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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the brookline school committee has failed at basic statistics and it drives me insane I KNOW 21 kids per class is a "good problem to have" but by looking only at a cap and an arithmetic mean they missed the bimodal distribution they created (the dark blue is all one school)

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

from America’s soccer parents to fifa thank you for making the US opening match at effing NINE

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

omfg this is incredible news go eat at them if you don't/haven't, they're the best and we're lucky to have them!

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

thanks Tom! more bike lanes, more bluebikes stations, more biking brookline members, and vocal advocates for this are starting show up and make our voices heard also note the Select Board just gained 2 bike-sympathetic members as we lost a "stop talking about bike lanes they'll never happen" guy

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

whereas we demand #justice for the evermore long pond studio sessions; and HT @sarahp911.bsky.social should i.. stop doing this bit?

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

also we enjoyed this one about how she adds multiple diss layers on top of other disses www.facebook.com/share/r/17eF...

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Whereas ownership of one’s masters is a fundamental right; and whereas “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” entered into evidence without objection; and whereas several ex-boyfriends have suffered severe reputational impacts of their own making:

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

We’ll have to do a ts albums ranking sometime

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Brookline showed. Up. Today Congrats to the folks who won their races, and to our community that chose to invest in what makes this place exceptional Big night

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

it’s almost time to vote! this is the one! we live in a society!

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

watching the “no” people go through the seven stages of thinking they can do town budget better than everyone else have reached “just spend the reserves” and “just move some money around” phases

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

when are we going to pay teachers the same overtime wages police get

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

get out there and vote YES this week (in-person voting all week long at town hall!) YES for excellent public schools, public safety, public transit, and public parks! I am proud and happy to vote to increase my own taxes (modestly) to keep Brookline an incredible place to live and raise kids

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

(And commercial development, and streamline the permitting process for renovations, and it would be nice if the state would legalize real estate transfer fees, among other policy remedies)

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

To be clear, Affordability is a big problem in Brookline! That is driven by high housing costs, and a lack of supply to meet growing demand. Property tax *rates* are actually quite low, and higher absolute taxes paid is an effect from skyrocketing housing values. We need to build more housing

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brooklinenews.bsky.social @brooklinenews.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Nineteen of the town’s 20 highest-paid employees in 2025 were members of the Brookline Police Department, according to payroll data obtained through a public records request. See the full list and hear from police department leaders: brookline.news/police-offic...

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Police officers again top the list of Brookline's highest-paid employees in 2025 - Brookline.News

Nineteen of the town’s 20 highest-paid employees in 2025 were members of the Brookline Police Department, according to payroll data obtained through a public records request.

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I also enjoy the “I can’t afford this” in front of literally gated estates with staffs constantly maintaining their grounds. Unreal

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

property taxes are not an "affordability" problem. taxes are higher because your house is worth millions of dollars. selfishly saying no to an override just means taxes keep going up anyway AND we will fire teachers and firefighters

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I get the sense it's mostly an irritation-founded desire to eliminate motorized delivery scooters, and enforcement of bike-looking e-bikes would likely be minimal (if not non-existent) but I do find the irony of pushing more of this traffic to larger, traffic-worsening, also-unsafe vehicles galling

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Boston city council talkin bout it

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

if we’re banning e-bikes over 28mph can we talk about same other motor vehicles or just pretending those aren’t killing thousands of people a year

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

amidst all the local election fun, let's remember to be offended that this garbage-fire of a "restaurant" is opening in Coolidge Corner! please join me in literally never ordering anything from this local-business-killing atrocity :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JHF...

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This "Restaurant" Sells "Food"

YouTube video by marc insco

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

John VanScoyoc, “independent thinker”: “We can’t allow the dream of protected bike lanes that we’ll never have cause us to delay fixing a street” …..wait why can’t we have bike lanes? We can, should, and do have them!

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

and only one of them refuses to tell you whether he’ll vote for the override!

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

here's another better way to look at it how has the tax bill paid by the median condo owner changed since 2015 in brookline vs newton? brookline is a good deal and worth investing in!

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

the mean property tax bill is a misleading stat: 1 - property vals in brookline are high b/c it is desirable to live here and there is not enough housing 2 - our residential exemption lowers the bill more for condos; so the mean is doubly misleading a better comp: tax bill for the median home

the tax bill for a $1.15M home in brookline is lower than most other MA municipalities

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

don't mind me just losing sleep again about whether a narcissistic venture capitalist millionaire is going to ruin the town I love by lying to people about how taxes work 😅🫠😭🙏

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

it's friday April 10, and John van Scoyoc has still not told voters how he will vote on the override he is running to lead our town, shouldn't voters know how he feels about funding it?

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

beginning to feel this fifa queue is an April fools.. here in hour [checks watch] 4

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

my wife pointed out how many people apologetically jog or speed walk through crosswalks, genuflecting to our car overlords for their benevolence take back the streets! and by that I mean cross at a reasonable pace!

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

good luck today arlington hoping for a positive outcome!

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Yes for Brookline @yesforbrookline.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The Select Board has officially voted to place a $23.25 million override on the May 5 ballot! Now it’s time to roll up our sleeves & make sure the override passes. Come to our kickoff this Sat., 3/28, 11:30-1:30 @ the Brookline Teen Center (40 Aspinwall Ave). Sign up to volunteer: yesbrookline.com

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

from our local "urban planning" pac's website, I have notes: 1. 1 of the pics is the same pic as another pic 2. 1 of the pics is a slightly different angle of the same block 3. 1 of the pics is of a forest

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

had to reread this line a couple times.. from paved paradise “By square footage, there is more housing for each car in the United States than there is housing for each person”

Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The headline number again is scary, but doesn’t fully hit till end of fy29, and we’re talking about this adding <3% more each year to homeowners’ property tax bills Not to diminish the pain of tax increases but we’re asking homeowners to pay less than inflation to keep the schools from collapsing

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

pretty rich that MA state reps, by refusing to act, are pushing towns to destroy their services and school budgets to preserve a poorly written Reagan-era law that fails when inflation occurs our children's futures should not be tethered to the whims of ill-informed NIMBYs inaction is unacceptable

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Yes for Brookline @yesforbrookline.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Save the date! Yes for Brookline's campaign kickoff event is this Saturday at 11:30 a.m. at the Brookline Teen Center! RSVPs welcome but not required at yesbrookline.com/rsvp

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Yes for Brookline
Kickoff party
All are welcome!
Saturday, March 28 from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm
Brookline Teen Center: 40 Aspinwall Ave. Brookline

Fund our Town | Fund our Schools

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

can't build a 7 story apartment building on a parking lot in the middle of Coolidge Corner tho.. this system makes sense.

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

amen! apartments for new residents who can walk to BV businesses and have bus, bike, and T access right there.. just need a TM and SB that would entertain the idea

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

excited to see more developers proposing bold residential and commercial projects in brookline's transportation districts. maybe I am developing some hope that we will actually build some of these?!

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Eric Stone @eric4brookline.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

as a dad I find it increasingly hard not to respond "that's a problem statement" during community sessions about literally any change to any roadway also just .. traffic already being bad or dangerous somewhere is a reason TO change it not keep it the same act like grownups!

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