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Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
It is fall
Gentrification is what we call it when demand exceeds supply. It is not caused by bike lanes. The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.
a "united states", if you will
i was told that trump’s modest improvement with black and hispanic men meant that racism had nothing to do with MAGA. oh well.
Not even noon. Crushing
Things that are aging your resume: Including graduation dates Including work experience older than 15 years Listing "Memorized all the lyrics to 'One Week' by Barenaked Ladies" under special skills
Disappointed but not surprised my city councilor, John Fitzgerald, was one of only three councilors not to attend the mayor's anti-ICE speech Tuesday. I love my neighborhood, but we vote poorly
This scans
Boomers will romanticize a vacant lot
I may be slow to respond to emails in the coming days. I just found out my favorite gay Instagram influencers broke up, and I need time to process this loss.
Would love to be one of these e-bike parents, but would need a protected bike lane on Columbia Road to feel comfortable. @wutrain.bsky.social can we make that happen? Just gotta move the parking away from the curb and repaint those lines.... www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/13/m...
Are there still steam punks? If so, I want them to start fights with Tartarian conspiracists online
Wondering if Steve from Sex and the City ever learned how to wipe his ass
How are kids always sick?
Thinking about an absolute dog shit ai and saying it has artificial emotional intelligence
What's it look like Kraft is trying to summon Zuul on his mailer?
Kraft just moved here 2 years ago, now he's going to pull a "Boston strong"?
Oh shit did you all hear the heir to the AustroHungarian Empire Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated? Wild
Sabra hops were a mistake. I need the brewers to move on
So much better than those Big Belly cans the city tried for a bit
Werther's never disappoints
Think about all the velodroming we could have been doing
Not to fault activists, but seems like the sort of thing you want to do before the bill passes
Saw the golden foil shine of what I thought was a discarded Magnum wrapper but was actually a discarded Werther's Original wrapper
Is Figs all that's left of Todd English's restaurant empire? I won't be googling
Those are tough times
The bipartisanship we need
Sure the kids are screaming at each other, but I'm having a Guinness and listening to the Lovin Spoonful
We all hate ourselves, but, y'know, try to be a little more self aware about it
I used to see him at Purdue but didn't know him but he gave off a "cool professor" vibe
Spent the afternoon doing all the things my preschooler wanted to do, and he's still screaming at me and hitting me
Trump-Epstein scrutiny has reached "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook—well, I am not a crook” levels, but for pedophilia.
Anecdotal report on the decline of craft beer: went to a friend's cookout yesterday. Last year at this friend's house, coolers full of a mix of macro lagers, grocery store craft beer, and hard seltzer. This year, all seltzer, canned cocktails, and macro light beer.
My father raised me right, so I don't give the English credit for too much, but I gotta hand it to them: they knocked it out of the park with their muffin
The thing about children is they can be complete dicks to you and then you still need to like cook them dinner and wipe their ass
Listening to OK Computer, and remembering how bummed out the music video for "Paranoid Android" made me when I was 13. Just was not ready for it
New England loves to just have a big-ass rock for no reason (the reason is glaciers).
We fight so hard to protect the neighborhoods we could never build today. This 4-unit, mixed-use, building in historic Old Town Marblehead sits on a 3,900sf lot (45 units/acre). Modern zoning requires a dozen "exterior" parking spots & a 20,000sf minimum lot size to build today.
She poopin
Somewhere between 2.8% abv (Miller Extra Light) and <0.5% abv (non-alcoholic beer), beer loses its beeriness
I don't know that I've ever actually tried it. Looks like a fine ale. Will have to pick some up
"Singer-songwriter is the dream, party clown is the reality"
That's a good looking beer. What was it?
It shouldn't be such a big deal, but getting from Savin Hill to Tenean Beach or the Neponset trail by foot or bike used to be so unpleasant, either going Freeport with no sidewalk or along Morrissey and dealing with the awful intersections, this little extension punches above its weight
Long-awaited “missing link” between Morrissey Blvd and Tenean beach now open!
I'm gonna say consumer confidence in Metro Boston is way down based on how many fewer fireworks I've heard over the past several nights compared to previous years
Ah minority rule
*cutting cherries for my children* Check out these tiny-ass plums
Every mainstream Democrat who is hanging back on endorsing Mamdani is responsible for emboldening these absolute fascists
This isn’t over yet. Spread the word. Republicans' Big, Beautiful Bill would: — Kick 16 million off their health care — Close 1 out of 4 nursing homes — Hike your energy bills — Add at least $4 trillion to the national debt It’s a gift to the rich and a disaster for families.
