The crazy thing is that for most of my life I would go ten, fifteen, sometimes even thirty minutes at a time without thinking about the Reflecting Pool.

Yoooo this is awesome, and such an important part of my childhood

A notable finding: Almost two-thirds of the pedestrian deaths in 2025 occurred in “environmental justice” neighborhoods where there are higher concentrations of non-white or lower-income households.

Our report is now out; it examines fatal pedestrian crashes throughout Massachusetts in 2025. arcg.is/8XbWD

don't let AI summaries bully you, read the real thing bsky.app/profile/walk...

How am I only just now learning about the dispute over the Betsy Ross flag in Tatnuck Square in late April? what the hell??

thinking about this again a lot open.substack.com/pub/mattdpea...

Journalists have a duty to tell the public that the president and his aides are seriously considering suspending habeas corpus *when it is happening* rather than saving it for a book rollout over a year later

I think the Blame Biden Bloc really don't wanna see what America really is. We can't be a country that wanted to elect Trump twice. There's gotta be another reason. Blame Biden.

Man, @saffronolive.bsky.social really cooked here, putting in an article what i've been feeling the whole time www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/why...

Biked by Coe’s tonight and it is HOPPING

You know youve been in the coffee shop too long when the playlist starts repeating … (today: noticed the same Duran Duran song has now played twice…)

this was a great episode, and it makes me pine for the late night discussions I used to have about these topics!!

The US-Israel war with Iran is now largely responsible for the highest level of US inflation in three years

Not exaggerating, I saw at least 20 people biking or on scooters on my way home tonight. Kids, commuters, families, rec riders…you name it. This narrative that nobody bikes has to stop.

Replace Marblehead with Wellesley “So when we’re preserving, like, the character of Marblehead, it’s like, it’s a bad — we’re selfish. We’re doing a bad thing. Like, we’re not doing any housing,” David continued. “Are we kinda being pricks?” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/10/b...

This reporting from @billshaner.bsky.social on the Worcester County Sheriff‘s Office is important (and disturbing!) #mapoli open.substack.com/pub/billshan...

Staying on Twitter is not bad because it enriches Musk (he loses money on the site) or because it tacitly endorses his ownership (who cares) but because IT IS A BRAINWASHING MACHINE. You are not immune. More importantly your presence there encourages others to stay there due to network effects.

Reposting this thread for the morning crowd:

"Eliminating minimum parking requirements" does not mean "eliminating parking." After Minneapolis removed parking minimums, citywide parking ratios dropped from 1.0 to 0.73 spaces per unit. Walkable areas often built little parking, while others built closer to prior levels.

Since we're talking so much about potholes in Worcester, I made this map of reports from 311 for the first week of June (6/1/2026 - 6/7/2026). They're colored by date. Some of these may be repeat requests, and 311 requests DO NOT tell the full story (for anything, not just potholes) #worcpoli

All the Radish Games games have been worth it!

It’s sad that they have to close this school, but right now this is the unfortunate consequence of the tight binds munis are in when they’re at their prop tax limit. And charter schools are also publicly funded, so I don’t think this will solve their problem either www.masslive.com/centralmass/...

Ok today I caught up on Absolute Batman, and it is peak

I’m CRYING

another day, another insane arrogation of authority

The Boston City Council had a great hearing yesterday on a proposal to eliminate parking minimums. The opposition was so disingenuous: eliminating parking minimums would not take away community input; it makes parking responsive to specific projects, not a blanket mandate.

brought My car in for some routine maintenance, had a few things that needed to be fixed, but tell me why I’m feeling so anxious waiting for a call to say it’s ready???

Nearly four years after receiving $64 million through the federal National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, Massachusetts still hasn’t built a single charger. buff.ly/ecwq9bF

I am SO SO excited to go see John Adams rip up the stage tonight at a showing of the musical ”1776”

Cool -_- love it -____-

Happy World Bicycle Day!

These photos make the Worcester Carnival look dystopian af www.reddit.com/r/WorcesterM...

June is for pride, comics, and libraries!

Apparently half of Massachusetts GOP voters say they would vote for Trump for a third term. well, one, that’s impossible. but, two, WHY

Theres an article in the Globe about Boston vs Philly for 1776 importance. And not to be too Massachusetts about it, but one of the arguments is “when push comes to shove, they signed the docs in Philly.” Yeah, because Boston was just under siege, and Philly is a lot more centrally located….????

Just watched a guy at main and foster walk up to a trash can, one of the big metal ones, and push it over into the street. wtf

I saw the signs for Worcester Carnival but did not anticipate actually seeing a Ferris wheel on park ave

it's certainly interesting to watch every single person in the oil industry repeat in a monotone “we are 3 to 6 weeks away from the worst energy crisis in history”, supply chain people with thousand yard stares, every single macroeconomist I know is benchmarking against 2008, etc and then meanwhile

Ok this is a truly great tweet

Nothing like a video someone else took of you to make yourself feel terrible 🤪

We gave in and got the buckets this morning

all americans are created equal which is why equality demands that we obliterate all representation for 40 percent of the people of the state

I want to start a blog so badly LOL Stuck on what to write on tho…

For years now I've been dying to write the true & proper history of Worcester's most significant contribution to the world outside the dome, the SMILEY FACE, and I finally got to do so in PLAYBOY of all places check it out. tyvm to the @playboy.com team 😎 www.playboy.com/read/politic...

Timeless cartoon from davewalker.com

shoutout to jared polis

uhhh, what now? www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/19/m...

When someone asks me why I like Worcester, I can never come up with a satisfying answer. It’s the vibe. It’s the people. How can I say anything else? There are so many things that make me so mad about this city. so, not to be cringey, but the city has heart, and I love it for it