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Alex TD

@alextd.bsky.social

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Program Director @ MIT. Climate, transit, sci-fi, toddlers, futures. Opinions my own. Mostly lurking.

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Alex TD @alextd.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I feel so aged by this IHOP kids menu.

An image from a children’s menu showing how to draw a ‘Cool S’. A cartoon pancake character says that it was ‘really popular in the late 1900’s’

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Alex TD @alextd.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Really encouraging to see such big turnout in Waltham (spilling onto sidewalks for blocks in several directions plus the main group). Driving through at the end, a serious joyful canyon for cars.

A crowd 6-10 people deep facing a major road and holding signs and waving flags against fascism and Trump. The most visible sign says “Fighting tyranny since 1775”

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Alex TD @alextd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Wanna see the inside of an oil tank? (Removal took under an hour and I cannot imagine doing that work. Astonished at the lack of protective gear given the chemical exposure)

A man hauling half of an oil tank up and out of a basement hatch.

The bottom half of a fuel oil tank that has been cut open. It is full of a thick black sludge (that smelled as bad as it seems).

A black fuel oil tank in a basement, around 4 ft tall, with stone wall behind it.

The oil tank has disappeared - all that remains is the late 1800’s stone foundation.

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Alex TD @alextd.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

In perhaps the most random decision of the year, we are at a football game (Pitt is playing BC, 15 min from our house, and I said “sure” to the alumni tickets email).

Football field with players warming up and cheerleaders dancing. Stands mostly empty.

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Alex TD @alextd.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

In perhaps the most random decision of the year, we are at a football game (Pitt is playing BC, 15 min from our house, and I said “sure” to the alumni tickets email).

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Alex TD @alextd.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

And, perhaps my favorite, the two women who had gone all-in on a Taylor Swift setup, including a lyric dress for a 12-ft skeleton, the Eras Tour on a projector, and a packed friendship bracelet table. Incredible.

A twelve-foot skeleton wearing a dress with Taylor Swift lyrics “you’re the love of my life, it’s killing me” printed all over it

Taylor Swift halloween display - tombstone for The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, pumpkins with “we hereby conduct this postmortem” and TTPD, skeleton in a KC Chiefs jersey reading Taylor’s boyfriend, and flag with Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me in bloody letters

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Alex TD @alextd.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

If you see this, post a picture taken in the mountains. Ironically, I have few pictures in NE mountains, but this meme lacks enough of how impressive sajuaros are (colleague for scale). 🌵

Sajuaro cactus towering over a person, with many more across mountainsides behind. The main cactus is at least 20 feet tall.

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