"you're telling me you eat this frankfurter sandwich with your bare hands? Base savagery"
Now Texans have to eat ribs with a knife and fork to own the libs, that's the rule now
If Kraft were full-blown YIMBY, I'd give him a thought. But he talks out of both sides of his mouth on this issue, telling neighborhood groups we need to be sure we're listening to residents when it comes to new development
Kraft in the Globe again confounding me as to who he thinks his voters are. I see a lot of Kraft signs around Savin Hill (thanks to Frank Baker handing them out, I assume) and my hunch is those people are not eager to increase new housing construction.
So covetous of this cozy-ass old boathouse in Savin Hill
Fair Commonwealth, if North Carolina can do it, why can not we also to do it?
🚨The North Carolina Legislature voted unanimously (107 to 0) to ban minimum parking requirements in new developments statewide.
She's so thrilled about her murder
It's shitty, is what I mean. Whenever I end up there, it's like, where's the city? What are fucking around with here?
West Roxbury is a really glaring failure of post-War urbanism in Boston... whatever that means .. there's a point I'm almost articulating. If you are on who knows, then you are one who knows
They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
Thinking about all those morons who thought Trump was antiwar. Smug idiots
Bring it back
It's not summer if I don't have a hot dog and some Gestapo salad made with Hellman's real mayonnaise
They need weighted vests in fun colors. Everyone I see in a weighted vest looks like a tactical cosplayer. Or an ICE agent.
Got excited thinking I saw a seal, but it's just a dumb human swimming Unless... Selkie in Savin Hill?
Large failson
All great
Couple things I learned today: - Seniors are extremely fired up about this - "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now - People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA - We all we got, we all we need
Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.
Big turn out for Donald Trump's army parade
It feels so fitting that the party of big red maps of America that show all the mostly empty states they’ve won produces a parade with mostly empty space. bsky.app/profile/laur...
Happy Pride, Boston! #nokings #prideforthepeople
They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.
LOL
Do you, do you like (select all that apply): A) Dreaming of things so impossible B) Only the practical C) Ever the wild D) Waiting through all your bad, bad days just to end them with someone you care about E) Making out F) Long drives G) Brown eyes H) Guys that just don't quite fit in
Yeah but what if you'd said what they thought you'd said? Would've been pretty fucked up
Saw John Malkovich tasting cheese at Formaggio in Cambridge. Presumably he bought some cheese after tasting
This is a distraction [dies in nuclear war].
If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.
Back on Harpoon IPA. Don't know what happened, but it's back in rotation
Listen, I'm not a menswear guy, I dress quite poorly, and this is the least objectionable thing about RFK, but I just don't think high government officials should be wearing Oxford shirts under suit jackets
Attended civic association meeting with Josh Kraft last night. Guy lacks the juice. Also don't understand who he thinks his constituency is. He doesn't hate immigrants enough to win over the true conservatives. I guess people who agree with Wu on everything except bike lanes?
I swear I remember searching Airbnb and seeing places that looked actually kinda fun and interesting. Everything grey and managed now. Hotels have more personality
Watching old Mr. Rogers and he just has that easy, classic menswear going
Jennifer Grey as herself sans nose
Study shows fruits and vegetables are healthy
We had a blast celebrating the heart and history of Dorchester with neighbors and residents at this year’s Dot Day Parade! Thank you to our City staff, residents, and everyone who showed up with love for the vibrant community we’re proud to call home.
No you fucking idiot, I'm suggesting that attacking Diaspora communities for the actions of the Israeli government reinforces the central point of Zionism, that only force (in the form of a Jewish ethnostate) can protect us from an eternally hostile world. bsky.app/profile/hrry...
Megan, you're doing an antisemitism
Broke out the vintage baggies. Looking at the white tips of those Chucks peeking out from under the current is like looking at my past. I am old and I am young
Not the most salient thing here, but we must constantly remind ICE agents that they are the biggest chuddiest cosplaying fascist jackboots around. Fuckin tactical vests and gaters and all that loser Call of Duty aesthetic. Absolute beta cuck shit
These bananas have been green for a week now. They broken?
The limit of speed, one might say
*licks finger, holds it up to the breeze* ah-yuh, gonna be some Schmenzingers tonight
Brave lil guy