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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is a great summary 'cause I ain't readin' that book Bill Galvin sent.

Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"The MBTA currently runs diesel-powered trains on the Providence Line because it does not own any locomotives capable of tapping into its overhead power lines." Do you know where we could find some of these newfangled things?

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The MBTA gets complaints for being scared of catenary, among other things. The MBTA won't run trains under *existing* catenary on the Providence Line (the ones that Amtrak uses), and it ripped out all its existing trackless trolley catenary in 2022!

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Did the Silver Line use the ramp? The last time I was on the bus in July, it used the ramp to the tunnel!

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You aren’t doing Bayesian statistics without observations. That’s what the formula is for!

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Progressive Mass @progressivemass.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

MA has 9 statewide ballot questions this year. Be an informed voter! #mapoli www.progressivemass.com/2026ballot/

This November, Massachusetts will see *9* statewide ballot questions, a historic number. But we’ve got you covered.

✅VOTE YES ON 1 to expand the public records law to cover the Governor and the Legislature. We’re the only state in the country that doesn’t do that already. Let the sunlight in.

✅VOTE YES ON 2 to enable public defenders to collectively bargain. Every worker deserves to have a union, and public defenders, who are often overworked and underpaid, should be no exception.

❌VOTE NO ON 3 to prevent private equity billionaires from rigging our election system in their favor. Top-two primaries empower corporate PACs and self-funders, disadvantage grassroots candidates, and turn MAGA voters into election kingmakers.

✅VOTE YES ON 4 to enable voters to register to vote or update their registration on Election Day. No eligible voter should be turned away due to a clerical error, and this reform is one of the most proven ways to increase voter turnout.

❌VOTE NO ON 5 to protect our state’s ability to invest in health care, transportation, and public education. The rich would get millions in tax rebates, while the rest of us suffer from underfunded public services.

⚪VOTE how you want on 6. Question 6 fell shy of our endorsement threshold: our members valued land and water conservation, but were worried about the dedication of existing funds as opposed to new ones.

✅VOTE YES on 7 to enable more starter homes across the Commonwealth. We have a housing crisis, and large lot size requirements mean fewer homes are able to be built.

❌VOTE NO on 8 to protect our state’s cannabis laws. We said NO to the war on drugs back in 2016, and we shouldn’t turn back time and destroy local economies.

✅VOTE YES ON 9 to protect our state’s landmark gun safety law, which cracked down on ghost guns, banned machine gun conversion devices, and strengthened gun violence data collection.

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I worked as a red shirt in the Boston Youth Cleanup Corps for two summers in the 90s. It was hard but satisfying work cleaning up vacant lots (and a paycheck for a teenager). It is great to see the city coming back to a similar program.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if it took you 5 seconds of contemplation to think of an alternative you should take at least another 5-10 to at least consider the possibility that it at least crossed the minds of 1 or 2 of the people who dedicate their lives and research careers to dealing with the problems we post about on here

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Amanda, Clover Mother 🏳️‍⚧️ @onionbug.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is beyond spectacular. Fugazi is the goat.

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fun with dialects, khed! mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

mydialect output map for me - turns out I'm heavily associated with Massachusetts, who knew? LOL

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Great book, I have it on my coffee table! (my wife knows I love maps, Boston maps doubly so!)

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 03/09/2026

In victory over Mike Rush, Persis Yu even won his ward www.universalhub.com/2026/victory... #Boston #Roslindale #HydePark #WestRoxbury #elections2026 H/t @mdmcclos.bsky.social

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

That’s because helmets are not rated for car crashes, only for falling off a bike, so telling people a helmet will protect them when a 7000 lb auto smashes their body is just a lie. Traffic calming, smaller cars, fix blind spots, infrastructure, consequences for drivers who run over humans.

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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Jamaica Plain folks! You may have noticed that Centre Street was recently repaved without putting in any improvements for either pedestrians or bikers. That's bc @wutrain.bsky.social cancelled the Centre Street improvements project Sign here @universalhub.com actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...

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Refund the JP Centre/South Transportation Action Plan

Mayor Wu has quietly cut the funding for the Centre St./South St. redesign plan that would have helped improve the speed and efficiency of the 39 bus, the 4th highest ridership route, and the safety o...

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Either blank it or write in your favorite attorney in Suffolk county!

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"should cyclists wear helmets" discourse is such a good one because the arguments for both positions are totally common-sense and unassailable, everyone just digs in.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you want to know why people get touchy around the helmet discourse, this is it. Elected officials who do not know the difference between different classes of legal e-bikes and who also can't distinguish them from illegal e-motos probably shouldn't also be writing bicycle helmet laws.

