.

hopefully they will spot her

Four years ago, SCOTUS gutted Roe and put access to abortion in jeopardy for countless patients. Massachusetts stepped up and established a free and confidential abortion legal hotline, providing support for patients, providers, and helpers. Share this number to save a life: (833) 309-6301.

These all look like people who could and would care for and entertain your dog or baby for a few minutes while you had to deal with a minor emergency.

Every once-in-awhile we get some political candidate who's racked up a hundred traffic fines and it illustrates to me that some folks who have money and influence feel privileged enough to disregard traffic safety. Sliding-scale fines based on income might help solve that problem.

We are the Democratic Party. When Middleton was facing book bans? When our school needed a new heating system? When we showed up for better teacher pay? It wasn’t the national Democratic Party who showed up: it was our town committee. It was us. The Democratic Party can’t be afraid of democracy.

I know a lot of suburban and rural older white ladies who are intensely active and involved in their communities, many of whom volunteer serve on local dem committees. They, almost universally, hate the democratic establishment, status quo dems, and are clamoring for proactive progressive policies.

A great example of blame inversion. Blame the kid when the real culprit is the lack of infrastructure and dangerous drivers.

I was talking to a bar owner where I live about replacing some of the city-owned parking lots in the downtown area with apartments. He was worried he'd lose customers and I was like the people who drove here have 2 beers while the people who walked here have 4.

I don’t know man, who is “the Democratic Party” if it’s not the voters?Democratic voters choose candidates, not party leaders. And party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us - and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.

“not all heat pumps can cool” that’s just not true. “heat pumps” are literally just air conditioning with the refrigerant run in reverse. they have a valve that lets you switch between the two modes it’s *air conditioning* units that are often made without this reversing valve so the can’t heat

LMAO -- GOP Rep. French Hill is literally right now during a news conference touting the bipartisan housing bill and the president's support for it, unaware that Trump moments ago angrily announced he won't sign it

Y'see, the thing is that I have the ego of a writer (derogatory), and the self-confidence of a writer (also derogatory).

as a committed centrist, it saddens me that both parties are falling captive to their extremes - the right to insurrectionist cultists who want to invade american cities, and the left to socialists who want better bus service

the people love ebikes!!!!!!!!!!!

A tiny number of people say "ban cars," a lot of them are not serious or make huge caveats, & there is absolutely no prospect of it happening. Nobody truly believes that absolutely everyone can cycle. Drivers block access - directly like this & indirectly by opposing car alternatives - all the time.

Today just keeps getting beter. No one on my team is in the office today so I took the "long" way back from a meeting. I'm sticking it to the system one slightly longer bike ride at a time.

Everyone just step back for a moment and breathe

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

"There is a clear generational divide between younger transit users who take the bus and want a better one, and older commuters who drive."

This is a good reminder that the current state of Blue Hill Avenue is a direct result of redesigning the road to make it easier for white suburbanites to commute *through* Mattapan. The younger residents quoted in this story recognize the solution is not more car dependency.

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

Share the road means letting cars use the bike lane

when I see too much imagining the 2028 nominee, I hit the randomizer: JB Pritzker-Scott Colom vs. Tommy Tuberville-Eric Schmitt

This headline placing lost parking spaces before lives is a perfect metaphor

A little hack if you’re driving and the person in front of you is stopped to make a left, you can just swerve into the bike lane beside and go around. Super safe and convenient for you.

That’s some environmental-ass storytelling

Ah, the wonderful feeling of the first bike commute after school is done for the year

*banging my fist on lecturn* An ebike under every ass! (Where owner of said ass can ride or learn to ride and is vaguely up for giving it a go.)

We’ve had several @mcbl.bike borrowers have their entry point to e-bikes via cargo e-bikes (which I didn’t expect!). Some decide they want a cargo bike, others decide they want a smaller ebike. After trying them, virtually all decide they’re ready to buy or want to start saving to get one.

funniest one the other week were two guys i was in an elevator with. "what's the furthest you've ever ridden that thing?" "uhhhhhh well my old commute was 20 miles" and they both erupted in bewilderment. the people love ebikes!!!

The newly launched @bikeboston.bsky.social crash map for all of Massachusetts makes it easy for any reporter or advocate to do this research. And once you zoom in on a spot the URL can be shared with anyone to show them exactly what you see labs.bostoncyclistsunion.org/crashes/

From my limited experience a good municipal bikeshare system with quality e-bikes goes a long way to convincing people that these things are wicked cool. 5 minutes into using Bikeshare Toronto's new e-bikes on a recent ride with @chanface.bsky.social I was like, ok, I get the appeal.

It’s always fascinated me that the most engaged questions I get are from folks in vehicles with handicap stickers who park next to the bike racks at my local grocery store. For some people, the acoustic bike was never a realistic option. E-bikes change that equation (which is why I’m all in).

If they happen often they're not really "accidents" are they? I'm getting really tired of this routine where every time a cyclist or pedestrian is killed, neighbors tell the media how the street has always been dangerous. These deaths are preventable.

Stephen Miller was reportedly the driving force behind the DOJ's recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based care

Graphic design is my passion.

I've never been able to load a cart full of groceries in my e-cargo bike outside the grocery store without either positive comments or questions.

Every single time I've ridden my ebike to work, someone asks me about it. And I absolutely love the opportunity to evangelize about it.

Almost every time I park my e-bike somewhere public I get questions about it from curious people. That never happens with my other bikes. So many people are interested in what e-bikes can offer them, which makes the moral panic around them all the more infuriating.

Guys it's not real.

A "podcast" that is taped and released as video and features famous people is just a talk show that doesn't have to abide by union rules.

This is really the cherry on top of the fascist sundae (especially since they were both ultimately pardoned)