The big industry conference that I've attended 22 years in a row is in town. After just one day I am out of whatever powers this particular introvert and was scraping myself into bed when I got an email from the Boston Police saying that they found responsive records and now I'm all NIGHT COFFEEE!!!

The Republican plan, such as it is, is simple: They’re racist xenophobes - so the want brown and black people to die. They’re corrupt, greedy, and amoral … so they steal and fix the market along the way. They’re also pervy pedos. That’s it. That’s the whole plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...

The timeline on this thread is illustrative of trying to get Eversource to do -anything-. It stretches back to 2020. Big thanks to Councilor Hardt for the follow-up. It's nice, even though I doubt that it will make much of a difference.

This is a good route if you want to experience the many different cycling infrastructures and neighborhood types contained within this thing we call ‘Boston.’

Any bets on how many of these citations have been issued?

I encourage everybody to come out to Bow Market on Thursday to support @csindie.bsky.social. If you want local independent journalism, you have to support it. There is no other way.

Not like this.

This is so pure.

Greetings from Hyde Park (it’s a nice day to ride a bicycle here).

Gas may be expensive, but it’s a gorgeous day and I get about 50 miles to the sandwich on my bicycle.

All the window cats Are in their windows for spring Listening to the birds

Turning vehicles yield. Or don’t. You do you.

It’s getting to be playing cello in the park weather again.

The 2nd extension to the Boston Police's required time to provide a response to my records request of March 31 (!!!) expired on Friday. I got both and email and a phone call saying that apparently the person who does drone stuff is on holiday. Not a great look. bsky.app/profile/some... 1/?

It’s so weird to me that deregulation is regressive and hurts poor and vulnerable people everywhere -except- housing policy. I would think about that more, but I wouldn’t want anybody to think I’m a NIMBY.

Thinking on how we all cancelled Amazon Prime and stopped shopping at Target a few years back. I guess I was hoping that would matter more than it has.

iPhones (and presumably watches and computers / tablets) default to retaining non-encrypted versions of notifications from messaging apps. This means that disappearing @signal.org messages can be extracted and used against you. Be careful out there. www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

Nine months ago, I crashed my bike because I was careless and hasty - I slung a bag of tools on my handlebars for a short ride home from a friend's house. A wrench went through my front wheel, and I woke up to an ambulance. I feel the urge to write about it. Content warning for body stuff. 1/?

If we can have a minimum wage, we can have a maximum income.

I’ve been told many times that we don’t do them, but I still want one of these signs for the street where I live.

Meanwhile, in Cambridge …

No cop, no stop.

it's Council night in Somerville, but I am -not- in the chambers. I just got back from two weeks in Europe (and occasionally Asia), and jet lag has me dragging. I'm going to do what I can with this here agenda and then probably call it an early night. somervillema.legistar.com/MeetingDetai... 1/?

If we can tax property based on assessed value we can sure as shit tax wealth.

I’m just back from two weeks of international travel, and the difference in attitude when people find out I’m American vs. during George W’s and Trump’s first term are stark. During W’s time, people got angry with Americans. During Trump 1, they were befuddled. Now they’re mostly sympathetic. 1/?

Cryptocurrency: By pedophiles, for pedophiles. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/t...

One more time, the core question is whether we broadly trust the police to do a fair, safe, evenhanded job. All the rest of these are proxy fights over that question. Transparent, independent oversight is the only effective path forward.

Im getting some truly disturbing advertisement pairings lately. For example, I was reading about how Florida is planning to close its concentration camp in the Everglades … the one they named ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in a snappy callback to the old slaver threat to feed black people to alligators. 1/2

I am going to persist in referring to industry fixers - the guys (and they’re always guys) who know a guy (it’s always a guy) and can hook you up with anything from real estate to a TED talk to seed round funding - as ‘Epsteins.’

‘Mr. Musk served as a top adviser to Mr. Trump and oversaw the administration’s effort to overhaul the federal bureaucracy.’ I cannot even. I just cannot even. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u... 1/?

While it’s not the whole picture by any means, this is a pretty good summary of the mechanism by which enshittification happens.

This 1000%. I’ve had colleagues respond to technical questions with what is obviously just the GEO (that’s “Generative Engine Optimization” - the SEO of the mid ‘20s) copypasta from vendor press releases. I feel lucky to have lived through the times when the internet was cool.

My public records request grinds on. Recall that every time they send one of these, it resets the clock on their required time to respond. I can only assume that they’re still hoping I’ll just go away (I won’t).

TIL: Istanbul treats its cat population as ‘collective pets.’ The city allocates a modest budget for kibble and veterinary care (mostly reproductive control).

Them: AI is the future. Anybody who touches a keyboard? Fuck them, just use AI. Feed your dog? AI. Make love to your lover? AI. Superintelligence. Super-DUPER-intelligence. Reality fucking 2.0 man, GET IN, LOSER! Me: Can you suggest the right spelling of 'correspondance' please? Spellcheck: Huh?

‘Department of Homeland Security officials were told to refer upward of 200 cases for denaturalization a month’ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

🎤 Porchfest in Somerville is Saturday, May 9th,starting at 12pm on the West side of the city and making its way to East Somerville. I’m going to give you the speech I give every year: 👉🏻First, Be cool. Look out for each other. Be kind. Make it the uplifting experience it’s supposed to be.

People who brag about using AI give strong ‘mommy, mommy, I pooped!’ energy.

I live with a person who does a -lot- of knitting, and we regularly receive packages labeled "LIVE BENEFICIAL INSECTS." They's filled with little paper strips covered with the eggs of some sort of tiny wasp that supposedly feasts on wool moths before they have the chance to destroy her stuff.

> Open Internet You open the Internet. You read the purported suicide note of the barely literate former pimp to the world’s power brokers. > Justice when? When you insist. > Insist. Nothing happens. > Insist. You already insisted. > Justice when? …

Accurate. The only thing Musk should be remembered for is this mass murder. That’s it.

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Republicans have unveiled a $72 billion spending package that includes tens of billions of dollars for ICE, billions more for DHS immigration enforcement and, for good measure, an extra billion dollars for Trump’s White House vanity project. www.huffpost.com/entry/republ...

Sad to hear that Bicycle Belle is closing. It was the best of a great lot.

More in the ongoing saga of trying to get that drone footage that the Boston Police took over a protest back in January. 1/2

The current electoral chaos in Louisiana is just a preview of what we can expect in November. The plan this whole time has been to de-legitimize elections (and Truth itself, but that’s the broader play) enough so that if it’s anywhere close they get to retain power. 1/?

If you are responsible for a shared use Linux machine, get up from dinner and patch it right the fuck now. copy.fail

“Video showed the driver did have a green light, but after an accident like this, the law states you must stop.” This sentence makes me so angry. Bro, you fucking hit a kid. Throw it in park and check if they need help. whdh.com/news/just-on...

Good story about how and why @mhlevy.bsky.social decided to strike out on his own again, leaving the @cambridgeday.com and founding the @csindie.bsky.social. I encourage everybody to find a way to support one or both of these local papers. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/25/b...

The best part about this is that if we deploy body worn cameras, this guy who has been suspended will get a 2% raise along with all his former colleagues. www.boston.com/news/local-n...