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim has some math to tell you that you're wrong :)

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Maybe this project is related to the PLAN: South Boston Dorchester Avenue effort? www.bostonplans.org/planning-zon...

street map of the Andrew Square area in South Boston MA 02127, showing Dorchester Ave and O'Connor Way, as well as the border of the PLAN Dot Ave project

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I heard about this all the way over in West Rox! Is this a "where will all the elderly residents park?" complaint? This path seems like a pretty clear route connecting Boston St, Dot Ave, and Mary Ellen McCormack housing.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

tbf Mamdani was cajoled into this by a ton of ppl online who cant conceive of bike safety as not entirely up to a biker or as anything beyond a helmet flooding his comments. As I've told multiple ppl when the topic of biking on NYC streets comes up, a helmets not saving you from what cars do here

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

big change to my material conditions: I am a bike commuter now. I will be updating my transportation opinions dialectically (I am already 27% more opinionated about bike lanes and our school crossing guard comrades)

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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

No right on red is one of the simplest pro-human policies a city can institute.

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 19/08/2026

Court rules Boston has right to build new White Stadium www.universalhub.com/2026/court-r... #Roxbury #JamaicaPlain #FranklinPark

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DotNews @dotnews.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In 2023, Boston and police union leaders agreed to allow civilians to fill in as flaggers when officers are unable to cover details across the city. Three years later, the jobs remain the exclusive preserve of BPD officers, @yawumiller.bsky.social reports. www.dotnews.com/2026/08/19/t...

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Three years after deal on civilian flaggers, details remain exclusive to police officers - Dorchester Reporter

More than three years after an agreement to allow for civilian flaggers, construction details are still exclusively in the hands of Boston police officers.

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Vice Mayor Burhan Azeem @burhanazeem.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Everyone’s worried about whether or not there will be a blue wave this November. Meanwhile, I have a plan to ensure we have a permanent blue block. It all relies on rezoning Massachusetts.

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How to Steal 20 Congressional Seats From Florida

Imagine congress with 20 fewer Florida republicans and 20 more Ayanna Pressleys & Katherine Clarks. It may sound like a pipe dream, but it's actually possibl...

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Every true "lifelong Southie resident" knows that the highest use of any square inch of land is more parking spaces: www.bostonherald.com/2015/11/01/g...

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Realtors! Why does it always have to be Realtors? Seriously, though, I didn't think they could be so reactionary until the Centre Street project in West Rox - in my 14 years in West Rox, a realtor said the worst thing in public that I've heard in that time: www.universalhub.com/2023/work-ch...

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

No way man, 20 years ago is 2006, almost to the end of the George W. Bush era and all the post 9/11 craziness that came with it (Toby Keith, anyone?). So many lifted pickup trucks from Weymouth, Woburn, and Walpole!

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"He's a ziggurat - a ziggurat of whoppers"

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Patron saint of knife-sharpeners & librarians @daisyrazor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Seen in West Roxbury while waiting for the 30-minute-late Needham Line train. @universalhub.com

Graffiti saying Extend the orange line! Investing in public transit = investing in the community.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/2026

14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In 2014, Stephen Lynch fought against replacing a single-family home in South Boston with 8 homes over parking concerns, even though it provided 14 parking spaces. Massachusetts has a housing crisis. We need leaders fighting for housing, not politicians fighting to block it.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13/08/2026

this entire issue is downstream of the fact that kids are trapped in car-dependent suburbs, unable to develop any sense of autonomy until age 16, when they're suddenly allowed to drive a 4,000 lb vehicle

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/08/2026

God this is so, so good.

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National VA Council @nationalvacouncil.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

CONTRACT UPDATE: During this morning’s hearing on NVAC’s latest Motion to Enforce the March 13 preliminary injunction, Judge DuBose indicated that she intends to GRANT our motion. The 2023 Master Agreement will remain in effect. This is another MAJOR VICTORY for our Union.

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My local advocacy group will keep advocating for actual barriers along Centre Street so the BPPA can figure out the correct way to park. :)

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If you are so moved, please reach out to the Mayor's team and Councilor Weber's team about this with a word of support - please let them know the enforcement is working and to keep going!

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It looks like the increased parking enforcement on Centre Street West Roxbury is having an effect! (I've noticed a lot more bike lane tickets in the last week.) It also looks like it is affecting some friends of the police. It is pretty shameful that the police union would try to minimize this.

A street view of Centre Street in West Roxbury MA. A line of cars are parked next to a parking-protected bike lane.

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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you want to speak up in favor of this new housing project on the Arborway rotary you can submit a comment here Boston needs a lot more housing! www.bostonplans.org/projects/dev...

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920 Centre Street | Bostonplans.org

Development Projects and Planned Development Areas (PDAs) that the Development Review division is coordinating.

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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

In 2025 we ("we" is mostly Europe) know how to build streetcars. Give them level boarding, smooth rails, modern cars and signal priority, and they have advantages over buses (electric, smooth, fast, narrow profile). But we don't do any of this in North America!

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Turp @turpin4prez.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My sinking feeling as a public defender in 2026 is that Americans are more obsessed with incarcerating people right now than they've been at any point in my entire career

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I agree! I think two things are true here: 1) paving repairs are good and should happen, 2) bike lane users shouldn't be guessing when the correct markings/barriers are going to come back when a repair is done. In this environment, we're all afraid that the markings *won't* come back!

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Wholly Diver @aluminumeighty.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It's also happening on Belgrade (Roslindale) and Centre Street JP as crews (finally) fix the "temporary" patches from the natural gas line replacements.

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