www.reddit.com/r/mbta/s/2bs... Someone on reddit made this cool chart about #MBTA #commuterrail ridership.

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities

USPS 250th Anniversary Forever Stamps are a model for walkable communities, urbanism, and car-free neighborhoods. In this essay (1/250)

An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜 🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)

Machine-learning AI: good and useful. Generative AI: disaster for all

Happy i never have to worry about my rep pulling something like this

Woman angry that learning about the holocaust teaches anyone with basic media literacy to sympathise with the victims of genocide

Cory Doctorow being very erudite, indignant and amusing (definition of a good satirist) on @tds153.bsky.social 's Start the Week reminds me of what he wrote about this very platform... doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

OMG can someone remind the tech bros AGAIN that science fiction isn't a wish list, it's a warning? Small Soldiers Chuckie (and franchise) M3gan Toy Story V (allegedly)

I would buy this calendar. Or greeting cards. @parks.boston.gov do you sell merch? You should sell merch.

Absolutely stunning.

1. Want. 2. Want. 3. Want.

These are gorgeous. I need more wall space for art!

In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change

Duel of the Fates intensifies

The wildest part of the South End isn’t the brownstones… it’s that Boston built something beautiful, loved it, and then spent decades making sure no one could ever do it again anywhere in Massachusetts.

As they say, a dead woman or a live man.

Do you live or commute along Memorial Drive between the Longfellow & Eliot Bridges? The Charles River Task Force wants your input! Join the in-person meeting on Nov. 17, 6–8 p.m. at the Cambridge Community Center, or submit your feedback here: https://camb.ma/43sTgRT

'We talk endlessly about the “missing middle.” But the real catastrophe was the “banished bottom”' Good piece! I wish it mentioned that SROs are re-legalized in all multifamily zones in OR & WA substack.com/home/post/p-...

Which Clinton?

If you're looking to rage a little (or a lot), the number of people in this reddit post threatening violence on a person for daring to walk in a parking lot will do the trick. www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...

You really don't need to look for complicated answers to the housing problem. It's right there.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Really makes you wonder if Epstein killed himself, huh?

Why do I include poetry in a presentation about data visualization? Because cartography IS poetry. The ocean is not literally blue. The land is not literally green. Symbolism, metaphor, language, cultural context and history all inform map making. Both exercise the same brain-parts.

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

You see that? How “far right” views are routinely re-packaged as “populist”?

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

The only writers worse than architects are radical leftists. (That's not a critique of the ideas of either, just their writing. )

I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it. So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

Zohran Mamdani has won more votes than people who live in the following states: South Dakota North Dakota Alaska Vermont Wyoming He will soon pass Delaware. Could also pass Montana and Rhode Island.

I engaged the CCCers outside my polling place. They're all for affordable housing. I asked about 2072 Mass Ave: "It's too tall! There's not enough parking." "So, you're not for affordable housing, then."

The idea started as a joke, but became a reality after New England Aquarium staff noticed the older penguins' physical limitations.

When it rains a lot I go to the St. George Rainway to watch water going in and out of things. So, here’s a thread for those of you similarly enthralled… @greenestcity.bsky.social @cityofvancouver.bsky.social

Remember the single most important think you can do is bring a friend to vote! Chris Cullen put together this great graph.

Change one letter, ruin a candy: Butlerfinger

8 years ago today

www.universalhub.com/2025/zoning-... Housed folks in West Roxbury suing to prevent unhoused families from moving into an existing building, because 《reasons》

[I’m sure I read or heard some version of this metaphor previously, but …] Democrats should eagerly welcome former Republicans into their home, but those former Republicans don’t get to then say, “Your home should look more like a Republican home,” when that home burned down on their watch.

Seeing this construction project was mind blowing: in Copenhagen, multiple apartment buildings are being built INDOORS and on-site, in a single “Site Cover” temporary shelter.

The rainy day fund is $8.165 billion as of June 2, 2025 (per MA Comptroller). We get $240 million monthly from the federal government to fund SNAP. Covering SNAP for one month would cost 3% of the rainy day fund. Seems like a good deal to me.

October 27, 1930, birthday of American mathematician and computer programmer Gladys Mae West. She created an accurate model of the Earth's shape, and her work on satellite geodesic modelling laid the foundations for GPS technology 🛰️🌐 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_...

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

No parking should be free, because it isnt. Why should I pay for someone else’s parking via my taxes. If you own it you pay for storing it.

Romulus: Don’t shame someone for setting boundaries and maintaining them.

This is taking the good things about urbanism and little too far. You know who had excellent urban structure with extensive streetcar networks and dense mid-rise housing? Pre-Nazi Germany, pre-Mousilini Italy, pre-Franco Spain.

Good graphic showing just how weak/narrow the downtown Boston rezoning ended up being. Plus we did some downzoning on top of Gov Center/State St! What a waste

Donald Trump just did something truly awful and is hoping you won't notice. He fired all of the special education staff at the Department of Education. What kind of person abandons kids with special needs?

I reminded the engineers of several canons of the code of ethics for civil engineers. Many actions of the Administration are in direct opposition to these.